Release Notes - Q1 2026

January to March updates

📊 Introducing Hivel Score

Meet your new favorite metric. Hivel Score brings together speed, quality, and throughput into a single, easy-to-understand score out of 100.

No more jumping across dashboards - just a quick, reliable snapshot of how your engineering org is performing. Dive in to learn more | Documentation

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🤖 AI Impact, Now with Cursor

AI Impact just got smarter. With Cursor support now live, you can track AI usage and code contributions from Cursor alongside your existing metrics - all in one place. Get a more complete and unified view of how AI is shaping your codebase and metrics. Try it out and see the full picture

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💬 Meet Lucy - Your Hivel Assistant

Say hello to Lucy, your shortcut to insights. Ask simple questions and instantly retrieve trends, identify bottlenecks, or surface top contributors - no dashboard hopping required.

From spotting hotspots to generating cross-metric trends, Lucy helps you get answers, fast. Go ahead, ask Lucy something | Documentation

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🔔 Hivel Alerts

Stay informed without staying logged in. With Hivel Alerts, you can receive proactive updates via Slack or email on the metrics that matter most - like PR delays, rising cycle times, or spikes in hotfixes.

It’s all about timely nudges that drive action. Set up your alerts and stay ahead | Documentation

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Few other enhancements

🤝 Claude Code Integration

We now support Claude Code Analytics API integration. Track key metrics like suggestion acceptance, token usage, cost, commits, PRs, and sessions - giving you clear visibility into Claude usage. Connect to understand your AI usage | Documentation

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📈 Enhanced Metrics & Drilldowns

• Average PR Size now supports grouping by quarter, release cycles, teams, and more

• Active Days expanded to team and aggregate views

More flexibility, better context, and sharper insights.

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🗂️ Project Management Page

A centralized view of all your projects - complete with sync status, access details, and linked boards. Check out your projects

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🔄 Revamped Pull Request Screen

A fresh, insight-rich PR experience:

• Unaccounted work visibility

• PR size vs review time correlation

• Active repos tracking

• PR open/merge trends

Designed to help you understand and optimize review workflows faster. Take a look at the new PR view

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🧠 Code Telemetry (AI vs Human Contribution)

Get a directional understanding of how much code is written by AI vs humans using our PR diff-based telemetry algorithm.

Correlate this with cycle time and throughput to truly understand AI’s impact on your engineering performance. AI Impact

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📝 Draft PR Calculation Update

We’ve refined how Draft PRs are measured:

• Draft time → counts toward coding time only

• Excluded from review time calculations

Cleaner, more accurate metrics.

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🔗 Azure Git Server Integration

You can now directly integrate Azure Git Server from the Integrations page with a dedicated card. Documentation

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📌 New Integration: ClickUp

ClickUp is now available under Project Management. Seamlessly sync data across Investment, Work Item Breakdown, and related views, similar to JIRA. Integrate ClickUp | Documentation

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End of notes 📝 Same mission: better visibility, less guesswork. The rest is up to you (you’ve got this). 💪