Changelog

We've optimized the application by reducing initial JavaScript load and preventing unnecessary data fetching for the ACE board. This update also improves resilience by retrying failed ACE board queries without critical errors.

User onboarding is now more robust, as profile fields are preserved even after validation errors. We've also performed critical migrations to reconcile ledger data and ensure historical accuracy.

The PigeonIQ user manual has been updated to edition 1.9. This ensures you have the latest information and guidance for using the application's features.

We've enhanced the mobile pedigree view with clearer toolbar and navigation labels, ensuring a smoother experience. Key touch targets like wall actions and tab scroll cues are now easier to interact with.

We've refined the pedigree view on mobile devices, correcting sex wording and improving the layout for better readability. This update also fixes issues with the mobile toolbar and bottom navigation labels within the pedigree section.

We've introduced a new regional application page for agents, streamlining the application process. Administrators now have enhanced review capabilities and manual control over agent applications.

We've enhanced pedigree editing to preserve two-letter area codes for rings, ensuring data accuracy. You can now also directly edit sire and dam rings within the pedigree review screen for quicker corrections.

This update significantly improves our internal error alerting system, making it more reliable and reducing 'noisy' client-side errors. We've also addressed silent job failures to ensure all background processes are properly monitored.

The admin dashboard now includes a growth chart showing activity since launch, providing better insights into application usage. A fix was also implemented for the active loft series display.

Users can now claim loft aliases with a single click directly from results, streamlining the process. Administrators gain a new dashboard for live loft presence monitoring and enhanced control.

We've made it easier to manage race results by allowing one-click loft alias claims. Additionally, the results uploader is now labeled by club role for better clarity.

New downloadable PDF manuals have been added to the help section for comprehensive guidance. These manuals include updated information on ACE unclaimed birds and season cutoff rules.

Users can now access and download PDF manuals directly from the Help section. This provides a convenient way to get detailed information and support for using PigeonIQ.

We've improved how race results are scored for new rings and added self-healing capabilities for held results, ensuring more accurate and reliable race data. This update also tightens the provenance of uploaded data, enhancing overall data integrity.

We've introduced an adaptive in-app feedback wizard and email invitations to gather your valuable input more effectively. This system now intelligently aligns survey segments with your billing entitlements for a more relevant experience.

Our demo now showcases a pedigree-card photo for every bird, along with loft logos and club badges, using real licensed racing pigeon photos. We've also updated the demo screensaver with a final standby loop render and normalized legacy photo paths.

The weather planner is now more robust, retrying transient failures and surfacing search errors, with a single scroll column and mobile auto-scroll to results. We've also made the create-post modal scrollable on mobile, ensuring the 'Post' button is always accessible.

Admin bug reports now include email and in-app notifications to the reporter, complete with a reply history for better communication. We've also repaired fresh-install migration chains and improved repository hygiene by shrinking video assets.

We've consolidated navigation into a single global sidebar, making it easier to find what you need. The home dashboard has been redesigned with a photo-led loft board, featuring color-coded zones and count-up stats for a more engaging overview.

Links for sire and dam in pedigrees now display correctly, resolving issues with blank entries and properly handling pending or retracted claims. Federation organization admins and secretaries can now edit race results submissions, aligning with access policies.

The 'create-post' modal on the Wall is now scrollable on mobile devices. This fix ensures that the 'Post' button is always accessible, improving the experience for users creating content on the go.

A new 'Light background (beta)' toggle has been added to the display settings, allowing you to switch to a lighter interface. This provides more flexibility for users who prefer a brighter visual theme.

We've fixed several issues with bird colour classification, specifically addressing 'light chequer' and 'CH family' categorizations. This update also improves modifier composition and write paths for more accurate colour recording.

Pedigree PDFs now correctly display the Pro loft logo in the owner attribution panel, providing a more professional and accurate representation of your loft. We've also refined the qualification logic for pedigrees, ensuring correct breeder caps, evidence tiers, and merit badge display.

Pedigree PDFs now proudly display your Pro loft logo within the official owner attribution panel. This adds a professional touch to your pigeon's documentation, reflecting your premium account status.

This update significantly improves the accuracy of our Results OCR, fixing issues with ring misreads. It addresses various ring variants and ensures correct claimable statuses, making your race data more reliable.

