Changelog

DraftAtlas is moving from feature growth into evidence.

This public changelog records tested DraftAtlas releases. Work in progress remains in the app's internal Unreleased notes until it is consolidated, validated, and approved for distribution.

Current progress report

The latest public report covers visible capabilities, validation progress, current beta boundaries, and the next milestones. It omits business figures, competitor analysis, and internal implementation details.

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0.7.8QA23 closes the latest workflow findingsAugust 29, 2026View changes
  • QA23 repairs the concrete issues reported in the prior independent Windows review while preserving DraftAtlas's creator-controlled, local-first project architecture.
  • Approved Character and Object knowledge now distinguishes current manuscript evidence from retained canon when source wording is later removed or changed.
  • Cookbook manuscript blocks now flow into structured Recipe Bible fields without overriding deliberate Recipe Studio edits, and professional exports avoid duplicated content and double-numbered method steps.
  • Screenplay projects expose Fountain and Final Draft-compatible FDX handoff from the expected export surfaces, with direct round-trip qualification retained in the candidate evidence.
  • Project libraries now refresh safely when another DraftAtlas window changes project availability, while preserving the active project whenever it still exists.
  • The frozen QA23 candidate passed all 18 internal baseline gates, including 1,804 active application checks, recovery qualification, professional artifact fidelity, seven-medium workflows, semantic evidence, screenplay handoff, Windows packaging, and installer lifecycle testing.
  • The installed Windows candidate was rebuilt from the recorded source revision, installed, removed, and reinstalled while preserving the existing 4.54 GB project library.
  • A new independent QA packet is prepared to replay the repaired workflows, previously deferred native-file-picker imports, Story Details layout, and grounded Consultation behavior.
  • QA23 remains a restricted development candidate. Independent confirmation, signing, legal, security, accessibility, physical-hardware, professional-output, macOS, and controlled-tester gates remain separate requirements before commercial release.
0.7.8Frozen for the next independent QA roundAugust 29, 2026View changes
  • QA21 completed a broad internal quality sweep across writing, Project Bible, discovery, seven creative paths, output, recovery, visual systems, accessibility checks, optional intelligence, and Windows packaging.
  • Two exact-source internal qualification runs passed before the candidate and its evidence were frozen for independent review.
  • Proposal Review now preserves its summary information at compact desktop widths, and shared controls across project knowledge, maps, portraits, tasks, image search, and asset import have stronger accessible names.
  • The visual quality gate now checks 62 routed surfaces at three desktop sizes, while the candidate-freeze process verifies every copied artifact before sealing the review packet.
  • The QA21 build remains in development, is not available for public download or purchase, and has no announced release date.
  • Picture Book, Comic / Graphic Novel, and Lore Bible / RPG now have specialist workflows that remain connected to the same manuscript, Project Memory, evidence, review, recovery, and handoff architecture.
  • Picture Book projects now support 24, 32, 40, and custom page structures, ordered spreads, page-turn review, silent spreads, distinct reader and illustrator content, visual continuity, references, dummies, and illustrator-facing handoff.
  • Comic and Graphic Novel projects now preserve series, issue, page, and panel structure alongside dialogue, captions, sound effects, lettering information, visual continuity, and role-focused collaborator packets.
  • Lore Bible and RPG projects now support project-defined knowledge templates, governed canon and uncertainty, contradictions and retcons, chronology, maps and routes, campaign operations, and audience-safe views from one private project record.
  • Compact Picture Book, Comic, and Lore Studio routes keep specialist structure, project knowledge, visual reasoning, review, and handoff close to the current work without splitting the product into separate applications.
  • The final medium-parity gate passed all 29 governed P0/P1 requirements, 91 focused tests, 1,790 active application checks, 178 frontend recovery checks, and 35 native storage and recovery checks.
  • The exact Windows candidate was rebuilt, reinstalled, launched, and replayed while preserving the existing 4.544 GB project library.
  • Version 0.7.8 remains a restricted development candidate while specialist review, signing, legal, security, accessibility, physical hardware, professional-output, macOS, and controlled-tester gates continue.
  • Consultation, Editorial Intelligence, Proposal Review, Review Tasks, Project Health, Guided Workflows, and Support now share one calmer DraftAtlas hierarchy with purpose-led color, grounded controls, and progressive disclosure.
