Product Changelog

All notable product changes for SHRTX are documented here.

[Unreleased]

[v3.0.0] - 2026-04-03

Released

• Released the stable SHRTX V3 site for production on the post-migration Next.js UI baseline.
• Promoted the stable post-UI migration build as the official V3 release state.

Added

• Added a slug consistency guardrail with a tracked baseline at data/slug-baseline.json and a dedicated validate:slugs command.
• Added validate:all as a unified validation runner for slug checks, tool registry checks, file-core boundary checks, content capability checks, and duplicate title checks.
• Added Codex automation templates under docs/automation.
• Added an AST guardrail validation layer for warning-only pattern checks.
• Added structured validation runner grouping for clearer automation output.
• Added shared design-system layout primitives for cards, containers, grids, inline layouts, sections, stacks, and typography.
• Added motion primitives under design-system/motion for subtle fade, stagger, and float effects.
• Added a reusable decoration layer helper and a design-system playground page for faster UI iteration.
• Added v4 intelligent search system with query pattern tracking.
• Added template-aware ranking for common workflows.
• Added tool relationship graph for workflow suggestions.
• Added adaptive suggestions using trending searches and workflows.

Changed

• Refactored the homepage hero to use the new design-system primitives while keeping its layout, spacing, and content intact.
• Added low-impact hero motion for decorative layers, entry fades, CTA reveal, and staggered stat cards.
• Updated the design-system motion layer to stay compatible with Server Components.
• Updated the tools search overlay to use a focused modal flow with better keyboard handling, focus return, and smoother suggestion quality.
• Improved search result highlighting for repeated matches in tool names and slug text without changing the existing ranking model.
• Updated the unified validation system to use grouped execution output.
• Added prebuild validation enforcement before production builds.
• Upgraded search into workflow-aware discovery system.
• Improved UX with related tools and next-step guidance.
• Updated legal disclosures to reflect GA4 reintroduction with production-only loading and consent gating.
• Updated analytics documentation to reflect first-party telemetry plus GA4 marketing measurement behavior.
• Updated README deployment and local preview instructions for static export output.

Fixed

• Fixed password and passphrase generator primary action handlers to satisfy current TypeScript click handler types.
• Fixed the float motion wrapper typing so decorative usage without children passes tsc --noEmit.

[V3 Next.js] - 2026-03-19

Added

• App Router-based routing system
• MDX blog pipeline under content/blog
• Cloudflare Workers + D1 analytics system
• Governance audit documentation (V3 plans, schema audit)
• MDX blog loading from content/blog with frontmatter parsing and static param generation.

Changed

• Full migration from Vike/Vite to Next.js runtime
• SEO system migrated to Next metadata
• Tool and cluster routing moved to App Router
• Registry and data sources reorganized (registry/, config/data/)
• Migrated blog index and post routes to native Next.js App Router rendering.
• Replaced legacy SPA bridge usage in App Router pages with direct route components.
• Updated development environment checks to use Next-compatible process.env.NODE_ENV gates.
• Fixed Next App Router async params usage for tool, cluster, and blog routes.

Removed

• Vike renderer and Vite build system
• Legacy SPA routing entry points
• Remaining Vike/Vite routing dependencies from the Next runtime path.

v1.7.8 - 2026-03-15

Added

• Added new image utilities with batch, client-side processing: Rotate Image, Mirror Image, Pixelate Image, Social Media Image Resizer, Fix Image Orientation, and Image Background Color.

Changed

• Expanded image tool content to the v3 SEO documentation standard across the image cluster, including advanced tools.
• Updated the image cluster SEO v3 roadmap tracker to mark phases 1 through 6 as complete.
• Expanded the image compressor documentation with target size guidance and supported format coverage.
• Extended the image compressor content to cover additional KB and MB targets plus JPG and PNG phrasing.
• Added compressor presets for common size limits and documented the new controls.
• Added cropper shape and aspect ratio presets with masked PNG exports.
• Clarified browser decoding limits and GIF first-frame behavior in image converter content.
• Expanded the image cluster SEO roadmap with supported conversions, capability mapping, and unsupported format notes.
• Added image editing utilities and metadata updates across image cluster registries and catalogs.

