Changelog

All notable changes to NAT, organized by release version.

Subscribe to release notifications on GitHub (opens in a new tab) to get notified when new versions ship.

v1.6.0 — AI Assistant

Released: April 2026

🧠 The AI Assistant is here — ask NAT anything about your API testing.

New features

  • nat ai plan — Generate test plans from OpenAPI specs with AI-powered risk prioritization
  • nat ai generate-tests — Create endpoint-specific test cases automatically
  • nat ai explain — Get plain-English explanations of scan findings with remediation guidance
  • nat ai configure — Interactive .natrc configuration advisor
  • nat ai compliance-report — Generate OWASP, PCI-DSS, HIPAA, SOC 2 compliance reports
  • nat ai audit-trail — Export BGSTM 6-phase audit trail evidence
  • nat ai insights — Proactive insights from scan history
  • nat ai --chat — Interactive REPL mode for conversational assistance
  • Dashboard AI Chat Widget — Floating chat panel with streaming responses, plan-gated (Free: 5 queries/mo, Pro+: unlimited)
  • Proactive Insights Panel — AI-generated insight cards (critical findings, coverage gaps, resolved issues)
  • Multiple AI Providers — OpenAI, Anthropic, Ollama (local), Azure OpenAI

Documentation

v1.5.2 — Compliance & Badges

Released: March 2026

📋 Prove compliance automatically with embeddable badges and audit-ready reports.

New features

  • Compliance Badges — nat badge generates OWASP, PCI-DSS, HIPAA, SOC 2 status badges (SVG/PNG/Markdown)
  • Compliance Reports — Framework-specific compliance evidence with requirement-level mapping
  • BGSTM Audit Trail — 6-phase methodology documentation with evidence types per phase
  • Compliance Dashboard Tile — Framework scores, trends, report usage counter (plan-gated)

Pricing changes

  • Pro: $49/mo → $79/mo — now includes unlimited AI assistant, 5 compliance reports/mo, SARIF, PR comments
  • Team: $149/mo → $199/mo — now includes unlimited compliance, BGSTM audit trail, dashboard AI chat, proactive insights

Documentation

v1.5.1 — CI/CD Enhancements

Released: February 2026

💻 Ship with confidence — SARIF auto-upload, PR comments, and quality gates.

New features

  • SARIF Auto-Upload — upload-sarif: true on nat-action automatically uploads results to GitHub Code Scanning (no separate codeql-action step needed)
  • PR Comments — comment-on-pr: true posts scan summary with finding counts and severity breakdown as a PR comment
  • Quality Gates — --max-findings <n> fails the build if total findings exceed a threshold (in addition to existing --fail-on <level>)
  • New Action Outputs — sarif-file, summary-file, pr-comment-file for downstream workflow steps

Documentation

v1.5.0 — Developer Experience

Released: January 2026

🔍 Zero-config onboarding, live scan progress, and scan comparison.

New features

  • nat init — Auto-detects framework (Express, FastAPI, Django, Spring, Rails), finds OpenAPI spec, generates .natrc. --ci flag for CI-optimized config
  • nat scan --watch — Live progress mode with real-time progress bar and inline findings
  • nat scan --diff <scan-id> — Compare scan results against a previous scan to catch regressions. --diff latest compares against the most recent scan
  • nat status — Health dashboard showing component status (Engine, AI Provider, Database, CI Integration)
  • nat badge — Generate compliance status badges from the CLI
  • nat audit --spec — Pre-scan OpenAPI spec validation to catch issues early
  • Notifications — Slack, Teams, and webhook notifications for scan events
  • Updated Onboarding — "Level Up" advanced checklist (Try AI Assistant, Generate compliance report) after basic setup
  • Welcome Tour — 6-step tour now includes AI Assistant and Compliance stops
  • What's New Modal — Dashboard notification bell with feature changelog

Documentation

Earlier releases

For releases prior to v1.5, see the GitHub Releases page (opens in a new tab).

Coming soon

🔍 AI-Powered Doc Search

We're exploring an AI-powered search experience for the docs site — "Ask NAT Docs" — that uses the same AI Assistant backend that powers nat ai in the CLI and the dashboard chat widget.

  • Natural language questions about NAT features, configuration, and troubleshooting
  • Contextual answers synthesized from documentation pages
  • Falls back to standard search when the AI service is unavailable

This reinforces the "everything connects" philosophy — the same AI that helps you in the CLI and dashboard also helps you navigate the docs.

Want to help shape this feature? Open an issue (opens in a new tab) with your ideas.

Was this helpful?