Release notes

What changed between versions

A plain-language history of the Research Dashboard. Each release explains what changed from the version before it, with emphasis on features and behaviour rather than implementation details.

v0.1.0-beta.2 "Ember Orchard"

24 Aug 2026

What changed since beta.1

Ember Orchard focused on making working-time analytics more consistent and useful across Hours, Planning and the main Dashboard.

Hours and workload

Unified day, week, month and year working-time calculations so the same definitions are used throughout the application.
Improved the Hours page layout by placing the selected day and daily log together.
Added weekly workload indicators to help identify unusually light or heavy working weeks.
Added a weekly coffee signal based on recorded daily coffee counts.

Dashboard and Planning

Changed planning indicators from committed days to planned hours, using one planned working day as eight hours.
Added direct links from Planning allocations to their associated paper workspaces.
Reused the same Hours calculations for Dashboard workload summaries, reducing differences between modules.

Navigation and development

Changed the signed-in identity shown in the interface from the email address to the user’s full name.
Added local project configuration to make database development and future migrations more reproducible.

v0.1.0-beta.1 "Ember Willow"

22 Aug 2026

First beta release

Ember Willow established the first production-ready version of the Research Dashboard and brought Papers, Hours, Planning and the executive Dashboard into one authenticated workspace.

Papers

Added paper workspaces with workflow status, milestones, submission and revision history, presentations, notes, links, citations and archiving.
Connected papers with recorded working hours so research time can be analysed alongside project progress.

Hours

Added daily logs with manual work sessions, activity labels, breaks, locations, coffee counts and optional paper links.
Added daily, weekly, monthly and annual summaries, including a GitHub-style yearly activity heatmap.

Planning

Added biweekly planning periods for the first and second half of each month.
Added 5-, 10- and 15-day paper commitments plus blocked time for teaching, conferences, holidays and administrative work.
Added monthly and annual planning views and planned-versus-actual research comparisons.

Dashboard and production

Added executive indicators for active papers, workload, planning and research priorities.
Added cross-module analytics and citation-yield summaries for papers with recorded hours.
Added authenticated access, database security rules and production deployment on the custom dashboard domain.