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Driver OS releases

Meaningful production milestones appear here. Development previews and small polish are not separate releases.

0.19.0 · Recorded starting grids and clearer Racing comparisons

Sessions can retain a starting position you record, with separate provenance and edit history. Save, edit or clear it within the source field; your observation never replaces imported placing, confirms an official finish or supplies places gained.

Racing shows evidence-backed best starts and classified finishes across your retained linked GP history at the selected venue. Qualifying runs and recorded races stay separate in timing comparisons. Position charts show the recorded field, while missing evidence stays out of the main metrics.

0.18.99 · Clearer GP evidence and qualifying timing

Racing keeps every recorded qualifying run visible, with a separate personal best across runs that never supplies an official qualifying result or starting grid. History comparisons count GPs rather than runs. A compact GP picker, clearer field timing and a dismissible latest-race view make the recorded evidence easier to review.

0.18.98 · Racing history and founder welcome

A dedicated Racing page brings explicitly recorded GP stages and comparable history together, with qualifying timing and race placing kept in their own context. Community offers a one-way founder welcome that you can remove permanently; it does not create a friendship or share your driving history.

0.18.97 · Single-use beta invitations

Eligible owners can review a card batch, print newly shown codes two per page and see the account that claims each card. An interrupted generation returns to the same request after reload. Verified ordinary drivers finish setup before a registration notification is queued; provider acceptance and delivery remain separate. Cards and notification processing stay unavailable until their secure rollout gates are opened.

0.18.96 · Review the whole GP

Sessions keeps your GP chronological, leading Race and Final with recorded placing while preserving unknown ranking basis. Qualifying keeps supported rank beside lap timing. Compare with a previous explicitly linked GP; missing or repeated stages stay unavailable. Actual grid and net places appear only with verified result evidence, and DNF, DNS and DSQ stay visible throughout Competition.

0.18.95 · Explicit review before receipt recovery

Eligible owners can prepare and review a plan for an explicitly enabled receipt, then separately confirm its exact ID, digest and action. Saved results, anonymous field completion and pending analysis have distinct states; any offered recheck requires fresh approval for the same plan. Recovery remains off by default and never starts automatically.

0.18.94 · Safer Quick Kart association and event choices

New prestart Quick Kart captures are checked when you open or refresh the signed-in app. A narrow, unique result match carries the purpose you recorded and your explicitly selected event; ambiguous evidence remains for review. Your active event stays visible across captures and reloads, with Leave event to end the choice. Browser-closed matching is unavailable.

Existing captures keep their original times, purposes and event choices. Historical event grouping still needs a separate guarded review; this release does not repair earlier records automatically. Session corrections report a saved context separately from an unavailable or failed ranking save, preserving your choices for review or retry. Result-ranking editing remains unavailable where its backing capability is absent.

0.18.93 · More complete K1 result imports

Supported US K1 emails can include signed timing gaps. Driver OS now retains those standings rows, preserves the source placing and score, and keeps ambiguous driver matches under review.

0.18.92 · Accurate timing scope and kart highlights

Coach preparation and best-lap answers lead with the calculated minimum for the selected evidence, with dates and coverage clearly stated. Individual session examples cannot replace that minimum. Home’s fastest-lap chart now includes valid short sessions, matching its observed-best card; average and variation keep their separate minimum-lap requirements.

Kart timing highlights compare observed minima across session purposes on the same recorded layout and class. Mixed or unresolved contexts remain unranked, ties match displayed precision, and filtering never crowns a different fastest kart.

0.18.91 · Simpler race context and comparisons

Home aligns paired history charts and shows your featured private plan once, with its management actions still available. Sessions and Competition share All visits and Race days filters based on recorded context. Day rows highlight observed fastest and slowest laps.

K1 history uses one personal score line per year, with a dashed comparison to other drivers only where a complete, verified same-result field exists. Competition keeps per-session evidence with larger, directly labeled comparisons.

0.18.90 · Clearer K1 score history

K1 scores now use evenly spaced recorded points, with explicit long gaps between recorded scores. Source labels distinguish US K1RS from older records whose system was not recorded, while annual scoring periods stay separate. Original scores, dates and benchmark eligibility are unchanged.

