# Gaia 2.8 release highlights

> Evaluation workflows, platform assistant upgrades, new ingestion sources, and expanded tooling and analytics.

## Metadata

- Published: 2025-10-19
- Author: Gaia team
- Post type: release

# Gaia 2.8 release highlights

Gaia 2.8 (2.8.0–2.8.28) delivered major upgrades to evaluations, tooling, and platform automation—alongside significant UI and documentation improvements.

## Major themes

- **Evaluation workflows at scale**: new eval tooling, conversation runs, security evaluations, and human‑override scoring.
- **Platform assistant evolution**: richer tool naming standards, context‑aware guidance, and improved handoff behavior.
- **Data ingestion growth**: ingestion webhooks, TypeScript sources, JSON array path support, and storage management UI.
- **UI layout management**: robust layout editing tools and renderer improvements for complex UIs.
- **Performance & analytics**: tool and conversation performance metrics, with better dashboard visibility.

## Notable additions

- **Custom TypeScript tools** and **location tools** for richer automation.
- **Browser access tools** for safe live web retrieval.
- **Voice and markdown improvements** including TTS reliability and enhanced editors.