The old popup was a narrow white card with its own copy of the texts in
eight languages, hex colours and a minute counter on the browser clock. The
new DemoWelcome is a wide dialog on DialogShell with theme tokens only: what
TREK is in one line, the hourly reset with a live countdown in the server's
time zone, the 5.0 highlights to try right away (trip planner with bookings
and costs, Tours with 3D terrain, TREK Studio photo books, live
collaboration, Journey, Atlas, Vacay, Collections, offline use), what the
demo leaves out and what the full version adds, and the link to the source.
Its strings are real i18n keys in a new demo domain file, translated into
all 27 locales. Both dashboards open it instead of the old DemoBanner, which
leaves the theme and format baselines with its file and the test non-null
assertions it held.
The offscreen container is built inside buildGlMap's closure, where the
let lost its narrowing; a const of its own keeps it an HTMLDivElement.
The stage tests hand the stage a t that returns the key, so the toast
reads map.webgl2.terrain there. One floating promise fewer lowers the
eslint baseline to 164.
MapLibre 6 and Mapbox GL 3 both throw out of their Map constructor without
WebGL2. Every place that builds a GL map now asks one helper first,
components/Map/glSupport.ts, and a browser without WebGL2 gets the Leaflet
map with the user's tiles instead of a map that fails to start:
- the trip map (MapViewAuto) and the journey maps (JourneyMapAuto) pick
their renderer through useGlRenderer, which folds in the Mapbox token
rule they each had;
- the settings preview, desktop and phone, shows the Leaflet preview
through useMapSettingsForm and says why under it;
- the tour planner keeps the 2D map when 3D is asked for and says that
3D needs WebGL2;
- the PDF route map and the Leaflet vector basemap already fell back and
now report a GPU failure too.
Behind the probe, buildGlMap wraps each constructor (MapViewGL,
JourneyMapGL, the settings preview, the terrain map, the PDF map). A GPU
that claims WebGL2 and still refuses the context is reported through
utils/webgl, which turns the answer to no and tells every mounted map,
so they switch to Leaflet without a reload; any other error is still
thrown. Two new strings, map.webgl2.fallback and map.webgl2.terrain, in
all 27 locales.
GHSA-jrc7-96c5-q579 covers every maplibre-gl up to 6.4.0 and has no 5.x
release, so npm audit kept flagging the patched 5.24.0. Moving to 6.15.0
retires the local backport: patch-maplibre.mjs and its postinstall,
predev and prebuild hooks go, along with the Dockerfile copy and its
format-baseline entry. 6.x sanitizes attributions against an allow list.
What the major changes for TREK:
- ESM only, no default export: the engine module imports the namespace
and hands that out as its default, so every caller stays as it was.
- The worker is no longer inlined, and inside a bundle MapLibre cannot
find it next to its own module. The engine sets it from Vite's
?worker&url build before any map, the Leaflet bridge's included.
- WebGL2 only: the probe asks for webgl2 alone, so a WebGL1-only browser
gets the raster basemap instead of a GPUInitializationError.
- 6.9 shapes right-to-left text itself and deprecated setRTLTextPlugin;
the old plugin would replace that and could only run through eval in
the module worker, so MapLibre no longer registers it. Mapbox does.
The lockfile moves maplibre-gl and its own dependencies only; the
Leaflet bridge already allows ^6.0.0 as its peer.
The quote inside a reply sat on one line with an ellipsis, and that unbroken
line set the bubble's minimum width, so a long quote pushed the bubble past
the edge of the chat and cut its words off. It wraps now and is cut after two
lines, on desktop and on the phone.
The welcome chose the journal's words whenever the Studio had not
registered as the chat's host, which also hit the Studio's own panel
before (or without) that registration. A journey's chat now speaks of the
journal only where the window or the phone's chat screen say they show it
for its journal; everywhere else, the Studio included, it stays the book's.
AssistantWindow had gone past the complexity limit choosing between the
planner's trip, the journal on screen, a picked chat and the home chat;
that choice now lives in windowChat.
A Dawarich stay's row read fields one side of a union did not have, the
photo cards narrowed an entry's day through an optional chain, and the
settings service cast a journey row straight to a record. Helpers only
their own file reads are no longer exported, and the photo tests seed
their rows with insertRow like the other journey suites.