We've made several under-the-hood improvements, including better logging for AI dossier processing and worker refresh mechanisms. These changes enhance system stability and prepare for future feature expansions.

Managing your loft is now more flexible with the addition of Cocks/Hens sex filters, complete with per-group counts. This helps you quickly organize and view specific segments of your pigeon collection.

Signed-in users will now see improved app navigation on results pages, while signed-out users retain a slim share bar for easy content sharing. These changes enhance the overall browsing experience for all users.

Gain deeper insights into your loft's performance with new season analytics, a pair leaderboard, and detailed charts. We've also made it easier to track your personal race history by linking results by fancier name and suggesting name variants from your uploads.

We've streamlined the process for claiming your racing pigeons from public results, making it easier to identify claimable birds and guiding you through authentication. This includes new claim eligibility helpers, direct entry claim pages, and clearer claim links on unclaimed results.

We've unblocked landing pages and rebuilt the database hub to ensure better visibility in search engine results. This change makes it easier for new users to discover PigeonIQ and its features.

A small internal debug script was removed, contributing to a cleaner and more stable application environment. This change has no direct user impact but improves underlying system health.

We've enhanced the pedigree pipeline to correctly handle ring variants and improved data grounding, preventing relative names from being misinterpreted as result claims. This ensures more accurate and reliable pedigree information for your pigeons.

Resolved a stalling issue in the ACE refresh queue processor that occurred due to the pg_cron 120-second ceiling. This improvement ensures more consistent and efficient data processing.

We've fixed an issue where photo uploads would incorrectly force the camera to open instead of allowing selection from your photo library. Now you can easily choose existing photos for your pigeon records.

We've launched a comprehensive public guide, available at /guide, to help you get the most out of PigeonIQ. This guide is now branded with PigeonIQ's look and feel, and includes content corrections.

The weekly winners feature now accurately filters by race date, not upload date, providing more relevant results. We've also improved the display to cover the last week and deduplicate entries from multiple clubs.

We've resolved issues with pedigree PDF generation, ensuring more reliable and stable document creation. This update uses a versioned PDF.js worker and a stable document file object for consistent results.

The dashboard now correctly displays the linkage status of your organizations. Previously, linked organizations might have appeared as unlinked, which has now been corrected.

We've implemented new routing for OCR benchmark models, which includes usage reporting. This enhancement helps us better manage and optimize the performance of our OCR services.

Result sheet processing is now more robust, warning before publishing partial results and holding placeholder-bird links for review. Adding new birds is also more resilient, tolerating reconciliation persistence timeouts and enqueueing recovery refreshes when needed.

Club secretaries now have an invite kit on the members page, making it easier to grow their clubs. We've also improved system reliability by fixing cron authentication, hardening daily engagement post parsing, and capturing refresh-worker failures.

The PDF viewer has been significantly improved, fixing header crashes and hydration mismatches, and now lazy-loads behind a browser capability check for better performance. We've also resolved several production errors, including issues with clocking time casts and refresh timeouts.

We've introduced a new visual arrow chart for managing your pigeon hierarchy, allowing for intuitive tap-to-edit functionality. This update also ensures that memberships cascade correctly when you attach or detach parts of your hierarchy.

We've introduced a new 'union' organization level, providing more flexibility for managing larger groups of pigeon fanciers. A new visual hierarchy manager allows you to easily view and edit your organization's structure with an interactive arrow chart.

We've introduced a new 'union' organizational level and powerful hierarchy management tools. This includes a visual arrow chart with tap-to-edit nodes, making it easier to define and manage complex organizational structures.

The admin interface has been redesigned for better usability, featuring a new morning brief dashboard, unified navigation, and a dedicated bird workspace. You can now also approve bulk pre-matched curations, speeding up your data processing.

We've significantly improved how you manage bird data, introducing robust duplicate detection and an audited merge process with undo capabilities. The system now paginates past the 5000-row limit for duplicate scans and intelligently catches OCR-variant spellings, ensuring more accurate data.

Managing your bird records is now more robust with new duplicate detection and an audited merge process, complete with an undo option. This helps maintain data integrity and simplifies resolving duplicate entries.

Discover your birds' winning relatives more easily with new notifications for relative owners and a dedicated section on bird pages. Pedigree cards now highlight siblings, and wins trigger a deeper refresh to keep all related information up-to-date.

