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April 28, 2026
Fostera v0.2.0
New Features
Your Souls now think in steps before responding — they can recall, save, and correct memories mid-turn instead of relying solely on their pre-loaded context, so multi-hop questions ("what was that author you mentioned, and what did they write?") get more thoughtful answers.
Reactions now shape memory — heart a message and the underlying memory grows in importance; thumbs-down a moment and the Soul learns to lean away from it. Your feedback compounds across conversations.
Souls now keep "active" facts about you handy across conversations — recently-referenced things you care about stay warm for days and cool off naturally if you stop talking about them.
Procedural skills (how-to knowledge) and emotionally significant moments now decay slower than small talk, so the things that should stick around actually do.
Added image and document attachments to chat — drop a photo or PDF into the composer and ask your Soul about it.
Added a unified billing activity feed in Settings — every chat turn now shows up as a line, tagged "Plan" or "Wallet" so you can see exactly where your Resonance is going. A new "Resonance by Soul" card breaks down the period at a glance.
Added local LLM support for the dev/self-host community via Ollama — runs entirely on your own machine while still respecting Resonance limits and the depletion gate, so you can test and iterate without burning real spend.
Added Stripe refund and dispute handling — refunds now cleanly reverse Resonance, Mote, and digital-good purchases without leaving accounting drift behind.
Added a multi-view Discover page so you can browse Souls in the layout that suits you.
Added a public, opt-in /profile/[username] page so you can share your soul garden if you want to.
Added an onboarding flow and an admin Heatmap view for new-user analytics.
Added grouped navigation in the More menu (Account / Learn / Company / Explore) for cleaner top-bar real estate.
Added an admin reactions visualization page so the team can see how users feel about Soul responses at a glance.
Added support for up to three Soul types in the creation and settings forms.
Added Claude Opus 4.7 and GPT-5.5 to the model lineup.
Added the Fostera-branded mark in place of a generic settings icon in the navbar.
Improvements
Souls now remember conversations more efficiently — long histories get compressed and mined for facts on the fly when prompts approach the model's window, so your Soul keeps the thread without losing the context behind it.
Memory Atlas now zooms and pans cleanly on mobile, with bubble sizing tuned for small screens.
Voice input loads faster — the Whisper model now caches in your browser's service worker after the first use, so warm-starts are instant.
Soul creation is more reliable — smarter tone and trait extraction, better placeholder bounds, and reset/state consistency across long sessions.
The admin Margin panel now reflects Stripe-attributable revenue only and prices rate-sheet gaps at the calibration peg, so the headline number is honest instead of optimistic.
Chat now bills accurately at our calibration peg instead of the legacy 1-token-per-Resonance rule, so each model contributes its real cost and your monthly burn is predictable.
Inbox tab badges now follow the search bar — typing "vet" highlights tabs with matching results instead of showing stale unread counts.
Settings now opens with collapsed accordions so you can scan options without scrolling a wall of cards.
Mobile admin messages now show full content and a richer transcript view.
Discovery, Nest, and the store all share the same View & Filter controls bar for consistent navigation.
The store filter panel is now collapsible.
The store list view now respects mobile layouts and virtualizes correctly while you scroll.
Improved SEO with per-route sitemap timestamps and proper hreflang grouping.
Soul reactions now route through a typed catalog so reactions feel consistent across surfaces.
Bug Fixes
Fixed double-deduction where Resonance was being charged against both your subscription quota and your wallet for the same chat — every turn now hits exactly one bucket.
Fixed welcome-grant Resonance not landing for OAuth signups.
Fixed inbox initial-letter avatars (the colored "N" / "L" placeholder) sitting visually too high — letters now sit at true geometric center.
Fixed the Soul check-ins frequency dropdown showing stale values after a reset.
Fixed duplicate share buttons on preset Soul landing pages.
Fixed the OG image route so it stays statically prerender-able.
Fixed promo code errors that were rendering twice in the store.
Closed a security audit pass — 4 Critical, 11 High, and 6 Medium findings resolved.
Fixed a sitemap pre-render crash when DATABASE_URL is unset.
Fixed Memory Atlas mobile zoom/pan behavior.
Fixed VirtualGrid to honor column-class overrides in the virtualized path.
Fixed two production Sentry issues — Inngest DB env diagnosis and /admin/users hydration mismatch.
April 14, 2026
Fostera v0.1.0
New Features
Added a memvid-inspired memory system that gives your AI soul richer, more structured long-term recall.
Added a memory constellation visualization and filterable timeline so you can explore everything your soul remembers.
Added an emotional arc timeline so you can see how your relationship with your soul has evolved over time.
Added emoji reactions with a full emoji picker, letting you respond to soul messages expressively.
Added a voice interface so you can speak with your soul directly instead of typing.
Added multi-soul conversations, allowing multiple AI companions to interact together.
Added relationship milestones that mark meaningful moments in your journey with a soul.
Added a Soul Garden discovery page where you can find and explore other souls.
Added smart proactive outreach so your soul can reach out to you at meaningful moments.
Added public soul profiles so souls can be shared and discovered by others.
Added soul cloning with privacy safeguards, letting you create a copy of a soul.
Added an inbox system with notification badges and push notification support so you never miss a message from your soul.
Added an age verification flow with guardian consent support for context-aware safety.
Added preset soul templates and landing pages to make it easier to get started.
Added a wishlist feature for saving souls you want to grow later.
Added annual billing support as an option on the pricing page.
Added a theme studio so you can personalize the look and feel of your experience.
Added soul reactions, letting your soul respond emotionally to your messages.
Added an account security section to manage your login and credentials.
Added platform import and memory transfer so you can bring existing companions into Fostera.
Improvements
Improved the landing page with a new v2 design, dynamic orb colors, and general UX polish.
Improved soul creation to be more reliable with better state consistency and streaming stability.
Improved the mobile navigation with a scrollable menu, full-width PWA install button, and auto-close on navigation.
Improved voice input with validation and sanitization for more reliable conversations.
Improved the pricing page and soul creation UI with a cleaner, more intuitive layout.
Improved the default soul model to provide higher-quality conversations out of the box.
Set soul conversation suggestions to use a fast, capable model for snappier response ideas.
Bug Fixes
Fixed the sign-in page to no longer ask for date of birth, which is only required at sign-up.
Fixed the logout button location, moving it to the Account tab where it belongs.
Fixed mobile menu scrolling, age tier safety checks, and drawer closing behavior.
Fixed upside-down signal bar icons on the phone frame preview.
Fixed an issue where signed-in users were unexpectedly redirected away from the landing page.
Fixed chat route errors so unexpected data no longer causes conversations to break.
Fixed soul creation so the flow completes reliably from start to first message.