Compass/CHANGELOG.md

Changelog

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1.13.0 — 2026-07-27

New features

• Voice messages: record, transcribe, and play back audio directly in profiles and chats
• Added a media creator tool for building profile photos/videos in-app
• Added a searchable FAQ page with categories and deep links to individual answers
• Signal is now a supported way to share contact info (phone number or signal.me link)
• Finnish added to the list of profile languages
• Sexual orientation is now its own profile field, with expanded gender options
• Added neurotype and other accessibility fields to profiles
• "Get Notified" button on saved searches — get alerted as soon as a new match appears
• Redesigned notifications: clearer settings and empty states explaining what triggers an alert

Improvements

• Redesigned the About page with growth stats and clearer help cards
• Redesigned the sidebar for better accessibility and visual hierarchy
• Saved profiles are now called "bookmarks" instead of "stars" throughout the app
• Added a lightbox for viewing a profile's pinned photos/videos
• Nudge to keep your account (instead of deleting it) when matches are scarce
• Customizable share icon and a targeted share sheet for sending profiles to friends
• Hint to help you center your face when uploading a profile picture
• Tidied up filter labels; moved "relationship style", "raised in", and "causes" into clearer sections
• Refined numeric-range and diet filters to handle edge cases better
• Added a world map and demographic breakdowns to the /stats page

Trust & safety

• Added a spam guard that limits new conversations per day and auto-bans abusers
• Banned and disabled profiles no longer appear in search results
• Added limitations for accounts flagged as suspicious
• Added the ability to report a message channel

Backend & API

• compute-scores: delete invalid compatibility-score rows instead of nulling them; exclude null scores when ordering profiles, with test coverage
• searchUsers: exclude banned users and disabled profiles at the query level when excludeUnavailable is set, with unit tests
• Hardened SQL across notification settings, private messages, and GeoDB API requests (input sanitization, stricter limit validation)
• content_owner_id made nullable on reports; removed the outdated "self update" policy on profiles
• Added getChannelsCount API endpoint
• Refactored profile column retrieval for better caching
• API version bumped 1.40.0 → 1.50.0 across the range

Android

• Declared microphone permissions and runtime permission handling for voice recording
• Added a custom icon/color for FCM push notifications
• Added MEDIA_SOURCE_BASE_URL to the CD build environment
• Bumped compileSdkVersion/targetSdkVersion to 36; app version bumped through 1.31.1 (versionCode 133)

Testing

• Restructured the Playwright E2E suite around a POM/Fixture app-class pattern
• Added a multi-account context manager for tests that need several accounts interacting at once
• Added coverage for messaging, profile hiding/bookmarking, filters, onboarding, compatibility questions, and Google-account sign-in
• Added DB seeding and account-cleanup helpers for test isolation

Performance

• Reduced excessive re-renders in the rich-text editor; editor max-height is now computed dynamically
• Added loading skeletons and avoided redundant refetches on the profiles grid

Tooling & docs

• Added scripts for OG/social-preview card rendering, AI-generated showcase portraits, vote-tally capture, and demo/tour video generation (Remotion)
• Vote-tally images switched to PNG; dropped the narrow and WebP variants
• Added .env.local override support to run_local.sh; added dev DB/Firebase reset commands
• Added F-Droid publishing documentation and a React/TypeScript fundamentals guide; added CLAUDE.md to several sub-packages

Full Changelog: https://github.com/CompassConnections/Compass/compare/1.12.0...1.13.0

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