Changelog

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.

We've upgraded our OCR system for pedigrees, clocking records, and race results to use the more advanced Gemini-3.7-Flash model. This change improves the accuracy and speed of data extraction from your documents, including better support for ETS records.

We've added new knowledge articles, updated our catalog, and introduced a velocity calculator. You'll also find an expanded study on racing pigeon losses and a new article on racing pigeons.

We've enhanced the responsive grid and coordinate input layouts for a smoother experience. A new QuickHelpCard provides fast access to emergency and reference information.

The application's layout has been optimized for various screen sizes, ensuring a better user experience on all devices. Specifically, the grid and coordinate input fields now adapt more gracefully.

PigeonIQ now includes a new feature for synchronizing raptor sightings and classifying images to help identify potential threats. This update also brings minor UI adjustments for a smoother experience.

This update fixes issues with doubled distances in race results and includes a repair script to correct existing data. We've also improved the display of club and federation names, hiding internal UUIDs for a cleaner user interface.

Several critical bugs have been resolved, including issues with hydration, organization authentication, data uploader functionality, and data suppression. These fixes improve the overall stability and reliability of the application.

We've enhanced pedigree functionality by introducing AI grounding and reference-only pedigrees, making your data more robust and verifiable. Additionally, the lineage vocabulary has been expanded for more precise record-keeping.

We've improved our notification system to support multi-device web push and realtime updates, ensuring you receive timely information across all your devices. This update provides more reliable and consistent notifications for important events in your pigeon management.

This release includes a fix for a minor bug that was impacting application stability. We've also made some internal adjustments to improve overall performance and reliability.

Resolved an issue where archived bird statuses were not correctly cast, ensuring accurate data display. Additionally, a fix for achievement foreign keys was implemented, along with a rollback migration for database integrity.

Admins now have access to a new insights page, providing better oversight of application usage. This update also includes enhanced user filtering capabilities for more efficient management.

We've resolved an issue where the status of archived birds was not always displayed correctly. This fix ensures accurate representation of your archived pigeon records.

System notifications (toasts) are now persistent and include a close button, allowing you to dismiss them at your convenience. This prevents important messages from disappearing before you've had a chance to read them.

PDF exports now support custom Unicode-capable fonts, allowing for a wider range of characters and improved document presentation. This ensures better readability and internationalization for your reports.

Users can now filter race results by individual member, providing more granular control over data viewing. We've also enhanced the cleanup process for uploaded race results, ensuring smoother data handling.

The application's user interface has received updates for a more polished look and feel. We've also upgraded our OCR capabilities to Gemini 3.6 Flash for better performance and accuracy in data extraction.

We've improved how race results are handled, allowing child race results to be merged and automatically pushing parent results. This update also corrects result times and ACE standings for more accurate competition tracking.

Access for race-day officers has been broadened to streamline operations, while overall administrative and organization access has been hardened for better security. These changes ensure appropriate access levels across the application.

The home page hero section has been redesigned for a fresh look, and general UI updates have been applied throughout the application. These changes improve overall aesthetics and user interaction.

We've addressed issues causing horizontal overflow on various screens, ensuring a smoother viewing experience. The search bar now correctly sizes itself, improving overall layout consistency.

A small update has been made to the upload client interface. This change improves the user experience when uploading files to the application.

We've implemented significant backend optimizations, including a new L2 cache and request deduplication, to make PigeonIQ faster and more responsive. These changes also introduce advanced cost controls for more efficient resource usage.

This update introduces an L2 cache layer to significantly boost application performance and responsiveness. We've also implemented Phase 2 cost controls to optimize resource usage and reduce operational expenses.

We've made significant improvements to our AI and OCR capabilities, leading to more accurate data extraction from race results. This update also includes optimizations for faster processing and better handling of various document types.

This update includes crucial backend fixes that improve the overall stability and reliability of the application. We've also addressed issues related to user trials and email functionalities, ensuring a smoother onboarding and communication experience.

We've updated our internal changelog system to provide more coherent and meaningful user-facing updates. This change improves how we communicate new features and fixes to you.

We've improved the mobile scrolling experience for results tables, making it easier to navigate data on smaller screens. This release also includes various minor updates and internal optimizations to enhance overall application stability and performance.

Our knowledge library has been significantly expanded to over 40 articles with an updated, easier-to-navigate catalog structure, helping you find answers faster. We've also enhanced our Optical Character Recognition (OCR) parsing capabilities, specifically by extending route timeouts for more robust processing of detailed sheets. This update also includes the new changelog feature within the application.

We've introduced a new activity history, allowing you to easily review recent actions within your account. Additionally, a new dedicated dialog is now available to streamline any organization-related requests, improving communication and efficiency.

We've significantly enhanced the Electronic Timing System (ETS) upload process, allowing for multi-file CSV uploads, Unikon XML support, and improved OCR format detection. A new distance management page lets you shortlist race points, manage member distances, and ensures precise velocity calculations with a new review step for pre-publish confirmation. This update also includes crucial fixes for ETS processing, distance parsing, and improved result PDF exports with tie-aware velocity display.

This release includes numerous general bug fixes across the application, addressing issues such as ETA calculations and various UI quirks. We've also updated the marketing landing page with a new design and metrics bar, along with minor adjustments to the post feed and other UI components, improving overall stability and user experience.

The 'Org Admin' section has been renamed to 'Secretary' to better reflect its purpose, now including dedicated 'Club Results' pages and support for organization-scoped ACE standings. We've refreshed the user interface for both Secretary and Controller roles, adding essential features like weather data in PDFs, enhanced notification filtering, and the ability for controllers to select organizations.

Dive deeper into your pigeon's potential with new distance-tuned weather benchmarking, including heat effects, providing more accurate performance insights. We've introduced an 'Elite' merit tier to the qualification system and improved AI summaries in pedigrees, offering a richer understanding of a pigeon's lineage and achievements. Several fixes ensure precise award distinctions and qualification validations.

This release includes various under-the-hood improvements and bug fixes to enhance overall application stability and performance. We've also refined minor UI elements, improved API resilience, and made backend adjustments for a smoother, more reliable user experience.