Release Date: Feb 10th, 2026

1. Overview

Version 2.12.0 focuses on smarter Slack routing, automatic PII detection, streamlined workspace onboarding, and engineering standards that improve reliability across the platform.

Highlights include:

• Smarter Slack Routing: BrightBot now uses intelligent, protocol-based intent routing for more accurate command handling in Slack.

• PII Auto-Detection: Automatic classification of personally identifiable information via OpenMetadata.

• Streamlined Onboarding: A fully automated workspace onboarding and offboarding flow.

• Automated Environment Provisioning: Metadata and ingestion environments now provision automatically.

• Engineering Standards: Standardized code review workflow and required semantic versioning across all repositories.

• UI Polish: Refined chat colors, error tooltips, and query titles in BrightSide.

2. Key Enhancements and Fixes

Slack Integration

• Introduced smarter, protocol-based intent routing for BrightBot, improving message routing accuracy.

• Designed a three-tier OAuth architecture for secure Slack authentication.

Data Governance

• Added automatic PII classification via OpenMetadata.

Onboarding

• Delivered a fully working workspace onboarding and offboarding flow.

Platform Automation

• Automated provisioning of metadata and ingestion server resources.

• Began design work on a background agent for proactive data quality analysis.

Engineering & Reliability

• Rolled out a standardized code review workflow across all repositories.

• Required semantic versioning for all releases going forward.

• Fixed a critical staging login authentication bug.

UX

• Refined BrightSide chat colors, error tooltips, and query titles.

3. Feedback

We value your feedback to continue improving the Brighthive platform. Please share your thoughts or report issues to support@brighthive.io.

About Brighthive 

Brighthive is an agentic data platform that functions as a data team in a box — a coordinated set of specialized AI agents (BrightAgent) that work the full data lifecycle around the clock: connecting to your sources, cleaning and validating data, enforcing governance and data contracts, and keeping pipelines self-healing and live. Underneath every workspace, Brighthive builds and maintains a living knowledge graph and enterprise data catalog — capturing not just schemas and metadata but the tribal knowledge about your business, use cases, and policies that normally lives only in people's heads. That context is what lets the platform, and every downstream tool, reason accurately about your data instead of guessing. The result: every team inside the enterprise gets to skip the grunt work and go straight to trustworthy, self-service insight — querying, visualizing, and analyzing data faster, on a foundation that's clean and governed by default. Brighthive connects to your existing data stack or stands one up from scratch, augmenting or replacing point tools without disrupting how your team already works.