Release notes

What's new in Zavora.

• Release 1.6.0 — Public Discovery, Admin Tools & Navigation

  Released:Apr 13, 2026

  This release opens Zavora to the world. Recipes marked as public are now discoverable on the Zavora website, letting anyone explore what the community is cooking without needing an account. Alongside this, expanded admin tooling gives the team stronger visibility into app health and user activity. For logged-in users, a collapsible desktop sidebar makes navigating the app more focused and spacious.

  Together, these updates strengthen Zavora's connection between its app and public presence, while giving the team the tools to manage growth with confidence.

  What's new

  Public recipes on the Zavora website

  • Recipes set to public are now surfaced on the Zavora marketing website, making them accessible to anyone — no account required.
  • Non-users can browse and discover recipes from the Zavora community directly from the public site, expanding reach beyond the app.
  • Each public recipe page displays full details with clear attribution to the creator, maintaining trust and ownership.
  • Existing privacy controls remain fully intact — only recipes explicitly marked as public are shown externally.
  • Strengthens the connection between the Zavora app and website as a unified discovery experience.

  Early Users Program — free access for the first users

  • Launched an Early Users Program to recognize and reward the first users who joined Zavora from the beginning.
  • Eligible users receive free access to Zavora as a thank you for their trust, feedback, and support during the early stages of the product.
  • Early user status is automatically applied to qualifying accounts — no action required.
  • This program reflects Zavora's commitment to the community that helped shape the product into what it is today.

  Expanded admin tools — app & user health

  • Introduced new admin tooling to monitor overall app health, including key usage metrics and system signals at a glance.
  • Added user health views to help the team identify inactive accounts, flag unusual activity, and better understand engagement patterns.
  • Expanded the admin panel with additional controls to manage users more effectively as the platform scales.

  Collapsible sidebar on desktop

  • Users can now collapse the navigation sidebar on desktop, maximizing working space when deep in recipes, planning, or content tasks.
  • Collapsed state persists across sessions so the layout stays exactly how each user prefers it.
  • Smooth transition between expanded and collapsed states for a polished, unobtrusive experience.
  • Collapsed sidebar surfaces icon-only navigation with tooltips, keeping all destinations reachable at a glance.

  Improvements UX & performance refinements

  • Improved layout responsiveness across discovery, admin, and navigation components.
  • Refined spacing and visual consistency on public-facing recipe pages for a cleaner reading experience.
  • Optimized rendering performance across the admin panel and public website recipe views.
  • Enhanced navigation state handling as the sidebar adapts between expanded and collapsed modes.

  Fixes & stability

  • Resolved edge cases in public recipe routing to ensure private or unpublished recipes are never exposed externally.
  • Fixed minor UI inconsistencies in the admin panel across different screen sizes.
  • Addressed small navigation state bugs when toggling the sidebar with active sub-routes.
  • Improved overall stability across public, admin, and navigation flows.

  Platform direction

  With 1.6.0, Zavora takes its first step toward becoming a publicly discoverable recipe platform. By bridging the app and the marketing website, the community's public recipes become a real growth channel — drawing in new users through authentic content. The expanded admin tooling ensures the team can manage this growth with confidence.

  Future updates will continue building on this foundation with deeper personalization, community features, and broader content distribution.

• Release 1.5.0 — Precision Discovery & Content Platform

  Released:Apr 2, 2026

  This release introduces major improvements across discovery, planning, and content within Zavora. With Search & Filtering v2, users can now find recipes with greater precision and speed. The meal planning system has been significantly expanded to support full weekly workflows, from organizing meals to generating shopping lists. At the same time, Zavora’s blog evolves into a structured content platform designed to support long-term growth through SEO and content distribution.

  Together, these updates strengthen Zavora’s core workflow — from discovering recipes, to planning an entire week of meals, to executing with confidence.

  What’s new

  Search & Filtering v2 — Precision discovery

  • Introduced a smarter and faster filtering system across all table-based features.
  • Improved query handling and result accuracy for more relevant search outcomes.
  • Added advanced filters, including cooking time, difficulty, and more.
  • Enhanced performance for faster filtering and smoother interactions.
  • Reduced friction when working with large datasets and complex queries.

