Semaphore Blog

Product updates and engineering insights from the Semaphore team.

Latest product news

9 Oct 2026 Semaphore Open Source 1.6: MCP Server, sem-ai Out of the Box, and Partial Job Reruns Includes audio & video
16 Sep 2026 sem-ai 0.4.0: smaller responses, safer access, and pre-flight checks Includes audio & video
10 Sep 2026 Making testing work better for AI driven development
12 Aug 2026 Rerun Only the Jobs That Failed
4 Aug 2026 Announcement: Xcode16 Deprecation in Semaphore
19 Jun 2026 Flaky Test API Now GA, New Auto-Fix Skill, Skill Quality Improvements Includes audio & video
4 Jun 2026 Codex Support, Faster Task Creation, and Flaky Test Visibility Includes audio & video
27 May 2026 Building an AI-Native CI/CD Experience with sem-ai Includes audio & video

Passwordless sudo for all

29 Jan 2013

Build platform upgrade

16 Jan 2013

Skip those builds

15 Nov 2012

Semaphore can now parallelize your builds

25 Oct 2012

Semaphore API grows

18 Oct 2012

New notifications screen in Semaphore, Flowdock integration

12 Oct 2012

Semaphore API

20 Sep 2012

Semaphore implements GitHub’s Commit Status API in record time

4 Sep 2012

Live build log and other UI improvements in Semaphore

27 Aug 2012

Semaphore gets a better Solo plan, supports PhantomJS, Firefox 13, PostgreSQL 9.1, HipChat

12 Jul 2012

Campfire notifications and more Ruby versions now available in Semaphore

18 Jun 2012

Semaphore launched

14 Jun 2012

Semaphore gets customizable build commands

12 Apr 2012

Introducing Semaphore

5 Mar 2012

Talks on Engineering Excellence

Conversations with engineering leaders.

Episode 150

Malcolm Matalka on GitOps, Terraform Tooling, and Building Invisible Developer Tools

Episode 149

Jamie Dobson on Generative AI, Developer Productivity, and System Stability

Episode 148

Sebastian Gierlinger on Scaling Remote Engineering at Storyblok

Episode 147

Keren Fanan and Hadar Geva on Reinventing Frontend with MyOp

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