0.18.89 · Clearer days, progress and kart history

Review every session together in the day overview, with directly labeled personal and field comparisons. Session detail keeps chronological lap bars and one entry for kart and note edits. Possible repeat opponents show compact, tentative observations with source evidence.

Home and Progress offer simple history ranges, including year to date. Active private plans appear on the calendar without changing recorded performance. Karts shows every observed number, with context-specific timing highlights and sparse evidence kept clear.

0.18.88 · Private race evidence and local video review

The owner pilot shows possible repeat opponents within a recorded visit, with coverage and uncertainty kept visible. Matching names never establish identities or connect Community friends.

Race session detail now supports local video playback, manual alignment, bookmarks, private observations and selected passage comparison. Only explicitly saved review metadata reaches your account; video stays local and must be reselected when reopening. Different footage requires an explicit replacement decision.

Field-reference lines compare other drivers’ best laps and source averages, while recorded-visit spacing keeps long gaps from squeezing recent history. Actual dates and analytical calculations are preserved.

0.18.87 · Floating driving actions restored

Quick Kart and Coach remain within reach as you scroll driving pages. Their floating buttons have clear space away from recorded evidence and footer links, with keyboard focus and dialog return preserved.

0.18.86 · Accurate matching review downloads

Historical matching downloads now identify Preview or Apply and include the confirmed results of that operation. If processing stops, the download preserves confirmed results and labels the incomplete run; an unanswered request must be checked before retrying. This changes audit reporting only, without replaying or expanding matching.

0.18.85 · Clearer day reviews and conversational Coach

Review the complete day before opening a session’s chronological lap bars. Compact kart and note actions, visible comparisons, clearer Progress ranges and quieter Community and Home views keep recorded evidence accessible.

Eligible Coach accounts can ask about their history without selecting a session first. Replies distinguish server-calculated facts from advice, show anonymous field coverage and retain readable follow-up context. Sending a question uses the existing access and allowance controls; opening Coach never generates an answer. Goals still require explicit acceptance.

Private pattern feedback and trial outcomes show confirmed save status. Help opens with common tasks and refreshed examples. Existing goals, saved preferences and sharing permissions are preserved.

0.18.84 · Reviewed private opponent observations

Owner Email review now supports a deliberate historical matching preview from verified original results, followed by a separately approved server operation. Missing recorded visits remain skipped. Source conflicts stop processing, and completed checkpoints can be retried safely.

Matching retains tentative private observations only. It does not change session timing, connect Community friends, merge identities across visits or enable sharing. Preview and review downloads exclude opponent names and secret values.

0.18.83 · The whole day and your racing circle

Sessions opens on the complete selected day, with every session visible and compact source comparisons. Selecting a session opens its chronological lap bars; returning to the day restores the overview. Missing historical evidence and comparison-loading failures are reported separately.

Community brings race-day comparisons, venue observations, Your circle and Privacy into distinct views. Sharing session dates and contributing to anonymous venue insights require separate explicit permissions; existing preferences remain unchanged. Empty states never borrow fictional results.

Historical recovery uses verified original results and append-only field evidence. It preserves canonical sessions, laps, exclusions, kart associations and goals; missing originals remain unavailable. Private opponent matching has separate secure configuration and never creates Community friends.

0.18.82 · Session evidence and useful next steps

Sessions opens directly on the latest relevant lap chart. Compact field comparisons distinguish your retained average from the source all-lap average, while missing opponent data does not hide your own results.

Coach offers measurable goals for a chosen recorded context and preserves completed goals when you choose a fresh focus. Eligible owners can send explicit conversational questions; opening Coach or choosing a suggestion never generates a paid answer. Access, service and evidence-check failures are shown distinctly.

Available field summaries retain source provenance and anonymous opponent timing. Historical recovery and private opponent matching are separate gates; this release does not backfill earlier results or enable identity matching. Community opens on its own overview, with Statistics remaining available.

0.18.80 · Keep saved goals available

Saved goal evidence and completed-goal history remain readable across app versions. Saving an unrelated preference preserves those details, while completed and archived goals stay completed. Account access checks and concurrent-save protection remain in place.

