January 2026
A big quarter-opening release focused on insight, content quality, and member engagement.
🎁 See Your Community's Year in Review
Want a quick story of what your community accomplished last year? Bevy Wrapped now lives in the analytics section of your dashboard and pulls together the year's highlights into a personalized recap you can share with stakeholders or your members.
💬 Understand How Members Actually Feel
Raw comment counts only tell you so much. The new Sentiment Analysis suite gives you a sentiment overview, sentiment by category, trending sentiment over time, comment-level analysis, and detailed exports, so you can see what's resonating and what's frustrating people in plain numbers.
📝 Post Types That Match the Conversation
A blog post, an idea, and a question all need different framing, but until now they all looked the same. You can now create posts using built-in templates like Blog, Idea, or Question, or build your own custom types like “product feedback” or “knowledge base” to keep each space purpose-fit.
🤖 AI Moderation That Watches the Room for You
Manual moderation doesn't scale once a community grows. The new AI moderation agent automatically detects spam, flags inappropriate images, and manages post permissions in the background, so your team can focus on the conversations that matter.
🏆 Reward Engagement with Advanced Gamification
Generic point systems rarely fit a real community. The new gamification engine lets you set your own rules and logic for points, badges, and levels, from one-time achievements to multi-tier progress badges, so members are recognized in a way that fits your brand.
February 2026
Focused on safer embeds, sharper event tooling, and forum polish.
🔗 Safer, Smoother Iframe Embedding in Discussions
Embedding external content used to be inconsistent and risky to style. Iframes inside Discussions are now wrapped natively in the Bevy embed component, giving you a consistent, secure experience across community pages and laying the groundwork for more third-party integrations.
💬 Forum Conversations Got a Lot Smoother
Small UX quirks add up to friction over time. This release rolls out a wave of forum and community improvements: better email notifications, deeper customization in forum settings, and several stability fixes that keep your forums looking sharp without anyone having to chase tickets.
👀 Real-Time Visibility into Event Attendance
Event organizers couldn't always see how a session was performing in the moment. The Back Office now includes a viewer count feature and an expanded “All Viewers” API, so organizers get deeper, real-time insight into attendance and can react during the event itself.
🎨 Banners Render at the Aspect Ratio You Chose
Cropped or distorted community banners undermine your brand. Banner image rendering now strictly matches the aspect ratio configured in your community settings, so your banners look exactly as designed across the platform.
⚡ Search Just Got Faster Under the Hood
Members give up when search is slow. Behind-the-scenes upgrades to the search engine help users find groups, events, and discussions faster and more accurately, with no setup required on your end.
March 2026
A large month with major SimplePages upgrades, Discussions reliability work, and a handful of broadly-loved survey changes.
📊 Survey Responses Now Show the Full Picture by Default
The default survey view used to land on a narrow modified-date slice, which made trends look thinner than they were. Survey response pages now default to created-date ordering, so teams open the broader response timeline first and can see the full picture without changing a single filter.
🕵️ Anonymous Surveys for Honest Feedback
Some questions get truer answers when people can stay anonymous. Surveys can now be configured to collect responses anonymously, giving community managers more flexibility in how they gather feedback. Global survey template locked fields also stay in sync with chapter-level fields automatically.
🏠 SimplePages Featured Content and Unified Events
SimplePages got its biggest upgrade in months. A new Featured Content widget lets community managers spotlight specific discussions or content, and the various Upcoming Events components have been merged into a single unified widget with chapter and event-type filters, active filter chips, carousel navigation, and configurable page sizes.
🧵 Forum Conversations Stay Stable When Threads Move
Renaming or moving a thread used to break old links and shared bookmarks. Existing URLs now redirect correctly when a thread changes title or board. Comment threading also supports deeper nesting, image support in comments has been repaired, and direct links to nested replies load all sibling comments so readers see the full context.
