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Switching back to English now reliably updates the site and URL so the selected language sticks for visitors; this fixes an issue where English would be reverted by a stale language prefix.

The Landing page's launch banner, "Featured this week" card and demo gallery have been localized so visitors see those sections in their selected language.

Pricing, Showcase, Login, Terms, Privacy and other marketing pages now include localized text and a language selector in the top navigation so visitors can read marketing content in their language.

The logged-in surface (dashboard, product pages, release editor, settings, billing, team pages, and shared widgets) has been localized so signed-in users can use the app in their language, and a language selector has been added to the dashboard top bar.

Docs content has been translated and is now served under language-prefixed URLs so readers can browse the docs in their chosen language with sidebar and prev/next links preserving the language.

Docs pages now include hreflang tags, per-language self-canonical links and language-specific sitemap variants to improve indexing and discovery of localized documentation.

Add a Pause/Enable button to each webhook so you can stop deliveries without deleting the webhook and resume them later; pausing also cancels any in‑flight retries and enabling does not replay events missed while paused.

Add a Redeliver action in the delivery log so owners/admins can re‑fire any non‑success delivery on demand; redeliver rebuilds the payload if needed and restarts the retry budget so a long‑failed delivery can be retried.

Show a small status dot beside each webhook name that summarises recent delivery health (green = delivered, red = failed, amber = retrying, grey = no deliveries yet) so you can spot broken endpoints without opening each log.

Surface platform‑wide webhook health on the founder Admin overview with tiles for recent failed deliveries (7d) and the current pending‑retry backlog so platform operators can spot cross‑team delivery outages early.

Fix the invite limit check to count team memberships (not the legacy users.teamId field) so Free teams are correctly prevented from exceeding the member cap when members join via invites.

Fix owner/admin lookup to use the memberships model so release approval emails go to the correct people and the founder‑owned team bypass for Pro correctly applies when a founder is an owner on any team.

Make webhook delivery durable: events get a short inline retry burst and — if still failing — are queued for hours‑scale retries so receivers that are down for minutes or hours have another chance to receive the event; dashboard rows show retrying state and each attempt now times out after 10s.

Limit concurrent subscriber sends (small pool) during release fan‑out to avoid hammering email providers and reduce lost sends, and update the fan‑out log to report real sent/failed counts.

Centralise and lock down product slug rules (shape, length, reserved words) used by the slug check and product creation flows; founders can still claim reserved slugs for internal/demo products, and mixed‑case slugs are rejected rather than silently lowercased.

Introduce a new /showcase SPA that displays a grid of public customer changelogs (logo, name, description and latest release) with loading and empty states, and matches the site’s normal header/footer styling.

Showcase a single eligible customer product on the homepage each week (public product with at least one published release), preferring customer projects over founder-team projects and falling back to founders only when no customers qualify; the card links to the product changelog and a full showcase.

Fix a visual bug that left a thin white sliver at the right edge of the top launch-deal strip so the banner now extends cleanly to the viewport edge without causing a horizontal scrollbar.

Prevent the product settings page from crashing when the branch selector is still initializing by treating an uninitialized branch list as loading and showing the spinner instead of attempting to render the select.

Remove several marketing sections (three-step how-it-works, feature triplet, mock changelog preview and a CTA card) to simplify the page and swap the removed 'See how it works' CTA for a 'See live changelogs' link to the new Showcase.

Make top-level Docs links (marketing header/footer, pricing, and dashboard sidebar/drawer) open in a new browser tab so users keep their current page while reading reference docs; the dashboard shows a small external glyph for these links.

Add a visible 'Support' mailto ([email protected]) to the dashboard footer and update troubleshooting docs to include the direct support address and guidance for what details to include when reporting issues.

Add a Regenerate button on each draft item so you can re-run the AI for a single item (it saves pending edits first and replaces just that item), with inline progress and success/failure feedback.

Enable drag handles plus up/down buttons in the Release editor so you can reorder items within or across categories and persist the new ordering with Save.

Add a Pro-gated one‑click JSON export on Account → Your data that downloads everything Patchpen stores for your team (products, releases, subscribers, themes, webhooks, API key metadata) as patchpen-<team-slug>-<YYYY-MM-DD>.json using the existing GET /api/v1/team/export endpoint.

