v7.2.0

7.2.0 (2026-01-01)

Features

• mcp: add new tools and improve UX for large codebases (#1601) (9b1d871)
• mcp: add response caching and error handling middleware (#1599) (406cfbe)
• mcp: enhance MCP server with batch operations, quality metrics, and improved LLM guidance (#1593) (c6a853b)
• Refactor print_issues report to gain 3x perfomance gain on printing (#1605) (6755d96)

Bug Fixes

• caching: Fix CLI always overriding cache=true/false in the configuration file (#1608) (b31a5ef)
• release: fix triggering Github workflows from automated scripts (#1594) (72ce0ff)

v7.1.0

7.1.0 (2025-12-23)

Features

• add commented-out-code detection rule (COM06) (#1564) (8afa9d2)
• add file-level caching for linter and formatter to skip unchanged files (#1565) (ceb02cc)
• add MCP server for AI assistant integration (#1583) (c68330a)
• add three separate rules for variable type annotations (RF 7.3+) (#1579) (03ef483)
• automate release process with release-please (#1571) (4bd6d3f)
• VAR02: add ignore parameter for unused-variable rule (#1576) (0c2ebf4)

Bug Fixes

• Invalid Robocop disabler accepted as disabler for all rules (#1569) (595ffdb)
• mcp: fix limit handling bugs and add enhancements (#1589) (0926a4d)

Documentation

• add annotations rule group to documentation (#1439) (#1588) (50cbfa7)
• Add caching documentation (#1572) (5d941e8)

Robocop 7.0.0

Features

• Breaking change Add option --extend-select for linter and formatter (issue #1546)

  --extend-select allows to enable rules and formatters on top of the select configuration. It can be used to
  retain all default rules or formatters and only add additional ones:

  robocop check --extend-select no-embedded-keyword-arguments
  robocop format --extend-select AlignKeywordsSection --extend-select CustomFormatter
  

  Since previous --custom-formatters formatter option already behaved like a --extend-select option (which was
  not documented), it is now deprecated and renamed to --extend-select instead.

  It is also recommended to use --extend-select over --configue name.enabled=True.

• Breaking change Split wrong-case-in-keyword-name rule into two separate rules (issue #1471):

  wrong-case-in-keyword-name which checks case convention in keyword definition name
  wrong-case-in-keyword-call which checks case convention in keyword call name

  It allows configuring different conventions for keyword definition and keyword call names. If you have existing
  configuration for wrong-case-in-keyword-name (you are ignoring it or configuring) you need to apply the same
  config to wrong-case-in-keyword-call to retain old behaviour.

• SplitTooLongLine can now split more settings types: Library imports, Test Tags and Keyword Tags (issue #1454)

  Example code before and after the change:

  Library    CustomLibraryWithLongerNameAndSeveralArguments    first_argument    second_argument=${longer_variable_name}    WITH NAME    name

  Library             CustomLibraryWithLongerNameAndSeveralArguments
  ...                     first_argument
  ...                     second_argument=${longer_variable_name}
  ...                 WITH NAME    name

• Restore project checkers (issue #1108)

  Project checkers were temporarily removed in the Robocop 6.0. There are now brought back in a new form, as a separate
  command:

  robocop check-project
  

  This command behaves similarly to the check command, but it only runs project rules.

  The project checks itself were also refactored to be more flexible. See project checker
  and custom rules project checker for reference.

• Extend robocop disablers to the whole node (issue #1515

  Robocop will now ignore issues in the whole node (keyword, test case, for loop, keyword call, etc.) when the disabler
  is set in the header / keyword call body. For example:

  *** Keywords ***
  My Keyword  
      FOR    ${var}    IN    1  2  3  # robocop: off=unused-variable
           Log    1
      END
      Keyword    # robocop: off=bad-indent
      ...    ${var}
      ...    ${var2}

  Previously, Robocop would ignore unused-variable only when reported on the FOR header and bad-indent only
  when reported on the same line as disabler comment. After this change, those issues will be ignored in the whole
  FOR loop and the whole Keyword call respectively.

