Releases

This page records the user-facing changes in Roadmap Flow, newest first. Every guide page also carries the app version it was last updated in.

Version 0.1.14

A pass over the five work surfaces. Share, Account, Progress, Check and Config were reviewed end to end. Some of it is repair, some of it is things moving to where they belong, and a little of it is new.

Things that moved

If a control is not where you left it, it is almost certainly here.

• Import is on the Items tab. All three sources — a Roadmap Flow file, Roadmap Flow Check, and a Jira or Azure DevOps CSV — used to be three separate panels at the bottom of the Share tab, which is the tab for sending work out. They are one Import button beside Add item, because importing is how you create items in bulk.
• The brand kit is on Share, under Brand the export, directly beneath the preset. The preset decides what a deck contains; the brand kit decides what it looks like. They were two tabs apart.
• Where your workspace lives is set on Team, next to the shared-folder checklist, the folder path and the editing marker. Config shows you the current setting and links there.
• Account is three groups — Identity, Subscription, and This app. Joining a team with an invitation moved above the update checker, and your display name has one home instead of appearing on two tabs.
• Progress shows one change log, not two. "Change log" and "Team attribution" listed the same edits in different words on the same page. There is one list now; on Team it still shows who made each change, and it gained a filter so you can narrow it to a single item.
• The status breakdown on Check moved to the bottom of the tab, so the score and your issues come first.

New

• Before a review. The Progress tab now answers two questions that used to mean opening items one at a time: which items have open feedback, and which items at the handover gate are actually ready. Both link straight to the item.
• The today marker can be turned off. On the Timeline, Today is now a switch. It starts on; turn it off when the red line is not the point of the meeting.

Fixed

• The roadmap health score works on a real roadmap. Check scored by counting problems, so it reached 0 at twenty warnings and stayed there — any roadmap of a hundred items read "0 out of 100, Critical issues" permanently, whatever you fixed. It now scores by rate, so a roadmap is not penalised for being large, and the header tells you what the score is out of. An empty roadmap is no longer graded at all.
• The Jira and Azure DevOps import no longer under-reports what it will do. The button read "Import 5 items" however large your file was, then imported all of them. It now names the real number, and anything over 25 asks you to confirm.
• Deleting a milestone, saved view, workstream or team asks first, and says what is at stake — how many items a snapshot holds, or how much work points at the team you are removing.
• Exports say when they fail. A failed export used to reset the button and say nothing at all. It now explains what happened — a file held open by OneDrive, no workspace, a full disk — and when an export works, a Show in folder link appears under the button you pressed.
• A circular dependency names the items in the loop and opens one that is actually in it, instead of an item picked at random.
• System pop-up boxes are gone. Deleting a status, clearing the brand kit and deleting a review comment each opened a Windows dialog. They ask inside the panel now. Those pop-ups were also the cause of the typing problem fixed earlier in this release.
• Long roadmaps stay fast. The Check tab re-examined every item before it could filter a list it already had; Config re-counted every item on every keystroke; the Share tab rebuilt its entire Markdown export on every render. None of that happens now. Long lists page instead of rendering everything at once, and the most serious issues come first.
• A 300-item roadmap warns you before it exports 150 slides, and offers to export down to initiatives instead.

Easier to use

• Everything is easier to read. Text that was pale grey — counter labels, export descriptions, the backup note — failed accessibility standards, in places by a wide margin. It is darker throughout.
• Keyboard focus is visible everywhere, as a clear blue outline. Roadmap cards can now be opened with the keyboard at all — Tab to one and press Enter.
• The app respects your reduced-motion setting. With animations turned off in Windows, panels appear instantly and the timeline jumps rather than glides.
• You can search your workstreams and teams once either list passes eight entries, and the small controls in the status list are a proper size.
• The sidebar can no longer hide your account. On a short window the bottom of the icon strip could be pushed out of reach.

Version 0.1.13

The save fix, and the Stream card rebuilt. Two things that arrived the same day and shipped together.