The four new photo link tools join the journal's tools: the journey chat
offers them to editors, the trip chat loads them with the journey group and
the home chat keeps none. A journeyPhotos card shows the photos as
thumbnails with the entries they leave and reach, the first one marked as
the cover in a new order, and a caption old to new; a library add shows the
photos once they landed. A linked photo comes off again, an unlinked one
goes back, moved photos go back and a caption is written back, each while
nothing changed since. A new order of an entry's photos and a library add
have no way back yet. The journal prompt names the photo tools.
The update card silently left out the tags and the pros and cons it was
about to write, so the user approved a change the card did not show. An
entry now shows its first tags and how its verdict leans, and an update
names the tags, each side of the verdict and the coordinates it changes.
A new order of the entries is drawn as the entries that move, in their new
places. A changed entry is written back from what the tool answered it
replaced, and a reorder is taken back to the order before, each while
nothing changed since. A Dawarich stay taken in as an entry gets the
entry card; it has no way back, since deleting the entry would leave the
stay marked as taken in.
Starting a journal, changing its settings, linking or unlinking a trip,
bringing back its suggestions, the user's own view of it and deleting it
fell back to the generic card, which names ids and offers no way back.
They now share a journeyHeader card: the journal with its trips, the one
the change links or unlinks marked, what a new journal brings in and what
a deletion or an unlink takes, and each setting old to new in the
journal's own words. A new journal is deleted again while nothing was
written, added or laid out in it, changed settings are written back from
what the tool answered, a linked trip is unlinked by its owner while none
of its suggestions was written up, and the own switch flips back.
On /journey/:id the assistant window and the phone's assistant screen now
open the journey's conversation, the one TREK Studio holds too, instead of
the home chat; the Studio route keeps its own column. A turn sent from a
chat the Studio does not host names the journal page, a hosted one the
Studio, so the server offers the right tools. A journal card from the home
chat opens that conversation in place on the desktop and the journal page
on the phone, and the empty chat asks about the journal rather than the
book.
Asked on /journey to create "Japan 2026", the home chat had nothing to
offer: it keeps no write that names a trip or a journey. It now keeps
create_journey, whose trips the tool checks one by one, and delete_journey,
which the journey's own chat leaves out because the conversation goes
with it. For anything inside a journal it offers open_journey_chat, the
twin of open_trip_chat: the journal is read from the user's own journals
and shown as a card whose button goes on in the journal's chat with the
question waiting there. The trip and journal cards share their question
and button.
The chips offered to keep an attached file in Files, but nothing could do it:
the assistant's upload_trip_file stays denied, and the file never reached
Files. A new server write, keep_attached_file, is offered to the model where
the thread holds an attachment and held as a change card naming the file and
the booking, expense or place it goes with.
Applied, it runs the checks of a Files upload with the user's rights (the
demo block, the trip, file_upload and file_edit for a link, the instance's
file types, every linked id on the same trip), copies the bytes to a trip
file of their own, and writes the trip file, its expense link and the
attachment's pointer to it in one transaction; the members' planners get
file:created after it. A second keep of the same attachment answers the file
kept the first time. FilesService gains storeBytes and discardBytes so the
storage write stays out of that transaction.
The receipt opens the Files tab; the card's verb, its "Attached to" row and
the receipt's open label are new keys in all 27 locales. Undo is not offered:
no tool takes a trip file back yet.
The assistant could not read a file the user attached: the bytes were gone
after the request, the thread only held the file's name, and read_trip_file
stays denied because it would send any document of the trip to the provider.
A new server tool, read_attached_file, reads only the files attached in this
conversation by this user; any other id is answered "No such attachment in
this conversation.", whoever it belongs to. It is offered in a trip turn whose
thread holds a file with text. The first read of a file is held as a change
card that names the file and the model and host its text would go to; once
the user agrees, the agreement is kept on the attachment and later reads run
at once. The text reaches the model through the history and, for a later
read, as a tool answer only the model gets (AgentToolRun.modelText): no message
part, stream chunk, shared answer or client store ever carries it.
The model is told each kept file's attachment id, and the standing
instructions say to read the file when the user wants to work with it, to
propose a booking found in it through create_reservation and then to offer
keeping the file with it. The card's verb, its "Sent to" row and the step's
name are new keys in all 27 locales.
