What's new in Bugsee

We shipped a big one.

This release touches almost every part of the product. New capabilities, a rethought visual layer, and a couple of things that feel genuinely different from what you’d expect from a crash reporting tool. Let me walk through what’s in it.

Application builds

Bugsee now understands your builds.

If you enable it in your build pipeline, Bugsee receives your build metadata and, optionally, the actual artifact. From that, we run size analysis, breaking down what’s contributing to your binary and how it changes across builds over time.

This matters because binary size is one of those things that creeps up slowly and then suddenly becomes a problem. You merge a few dependencies, pull in a new SDK, add a feature flag library, and three months later someone notices your app is 30% heavier than it was. By the time that happens, the history of why is long gone.

Alexey wrote a full technical breakdown covering the CI gate, chunked upload, and the full setup for both Android and iOS. If you’re evaluating whether this fits your pipeline, start there.

Natural language search for issues

Instead of building filters from dropdowns, you type what you’re looking for.

“Crashes in the checkout flow on iOS 17” or “errors from users on low-memory devices in the last two weeks.” Bugsee translates that into filters and applies them automatically. Refine from there manually, or just keep iterating in plain text.

OAuth MCP authentication

This is the one I’m most excited about from an ecosystem standpoint.

MCP is rapidly becoming how AI agents interact with external tools. We added MCP support a while back, but the authentication flow required generating a specialized URL, which was clunky if you were building an agent or setting up an automated workflow.

Now, any AI agent can connect to Bugsee via MCP and authenticate inline, without any pre-configuration. You set up the connection from within your agent, it handles auth natively, and from that point your agent has access to your Bugsee data: issues, sessions, crashes, the works.

If you’re building with Claude, Cursor, or any other agent framework that supports MCP, this is worth looking at.

Improved view hierarchy renderer

The view hierarchy inspector has been part of Bugsee for a long time, but the rendering quality was always a limitation. We rebuilt the renderer and the difference is significant. Sharper, more accurate, handles complex layouts much better.

If you’re debugging layout issues or trying to understand what a user was looking at during a crash, this makes that work considerably easier.

New adaptive styling: dark mode, light mode, and a general facelift

The product has a new visual layer. Cleaner, more consistent, and now with full dark/light mode switching. It’s the kind of thing that’s hard to describe in release notes but immediately obvious when you open it.

We also rebuilt the text editor used in the in-app chat and issue comments. Faster, lighter. Mostly you’ll just notice it doesn’t get in your way.

These features are live now. If you have questions or run into anything, you know where to find us.