0.18.79 · Progress across your venue history

Pace & consistency opens on every recorded session type at your selected venue, with visit and monthly timelines, average and fastest retained laps, variation and history ranges. Matched contexts remain available for stricter comparisons.

K1 score opens on all saved source history with past-month, 3-month, 6-month and year filters. Annual scoring periods stay separate. Older scores without recorded scoring-system metadata appear as labeled legacy history and remain excluded from US benchmarks. Existing scores, session classifications and kart bindings are preserved.

0.18.78 · Clearer laps and kart history

Sessions opens with horizontal retained-lap bars, keeping excluded and unclassified laps available in All recorded laps. Average markers, fastest/slowest highlights and the observed venue record retain their source evidence. The day table highlights its lowest and highest recorded session best laps independently of stricter comparison-context personal bests.

Set day type previews eligible ordinary or unknown sessions together, protecting recorded event sessions and reporting conflicts or partial completion. Kart history offers Cards and List views with the same venue-scoped counts, filters, sorting and source uses. Cards is the default; your layout choice is saved to your account. Compact capture and unknown-number review stays separate from recorded kart uses.

0.18.77 · Full-history fastest lap

Home’s fastest-recorded-lap card now shows the minimum retained lap across the selected venue’s full history, with a link to its source session. It stays independent of the chart date range. First-period baselines are always visible in purple when eligible; variation lines and dots use descriptive green-to-orange/red colors within the displayed window.

0.18.76 · Complete venue history and a quieter Home

Home now includes every recorded session type at the selected venue, including arrive & drive, race-day practice, qualifying, races and unknown types. Retained-lap averages, fastest laps and variation are recomputed from source timing; stored classifications and stricter Progress comparisons are preserved.

Recent visit dots and monthly overviews keep longer histories readable. Monthly averages and variation give visits equal weight, while the fastest line preserves each month’s quickest eligible lap. Optional first-period baseline lines are historical references, not targets. Information controls beside headings explain the measures without long paragraphs on the page.

Dismiss the latest-day summary and restore it when needed. This account-and-venue preference syncs safely across browsers; new recorded days reappear automatically. No sessions or kart numbers are removed. Existing no-Event Practice sessions display as Arrive & drive using the established session contract.

0.18.75 · Clear lap times and saved unknown kart choices

Home groups typical average and fastest retained lap under Lap times, with a dashed blue average line and solid green fastest line. Consistency pairs typical variation with the lowest eligible session variation across the selected venue’s history, including a link to its source session. Visit and history scopes stay visible.

Reviewing skipped kart numbers now keeps “don’t remember” choices saved. Refresh and queued saves preserve independent choices from another browser. Existing race and kart bindings are preserved.

0.18.74 · Session types at capture and clearer history

Quick Kart records the number, time and your chosen session type without a venue selector. Arrive & drive is the starting choice; Practice, Qualifying, Heat, Race, Final and Endurance stint are available, with an optional private event plan for today. The confirmed result supplies the venue. Retries keep the original choice, and conflicts with recorded session context remain available for review.

Racing rhythm opens on the current month, with previous/next controls and a return to today. A checkered marker calls out recorded competition days. Home shows the fullest eligible comparison history alongside a separately scoped latest-day summary, keeping different fleets and session types apart. Existing history is preserved.

0.18.73 · More reliable kart saves on the web

Quick Kart keeps the original number and time when delivery needs another attempt. Confirmed saves remain saved if the latest account view cannot refresh. Sessions kart edits verify account delivery, and concurrent retries cannot assign one capture to different sessions. Sign-in problems now explain how to reconnect while keeping the number recoverable.

Mobile Safari and desktop layouts retain the same saving and review controls. This web release preserves existing race history and kart numbers.

0.18.72 · Feedback for invited testers

The owner can enable Feedback while inviting a Demo or Real tester, or change it later in Owner → Accounts. Enabled testers can report a question, bug or idea from their current screen or an open dialog, choose a section and optionally attach a cropped, redacted image. Nothing is captured or sent automatically.