• Saving works in a OneDrive or SharePoint folder. If your workspace lived in a synced folder, saving could fail with a permission error and keep failing. The sync client holds the roadmap file open to upload it, and Roadmap Flow could not replace a file another program is holding — and because the app saves a moment after every edit, it was competing with the sync client constantly. It now waits for the file to be released and retries, and if the file stays busy it writes into it directly. Nothing you typed was ever lost; what broke was new edits reaching the file.

• A save that does fail explains itself. Instead of an internal error with a temporary file path in it, you get a sentence: what is holding the file, that your work is safe, and what to do about it. A full disk and a read-only folder are reported separately, because they need different fixes.

• Roadmap items are one line each when there is room. An item showing one line of title used to take three rows and the full width of the window, so a forty-item roadmap was mostly empty space. On a wide screen each item is now a single row — around a third of the previous height. Items in Timeline and Board columns are unchanged; there is no room to lay them out as a row.

• A nested roadmap reads as one list. The rows sit inside a single panel with a thin line between them, and the row under your pointer lights up so you can see what you are about to click, instead of forty separate white boxes stacked down the screen.

• You can tell an initiative from an epic from a feature at a glance. Every item carries a coloured level badge in the Azure DevOps colours you already know, and in Stream view the indentation is backed by coloured rails. The level used to be a tiny grey word above the card that was easy to miss.

• No more stray lines beside the items. In the nested view, dependency connector lines were drawn from the right edge of one full-width item to the left edge of another, which sent them looping off the side of the screen. They are hidden there now, the same as in Timeline, and each item still shows its dependency count as a badge.

Version 0.1.12

The timeline release. Reported from real use, the timeline had four faults that compounded into one — you could not tell where you were. It is rebuilt around a single scrolling surface.

• The period header and the workstream names stay put while you scroll. The months and quarters used to scroll away, so a few workstreams down there was nothing left on screen telling you which part of the year you were looking at. Both are now pinned, so scrolling in either direction keeps its bearings.

• The timeline scrolls as one. The header row and each workstream row used to scroll sideways independently, so what lined up in one row did not line up in the next.

• Zoom in and out. Switch between Weeks, Months and Quarters — each option shows how many columns it would produce — and use − and + to make columns wider or narrower. Fit sizes the whole roadmap to the window in one click, and says so when a roadmap is too long to fit at a readable width. Whatever you were looking at stays on screen through the change: scrolled to July in Months, you land on Q3 in Quarters. The timeline also opens fitted rather than always opening in Months.

• See where today falls. A red line runs down the timeline at today's date, marked Today in the period header, with a Today button that brings it back into view. It is placed accurately inside its column — mid-September sits most of the way through Q3, not at the start of it.

• Full screen. A Full screen button gives the timeline and its controls the whole window, roughly doubling how many workstreams and quarters you see at once. Escape returns you to the canvas.

• An empty stretch of timeline explains itself. Scrolling into a gap used to leave you on a blank screen. It now says how many items are to the left and right, which period the nearest one starts in, and offers a Take me there button. A timeline with nothing at all to show says whether the cause is missing periods or the filters you have set.

• Timeline items sit side by side, instead of being stacked onto separate rows even when their dates did not overlap.

• Zooming out to initiatives shows something. If your dates live on the features and the initiative above them has none of its own, Showing: Initiatives used to leave you with an empty calendar. An initiative without dates now spans the period its items actually occupy. Because that span is worked out rather than chosen by you, it is marked — a ~ and a dotted underline, with a note explaining where it came from. Your CSV, Markdown and JSON exports are unaffected: those only ever contain dates you set yourself.

• Two card densities. A Comfortable / Dense control sits beside the filters. Dense is the default and fits far more roadmap on screen; Comfortable gives cards room to read when you are presenting. Cards also now fit narrow timeline columns instead of spilling past their own border, and an item that starts and finishes in the same period shows that period once.

• Choosing what an item depends on is a search. Type to narrow it, and each result shows the reference, the title and the workstream — the same picker the parent field uses. It no longer arrives with an item already selected, so Add dependency cannot create a link you never chose.