[v1.7.7] - 2026-03-14

Added

• Added the engineering blog post on modern Web APIs for desktop class browser tools.

Changed

• Updated brand display and metadata to use SHRTX across core site surfaces.
• Updated policy pages, blog branding, and PWA manifest naming to match the trademark marker.
• Expanded the Web APIs blog post with SHRTX tool links and performance targets.
• Retitled engineering posts to sharpen SEO targeting and synced the registry and roadmap metadata.
• Added SHRTX tool examples and trade-off coverage to the local-first and WebAssembly engineering posts.
• Removed the Manifesto link from the primary navigation while keeping it available in the footer.
• Added consent gated GA4 page view tracking with sanitized paths and referrer domains, plus no client identifier storage.
• Expanded robots allowlist coverage for AI discovery crawlers while keeping internal routes blocked.
• Updated privacy, terms, and advertising disclosures to reflect the new GA4 marketing measurement limits.

[v1.7.6] - 2026-03-14

Changed

• Removed AI wording from social tool copy to reflect local, template-based generation.

v1.7.5 - 2026-03-11

Added

• Added geo intelligence analytics for country demand, geo tool demand matrix, and regional opportunity signals, plus an Emerging Tools panel with momentum scoring.
• Added a lightweight country demand mini-map to highlight regional tool demand at a glance.
• Added admin API base resolution for Pages/local environments with overrides via query, meta, or global config.
• Added privacy-safe global demand aggregation for country demand, geo tool demand, and category demand trends using aggregated D1 tables only.
• Added Product Intelligence admin endpoints for tool ideas, category growth, and geo demand trends to support automated product discovery.
• Added local PGP key uploads with bundle-aware inspection support for the advanced key viewer.
• Added shared category-asset preloading and PDF document cleanup helpers to reduce heavy-tool startup and memory retention.

Changed

• Split the standalone admin UI into separate JS and CSS assets for better maintainability.
• Expanded the standalone admin dashboard with Demand and Product Intelligence sections covering country demand, geo demand matrix, tool ideas, category growth, and geo demand trends.
• Allowed AI discovery and assistant crawlers in robots.txt while still blocking /admin and internal surfaces, and kept training-only crawlers blocked.
• Hardened image and PDF workflows with more aggressive cleanup for previews, canvases, workers, and PDF document handles.
• Refreshed catalog metadata and sitemaps after consolidating overlapping career tools.

Removed

• Removed the duplicate cv-generator tool in favor of the more advanced Resume Builder workflow.

Fixed

• Fixed /admin/fonts/* proxy routing to serve real font CSS instead of HTML (MIME errors resolved).
• Allowed the Pages admin origin for CORS on admin API endpoints.

[v1.7.4] - 2026-03-11

Added

• Added traffic source attribution with referrer-domain parsing, trend series, and entry-page attribution for tool runs.
• Added admin analytics expansions: activation signals, entry attribution, traffic sources, referrers, campaigns, error logs, bookmark-likely direct navigation, SEO Engine Candidates scoring (with workflow score + CSV export), and Build Next Tool opportunity scoring.
• Added a Plausible-style admin Overview layout with a KPI strip and grid-based analytics panels.
• Added a persistent A-/A+ font scale control and explicit Brand/Company JSON-LD entities with a footer pronunciation note.
• Added a Cloudflare Pages proxy function to serve the standalone admin UI at /admin.

Changed

• Extended the admin batch payload to include traffic trends and entry attribution, and reorganized admin views into tabbed analytics sections.
• Standardized the core mission sentence across key pages (Home, About, Manifesto, Terms, Disclaimer, Privacy, Contact, Footer) for consistent brand messaging.
• Switched traffic source detection to domain-based referrer parsing for fewer false positives.
• Migrated Vike pages and renderer hooks to the V1 design (+Page, +route, renderer/+onRenderHtml, renderer/+onRenderClient).
• Moved prerender logic into renderer/+onBeforePrerenderStart for V1 hook compatibility.

Removed

• Removed Senior Mode UI and related overrides in favor of the global font scale control.
• Removed the duplicate Business Invoice Generator entry (business-invoice-generator) from catalogs, registries, capabilities, and sitemaps.

