Codebeamer 3.3 has released!
Codebeamer 3.3 delivers a major step forward in engineering collaboration, product line development, digital thread connectivity, and AI-powered productivity—powered by Codebeamer AI 1.2. With new semantic search capabilities, enhanced configuration management, expanded integration options, and improvements to platform performance and administration, this release helps engineering teams work more efficiently, improve traceability across the lifecycle, and manage product complexity at scale.
Key Highlights
Codebeamer AI 1.2 – Find the right information faster
Designed to make engineering knowledge easier to discover and use.
- GPT 5.4 support for both PTC-hosted and customer-hosted deployments.
- New Search Assistant for natural language, intent-based search.
- AI Indexing to enable semantic search across project content.
- Dedicated administration, configuration, and monitoring capabilities for indexing services.
Configuration Management – Simplify reuse and change management
Enhancements focused on helping teams manage parallel development and product variants more effectively.
- Stream Permissions for stream-specific access control.
- Merging of Streams to efficiently propagate changes across configurations.
- New Streams workspace for managing streams, baselines, and merge activities from a single location.
- Project-Independent Reference Configuration to support greater reuse across projects.
- Improved pure::variants transformation capabilities for faster and more consistent processing.
Digital Thread Connectivity – Strengthen cross-system traceability
Expanded integration capabilities improve visibility and collaboration across engineering tools.
- Reverse Lookup enhancements provide richer information about externally linked artefacts.
- Automatic synchronization keeps suspect status of external items current.
- Customizable OSLC attribute labels provide a more intuitive user experience.
- Integration with PTC RV&S SCM enables linking change packages directly into Codebeamer workflow items.
Platform & Administration – Improved scalability and operational visibility
Built to help organizations support larger deployments and maintain reliable system performance.
- Enhanced audit event reporting with more granular event classifications for improved system visibility and traceability.
- API throttling controls for OSLC integrations and limit parallel requests per user.
- Enhancements to cache synchronization, request handling, and timeout management.
- Direct visibility of environment variables and JVM properties through the UI and exported logs.
- Modernized serialization infrastructure with the transition from Hessian to Kryo.
Review Hub Improvements – Faster and more streamlined reviews
Improvements that simplify review participation and improve performance.
- Clearer role separation between Moderators and Reviewers.
- Review filters aligned with user permissions.
- Background processing for Excel exports to improve responsiveness and reduce wait times.
Security & Administrative Enhancements – Greater control and flexibility
Additional capabilities help administrators manage complex environments with confidence.
- Permission-controlled irreversible deletion of projects, trackers, and tracker items.
- Improved search performance through exact ID-based autocomplete.
- Improved traceability limits for large-scale deployments.
- Additional safeguards to prevent invalid reference-field configurations.
Together, these enhancements make Codebeamer more connected, scalable, and intelligent than ever before. By combining AI-powered search, advanced configuration management, stronger digital thread capabilities, and enterprise-ready platform improvements, Codebeamer 3.3 and Codebeamer AI 1.2 help engineering teams improve collaboration, accelerate development, and deliver high-quality products with confidence.
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