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Katalon Product Updates: New Features and Enhancements in July 2026

Written by Huy Tieu | Aug 4, 2026, 6:47:29 AM

July was an enterprise month. Most of what shipped answers the questions that come up once a test team grows past a handful of people: how do we hand documentation to an auditor, where is the evidence for this step, who changed this result and when, and how do we run the same suite against a feature branch without rebuilding the integration every time.

Alongside that, Katalon AI Assistant connects to one more system your team already lives in, Production Insights got more honest about what it captured, and Katalon Studio 11.4.0 made execution and reporting faster to work with. Here's everything that shipped.

Katalon True Platform: export, evidence, and an audit trail

July's test management work is about getting information out of the platform in a form other people accept, and keeping a defensible record of what happened.

Bulk test case export to CSV and Word

Export formatted test case documents in bulk, including test case ID, steps, linkages, and all additional information. This is the answer to the recurring request from regulated teams and anyone who has to hand a reviewer, an auditor, or a client something readable outside the tool.

Attachments on manual test steps

Attach screenshots, documents, or other evidence directly to an individual test step, so reviewers and testers find the reference where they need it rather than three scrolls away in a description field. Images render as a thumbnail on the step. PDFs, Word documents, and CSVs appear as a card with a preview, which you can open or download.

The limits, so you can plan around them:

  Step attachment limits
What you can attach to a single manual test step.
IMAGE FILES PNG, JPG, JPEG, GIF, WebP. Uploaded images appear as a thumbnail on the step.
DOCUMENT FILES PDF, DOCX, XLSX, CSV, TXT, MD. These appear as a card with a preview thumbnail you can open or download.
MAXIMUM FILE SIZE 20 MB per file.
MAXIMUM FILES 5 files per step.

 

Audit trail for compliance evidence

An immutable, read-only log of every create, modify, approve, and delete action on test cases, executions, and results. If you have ever been asked to prove that a result was not edited after the fact, this is the record that answers it.

Dynamic Git branch selection in test execution cloud runs

Integrate your base GitHub repository once, then pick any target branch from a dropdown at execution time. No per-branch setup for every feature branch you want to run against. To keep the workspace readable, test management only syncs tests from your integrated branch, which defaults to main if you integrate the base repository and change nothing else. One thing to watch: the test suite you select in the UI has to exist on the target execution branch, or the run will not find it.

More July improvements:

  • Expected results expand by default in the TestPak Extension. Step and Expected Result now show side by side during execution instead of hiding expected results behind a dropdown. The view stays collapsible, and the choice is remembered per user.
  • Xray issue-type fields are now Jira-loaded dropdowns. The Test Case, Test Plan, and Test Execution fields on the Xray setup page pull the actual issue types from the connected Jira project instead of taking free text. Manual typing could silently break the mapping, so this removes a class of setup error that was hard to diagnose.
  • Katalon Runtime Engine 11.3.0 on test execution cloud environments. The latest tag now runs on True Platform.
  • "Push on passing runs" now works for Azure DevOps. The ALM push strategy dropdown under Automated test run creation, Advanced Settings, already offered this option, but only Xray honored it. Azure DevOps now pushes results only when every test in the run passes.

Katalon AI Assistant: one more system it can read, and a review flow that holds up

Azure DevOps is now a Katalon AI Assistant connector

Connect it through OAuth, alongside the existing Google Drive and Confluence connectors, then use connected work item, Test Plan, document, and page context to inform AI-assisted testing. You can switch a connector's participation per chat without disconnecting the account, which matters when you want a clean context for one task and the full set for another.

Better coverage and a review flow you can work through

Generated tests retain more acceptance context and sample data, so there is less filling in blanks after generation. Review output is grouped by feature and ordered Happy, Alternative, Negative, and Edge, which means you can review a feature's coverage as a set and see immediately where the negative and edge cases thin out.

Production Insights: better traffic signals, more complete capture

Production Insights spent July making its picture of real user behavior more complete and easier to search.

Top and bottom page rankings in Journey Maps

Switch between most-visited and least-visited pages to see both ends of the distribution. The top end tells you where to prioritize automation coverage. The bottom end is the more interesting half: low-traffic pages are candidates for cleanup, deprioritization, or a conversation about whether they should exist at all.

More complete interaction capture

The agent now captures programmatic input changes, interactions inside same-origin iframes, and file input events more reliably. If your app sets field values in code or wraps part of the flow in an iframe, the recorded session and the generated test reflect more of what actually happened.

Search user sessions by step count

Search User Sessions by the number of recorded steps, so you can find sessions at the right level of detail for review and generation instead of opening a dozen 3-step sessions looking for a substantial one.

Katalon Studio 11.4.0: faster runs, reports you can actually read

Test case-level parallel execution

Run multiple test cases in a suite concurrently, within the suite's configured concurrency threshold. Parallelism now goes a level deeper than the suite.

Consolidated HTML report, plus reports per test case

The new consolidated HTML report combines data binding and retry attempts into a single file, so reviewing results follows the execution flow instead of jumping between artifacts. You can also split a test suite HTML report into smaller per test case reports, which helps when a large suite report is slow to open.

Smart Mobile Recorder enhancements

Interactive Mode is now generally available, local device streaming stays live during a session, notification interactions are recordable, and recorder optimization settings moved into Project Settings.

AI Agent mode shows its work

Follow an expandable plan and progress timeline, watch responses stream as they are generated, and see the reasoning behind each task. When an agent takes a wrong turn, you can see where it happened instead of inferring it from the result.

Practical quality improvements

Clearer variable-binding states, plus fixes across recording, API testing, licensing, reporting, desktop testing, and execution.

For a look at how these changes work in practice, including Interactive Mode in the Smart Mobile Recorder, watch the latest What's New in Katalon Studio video:

Download Studio 11.4.0 · See the release notes

Wrapping up

If June was about shortening the distance between a real user session and a working test, July was about what happens after that test exists and other people need to see it.

Documentation exports in a format an auditor accepts. Evidence attaches to the step it belongs to. An immutable log answers who changed what. Branch selection stops being setup work.

Katalon AI Assistant reads one more system your team already uses and hands back coverage you can review as a set. Studio 11.4.0 runs deeper in parallel and produces reports that match how you actually read them.

Try what's new, and tell us what we should change next.