LabDraft

— CHANGELOG

Product updates

How LabDraft has evolved, release by release — and what’s next on the bench.

— ROADMAP

Where LabDraft is going

A living view of what’s shipped, what’s underway, and what’s planned. Priorities shift; this is direction, not a promise of dates.

Completed9
  • AI GatewayMulti-provider failover
  • Premium Design SystemUnified across generators
  • Universal SearchCommand palette + deep links
  • Developer DashboardProvider health & metrics
  • Generation ProgressReusable staged progress
  • Authentication & AccountsSupabase authentication
  • User Dashboard & LibraryCloud saved practicals
  • Global Subject Catalog268 subjects & typeahead
  • Global App ShellSidebar, header & theme
In Progress2
  • PDF Generation 2.0Richer layouts & typography
  • AI Reviewer 2.0Self-checking generated output
Planned6
  • Signed-in Subject PersistenceCloud sync for custom subjects (v2.0.1)
  • Sample-PDF IngestFormat & layout matching (v2.1)
  • Generator Workstation RedesignSide-by-side editing workstation
  • General Lab Bulk Fan-outParallel generation for General Lab
  • Team WorkspacesShared branding & manuals
  • Public APIProgrammatic generation

— RELEASES

Release history

  1. v2.0.1Current

    P1 Generator Experience & Visual Polish

    • Execution Environment & Shell Picker — Polished combobox picker supporting Auto-detect, Bash / Shell, PowerShell, CMD, Terminal, Kali Linux, and IDE / Code Editor with secondary OS descriptions
    • Terminal Style Figure Skins — Restored macOS and Windows terminal visual figure skins with smart shell-matching defaults and manual overrides across Single and Bulk flows
    • Green Volumetric Lighting — Minimal, cinematic atmospheric green/sage ambient illumination with slow GPU-accelerated drift and complete prefers-reduced-motion support
    • Language Picker Overhaul — Searchable language combobox with keyboard navigation and interactive technology stack chip tag editor
    • Configuration Panel Architecture — Segmented 3-tab configuration panel (Execution & Environment, Structure, Formatting & References) with dynamic natural height expansion
    • Full-Width Generator Workstation — Responsive full-width layout with compact subordinate badge practical number input
    • Preserved Compatibility — 100% backward compatibility maintained across AI generation prompts, steps parsing, PDF, and DOCX export pipelines
  2. v2.0.0

    User Accounts, Subject Catalog & Complete Platform Rebuild

    • Note: v2.0.0 represents the complete platform rebuild shipped continuously since v1.0.6, bringing user accounts, cloud storage, a 268-subject catalog, and parallel generation.
    • Accounts & Cloud Library — Authentication and cloud-library infrastructure introduced in v2.0.0
    • Accounts & Library — Personal user dashboard (/dashboard) and cloud-saved practicals library (/dashboard/practicals) with version history, revision restoration, and favourites
    • Accounts & Library — v1 Practicals REST API with 8 endpoints for cloud practical management and secure authorization
    • Global Subject Catalog — 268 verified global subjects across 18 engineering and natural science branches
    • Global Subject Catalog — Typeahead subject search matching names, abbreviations (DAA, OOP, SEPM), and aliases, plus private custom subject creation
    • Interface & Shell — Global app shell featuring a retractable overlay sidebar, three-zone header, theme controls, and background grain texture
    • Generation Engine — Choice between sequential single-voice ('Accurate') and parallel multi-provider ('Fast') bulk generation with up to 3 concurrent runs
    • Generation Engine — Redesigned workstation UX with deferred preview, animated form-to-preview transitions, and real-time StageBar progress
    • Exports & Figures — Monospaced Courier-Bold code blocks across all exported PDF and Word DOCX documents
    • Exports & Figures — Choice of macOS and Windows Terminal visual skins for command-line output figures
    • Product Tour & Polish — Interactive 5-step tutorial page (/about) and streamlined 55% shorter homepage fold
  3. v1.0.6

    Product Experience Update

    • Universal search with a Ctrl/Cmd+K command palette
    • Results pre-select the whole form — nothing to re-pick
    • Developer dashboard: provider health, metrics, live requests
    • One reusable Generation Progress component across every generator
    • 35 new General Practical subjects across three new categories
    • Rebalanced hero so all product cards clear the fold
    • Brand polish — deeper burnished-copper accent
  4. v1.0.5

    Premium Design System

    • Unified drafting-sheet surfaces across all three generators
    • Interactive illustrated hero with per-card parallax
    • Trust marquee and blueprint wordmark on the homepage
    • Comment-free generated code, enforced end to end
  5. v1.0.4

    Quality & Resilience

    • Per-provider attempt timeouts so one slow backend can't stall a request
    • Daily-quota vs burst rate limits handled differently
    • Malformed output cools the offending provider instead of retrying it
    • Environment-aware terminal output and auto-generated tool-skin screenshots
  6. v1.0.3

    AI Gateway

    • Multi-provider support: Groq, Gemini, OpenRouter, NVIDIA
    • Automatic failover with per-provider health cooldowns
    • Structured per-attempt logging that never records prompts
    • General Practical Lab — first release
  7. v1.0.2

    UI Polish

    • Certificate and index front matter for exports
    • Premium circular-reveal theme transition
    • Distributed rate limits, spend guard and CSP hardening
    • Redesigned PDF borders and multi-column index
  8. v1.0.1

    Generation Improvements

    • Syllabus file upload and DOCX export
    • Bulk generation with combined-manual output
    • Engineering-paper design system and theming
    • Section-selection checkboxes with a dynamic prompt schema
  9. v1.0.0

    Initial Release

    • AI-generated programming practical write-ups
    • Aim to theory, algorithm, code and output
    • Client-side PDF generation
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