Changelog

BribieNow version history

Latest version

0.6.1 - Visitor analytics are back

Restored privacy-friendly, cookieless visitor analytics now that BribieNow is hosted on Vercel.

Live

View version history More tools

30 September 2026

0.6.1 - Visitor analytics are back

Live

Restored privacy-friendly, cookieless visitor analytics now that BribieNow is hosted on Vercel.

Added

Restored cookieless visitor analytics that count anonymous page views only. There are no advertising trackers, no custom event tracking and no tracking of you across other websites.

3 September 2026

0.6.0 - Local business page applications

Live

Local business owners can now build and submit a BribieNow service page for review ahead of the public Directory and Tradies launch.

Added

Added a guided page builder for eligible Bribie Island and nearby service businesses.
Added secure draft saving and recovery so owners can continue after signing in or return before submitting.
Added business logo upload, page preview, service-area details, contact options, and an account workspace for managing submissions.
Added ABN and local-eligibility checks, a manual review queue, and clear application status updates.

Changed

Business page revisions are staged for review so an owner's currently approved information is not replaced prematurely.

Fixed

Hardened duplicate-business, ownership-claim, draft-expiry, and sign-in recovery paths.

29 August 2026

0.5.1 - Email sign-in and reliable account return

Live

Added email magic-link sign-in alongside Google and fixed account callbacks on BribieNow's Railway hosting.

Added

Added password-free email magic-link sign-in while keeping Google as the primary sign-in option.

Changed

Added clearer check-your-inbox, expired-link, rate-limit, and cross-device guidance.

Fixed

Fixed successful Google and email sign-ins redirecting to an internal localhost address instead of returning to BribieNow.

25 August 2026

0.5.0 - More accurate local conditions

Live

Reworked how BribieNow interprets WillyWeather observations and forecasts so current readings, headlines, tides, wind, and marine details stay closer to their source.

Changed

Current temperature now uses WillyWeather's station observation on the home card, rounded to the nearest whole degree.
Forecast headlines now follow WillyWeather's daily forecast wording while observed rain and cloud remain separate supporting details.
Improved tide graph data, current wind station labels, gust handling, rainfall ranges, and nearest-hour marine readings.
Moved scheduled refresh work to Railway and increased the conditions refresh cadence to match the observation window.

Fixed

Prevented stale open pages, partial provider responses, and slow Railway starts from leaving the app spinning or showing misleading weather.

29 July 2026

0.4.0 - Community and conditions polish

Live

Improved the everyday mobile experience across conditions, events, garage sales, missing pets, account tools, and app installation.

Added

Added a clearer cross-platform install experience for using BribieNow like an app.
Added responsive date pickers for Events and Garage Sales, plus optimistic event saving with visible recovery if an action fails.

Changed

Redesigned Missing Pets as a photo-led browse page with Missing, Reunited, and animal-category views.
Replaced the unreliable humidity display with a colour-coded UV level scale.
Improved shared weather, side-specific wind and tides, hourly forecast labels, tide charts, card layouts, dark mode, and mobile typography.

Fixed

Fixed calendar scrolling, event visibility, zero-wind wording, feels-like temperature, confirmation forms, and PWA recovery.

22 July 2026

0.3.0 - Explore Bribie and richer events

Live

Launched source-backed local activity guides and redesigned Events and Community around faster mobile browsing.

Added

Added Explore Bribie guides for fishing, boating the Passage, four-wheel driving, and recreation, with official source links and optional on-device distance sorting.
Added event saving, Google Calendar links, universal calendar downloads, date navigation, and a moderation inbox for submitted events.

Changed

Redesigned event cards and event details around poster artwork, essential date and venue information, and easier actions.
Redesigned the Community hub so Garage Sales, Missing Pets, and Local Events have clearer browse and contribution paths.
Refreshed the mobile account menu, notifications, homepage discovery, Passage/Ocean selector, loading states, and the BribieNow pelican identity.

Fixed

Improved small-screen resilience, including layouts opened inside Facebook's in-app browser.

23 June 2026

0.2.0 - Conditions rebuilt for Bribie

Live

Rebuilt the Conditions experience around clearer weather and tide information, richer source data, and responsive interactive charts.

Added

Added interactive hour-by-hour weather and tide charts with keyboard access, reduced-motion support, and screen-reader data tables.
Added richer weather, tide, UV, wind, source-health, and freshness signals throughout the Conditions dashboard.