Owner → Feedback keeps reports, private notes and review status together, with Complete, Decline, Reopen and reviewed Markdown or JSON exports. Feedback is separate from Community and survives Demo reset or conversion. Reports expire after 365 days; images after 30 days.

0.18.71 · Invited Demo in the K1 experience

Invited Demo testers now use the same K1-focused Home, Sessions, Progress, Karts and account pages with a private fictional Nashville journal. Safe notes, kart assignments, goals and preferences save to the Demo account. Forwarding, first-result recognition and prepared coaching are clearly simulated; Demo cannot receive real results, upload files or use paid AI.

Eligible adults can practice Community with fictional friends, fixed kudos and private simulated sharing. Owner controls add reviewed, confirmed conversion to an empty Real journal after verified synthetic cleanup. Existing testers keep their records until an explicit owner reset; account changes and old Demo tabs cannot restore fictional content after conversion.

0.18.70 · Community statistics from your recorded results

Community now shows recorded venue K1 scores and the ten-session milestone independently of lap-chart requirements. Pace and progress can use K1 results that omit track revision or class, with clear labels for missing details and separate groups for different recorded conditions. Saved sharing choices and original results are preserved.

0.18.69 · Clear saved sharing choices

Community now clearly shows when statistics sharing is enabled and saved. The consent checkbox appears when turning sharing on or confirming changed venues and metrics. Empty comparisons distinguish saved permission from missing qualifying data. Comparison rules and your saved permissions are unchanged.

0.18.68 · Your circle, shared progress and clearer Help

The optional adult Community pilot adds mutual friend connections, three preset kudos, separately chosen venue/statistic sharing, and personal progress milestones. Shared summaries keep known driving contexts together; missing context and sparse evidence remain unavailable. There are no messages, comments, searchable directory or automatic enrollments. Privacy controls include removal, blocking, leaving and an explicit download of your Community data.

Help now starts with the current Driver OS journeys and fills the available page width. The older guide remains available as a reference. Model-generated explanations carry an AI origin label; calculated statistics do not. Existing AI access and spending limits are unchanged.

0.18.67 · Settings stay inside Driver OS

Profile, privacy, result email setup, activity and received history now stay in the new interface. Email tables show ten rows at a time. The completed setup wizard and old More tools portal are removed from navigation; usernames are visibly permanent. Help opens a new tab, and Quick Kart is blue.

Refresh uses a neutral loading shell while protecting private results. Account switches and access-denied responses clear the previous private view. Saved Session and Progress coaching now have a native view; generation remains an explicit action with existing permissions and allowances. This release changes no database schema or stored driving history.

0.18.66 · A quicker kart capture and clearer review

Quick Kart starts at your home K1, records the current time automatically and shows up to three captures from today and yesterday. The full capture review now lives in Karts → Review kart numbers, alongside missing session numbers. Unmatched captures keep their existing 14-day review window, and retained matched history remains available. Exact session confirmation is still required.

Owner account actions are visible directly in each row, with the existing confirmation before destructive changes. Community uses a blue Coming soon badge. Account permissions, capture retention and matching rules are unchanged.

0.18.65 · Account pages and a clearer Owner workspace

The avatar now opens a menu for Profile, Settings, Help and Sign out. Profile has its own wider page; Settings groups connections, setup and account tools. Community’s Coming soon badge keeps the main navigation aligned.

Owner controls stay inside the notebook with grouped sections and compact, paginated invitation/account tables. Existing owner authorization, administrative actions and confirmation steps are preserved. This release changes no account permissions or database records and enables no Community sharing.

0.18.64 · Owner controls and Community navigation

The site owner can open the existing protected admin controls directly from the notebook and return with Back to notebook. Visiting Owner does not run unrelated race or kart maintenance. Other drivers do not see the Owner entry.

Community · Coming soon now appears in the main menu on desktop and phones. The page explains the planned optional friend comparisons; live discovery, connections and sharing remain unavailable.