  • Health, readiness, findings, scan history, completed tasks, workflow steps, privacy evidence, and support history remain available without forcing every detailed list into the first viewport.
  • The current installed visual candidate passed 1,704 checks across 193 passing test files with one intentional skip and preserved the 4.536 GB physical project library through reinstall.
  • Claude's QA16 Windows review confirmed the shared DraftAtlas dropdown repair at ten sampled locations, plus author-defined approval, rejection continuity, named-person classification, and close-and-reopen persistence.
  • QA17 repairs the narrower problems that review exposed: open menus retain human-readable labels, Escape closes the shared control and returns focus, and internal identifiers no longer appear in ordinary Story Bible linking.
  • Approved Character appearances can now be rebuilt from project-scoped manuscript sources, evidence excerpts, aliases, exact mentions, links, and approved facts after Apply, Refresh, or relaunch.
  • Direct named possessive statements such as mentor, teacher, rival, and competitor relationships now retain both people and their supporting evidence for review.
  • Explicit author relationship decisions now appear consistently across Project Connections, Character dossiers, and Consultation while remaining labeled as author decisions rather than DraftAtlas conclusions.
  • The current internal record includes 1,698 passing checks across 191 passing test files with one intentional skip, 339 semantic checks, and all 18 planned QA17 baseline commands.
  • Independent QA17 is prepared to replay these exact corrections and the previously deferred DOCX/PDF, JSON restore, non-Novel, and compact-accessibility breadth without weakening the restricted-development boundary.
  • DraftAtlas completed the QA14 internal gate after independent Windows testing identified concrete Story Details, Project Bible, evidence-state, and proposal-continuity defects in the prior candidate.
  • The exact independent source fixture is now a permanent regression case and recovers the previously omitted object, dated event, and explicit family relationship without bypassing creator review.
  • Repeat discoveries now target matching approved project knowledge, and a second application-time safeguard prevents duplicate canon when stale or future proposal sources repeat an existing entry.
  • Applying accepted Story Details no longer clears unresolved decisions; pending and rejected cards remain available until the creator decides what to do with them.
  • Approved knowledge remains intact when supporting prose is removed, while DraftAtlas now states clearly that the original manuscript evidence is no longer current.
  • Native Windows options use a readable menu palette, rejected-card state is clearer, Ctrl+Y redo is supported, and word counts refresh without waiting for delayed background analysis.
  • The governed sustained-writing run retained exact text in a 5,500-word active section while autosave, pagination, local review, and Story Details remained available without recorded long tasks.
  • US Letter, A4, and 6x9 manuscript layouts now carry physical dimensions, margins, and matching page plans through preview and print.
  • Project Memory now has stronger approval, evidence, backlink, stale-source, author-decision, and legacy-record protections across medium-aware Story, Series, Recipe, and Lore Bibles.
  • Purpose-aware Editorial Intelligence and local English review passed expanded bounded fixtures while preserving dialogue, fragments, recipes, screenplay forms, lore, and intentional voice.
  • Relationship and place maps now use adaptive detail, collision-aware labels, authored-route preservation, and consistent preview/PDF decisions for professional artifacts.
  • The local asset platform qualified 5,000 assets across 50 packs with complete checksum, accessibility, provenance, and portable-path coverage.
  • The QA14 Windows candidate passed all 18 planned baseline commands, including medium workflows, cross-system behavior, semantic evidence, AI reliability, screenwriting, support, installation, privacy, provenance, and artifact fidelity.
  • Version 0.7.8 QA17 remains a restricted development candidate while focused independent confirmation, signing, legal, security, accessibility, physical hardware, professional-output, macOS, and controlled-tester gates continue.
0.7.7Professional screenwriting inside the living studioAugust 17, 2026View changes
  • DraftAtlas now supports a complete professional screenplay workflow across semantic script elements, project-scoped completion, page planning, title-page data, Scene Memory, revision marks, locked pages, preview, print, Fountain, and a declared supported FDX subset.
  • The packaged Windows qualification authored and revised a screenplay, approved Scene Memory, inspected production state, previewed and printed the script, exported two-scene Fountain and FDX artifacts, and confirmed the project after close and reopen.
