Release Changelog

A public history of updates to DeleteFootprints.ai, including new features, fixes, reliability improvements, and security-related changes. Entries labelled Security update, System upgrades, and similar summaries intentionally omit sensitive implementation details.

Version 1.6.0 - 2026-09-21

Changes Since v1.5.0

Features

  • Public changelog, sanitized release notes, and preview polish
  • Restore private GitHub remote and polish nav/metadata UI
  • Upload row beneath the drop box on all five pages (PRD 13)

Other updates

  • Security update
  • Documentation and tooling

Version 1.5.0 - 2026-09-20

Changes Since v1.4.1

Other updates

  • Documentation and tooling
  • Reliability improvements
  • Capacity and safety limits

Version 1.4.1 - 2026-09-20

Changes Since v1.4.0

Features

  • Paint action panel and mode box before upload
  • Merge the metadata editor onto a single page

Other updates

  • Documentation and tooling
  • Visual polish

Version 1.4.0 - 2026-09-18

Changes Since v1.3.0

Features

  • Reorder top-level tools and widen the header
  • Redesign process page actions and replace-all warning
  • Add the Geo Tag Photo tool

Fixes

  • Keep mobile drop zone height and content-sized action button

Other updates

  • Documentation and tooling
  • Security update
  • Text tool fixes
  • Translation updates
  • Dependency updates
  • System upgrades
  • Performance improvements

Version 1.3.0 - 2026-09-15

Changes Since v1.2.2

Fixes

  • Flush main content and metadata table padding on mobile
  • Keep metadata label

Other updates

  • Documentation and tooling
  • Security update

Version 1.2.2 - 2026-09-10

Changes Since v1.2.1

Features

  • Inline metadata on upload and shared tips CTA

Other updates

  • Ad delivery updates
  • Documentation and tooling

Version 1.2.1 - 2026-09-09

Changes Since v1.2.0

No user-facing changes recorded.

Version 1.2.0 - 2026-09-09

Changes Since v1.0.2

Features

  • Landing route shell, layout variant, CSS boundary, analytics

Other updates

  • Documentation and tooling
  • Rename the home nav item to Remove Metadata and list it first

Version 1.0.2 - 2026-09-03

Changes Since v1.0.1

Features

  • Add complete 16-language i18n and TechArticle content for text cleaner
  • Ship AI text watermark cleaner route with Advanced preset

Other updates

  • Update footer About copy for image and text tools across all locales
  • Documentation and tooling

Version 1.0.1 - 2026-08-24

Changes Since v1.0.0

Other updates

  • Update homepage tagline and translate across all 14 locales
  • Performance improvements

Version 1.0.0 - 2026-08-24

Changes Since v0.7.3

Features

  • Retarget the View page to AI-photo intent across 14 locales
  • Verify after strip, and report a real removal count

Fixes

  • Serve locale pages in their own language, 404 unrouted paths, pin canonical host
  • Route locale tool URLs to the right page and retarget the View tagline
  • Use 2025–current year range in the copyright line
  • Stamp asset URLs with mtime, let CSS and JS revalidate

Other updates

  • System upgrades
  • Close: HEIC and TIFF verified manually; nothing left open
  • Documentation and tooling
  • Merge main into docs/consolidation, keeping docs tracked
  • Performance improvements
  • Security update
  • Reliability improvements
  • Privacy protection improvements

Version 0.7.3 - 2026-08-17

Changes Since v0.7.2

Other updates

  • Translation updates

Version 0.7.2 - 2026-08-17

Changes Since v0.7.1

No user-facing changes recorded.

Version 0.7.1 - 2026-08-17

Changes Since v0.7.0

Other updates

  • Ad delivery updates
  • Documentation and tooling
  • Docs no longer hard-code which ad slots are enabled
  • Verified before release: pages load cleanly; ad units appear only where intended

Version 0.7.0 - 2026-08-17

Changes Since v0.6.0

Other updates

  • Centralised ad slot system with named placements and a single markup component
  • Two ad placements: header banner and below the primary action. Each slot can be toggled independently
  • Ad delivery updates
  • Ad units stay off local and non-production hosts; local placeholders verify placement without calling Google
  • Unfilled ad units now collapse completely rather than leaving reserved blank space, via both an <ins> rule and a :has() wrapper rule
  • Reserved slot heights are driven from config as CSS custom properties, so ads contribute no layout shift before fill
  • Visual polish
  • Translation updates
  • Documentation and tooling
  • Documentation: ads admin guide for slot setup and verification
  • No ad slot is placed in the sticky action panel, per ad-network placement guidance

Version 0.6.0 - 2026-08-17

Changes Since v0.5.20

Other updates

  • Demote “Upload Error” from H4 to warning text so the description H1 is the first heading on Home, Edit, and View

Version 0.5.20 - 2026-08-17

Changes Since v0.5.3

Features

  • All UI fixed
  • Add automated release notes and version management system
  • Add animated rainbow tagline section with i18n support

Fixes

  • Restore release-notes automation guidelines
  • Resolve tagline translation timing issue

Other updates

  • Documentation and tooling
  • System upgrades
  • Security update
  • Ad delivery updates
  • Documentation update
  • Delete docs directory
  • UI updates: MetadataPresentation improvements; add-image-metadata & viewer tweaks; update index.php and prd.md
  • Update tagline gradient colors
  • Adjust UI background colors for header and footer
  • Before writing code

