every step, logged.

In-app update checker: a banner in Library and Settings when a newer build is available, one click to grab it. The installer now ships under a fixed filename, so the landing page's download link never goes stale between releases.

A "Report a bug" button (pre-filled with your app version), a "Join the community" Discord button, and a donations card, with Ko-fi for international donors and Cafecito for Argentina.

"View Hero": every section now opens with a header band, title, context, and Boo in a pose that matches the moment (pointing in Plan, thinking in Calendar, trophy in Goals/Journey, magnifying glass in Stats).

Sidebar navigation is easier to read: bigger text, more letter-spacing, more breathing room between items.

A freeze right after Steam login: restoring cloud progress was writing to disk hundreds of times in a row for a large library, blocking the whole app for several seconds. Now it's a single write.

A duplicate "skip tutorial" button, and a tutorial highlight that could land on the wrong card in Library while the grid was still loading.

Your whole progress, including theme, language, plan, goals, history, sessions/mood, seasons, and the per-game caches that avoid re-scanning your library, now syncs to a backend of our own. Reinstalling, switching PCs, or logging out and back in no longer loses anything.

A "view all achievements" modal on the game panel; it used to cap out at the first 5 with no way to see the rest.

Redesigned login screen: a two-column hero matching the landing page's identity, Boo included.

Real action buttons (Re-scan, Edit preferences, New goal, Logout, Monthly Report) went from a faint outline to a solid brand-color fill; they're actions you trigger on purpose, not secondary options.

A misleading message in Settings claimed a personal Steam API key unlocked full achievement access. It doesn't, as confirmed with real beta testers. The copy now explains what the key actually does.

A game's achievement panel could show "0/0 · no achievements" even when the game genuinely had achievements; the total and list now always come from the game's public data, with your unlock state layered on top.

Achievements you haven't unlocked yet now still show in the list, dimmed, instead of disappearing entirely.

A library scan could crash the whole app if the internal HowLongToBeat helper failed to start (e.g. quarantined by antivirus). That failure is now handled silently; Vestige keeps working, just without that one duration.

Steam API error handling no longer swallows the real error message when Steam returns an unexpected response.

Achievements weren't loading, neither your unlocks nor the per-game total, even with a personal API key set.

"Game of the month" in the Monthly Report could show a game you hadn't touched in months. It's now picked by actual completions within that month.

Your first month in Vestige no longer shows years of old Steam history as if it were recent progress; sessions with no real last-played date are now marked approximate and excluded from current-period stats.

Three-role typography system: an editorial display face for titles, a dedicated numeric face for stats/XP/hours, and the original sans for everything else.

A "?" help button on every section, explaining what it does, plus a full "About Vestige" walkthrough in Settings.

Motion-powered animation throughout: cards reorder smoothly on filter/search, sections expand, the evolution chart draws itself in, and the Monthly Report cascades in.

Redesigned mood icons and a richer mood window that shows the game's real cover and session length.

A black-screen bug from malformed code, a missing Monthly Report icon, four corrupted mood icon files, and uneven strokes from faking bold on a font with no real bold weight.

Vestige now detects, rather than infers, when you actually open and close a Steam game, and asks how the session felt when it ends.

Mood Map in Journey: a collapsible Month → Day → Session view of how every session felt.

Search and sort in the Library, and full ES/EN translation across every dynamic section.

Journey no longer speculates finish dates Steam can't confirm, only 100% verified milestones, plus an honest "last time played" list.

A dozen smaller bugs: the "get your key" button, a blank screen after login, the tutorial overlay covering real data, the tray icon missing from the packaged build, and more.

A splash screen on launch instead of a blank window while the app loads.

Minimize to the system tray instead of quitting, same as Steam or Discord.

Single instance lock: relaunching the .exe focuses the existing window instead of opening a second one.

A hand-built monochrome icon system replacing generic emojis across the whole app, theme-aware by default.

The real Vestige logo, first UI animations (count-up numbers, tilted covers, staggered reveals), and a backend server so nobody has to load their own Steam API key anymore.

Steam login now verifies its response directly with Steam, the renderer is fully process-isolated, and all IPC input is validated; see SECURITY.md for the full writeup.

Every view rebuilt in React, section by section, without breaking the app mid-migration.

Boo, the Vestige mascot, showing contextual messages tied to your real progress.

A light theme (warm crema, not pure white) and an ES/EN language toggle, both from a new unified Settings screen.

Several black-screen bugs from the migration, a circular-reference bug in the old↔new bridge, a phantom game stuck in the Plan, and a streak calculation bug.

The first distributable .exe, with the HowLongToBeat helper packaged as a standalone binary, no Python install required.

A full rework of the recommendation algorithm, which used to favor low-quality or barely-played games.

Games already finished before using Vestige were wrongly marked "finished today" on first import, throwing off Journey and the progress charts.