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Every shipped improvement, feature, and reliability fix.

April 30, 2026

Design Lab now creates media for public-facing sites

  • ✓Public brand, professional, healthcare, civic, local-service, venue, food, retail, hospitality, nonprofit, education, and wellness pages now treat relevant imagery as required by default.
  • ✓Design Lab image resources are materialized into generated projects instead of staying as advisory text.
  • ✓Proof gates now reject text-only public marketing pages when the surface clearly needs hero, service, place, person, product, or process media.
  • ✓Internal developer tools and dense CRM app shells remain exempt from mandatory marketing imagery.
April 29–30, 2026

Faster build loops without weakening checks

  • ✓Candidate validation now reuses a per-run workspace so dependency caches, Vite caches, and node_modules can survive writer-reviewer rounds when manifests do not change.
  • ✓Preview and delivery validation preserve the production build path while cleaning only the outputs that must be regenerated.
  • ✓Headless preview checks reuse browser runtime where safe and probe read-only routes in parallel, reducing repeat validation overhead.
  • ✓Live draft preview can appear during writing/reviewing while the promoted preview remains the trusted delivery artifact.
  • ✓Container restart recovery now checks workspace state before advancing interrupted runs.
April 25–29, 2026

Incremental delivery for broad product prompts

  • ✓Large product requests are decomposed into a bounded delivery backlog instead of being treated as one oversized build.
  • ✓The active delivery task is now the contract for writing, reviewing, preview validation, and required checks.
  • ✓Cleanly delivered slices can auto-advance into the next task when the workflow policy allows it.
  • ✓Reviewer feedback is separated into true blockers, delivered-with-notes outcomes, and follow-up backlog work.
  • ✓Navigation and sidebar checks now catch orphan routes, empty linked pages, and per-record links that do not belong in a foundation slice.
April 20–24, 2026

Proof-quality frontend validation became much stricter

  • ✓Frontend proof runs now validate visual quality, CTA structure, route coverage, reachable UI, asset packaging, and accessibility-relevant image issues before promotion.
  • ✓Preview repair became more deterministic: syntax failures, missing imports, route shims, public asset rewrites, and fallback shells are repaired before a candidate is promoted.
  • ✓Human approval can still override a preview gate deliberately, but automatic promotion now follows the proof contract more closely.
  • ✓Design-lane readiness is exposed in public health checks so production can confirm provider-backed design generation is ready.
April 16–19, 2026

Build reliability and control-state hardening

  • ✓Continuous Railway runs recover from stale leases, stuck writer/reviewer phases, and interrupted watchdog handoffs more reliably.
  • ✓Run control state now distinguishes running, blocked, paused, failed, preview-ready, and completed states more accurately.
  • ✓Preview promotion is protected by stronger workspace, typecheck, import-alias, and generated-artifact validation.
  • ✓Chat build updates collapse into compact status cards instead of flooding the conversation with stale progress logs.
  • ✓The signed-in workspace UI was tightened around a cleaner Build view, calmer dashboard surfaces, and more consistent navigation.
April 15, 2026

Provider keys are now Team-only

  • ✓Free and Pro now use hosted credits only. Team and platform-admin accounts keep hosted mode plus own-key mode.
  • ✓Existing Free/Pro accounts that were still set to own-key mode are automatically switched back to hosted mode.
  • ✓Stored API keys are preserved in the backend for future upgrades, but hidden and unusable on Free and Pro until the account becomes provider-key eligible again.
  • ✓Pricing, billing, settings, account pages, and public marketing copy were updated to reflect the new entitlement boundary.
April 12, 2026

Monthly credits replace included runs

  • ✓Every plan now includes monthly credits you can see and track. Free: 2,000 credits (~1 build). Pro: 10,000 credits (~5 builds). Team: 28,000 credits per user (~15 builds).
  • ✓Monthly credits reset each billing cycle. Purchased credit packs never expire.
  • ✓Your credit balance is the single source of truth — no more guessing how many "runs" you have left.
  • ✓Credit pack cards now show build estimates so you know exactly what you’re buying.
  • ✓Pricing, billing, settings, and all landing pages updated to show credits instead of runs.
April 10–11, 2026

Better builds, faster previews, smarter agents

  • ✓Writer upgraded to Claude Sonnet 4.6 with 64K output — generates more complete code in fewer passes.
  • ✓Builds are significantly more reliable: three back-to-back stress-test builds completed without a single failure.
  • ✓Code intelligence and knowledge retrieval no longer slow down your builds — results are cached and reused across iterations.
  • ✓Iterative builds get smarter: each build inherits context from the previous one, so the Writer produces better code on subsequent runs.
  • ✓High-spend confirmation now shows a proper dialog with your projected cost and remaining balance — no more browser popups.
  • ✓TaskFlow Pro and DevPulse added to the Discover showcase.
April 8–9, 2026

Builds no longer stall

  • ✓Fixed a class of issues where builds could get stuck mid-execution and never complete.
  • ✓Stuck builds are now automatically detected and recovered within 30 seconds.
  • ✓Builds older than 24 hours that are still "paused" are automatically cleaned up instead of flooding your project list.
April 5–7, 2026