Show a Resend button for subscribers stuck in Unconfirmed that mints a fresh confirmation token and re-sends the email, with a one-send-per-5‑minutes rate limit and user-facing error toasts when blocked.

Add a small waitlist form on the product's Custom domain card so maintainers can provide an optional domain hint and join a launch notify list; the card switches to a "You're on the waitlist" pill after joining.

Render a small 'by <Author> · #PR' byline under each release item on all public templates (Cards / Editorial / Timeline / Patch Notes) and make SHA chips link to the correct repo/commit so visitors can trace items back to code and PRs.

Allow maintainers to choose which branch to track per repository (primary and additional); leaving the branch blank preserves the old behaviour of tracking all branches.

Introduce a BranchPicker UI used in the Product creation wizard, the Add Repo dialog, and Product settings so users can pick from the repo's branches or type a branch name when the list is unavailable or very large.

Allow CI systems to request a draft for a specific commit range by POSTing fromSha/toSha or fromTag/toTag to /api/v1/products/:slug/generate; the run uses the provided range and does not advance the product's normal push cursor so CI-driven drafts and push webhooks can coexist.

Serve a server-rendered 1200×630 SVG at /c/:slug/og.svg (optionally ?rid=…) and use it in page meta so social platforms get a branded image for changelog pages and releases.

Give founders a live Jobs card in the Admin screen that shows running slots, queued jobs and recently finished runs — including a Pro-vs-Free breakdown and progress indicators so operators can watch the backlog drain.

Expose Light and Dark tiles for Cards and Editorial in Product > Theme and persist the customer's choice (product.theme.mode) so the chosen mode is what every visitor sees; Timeline and Patch Notes remain dark-only.

Show the FOUNDER50 50%‑off launch strip on the landing page, a claim card on Pricing, a clickable strip on Billing (that pre-fills the coupon), and a pill + prefilled Billing link from the Dashboard upgrade card so customers can apply the promotion without needing the code up front.

Pushes to branches other than the configured branch are no longer processed; this prevents duplicate drafts and double-processing when feature branches are pushed and later merged.

Restore the browser-download flow by adding a session-authenticated /api/team/export route the Account page can call (same payload shape and a Content-Disposition header so the browser saves a patchpen-<slug>-<date>.json file).

Replace the two-card pricing view with a row-per-feature comparison table and show an emerald banner when ?coupon=X is present so customers see the discount will be applied at checkout; CTA links preserve the coupon query string.

Accept an optional coupon code on Billing and forward it into Lemon Squeezy's checkout_data so marketing links and the Billing form can pre-fill discounts; unknown/invalid codes are ignored at checkout (no error shown).

Add client-side validation on the Webhooks page to reject malformed HTTP(S) URLs and invalid email addresses on blur, surface field‑level errors, and block creation until corrected.

When a product has an uploaded logo, the public changelog head now includes link rel="icon" and rel="apple-touch-icon" pointing at it so browsers show the product favicon instead of a generic default.

Scheduled/manual runs and branch-push processing now fetch commits from the selected branch (or the repo default when unset) so analysis and backfills operate on the branch you asked to track.

Changing the product's primary branch resets the ingestion cursor so the next generation starts fresh on the new branch; the Settings UI shows a warning about this behaviour.

Run up to 5 generation jobs concurrently per host and stamp queued jobs with priority so stamped Pro work is picked before Free within the concurrency budget, reducing wait time for paying teams.

Finish the onboarding checklist step automatically when any product shows subscriber or webhook counts (the products list now includes stats.subscribers and stats.webhooks so the UI can surface completion correctly).

Remove the first-party GitHub Action wrapper and replace it with copy-paste curl examples and a multi-repo snippet so customers invoke POST /api/v1/products/:slug/generate directly from their CI runner using a Pro API key.

Unify the marketing and knowledge-base docs under /docs, add a public DocsLayout and redirect old /dashboard/docs links so customers can deep-link docs without signing in, and remove operator-only details from customer-facing pages.

Adjust CTAs and header links for signed-in visitors so Free goes to Dashboard, Pro links go straight to /dashboard/billing (coupon query strings are preserved), and the header shows a Dashboard button instead of Sign in.

