{ "releases": [ { "version": "1.5.0", "date": "July 10, 2026", "items": [ { "title": "End-to-End Encrypted Sharing", "description": "Shared notes are now encrypted on your device before they ever leave it — the server only ever sees an unreadable, locked blob, and the decryption key travels only inside the share link, never to any server.", "type": "FEATURE" }, { "title": "Self-Destructing Share Links", "description": "Every share link now expires automatically — choose 10 minutes, 1 hour, 1 day, or 7 days. Optionally turn on 'burn after reading' to delete the note once it's opened, and pick how many reads it survives.", "type": "FEATURE" }, { "title": "Smarter Re-Sharing", "description": "Re-sharing a note now reuses its existing link instead of creating duplicates, and automatically generates a fresh one if the previous link has already expired.", "type": "IMPROVEMENT" } ] }, { "version": "1.4.4", "date": "June 7, 2026", "items": [ { "title": "Maintenance Update", "description": "General performance improvements and stability fixes to ensure a smoother note-taking experience.", "type": "IMPROVEMENT" } ] }, { "version": "1.4.3", "date": "May 6, 2026", "items": [ { "title": "Critical App Lock Fix", "description": "Resolved a critical crash when enabling App Lock on devices with modern adaptive icons. Fixed the underlying drawable compatibility issue for a more robust security experience.", "type": "FIX" }, { "title": "Official Website Integration", "description": "Added direct links to the official product website in About and Contact screens for easier access to support and documentation.", "type": "FEATURE" }, { "title": "Improved Share Experience", "description": "Sharing NoteNext now includes the official website link alongside the Play Store and GitHub links for better discoverability.", "type": "IMPROVEMENT" }, { "title": "Notification Icon Compatibility", "description": "Updated system notification icons to ensure perfect visibility in the status bar across all Android versions.", "type": "IMPROVEMENT" } ] }, { "version": "1.4.2", "date": "May 1, 2026", "items": [ { "title": "Branded Security Experience", "description": "Added the NoteNext logo to the app lock screen for a more polished and professional security interface.", "type": "UI" }, { "title": "Hardened PIN Security", "description": "Upgraded internal PIN storage with industry-standard hashing (PBKDF2) and added screenshot protection to the lock screen for maximum privacy.", "type": "IMPROVEMENT" }, { "title": "Enhanced Decoy Privacy", "description": "Biometric login is now intelligently hidden when the Decoy Vault is active, preserving plausible deniability.", "type": "IMPROVEMENT" }, { "title": "Pinpoint Self-Destruct", "description": "Rewrote the self-destruct engine to use exact system alarms, ensuring ephemeral notes expire precisely when intended.", "type": "IMPROVEMENT" }, { "title": "Security & Stability Fixes", "description": "Disabled insecure cloud backups and resolved a critical bug that could lead to data loss during decryption failures.", "type": "FIX" } ] }, { "version": "1.4.1", "date": "April 30, 2026", "items": [ { "title": "Decoy Vault & Hardened Privacy", "description": "Introduced the Decoy Vault—a secondary PIN system that reveals a separate set of notes. Automatically enforces App Lock when enabled for maximum security.", "type": "FEATURE" }, { "title": "Custom Self-Destruct Timer", "description": "Take full control of ephemeral notes with a new custom date and time picker for self-destructing content.", "type": "FEATURE" }, { "title": "Material 3 Expressive Motion", "description": "Enhanced the UI with fluid M3 Expressive animations, including new exit motions for AI summary sheets and polished transitions.", "type": "IMPROVEMENT" }, { "title": "Modern Component Architecture", "description": "Fully adopted M3 Expressive components and tokenized hardcoded colors for better theme consistency and responsiveness.", "type": "IMPROVEMENT" }, { "title": "Checklist & Label Fixes", "description": "Improved checklist preview visibility and fixed an issue where existing labels wouldn't populate correctly in the management dialog.", "type": "FIX" } ] }, { "version": "1.4.0", "date": "April 27, 2026", "items": [ { "title": "Privacy-First AI Subsystem", "description": "Introduced a comprehensive AI hub with 9 powerful features including Tone Rewriter, Auto-Tagging, Smart Reminders, and Linked Notes. Features a master kill-switch and per-feature toggles to ensure 100% user control and privacy.", "type": "FEATURE" }, { "title": "AI Usage Dashboard", "description": "New local-only dashboard to track AI feature usage and acceptance rates with zero data leaving your device.", "type": "FEATURE" }, { "title": "Compact Editor