A booking file without a booking ended the answer on the error "No booking
found in this file." with no action, and the user was left to type. Now the
server answers every booking file itself, without a model: one line that
names the file and what TREK found in it, or that it found nothing, why, and
asks what to do with the file. Under it come up to three chips, picked from
what the user may do on the trip and what the file allows: keep it in Files,
make a booking from its text, attach it to a booking or an expense, ask what
is in it, or keep it with the booking just found. A chip sends its words as
an ordinary chat message.
The line and the chips are written in the language of the request from new
assistant.attach.* keys in all 27 locales, through a small helper the sports
proposals now share. The empty answer finishes as stop; no_bookings_found
stays in the contract for the threads older builds wrote. Route files keep
their answer as it was.
The factories behind the Travel panel's cards (a summary as a poster, a
ticket or a sign, a figure on a medal or an odometer, a map of the journey
or of one country, a mark as a stamp or a tag, a country as a stamp, a visa
or a postcard, each dressed in the book's theme) move to
book/travel/book-travel-looks.ts, so the auto layout can build its framing
pages from the same looks. Where an element lands stays the caller's: the
panel still centres it on the spread on screen, through the same wrapper and
the same API, and a designed page names its frame. A mark can now also take
an entry's value rather than the journey's.
Every style now has four covers and five double spreads, 108 in all, and the
spreads of each style take different photo counts, from a words-only page to
eight photos, so a book can be laid on them without an empty frame. The five
new styles come with their own themes: Riso (overprinted spot inks), Magazine
(a travel magazine), Retro travel (vintage posters), Midnight (a dark film
look) and Field notes (a traveller's notebook). Each new style has a cover
composer for the design engine and a recipe for the assistant, and its chip,
theme and template names are translated into every language.
The filled buttons set their label in text-accent-on, the accent used as
text on a plain surface, which on the accent's own ground is the same
colour: a black button with black words. They take text-accent-text, the
colour made for words on the accent, and a test pins it.
The release notes in Admin read ## as the version and ### as a section,
and printed a #### line as plain text. A release that heads each feature
inside a section with #### (Tours, TREK Studio under Added) now shows it
as a feature heading between the section and its text, on desktop and on
the phone.
The card that opened claude.ai's custom connector dialog for this instance
goes, with its phone twin, the line in the assistant setup that jumped to it,
its endpoint and its contract. Anyone who wants Claude uses TREK's MCP
server under Integrations, or an Anthropic key in the assistant. It came with
the assistant and never shipped in a release.
Every notification gets a tile in the colour of what it is about (a trip, a
message, a booking, packing, a to-do, Vacay, a collection, shared photos, a
tour, an update or an alert) with the sender's face on its corner, the page
and the bell's panel group the list under Today, Yesterday, the weekday or
the date, and answering or following a notification is a proper button.
The server's UTC timestamps are read as UTC for the grouping and the time.
A new question is held at the top of the view, so its answer reads from its
first line. When the answer carries steps, a strip of places and cards, its
closing words and the changes to apply ended below the view, and the user
saw only the places found. Once the answer is written, the thread now
scrolls to where those closing blocks begin, or to the bottom when they are
shorter than the view, unless the user scrolled it by hand meanwhile.
The screen texts name the top bar, the rail and the workbench as they are
after the redesign, the travel guide walks through the four tabs, and six
new guides cover what Studio gained since its help was written. Every
Studio picture is taken again, and all texts are translated.
The addons sit in a card per type now, the way every other admin tab sets
its cards, instead of three columns nested in one card. A head card shows
how many of each type are on and finds an addon by its name or description,
with a switch between all, the ones on and the ones off.
Absent means the classic look. Defaulting it wrote the field into every
element the auto layout and the templates build, which moved their parity
fixtures and grew the page tools past their schema ceiling; the new
descriptions are also shorter for the same reason.
The travel tab is four tabs now, figures, maps, countries and marks, and
offers only the newer looks, each dressed in the book's theme and linked to
it. The looks books already hold still draw on their pages exactly as
before; they are just no longer offered.
- Figures: a summary as a poster, a ticket, tiles, a road sign, an
odometer, a handwritten note, a pencil sketch or a band, and each figure
on its own as a medal, on odometer drums or ringed by hand.
