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Changelog

What actually shipped, release by release — including the entries nobody enjoys writing, where a published claim turned out to be wrong and had to be corrected. A changelog that only lists wins is an advertisement.

9 August 2026 — polylines, inquiry, and the opening view

  • 01 PLINE draws a connected run as one object — on the K key or from the command bar. Segments can be straight or curved, the run offsets and saves as a single entity, and it survives the round trip to DXF and PDF.
  • 02 DIST and ID now measure and report from the command bar. Points are typed at the prompt rather than picked on canvas.
  • 03 A drawing opens on your positive quadrant. The origin used to sit at the top-left of a fresh view, so a typed coordinate with a positive Y landed above the top edge of the screen and nothing appeared to happen. New and Open now frame what you opened.
  • 04 Object snap reaches a curved polyline segment. CENTER acquires the centre of a filleted corner; TANGENT no longer offers a point on the part of the circle the polyline does not draw.
  • 05 A file this build cannot open now says why. Previously the picker simply closed.
  • 06 Unsaved work survives a browser reload through a recovery journal that is actually written — the previous one silently stored nothing on every browser.

27 July 2026 — claims reconciled

  • 01 Every customer-facing claim now lives in one registry with its owner, its evidence in the code, and the pages that repeat it. An automated check fails the build when a page and the product disagree.
  • 02 Payment processor corrected. The Terms and Privacy Policy said web purchases were processed by RevenueCat. They are processed by Stripe, which charges the purchase and issues your receipt. RevenueCat reconciles store entitlements and never charges you.
  • 03 Processors disclosed. Stripe and PostHog were operating without being named in the Privacy Policy, and SendGrid was named without being used. The vendor list now matches the vendors.
  • 04 Data export claim corrected. The Privacy Policy pointed at an "Export my data" control in Settings that does not exist. Drawings are exportable from the app; account data is exported on request by email, and the policy now says so.
  • 05 Platform status corrected. The download page's status strip showed DESKTOP and MOBILE as available. Only the web build is published; the home page chips and the /pro/ page now say the same thing, and platform status is the canonical list.
  • 06 Founder seat cap claim withdrawn. "Capped at the first 500 people" implied a guarantee the checkout could not give. Rewording it was not enough: a seat bought through an app store is granted after payment clears, so no pre-payment reservation exists on every channel we sell through. The pages now make no seat-count promise at all, and will not until one can be honoured everywhere.
  • 07 "Lifetime" is now defined in Section 5 of the Terms: what it includes, what cloud services it does not promise, the support scope, the offline re-verification window, and that seats are not transferable.
  • 08 The no-rug-pull pledge is contractual. It is reproduced in Section 19 of the Terms and cannot be withdrawn from anyone who accepted it.
  • 09 Trial start made deliberate. The trial used to begin invisibly when the account was created. It now starts only when you press Start free trial in Draftly, runs once per account, and its end date is shown in Settings.
  • 10 Command demo corrected. The home page's command-line demo advertised LA LAYER, which answers "coming in v1.1" rather than opening the layer manager. It now shows F FILLET, which runs.
  • 11 "MOST POPULAR" removed from both pricing grids. We have no sales data that supports it.
  • 12 Competitor pricing dated and qualified. Every row carries its source and capture date, all figures are US list prices in USD excluding tax, and the BricsCAD row no longer implies its perpetual licence costs the same as its subscription.
  • 13 One support address. The app pointed billing questions at a different address than the one in the Terms. Everything now uses hello@draftlycad.com.

19 July 2026 — v1.1, direct checkout

  • 01 Direct Stripe checkout for web and desktop: Pro Monthly $9, Pro Annual $72, and the one-time $179 Founding Drafter seat, with the purchase attached to your Draftly account.
  • 02 Commands that existed in the engine but nothing could reach are now dispatched from the command bar — MOVE, COPY, ROTATE, SCALE, MIRROR, FILLET, CHAMFER, ARRAY, STRETCH, ZOOM EXTENTS.
  • 03 PDF export was dropping every text label and dimension number. Fixed.
  • 04 Every plotted circle came out at twice its radius. Fixed.
  • 05 Cloud version history and restore, with the paid boundary enforced on the server rather than in the UI.
  • 06 The native document extension is .drft.

8 May 2026 — v1.0

  • 01 AutoCAD-style command line with aliases and history.
  • 02 Nine object-snap families, solved analytically, armed with F3.
  • 03 Architectural unit parsing — 8'-3 1/2", 2500mm, 8.292'.
  • 04 Layers that lock, freeze and turn off, enforced on every edit path.
  • 05 DXF import and export, hand-rolled, no DWG in either direction.
  • 06 PDF and SVG export, plotted to scale.

Full engineering release notes, including the parts only a developer cares about, live in the repository's docs/RELEASE_NOTES.md. This page is the drafter-facing summary of the same history.