  • Screenplay export now excludes planning-only act and sequence containers as well as untouched starter scenes, preventing project structure from leaking into the delivered script.
  • Local English review now runs successfully in the packaged desktop application through the tightened WebAssembly content-security boundary.
  • The current regression record includes 1,627 passing checks across 187 passing test files with one intentional skip, plus 15 of 15 beta-smoke workflows without recorded console errors.
  • The final 0.7.7 candidate was rebuilt from its exact source revision, installed, launched, and verified while preserving the existing physical project library.
  • Version 0.7.7 remains an unsigned private development build. Final Draft and other specialist production tools retain institutional workflow advantages; DraftAtlas is qualifying professional authoring and governed handoff inside a broader local-first creative studio.
0.7.6Living creative studio and integrated qualificationAugust 16, 2026View changes
  • DraftAtlas now preserves stronger orientation and continuity across the manuscript, Project Memory, editorial review, planning, visualization, recovery, publishing handoff, settings, AI setup, and support.
  • Living Manuscript language and editorial findings can appear closer to the affected text while deeper review remains available without occupying the writing surface permanently.
  • Story Details, approved project knowledge, evidence, backlinks, and the medium-aware Project Bible now form a clearer author-controlled decision path.
  • Dense projects, visual boards, relationships, timelines, place maps, assets, and search use stronger scaling, focus, and information hierarchy.
  • Novel, short-story, screenplay, picture-book, comic, cookbook, and lore/RPG workflows passed the current shared workflow qualification without splitting the underlying Project Memory or recovery architecture.
  • Project Bible entries now support a unified local image workflow, while Library & Packs provides 130 bundled visuals across 10 governed packs with medium-aware discovery, style families, provenance, and secure local pack management.
  • The visual library passed a 5,000-item qualification with complete checksum, accessibility, provenance, and portable-path coverage; project-owned copies also survived reinstall and restart verification.
  • The current Windows qualification record includes 1,568 automated checks across 176 passing test files with one intentional skip, 15 beta-smoke workflows, 186 responsive viewport checks, long-form fixtures, destructive recovery drills, provider reliability checks, and a rebuilt and reinstalled 0.7.6 package.
  • The public product tour now uses verified 0.7.6 captures from the synthetic Glass Orchard tutorial across writing, project knowledge, Story Details, consultation, editorial review, maps, recovery, and publishing handoff.
  • The August 16 readiness update separates completed internal capability work from the external legal, signing, hardware, security, accessibility, professional-output, support, and trusted-pilot evidence required for the 0.8.0 designation.
  • Version 0.7.6 remains an unsigned private development build while external hardware, accessibility, professional-output, legal, signing, and controlled-tester gates continue.
0.7.5Professional workspaces and governed intelligenceAugust 14, 2026View changes
  • Projects now scales to larger creative portfolios with pinning, medium filters, search, and sorting while keeping tutorials separate from personal work.
  • Manuscript workspaces and project terminology now adapt more deliberately across novels, short stories, screenplays, picture books, comics, cookbooks, and lore projects.
  • Living Manuscript now supports one continuous Pages workspace, responsive writing measures, an optional keyboard ruler, compact tool families, medium-aware inserts, and a page-first layout that preserves more room for the work.
  • Professional PDF, DOCX, Word-compatible, HTML, and print-preflight outputs now share stronger typography, page structure, metadata, and review controls without changing manuscript content.
  • Offline English support now combines regional spelling, grammar, morphology, lexical reference, durable author intent, and project-defined vocabulary without requiring a subscription.
  • The application-wide visual pass strengthens hierarchy, responsive working surfaces, maps, character portraits, project assets, and one predictable Settings destination.
  • Canonical Windows packages now expose their exact source revision and reject copied workspaces, uncommitted source, stale installers, and package hash mismatches before installation.
0.7.4Sealed relationship qualification and packaged verificationAugust 12, 2026View changes
  • The governed literary-development record now spans 38 rights-reviewed works and approximately 3.99 million words across novels, short fiction, drama, translation, memoir, philosophy, satire, fantasy, mystery, maritime, and children's work.
  • A separately frozen, one-run five-work relationship qualification passed the current aggregate development thresholds: 90.06% displayed-card precision, 80% selected-major-pair recall, and 100% typed-label precision in the small typed sample.
