CHANGELOG.md

Changelog

Release notes for Compass. scripts/release.sh reads the entry for the version being tagged straight out of this file and uses it as the GitHub release body (falls back to gh release --generate-notes if no entry matches). That release body is what the /news page reads, via the GitHub Releases API — so an entry here only reaches users once its version is actually tagged and released.

Each entry:

• Starts with ## <version> (must match package.json's version exactly) and ends at the next ## heading or a --- separator line — scripts/release.sh parses on that boundary.
• Has two parts, in order:
  1. A user-facing summary — plain language, no internals. Shown by default on /news.
  2. A technical details section — implementation-level notes. Collapsed behind a "Show technical details" toggle on /news.
• Separates those two parts with an HTML comment, <!--tech-->, alone on its own line. That exact marker is what web/pages/news.tsx splits on. An entry without the marker (e.g. old releases before this convention) just renders as-is on /news, with no expandable section — keep that in mind while backfilling.

To edit an already-published release's notes to match this convention, use gh release edit <tag> --notes-file <(sed ...) or paste manually in the GitHub UI — scripts/release.sh only runs at tag-creation time, so it won't touch releases that already exist.

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1.15.0 — 2026-08-17

New features

• Testimonials: share your experience of Compass with a rating and a short write-up, browse everyone else's, and leave one on your way out if you delete your account
• Proposals are now discussions — comment for or against, reply to others, edit your comment (with its history kept), and get notified when someone responds. The strongest arguments on each side surface at the top
• Spotlight: the home page now features real members who opted in. Turn it on or off any time in settings
• Search alerts: bookmark a search, get an email the moment a new member matches, and open the alert on its own page to see who's new
• Referrals page showing who joined through your link
• Fill your profile from an existing write-up: paste a Notion page or Firefly profile link and Compass drafts your answers from it
• Reorder your profile photos by dragging them or with arrow buttons, and duplicates of your profile picture are now prevented
• Footnotes in profiles and posts, with tooltip previews and smooth scrolling between marker and note
• Choose how the profile grid looks — masonry or uniform cards — from a new display-options button in the search toolbar
• Copy any chat message as plain text
• Choose whether your profile is public or members-only right in the sign-up form, and control separately whether it appears in Compass's public feeds
• Analytics are now opt-in: a consent banner on first visit and a toggle in settings

Improvements

• Pressing Enter in a message now starts a new paragraph instead of sending — use the send button (or Ctrl/Cmd+Enter). Same behavior on desktop and mobile, so half-written messages don't fly off
• Profiles now store a birth date, so your age stays correct instead of going stale
• Conversations show when someone has left, instead of looking like an active chat with nobody in it
• Pasting formatted text (from Markdown or another document) keeps its structure instead of collapsing into one block
• Saved searches are easier to reuse: cleaner rows, and applying one restores both its filters and its location
• Vote buttons show which way you voted, with much better contrast and screen-reader support
• Redesigned the link preview card for profiles shared on social media
• Profile previews no longer repeat bio scaffolding like "About me" headings and status notes
• Privacy policy and terms of service are now available in French and German
• Reorganized profile sections: height moved to demographics, age and location swapped
• Clearer onboarding and compatibility copy, shorter share and welcome emails, and better username suggestions from your email
• Distances in miles are rounded, and US locations read more naturally
• Emails now mention how many members are near you
• Fixed a dropdown that closed before you could pick an option, a large gap under the Android header, and chat jumping when scrolling to the newest message
• Faster proposal pages and profile loading — fewer redundant lookups behind the scenes
• Removed the Reddit link from the social page (account suspended)

Database

• New tables and migrations: outreach_contacts, outreach_sends, search_alert_sends, testimonials, vote_comments (+ stance extension, top-arguments ranking, edit history, nullable avatar), profile_spotlights, plus feed_visibility and birth_date columns on profiles
• birth_date replaces stored age — DB triggers derive and backfill age, with matching frontend validation and input handling
• Highlighted-argument ranking moved into SQL so list and detail views rank identically and comment payloads shrink

Backend & API

• New endpoints: testimonials (create/get/moderate), vote comments (create/edit/mute/hide), spotlights (public/admin create/update), get-search-alert, create-outreach-search, get-my-referrals, get-outreach-stats, send-city-number-emails, send-empty-room-emails
• llm-extract-profile gained Notion (fetchNotionRecordMap → TipTap JSONContent) and Firefly (Supabase RPC, displayed fields only, quiz answers excluded) extraction paths, with unit tests
• Outreach system: admin interface, member queue, contact tracking, local-density and referral helpers; banned and disabled members excluded from the queue
• New-member profiles announced on Discord via newMemberDiscordMessage, with referrer attribution
• Batched creator lookups on vote pages and deduplicated concurrent useProfileByUserId requests
• API version 1.57.1 → 1.66.0