🔒 Inactive Chapters Auto-Lock Their Forums
Closing forums by hand every time a chapter winds down is busywork. Forums attached to inactive chapters now lock automatically, so community teams keep their content lifecycle clean without lifting a finger.
🌐 Filter Upcoming Event Lists by Language
A multi-language community needs language-aware event lists. Unified event lists can now be filtered by language, so each audience sees the events most relevant to them.
🎤 Webinar Mode Keeps Sessions Host-Controlled
Webinar attendees shouldn't see a live count or jump into interactive mode mid-session. Webinar events now hide the attendee tab and count for non-moderators and remove the interactive mode option entirely while webinar mode is active.
☁️ Salesforce Integration with Lower-Privilege Access
Asking IT teams for high-level Salesforce permissions slows down rollouts. The Salesforce integration now uses a lower-privilege get method instead of query for ID lookups, removing the need for elevated permissions your team may not be able to grant.
🔍 SEO Wins for Q&A and Discussion Pages
Search engines need structured signals to surface community content. Q&A-style discussion pages now include the required suggestedAnswer field in their schema markup so they're eligible for search-engine rich results, and discussion pages also publish breadcrumb structured data so search engines understand page context more clearly.
🏅 Incremental Badges for Progressive Achievements
Members hitting milestones progressively deserve recognition along the way. The platform now supports incremental badges, so you can reward members as they advance toward bigger achievements instead of only at the finish line.
✨ Event and Virtual Event Polish
Several smaller fixes that make the everyday experience cleaner: event titles with ampersand characters render correctly on virtual event pages, direct video uploads respect privacy settings instead of defaulting to public, the Forums mobile header now has a search icon for easier discoverability, and the discount modal on the new dashboard scrolls correctly when an event has many tickets.
April 2026
Heavy on payments modernization, virtual conference resilience, AI in posts, and admin polish.
📥 Bulk Upload Attendees from CSV
Manually adding hundreds of attendees one at a time was a non-starter for big events. Event teams can now upload an attendee list in bulk via CSV, with Phase 1 supporting uploads after an event is complete. Phase 2, coming in H2, will add pre-event uploads as well.
📡 Virtual Conferences Hold Up on Rough Networks
A flaky internet connection used to drop people out of sessions entirely. When the selective forwarding unit detects persistent network interruptions, the session now falls back to TURN relay automatically, so attendees stay connected through the rough patches.
🔄 Hosts Can Reopen a Concluded Virtual Room
Sometimes a session needs an encore right after the curtain closes. Hosts on the concluded room screen now get a reopen-session action where the product rules allow it, removing the awkward need to spin up a brand-new event.
💪 Forum Threads Stay Healthy Under Load
Spikes of forum activity could trigger lock waits and slow writes. Forum tracker reconciliation no longer hits lock-wait timeouts, and post creation is decoupled from tracker recalculation via async tasks, so writes stay responsive even when activity spikes.
⬅️ Search Navigation and Sorting Got Better
The AI-search back button used to land in the wrong state. Back navigation from AI mode now works correctly, and post search results in Algolia-backed instances can now sort by date.
⚠️ Moderators Get Specific, Actionable Errors
A generic “something went wrong” doesn't help a moderator fix anything. Pending-review post drawers now map backend error codes to specific messages, so moderators get clear guidance instead of a wall of confusion.
🎟️ Discussion Admins Can File Jira Tickets from Posts
Routing a tricky post into engineering used to mean copy-pasting across tools. Discussion admins now have an integration to create Jira tickets directly from posts, with clearer labeling than the older flows.
💳 Bevy Pay Modernizes onto Stripe Payment Element
Bevy Pay continues its move onto Stripe Payment Element. The Payment Element UI is now wired through the dashboard with supporting tests, vendor amounts are quantized correctly after currency conversion, and balances and external-app data have a cleaner backfill path. Stripe captures also now retrieve balance transactions and reconcile charge rows so processor fees never land as zero.