Release 2.22.1 — New Features, Improvements & Fixes

This release bundles all enhancements originally included in 2.22.0, plus additional fixes and refinements introduced in 2.22.1.

✨ New Features & Improvements

Vision & Purpose Agent Integration

Connected the Vision & Purpose Agent API with Next Lab Innovation Opportunities to provide richer context and more accurate guidance.

ChatGPT-like Page in the Lab

Added a conversational interface that allows users to interact with agents in a chat-style workflow.

Performance & Architecture Upgrades

Refactored the agent communication stack — including timeouts, retries, streaming, and connection pooling — resulting in better latency, reliability, and scalability.

🐞 Bug Fixes & Stability

Corrected spelling issues in the SVA Matrix.

Fixed an issue where newly published drills were not appearing correctly.

Repaired the Related Drills button in the drill description.

Added a safeguard to ensure test users are no longer logged to Slack, keeping notifications clean.

Added a flag to prevent new-user Slack notifications when running in development mode.

Improved how critical errors are sent to Slack and refined internal error-handling flows.