Version 0.1.11

• Saving works again when an item is In Development. If any item used the In Development status, or a status you created yourself, Roadmap Flow refused to save your workspace and reported an unsupported value. Your work stayed on screen but never reached disk. Every status now saves normally.

• Statuses you create keep the colour you picked on roadmap cards and in exports, instead of turning grey.

• Sign in with your Microsoft or Google work account. Signing in is optional — Roadmap Flow works exactly as before without it — and it happens in your normal browser, so you never type a password into the app.

• Your subscription follows you. Sign in on a second computer, or a replacement machine, and your Pro or Team plan is there.

• Manage your whole company from one place (Team). A console opens from Team → Manage company: your plan and seats, People, Teams, Seats and billing, Administrators, Invitations, an Audit log, and Company settings. One person can be on many teams while using only one licensed seat.

• Invite people individually instead of sharing one code. Per-person links expire, can be revoked, and can set someone's role and teams before they join. Join a company from the app with Account → Join a company.

• A company administration section was added to this guide — 16 pages covering the console end to end.

Version 0.1.8

• Upgrading to Pro works again. Starting a Pro subscription from the Account tab opens Stripe Checkout as intended instead of failing with a validation error; you enter your email on the secure Stripe page.

• Team billing portal opens again. "Manage billing" on a Team subscription opens the Stripe billing portal for your organization instead of failing.

• Feedback reaches the dev team. Notes sent from "Tell the dev team" now land in the developer inbox. If your network blocks the feedback service, the "Open email draft" fallback now opens your email app with the note prefilled.

• Calmer "check for updates" card. When Roadmap Flow cannot reach the update server — usually a corporate firewall — the Account card explains the app is working normally and points you to the Microsoft Store, instead of showing an alarming error.

Version 0.1.7

• Brand kit now uses your colors and logos correctly. The Pro brand kit takes a primary plus two secondary colors — they paint the accent bar and the neutral summary cards in every export, instead of the old hardcoded Roadmap Flow blue and green. You can now upload two logos: a square logo for the cover and a wide wordmark for slide headers, each scaled to fit without being stretched. Status colors stay fixed so the roadmap stays readable.

• Roadmap Flow Check — the browser companion. A free Chrome and Edge extension that captures planning content from the page you are reading — selected text, the visible page, pasted notes, or a CSV — checks how roadmap-ready it is with a local 0–100 score, and exports a .roadmapflow-check.json package or CSV. Nothing it reads leaves your machine. See Roadmap Flow Check and the playbook Capturing planning notes with Roadmap Flow Check. Works on every plan.

• Import checked packages with full control. Share has a dedicated "Import a checked companion package" card for .roadmapflow-check.json files. Imports start with nothing selected; you choose the destination roadmap, workstream, and owner team, tick exactly the candidates you want, and append only those. Each imported item keeps its source link and capture context. A large import (over 25 candidates) asks for confirmation, and companion packages can no longer be mistaken for a Jira or Azure DevOps CSV.

• Azure DevOps backlog capture. Roadmap Flow Check recognises a visible Azure DevOps backlog table, so feature titles, states, work-item types, value areas, and tags come through as reviewable candidates instead of navigation text.

• One consistent app logo everywhere. The Roadmap Flow mark in the app, the Windows taskbar and title bar, and the Microsoft Store tile now all use the same approved brand artwork on a clean transparent background, replacing an earlier incorrect version and the dark box behind the taskbar icon.

• Microsoft Store badge opens the Store listing. The Download button on roadmap-flow.com now opens the Microsoft Store web listing instead of starting an unsigned direct download. The Store is the distribution channel.

Version 0.1.3

• App updates are visible in Account. Account now shows which version you are running, checks the latest published Roadmap Flow version, and opens the Microsoft Store or download page when an update is available. The desktop Help menu uses the same release metadata.

• Tell the dev team from inside Roadmap Flow. Use the canvas Feedback button or the Account tab card to report a bug, request a feature, or contact the dev team. You can leave an email for a reply, attach one screenshot, and choose whether to include basic app diagnostics. If a corporate network blocks the feedback endpoint, the dialog opens a prefilled email fallback so your note still has a way out.

