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Gladys 4.86: The Biggest Release Ever 🚀

· 11 min read
Pierre-Gilles Leymarie
Pierre-Gilles Leymarie
Founder of Gladys Assistant

Hey everyone!

Version 4.86.0 is out, and this one is simple to describe: it's the biggest release in the history of the project. 🚀

The numbers speak for themselves. In 7 days, we merged 68 pull requests, touching more than 1,000 files and adding around 28,000 lines of code. For comparison, our biggest releases used to top out at 35 pull requests, over two weeks. We just did twice that, in half the time.

And this isn't a one-off spike. Every single week, we blow up the productivity of this project a bit more, and the reason is no secret: AI. Out of the 68 pull requests in this release, 62 were co-authored with Claude. Specs, implementation, tests, code review, even the CI that fixes its own failures: AI is now everywhere in the Gladys development loop, and the result is a pace this project has simply never seen before.

👉 You can follow that pace live, day by day, on the development activity page. Commits, contributors, streaks: everything is there, updated automatically.

Now, let's look at what actually landed in your home.

Gladys 4.84: External Integrations Are Here 🚀

· 6 min read
Pierre-Gilles Leymarie
Pierre-Gilles Leymarie
Founder of Gladys Assistant

Hey everyone!

Version 4.84.0 is out, and it's probably the most important release in the history of the project. 🚀

For 6 years, we patiently built 36 integrations inside the Gladys core. Each one required a pull request, a review, tests, and a lot of my time. That was the bottleneck of the project.

Today, that bottleneck is gone. With external integrations, anyone can build and publish a Gladys integration, without asking my permission. The result came fast: 20 integrations are already available, built in a few days by 6 different contributors.

In other words: in a few days, the community produced more than half of what we had achieved in 6 years. This is a step change for the project.

Gladys 4.82: Activity Journal & MQTT Redesign 🚀

· 5 min read
Pierre-Gilles Leymarie
Pierre-Gilles Leymarie
Founder of Gladys Assistant

Hey everyone!

Today I'm releasing what is, so far, one of the biggest releases of the year, and there's a real reason for that.

We're clearly at a turning point in the way software gets built: AI models keep getting more powerful, and the tools to use them day to day are finally becoming mature. Over the past two weeks, two of them changed the way I work on Gladys.

Claude Fable 5, Anthropic's flagship model, the one that was temporarily restricted in the United States because its capabilities worried the authorities. It let me tackle very technical topics that would have taken me entire days, and build major features like the Activity journal I detail below.

Cursor's cloud AI agents, controllable from mobile. About ten days ago, Cursor launched its iOS app: you can now hand a development task to an agent straight from your phone, and let it work autonomously, without a computer. The complete redesign of the MQTT integration was done entirely by a Cursor agent while I was travelling.