Changed

• Linked page publishers and structured data to the canonical company entity and brand references for consistent entity resolution.

Fixed

• Removed Vike old-design warnings by completing the V1 migration.
• Cleared the onBeforePrerenderStart side-export warning by moving it into its own V1 hook file.

[v1.7.3] - 2026-02-24

Changed

• Updated release documentation for the Vike migration and post-upgrade stabilization work.
• Added a Vite custom logger guard to suppress the known import.meta.glob(..., { as: ... }) deprecation warning emitted by current Vike old-design internals during build.

Fixed

• Fixed excel-to-json-converter upload handling by explicitly accepting .xlsx MIME/extension inputs in the shared uploader path.

[v1.7.2] - 2026-02-24

Added

• Added vite-plugin-ssr prerender pipeline files for static route generation without runtime SSR (pages/*.page.tsx, pages/*.page.route.ts, _default.page.*).
• Added server-side SEO head utilities to keep prerendered tool pages deterministic (lib/ssrSeoHead.ts).
• Added explicit heavy-tool lazy loader constants for route-level isolation without slug drift (constants/heavyTools.ts).

Changed

• Migrated prerender/build flow away from react-snap/Chromium dependency to static Vite build output for Cloudflare Pages compatibility.
• Updated tool rendering path to isolate heavy tool implementations behind lazy boundaries while preserving canonical URL, metadata generation, and registry-driven slug routing.
• Updated Vite chunking strategy to separate heavy vendor families (PDF, crypto, image/HEIC, ML) from core startup bundles.

Removed

• Removed react-snap execution scripts from the build pipeline (scripts/run-react-snap.js, scripts/generate-prerender-routes.js).

[v1.7.1] - 2026-02-24

Added

• Added public-facing reporting artifacts for growth, reliability, and platform trend visibility.

Changed

• Updated release-note language to remain audience-safe and high level, without exposing internal analytics strategy or operational decision logic.
• Kept documentation updates focused on public outcomes and product behavior summaries.

v1.7.0 - 2026-02-22

Added

• Added static prerender pipeline support for the SPA build using react-snap with deterministic route generation from tool registries (scripts/generate-prerender-routes.js).
• Added build-time duplicate-title enforcement (scripts/check-duplicate-titles.js) and wired it into postbuild release flow (check:titles).

Changed

• Updated app bootstrap hydration behavior to preserve prerendered HTML when markup already exists before client activation.
• Updated prerender and sitemap generation to remain registry-driven while excluding legacy alias routes from crawl/index surfaces.
• Updated tool-page metadata behavior for deterministic canonical handling and stronger title/description uniqueness for overlapping business tools.

Fixed

• Removed duplicate legacy alias tool slugs (jwt-header-inspector-dev, url-rewrite-tester-dev) from active catalog/registry/capability surfaces.
• Added canonical route redirects so legacy -dev URLs resolve to stable production slugs without broken navigation.

[v1.5.7] - 2026-02-22

Added

• Added unified Career/Education deterministic workbench architecture in components/tools/career/CareerEducationWorkbench.tsx for cluster-scoped P1/P2 tool execution.
• Added P2 capability layer for Career/Education tools: advanced mode toggle, local preset profiles (save/load/delete/export), deterministic explain-mode calculators, revision history + before/after diff support, and standardized JSON/CSV/TXT export coverage.
• Added governance execution artifacts for cluster rollout tracking: docs/career-education-upgrade-execution-reportmdx and docs/career-education-p2-execution-reportmdx.

Changed

• Migrated Career and Education registry routing for upgraded P1/P2 slugs to CareerEducationWorkbench in components/tools/career/registry.tsx and components/tools/education/registry.tsx while leaving non-upgraded scoped tools on legacy category workbenches.
• Updated platform scorecard artifact after governance verification (docs/governance/scorecards/platform-stability-scorecardmdx), preserving release threshold compliance.

