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# Release notes

## 27th March 2024

*Big* update!!!

* New 5-10 minute parts check in experience: "Spend time with your parts daily with a simple check in."
* Guided pre-session "Self meditation"
* Quick answer buttons during the deep IFS experience to make the experience more flow-y
* Brand new shiny lovely home page

## *(Lots of bug fixes)*

## 9th Feb 2024

**Features**

* Add a subtle background texture to the session page that only design nerds will notice 

**Fixes**

* Fix case where guide was stuck thinking for minutes
* Handle case where session reports are filtered by openai gracefully
* Fix case where guide looped asking how you feel about the part

## 7th Feb 2024

**Features**

* Improved mirroring of your words (we find it feels much more attuned!)
* Add IFS Checkin exercise to the start of sessions
* We check for & handle concerned parts everywhere in the session now
* If Exiles show up first in a session, check for protectors then proceed to spending time with the exile
* New light mode design for guide

**Fixes**

* Fix: Session transcript scrolls to the top randomly
* Fix a few audio-related issues

## 24th Jan 2024

**Features**

* We rewrote all our audio and microphone handling; hopefully this means it’ll be much more reliable for your sessions now!
* The guide will now ask for clarification if it doesn’t understand your latest message (due to microphone issues or typos)
* The guide will give an NVC-style reflection of your latest message as part of its response
* Keep guide’s text visible while you’re talking
* Handle concerned parts in more of the script

**Fixes**

* Fix audio dying occasionally in chrome and safari
* Fix journals not syncing to the backend for some users
* Fix bug with feedback modal submission while microphone is enabled
* Add warnings for firefox & safari about audio sessions being buggy

## 12th Jan 2024

**Improvements:**

* Prevent more cases where the guide would ask the same question twice 
* Guide handles concerned parts in more sections of the session
* Added "expected session duration" to session-choosing page
* Improve wording in session start wizard

**Fixes**:

* More reliable microphone in sessions
* Fix case where the guide would output the wrong message after a transition to a new step
* Better error handling so that when something breaks, the user is prompted to refresh the page
* Fix pauses not registering
* Fix occasional case where a paragraph of text wouldn’t be spoken
* Fix session report not generating: make it more robust and handle bad gpt-4 generations more smoothly
* Show an error message when a session report fails to generate. Our team will also be notified and will regenerated it as soon as possible.

## **4th Jan 2024**

This release is focused on making our IFS experience great. Almost all items were sourced from user feedback; thank you for sharing, it’s invaluable as we build this product!

**Highlights:**

* Improved average time for the guide to start a response from \~15s average to \~5s average. We worked hard on this one and hope you enjoy!
* Guide will loop on the same question drastically less.
* IFS: Guide asks more natural followup questions as you’re describing parts
* IFS: Many quality of life improvements!
* IFS: Better handling of exile hesitancy
* IFS: End sessions whenever by requesting the guide to end here
* IFS: Select a new main protector for a session by requesting it
* IFS: Guide will follow whatever pronouns you select for the part (beta, let us know if you have any issues!)

...and various bug fixes