• Ignore unused variables starting with _ (${_variable}) (issue #1457

Fixes

• Fix unused-variable and variable-overwritten-before-usage rules not reporting violations in TRY blocks (issue #1548)
• Fix wrong-case-in-keyword-call rule false positive report on names with . character with first_word_capitalized = True (issue #1555)
• Fix wrong-case-in-keyword-name rule incorrectly handling names with . character (issue #1555)

Documentation

• Added documentation linters (with MegaLinter) and fixed several issues in our documentation.

Robocop 6.13.0

Features

• Add per_file_ignores option to ignore rules matching file patterns (issue #1134)

Example configuration:

[tool.robocop.lint.per_file_ignores]
"test.robot" = ["VAR02"]
"ignore_subdir/*" = ["empty-line-after-section", "DOC01"]
"ignore_file_in_subpath/test2.robot" = ["SPC10"]

• Allow manually disabling reports with enabled=False. It can be used to disable default print_issues report (issue #1540)
• Add docs_url property to rule class which points to rule documentation URL (issue #1432)

Fixes

• Fix piping output (robocop check > output.txt) not working on Windows because of code lines converted to emojis (issue #1539)
• Fix configuration file loaded from the root directory with --ignore-file-config option enabled (other configuration files were correctly ignored)

Documentation

• Describe how to extend the Robocop Rule class using docs_url as an example (here).

Robocop 6.12.0

Features

• Add extends configuration parameter which allows to inherit configuration from another file. Read more in the documentation (issue #1453)
• Change mixed-tabs-and-spaces (SPC06) rule behaviour to report all occurrences of mixed tabs and spaces in a file (issue #848)
• format_files (robocop API entrypoint for formatting files) now accepts return_result parameter for returning exit code instead of raising SystemExit
• RenameVariables not longer replaces spaces in variable names with the math operators (issue #1428)

Fixes

• Fix AlignKeywordsSection and AlignTestCasesSection not aligning VAR variables (issue #1493)
• Fix optional no-embedded-keyword-arguments rule fatal exception when reading a file with invalid syntax
• Fix the empty configuration file causing Robocop to fail (issue #1536)

Documentation

• Add deprecated names section to all the rules that list previous names and ids of the rule

Robocop 6.11.0

Features

• Add --silent option to disable all output when running Robocop (issue #1512)
• Improve startup performance of the Robocop (using a Robocop repository as a benchmark: from 5s to 0.3s). It was done
  by fixing issues in handling ignored files and by properly caching configuration files (to avoid multiple lookups).
  The difference may be noticeable only for the large, complex projects (issue #1503)

Fixes

• Fix directories from the .gitignore file not ignored (issue #1503)
• Fix migrate command migrating formatters with enabled=False from the old transform to select option (issue #1492)
• Fix migrate command not splitting multiline configurations (issue #1491)
• Fix multiline inline IF splitting. To avoid issues when formatting such code, all inline IFs are now flattened to a single line (issue #1506):

*** Test Cases ***
Multiline inline IF
    IF    True
    ...    Something

becomes:

*** Test Cases ***
Multiline inline IF
    IF    True    Something

• Fix enabled formatter parameter not validating as a boolean (issue #1476)

Documentation

• Mark disabled rules in the documentation (previously they were not distinguishable from the enabled rules) (issue #1518)
• Add two new sections to the documentation:
  • Python API Reference
  • AI integration

Robocop 6.10.1

Fixes

• Fix verbose, force_exclude and skip_gitignore options not supported in the configuration file

Documentation

• Fix incorrect code examples in the documentation

Robocop 6.10.0

Release a new documentation website.

Rewrite of our documentation from Sphinx to MkDocs, now hosted at https://robocop.dev.

Update all internal links to new urls.

Robocop 6.9.2

Fixed corrupted pyproject.toml file - which led to incorrect Robot Framework dependency version (==6.* instead of >=4.0,<7.5).

Robocop 6.9.1

Fix invalid rule positions stopping Sonar Qube import (#1417)

End-to-end testing of Sonar Qube issue imports revealed multiple problems with diagnostic positioning.
All problematic rules included an incorrect offset of 1. The following rules have been corrected:

• invalid-setting-in-resource (ERR16)
• unreachable-code (MISC10)
• keyword-name-is-reserved-word (NAME03)
• invalid-section (NAME16)