This document records all notable changes to the PIXELIQ application.

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[1.10.1] - 2025-12-05

✨ Improvements & Reliability

• Robust Image Analysis: We've upgraded our AI analysis engine to be more resilient. If one part of the analysis (like the technical inspection) hits a snag, the rest of your results (content, colors, etc.) will still be delivered without interruption.
• Enhanced Technical Inspection: formerly "Forensic Analysis", this tool has been tuned to be more reliable and compliant with safety standards, reducing "AI failed" errors.
• Report Generation Fixes: Resolved issues where PDF and text reports could not be generated for certain analysis results.

[1.10.0] - 2025-12-05

✨ Major Updates

• Critical Infrastructure Fixes: Resolved a major routing issue that was preventing access to the homepage and other key sections of the application. The platform is now fully accessible and stable.
• New Favicon Generator Experience: Launched a completely redesigned Favicon Generator with an intuitive step-by-step flow, privacy-focused client-side processing, and instant browser previews.
• Security Enhancements: Strengthened account security by standardizing password requirements across all user settings and registration flows.
• Reporting Tools: Introduced automated daily usage reports to help administrators track platform growth and engagement.
• Usability Improvements: Links in project updates are now automatically clickable, and new ranking pages (Top 100) have been added for better content discovery.

[1.9.4] - 2025-10-08

✨ Added & Improved

• SEO Foundation: Created public/sitemap.xml and public/robots.txt files to improve search engine visibility and indexing for all major pages.
• RSS Feed Structure: Added a placeholder public/rss.xml to establish the foundation for a future automated RSS feed for blog content.

[1.9.3] - 2025-10-08

✨ Branding & UI Overhaul

• Two-Tone Logo: Implemented a distinct two-tone brand identity for the "PIXELIQ" name, now consistently applied across the header, footer, and hero section.
• Brand Color Update: Updated the application's theme to use new official brand colors for primary and accent styles.
• Results Page Refactor: Re-architected the image analysis results page for better usability, moving Forensic and Saliency Map analyses into their own distinct cards.

🤖 AI & Backend

• AI Model Migration: Standardized the application's AI functionality on the gemini-2.5-flash model for better performance and consistency.

[1.9.2] - 2025-10-07

✨ Added & Improved

• SEO Foundation: Created sitemap.xml and robots.txt to improve search engine visibility and indexing.

🛠️ Fixed & Changed

• Critical Changelog Fix: Corrected a persistent and critical bug where the changelog page was rendering raw markdown instead of formatted HTML. The page now displays a clean, professional, and correctly styled version history.

[1.9.1] - 2025-10-04

✨ Added & Improved

• Mobile Navigation: Implemented a responsive, slide-out hamburger menu for mobile devices to ensure a consistent and accessible navigation experience on all screen sizes.

🛠️ Fixed & Changed

• Critical Footer Fix: Resolved a series of critical bugs that caused the global footer to be invisible on various pages. The footer's background color and CSS stacking order (z-index) have been corrected to ensure it is always visible and properly rendered across the entire application.
• Accessibility Fix: Corrected a console error in the mobile menu by adding a visually hidden title, making the component accessible to screen reader users as per Radix UI guidelines.
• UI Cleanup: Removed a redundant close button and logo from within the mobile navigation menu for a cleaner user interface.

[1.9.0] - 2025-09-22

✨ Features & Enhancements

• Testimonial Section: Added a new, modern Testimonial section to the homepage to showcase user feedback and build social proof.

🛠️ Refactoring & Code Quality

• Homepage Modularization: Performed a major refactoring of the homepage, breaking it down into smaller, isolated, and reusable sub-components (Hero, Features, Pricing, Testimonials, etc.). This improves maintainability and adheres to SOLID principles.

🐛 Bug Fixes & UI Tweaks

• Layout Consistency: Adjusted layout gaps on several pages, including the image analysis and features sections, to a consistent 12px for a cleaner look.
• Scroll-to-Top Button: Fine-tuned the vertical position of the scroll-to-top button for better placement on the screen.