Web

• Analytics consent (web/lib/consent.ts) gates Sentry and analytics init; markdown-backed doc pages (markdown-doc.ts, doc-page.tsx) now serve privacy/terms from web/public/md/{,fr,de}
• Added build-sitemap.mjs, robots.txt entries, and JSON-LD structured-data components
• Split editor toolbars into minimal / full modes; added footnote marker pairing/indexing and Markdown-paste-to-HTML conversion, both with unit tests
• Profile rail switched from flex to block layout; grid layout selector, display-options button, and optional plain-text location rendering for non-linked cards
• Single member profile links use Link so open-in-new-tab and copy-link work

Android

• versionCode 145 → 157, versionName 1.35.0 → 1.39.0

Tooling, scripts & docs

• Scripts: render-scroll.mjs profile scroll videos, build-social-logos, chat-transcript export to Markdown (with local-timezone timestamps), interest deduplication, ranked candidate generation with off-platform TARGET_FILE support
• CI: conditional Jest worker settings, lint timeout down to 5 min, test timeout up to 15 min, jq for metadata.json generation, package.json in the Node cache key
• Docs: iOS-without-a-Mac workflow, Play Store review plan, fediverse/ActivityPub feed plan
• E2E: scoped locators, centralized clearFilters, "Search as member" admin filter for testing member-specific results

Full Changelog: https://github.com/CompassConnections/Compass/compare/1.14.0...1.15.0

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1.14.0 — 2026-08-02

New features

• Referral links are now editable — pick your own link, and the share button and QR code update with it
• Redesigned settings: theme, font and language pickers, plus clearer account and privacy controls
• Added exercise habits to profiles, with a matching filter
• Profile form now has a section index — sticky on desktop, a collapsible bar on mobile
• Long-press a profile card on touch devices to reveal its actions
• Links you type in bios, comments and messages are detected automatically, and stay correct when edited
• Emoji reactions on messages can now be toggled off
• When no profiles match, the search page shows a summary of the filters you applied
• The Filters button now shows how many filters are active

Improvements

• Redesigned the home, about, profile and press pages
• New profile photo experience: a hero photo with a swipeable carousel underneath
• Redesigned proposals: color-coded vote buttons, status indicators, and filters
• Redesigned the new-message email with an avatar, profile link, and conversation context
• Warmer welcome email with a founder's note and your referral link
• Notifications from the same conversation now collapse into one instead of stacking up
• Renamed "My Matches" to "Looking For" for clarity
• Grouped "Background" fields (ethnicity, raised in) with cultural information; moved orientation above languages; gave photos their own category in the optional profile form
• Going back now restores your scroll position instead of jumping to the top
• Better mobile keyboard handling: the bottom nav gets out of the way and the message view keeps its place
• Compass links now open inside the app instead of bouncing out to the browser
• The filters panel docks on desktop and slides over on mobile, remembering its state
• More inclusive pronoun wording on profile connect and comment sections
• Various typography and contrast polish across profiles, chat, and timestamps
• Clearer, shorter FAQ introduction

Trust & safety

• Clearer explanation when an account is on hold, tailored to the reason
• Moderators can act on a banned account directly from their profile
• Staff accounts are exempt from the spam guard
• Tightened database access so profile and activity data can no longer be pulled in bulk

Security & database

• Revoked bulk-read grants on profiles, users, user_activity, profile_stars and compatibility_scores; client reads now go through row-limited security-definer functions (20260730_cap_profiles_users_reads.sql, 20260731_lock_activity_stars_compat.sql)
• Added ban_reason to users (20260728_add_ban_reason_to_users.sql) and exercise to profiles (20260731_add_exercise_to_profiles.sql)
• Aggregate stats moved server-side into stats.ts now that the client can no longer scan tables
• Dropped the obsolete temp_users / user_waitlist reference SQL and the import-profile finalize script
• Fixed redundant parentheses in the is_banned_from_posting condition

Backend & API

• Enabled compression middleware to cut response payload size
• OpenAPI: centralized the securitySchemes definition and omitted internal endpoints from the public spec
• projection defaults to card in the profiles schema
• Backend support for banReason on ban actions
• API version bumped 1.51.0 → 1.57.1

