📋 Release Notes

Makes recurring gatherings faster to create from an existing session.

• Added an administrator-only Clone action to the session dashboard.
• Prepopulates organizer, participants, visibility, and restaurant settings.
• Requires a new date and time and creates fresh voting data and security tokens.

Expands CRATINGS for any gathering and introduces public release history.

• Adopted MajorRelease.MinorRelease.Fix version numbering.
• Added a public Release Notes page linked from the application footer.
• Replaced lunch-specific interface, email, and calendar wording with meal-neutral language.

Improved final-results emails for single recommendations and ties.

• Added a secure public View Session button to results emails.
• Improved tie-result cards with recommendation metrics.
• Preserved consensus and calendar invitation features.

Made large restaurant lists easier for participants to browse.

• Added restaurant-type and food-category filters.
• Added combined filtering, clear controls, and no-results messaging.
• Preserved ratings for restaurants hidden by active filters.

Added flexible participant joining and secure creator management links.

• Added public and private session visibility.
• Allowed sessions to be created without initial invitees.
• Added secure participant join and creator management links.

Separated the public landing experience from administrative session management.

• Added a dedicated public home page.
• Moved session administration to its own dashboard.
• Updated navigation, authentication messaging, and logout behavior.

Separated saving draft ratings from completing participation.

• Added Save for retaining editable ratings.
• Added Save and Submit for completing a response.
• Kept automatic voting closure tied to completed submissions.

Validated recovery safeguards in the deployment workflow.

• Confirmed that application files and versions can be restored from deployment backups.

Strengthened release validation, backups, and production-state tracking.

• Improved release manifest validation.
• Improved deployment failure handling and backup tracking.
• Added safer release archival workflow.

Established and verified the TEST-to-Production deployment process.

• Added application version tracking and validation.
• Verified production backups and release archiving.

Added flexible ways to define the restaurants available in a session.

• Added full-list, selected-list, and filtered-list restaurant modes.
• Added session-specific restaurant selection.

Established the stable foundation for the current CRATINGS application.

• Consolidated administration, invitations, voting, recommendations, and calendar support.
• Established TEST and Production deployment safeguards.

Introduced the core CRATINGS session, rating, recommendation, and administration experience.

• Added session creation, invitations, participant ratings, and recommendations.
• Added administrative authentication and session management.
• Added scheduled sessions and the initial deployment workflow.