Show an optional Monthly/Annual segmented toggle on Billing (auto-hidden when no annual variant is configured) and display the annual price and a "save 20%" subline in the pricing matrix.

Install a small client-side reporter that sendBeacon/fetches window errors and unhandled rejections to /api/client-errors; the server logs them and forwards to Sentry when configured so both client and server errors land in the same operator stream without bundling @sentry/react.

Allow Pro teams to provide a free-form 'team voice' override (up to 2KB) in Product Settings that is inserted verbatim into the AI prompt to steer writing style while preserving the public/internal classification rules.

Have page metadata always point at the new /c/:slug/og.svg so social previewers reliably scrape a branded image instead of falling back to a missing image.

API keys are now hard‑revoked when a team is downgraded to Free and must be re-issued after re-upgrade, preventing soft-disabled credentials from remaining valid.

Stop revoking Pro features the moment someone clicks Cancel; the team now stays on Pro until the paid period ends and is only downgraded at period‑end.

Add a searchable Admin "Teams & plans" table that shows resolved plan, owner, counts and over‑cap flags and lets admins Make‑Pro or Force‑Free teams via a reason‑required modal backed by a server endpoint that flips a team's plan.

Show a live "what you'd lose" preview when cancelling and render a prominent "Pro until <date>, then Free" banner with Resume and Manage billing buttons so owners keep Pro features through the paid period and can easily undo a cancellation.

Allow owners to resume a pending cancellation while still in the paid period and add a Billing action that opens the Lemon Squeezy customer portal so customers can manage card details and invoices directly.

When a team drops to Free, Pro-only product settings are clamped to Free-allowed values (e.g. multi-repo trimmed, grouping forced to daily, tone reset to neutral, poll interval raised to ≥24h) while the original values are saved so they can be restored after an upgrade.

Members beyond the Free cap are marked revoked (they lose dashboard access) and extra products are made non-public while all data is retained so owners can re-enable or restore on re-upgrade.

Subscriber records are preserved after downgrade, but release email fan‑out is capped to the Free tier limit (oldest confirmed subscribers first) so Free teams can't trigger large email sends.

Clarify in-app and docs messaging that cancelling schedules a downgrade at the period end (you keep Pro until then), explain what is auto‑restored vs preserved vs hard‑revoked, and power the cancel modal's live impact preview with a new API.

Hide the custom domain field in Product Settings, change pricing/docs/UI copy to "coming soon", and make server endpoints return a clear "custom_domain_coming_soon" error until edge routing and TLS are implemented.

On upgrading back to Pro we automatically unrevoke memberships and restore preserved multi-repo attachments and clear any scheduled downgrade markers, while leaving credential and explicit publish choices for the owner to re-enable manually.

Replace blocking alert() dialogs with a top-right, auto-dismissing toast system (success/error/info) and wire it into admin and team pages for non-blocking, styled feedback on actions.

Set document.title per page (Account, Dashboard, Product pages, Settings, etc.) so browser tabs reflect the current screen and make multi-tab usage clearer.

Include a manifest.json, apple-touch-icon, theme-color and description meta so browsers can provide a better installable/app-like experience and show appropriate UI colour and previews.

When a public changelog URL is missing (/c/:slug), render a styled 404 page with helpful copy and a CTA to the public showcase instead of returning plain text.

Subscription confirmation and unsubscribe flows now show contextual, branded confirmation cards with product-aware copy and back-links to the changelog or the showcase.

If a customer's custom domain points to Patchpen but no product matches, visitors now see a neutral, brand‑stripped 404 page (no Patchpen chrome) to avoid exposing platform branding on the customer's domain.

The Contact link on Pro changelog pages now opens a mailto with the subject pre-filled as “Re: <product>” so incoming messages are automatically scoped to the changelog.

Replace the one-line invite error and blank loading states with clearer icons, headlines, explanatory text and CTAs to help users recover from expired invites or sign in.

When a product has no releases, show a friendly card that either offers a 'Generate now' button (if a repo is connected) or an 'Open settings' CTA to connect a repository and start backfilling.

The Test button now routes each webhook test through the same per-service payload builders used for real publishes so Discord/Slack/Teams no longer return 400 during tests. Test responses also return and log the remote error body for easier diagnosis in the dashboard and browser devtools.