Saving pedigree changes is now more reliable, with immediate status updates and automatic summary refreshes. We've also significantly boosted application speed by parallelizing queries and optimizing PDF generation, making your experience smoother and faster.

We've refined the Pedigree PDF generation to prioritize summary information over empty achievement notes on short ancestor boxes, ensuring critical details are always visible. Adjustments were made to how achievements and narrative text are displayed, preventing awkward headings or empty sections when space is limited.

Pedigree cards now display the ring-year tag ('YY) on both PDF and screen trees for better identification. We've also added a computed breeding line (Sire/Dam of N winners) and a provenance weight-clause to pedigree records, providing more comprehensive insights into a pigeon's lineage and achievements.

Pencil edits now receive priority in the refresh queue, similar to clear operations, ensuring your changes are reflected more quickly. Additionally, the 'pencil save' toast notification will persist and resume polling even if the component remounts, providing more robust feedback on save operations.

The pedigree PDF now displays a concise AI summary for ancestors, providing more meaningful information instead of a blank achievements line. This update also ensures that generated PDFs are always fresh, preventing stale previews.

Organization approval alerts are now correctly routed to the dedicated approvals queue. This change helps ensure that all relevant notifications are managed in a centralized location.

Pedigree records now clearly label Bloodline sections for better organization and understanding of your pigeons' lineage. Generated PDF pedigrees will now display a concise AI summary for ancestors without achievements, providing more meaningful information.

We've refined how duplicate pigeon entries are handled, improving the curation of descriptions and ensuring highlight attribution is maintained. The system now also performs intra-lineage and coverage-based deduplication to keep your data cleaner and more accurate.

We've significantly enhanced the accuracy of pedigree data, fixing various lineage issues and refining validation rules. Users can now also edit pedigrees more reliably, with better handling of locked nodes and real-time save progress.

We've performed a cleanup of global achievements, removing phantom relative wins that were incorrectly displayed. This ensures that your bird's achievements are accurately reflected across the application.

We've made it easier to edit pedigree narratives by fixing an issue where text would bleed outside its designated area. Additionally, pencil icons for editing are now subtly visible at all times, becoming fully opaque on hover for better discoverability.

You can now directly edit individual boxes on pedigree PDFs by hovering over them and using the new pencil icons. This includes descriptions, lineage, results, and breeder information, with AI suggestions available for confirmation.

You can now publish race results even if some header fields are missing, as long as the date is provided. This offers more flexibility when finalizing race information.

Race results now correctly distinguish between a bird's own results and those of its ancestors in pedigree descriptions. We've also removed redundant 'raceType' prefixes when the race name already indicates the authority (e.g., National, Federation, Club).

We've enhanced how race results are parsed and displayed, ensuring that achievements are correctly attributed to the bird or its ancestors. This update fixes issues where a bird's card might incorrectly show wins belonging to its relatives and improves the handling of complex race result descriptions.

We've made a minor update to the branded pedigree generation. This ensures consistency and accuracy in the visual presentation of your pigeon's lineage.

We've added the ability to import private clocking data, providing a more comprehensive view of your pigeon's performance. This feature also includes analytics to help you gain deeper insights into your race data.

Switching between sections in the Ace Awards area is now significantly faster. This improvement is due to parallel pagination, optimized head counts, and hover prefetching with smoother transitions.

Users can now export multiple pedigrees at once in a convenient ZIP format, streamlining record-keeping. We've also introduced inline editors for notes and race results, making updates quicker and more intuitive.

Users can now customize their pigeon pedigrees with a new design engine, including branding, photos, and watermarks. We've also added batch ZIP export and improved the default viewing experience with better zoom controls and 'fit-page' functionality.

Text truncation is now more robust, preventing dangling characters and open brackets in summaries. Pedigree cards for known birds without results will now explicitly state 'No recorded achievements,' ensuring clear layout and preventing overlaps with other sections.

AI-compiled records now include deterministic lineage for unraced birds and improved precision by excluding subjects from partial-name overlaps. We've also added an AI re-read and OCR core for better data processing and ensure complete record fragments.

Pedigree generation is now significantly faster due to memoized assets and in-memory PDF caching, along with CDN-cached shareable design URLs. We've also fixed an infinite regenerate loop in the Pedigree Viewer and improved design preview reliability.

