Changelog

Roadmap

Due to Glazy's growth, for 2024 a major update is required to improve Glazy's performance. I'm currently working on developing a new version of Glazy that fixes many of the issues that have arisen over the years.

Changelog

Note: This abbreviated changelog only includes new feature additions to Glazy. It does not list bug fixes, minor updates, or software upgrades.

2024

February

• UI fixes:
  • Bookmark folder deletion
  • "100+" button for normalizing to 100% except additives
  • Material zero amount bug
  • Card badges, add material ID.

January

• Material stages: Don't allow discontinued to move to testing.

2023

September

• YAML export functionality

August

• Begin development of new frontend.

July

• Glazy Help: Upgrade system, add Algolia full-text search, add Clay & Glaze types and Glossary.
• Fixes: Similar cones, quicksearch links, similar cones.

May

Bug in LOI calculation

April

• Major update of backend framework & search.
• Server upgrade
• Maintenance mode

March

• Refactor traditional UMF
• Replace analytics engine
• Bugfixes: component contributions, select

February

• Bugfixes: Image color profiles, password reset.
• Features: cumulative batch user preference
• Confirm when importing material inventory
• Update frontend & dependencies
• Fixes: batch tare input, batch field, umf chart

January

• Ability to search by required oxides
• Add Swedish language

2022

December

Ability to copy recipe as analysis Ability to fill single ingredient Improve Target & Solve accuracy

November

Translations update, search update, image handling.

October

Sticky navbar, fix metadata type select, fix analysis card

August

Improve user deletion, check for new users.

July

• Ability to mute user, fix translations.
• Ability to force refresh logs.

June

Quicksearch

May

• Target & Solve refinements.
• New Feature: Kiln Charts
• Glazy Chart updates
• Performance improvements (user materials)
• New version alert

January-May

• New User Interface
• Backend upgrade

2021

October-December

• New User Interface

September

• New Collections (Bookmark folders) page
• Collections sorting (recently used first)

August

• New authentication backend

May

• Delete user - remove all data
• Quick search refinements
• Mobile formatting

April

• Gloop category
• New glazy-data snapshot
• Locale-based number formatting

March

• Improved language search (fuse)

February

• Fallback locales
• Automatic Translations (deepl & google)
• Revision parents

January

• Quick Search improvements
• Analysis table & sorting
• Target & Solve enhancements

2020

December

• Ability to import multiple recipes
• Improved Print Label View
• Keyboard navigation in Calculator

November

• Unified user chart preferences
• Ability to add recipes within Calculator
• Better text searching (e.g. handle apostrophes)

October

• Improved logs & log search
• Ability to lock materials
• Show UMF for all recipe types including clay bodies

September

• Improve calculator chart
• Triaxial blends
• Ability to add photos in comments

August

• Revise calculation engine

July

• Simplify calculator
• Calculated Thermal Expansion
• Estimate kiln firing finish time

June

• Inventory import
• "Combined Alumina" in Extended UMF

May

• Specific Gravity

April

• Dark Mode
• Software updates, Laravel 7

March

• New Help site
• New Oxide color scheme
• Analysis table view with oxide sort
• "Water added" field

February

• Kiln Schedules
• New Post Types

January

• Posts

2019

December

• Posts
• Patreon & Paypal "Patrons"
• Meta tags
• Amazon S3 integration

November

• Posts

October

• Threaded comments
• Multiple select Recipes/materials over multiple pages
• First release of Posts

September

• New Comments component

August

• Markdown
• Multilingual additions

July

• New Glazy Homepage
• Ability to switch analysis type in search
• Drag & drop file upload
• Dynamically loaded components
• UI fixes: Styles, fonts, etc.
• "My Reviews"
• Laravel update, JSON Resources

June

• New sort options
• Remove social logins (Google, Facebook)
• Extended UMF in recipe cards
• Update Stull Charts
• Creative Commons license update

May

April

• Extended UMF
• User search preferences
• Multilingual translations

March

• Multilingual translations
• Child materials
• Batch costs/pricing

February

• Updated Print labels

January

• Edit info form update, add to bookmark folder
• CSV export

2018

December

• Keyword search improvents
• New notification component
• Delete materials from recipe in Calculator

November

• Batch material summaries in Print
• Print multiple recipes
• Print function
• Update Similar Base Recipes view
• "Production" state
• Ability to add inventory materials within Calculator

October

• Ability to edit multiple recipes within Calculator

September

• European float formats

August

• Forgot password

July

• Photo-only search
• Material state (test, production, discontinued)
• Prerender
• Recipe collections view
• Add other names to Calculator materials
• Batch calculator refinements
• Number increment/decrement in Calculator
• Image gallery next/prev buttons
• Bootstrap upgrade
• Tare weight in Batch Calculator

June

• Bookmark multiple
• Multi-select recipes/materials
• Use Mole % for analyses comparisons
• Add oxide weight & calculated weight for materials
• Traditional UMF formatting
• Oxide coloring

May

• GDPR Compliance, anonymize IP addresses, Accept terms of service
• Review & Comment notifications
• Allow upload of user Avatar image
• Search by user name
• Basic notifications
• Material comments
• Stull Charts update
• Digitalfire Insight import/export update

April

• Progressively load images
• Search for similar recipes without amounts
• Show Recipe Collections
• Facebook preview
• Recipe export for GlazeChem

March

• Ability to Archive recipes
• User uploaded Images
• Color search, show actual image, not default
• Search recipes by material
• Wiki help topics
• Ability to delete a bookmark folder

February

• User registration email & check
• Material Inventory

January

• Star rating
• Material other names
• Ability to add recipes to collection from search

2017

November

New User Interface:

• Ability to remove materials from collection
• Collections functionality
• Search sorting
• Ability to update analysis of primitive material
• User avatars
• Prerendering
• Various bug fixes