0.18.63 · Your K1 driving notebook

The new Real-account notebook brings Home, Sessions, Progress and Karts together with clear venue context, a floating Coach and Quick Kart. Setup asks for a home K1 without requiring a city, while preserving identity, age and legal requirements. Sessions retains source laps, exclusions, result-ranking context and private notes; Progress separates comparable pace, racing rhythm, field evidence and annual K1 score snapshots.

Private plans, goals, home venue and supported notebook preferences follow your account after a confirmed save. Kart histories describe recorded uses and comparisons without claiming mechanical quality. Dated public K1 references stay separate from your own results. Community remains coming soon; no live discovery or sharing is enabled.

More tools preserves the existing detailed app, imports, native tools and explicitly requested model-backed coaching. Demo accounts keep their separate fictional experience. This release does not change ingestion or enable paid AI from navigation.

0.18.62 · Rental kart history within reach

Open Karts from desktop navigation or More on a phone. Home shows recent numbers for the venue you are browsing, with full history and Quick Kart capture available without starting telemetry. Saving, account delivery and session matching have separate states; ambiguous matches still need review.

Number histories retain dates, linked sessions and available notes. Compatible personal timing and supported per-session field context remain separate, with missing or conflicting evidence visible. Rental numbers may be reused; these observations do not establish mechanical quality or rank the best and worst karts. Existing home-track preferences, saved layouts and detailed tools remain available.

0.18.61 · Your home track, in context

Choose an optional home track and start new tabs there or at All venues. Home, Sessions, Progress and Coach keep the venue you are browsing visible, with newer away visits and direct session evidence easy to reach. Defaults stay unchanged until you choose; the preference is saved for this account in this browser.

Home groups its venue, Event and purpose controls below the heading, pairs comparable pace and lap-variation charts, and names its detailed tools where they belong. Profile groups identity, app preferences, connections and privacy across the available width. Venue changes preserve history, kart decisions, saved layouts and goals. Navigation never requests paid AI, and unavailable session links cannot substitute unrelated coaching evidence.

0.18.60 · One wide review, with your tools intact

The wide experience is now the single app view. The temporary A/B choices are retired; your saved layouts, filters and history remain. Open detailed tools for full session, Event and comparison controls, then Return to review to restore your place.

Opening a page or saved analysis never requests a paid Race Day answer. Eligible Generate, Update and Retry actions remain explicit and keep their existing access and spending controls. K1 ingestion, regional timing, permissions and stored history are unchanged.

0.18.59 · Complete tools in the wide review

C keeps your selected history and place when opening detailed tools and returning. More filters includes track/layout, fleet and recorded-history timeframes. Events setup, selected-session coaching and saved optional widgets remain accessible without switching experiences.

Day/race navigation preserves the selected session and expanded details. Saved analysis is reused; eligible whole-day AI actions in C require an explicit request. A remains a temporary reference. Stored history, K1 ingestion and permissions are unchanged.

0.18.58 · A consistent wide workspace

C now uses the available desktop width across Connections, Garage, Tracks, Discover and related detail screens, with aligned headers and readable forms and instructions. Phone tables keep their own scrolling area. A remains available as a reference; K1 troubleshooting tables, Details and actions keep their existing behavior.

0.18.57 · K1 troubleshooting tables

K1 email activity and owner import review use paginated tables with received times, statuses, result links and private-report actions. Expand Details for explanations and technical diagnostics. On smaller screens, scroll within the table to see every column. Paging changes only the view; ingestion, permissions and saved history are unchanged.

0.18.56 · Follow K1 results from delivery to display

Connections distinguishes a received email, a complete saved result and laps actually displayed in Sessions. Delayed or unsupported imports have a clear review state and a private structured problem report. The owner can investigate consented reports without seeing the original email or the driver’s other history. Real email alerts and original-email report uploads remain disabled.

New supported imports save their complete results together and reject conflicting evidence. Existing US, Canada and Canary Wharf history stays intact. A reviewed venue can be recognized on its first supported result; unfamiliar formats, locations and ambiguous local times remain for review. Opening the app no longer retries historical emails automatically.