Changed

Made tides the lead home-screen glance and added a full-day mobile tide chart with activity-aware context.

Fixed

Improved partial WillyWeather outage handling and corrected UV readings that showed the daytime peak at night.

Removed

Replaced the previous chart library with BribieNow's lighter custom chart system.

7 June 2026

0.1.1 - Privacy-friendly visitor analytics

Live

Added privacy-friendly, cookieless visitor analytics and updated the Privacy Policy to disclose it.

Added

Introduced privacy-friendly, cookieless visitor analytics that measure anonymous page views. There are no advertising trackers and no tracking of you across other websites.

Changed

Updated the Privacy Policy to disclose the new cookieless visitor analytics.

6 June 2026

0.1.0 - Public community launch

Live

BribieNow is live on bribienow.com.au with the first public set of island utilities, community flows, account tools, and launch legal pages.

Added

Published the public BribieNow app on bribienow.com.au.
Added mobile-first conditions, weather, tides, marine, bridge context, source-health messaging, and safety disclaimers.
Added public event browsing, event submission, moderation tools, and imported community event coverage.
Added community garage sale and missing-pet listing flows with owner management views.
Added account profiles, saved items, notifications, Google sign-in, PWA install support, and official app icons.

Changed

Polished the launch home screen, public browse header, mobile navigation, and loading states for a cleaner first run.
Updated the Privacy Policy and Terms and Conditions for the current free Australian community launch.

Fixed

Hardened the public route, sitemap, robots, resident submission, and moderator approval smoke coverage before launch.

Removed

Kept the unfinished Explore surface closed until it is ready for public use.

5 June 2026

0.0.9 - Launch hardening

Pre-launch

Final reliability, moderation, install, and user-flow work before the public domain went live.

Added

Added automated launch smoke coverage for public routes, aliases, sitemap, robots, mobile navigation, resident submissions, and reviewer approvals.

Changed

Tightened notification detail pages and read-state behaviour so account updates are easier to follow.
Cleared event moderation notes automatically when an event is approved.

Fixed

Fixed logged-out homepage flashing and improved PWA install fallback behaviour.

How updates are recorded

Major public changes are grouped by version so locals can see what was added, changed, fixed, or removed. Small wording, data-refresh, and internal maintenance work may not appear unless it affects the public app.

Found something that looks wrong? Email BribieNow.

Changelog

BribieNow version history

Latest version

0.6.1 - Visitor analytics are back

Restored privacy-friendly, cookieless visitor analytics now that BribieNow is hosted on Vercel.

Live

View version history More tools

30 September 2026

0.6.1 - Visitor analytics are back

Live

Restored privacy-friendly, cookieless visitor analytics now that BribieNow is hosted on Vercel.

Added

Restored cookieless visitor analytics that count anonymous page views only. There are no advertising trackers, no custom event tracking and no tracking of you across other websites.

3 September 2026

0.6.0 - Local business page applications

Live

Local business owners can now build and submit a BribieNow service page for review ahead of the public Directory and Tradies launch.

Added

Added a guided page builder for eligible Bribie Island and nearby service businesses.
Added secure draft saving and recovery so owners can continue after signing in or return before submitting.
Added business logo upload, page preview, service-area details, contact options, and an account workspace for managing submissions.
Added ABN and local-eligibility checks, a manual review queue, and clear application status updates.

Changed

Business page revisions are staged for review so an owner's currently approved information is not replaced prematurely.

Fixed

Hardened duplicate-business, ownership-claim, draft-expiry, and sign-in recovery paths.

29 August 2026

0.5.1 - Email sign-in and reliable account return

Live

Added email magic-link sign-in alongside Google and fixed account callbacks on BribieNow's Railway hosting.

Added

Added password-free email magic-link sign-in while keeping Google as the primary sign-in option.

Changed

Added clearer check-your-inbox, expired-link, rate-limit, and cross-device guidance.

Fixed

Fixed successful Google and email sign-ins redirecting to an internal localhost address instead of returning to BribieNow.

25 August 2026

0.5.0 - More accurate local conditions

Live

Reworked how BribieNow interprets WillyWeather observations and forecasts so current readings, headlines, tides, wind, and marine details stay closer to their source.

Changed

Current temperature now uses WillyWeather's station observation on the home card, rounded to the nearest whole degree.
Forecast headlines now follow WillyWeather's daily forecast wording while observed rain and cloud remain separate supporting details.
Improved tide graph data, current wind station labels, gust handling, rainfall ranges, and nearest-hour marine readings.
Moved scheduled refresh work to Railway and increased the conditions refresh cadence to match the observation window.