Live preview on every build

  • ✓Preview auto-deploys when your build finishes — no manual trigger needed.
  • ✓Preview repair automatically retries generated apps that fail to build.
  • ✓Stable preview URLs persist across builds and always show the latest version.
  • ✓Works with static HTML, React/Vite, and Next.js projects.
April 3–5, 2026

New look — redesigned interface

  • ✓Compact icon sidebar replaces the old full-width navigation.
  • ✓Build redesigned with glass panels and a cleaner layout.
  • ✓Polished visual refresh across the entire app — new chat bubbles, smoother transitions, consistent button styles.
  • ✓"Built with DriftLess" badge automatically added to every project you generate.
April 2–3, 2026

Discover — 25+ showcase projects on the homepage

  • ✓Browse 25+ real projects built with DriftLess on the homepage — art galleries, SaaS landing pages, dashboards, e-commerce stores, and portfolios.
  • ✓Every project links to a live preview you can interact with.
  • ✓Submit your own projects to the community showcase.
April 1–2, 2026

Smarter agents and Knowledge Ops

  • ✓Planning, writing, reviewing, and security agents now challenge each other to produce better results.
  • ✓Generated apps now render real content on first load, not blank loading screens.
  • ✓New Knowledge Ops mode: compile research from repos, GitHub issues, Notion, and the web into structured knowledge bases.
March 2026

Infrastructure upgrade — faster, more reliable

  • ✓Moved to dedicated infrastructure — builds are no longer limited by serverless timeouts.
  • ✓Long-running builds now complete fully instead of being cut off at 5 minutes.
  • ✓Guardian security scanning now runs real static analysis tools for more thorough code review.
March 2026

Token-true pricing is live: clearer credits, safer rollouts

  • ✓Hosted settlement now supports token-true accounting (real token usage + overhead), with guarded rollout and rollback safety.
  • ✓Pricing surfaces now emphasize credits and session outcomes for clearer user-facing value communication.
  • ✓Orchestration-aware session bands (Small / Medium / Heavy) now communicate expected outcome range, not just raw counters.
  • ✓Pack value copy now focuses on practical outcome ranges (small/medium session estimates).
  • ✓No plan or pack price changes: Free, Pro, Team, Launch/Build/Scale pack prices remain the same.
  • ✓Legacy paid-account credit counters were corrected on balance/status APIs.
April 2026

Credits, hosted mode, and more reliable checkouts

  • ✓Hosted top-ups are credit packs (Launch, Build, Scale)—sizes and prices live on the pricing page. Purchased credits do not expire.
  • ✓Choose hosted credits or own keys from Settings and apply the mode immediately.
  • ✓Pricing, FAQs, and the purchase dialog use credit-based copy; your balance is shown the same way in the product.
  • ✓Checkout completion is more reliable: Inflow Pay webhooks map payments to the right account and grant credits consistently.
  • ✓Hosted calls use the DriftLess-managed model stack; premium or organization-specific model control uses Team provider keys.
March 2026

Agent toolkit expansion — broader tools, smarter agents

  • ✓Guardian now runs real static analysis on every code review.
  • ✓Writer and Reviewer can look up live, version-specific documentation before generating code.
  • ✓Brain remembers project context across sessions — preferences, patterns, and past decisions persist in a knowledge graph.
  • ✓Planner uses structured reasoning with branching and revision before committing to a decomposition plan.
  • ✓New database tools let agents inspect schemas, run read-only queries, and test migrations on isolated branches before touching production.
  • ✓Reviewer can now validate rendered UI through accessibility snapshots.
  • ✓Agents can search the web, inspect git history, and use broader repo research tooling directly in workspaces.
  • ✓Approval notifications can now be routed to Slack.
  • ✓Agent toolkit expanded across research, security, database, browser, git, memory, reasoning, and communication.
March 2026

Marketing voice overhaul + content infrastructure

  • ✓New homepage copy — punchier, builder-centric voice across all sections.
  • ✓Press page with press kit, brand assets, and key stats.
  • ✓Comparison pages: DriftLess + Lovable, DriftLess + Cursor, DriftLess + Bolt, and others.
  • ✓Integrations page showcasing 10+ supported AI providers.
  • ✓Updated SEO metadata and site tagline: "Ship what you planned."
March 2026

Scoped CLI and MCP runtime

  • ✓Implemented scoped CLI with project token system.
  • ✓MCP (Model Context Protocol) runtime for tool-based AI workflows.
  • ✓Durable repo-backed writer workspaces.
March 2026

UI improvements and bug fixes

  • ✓Prominent export buttons after build with correct PM badge reading.
  • ✓Fixed project delete reappears bug by stopping stale optimistic re-fetches.
February 2026

Core platform launch

  • ✓Real-time alignment checks with three-zone alerting (green/amber/red).
  • ✓Context Memory — persistent project state across sessions.
  • ✓Budget Guardrails with live cost tracking per session.
  • ✓Learning Engine — session ratings shape future preferences.
  • ✓Prompts with ready-made and user-saved instructions.
  • ✓Provider-key support for 10+ AI providers at $0 markup (Team plan only).
  • ✓Free tier: 2,000 credits/mo (~1 build), no card required.
  • ✓Pro tier: $20/month — 10,000 credits/mo (~5 builds), up to 5 projects, repo-import onboarding (full project repo link).
  • ✓Team tier: $39/user/mo — 28,000 credits/user (~15 builds), unlimited provider-key usage, unlimited projects.