Changelog

Everythingwe’re shipping.

We ship a new release every Friday. New tools, sharper audits, fresh design knowledge, and fixes land constantly — here’s every update, in one place.

  1. Toolingv1.12.1Improvement

    Award-grade site refresh

    • Rebuilt the homepage to an award-grade standard and gave this changelog its own timeline.
    • Removed the hard seams between sections so the page reads as one continuous surface.
    • Cleaned dead navigation links out of the header.
  2. Auditsv1.11.0Feature

    Catch cropped device mockups before they ship

    • New audit_device_frame — flags content sliced off inside phone and laptop mockups, checking frame geometry, baked-in pan/zoom drift, and edge truncation.
    • Added color-systems principles — palette discipline of ten or fewer page colors on a role-based token set.
    • Added spacing-systems principles — an 8px base grid and a tight, limited spacing scale.
  3. Toolingv1.12.0Feature

    Compact responses and one-step contrast fixes

    • New compact response mode for audit_page, evaluate_design, and audit_url — return just scores, violations, and fix priority, dropping embedded screenshots and full principle bodies.
    • New suggest_contrast_fix tool — hand it a failing WCAG color pair and it returns the minimal color change that clears the AA/AAA target, with the achieved ratio.
    • audit_contrast now composites text over its full ancestor stack, eliminating false AA failures on dark, layered UIs.
  4. Auditsv1.9.0New

    Raven now renders and looks at real pixels

    • New audit_url — renders a live URL at every viewport and theme, scroll-settles reveals, plays videos, and fires hover, click, and focus before capturing.
    • Catches the real-world nits that HTML-only audits miss: cropped images, blank videos, hover white-wash, sliced exports, and content hidden on mobile.
    • Every finding is tagged confirmed, likely-artifact, or inconclusive and ranked by severity — so you only fix what's real.
  5. Auditsv1.10.0Feature

    Content, typography, and tap-target audits

    • New audit_content — per-item verdicts for headings, prose, CTAs, labels, and metrics, each with the principle it matched and a before-to-after rewrite.
    • New audit_typography — detects your modular scale and flags off-scale sizes, inconsistent line-height, and bloated weight ladders.
    • New audit_tap_targets — finds every interactive element below the 44px minimum and returns a concrete CSS fix, worst-first.
    • Blank-video detection now names the real reason and only confirms genuinely broken media.
  6. Auditsv1.7.0Feature

    Contrast, responsive, and interaction-state audits

    • New audit_contrast — exact WCAG 2.1 ratios for every text element, with the delta needed to pass.
    • New audit_responsive_visibility — renders at multiple breakpoints and flags content shown on desktop but hidden on mobile.
    • audit_page can now fire hover, click, and focus before the screenshot — so transient defects like a theme-toggle white-wash become visible.
    • Optional adversarial_verify re-checks each finding a second way and tags it confirmed or likely-artifact.
  7. Auditsv1.8.0Feature

    Contract, parity, and iOS accessibility audits

    • New audit_contract and audit_api_contract — verify a wire contract is identical across iOS, proxy, and Android source, and catch live responses that pass shape but are wrong.
    • New audit_parity — compares an iOS screen to its Android counterpart against named spatial relationships and reports cross-platform drift.
    • New audit_ios_a11y — scores an iOS snapshot for labels, traits, tap targets, contrast, Dynamic Type clipping, and VoiceOver order.
    • iOS capture can now fire interactions and freeze animations for pixel-stable shots.
  8. Auditsv1.6.2Fix

    Token-aware container widths

    • audit_page's max-width check now flags containers that diverge from your design system's canonical content width, instead of a generic heuristic.
  9. Auditsv1.5.0New

    iOS, SwiftUI, and React Native audits

    • New iOS and SwiftUI audit suite — audit_swiftui, audit_ios_screen, and audit_ios_privacy.
    • New React Native and Expo audit — audit_rn plus Expo privacy checks.
  10. Auditsv1.6.0Feature

    One audit_screen across every platform

    • Cross-platform audit_screen routes web, iOS, Android, and React Native through one entry point.
    • Android screens join the native audit lineup.
    • The mobile and native audit tools are now surfaced directly on the site.
  11. Knowledgev1.4.0Improvement

    Sharper sources and clearer attribution

    • Content design systems tightened to four canonical references: Mailchimp, GOV.UK, Shopify Polaris, and Atlassian.
    • Laws of UX entries now cite their primary academic sources (Fitts 1954, Hick 1952, Miller 1956, and others).
    • Added a NOTICE file with full third-party attribution, plus CONTRIBUTING, CODE_OF_CONDUCT, and CODEOWNERS.
  12. Knowledgev1.3.0Feature

    Research, service design, and brand layers

    • Added research methods, service-design blueprints, and a brand and visual knowledge layer.
    • Two-actor, human-in-the-loop service blueprints with persona avatars beside each lane.
    • Rebranded the site and metadata to RavenMCP.
  13. Knowledgev1.2.0New

    Content systems and on-device learning

    • Added content design systems — voice, writing principles, and copy patterns.
    • Raven now learns from local usage, insight-only and never leaving your machine, with an optional daily digest.
    • Shipped Claude Desktop Extension (.mcpb) packaging and end-to-end release automation.