[v1.5.6] - 2026-02-22

Added

• Added cluster-oriented roadmap docs under docs/roadmaps/clusters/ (Business & Finance, Career & Education, Writing & Text, Data Processing, Scientific & General Math, Unit Conversion, Web Development, Developer Utilities, Security & Privacy, URL & Link Tools, Image Processing, PDF Workflows, and SEO & Social).
• Added a deterministic runtime observability utility for Business workbench events (core/observability/runtimeMetrics.ts) with development-only metric emission.
• Added a performance baseline runner (scripts/run-performance-baseline.cjs) to benchmark Business P1 generation and export scenarios and regenerate v1 baseline artifacts.

Changed

• Reorganized roadmap navigation to a cluster-first model in docs/roadmaps/READMEmdx while preserving legacy category roadmap links for transition reference.

v1.5.5 - 2026-02-22

Added

• Added a Playwright-based stress harness for file-based tools with runtime monitoring helpers and batch scenario coverage (tests/stress/batch.spec.ts, tests/helpers/runtimeMonitor.ts, tests/helpers/fileFactory.ts).
• Added Playwright test configuration for local headless execution (playwright.config.ts) and a dedicated stress command (npm run test:stress).
• Added automated platform scorecard generation (scripts/generate-platform-scorecard.cjs) and produced the scorecard report (docs/governance/scorecards/platform-stability-scorecardmdx).
• Added formal governance and release planning documentation: engineering governance charter (docs/governance/charters/engineering-governance-chartermdx) and v1 stabilization roadmap (docs/governance/plans/v1-stabilization-planmdx).

Changed

• Added a new governance automation command (npm run scorecard) with an enforced release gate that fails when overall score is below 95.
• Added Playwright test tooling dependencies required for in-repo stress certification workflows.
• Hardened scorecard TypeScript-check parsing for environment compatibility using direct process spawning.

v1.5.4 - 2026-02-22

Added

• Added shared tool helpers (ToolFileInput, downloadHelpers, canvasExport, printPreview, and xlsxWorkbook) to standardize upload, download, canvas export, print preview, and spreadsheet packaging flows.
• Added file-core boundary guard automation (scripts/enforce-file-core-boundaries.ts) with strict/regression modes, scope filters, and baseline update support.
• Added architecture audit generation and reporting assets (scripts/generate-tool-architecture-audit.cjs and docs/governance/audits/tool-architecture-auditmdx) for category-level compliance and catalog/registry drift checks.
• Added core/file-core/tool-boundary-baseline.json as the tracked regression baseline for boundary signatures.

Changed

• Migrated tool implementations across image, PDF, document, security, social, converter, and utility categories to shared/core file-processing primitives instead of duplicating boundary-sensitive upload/download/canvas logic.
• Updated UniversalDownloadPanel and related tool flows to use centralized file-core download handling.
• Integrated guard:file-core:strict into the build pipeline and added dedicated guard scripts for strict, regression, and scoped enforcement workflows.

Fixed

• Cleared strict file-core boundary violations across the current tool catalog and removed heuristic debt flagged in the architecture audit pass.
• Resolved catalog/registry/filesystem drift signals detected during architecture auditing.

v1.5.3 - 2026-02-18

Added

• Added Photo Print Layout Maker in Image Processing with passport/form-size presets, grid-copy controls, multi-page output, and print-ready alignment controls for beginner users.
• Added heic-to as an additional HEIC/HEIF decoder fallback to improve compatibility with variants not handled by the existing in-browser decoder path.

Changed

• Reclassified first-party telemetry into two explicit classes: operational telemetry (consent-optional) and behavioral analytics (consent-gated).
• Updated client telemetry gating so in-site search demand/click events and PWA lifecycle events are captured as aggregate operational telemetry.
• Updated admin PWA panel empty-state logic to use all retention signals (prompts, clicks, installs, and standalone sessions), not installs only.
• Updated privacy, consent, manifesto, and telemetry documentation copy to align with the new operational-versus-behavioral telemetry model.
• Upgraded Image to SVG Wrapper into a dual-mode workflow with an advanced SVG Generator tab, preset-driven layout controls, live preview, SVG markup inspection, and direct SVG export.
• Reclassified Image to SVG Wrapper as an audit-grade tool tier and refreshed catalog/content metadata to reflect wrapper-plus-generator capabilities.
• Added explicit local-device performance caveats to Terms and Disclaimer pages for heavy tool workloads on older or lower-powered hardware.
• Added Image to SVG Wrapper to the /local-first-audit-grade-tools spotlight list.
• Added SHRTX app installability and packaging planning coverage to roadmap documentation and index navigation.
• Updated Service Worker rollout behavior to refresh-gated activation (no immediate claim) to reduce mixed-asset risk during updates.
• Updated HEIC to Image to use the shared upload surface and strengthened HEIC/HEIF extension+MIME validation.
• Updated HEIC conversion diagnostics to surface actionable decoder failures instead of generic runtime errors.

