# August 2025 Changelog

Marcel Tan  
Co-Founder & CEO

## Release Notes

August 2025 brought improvements to the signal-to-noise ratio in Tusk’s tests and a renewed emphasis on detecting latent bugs with high-impact tests.

We expanded our **bug detection mode** by making its configurations default for all future organizations, and optimized the end-to-end user experience for finding edge cases.

To increase the value of Tusk's test suggestions, we improved how we score tests according to user-provided feedback. Tusk now also utilizes a mix of agentic grep and programmatic code search to gather deep context when iterating on tests.

Behind the scenes, we’ve been working on **Tusk Drift**, our next major product release that will change how API testing is done with AI. More details to come — here’s an early demo:

Tusk Drift for API Test Automation

### Major Features

- **Agentic Self-Healing:** Tusk now utilizes agentic grep—where optimal—to gather code context when iterating on its tests. Fewer relevant tests will be excluded from Tusk's output due to test execution errors.
- **Optimized Bug Detection Mode**: Made PR check for generating only failing tests the default workflow for new organizations. Improved end-to-end user flow for quickly detecting bugs, while allowing users to override by using the PR/MR label to generate the full test suite. **‍**

### Testing Improvements

- **Better Learning From Feedback:** Improved relevance scoring for generated tests according to user-provided feedback on tests (i.e., thumbs up/down). Expect to see previously rejected test types be consistently excluded from Tusk's output.
- **Sandbox Stability:** Implemented robust error handling, timeouts, and retries for Tusk sandboxes to improve system stability.

### DevEx Enhancements

- **CoverBot Cleanup:** CoverBot automatically closes its PR/MRs after 7 days by default. You have the ability to toggle this on and off. **‍**
- **Clearer Failure States:** Introduced new test generation retry logic and UI/UX that distinguishes between retry-able and terminal failures **‍**
- **Bulk Upload of Environment Variables:** Streamlined repo onboarding with a mass upload functionality for required environment variables.
- **Faster Loading/Commits**: Repositories overview page now loads up to 5x faster. Committing only passing tests now happens without modal confirmation.

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