[1.8.0] - 2025-09-14

✨ Features & Enhancements

• Favicon & Manifest Integration: Added all necessary favicons, apple-touch-icon, and the web manifest to the application's root layout, ensuring proper branding across all browsers and devices and enabling future PWA capabilities.

[1.7.0] - 2025-09-13

✨ Features & Enhancements

• Google Authentication: Integrated Google Sign-In as an alternative to email/password, allowing users to register and log in with a single click. New Google users automatically receive starting credits.
• Google Analytics Integration: Implemented full page view tracking by integrating Google Analytics. A dedicated component now fires page_view events on every route change to ensure accurate metrics.
• Domain Finalization: Updated all user-facing email addresses and links throughout the application's legal and UI components to reflect the final pixeliq.ca domain.

[1.6.0] - 2025-09-13

✨ Features & Enhancements

• Saliency Map Visualization: Implemented the "Heatmap" feature from the TODO list as a "Saliency Map". This new tab in the results view provides a visual overlay on the image, highlighting areas of high visual interest to show where a viewer's attention is likely to be drawn.
• Emotion Mood Meter: Implemented the "Emotion or Mood Graph" feature by creating a new MoodMeter component. This visually represents the AI-detected sentiment (e.g., "joyful", "somber") with corresponding icons and colored bars, making the analysis more intuitive and engaging.

🛠️ UI/UX Enhancements

• Header Streamlining: Simplified the global header for unauthenticated users by merging the "Sign In" and "Sign Up" buttons into a single, clearer "Get Started" call-to-action.
• Modernized Action Button: Redesigned the "Analyze Another Image" button with a gradient background, shadow, and interactive hover effects to make it a more prominent and visually appealing call-to-action on the results page.
• Improved User Flow: Duplicated the "Analyze Another Image" button to the bottom of the results page, allowing users to easily start a new session without needing to scroll up.

🐛 Bug Fixes

• TypeScript Errors: Resolved multiple TypeScript errors (TS2339, TS2322) that were introduced in a previous update. The fixes involved correcting property destructuring in image-analysis-client.tsx, removing invalid props from AnalyzerResultsView.tsx, and cleaning up unused props in AnalyzerErrorView.tsx.

[1.5.0] - 2025-08-18

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Critical: Fixed Next.js ChunkLoadError: Resolved a critical application-breaking ChunkLoadError that occurred during client-side hydration. The issue was traced to the structure of React Context providers in the App Router. The fix involved removing the 'use client' directive from the image-analysis page, ensuring proper server and client rendering alignment. This restores full application functionality.

[1.4.0] - 2025-06-16

✨ UI/UX Enhancements

• AI Disclaimer: Added a prominent disclaimer to the bottom of the analyzer page to inform users about the nature of AI-generated content and the potential for errors, encouraging them to verify the results.
• Improved Loading Feedback: Implemented a "Loading results..." indicator with a spinner that appears after all individual analysis steps are complete. This provides better feedback to users on slower connections, informing them that the application is preparing the final view.

🛠️ Refactoring & Code Quality

• Disclaimer Component: Encapsulated the new AI disclaimer into its own dedicated component (AiDisclaimer.tsx) for better code organization and reusability.

[1.3.0] - 2025-06-15

✨ UI/UX Enhancements

• Results Page Layout: Streamlined the analyzer results view by relocating the header to the left column and the "Analyze Another Image" button to the right column, making the layout more compact and bringing key information into view faster.
• Footer Redesign: Implemented a modern, multi-column footer that includes branding, site navigation, legal links, and social media placeholders for a more professional and functional design.
• Landing Page Cleanup: Removed the placeholder hero image to create a cleaner, more direct focus on the core value proposition and call-to-action.