- Maps: the route with its photographs, its stops numbered, its two ends
marked or on a dark ground, over satellite or relief imagery, a map per
trip, and a map of each country with its stops alone, cut to its shape.
- Countries: each country as a passport stamp, a visa, an airmail
postcard, its flag in cloth, a map pin, a luggage label or a sketch.
- Marks: the date, the day, the distance, the coordinates and the flag as
stamps, tags, pills, ribbons, die-cut stickers, embroidered patches and
sketches.
The schema gains a summary's and a country's look, seven mark styles and
the numbered and ends stops of a map, all additive, as revision 11.
Also in Studio: the save state is a tile beside who is here, a book a newer
Studio saved is said by an overlay that holds the whole Studio until it
reloads, and the page rail draws the first and the last page beside the
blank inside of their cover. The notifications page and the bell's panel
take the dialogs' look: a head with a tile, cards with an unread dot, and
tools that come forward on hover.
Every piece of the head row is one raised tile of one height: the format
picker moved beside the tools, the assistant and help stand alone, the
close button is square like the rest, and the beta mark is gone. The
layouts tab lays the book's own and the built-in layouts out in sections
and in the same grid as the designed pages. In the theme panel the accent
dots sit in the sheet's corner, the three accents share one name, a font
keeps its name ahead of its kind, a doubled rule is gone, and the
inspector's empty hint is shorter.
- Dashboard: a browser that names no time zone (Chrome on Windows for a zone
it cannot map) crashed the world clocks and the whole dashboard. One helper
now reads the browser zone and every reader picks its fallback; a stored
zone the browser does not know is left out instead of throwing (#2694).
- Phone: a leg of a multi-leg train or flight showed only its route, and its
sheet showed the first leg's seat. The day plan subtitle is one helper for
desktop and phone now, so a leg names its own train or flight, platform and
seat, translated instead of the hardcoded "Gl."/"Sitz"; the sheet opened
from a leg shows that leg's number, seat, platform and times (#2701). The
PDF export translates platform and seat too.
- Journey list: the year badge named the year a journey was written, not the
years of its trips; a trip over New Year shows both (#2685).
- A place's description and notes are markdown in the planner but printed as
raw syntax in the PDF export and on a shared trip. Both render it now through
the app's sanitized markdown pipeline, raw HTML stays text (#2692).
Closes#2694Closes#2701Closes#2685Closes#2692
Every add in the Studio (a sticker, a shape, an icon, a text, a frame, a line,
a travel element, a photo from the content panel or a drop), a text style and
a grid of frames appended without looking at the page's cap of 90 elements,
which paste and duplicate already kept. The save then failed with a 400 and
every later save of the book failed the same way. Each of them now leaves a
full page as it is and selects nothing, as a paste does.
The opacity slider committed on every key let go on it, so the Tab that moved
the focus there wrote the value it was last moved to, an empty undo step at
best and another colour's opacity at worst. It commits once after it moved,
on the key or the pointer let go or when the focus leaves.
The Theme panel threw away colours, faces and motifs being tried whenever the
book came back from a save by another editor or the assistant, because the
same theme read anew is a new object. The draft now follows the book's theme
only when the theme itself changed.
The sheet listened on the window in the capture phase, before any control saw
a key. Delete on a focused gradient stop removed the whole shape, an arrow on
the angle dial or the radial centre also moved the shape, and Delete, the
arrows and Ctrl+V pressed on a button of the assistant's window acted on the
page although the window stops its keys. The sheet now listens on the
document as the key bubbles, after every control had it and still before the
page's Escape on the window, and leaves a key whose default was prevented. A
gradient stop takes Delete and Backspace even when the last two stops cannot
go.
The layers panel was a tree a keyboard could not walk: only its toggles could
be focused. The tree is now one stop in the Tab order, the row last focused or
else the selected one. Up and Down move along the rows, Home and End to the
ends, Right opens a group or steps into it and Left closes it or steps from a
member up to its group (mirrored right to left), Enter or Space selects a row
as a click does with Shift adding, and F2 renames it. Enter and Escape in the
name field hand the focus back to its row, and the row in focus is ringed. A
hidden or locked layer that cannot be clicked on the page is reached this way.