UI", "description": "Redesigned the Add/Edit note screen with reduced padding and scaled-down elements for better content visibility, mirroring the Google Keep experience.", "type": "IMPROVEMENT" }, { "title": "Modernized Settings", "description": "Refined the settings screen with a more modern look, improved dialogs, and better category organization.", "type": "IMPROVEMENT" } ] }, { "version": "1.3.8", "date": "April 21, 2026", "items": [ { "title": "Interactive Checklist Experience", "description": "Revolutionized checklist management with smooth, real-time drag-and-drop tracking and smart keyboard integration (Enter to add, Backspace to remove).", "type": "FEATURE" }, { "title": "Indian & Open Source Identity", "description": "Updated app mission to highlight our roots as a proudly Indian, 100% free, and open-source project dedicated to privacy.", "type": "IMPROVEMENT" }, { "title": "Performance & State Stability", "description": "Optimized recompositions using immutable collections and marked core data models as stable for a buttery-smooth UI experience.", "type": "IMPROVEMENT" }, { "title": "Shared Element Transitions", "description": "Implemented beautiful shared element transitions and AI streaming for project-based notes.", "type": "FEATURE" }, { "title": "Reliability & Bug Fixes", "description": "Fixed Room compatibility issues with immutable types, resolved lifecycle-related crashes, and improved backup/restore for Todo items.", "type": "FIX" } ] }, { "version": "1.3.7", "date": "April 16, 2026", "items": [ { "title": "Performance & Stability", "description": "Improved app launch speed, reduced memory usage, and fixed rare crashes on Android 15.", "type": "IMPROVEMENT" }, { "title": "Enhanced Backup Reliability", "description": "Backup and restore now handle large note sets more efficiently and provide clearer error messages.", "type": "IMPROVEMENT" }, { "title": "UI Polish & Accessibility", "description": "Refined button contrast, improved TalkBack support, and fixed layout glitches in landscape mode.", "type": "IMPROVEMENT" }, { "title": "Bug Fixes", "description": "Resolved issues with project nesting, reminders not firing, and rare sync failures.", "type": "FIX" } ] }, { "version": "1.3.6", "date": "April 05, 2026", "items": [ { "title": "Advanced Todo & Productivity", "description": "Enhanced Todo feature with subtasks, reminders, and a productivity dashboard for daily progress tracking.", "type": "FEATURE" }, { "title": "Nested Project Hierarchy", "description": "Organize your notes with unlimited project nesting, indentation support, and hierarchical traversal.", "type": "FEATURE" }, { "title": "AI Provider Model Selection", "description": "Select specific models for OpenAI, Anthropic, and Groq. Includes support for GPT-4.5 and Claude 3.5 Sonnet.", "type": "FEATURE" }, { "title": "More Options Responsiveness", "description": "Fixed responsiveness issues in the More Options sheet when fully expanded and improved gesture handling.", "type": "FIX" }, { "title": "Infrastructure & Modularization", "description": "Modularized the Todo feature and improved AI provider infrastructure for better scalability.", "type": "IMPROVEMENT" } ] }, { "version": "1.3.5", "date": "March 29, 2026", "items": [ { "title": "Interactive Widgets & Lists", "description": "Introduced interactive Jetpack Glance widgets for pinned notes and checklists. Added bulleted list support, link auto-detection, and project notes parity.", "type": "FEATURE" }, { "title": "Search & Find Integration", "description": "Added native in-note search with result highlighting and a new 'Find in Note' functionality for faster navigation.", "type": "FEATURE" }, { "title": "High-Performance Editor", "description": "Optimized the editor with text chunking for smoother handling of long notes. Resolved cursor jumping, keyboard layout issues, and stabilized state management.", "type": "IMPROVEMENT" }, { "title": "Polished & Responsive UI", "description": "Refined the UI with thinner bottom toolbars, reduced padding, and animated sync indicators for a more modern feel.", "type": "IMPROVEMENT" }, { "title": "Fast Startup & Metadata", "description": "Enhanced app startup and note list scrolling by optimizing metadata fetching and implementing lifecycle-aware async initialization.", "type": "IMPROVEMENT" }, { "title": "Database & Serialization Fixes", "description": "Fixed SQL errors in note sorting, resolved serialization crashes in minified builds, and added database indices for performance.", "type": "FIX" } ] }, { "version": "1.3.4", "date": "March 21, 2026", "items": [ { "title": "AI Power & Customization", "description": "Added support for custom Groq API keys and model selection. Enjoy faster AI with intelligent rate-limit awareness and secure key