🛠️ Refactoring & Code Quality

• Homepage Refactoring (SOLID): Refactored the landing page components by extracting navigation logic into a dedicated useNavigationHandler hook. This improved code quality by adhering to the Single Responsibility Principle, making components more self-contained and reusable.

[1.2.0] - 2025-06-14

✨ Features & Enhancements

• GPS Data Visualization: The Metadata tab now features an interactive, embedded Google Maps iframe when GPS data is available, providing instant geographic context. A direct link to open the location in a new tab is also provided.
• Developer Tools: Added a new EXIF GPS Debugger page (/debug/exif) to allow users to upload an image and inspect the raw GPS output from the EXIF library, aiding in troubleshooting location data issues.

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Critical GPS Correction: Fixed a critical bug where GPS coordinates were not correctly signed based on their hemisphere. The application now properly parses GPSLatitudeRef (N/S) and GPSLongitudeRef (E/W) to generate accurate, world-ready coordinates. This resolves issues where locations in the Western hemisphere were displayed incorrectly.

🛠️ Refactoring & Code Quality

• Code Modularity: Refactored the MetaDataDisplay component and the image-helpers.ts library to improve code quality and maintainability. Logic is now broken into smaller, single-responsibility functions and components, adhering to SOLID principles.

[1.1.0] - 2025-06-12

✨ Features & Enhancements

• WordPress Publishing Workflow:
  • Implemented automatic image uploading to the WordPress Media Library when creating posts via the analyzer.
  • The uploaded image is now automatically set as the "Featured Image" for the new post.
  • Added a new "Push to WP" feature that exports all raw analysis data (content, metadata, colors, forensics) directly to WordPress as a structured draft post, providing a free, data-rich foundation for users to write their own articles.
  • The uploaded image is also embedded at the top of the blog content for immediate visibility within the post editor.

🛠️ UI/UX & Prompt Engineering

• Blog Post Generation:
  • Overhauled the AI prompt for blog post generation to eliminate technical jargon (e.g., filenames, hex codes) and produce cleaner, more professional HTML.
  • Enforced strict paragraph (<p>) formatting rules for the AI, resulting in better-structured content.
  • Replaced the plain text preview with a rich, styled HTML preview in the blog post dialog for an accurate representation of the final output.
• WordPress Publishing Feedback:
  • Replaced transient toast notifications with persistent, inline success messages upon successful publishing to WordPress. These messages now include a direct link to the newly created post or draft for immediate access.
• Clarity & Copywriting:
  • Added descriptive help text to the "Creative & Downloadable Assets" card to clarify the distinction between the credit-based "Generate Blog Post" feature and the free "Push to WP" data export.
  • Updated the homepage marketing copy (Hero, Features) to better target photographers and creative professionals, highlighting new capabilities and their benefits to the creative workflow.
• Consistency:
  • Standardized button styles within the "Creative & Downloadable Assets" card for a more unified and polished user interface.

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Dashboard: Fixed a broken documentation link for WordPress Application Passwords, removing the incorrect URL and providing clearer guidance to users on where to find the setting in their admin profile.
• Layout: Resolved a visual bug where tabs in the "Creative & Downloadable Assets" card would overflow their container; they now wrap correctly on smaller screens.

[1.0.0] - 2025-06-10

✨ Features & Enhancements

• Core: Image Analysis Suite
  • Implemented a multi-faceted AI analysis pipeline using Genkit and Google's Gemini models.
  • Content Analysis: Identifies objects, scenes, text, brands, sentiment, and provides a detailed summary.
  • Metadata Extraction: Reads and displays EXIF and file properties from uploaded images.
  • Histogram Analysis: Generates and displays RGB/Luminance histograms and provides AI-driven analysis of tone, contrast, and color balance.
  • Color Palette Extraction: Identifies the image's dominant color palette, provides names and hex codes, and offers AI analysis on the palette's mood and harmony.
  • Forensic Analysis: Assesses image authenticity by checking for signs of AI generation, manipulation, watermarks, and determines if it's an original capture, scan, or screenshot.