Provide a server-rendered status page that checks API, MongoDB, OpenAI, the GitHub App, email, Lemon Squeezy, generation queue and webhook deliveries and is available as HTML or JSON (cached briefly to bound load).

Allow Pro teams to pick a generation tone (neutral, punchy, formal, playful) and optionally supply a custom ordered category list that the generator will use instead of the default buckets.

Provide a GET /api/v1/team/export endpoint that returns a full JSON dump of the team's products, releases (including internal items), subscribers, webhooks, themes and API keys for GDPR portability and backups.

Add a global search in the dashboard hero that finds products and releases, supports keyboard navigation and quick jump-to-product or jump-to-release flows.

Enable a Select mode to check multiple releases and run bulk Approve / Publish / Reject / Delete actions from the product UI to speed maintenance workflows.

Show a derived checklist (create product, connect repo, generate & publish first release, subscribers/webhook and custom domain for Pro) that automatically disappears when steps are completed.

Publish a /showcase gallery that surfaces up to the 30 most-recent public changelogs with logo, name, description and latest version as a marketing reel.

The public /status page now uses user-facing phrases (e.g. 'Operational', 'Minor disruption', 'Disruption in progress'), hides unconfigured/operator-only rows and raw queue/latency/count details, and adds site header/footer so the page matches the marketing site chrome.

Email health now defers to the provider's Statuspage feed rather than calling send/list endpoints that require privileged keys; the public row is vendor-anonymous and falls back to a benign 'Operational'/'Not in use' state so customers see clearer status information.

Outgoing Slack messages now include an action_id on the View changelog button to make the interactive button payload well-formed for Slack integrations.

Surface a discreet “System status” link in the dashboard sidebar and docs footer and add a contextual link from failed generation cards so maintainers can jump to the status page when things fail.

Reduce the default activity feed returned to the dashboard so the overview stays scannable at a glance (limit reduced from 20 to 5).

Emit canonical, Open Graph and Twitter Card tags (and JSON-LD for the newest release) on public changelog pages so links render rich previews, and include an alternate RSS link for Pro pages.

Expose /sitemap.xml that enumerates every public changelog (using verified custom domains when available) to help search engines discover pages.

Replace free-form textareas with a Markdown Write/Preview component (supports inline code, bold, italic and links) when editing public descriptions and private AI context so maintainers can preview content before saving.

Serve a robots.txt that permits crawling of public changelogs while disallowing /api/ and /dashboard/ and points crawlers to the sitemap.

Add an explainer to the Account sign-in methods card noting that Patchpen relies on GitHub's 2FA for code-contributing accounts and how to revoke sessions.

Publish RFC 9116-compliant security.txt at both /security.txt and /.well-known/security.txt with a contact email and a rolling one-year Expires header so security researchers know how to report issues.

When creating a Pro product, the wizard now asks how far back to backfill (options from 1 day up to All time, default 7 days) and records that choice so history backfill runs according to the selected window.

You can now enter a public contact email in the create-wizard; it is saved to the product and shown as a mailto: link in the public changelog footer if provided.

Sign-in and repository access are now consolidated onto a Patchpen GitHub App; the dashboard surfaces an "Install Patchpen App" CTA, shows per-account install badges and live granted‑repo counts, and the account/install flow supports installing the App on multiple accounts/orgs.

Founders get a new Admin screen showing platform health, AI-run history, Cloudflare traffic, and tools to inspect AI inputs/outputs for debugging and cost analysis.

Generation is now enqueued as background jobs; the system writes per-step progress and the UI polls active jobs so you see live drafting progress both in a sticky dashboard status bar and inline on a product's Releases list.

When generation is running for a product, an in-progress row appears at the top of that product's Releases list so you can watch drafting finish without leaving the page.

Products created after the GitHub App migration (which lack a legacy OAuth snapshot token) could be rejected with an 'no_repo' error; the product/repo plumbing now accepts either an encrypted OAuth token or an App connection so App-only products ingest and generate correctly.

The repo picker now always displays a filter input when the parent wires filtering, and the dashboard correctly treats App-installed connections as connected so the Generate now button is no longer disabled for App-only products.