Version 0.5.19 - 2026-03-06

Changes Since v0.5.18

Other updates

  • Security update
  • System upgrades

Version 0.5.18 - 2026-03-05

Changes Since v0.5.17

Other updates

  • System upgrades

Version 0.5.17 - 2026-03-05

Changes Since v0.5.16

Other updates

  • Removed Malayalam (ml) language support (16 → 15 languages)
  • Updated language selector in index.php, add-image-metadata/index.php, view-image-metadata/index.php
  • Removed display name and flag from LanguageManager.js
  • Updated project-structure documentation to reflect 15 languages
  • Removed Malayalam locale files from the active tree
  • PHP-side hreflang and routing auto-adjusted via dynamic getSupportedLanguages() discovery

Version 0.5.16 - 2026-03-05

Changes Since v0.5.15

Other updates

  • Removed Gujarati (gu), Tamil (ta), Marathi (mr), and Bengali (bn) language support (20 → 16 languages)
  • Updated language selector <option> tags in index.php, add-image-metadata/index.php, view-image-metadata/index.php
  • Removed display names and flags from LanguageManager.js
  • Updated project-structure documentation to reflect 16 languages
  • Removed Gujarati, Tamil, Marathi, and Bengali locale files from the active tree
  • PHP-side hreflang and routing auto-adjusted via dynamic getSupportedLanguages() discovery

Version 0.5.15 - 2026-02-15

Changes Since v0.5.3

Features

  • All UI fixed
  • Add automated release notes and version management system
  • Add animated rainbow tagline section with i18n support

Fixes

  • Restore release-notes automation guidelines
  • Resolve tagline translation timing issue

Other updates

  • Documentation and tooling
  • System upgrades
  • Security update
  • Documentation update
  • Delete docs directory
  • UI updates: MetadataPresentation improvements; add-image-metadata & viewer tweaks; update index.php and prd.md
  • Update tagline gradient colors
  • Adjust UI background colors for header and footer
  • Before writing code

Version 0.5.14 - 2026-02-15

Changes Since v0.5.3

Features

  • All UI fixed
  • Add automated release notes and version management system
  • Add animated rainbow tagline section with i18n support

Fixes

  • Restore release-notes automation guidelines
  • Resolve tagline translation timing issue

Other updates

  • Documentation and tooling
  • System upgrades
  • Security update
  • Documentation update
  • Delete docs directory
  • UI updates: MetadataPresentation improvements; add-image-metadata & viewer tweaks; update index.php and prd.md
  • Update tagline gradient colors
  • Adjust UI background colors for header and footer
  • Before writing code

Version 0.5.13 - 2025-09-30

Changes Since v0.5.3

Features

  • All UI fixed
  • Add automated release notes and version management system
  • Add animated rainbow tagline section with i18n support

Fixes

  • Restore release-notes automation guidelines
  • Resolve tagline translation timing issue

Other updates

  • Documentation and tooling
  • System upgrades
  • Documentation update
  • Delete docs directory
  • UI updates: MetadataPresentation improvements; add-image-metadata & viewer tweaks; update index.php and prd.md
  • Update tagline gradient colors
  • Adjust UI background colors for header and footer
  • Before writing code

Version 0.5.10 - 2025-09-30

Changes Since v0.5.3

Features

  • All UI fixed
  • Add automated release notes and version management system
  • Add animated rainbow tagline section with i18n support

Fixes

  • Restore release-notes automation guidelines
  • Resolve tagline translation timing issue

Other updates

  • Documentation and tooling
  • System upgrades
  • Documentation update
  • Delete docs directory
  • UI updates: MetadataPresentation improvements; add-image-metadata & viewer tweaks; update index.php and prd.md
  • Update tagline gradient colors
  • Adjust UI background colors for header and footer
  • Before writing code

Version 0.5.8 - 2025-09-29

Changes Since v0.5.3

Features

  • Add automated release notes and version management system
  • Add animated rainbow tagline section with i18n support

Fixes

  • Restore release-notes automation guidelines
  • Resolve tagline translation timing issue

Other updates

  • Documentation and tooling
  • System upgrades

Version 0.5.7 - 2025-09-17

Changes Since v0.5.3

Features

  • Add automated release notes and version management system
  • Add animated rainbow tagline section with i18n support

Fixes

  • Restore release-notes automation guidelines
  • Resolve tagline translation timing issue

Other updates

  • Documentation and tooling
  • System upgrades

Version 0.5.6 - 2025-09-17

Changes Since v0.5.3

Features

  • Add automated release notes and version management system
  • Add animated rainbow tagline section with i18n support

Fixes

  • Restore release-notes automation guidelines
  • Resolve tagline translation timing issue

Other updates

  • Documentation and tooling
  • System upgrades

Version 0.5.5 - 2025-09-17

Changes Since v0.5.3

Features

  • Add automated release notes and version management system
  • Add animated rainbow tagline section with i18n support

Fixes

  • Restore release-notes automation guidelines
  • Resolve tagline translation timing issue

Other updates

  • System upgrades
  • Documentation and tooling

Version 0.5.4 - 2025-09-17

Changes Since v0.5.3

Features

  • Add animated rainbow tagline section with i18n support

Fixes

  • Resolve tagline translation timing issue

Other updates

  • System upgrades
  • Documentation and tooling