• Plan labels and export titles cleaned up. Free, Pro, and Team labels now use consistent colors across Account and the plan switcher: gray, blue, and purple. Pro users now see a clearer Upgrade hint instead of a confusing View Team label. Change and progress report exports use plain title separators so generated PDF and PowerPoint titles no longer show stray encoding symbols.

• "In Development" status added. A new built-in status — indigo, between Discovery and Done — is now available in every workspace. Existing workspaces receive it automatically on next load without needing to click Restore defaults.

• Timeline Weeks view. The Timeline tab now has a Weeks mode alongside Months and Quarters. Each column shows the week number and the Monday–Sunday date range. The Priority columns (Now / Next / Later) have been removed from Timeline — use the Board view for a horizon grouping instead.

• Workstream multi-select filter. The Workstream filter is now a checkbox dropdown — select one workstream, several, or all. Stream, Board, and Timeline views all respect the selection simultaneously.

• Timeline workstream filter bug fixed. Selecting a workstream filter now hides other workstream rows in Timeline view, matching the behaviour of Stream and Board views.

• Share tab restructured. Export buttons (PowerPoint, PDF, PNG, SVG) are now the first thing in the Share tab. The preset customization section is collapsed by default and opens on demand. Import is collapsed behind an "Import a roadmap" toggle. Workspace backup is a small text link at the bottom rather than a full section. Markdown preview collapses behind a toggle. CSV appears before Markdown. Preset section checkboxes now reflect the currently selected preset's sections instead of a stale all-enabled default.

• Config UX improvements.
  • Workstream Description and Outcome fields now have persistent labels so you can always tell them apart, even after filling them in.
  • Status list has up/down arrows for reordering. The order controls what appears first in status pickers, the filter dropdown, and the canvas legend.
  • "Restore defaults" moved below the status list with a plain-language description of what it does.
  • Brand Kit "Clear all" now requires a confirmation before removing all branding fields.

• Team member management (Team plan). Team owners can generate and share join codes from the new Team tab in the sidebar. Teammates redeem the code in Account → Join a Team. The admin portal now includes an Organizations panel covering member lists, join codes, and admin actions.

• Progress tab redesigned.
  • Static info card removed — the header no longer occupies permanent space with an explanation the user reads once.
  • A context label below the time selector shows the active window and total change count ("This week · 14 changes") so tiles and log are always anchored.
  • Summary tiles now show a visible chevron arrow at rest when clickable — no longer requires hover to discover the drill-down.
  • "Events" tile renamed to "Total changes".
  • Milestones moved above Export — it is the most time-sensitive action (save before a review) and was previously buried at the bottom.
  • "Change history" (Team) renamed to "Team attribution" to distinguish it clearly from the automatic "Change log" section above it.
  • Change log rows now use a left-edge severity stripe (red / amber / blue / gray) instead of a prominent uppercase text badge.
  • Category label in each row is now plain text — it no longer uses a bordered chip that looked interactive.
  • Timestamp in each row shows only relative time ("2h ago"); the absolute time appears on hover via tooltip.
  • Export section moved after Milestones so it does not interrupt the data-reading flow.
  • Pro and Team badge colors normalized to blue (Pro) and purple (Team) across section titles.

• Items tab redesigned.
  • All filters (workstream, status, horizon, and the new type filter) are now in one collapsible panel — the toolbar only has Sort and Group, which are display controls, not filters.
  • The filter badge count reflects only filters inside the panel, so it is never misleadingly incremented by a toolbar control.
  • Priority text badge removed from item cards — the left-edge accent stripe already signals priority; the badge was redundant.
  • Status badge text increased from 8 px to 10 px for legibility.
  • Indicators (Decision, Blocked, Votes, link provider) are now labelled — no longer icon-only chips that require prior knowledge to interpret.
  • External link chip shows the provider name (Jira, Figma, ADO) instead of a generic count.
  • Item count shown inline in the search bar (7/38) — the separate count bar has been removed.
  • "New" button renamed to "Add item" for clarity.
  • Group headers are now sticky and slightly larger so they do not get lost while scrolling a long grouped list.

