Enhanced Controls and Performance Boost
This release introduces a new control for release interactions, significantly boosts performance for badge filters and AI rewrites, and refines changelog importing capabilities.
- Badge filter responses are now cached for faster switching between badges
- The bulk AI rewrite modal now opens instantly by reusing locally cached release data
- Improved cross-group mapping for changelog imports, allowing new categories to be used as targets within the same session
- Control whether emoji reactions appear on releases from Settings → Releases → Interactions
Enhanced Feedback and Management Tools
This release introduces a new feedback collection system, streamlined bulk badge management, and significant performance optimizations for the admin dashboard.
- Faster release and feedback modal loading times
- URL-based filtering for badge navigation
- Badge visibility and pagination issues when no releases match current filters
- Feedback Board for collecting user insights
- Bulk Badge Update functionality for easier admin management
- Analytics Teaser page showcasing Pro features
- Feature upgrades with clearer visual prompts for premium tools
Onboarding Wizard and Analytics Update
This release introduces a guided setup wizard, detailed block analytics, and extensive customization options for the Release Hub. It also features admin interface redesigns, full localization support, and codebase optimizations.
- Setup Wizard – Guided onboarding experience to help new users configure the plugin and create their first release
- Block Analytics – Dedicated analytics page in the admin dashboard showing block usage, impressions, and engagement stats
- Quick Add Block Action – One-click button on the Releases page to automatically insert a Changeloger block into any page
- Release Hub Customization – Added per-tab visibility toggles, custom tab labels, default tab selection, layout style, and releases per page options
- Compact Layout Style – Alternative condensed card-based layout for the Release Hub releases tab with hover effects and reduced spacing
- Server-Side Pagination – Numbered page navigation with prev/next arrows when releases per page limit is set in the Release Hub block
- Container Width Controls – Per-tab width settings (Default, Full Width, Custom) for releases, feedback, and roadmap content in the Release Hub
- Semantic Versioning Validation – Soft SemVer validation in the release editor with suggestions for non-standard version formats
- Added previous/next version navigation on single release pages.
- Redesigned the Release Hub editor layout with an inline title row, interactive tab bar, and contextual panel content replacing the static placeholder
- Admin Header – Redesigned admin pages header with cleaner layout and modern styling
- Internationalization – All hardcoded JavaScript strings wrapped with i18n translation functions for full localization support
- Frontend Changelog Styles – Refined typography, spacing, and responsive design across changelog display
- Cleaned up unused and unnecessary code across CSS and PHP files
Enhanced Branding and Validation Logic
This update introduces brand color settings for better styling consistency and refines the core logic for changelog quality validation.
- Refined overall changelog quality validation logic and messaging
- Minor UI and styling enhancements across all features
- Brand Color settings for consistent product styling
Major Feature and Performance Update
This release introduces advanced embed and badge systems, AI-enhanced emails, and multiple performance optimizations for enhanced user experience and speed.
- Optimized asset localization and fixed script path issues for better reliability
- Admin dashboard performance with optimized stats queries
- Replaced inefficient loop-based queries with a single optimized GROUP BY query for feedback statistics
- Badge system with advanced customization options
- Product count handling using wp_count_terms instead of fetching all terms
- Release Hub page lookup with improved caching and proper cache invalidation
- Minor performance bottlenecks affecting admin dashboard load time
- Various internal optimizations and stability improvements
- Badge customization settings in Changeloger → Settings → Releases → Badge
- Ability to add custom badges with color controls for better visual clarity
- Support for dynamic 'Change Group Categories'
Visual Release Builder and Product Tools
Empowers users with a visual release builder, advanced product management, bulk actions, and a cleaner interface for creating and managing changelogs.
- Overall UI/UX with modern, clean design
- Performance optimizations for better loading times
- Various minor bugs and stability improvements
- Admin Release Builder – Visual interface to create and manage releases with version numbers, dates, and change items
- Product Management – Create and manage your product (1 product in free version)
- Change Items – Add categorized change items (Features, Fixes, Improvements, etc.) to releases
- Draft/Publish Workflow – Save drafts and publish releases when ready
- Import Sample Data – Load demo releases to see how the Release Builder works
- File Import – Upload plain .txt changelog files to auto-create releases
- Bulk Actions – Publish, draft, or delete multiple releases at once
- Release Preview – View how your releases look on the frontend
- Release Hub Block – Unified display of releases (Feedback and Roadmap available in Pro)
UI, Performance, and Stability Updates
Focuses on refining user experience and ensuring smooth performance across the Changeloger plugin.
- Minor UI, performance, and stability improvements across the Changeloger plugin
Changelog URL Input and Stability Fixes
Adds a dedicated input for uploading the changelog URL and resolves minor bugs for improved stability.
- Minor bugs and improved overall stability
- Added Changeloger input field for uploading Changelog URL
Organized Tabbed Interface Release
Begins tabbed interface improvements and updates SDK for better user experience.
- Tabbed Changeloger interface development in progress for a more organized viewing experience
- Freemius SDK updated to 2.13.0
Color Controls and Sample Data
Introduces new color controls, sample data options, and enhanced integration for richer customization.
- Added color control for pagination button on hover
- Added an option for Loading sample data (you can see the changelog frontend view with sample data if you want)
- Integrate with EazyDocs
- Improved Color control
Smart Formatting and Bug Fixes
Improves version and date detection, adds better link support, and resolves editor display issues for a seamless experience.
- Now the Date and Version format will detect more intelligently.
- Anchor tag support in the changelog item content.
- Ignore empty line in the changelog content. Unwanted empty line will be removed/skipped automatically.
- Design was breaking in the block editor, now fixed.
- Regex condition added to find Markdown-style links and convert them to HTML anchor tags in the changelog content.
Initial Public Release of Changeloger
The first release of the Changeloger plugin, introducing changelog management to users.
- Initial release of Changeloger plugin.