Pro backfills are processed in chunked windows (the UI explains they are rate-limited to roughly 200 commits/hour) so large historical backfills no longer run as one large burst and releases appear over time instead of all at once.

Product pages now refetch releases on intermediate job progress changes so individual releases appear as the system finishes drafting them rather than waiting for the entire job to complete.

Job progress cards now display a rough "~Xs left" estimate computed from current progress so users get a moving ETA while generation is running.

The create-wizard's "Reading repos and recent commits…" step now shows an elapsed-seconds timer and, after 30s, a helper message like "larger repos can take 30–60s" so the spinner feels less frozen.

Backfill explanatory copy no longer mentions OpenAI cost protection and instead uses neutral wording that history processing is rate-limited to roughly 200 commits/hour.

Account → Git connections now shows whether a connection is an App installation or a legacy OAuth connection, displays repo counts, and surfaces contextual CTAs (install the App, manage the App on GitHub) and install-request messages so it's clear what to do when an org needs approval.

Creating a product now enqueues a one-shot backfill job so recent history is drafted immediately, and products can opt into scheduled polling (plan-gated minimum interval) to have Patchpen poll for new commits on a timer instead of relying on webhooks.

Products now include a private aiContext field (separate from the public description) that is fed to the AI to help it distinguish user‑facing changes from internal plumbing; the Product wizard and settings surface this input.

Webhook parsing and grouping logic were extended so products can be grouped by Git tag or by published GitHub Release (Pro features), with an optional tagPattern to filter which tags trigger drafting.

The dashboard received a refreshed responsive shell: sticky left sidebar on desktop, mobile top bar + bottom nav + slide-in drawer, improved product list, quick actions, stat cards and activity feed to make common tasks faster.

Job progress now includes phase/step metadata (fetch → filter → group → draft → save) and the client polls active jobs more frequently while any job is running so progress updates are smoother.

New documentation for registering and wiring the Patchpen GitHub App was added and the old OAuth setup doc was retired and redirected to the new App guidance.

Repo pickers in the product wizard and repository-add controls gained a typed filter so you can quickly narrow lists even when only a few repos are shown.

The previous OAuth App setup documentation has been retired and replaced with GitHub App setup guidance; sign-in still works but repo access is now recommended via the Patchpen GitHub App.

Pro teams can create API keys in the dashboard to fetch published releases programmatically (endpoints: GET /api/v1/products/:slug, /releases and /releases/:id); responses contain only public items and include rate-limit headers (60 req/min per key).

Maintain your repo connections via OAuth instead of pasting tokens — the dashboard can start an OAuth flow and persist provider connections for repo selection and webhook registration.

You can upload a product logo (stored and served by the server) and it will be used for og:image and dashboard previews so shared links show your product branding.

Products can be set to 'Automatic' (draft on every push) or 'Manual' (only draft when you click Generate now) from Product settings so teams control when AI runs.

Pro teams get an Embed screen that provides iframe and JS widget snippets (with theme/accent controls) and a direct JSON endpoint example for pulling releases into external sites.

Public pages no longer override the site owner's configured background with the visitor's OS dark preference; the renderer derives card/border tones from the configured background so themes render consistently and form controls use the right color-scheme.

Landing and dashboard surfaces received visual polish (softer shadows, hero glow, rounded surfaces, a mock changelog on the landing page, improved pricing cards with a "Recommended" badge, and a sticky sidebar with an upgrade nudge on Free).

Product list cards now show connection status, public/draft/pending badges and better truncation; the dashboard adds search/status filters and improved empty states and stats panels.

When you click Generate the product page now shows informative messages (no-new-commits, draft created, drafted with items) and surfaces whether a draft was auto-published.

Theme preview uses intelligent color detection to pick card/border tones for better contrast and the live preview reflects those changes immediately so you can see how a theme will look on the public page.

Rendering and generation logic were tightened so only items explicitly marked public are shown on the public page and the API; internal items can optionally be reported as a count but their content never leaks.

Product logos are now stored and served with proper ETag and immutable caching headers so social previews and dashboard previews update reliably when you change the logo.

The scheduled-team sweeper now captures related product/user IDs before deleting parent docs so child collections (subscribers, refresh tokens, pending commits) are cleaned correctly instead of deleting unrelated records.