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What's New

New features, improvements, and fixes — shipped regularly.

v1.7 Jul 4, 2026

Subscriptions, Dunning & Invoicing

✦ Recurring billing ✦ PDF invoices ✦ Failed payment recovery

🚀 New Features

  • + Recurring subscription billing — choose between one-time purchase or monthly subscription
  • + Dunning management — 3-email sequence recovers failed payments automatically
  • + Customer invoicing — PDF invoices generated for every transaction, downloadable from billing portal
  • + In-app notifications — bell icon shows billing, subscription, and system alerts
  • + Feature flags — safe rollout/disable of features without code changes
  • + Admin impersonation — super-admins can "Login As User" to debug issues
  • + Public status page — /status shows real-time system health

⚡ Improvements

  • Billing portal redesigned with subscription status, cancel/reactivate, and invoice download
  • Feature comparison table on pricing page for easy plan comparison
  • Logged-out pricing flow deep-links to checkout after registration (1 fewer step)
  • Mobile tour button no longer intercepted by look-zone
  • Touch target sizes meet WCAG 2.5.5 Level AAA (44×44px)
  • MFA now available to all users (opt-in via profile page)
  • PII retention policy: customer data anonymized after 18 months (GDPR)
  • Dusk browser tests + MySQL CI job for better test coverage

🐛 Bug Fixes

  • Fixed MFA session timestamp not enforced for regular users
  • Fixed tour button unclickable on mobile (z-index conflict)
  • Fixed touch targets below WCAG minimum size
v1.6 Jul 4, 2026

Performance, Scaling & Security

✦ DB read replicas ✦ Cache tags ✦ Partitioned transactions

🚀 New Features

  • + DB read/write splitting — SELECT queries route to read replicas
  • + Cache tags for bulk invalidation — analytics caches refresh instantly on gallery updates
  • + Transactions table partitioned by month for faster date-range queries
  • + Hotwire Turbo Drive for SPA-like admin navigation
  • + Cloudflare Turnstile captcha on public forms (contact, newsletter, RSVP)
  • + Preflight check runs in CI — catches config regressions before deploy

⚡ Improvements

  • OG image generation 2× faster with Imagick
  • User::currentTeam() now eager-loadable (N+1 fixed)
  • Persistent MySQL connections (5-15ms saved per request)
  • Webhook lock TTL increased to 120s for better contention handling
  • Gallery events page N+1 query fixed (withCount cache)
  • Custom-domain lookup cached per gallery (was per-request)
  • Team::memberRole() memoized per request
  • Redis cache block_for=5 (no busy-poll on locks)

🐛 Bug Fixes

  • Fixed image dimension cap (50MP) prevents OOM on huge uploads
  • Fixed per-user plan-change lock prevents race conditions
  • Fixed DNS verification parallelized via queued jobs (was sequential)
v1.5 Jul 4, 2026

Security Hardening & Accessibility

✦ Signed invitation URLs ✦ PII removal ✦ WCAG compliance

🚀 New Features

  • + Team invitations now use signed URLs (HMAC with APP_KEY)
  • + Ban reason sanitized before reflecting in session error
  • + Webhook endpoint throttled (60/min) against flood attacks
  • + Coupon + affiliate URL params validated against allowlists
  • + Feature comparison table on pricing page
  • + Discover page loading overlay during pagination

⚡ Improvements

  • Removed customer_email PII from 2Checkout buy URL
  • Tour HUD ARIA labels for screen readers
  • Crosshair aria-hidden + sr-only text alternative
  • Keyboard focus indicators (:focus-visible) in 3D gallery
  • Dynamic <html lang> in 11 standalone views
  • Plan-expiring email deep-links to /billing/upgrade/{plan}
  • Same-plan renewal allowed when plan expires within 30 days
  • Plan limits centralized in config/plans.php

🐛 Bug Fixes

  • Fixed modal focus trapping (Tab cycles within modal)
  • Fixed error toasts not announced immediately (role=alert)
  • Fixed newsletter form missing accessible label
  • Removed dead PendingUpgrade::isClaimable() method
  • Removed unused Sanctum package
v1.0 Jun 30, 2026

Initial Launch

✦ 3D gallery viewer ✦ 11 venues ✦ 2Checkout billing

🚀 New Features

  • + Immersive 3D gallery viewer with WASD movement + guided tour
  • + 11 distinct 3D venue templates (White Cube, Industrial Loft, Crystal Cathedral, etc.)
  • + One-time purchase billing via 2Checkout (Pro $29, Studio $99)
  • + Custom domains for Studio plan (gallery.yourname.com)
  • + White-label branding (no Exospace watermark)
  • + Background music for Pro+ galleries
  • + Exhibition scheduling (open/close dates)
  • + PIN protection for private galleries
  • + Analytics dashboard (views, dwell time, top artworks, referrers)
  • + Team collaboration (invite editors + viewers)
  • + Artist profiles with public pages
  • + Gallery events with RSVP
  • + Newsletter signup per gallery
  • + Sitemap + RSS feed for SEO
  • + Open Graph images per gallery + per artwork
  • + QR codes for physical marketing
  • + GDPR data export (profile, galleries, transactions)
  • + CAN-SPAM unsubscribe + physical address in all emails

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