Web

• Added SyncAutolink, a TipTap extension that updates or removes link marks as URLs are edited; linkifyUrls replaces linkifyTrailingUrl throughout; linkifyjs upgraded to 4.3.2
• New hooks: useScrollRestoration, useLongPressReveal, useHideBottomNavOnKeyboard, useScrolledPast
• Visual-viewport-based keyboard handling in _app.tsx; fixed scroll measuring during programmatic updates and container resizes; allowed scroll chaining in short panels
• Replaced ProfileGallery with modular ProfileHeroPhoto, ProfilePhotoCarousel and a shared useProfilePhotos
• Extracted Section/SectionHeading, ScrollPanel, CompatibleBadge and DottedList; added a font-microcaps utility
• Push notifications use collapseKey for deduplication; added ServiceWorkerGlobalScope globals to the ESLint config
• Moved the Vercel build-ignore logic into a standalone script that handles a missing previous SHA

Android

• versionCode 134 → 145, versionName 1.32.0 → 1.35.0
• Deep links to compassmeet.com resolve via client-side navigation instead of an OS handoff

Testing

• Capped ts-jest worker usage to prevent memory exhaustion on high-core-count machines
• Raised the Playwright expect timeout to 60 seconds
• Extracted clickCheckbox and optionChip helpers and added missing data-testid attributes
• get-profiles tests now mock the database client

Tooling & docs

• Added a GitHub Action that announces published releases on Mastodon (@compassmeet)
• Added the iOS implementation plan (docs/ios.md) and reputation-system design notes
• Revamped the README; testing docs and CLAUDE.md now discourage monorepo-wide yarn test
• Deduplicated yarn.lock; upgraded compression and react-is

Full Changelog: https://github.com/CompassConnections/Compass/compare/1.13.0...1.14.0

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1.13.0 — 2026-07-27

New features

• Voice messages: record, transcribe, and play back audio directly in profiles and chats
• Added a media creator tool for building profile photos/videos in-app
• Added a searchable FAQ page with categories and deep links to individual answers
• Signal is now a supported way to share contact info (phone number or signal.me link)
• Finnish added to the list of profile languages
• Sexual orientation is now its own profile field, with expanded gender options
• Added neurotype and other accessibility fields to profiles
• "Get Notified" button on saved searches — get alerted as soon as a new match appears
• Redesigned notifications: clearer settings and empty states explaining what triggers an alert

Improvements

• Redesigned the About page with growth stats and clearer help cards
• Redesigned the sidebar for better accessibility and visual hierarchy
• Saved profiles are now called "bookmarks" instead of "stars" throughout the app
• Added a lightbox for viewing a profile's pinned photos/videos
• Nudge to keep your account (instead of deleting it) when matches are scarce
• Customizable share icon and a targeted share sheet for sending profiles to friends
• Hint to help you center your face when uploading a profile picture
• Tidied up filter labels; moved "relationship style", "raised in", and "causes" into clearer sections
• Refined numeric-range and diet filters to handle edge cases better
• Added a world map and demographic breakdowns to the /stats page

Trust & safety

• Added a spam guard that limits new conversations per day and auto-bans abusers
• Banned and disabled profiles no longer appear in search results
• Added limitations for accounts flagged as suspicious
• Added the ability to report a message channel

Backend & API

• compute-scores: delete invalid compatibility-score rows instead of nulling them; exclude null scores when ordering profiles, with test coverage
• searchUsers: exclude banned users and disabled profiles at the query level when excludeUnavailable is set, with unit tests
• Hardened SQL across notification settings, private messages, and GeoDB API requests (input sanitization, stricter limit validation)
• content_owner_id made nullable on reports; removed the outdated "self update" policy on profiles
• Added getChannelsCount API endpoint
• Refactored profile column retrieval for better caching
• API version bumped 1.40.0 → 1.50.0 across the range

Android

• Declared microphone permissions and runtime permission handling for voice recording
• Added a custom icon/color for FCM push notifications
• Added MEDIA_SOURCE_BASE_URL to the CD build environment
• Bumped compileSdkVersion/targetSdkVersion to 36; app version bumped through 1.31.1 (versionCode 133)

Testing

• Restructured the Playwright E2E suite around a POM/Fixture app-class pattern
• Added a multi-account context manager for tests that need several accounts interacting at once
• Added coverage for messaging, profile hiding/bookmarking, filters, onboarding, compatibility questions, and Google-account sign-in
• Added DB seeding and account-cleanup helpers for test isolation

Performance

• Reduced excessive re-renders in the rich-text editor; editor max-height is now computed dynamically
• Added loading skeletons and avoided redundant refetches on the profiles grid

Tooling & docs

• Added scripts for OG/social-preview card rendering, AI-generated showcase portraits, vote-tally capture, and demo/tour video generation (Remotion)
• Vote-tally images switched to PNG; dropped the narrow and WebP variants
• Added .env.local override support to run_local.sh; added dev DB/Firebase reset commands
• Added F-Droid publishing documentation and a React/TypeScript fundamentals guide; added CLAUDE.md to several sub-packages

Full Changelog: https://github.com/CompassConnections/Compass/compare/1.12.0...1.13.0

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