Fixed

• Fixed missing Search Intelligence data caused by consent gating on site_search and search_result_click event emission.
• Fixed missing PWA retention data caused by client-side consent gating on PWA lifecycle event emission.
• Fixed telemetry ingestion 405 failures on legacy analytics paths by accepting /analytics and /analytics/event aliases and expanding worker route bindings for apex and www hosts.
• Fixed HEIC conversion failures for additional file variants by expanding decode fallback order: native decode -> createImageBitmap -> heic-to -> heic2any.
• Fixed noisy local dev consoles on plain Vite ports by skipping unavailable /api/* telemetry/usage endpoints during frontend-only development.

v1.5.2 - 2026-02-18

Added

• Introduced cluster pages for easier tool discovery.
• Expanded the public tool catalog to 500+ utilities.
• Added new workflows across Business, Career, Education, Document, and Web page builder experiences.
• Expanded utility coverage in text, data, security, image, URL, and PDF workflows.
• Added a public Local-First and Audit-Grade standards page (/local-first-audit-grade-tools) with spotlight links to upgraded tools.
• Added an audit-grade capability tier in tool metadata and surfaced capability-tier badges on tool pages.
• Added a 14-day audit-grade observation metrics plan document to formalize CTR, snippet, export-usage, and retention review checkpoints.
• Added first-party search intelligence reporting in admin, including top queries, zero-result queries, rising terms, and tool performance snapshots.
• Added PWA telemetry events (pwa_install_prompt_shown, pwa_install_clicked, pwa_installed, pwa_active_session) and a dedicated PWA retention panel in admin.
• Added /api/admin/pwa-metrics for aggregated install and standalone-session reporting.
• Added worker-side Cloudflare Access JWT verification for admin APIs plus a /api/admin/whoami identity endpoint.
• Added surge-report hardening with outbound email timeout controls and manual-send cooldown.
• Added a dedicated public Advertising Policy page (/advertising) and linked it across legal navigation and footer trust surfaces.
• Added manifesto-to-policy alignment coverage with direct links to privacy, terms, disclaimer, advertising, and security pages.
• Added a dedicated Sponsorship Policy page (/sponsorship) with strict eligibility, data-sharing limits, liability boundaries, and anti-spam filtering criteria.
• Added sponsorship hardening clauses for solo-operator safety: no sponsor due-diligence assumption, explicit no-partnership/joint-venture language, light indemnification, no financial/investment endorsement, non-refundable post-launch placement payments, and stricter inquiry identity requirements.
• Added emerging-tool detection in admin insights (topEmerging) using window-over-window run deltas with minimum-run thresholds.