Fixed

Prevented stale open pages, partial provider responses, and slow Railway starts from leaving the app spinning or showing misleading weather.

29 July 2026

0.4.0 - Community and conditions polish

Live

Improved the everyday mobile experience across conditions, events, garage sales, missing pets, account tools, and app installation.

Added

Added a clearer cross-platform install experience for using BribieNow like an app.
Added responsive date pickers for Events and Garage Sales, plus optimistic event saving with visible recovery if an action fails.

Changed

Redesigned Missing Pets as a photo-led browse page with Missing, Reunited, and animal-category views.
Replaced the unreliable humidity display with a colour-coded UV level scale.
Improved shared weather, side-specific wind and tides, hourly forecast labels, tide charts, card layouts, dark mode, and mobile typography.

Fixed

Fixed calendar scrolling, event visibility, zero-wind wording, feels-like temperature, confirmation forms, and PWA recovery.

22 July 2026

0.3.0 - Explore Bribie and richer events

Live

Launched source-backed local activity guides and redesigned Events and Community around faster mobile browsing.

Added

Added Explore Bribie guides for fishing, boating the Passage, four-wheel driving, and recreation, with official source links and optional on-device distance sorting.
Added event saving, Google Calendar links, universal calendar downloads, date navigation, and a moderation inbox for submitted events.

Changed

Redesigned event cards and event details around poster artwork, essential date and venue information, and easier actions.
Redesigned the Community hub so Garage Sales, Missing Pets, and Local Events have clearer browse and contribution paths.
Refreshed the mobile account menu, notifications, homepage discovery, Passage/Ocean selector, loading states, and the BribieNow pelican identity.

Fixed

Improved small-screen resilience, including layouts opened inside Facebook's in-app browser.

23 June 2026

0.2.0 - Conditions rebuilt for Bribie

Live

Rebuilt the Conditions experience around clearer weather and tide information, richer source data, and responsive interactive charts.

Added

Added interactive hour-by-hour weather and tide charts with keyboard access, reduced-motion support, and screen-reader data tables.
Added richer weather, tide, UV, wind, source-health, and freshness signals throughout the Conditions dashboard.

Changed

Made tides the lead home-screen glance and added a full-day mobile tide chart with activity-aware context.

Fixed

Improved partial WillyWeather outage handling and corrected UV readings that showed the daytime peak at night.

Removed

Replaced the previous chart library with BribieNow's lighter custom chart system.

7 June 2026

0.1.1 - Privacy-friendly visitor analytics

Live

Added privacy-friendly, cookieless visitor analytics and updated the Privacy Policy to disclose it.

Added

Introduced privacy-friendly, cookieless visitor analytics that measure anonymous page views. There are no advertising trackers and no tracking of you across other websites.

Changed

Updated the Privacy Policy to disclose the new cookieless visitor analytics.

6 June 2026

0.1.0 - Public community launch

Live

BribieNow is live on bribienow.com.au with the first public set of island utilities, community flows, account tools, and launch legal pages.

Added

Published the public BribieNow app on bribienow.com.au.
Added mobile-first conditions, weather, tides, marine, bridge context, source-health messaging, and safety disclaimers.
Added public event browsing, event submission, moderation tools, and imported community event coverage.
Added community garage sale and missing-pet listing flows with owner management views.
Added account profiles, saved items, notifications, Google sign-in, PWA install support, and official app icons.

Changed

Polished the launch home screen, public browse header, mobile navigation, and loading states for a cleaner first run.
Updated the Privacy Policy and Terms and Conditions for the current free Australian community launch.

Fixed

Hardened the public route, sitemap, robots, resident submission, and moderator approval smoke coverage before launch.

Removed

Kept the unfinished Explore surface closed until it is ready for public use.

5 June 2026

0.0.9 - Launch hardening

Pre-launch

Final reliability, moderation, install, and user-flow work before the public domain went live.

Added

Added automated launch smoke coverage for public routes, aliases, sitemap, robots, mobile navigation, resident submissions, and reviewer approvals.

Changed

Tightened notification detail pages and read-state behaviour so account updates are easier to follow.
Cleared event moderation notes automatically when an event is approved.

Fixed

Fixed logged-out homepage flashing and improved PWA install fallback behaviour.

How updates are recorded

Found something that looks wrong? Email BribieNow.