0.18.55 · Fewer choices until you need them

Rental drivers can finish setup with fewer steps. Other driving interests, sensor and AI interests, vehicle details and specialist filters remain available when useful. Recorded Event and non-rental context stays visible; Arrive & drive needs no Event. Existing history, vehicles, coaching priorities and statistics are unchanged. C remains the default, with A available as a temporary reference.

0.18.54 · Complete evidence in the wide review

C keeps the wider Home, day review and venue-first kart notebook, with A retained as a temporary reference. Day/session colors, result-first qualifying and race cards, clear purpose choices and whole-day editing make history easier to review. Timing reminders can be marked reviewed without removing evidence or coaching priorities.

Saved ratings, day journals and analysis remain discoverable, with named routes to detailed comparison and editing tools that return to your C review. Uploaded kart recordings can be associated with uniquely nearby official timing or explicitly confirmed, while conflicting and missing evidence stays visible. Existing K1 imports and regional timing are unchanged; native standalone Watch kart delivery remains a separate deferred issue.

0.18.53 · Clearer K1 import status

Connections explains saved K1 import states, including receipts that need review or have remained pending for more than five minutes. Status checks run while the K1 email page is visible; they do not retry an email or confirm that its result has rendered on this device. Existing US, Canada and Canary Wharf support is unchanged.

Venue filters now show one choice when older and newer records unambiguously identify the same venue, keeping both sets of history visible. Distinct venues and analytical comparison groups stay separate.

0.18.52 · A clearer driving review

Version C is the default experience: Home keeps a retained coaching focus close to the current driving summary, Sessions groups the whole day with individual session selectors, and Progress separates pace/results from kart history. Compact history tables, clearer comparison charts and restrained lap/result highlights keep the evidence readable. A and B remain available temporarily in the experience switcher.

The floating Coach offers calculated guidance and already-saved analysis. The authorized owner can explicitly send a selected-session timing or result question within the existing monthly allowance. Kart associations remain descriptive; missing evidence stays unknown. London ingestion and fastest-lap ranking are unchanged.

0.18.51 · K1 Canary Wharf results

Driver OS now recognizes verified K1 Speed UK Canary Wharf Track 1 result emails through the existing private forwarding connection. London local times, daylight-saving conversion, complete owner laps and fastest-lap rankings are preserved; UK ratings remain country-scoped, and other racers' names are discarded before durable storage.

Previously held Canary Wharf receipts can be recovered through the existing account-scoped retry path without creating duplicate races. Unfamiliar UK venues, layouts or changed formats continue to require review rather than being guessed.

0.18.50 · A complete Demo race day

Demo Testers receive a fictional four-session GP: practice, two qualifiers and a race, with an explicit P11 start and P9 finish in a field of 12. Review the whole Event and each session, follow placement in Progress, and choose, prioritize or complete Coach targets for Home. Every example stays visibly fictional; unsupported ratings remain unavailable.

Existing Demo history and saved work are retained. The addition arrives during normal account sync; no account reset is needed. Real driver history is unchanged.

0.18.49 · Race days, results and chosen priorities

Sessions now keeps linked Event sessions together, with clear Sessions and Events tabs and individual practice, qualifying and race views. Progress shows recorded placements over time and offers a visible comparison selector for Field + Time. Fastest-lap rankings, finishing-order awards and unknown ranking evidence keep separate meanings.

Coach distinguishes suggestions from saved priorities. Choose a focus for Home, try another suggestion, and retain completed work; saved numerical targets stay fixed. Demo Testers can explore the updated screens using their existing clearly labeled fictional history. Expanded Demo result scenarios remain a later data update.

0.18.48 · Private cloud recordings for analysis

Eligible native recordings can be stored privately for research and reviewed in Sensor Lab with exact-source verification, channel diagnostics and full-source downloads in supported desktop browsers. New recordings show the saved race window separately from full acquisition; older recordings keep their original timestamps. Cloud storage, race links and analytical acceptance remain separate, and local source copies are retained.

0.18.47 · Easier access browsing

Owner invitations and user accounts now have separate 10-entry pages, with invitation drafts kept while browsing. Driving and sensor filters follow the dark app theme, including when the browser uses a light appearance.

