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Changelog

The Draftly changelog is the record of what actually shipped in the app, release by release — including the entries nobody enjoys writing, where a published claim turned out to be wrong and had to be corrected. A changelog that only lists wins is an advertisement.

30 October 2026 — plotting with a preview, on the web

01 Every PDF goes through a Plot dialog with a live preview of the sheet, painted by the same code that writes the PDF. Choose paper, orientation, a standard scale or Fit to paper, placement, margins, plotted lineweights and the title block. PLOT, PRINT, Ctrl/Cmd+P and the export menus all open it.
02 A drawing that won’t fit shows where it’s cut. The preview marks the cut edge in red and offers Fit to paper, the other orientation, or the smallest sheet that holds it. Dimension text no longer gets clipped at the margin.
03 The page setup is saved in the .drft file, so a drawing plots the same way next time. The first plot of a drawing opens on its own print scale and the orientation that fits.
04 The scroll wheel zooms toward the crosshair, and the point under it stays put. A notch is about ×1.25, and a two-finger trackpad scroll pans without also zooming.
05 Layer colours show on the canvas. Changing a layer’s colour in the Layer Properties Manager recolours its objects on screen, and the sample floor plan is BYLAYER throughout.
06 More room for the drawing. The menus share the top bar, tool palettes move as one piece and turn to match the edge you drag them to, and the coordinate readout no longer changes width as you move the cursor.
07 The confirmation email signs you in on the web instead of landing you on the home page signed out. Google and Apple sign-in on the web return to the app too.
08 This is in the web app now. The desktop builds and the iPhone and iPad app get it with the next release.

29 October 2026 — 1.0.7 for macOS, Linux and the web

01 TRIM works the way it does in AutoCAD. The click removes the piece you click, out to the nearest crossing on each side, and every visible line, shape, curve and arc now counts as a cutting edge.
02 Crash fixes and accessibility improvements in onboarding, sign-in and the paywalls. Confirming your email now finishes account setup without a reload.
03 Feedback from inside the app, plus a public feedback board for ideas and requests.
04 The macOS and Linux desktop builds (1.0.7) are published and the web app has the same changes. The iPhone and iPad update is waiting for Apple; 1.0.6 is the current App Store version until it is approved.

26 October 2026 — 1.0.6 on the App Store, and macOS and Linux downloads

01 Draftly CAD 1.0.6 for iPhone and iPad is live on the App Store. New commands: UNITS, EXPLODE, PEDIT, LINETYPE and MATCHPROP. Polylines round-trip through DXF import and export. New drawings on iPad start with a “Start a drawing” card, and the crosshair hides over the command bar. Fixes purchases that stayed pending.
02 The macOS and Linux desktop builds (1.0.4) are published with the same changes. The macOS .dmg is signed with an Apple Developer ID and notarized; the Linux .tar.gz and .deb are unsigned and come with SHA-256 checksums. The platforms page links the latest release.
03 No Windows build yet. The installer needs a code-signing certificate that isn’t in place. Google Play is still on testing tracks only. Platform status stays the canonical list.

23 September 2026 — Draftly CAD is on the App Store

01 Apple approved and released Draftly CAD 1.0.5 for iPhone and iPad. It needs iOS 15.0 or later and it is on the App Store. The listing link is back on the home page, the platforms page and platform status — this time because the listing exists.
02 Nothing else changed. macOS is still in App Review, there is no Mac App Store listing, Google Play is on internal and closed testing only, and there is no Windows installer. Platform status stays the canonical list.

14 September 2026 — correction: the iPhone and iPad app is not on the App Store yet

01 From 5 September this site said Draftly CAD was on the App Store. It wasn't. The build was submitted to Apple and is still in App Review; the listing was never live. The App Store badge and link are gone from the home page, the platforms page and platform status until it is.
02 The web app is the only build published today. Native desktop builds and the Google Play build are in development; platform status remains the canonical list.