Paste style wrote the copied fields straight onto the element, although a
pasted look is meant to be the style operation the assistant sends. It now
runs the engine's own restyle (bookElementStyled): a colour or face pasted by
hand takes the element off the theme, so the next theme applied no longer
brings the old colour back; a plain fill replaces the paint of the shape it
lands on instead of staying hidden under it; and a line takes another line's
look without its points, which are its course, not its look.
A background picked by hand in the inspector kept the page's link to the
theme, so the next theme applied set the page back to the theme's colour. The
picker and the background operation now paint through one helper that takes
the link away (withSpreadPaintByHand). Giving one page's background to every
page carries that page's link along, or takes the others' away when it was
painted by hand.
A built-in layout, a book's own layout and laying a page out again from its
entry ignored locks in the Studio: a locked shape was dropped and a locked
photo poured into a slot unlocked, while the assistant's layout operation left
both where they were. All four now lay a page out around its locked elements
through one function (layoutAroundLocks), which the engine's layout operation
uses too.
Fill page and fill spread kept the photo in its group, so the background
picture was selected and dragged with its caption and listed under the group
at the front. It leaves its group as the engine's fill does, and a group left
with one member goes.
The rail lists its sections in the order a book is made: Pages, Content,
Layouts, Elements and Travel, then Theme and Layers set apart below a rule.
Stickers are a tab of Elements beside the icons instead of a rail section of
their own, and Elements has six tabs (text, shapes, lines, frames with the
grids, icons, stickers). The quotation mark moved to the text styles, the
outline rectangle to the basic shapes and the plain rule to the lines. The rail
and every tab row are tab lists the arrow keys walk through, and a long name
wraps instead of being cut. The icon and sticker searches say in the field how
many match, which the sticker library's own head used to.
Every panel on both sides opens on the same head, and every labelled control
uses one row that moves the control under its label when the two do not fit,
so no label sits in a fixed column any more. Number fields, chips, sliders,
tab labels, theme names and travel cards wrap the same way, a country beside
a stop wraps under itself, and an upload cell holds its words to two lines
with the whole label in its tooltip. The heads, shelves and groups are real
headings, so a screen reader can walk the panels by them.
The inspector shows every kind in one order: what the element is and says,
its position and size, its look, its effects, then Arrange. Align and the
stacking buttons are one Arrange group with a button that opens the page in
Layers; its rows sit under their labels, each in two sets that move to a
second line whole. Rarely used groups start folded and open on an element
that already uses them (a turned element, a map held at a zoom, a summary set
in another face), and every group mounts afresh for the next selection. A
sticker's duplicate angle and opacity are gone in favour of the shared
position group, which now has the turn buttons for every kind. With several
elements selected it keeps their angle, opacity and turn, and the mirror when
all of them are stickers, and leaves the frame's numbers to one element. A
photo's fill page and fill spread sit under its crop. With nothing selected
the inspector shows the page background, the book's theme with the way to the
Theme panel, and the page numbers.
Seventeen translation keys nothing has used since before the rebuild (the old
inspector title, the empty spread note, the summary and country list names,
the roads buttons and others) are gone from every language. The broad key
template the old panels used had counted them as reached; the format names,
the empty photo grid messages and the map source hints are now named where the
key check can read them.
Also fixed on the way: the travel stops list shared its class with the
gradient stops and was laid out as sixteen pixel handles; the alignment
buttons were named in raw English; the map's print resolution note joined its
two halves with a dash.
Both go straight to the server. While an edit of the same tour still waited in
the queue, the restore went out first and its answer replaced the cached edit,
and the edit replayed afterwards planned the track over again. A copy copied
the server's older line instead of the one on screen. Both now wait the way the
actual track writes do: offline, behind a queued write of the tour, or for a
tour the server has not got yet they refuse with OnlineOnlyError, and the
planner says a connection is needed and the waiting changes go first, in all
27 languages.
The home chat's trip list opened before its trips had loaded, so the focus
stayed on its button and no trip could be reached by keyboard; the first trip
now takes the focus once the list is there. The header's menu says whether it
is open, and closed by Escape or a pick it hands the focus back to its
button, so the next Escape closes the window again. The open chat in the
history list is announced as the current one.
Maurice