  Meal planning — Weekly workflow & execution

  • Introduced a structured weekly meal planning system supporting up to 7 days and 3 meals per day (21 meals total).
  • Designed guided flows to help users more easily fill and organize their weekly plans.
  • Added a complete breakdown of the week’s cooking to improve clarity and preparation.
  • Enabled users to save meal plans as reusable templates, with support for renaming and deletion.
  • Introduced advanced shopping list generation, combining all meals and ingredients into a single, organized list for execution.
  • Strengthened the connection between recipes, planning, and shopping workflows.

  Improvements

  UX & interface refinements

  • Improved usability across search, filtering, meal planning, and blog experiences.
  • Refined layouts, spacing, and responsiveness across key pages.
  • Enhanced navigation clarity to support faster access to core features.

  Performance & reliability

  • Optimized performance across filtering, planning workflows, and content rendering.
  • Reduced latency in search queries and large dataset interactions.
  • Improved overall stability across core user flows.

  Security enhancements

  • Strengthened validation and handling across critical flows.
  • Improved safeguards for content management and routing behavior.

  Fixes & refinements

  • Addressed inconsistencies in filtering behavior and UI feedback.
  • Fixed edge cases in search queries and result rendering.
  • Resolved minor UI issues across planning, blog, and discovery pages.

  Platform direction

  This release establishes a stronger foundation for Zavora’s end-to-end workflow: discovery, planning, and execution. Users can now move from finding recipes to organizing a full week of meals and generating a complete shopping list in a seamless flow.

  Alongside this, Zavora’s content platform enables long-term growth through structured publishing and SEO, reinforcing its position as a system designed not just to store recipes, but to help users plan, act, and improve over time.

  Future updates will continue expanding smarter planning tools, deeper personalization, and tighter integration between recipes, workflows, and content.

• Release 1.4.0 — Content, Publishing & Platform Growth

  Released:Mar 24, 2026

  This release marks a major step forward in Zavora’s evolution. With the introduction of a full blog and publishing system, along with improvements to navigation and content workflows, Zavora begins expanding beyond a structured recipe tool into a platform that supports content, discovery, and growth.

  This update focuses on enabling content creation, improving how users navigate and discover information, and strengthening the overall product experience across both marketing and application layers.

  What’s new

  Blog & publishing system

  • Introduced a structured publishing system to support content creation and management within Zavora.
  • Added a markdown-based editor with real-time preview, allowing content to be written and reviewed with high fidelity before publishing.
  • Implemented draft and published states to support controlled content workflows.
  • Added preview routing for unpublished posts, enabling safe internal review before content goes live.
  • Introduced a dedicated blog layout with improved readability for published articles.

  Marketing & navigation improvements

  • Added Blog to the main navigation and footer to improve content discoverability.
  • Reorganized navigation by surfacing Contact as a primary item, making it easier for users to reach out.
  • Improved overall clarity and structure across marketing navigation.

  Improvements

  UX & layout polish

  • Improved blog page layouts across desktop and mobile for a cleaner reading experience.
  • Enhanced breadcrumb behavior on smaller screens to maintain spacing and usability.
  • Refined spacing, alignment, and typography across key marketing and blog pages.

  Content workflow refinements

  • Improved the editing experience with a more accurate live preview of markdown content.
  • Strengthened consistency in how structured content is rendered across pages.
  • Reduced friction in the internal content creation flow.

  Fixes & refinements

  • Fixed routing issues to ensure unpublished or missing blog posts correctly return a proper 404 state.
  • Resolved layout inconsistencies affecting blog and navigation components.
  • Addressed minor UI bugs and improved overall stability.

  Platform direction

  This release establishes the foundation for Zavora’s content layer. By introducing structured publishing capabilities and improving how users navigate and consume content, Zavora continues evolving into a more complete platform that connects organization, workflows, and information in a scalable way.

• Release 1.3.0 — UX Refinement, Filtering Consistency & Navigation Improvements

  Released:Mar 18, 2026

  After the product-readiness milestone in the previous release, this update focused on refining the everyday experience across Zavora. The work centered on improving filtering reliability, enhancing role-aware navigation, polishing UI interactions, and strengthening consistency across key product areas so the platform feels more predictable, cohesive, and ready to scale.