• Jira / Azure DevOps import playbook. The Field Guide now includes a step-by-step playbook explaining how to configure your Jira or Azure DevOps export before importing — including the exact column names that map automatically and how status values are translated.

• Checkout activates automatically. After paying in Stripe and returning to the app, Pro or Team activates without any manual step. The dialog watches for confirmation and closes on its own.

• Pro checkout simplified. The upgrade flow is now: pick a billing period, then Stripe opens. Stripe collects your email during checkout — the extra in-app step that asked for it first has been removed.

• Applied saved view stays highlighted. A green Active badge persists on the view row after you click Apply. Making any manual canvas change clears the badge so you always know when you have drifted from the saved state.

• Plan comparison includes Team. The Plan & features section in Account now shows Free, Pro, and Team side by side. Pro users see the Team upgrade path directly from the same screen.

• Team features. Change history with CSV and Markdown export, review comments on items, portfolio dashboard, company workspace mode, Jira / Azure DevOps CSV import, and team member management with join codes. All require the Team plan.

• Pro–Team discovery. A dismissible card nudges active Pro users who manage more than one roadmap toward Team. Locked Team feature cards now show concrete benefit points instead of a single-line description.

• Clarity improvements. Locked feature cards no longer show a non-functional ghost button. "Offline" plan status reads plainly. Display name (Pro / Team) appears in Account. Copy simplified across Account, Milestones, Saved views, Change history, Review comments, Portfolio, and Jira import.

Version 0.1.2

• Statuses are now fully customizable. Every status — including the nine built-in ones — can be renamed, deleted, or reordered from the Config tab. Create new ones with a custom color. Deleting a status that is in use prompts you to reassign items first, so nothing ends up in limbo. A Restore defaults button brings back any built-in you deleted.

• Progress reads like a change log. Events are grouped by day with collapsible day headers — the most recent day opens automatically. Markdown export is free; PDF and PowerPoint progress reports are Pro.

• Milestones, change reports, and saved views (Pro). Save a named roadmap snapshot before a review, then compare it to the current roadmap later and export the differences as Markdown, PDF, or PowerPoint. Save and reapply canvas layouts and filter combinations in one click.

• Branded exports (Pro). Set a company name, logo, primary color, footer text, and a confidentiality label in Config. Stakeholder exports pick up the brand automatically.

• Plan visibility throughout the app. A plan indicator in the sidebar nav shows your current plan at a glance. The Account tab now includes a Plan & features section so you can see exactly what each tier includes without leaving the app. Pro section badges appear in Progress and Share so Free users know what a plan upgrade unlocks before they bump into the lock.

• Upgrade flow improved. Clicking Upgrade to Pro now shows a billing-period selector first — Annual (€90/year) or Monthly (€9/month) — before any payment details are collected. A Payment Link fallback handles corporate networks that block the billing proxy.

• Share tab reorganized and Export presets extended. The Share tab is now in five clear sections. Engineering and Internal built-in presets are distinct audiences. Pro users can save custom presets.

• Config tab tightened. Workstream rows now collapse to a single line; expand to edit. Statuses appear as a unified editable list.

Version 0.1.1

• Field Guide. Roadmap Flow has a built-in user manual — this guide — reachable from the Guide tab in the app and published on the website.
• Progress. An automatic change log records what moves on the roadmap, with Session, Today, This week, This month, and All time windows, summary tiles, and a collapsible day-grouped feed.
• Milestones and change reports. Save a roadmap snapshot and compare the roadmap to it later, then export the differences as a change report (Pro).
• Saved views. Save and reapply a layout, detail level, and filter combination in one click (Pro).
• Stakeholder exports. PowerPoint, PDF, one-page executive PDF, PNG package, and Figma-ready SVG frames, plus Markdown and CSV.
• Export presets and brand kit. Built-in presets for common audiences, with custom presets and branded exports on Pro.

How releases are recorded

For now this page is written by hand, kept in step with the product's release notes. A later update may generate release entries automatically; until then, treat this page as the manual's own changelog.