We've significantly enhanced the accuracy and reliability of pigeon lineage and relationship grounding within the application. This includes more precise claim resolution, better handling of various phrasing, and robust guardrails to skip unverifiable claims, ensuring your pigeon's family tree is more accurate than ever.

The ACE Awards have been updated to version 3, introducing an 'All Round' category, new bands, and improved counts for a more comprehensive recognition of your pigeons' achievements. We've also refined the 'All Round' category to be loft-only and fixed mobile layout issues for a better viewing experience.

This update includes various bug fixes to improve the overall stability and performance of the application. We've addressed issues such as result publish timeouts to prevent duplicate submissions and other minor fixes for a smoother user experience.

Access to Pro features like the predator map now includes a soft paywall to better manage usage and encourage upgrades. We've also clarified messaging around Pro features to help users understand their benefits.

Your billing email is now automatically synced to ensure consistency across your account. We've also fixed an issue related to changing your email and updated the associated tips for clarity.

We've improved the generation and presentation of Ace certificates for your top-performing pigeons. The dispute resolution flow has also been enhanced for clearer communication and faster resolution.

Updates and refactors to the season lifecycle management improve the stability and clarity of how seasons are handled within the application. This includes minor fixes and type improvements for a smoother experience.

You can now view detailed flight times for your pigeons and comprehensive summaries for your lofts. These new insights help you better track performance and manage your pigeon racing operations.

The application now correctly handles ring numbers that include union prefixes. This ensures more accurate data entry and pigeon identification.

We've improved the accuracy of ACE distance and birdage backfill calculations. ACE points on leaderboards now display with adaptive precision, showing decimals only when needed to resolve ties.

You can now create result-only placeholders for races, manage claims more effectively, and link to historical results with retro-links. This streamlines the process of recording and referencing past race outcomes.

We've implemented an annual cap for OCR usage and updated the UI to reflect this change. Additionally, the ACE engine has received fixes for deduplication, attribution, queue management, and backfilling of distance and birdage data.

The Broadcasts dashboard now includes real-time in-app read tracking, collapsible message previews, and a dynamic 'Refresh Stats' button for recent broadcasts. We've also fixed the in-app read denominator to accurately reflect total targeted recipients.

Mobile navigation and responsive layouts have been refined for a smoother user experience across devices. This ensures the application adapts better to different screen sizes.

We've completely revamped the Race Results section into a unified, interactive social feed, allowing you to search, filter, and engage with results through likes and comments. Access to detailed results is now a Pro feature, alongside a new 3-mode Community Hub with auto-linking and verification for clubs.

To maintain data integrity, we've implemented an annual cap on OCR usage within the application. The user interface has also been updated to reflect this change, providing clearer information about your remaining OCR capacity.

We've introduced a new 'one_loft' bird category and a dedicated UI for managing One Loft Races. This update includes official race points, improved bird data handling, and UI polish for a smoother experience.

ACE points now use 'best_n' as the denominator for more accurate scoring. You can also filter ACE awards by Young or Old bird age categories, providing more granular insights into your pigeons' performance.

Several issues related to branded pedigrees, PDF worker functionality, and narrative provenance have been resolved. These fixes ensure more reliable and accurate document generation within the application.

This update includes various minor fixes to enhance overall application stability and user experience. We've also made an adjustment to use 'best_n' as the denominator for ACE points calculation.

The Community Wall now offers a better user experience, improved accessibility, and more robust error handling. You can also make your pedigrees private per bird, and a new public results directory has been enabled for sharing.

You can now assign owner-scoped strain labels to your pigeons, separate from canonical breeder information, and override the owner manual description. Notifications have been refactored for central counts, mark-as-read functionality, and improved UI badges.

We've improved the billing process, allowing returning customers to checkout smoothly and trial users to start paid subscriptions immediately while retaining trial caps. Stripe trial subscribers now correctly receive Pro feature limits, and local subscription data syncs instantly upon starting paid billing.

A new club content suite has been introduced, allowing clubs to share news, documents, and galleries. Additionally, a new Home dashboard and workspace shell provide a centralized and organized starting point for your application experience.

You can now easily share race results to the Wall and manage Ace Awards with an updated interface. Velocity formatting has been improved to three decimal places for greater precision, and a delete action for results has been added.

The pedigree tree now displays great-grandparents by default on desktop, allowing for a complete view of 4-generation pedigrees without extra clicks. This enhancement makes it easier to trace your pigeon's lineage at a glance.