# Changelog > What changed on the Aurora website and when, taken from the repository's own history: new pages, corrected claims, performance and accessibility work. App release notes and a service-status page are deliberately not here, and the page says why. RESOURCES  ·  UPDATED 21 SEPTEMBER 2026 What changed on this website, newest first, taken from the repository's own history. A short truthful list rather than a long padded one. This is the website's changelog: the pages, the copy, the claims and the machinery behind them. It is not the app's release notes — see [what is not here](https://auroraisyours.com/changelog/#not-here) for why, and for the one other thing this site deliberately does not publish. **How to read the dates.** Each date is the day the change landed in this repository's history. A change becomes visible to visitors when that commit is pushed to the production branch and deployed, which is the review gate every change on this site passes. Nothing on this page is back-dated, and no entry is written for work that has not landed. ## Contents 1. [The changes, newest first](https://auroraisyours.com/changelog/#2026-09-21) 2. [What is not here](https://auroraisyours.com/changelog/#not-here) 3. [Who maintains this, and when it is updated](https://auroraisyours.com/changelog/#maintained) ## 21 September 2026 - **Three trust and reference pages.** This changelog, an [accessibility statement](https://auroraisyours.com/accessibility/) that says what has been measured and what has not, and a [security page](https://auroraisyours.com/security/) that describes the response headers, the one server path, and where the site's secrets live. - **The site became readable by machines without a browser.** A page URL now answers in markdown to a client that asks for markdown; the crawler file states what the content may be used for as well as which paths may be fetched; the one endpoint got a described catalog, an OpenAPI document and a prose guide; two agent skills are published with digests a client can verify; the page offers its own actions to an in-browser agent; and a read-only protocol endpoint serves the same files the site already publishes. The root response now hands a client the whole of that layer in one header. - **Every published text file declares its encoding.** Typographic punctuation in the markdown twins and the crawler file was being rendered as mojibake by clients that assume an older character set. ## 19 September 2026 - **The homepage's reason speaks in the third person.** The opening statement about why Aurora exists lost its signed founder voice and says the same thing plainly. ## 18 September 2026 One long day, and the most important one on this page: the site was audited against the app's own source and several things it said turned out to be wrong. - **A public claim register.** Every capability, availability, privacy, performance and pricing claim the site makes now has a row naming the page it appears on and the evidence behind it, and a test fails the release when a claim's wording and its row drift apart. - **The diagnostic-report consent was described backwards, and was corrected.** The site had said a report excludes the conversation by default and attaches content item by item. The shipping form opens with one switch, and on a report started from inside a session that switch starts on. Every page that described it was rewritten, and the contradiction with the app's own product contract is recorded as an open owner decision rather than smoothed over. - **Two network paths that existed were not disclosed, and now are.** An aggregate setup-time estimate, and a count of used free minutes kept in the user's own iCloud key-value storage — the one path in the app with no switch in front of it. Both are in the Privacy Notice's list and in the repository's network inventory, which cites the app source line by line. - **Three status labels, and no fourth.** Public copy now says Available in beta, Experimental in beta or In development, each defined against the app's source. Claims that could not survive that were removed, including a speaker name that was said to carry across meetings and timestamps that were said to be tappable. - **A beta page.** The public TestFlight link is now published as plain HTML at [/beta/](https://auroraisyours.com/beta/), so it works with scripting off, and the calls to action on pages that do not carry the dialog point there instead of at an anchor that only scrolls. - **The access flow shows the link first.** The email address became optional in the strict sense: take the link and nothing is posted anywhere and nothing is stored in your browser. One optional question replaced a ten-question form, with the rest behind a disclosure, and a returning visitor is offered the link they already asked for. - **The landing page got much faster.** The garden's authored world and its renderer are now fetched after the page is on screen instead of during startup, which took the initial transfer to 401 KiB and the largest paint on a clean desktop run from 9.7 seconds to under a second. - **Accessibility fixes from a measured pass.** A focus ring that measured 2.63:1 became 4.25:1, the access sheet stopped overflowing a 320-pixel phone, its status line moved inside the dialog so announcements reach assistive technology, the measurement tables in the writing became reachable by keyboard, and the phone replica's own labels were raised until each clears 4.5:1 in both appearances. - **A real page where the site has nothing.** A 404 document in the same chrome as the legal pages, the full favicon set and web manifest, and a redirect from plain HTTP to TLS answered by the site's own Worker. - **The measurements behind the writing were published.** The data files the benchmark articles cite, their methods, and a named author on every post. ## 17 September 2026 - **The Aurora portal mark became the site's icon,** and the static garden still is served correctly under the site's own base path rather than 404-ing on a deep link. ## 29 August 2026 - **The site as it is now recognizable.** The landing page rebuilt, the writing section published, the interactive replica of the app added to the page, and the first machine-readable files: the feed, the sitemap, the crawler file and an index written for assistants. ## 26 and 27 August 2026 - **The garden became the app's garden.** The wind field, the blade model, the cloud volume, the sky's sun, moon and scattering, the terrain shadow and the fireflies were ported from the native renderer's own math rather than approximated, and the diagnostic surfaces were moved off the public page onto a separate one. ## 15 August 2026 - **The legal surfaces.** The Privacy Notice, the Terms of Use and the Recording & Consent page, and the accessible dialog the TestFlight action opens. ## 14 August 2026 - **The first version of this site.** The opening message, the TestFlight action, and the garden — with a composed static garden for every visitor whose browser has no WebGPU renderer, which was the first rule this site was built to. ## What is not here - **The app's release notes.** Aurora's builds arrive through TestFlight, and their notes are not published on this website. This page will not manufacture them out of commit messages in another repository: the only mail this site can send about a build is the one testers opt into when they request access, and it goes out after a confirmation click. If build notes are published one day, they will be published as themselves and dated. - **A service-status page.** There is deliberately none, and the reason is the product rather than the effort: recording, transcription, speaker separation, summaries and Ask Aurora run on your own device, so no green dot here would be telling you anything about whether Aurora works, and a red one would imply a dependency the app does not have. What this site does have is one endpoint that takes an email address, and its failures are shown to you on the spot, in the form, in the state they are actually in. When this website is down, this page is down with it — which is the honest limit of any status page a single maintainer would put here. ## Who maintains this, and when it is updated Leandro Piccione is the sole maintainer of this site and the only person who approves a change to what it claims. This page is updated in the same commit as the change it describes. There is no publishing cadence and none is promised: a changelog with a schedule invites entries written to fill it. The workflow behind an entry is the one written down in this repository. A correction to any public claim edits the copy and the claim's row in the register together — the wording, the evidence and the review date — and the tests fail if only one of the two moves. The change is then reviewed, pushed onto the production branch, and released from there; that push is the approval gate. When a live claim is actively wrong, the offending change is reverted or the deployment rolled back first, and the proper correction follows through the same path. ## See also 1. [Security](https://auroraisyours.com/security/) — how this site is served, and its one server path. 2. [Accessibility](https://auroraisyours.com/accessibility/) — what has been measured, and what has not. 3. [Writing](https://auroraisyours.com/blog/) — the engineering notes behind the product, with their measurements. 4. [Try the free beta](https://auroraisyours.com/beta/) — the public TestFlight link, and what the beta covers.