0.18.46 · A clearer start

Set up Driver OS one choice at a time, with saved progress and optional K1 forwarding, sensors, Garage, nearby places and AI coaching interests. Review your choices before finishing, then take a short tour of Home, Sessions, Progress, Coach and Connections. Revisit interests and replay the tour from Profile or Help.

Unfinished setup resumes when you return in the same browser; Continue saves account progress. Interest choices keep access and consent separate. Real accounts start with their own evidence, while Demo Testers receive clearly labeled fictional examples after setup.

0.18.45 · Keep expanded recordings private

Help now explains where expanded internal phone and Watch recordings stay, how to inspect channel quality, and why a limited preview cannot stand in for the full source. Magnetic readings, location quality and movement context remain research evidence; they do not change official timing or become coaching measurements. Heart rate remains unavailable in the internal companion.

0.18.44 · Open the web app on Home

The general web-app button in native Build 27 opens Home after account confirmation. Links to Sessions, account settings and specific Events or sessions still open their named destinations. Existing Build 26 links remain compatible.

0.18.43 · Native sign-in continuity

The internal native companion can return from its email sign-in link to the iPhone app, with the email code retained as a fallback. Eligible native accounts can continue into the web app after confirming the account, using a separate browser session. Availability depends on the enabled authentication service; expired links and unavailable connections retain the ordinary sign-in path. Recording and account recovery remain protected during these transitions.

0.18.42 · K1 result coverage and recovery

K1 result imports now recognize the published United States and Canadian location catalogue with location-specific timezones and numbered layouts. This fixes Boston results being held for review and improves retry and duplicate handling across forwarded email and original-file uploads. Exact sender verification and private result minimization remain enforced; unfamiliar or conflicting formats stay visible for review.

0.18.41 · Owner access controls

Manage invitations and user access in one Owner section. Revoke an unused Demo or Real invitation, explicitly re-invite the same person, or deactivate an existing account while preserving its data. Real access can be restored after review. Protected owner accounts, exact-person confirmation and safe retries help prevent accidental access changes; Demo resets stay separate.

0.18.40 · Events and private Demo testing

Group individual qualifying runs, races and endurance stints into optional Events. Rental, Garage and temporary/team vehicle context stays distinct, and every session keeps its own timing, notes and evidence. Event reviews and session-role filters help compare similar driving without changing existing history.

The owner can invite Demo or Real Testers. Demo Testers complete normal verification and onboarding before receiving a private fictional scenario across the app, including saved coaching and simulated sensor evidence. Demo data stays visibly labeled; real imports, uploads, analytical sync and live AI remain unavailable. Owner controls reset the demo, repeat onboarding or deactivate access while preserving authentication.

0.18.39 · Race Day Review

A dedicated review brings each completed visit together: race-by-race pace, consistency, exact-layout history, anonymous field context, useful laps and one focus to save into Coach. Home introduces the newest review. Color-and-text comparisons show changes from your last and usual visit. Follow race-by-race charts, compact finish cards, podium and field-strength trends, and inspect lap moments with clearly labeled times. Improvement arrows point up; the personal best leads your visit comparisons. Results update as they arrive, and unavailable or ambiguous evidence remains visible.

The owner-only coaching debrief can appear automatically inside an eligible settled Race Day Review, with saved evidence, cost limits and no automatic retries. All six coaching sections expand into the page so you can read them with normal page scrolling. Availability depends on the enabled environment; ordinary early-access accounts keep the complete deterministic review.

0.18.35 · Stay with your edit

Changing race tags, saving notes and adjusting local controls keep the relevant section open and the control in view. Background updates preserve the current account’s unfinished fields, expanded details and focus. Validation points to the field that needs attention, and returning from a nested view restores the parent context.

0.18.34 · Runtime URL hardening

Server request handling now uses the standard URL parser consistently, removing a security-related legacy-parser warning found during Production verification. Account content, permissions, saved data and normal Driver OS workflows are unchanged.

0.18.33 · Security maintenance

Authenticated location and map responses now explicitly remain private and uncached. Reviewed web and Edge Function dependencies are aligned to current patch releases, and the automated supply-chain and release checks are stronger. Account content, permissions, sensor evidence and normal Driver OS workflows are unchanged.