9 August 2026 — polylines, inquiry, and the opening view

01 PLINE draws a connected run as one object — on the K key or from the command bar. Segments can be straight or curved, the run offsets and saves as a single entity, and it survives the round trip to DXF and PDF.
02 DIST and ID now measure and report from the command bar. Points are typed at the prompt rather than picked on canvas.
03 A drawing opens on your positive quadrant. The origin used to sit at the top-left of a fresh view, so a typed coordinate with a positive Y landed above the top edge of the screen and nothing appeared to happen. New and Open now frame what you opened.
04 Object snap reaches a curved polyline segment. CENTER acquires the centre of a filleted corner; TANGENT no longer offers a point on the part of the circle the polyline does not draw.
05 A file this build cannot open now says why. Previously the picker simply closed.
06 Unsaved work survives a browser reload through a recovery journal that is actually written — the previous one silently stored nothing on every browser.

27 July 2026 — claims reconciled

01 Every customer-facing claim now lives in one registry with its owner, its evidence in the code, and the pages that repeat it. An automated check fails the build when a page and the product disagree.
02 Payment processor corrected. The Terms and Privacy Policy said web purchases were processed by RevenueCat. They are processed by Stripe, which charges the purchase and issues your receipt. RevenueCat reconciles store entitlements and never charges you.
03 Processors disclosed. Stripe and PostHog were operating without being named in the Privacy Policy, and SendGrid was named without being used. The vendor list now matches the vendors.
04 Data export claim corrected. The Privacy Policy pointed at an "Export my data" control in Settings that does not exist. Drawings are exportable from the app; account data is exported on request by email, and the policy now says so.
05 Platform status corrected. The download page's status strip showed DESKTOP and MOBILE as available. Only the web build is published; the home page chips and the /pro/ page now say the same thing, and platform status is the canonical list.
06 Founder seat cap claim withdrawn. "Capped at the first 500 people" implied a guarantee the checkout could not give. Rewording it was not enough: a seat bought through an app store is granted after payment clears, so no pre-payment reservation exists on every channel we sell through. The pages now make no seat-count promise at all, and will not until one can be honoured everywhere.
07 "Lifetime" is now defined in Section 5 of the Terms: what it includes, what cloud services it does not promise, the support scope, the offline re-verification window, and that seats are not transferable.
08 The no-rug-pull pledge is contractual. It is reproduced in Section 19 of the Terms and cannot be withdrawn from anyone who accepted it.
09 Trial start made deliberate. The trial used to begin invisibly when the account was created. It now starts only when you press Start free trial in Draftly, runs once per account, and its end date is shown in Settings.
10 Command demo corrected. The home page's command-line demo advertised LA LAYER, which answers "coming in v1.1" rather than opening the layer manager. It now shows F FILLET, which runs.
11 "MOST POPULAR" removed from both pricing grids. We have no sales data that supports it.
12 Competitor pricing dated and qualified. Every row carries its source and capture date, all figures are US list prices in USD excluding tax, and the BricsCAD row no longer implies its perpetual licence costs the same as its subscription.
13 One support address. The app pointed billing questions at a different address than the one in the Terms. Everything now uses [email protected].

19 July 2026 — v1.1, direct checkout

01 Direct Stripe checkout for web and desktop: Pro Monthly $9, Pro Annual $72, and the one-time $179 Founding Drafter seat, with the purchase attached to your Draftly account.
02 Commands that existed in the engine but nothing could reach are now dispatched from the command bar — MOVE, COPY, ROTATE, SCALE, MIRROR, FILLET, CHAMFER, ARRAY, STRETCH, ZOOM EXTENTS.
03 PDF export was dropping every text label and dimension number. Fixed.
04 Every plotted circle came out at twice its radius. Fixed.
05 Cloud version history and restore, with the paid boundary enforced on the server rather than in the UI.
06 The native document extension is .drft.

8 May 2026 — v1.0

01 AutoCAD-style command line with aliases and history.
02 Nine object-snap families, solved analytically, armed with F3.
03 Architectural unit parsing — 8'-3 1/2", 2500mm, 8.292'.
04 Layers that lock, freeze and turn off, enforced on every edit path.
05 DXF import and export, hand-rolled, no DWG in either direction.
06 PDF and SVG export, plotted to scale.

Full engineering release notes, including the parts only a developer cares about, live in the repository's docs/RELEASE_NOTES.md. This page is the drafter-facing summary of the same history.