encryption.", "type": "FEATURE" }, { "title": "Ultra-Reliable Backups", "description": "Complete overhaul of the backup system. Now featuring atomic restores for data safety, SHA-256 integrity verification, and secure password storage.", "type": "IMPROVEMENT" }, { "title": "Smart Auto-Backups", "description": "Never lose a note again with incremental backups that trigger automatically when you edit or charge your device.", "type": "IMPROVEMENT" }, { "title": "Privacy First", "description": "Locked notes now show their titles for easier organization while keeping content fully encrypted. Added a 2-minute session timeout for enhanced security.", "type": "IMPROVEMENT" }, { "title": "New Drawing Experience", "description": "Redesigned drawing canvas with a clean white background, responsive Material 3 tools, and true erasing capabilities.", "type": "IMPROVEMENT" }, { "title": "Fluid UI Animations", "description": "Experience the new Material 3 Expressive motion engine with smooth animations for note pinning and label management.", "type": "IMPROVEMENT" }, { "title": "System Stability", "description": "Resolved critical memory leaks, fixed Android 15 compatibility issues, and improved database migration reliability.", "type": "FIX" } ] }, { "version": "1.3.3", "date": "March 19, 2026", "items": [ { "title": "Drawing Canvas & Multimedia", "description": "Introduced a new drawing canvas with Material 3 Expressive controls and support for cross-note linking, allowing you to connect thoughts visually.", "type": "FEATURE" }, { "title": "Performance Engine Upgrade", "description": "Migrated to Paging 3 for buttery-smooth scrolling, implemented FTS4 for near-instant search results, and upgraded to Coil 3 for high-performance image loading.", "type": "IMPROVEMENT" }, { "title": "Hardened Biometric Security", "description": "Refactored biometric authentication with cryptographic binding and resolved critical encryption-related crashes for maximum data protection.", "type": "IMPROVEMENT" }, { "title": "Expressive UI Motion", "description": "Upgraded AI dialogs and system transitions to the Material 3 Expressive motion engine, featuring refined spring physics and tactile feedback.", "type": "IMPROVEMENT" }, { "title": "Infrastructure & Stability", "description": "Modernized the build system with Hilt 2.59.2 and AGP 9.1.0 compatibility, while resolving numerous compilation and startup stability issues.", "type": "FIX" }, { "title": "Share Link Integration", "description": "Added the direct Play Store link to the app share dialog to help you easily share NoteNext with others.", "type": "FEATURE" } ] }, { "version": "1.3.2", "date": "March 15, 2026", "items": [ { "title": "Assistant Integration", "description": "NoteNext is now a first-class citizen! Use voice commands with Google Assistant to create notes, add to lists, or find specific notes natively.", "type": "FEATURE" }, { "title": "Material 3 Expressive & Predictive Back", "description": "Implemented the latest M3 Expressive motion engine and Predictive Back gestures for a more fluid, responsive, and modern user experience.", "type": "IMPROVEMENT" }, { "title": "AI Analyzer UI Fixes", "description": "Restored the AI Analyzer functionality in both the Add/Edit and Project screens with new summary sheets.", "type": "FIX" }, { "title": "Navigation & Backstack Cleanup", "description": "Refactored the navigation drawer to ensure a clean backstack, fixing issues with unexpected screen jumping and double-clicks.", "type": "FIX" }, { "title": "Startup & Splash Optimization", "description": "Optimized app startup time by removing redundant delays and refining the system splash screen transition.", "type": "IMPROVEMENT" } ] }, { "version": "1.3.1", "date": "March 12, 2026", "items": [ { "title": "M3 Expressive Redesign", "description": "Redesigned the entire app with Material 3 Expressive components, smooth spring animations, and a modern SplashScreen.", "type": "FEATURE" }, { "title": "Performance Optimization", "description": "Optimized note list scrolling with efficient item reuse and removed layout jumping.", "type": "IMPROVEMENT" }, { "title": "Decorative Top Bar", "description": "Enhanced the Add/Edit screen with decorative M3E buttons and centered alignment.", "type": "IMPROVEMENT" }, { "title": "Project View AI & Sync", "description": "Brought AI summarization, grammar fixes, and live sync indicators to the Project view.", "type": "FEATURE" }, { "title": "Critical Bug Fixes", "description": "Fixed app crashes when opening locked notes and during AI summarization in projects.", "type": "FIX" }, { "title": "Update & Share", "description": "Redesigned the update dialog with wavy indicators and added the Play Store link to share options.", "type": "IMPROVEMENT" } ] } ] }