  • Relationship recommendations now favor inspectable evidence, confidence, and conservative wording instead of forcing a precise label when the manuscript does not support one.
  • The current frontend suite passes 1,351 tests with one intentional skip, the beta-smoke suite passes 14 of 14 scenarios, and focused proposal and canon integration passes 202 of 202 checks.
  • MSI and NSIS packages were rebuilt, the Windows application was reinstalled, preserved project-data totals were unchanged, and the installed application passed a responsive launch check.
  • The August 12 public progress report records the passed relationship gate, honest title-level variance, current product boundaries, and the remaining hardware, signing, professional-review, and cohort work.
0.7.3Faster production bundle loadingJuly 31, 2026View changes
  • The previous oversized general vendor bundle is now separated into purpose-specific language-analysis and PDF-rendering bundles.
  • The catch-all vendor download was reduced from approximately 818 KB to 68 KB, and the production build now completes without the previous large-chunk advisory.
  • Architecture checks preserve these boundaries so optional language and publishing helpers do not quietly accumulate in the startup bundle again.
  • Reviewed support reports can now be delivered directly from DraftAtlas after an identical local packet is saved, with a traceable receipt and durable support-inbox record.
  • The public progress report now focuses on visible capability, honest limitations, hardware and privacy expectations, and what prospective testers should expect from staged access.
0.7.2Responsible sources and explainable evidenceJuly 31, 2026View changes
  • Imported-source workflows now state the author's responsibility to use material they are authorized to analyze and clarify that DraftAtlas does not bypass DRM or access controls.
  • Cloud AI tasks provide clearer provider and context disclosures before project material leaves the computer.
  • Review surfaces distinguish source evidence, DraftAtlas findings, AI interpretation, author notes, and approved project knowledge.
  • Export guidance now calls attention to attribution, permissions, quotation, and disclosure requirements without attempting to make legal judgments for the author.
  • Release safeguards now reject ebook and evaluation-corpus material from public packages. Terms and Privacy drafts have been expanded for attorney review before commercial release.
0.7.1Medium-aware project knowledge and public progressJuly 31, 2026View changes
  • Character Interview now stays within the active project and uses clearer timeframe, relationship, voice, and uncertainty boundaries.
  • Project knowledge now appears as a Story Bible, Recipe Bible, Series Bible, or Lore Bible according to the active creative medium while retaining one shared evidence and approval system.
  • The website now organizes DraftAtlas around Write, Understand, and Protect & Publish, with a public-safe progress report for prospective testers.
  • The public site now uses Chart your whole project. One compass. Seven creative paths. and provides a working direct support route.
  • Version history now advances through incremental 0.7.x test builds. DraftAtlas 0.8.0 remains reserved for the controlled closed-beta readiness milestone.
0.7.0Connected project memory and beta hardeningJuly 28, 2026View changes
  • Added medium-aware Project Bible naming while preserving the shared evidence, approval, search, and recovery architecture.
  • Expanded purpose-aware Editorial Intelligence, character and relationship views, evidence-driven maps, publishing handoff, guided AI setup, recovery checks, and clean-machine validation.
0.6.0Living Manuscript and intelligent mapsJuly 24, 2026View changes
  • Rebuilt Manuscript Mode around a professional white-page writing surface with semantic documents, autosave, revisions, Book Preview foundations, and Consultation handoff.
  • Expanded visual intelligence with finite draggable maps, tutorial cartography, nested places, evidence, and spatial review.
  • Added a one-click safety baseline for restore points, backups, recovery snapshots, and release-testing verification.
0.5.0DraftAtlas rename and public beta foundationJuly 8, 2026View changes
  • Completed the DraftAtlas brand transition, restored project libraries under the new name, and established the public website and support route.
0.4.xCommercial beta hardeningEarlier foundationView changes
  • Added Project Health evidence, beta readiness checks, structured feedback, backup and recovery guidance, and release validation material.
0.4.xEditorial Intelligence and manuscript planningEarlier foundationView changes
  • Added Story Health, Editorial Intelligence, Manuscript Mode, medium-aware project creation, and stronger planning workflows.
0.3.xLiving Encyclopedia Studio foundationEarlier foundationView changes
  • Built project dashboards, Story Bible, cross-linking, local storage, tutorials, backups, exports, and desktop packaging foundations.