  What’s new

  Filtering system improvements

  • Fixed inconsistencies in role-based filtering, including full support for the "support" role across admin user views.
  • Refactored filter coercion logic to use a single source of truth for improved type safety and consistency.
  • Improved URL parameter handling to prevent silent mismatches and dropped values.
  • Standardized filtering behavior across notifications and admin tables for a more predictable experience.

  Navigation & role-aware UX

  • Enhanced the user navigation menu with clearer role-based visibility and improved structure.
  • Improved discoverability of key areas such as Metrics, Admin tools, and Support workflows.
  • Refined menu interactions and state handling for smoother navigation across the app.
  • Continued aligning navigation behavior across User, Admin, and Support roles.

  Help & search experience

  • Improved Help search behavior, including better handling of no-result states.
  • Refined messaging to guide users more clearly when content is not found.
  • Strengthened the structure of Help pages to support future scalability and expansion.

  UI consistency & component polish

  • Updated buttons, labels, and interaction patterns across multiple modules for a more cohesive experience.
  • Improved visual consistency in tables, filters, and action components.
  • Refined microcopy to better reflect user intent and reduce friction.
  • Fixed minor UI inconsistencies across layouts, spacing, and component alignment.

  Platform consistency & internal improvements

  • Centralized key constants (such as email references) to ensure consistency across the application.
  • Improved internal code structure for maintainability and easier extensibility.
  • Reduced edge-case bugs through tighter validation and safer defaults across flows.

• Release 1.2.0 — Roles, Support & Product Readiness

  Released:Feb 27, 2026

  After the initial beta and soft launch phases, this release focused on transforming Zavora into a structured, production-ready platform. The work centered on strengthening role verification and authorization, enabling a dedicated Support team workflow, and completing the transition to the official Zavora brand and domain so the product can operate confidently at real-world scale.

  What’s new

  Roles & authorization overhaul

  • Rebuilt the role verification system for stricter, consistent permission enforcement across the app.
  • Strengthened authorization guards on routes, actions, and sensitive operations.
  • Ensured role-scoped access so users only see features appropriate to their role.
  • Improved protection against unauthorized access to admin capabilities.

  Support role & tools

  • Introduced a dedicated Support role for customer assistance workflows.
  • Added specialized support tools to investigate accounts and resolve user issues efficiently.
  • Implemented role-aware navigation that surfaces support features only to authorized staff.
  • Established the foundation for a scalable support operation.

  Branding & domain rollout

  • Completed the transition to the official product name Zavora.
  • Migrated the platform to the production domain zavora.app.
  • Replaced temporary project identifiers for a consistent brand experience.
  • Positioned the app as a real product ready for worldwide availability.

  Security & operational readiness

  • Improved internal safeguards to reduce privilege misuse risks.
  • Strengthened system structure to support team growth and operational complexity.
  • Continued tightening reliability and predictability across protected flows.

• Release 1.1.0 — Discover, Launch, Memberships & Help Center

  Released:Dec 22, 2025

  This release marks Zavora’s first major step after the Friends & Family soft launch. It expands the app beyond a private recipe vault by introducing Discover (public sharing and browsing), launching memberships, and adding a complete Help Center so users can self-serve and contact support when needed. The goal of this phase is to start growing carefully while keeping the experience polished, predictable, and trustworthy.

  Launch focus

  • Launch Discover in a safe, intentional way (public vs private, clear attribution).
  • Introduce memberships with a polished upgrade and billing experience.
  • Ship a full Help Center (public guides + FAQ, auth-gated support form).
  • Continue improving notifications, reliability, and overall UX consistency.

  What’s new

  Discover: public recipe sharing & browsing

  • Added Discover mode for browsing and searching public recipes.
  • Introduced per-recipe visibility controls (private vs public).
  • Improved public recipe pages to clearly show who created each recipe.
  • Enabled saving/copying public recipes into your own collection while keeping private recipes protected.

  Memberships: plans, billing & account upgrades

  • Launched membership plans with a clear upgrade path and plan messaging.
  • Added a payment details flow and membership management entry points in Account Settings.
  • Improved membership UX so users understand what they get and how to update or cancel.

  Help Center: guides, FAQ & contact support

  • Added a public Help landing page with simple navigation and topic categories.
  • Added Guides (how-to articles) for step-by-step learning.
  • Added an FAQ section with fast answers grouped by theme.
  • Added an auth-gated Contact Support form for signed-in users.
  • Added in-app entry points to Help from navigation and key “stuck” moments.

