Review Settings

Introduced new personality profiles for code reviews. Users can now select between "Chill" and "Assertive" review tones to tailor feedback styles according to their preferences. The "Assertive" profile posts more comments and nitpicks the code more aggressively, while the "Chill" profile is more relaxed and posts fewer comments.

AST-based Instructions

CodeRabbit offers customizing reviews based on the Abstract Syntax Tree (AST) pattern matching. Read more about AST-based instructions in the documentation.

Community-driven AST-based Rules

We are kicking off a community-driven initiative to create and share AST-based rules. Users can now contribute their AST-based rules to detect security vulnerabilities, code smells, and anti-patterns. Please see the ast-grep-essentials repository for more information.

New Static Analysis Tools

We are continually expanding our support for static analysis tools. We have added support for biome, hadolint, and ast-grep. Update the settings in your .coderabbit.yaml file or head over to the settings page to enable or disable the tools you want to use.

Tone Settings

Users can now customize CodeRabbit to review code in the style of their favorite characters or personalities. Here are some of our favorite examples:

• Mr. T: "You must talk like Mr. T in all your code reviews. I pity the fool who doesn't!"
• Pirate: "Arr, matey! Ye must talk like a pirate in all yer code reviews. Yarrr!"
• Snarky: "You must be snarky in all your code reviews. Snark, snark, snark!"

Revamped Settings Page

We have redesigned the settings page for a more intuitive layout, enabling users to find and adjust settings quickly. This change was long overdue; it not only improves the user experience but also allows our development team to add more settings in the future with ease. Going forward, the changes to .coderabbit.yaml will be reflected in the settings page, and vice versa.

Miscellaneous

• Turn off free summarization: You can switch off free summarization of PRs opened by users not on a paid plan using the enable_free_tier setting.
• Knowledge-base scope: You can now set the scope of the knowledge base to either the repository (local) or the organization (global) level using the knowledge_base setting. In addition, you can specify Jira project keys and Linear team keys to limit the knowledge base scope for those integrations.
• High-level summary placement: You can now customize the location of the high-level summary in the PR description using the high_level_summary_placeholder setting (default @coderabbitai summary).
• Revamped request changes workflow: You can now configure CodeRabbit to auto-approve or request changes on PRs based on the review feedback using the request_changes_workflow setting.