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v4.20.0

release notes

Published 9/28/2025

MinorContains breaking changes

Release notes

Release: June 2025 (v4.11.0 - v4.20.0)

Major focus on documentation quality and expanding QA agent capabilities.

Documentation Overhaul

Workflow Diagrams: Visual explanations of planning and development cycles
QA Role Expansion: QA agent transformed into senior code reviewer
User Guide Refresh: Complete rewrite with clearer explanations
Contributing Guidelines: Clarified principles and contribution process

QA Agent Transformation

Elevated from simple tester to senior developer/code reviewer
Code quality analysis and architectural feedback
Pre-implementation review capabilities
Integration with dev cycle for quality gates

IDE Ecosystem Growth

Cline IDE Support: Added configuration for Cline
Gemini CLI Integration: Native Gemini CLI support
Expansion Pack Installation: Automated expansion agent setup across IDEs

New Capabilities

Markdown-tree integration for document sharding
Quality gates to prevent task completion with failures
Enhanced brownfield workflow documentation
Team-based agent bundling improvements

Developer Tools

Better expansion pack isolation
Automatic rule generation for all supported IDEs
Common files moved to shared locations
Hardcoded dependencies removed from installer

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v4.20.0

release notes

Published 9/28/2025

MinorContains breaking changes

Release notes

Release: June 2025 (v4.11.0 - v4.20.0)

Major focus on documentation quality and expanding QA agent capabilities.

Documentation Overhaul

Workflow Diagrams: Visual explanations of planning and development cycles
QA Role Expansion: QA agent transformed into senior code reviewer
User Guide Refresh: Complete rewrite with clearer explanations
Contributing Guidelines: Clarified principles and contribution process

QA Agent Transformation

Elevated from simple tester to senior developer/code reviewer
Code quality analysis and architectural feedback
Pre-implementation review capabilities
Integration with dev cycle for quality gates

IDE Ecosystem Growth

Cline IDE Support: Added configuration for Cline
Gemini CLI Integration: Native Gemini CLI support
Expansion Pack Installation: Automated expansion agent setup across IDEs

New Capabilities

Markdown-tree integration for document sharding
Quality gates to prevent task completion with failures
Enhanced brownfield workflow documentation
Team-based agent bundling improvements

Developer Tools

Better expansion pack isolation
Automatic rule generation for all supported IDEs
Common files moved to shared locations
Hardcoded dependencies removed from installer

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bmad-code-org/BMAD-METHOD

v4.20.0

Documentation Overhaul

QA Agent Transformation

IDE Ecosystem Growth

New Capabilities

Developer Tools

v4.20.0

Documentation Overhaul

QA Agent Transformation

IDE Ecosystem Growth

New Capabilities

Developer Tools