  Account & profile improvements

  • Expanded required signup/profile fields to support better personalization over time.
  • Improved Account Settings feedback and clarity across common actions.

  Notifications: inbox refinements

  • Improved notification routing and filtering so read/unread behavior is more consistent.
  • Polished notification UX so updates feel less noisy and more useful.

  General UX polish & reliability

  • Improved consistency across dashboard flows (empty states, toasts, navigation clarity).
  • Continued tightening of edge-case handling and safer defaults across user-facing actions.
  • Ongoing component organization and maintainability improvements for long-term velocity.

  This release is about opening the door to growth while keeping quality high. With Discover, memberships, and a real Help Center in place, Zavora is ready to support more users without losing the stability and trust built during the soft launch.

• Release 1.0.0 – Soft Launch (Friends & Family)

  Released:Nov 15, 2025

  This release marks the first official launch of Zavora. The app is now available worldwide, but we’re keeping things quiet with a soft opening focused on friends and family. The goal of this phase is to test Zavora in real kitchens, gather honest feedback, and harden the product before public promotion.

  Launch focus

  • Make the app safe and reliable for real users.
  • Lock down data so everyone only sees and edits their own recipes.
  • Polish the account experience.
  • Ship the foundations of the notification system and admin tooling.

  What’s new

  Security, authentication & data protection

  • Enforced stricter authentication checks and session handling across the app.
  • Scoped all destructive actions (edit/delete) so users can only modify their own recipes.
  • Hardened deletion flows with safe error handling and clearer unauthorized states.
  • Refactored data and actions to use owner-scoped queries by default.
  • Introduced reusable auth helpers with typed returns and optional redirects for cleaner, safer code.

  Account & UX improvements

  • Improved error handling on account settings, with clearer toasts and feedback when something goes wrong.
  • Reorganized UI components into subfolders for better structure and long-term maintainability.
  • Fixed small login and navigation bugs discovered during internal testing.

  Notification system foundations

  • Added the first version of the notifications route and components.
  • Integrated notifications with the data layer so users can start receiving in-app updates.
  • Updated fetch logic for safer, more predictable handling.

  Roles & admin tools

  • Wired up role-based authentication with support for admin-only capabilities.
  • Enhanced navigation links to surface admin-only routes when appropriate, without cluttering the UI for regular users.

  This soft launch is all about learning from a small, trusted group. As we iterate with friends and family feedback, Zavora will move closer to a stable public release.

• Beta 1.1.0 – Recipes & Dashboard Foundations

  Released:Oct 29, 2025

  After the initial beta went live, this release focused on turning Zavora into something you can actually live with in the kitchen: real recipes, a protected dashboard, and a clearer sense of where the product is going.

  What’s new

  Recipe table & flows

  • Added full recipe listing with richer table data and improved row layout.
  • Implemented create and edit flows with validation, plus search and pagination for easier browsing.
  • Added mobile-friendly action buttons so core actions are always reachable on small screens.

  Recipe detail & cooking experience

  • Added view, edit, and delete actions from the detail page with proper redirects.
  • Enabled PDF download from the recipe viewer so you can print or share recipes easily.

  Dashboard & insights

  • Laid the groundwork for a proper dashboard with metric cards.
  • Added recipe metrics to cards, including a “most recurring category” chip for a quick glance at your habits.

  Branding, typography & SEO

  • Applied Inter as the app-wide font and refreshed logo, colors, and copy to better reflect Zavora’s identity.
  • Added Metadata API usage across the app to improve SEO and link previews.

  Accounts, security & reliability

  • Introduced authentication and protected /dashboard routes.
  • Improved error handling and accessibility in forms, with clearer feedback when something goes wrong.

  Polish & cleanup

  • Normalised button styles, adjusted labels (especially on mobile), and improved hover states for destructive actions.

• Beta 1.0.0 – Initial Release

  Released:Oct 23, 2025

  This first beta marked the start of a solo developer’s journey to turn a personal vision into a usable product that helps people manage their diet and cooking experience in a more intentional way.

  Beta 1.0.0 laid the foundation for what Zavora aims to become: a focused space where users can start organizing their recipes, planning what to cook, and experimenting with a more mindful approach to everyday meals—without the clutter and friction of traditional recipe platforms.