Changelog
Roadmap
Due to Glazy’s growth, for 2024-2025 major updates are 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.
2025
April
- Complete rewrite of the Plaster Calculator (Source )
March
- New export functionality, ability to export YAML format.
- Ability to enter recipe ingredient amounts using European-style float formats, e.g. 0,5 instead of 0.5.
January-March
- New & improved Glazy Help site https://help.glazy.org
2024
June-December
- Building new Glazy Website (Still in progress)
April
- Migrate to new servers.
- Migrate & upgrade analytics.
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
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