Changed

• Refined tool organization and navigation for faster browsing.
• Improved related-tool suggestions to surface more relevant options.
• Updated public docs for cleaner release communication.
• Upgraded Repetition Checker to an audit-grade workflow with semantic clustering, profile thresholds, relative density mode, non-destructive replace preview, and expanded export support.
• Upgraded Image to PNG with advanced alpha controls, quantization + dithering modes, per-file diagnostics, oversize guardrails, and size-optimization guidance.
• Upgraded PGP Key Viewer with stronger risk diagnostics (deprecated algorithms, key-age signals), improved timeline ordering, and richer audit exports.
• Upgraded SWOT Analysis Generator from brainstorm mode to deterministic scoring with severity/confidence labels, strategic synthesis, prioritized checklisting, and JSON/CSV/TXT exports.
• Refactored SWOT scoring/checklist/export logic into a reusable core engine module to keep UI and model concerns separated.
• Upgraded /admin from basic markup to a modern operational dashboard aligned with SHRTX UI direction.
• Updated admin system status to show India time (IST) as the primary server-time display.
• Normalized admin API path handling to prevent duplicate-slash route variants.
• Added google-adsense-account meta verification tag in the root document head for AdSense ownership validation support.
• Expanded policy navigation to include disclaimer discoverability and synchronized trust/legal cross-linking.
• Switched AdSense loader to deterministic production page-load injection while keeping consent mode default-denied for privacy controls.
• Expanded legal cross-linking so advertising, sponsorship, manifesto, privacy, terms, disclaimer, and security policies reference each other consistently.
• Added governing-law and jurisdiction language in Terms to align legal enforcement scope with India operations.
• Replaced hardcoded tool-count marketing text with a generated catalog metadata source and shared ToolCount component to keep count claims consistent.
• Added structured homepage WebApplication schema with dynamic feature count and surfaced exact count on About for transparency.
• Tightened sponsorship policy language to explicitly allow refusal without justification and to broaden no-performance-guarantee coverage (impressions, CTR, conversion, ranking impact, and business outcomes).
• Added structured schema depth across key trust pages: Organization metadata on About, CreativeWork metadata on Manifesto, and reusable category/cluster SoftwareApplication schemas.
• Normalized schema identity model across app and blog surfaces: Organization = Vishwanath Tec Systems, Brand = SHRTX, and WebApplication/Product = SHRTX Web Utility Suite.
• Expanded admin performance reporting with per-tool tool_view volumes and run-conversion (runs / views) signals.

Fixed

• Resolved tool-slug collisions to keep routes unique and stable.
• Fixed route and registry issues affecting some newly added tools.
• Improved reliability for tool loading across large catalog sections.
• Improved tool-page FAQ schema hygiene with deduplicated questions, normalized punctuation, and sentence-boundary answer trimming.
• Added JSON-LD deduplication safeguards for repeated FAQPage and WebPage schema nodes.
• Fixed admin data loading failures caused by CSP-blocked inline scripts.
• Closed admin data exposure risk caused by route-only access assumptions by enforcing worker-side Access checks.
• Clarified Security Policy hardening claims to match current worker-side Access JWT enforcement and ad-abuse reporting flow.
• Fixed admin cold-start compatibility by ensuring analytics_tool_events_daily exists before tool-performance queries execute.

Security

• Added rate limiting for admin API usage and manual surge-report triggers.
• Restricted admin telemetry APIs to authenticated Cloudflare Access sessions validated inside the worker.

v1.5.1 - 2026-02-13

Added

• Added shared action components for consistent tool interactions.
• Added accessibility-focused navigation improvements.
• Expanded long-form product and tool content support.

Changed

• Improved content and registry architecture for a growing catalog.
• Updated metadata handling for better maintainability.
• Refined focus and interaction behavior across pages.

Fixed

• Resolved accessibility structure issues in key views.
• Fixed responsive layout issues in content-heavy screens.
• Fixed inconsistencies in tool page content ordering.

Performance

• Reduced repeated UI overhead by reusing shared components.
• Improved loading behavior for catalog-heavy routes.

v1.5.0 - 2026-02-13

Added

• Added new utility experiences across core product areas.
• Added support and donation surfaces.
• Expanded legal and policy page coverage.

Changed

• Refined navigation and page-level interaction consistency.
• Improved content structure and release process quality.

Fixed

• Fixed layout regressions in key pages and tool flows.
• Improved reliability in output/export workflows.

Removed

• Removed obsolete legacy flows no longer used in production.

Performance

• Improved startup and navigation performance through bundle and route-loading updates.

v1.4.0 - 2026-02-05

Added

• Added foundational architecture to scale a multi-category tool catalog.
• Added baseline release automation and documentation improvements.
• Added early PWA and integration-ready support for product telemetry.

Changed

• Refined page structure and production-readiness defaults.
• Improved legal and consent flow consistency.

Fixed

• Fixed build and type-stability issues during rollout hardening.
• Improved release build consistency across environments.

Removed

• Removed obsolete legacy code paths and unused artifacts.

Performance

• Reduced initial-load pressure through chunking and build strategy improvements.