0.18.32 · Repository hygiene

Removed unused historical copied K1 benchmarks and their source-only comparison code. Official K1 map and leaderboard links remain external-only. Imported results, personal history and sensor evidence are preserved.

0.18.31 · Your layout, across devices

Home, Sessions, Progress and Coach now offer simple account-saved layouts. Show or hide approved sections, move them up or down and reset each page to its recommended default. A successful save returns you to the updated page. Essential context stays visible, and conflicting changes on another device require review before saving.

This release also strengthens competitor-name privacy in United States and Canadian K1 imports, replaces embedded K1 content with clearly labeled official links, and makes recent Home progress and race-day timing easier to inspect. Official timing, anonymous field evidence and existing calculations are preserved. Sensor research and request-only owner AI keep their existing boundaries.

0.18.30 · Race timing and kart attribution

Quick Kart preserves complete visit order and leaves missing selections for time-based matching or explicit race confirmation. Native kart matching also retries after verified K1 results arrive. Supplied race-time seconds are preserved, conflicting reimports require review, and Race Fusion distinguishes venue-clock precision, recording time and kart provenance. Indoor sensor usefulness remains unresolved; new telemetry charts and core integration stay on hold.

0.18.29 · Browse recordings and native race windows

Sensor Lab now shows six sources per page and includes iPhone and Watch evidence in the same race and session selectors as Sensor Logger. Continuous recordings can expose separate, noncompeting official race windows without duplicating the source. Native quality review adds per-lap coverage and more conservative gap checks while staying temporary, private and research-only.

0.18.28 · Unified private Sensor Lab

This release unifies Sensor Logger, Driver OS iPhone and Driver OS Watch recordings in one private Sensor Lab library. Source filters and separate storage, receipt, race-relationship and quality facts keep backup or pairing from being mistaken for analytical acceptance. Race Fusion can show bounded native official-time candidates while rejected and ambiguous evidence stays visible for research only.

0.18.27 · Overall driver progress

Progress now opens with an all-driving view that compares improvement within each track instead of comparing raw lap seconds between tracks. Track filters restore real lap-time progress, while Current Peaks and Experience Built add a concise view of current form and the evidence behind it.

0.18.26 · Verified K1 Speed Canada results

Driver OS now supports verified K1 Speed Canada result emails from Toronto Track 1 through the existing private forwarding workflow. The Gmail setup downloads separate exact-sender filters for United States and Canadian results, keeps Canadian K1RS comparisons country-scoped and sends unverified Canadian formats to review instead of guessing.

0.18.25 · Garage vehicle management

Owned vehicles can now be edited without breaking their session links and deleted with a clear confirmation when no sessions are attached. Garage also blocks accidental exact duplicates by vehicle name and type.

0.18.24 · Animated previews and runtime maintenance

The public product previews now show purpose-built animated Driver OS concepts for Home, Sessions, Progress and Coach. Runtime alignment now keeps local development, continuous integration and Vercel on Node 24 LTS with reviewed dependency verification.

0.18.23 · Help root compatibility

The bare Help address now opens the guide while preserving complete-guide queries and legacy topic links.

0.18.22 · Onboarding and mobile Help

Help now begins with a clear first-drive journey from joining early access through reviewing a Session, understanding Progress and choosing one useful Coach action. Sixteen focused topics, four accessible synthetic walkthroughs and refined phone navigation make the guide easier to follow at the track or at home.

0.18.21 · Help entry fix

The Help link and the bare Help address now open the Driver OS guide instead of the public website.

0.18.20 · Public website and Help

The public Driver OS story now opens with the approved cinematic motorsport experience, clearer interactive product previews and a focused beta-interest invitation. Help is now built from one reviewed source into complete, addressable articles with clearer navigation across desktop and phone.

Alpha 1 · August 2026

The historical Alpha 1 release established the private Driver OS journal, supported result imports, responsive Home/Sessions/Progress/Coach journeys, Quick Kart, Garage and Tracks, research-only Sensor Lab and bounded request-only AI foundations.

Development previews, internal native builds and small polish changes are not separate production releases.