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Wahab Waypoint — release notes

Wahab Waypoint was first sketched as a single page on July 30, 2026 and grew into a product line of three browser tools. Pre-launch builds are numbered 0.x; the public launch is 1.0; point releases track shipped changes since launch. There is no backend, so every "release" is a set of static files going live — nothing else to deploy.

Latest: v1.3 3 browser tools 0 backends 17 days in the making

Release history at a glance

The short version. Each release is described in full below.

Version Date What it was
v1.3 Aug 16, 2026 Docs landing nav alignment — sidebar now meets the sticky header
v1.2 Aug 16, 2026 HashiCorp-style docs layout — sidebar nav, on-this-page TOC, pager
v1.1 Aug 16, 2026 System architecture docs, release notes, diagram legibility pass
v1.0 Aug 8, 2026 Launch — Reviewer, cross-tool handoffs, docs, narrated tour, SEO
v0.5 Aug 3, 2026 Domain Context Learner, Waypoint hub, hex-mesh logo
v0.4 Aug 2, 2026 Security panel, compliance dimension, code quality pass
v0.3 Aug 1, 2026 10 architectures, Gemini Q&A, PDF ADR, theme toggle
v0.2 Jul 31, 2026 Scoring engine, architecture library, first UI
v0.1 Jul 30, 2026 ate.html — the first page

v1.3 — Docs nav alignment Current

Aug 16, 2026

A follow-up to the layout restructure: the docs landing page's welcome banner moved into the content column so the sidebar now runs edge-to-edge with the sticky header.

Fixed

  • Docs landing navigation — the sidebar no longer sits below the hero; it starts right at the top, aligned with the header, matching every other docs page.

v1.2 — Docs layout restructure Layout

Aug 16, 2026

The documentation moved to a HashiCorp-style developer-docs layout. No product logic changed.

Changed

  • Sidebar navigation — every docs page now has a persistent left sidebar grouping the pages into Overview, Guides, Examples, and References, with a version badge and quick links to the product line, about page, GitHub, and LinkedIn.
  • On this page — long pages gain a scrollspy table of contents on the right that highlights the section you are reading.
  • Breadcrumbs and pager — crumb trails were standardized (Docs / Guides / …), and every page now ends with Previous / Next navigation instead of the old per-page links.
  • Compact page headers — inner pages swapped the hero banner for a tight header, while the docs home keeps its hero.

v1.1 — Documentation release Docs

Aug 16, 2026

No product logic changed — this build is about being able to explain the system and how it has changed.

New

  • System architecture documentationarchitecture.html walks through the high-level and detailed topology, tech stack, shared state and data model, the domain-profile weight mappings, the scoring engine, cross-tool handoffs, integrations, and the security model.
  • This release notes page — a running changelog covering everything from the first commit to today.

Improved

  • Diagram legibility pass — both topology diagrams were re-worked so they render at near-full scale (the figures scroll instead of shrinking to the text column) with larger fonts, brighter secondary text, thicker arrows and borders, and a layout that no longer overflows its boxes.

v1.0 — Launch edition Launch

Aug 8, 2026

The product line went public as Wahab Waypoint. This is the release the site, the docs, and the upcoming rollout campaign describe.

New

  • Reviewer — the third tool. Score an existing or planned architecture against the same workload requirements Architect uses, with per-criterion coverage (strong / partial / gap), a fit verdict, and the shared scoring engine.
  • Cross-tool handoffs — Architect's recommendation now deep-links into Reviewer (?scenario=<id>&arch=<id>) and Reviewer links back, so the three tools behave as one journey.
  • Domain profile pre-tuning — the shared domain-context.js maps a saved profile into weight deltas that pre-tune Architect's sliders and feed Reviewer's verdict, so both tools read the same context.
  • Documentation site — an overview, three how-to guides, and two worked examples.
  • Narrated tour — a real narrated video with a screencast UI walkthrough, replacing the earlier speech-synthesis prototype.
  • About page — founder bio and photo.
  • SEO — structured data, Open Graph and Twitter cards, canonical URLs, robots.txt, and sitemap.xml.
  • Clean URLshistory.replaceState hides the .html suffix in the address bar, plus a styled 404 fallback.

Improved

  • Standardized hero titles across the line and removed redundant badges.
  • Made the product journey explicit on every page — learn, then evaluate, then review.
  • Site-wide design polish, and the personal landing page was redesigned as an editorial page distinct from the product line.

Fixed

  • Architecture diagrams collapsing to scale(0).

v0.5 — Domain Context Learner & the hub

Aug 3, 2026

The single tool became a product line with a home page and a second product.

New

  • Wahab Waypoint landing page — the hub that frames the whole line.
  • Domain Context Learner — captures the business domain (12 domains), priority qualities (8 qualities, pick up to 4), and data shape (volume, real-time, integration, sensitivity), then writes the shared domain profile to localStorage.
  • Logo redesign — the hex-mesh monogram, with new favicons and LinkedIn banner assets.

Improved

  • Shared favicon set across the line; decluttered app headers (removed brand badge stickers, tightened the hero).

v0.4 — Quality pass & security

Aug 2, 2026

A cleanup and hardening day: the tool got more opinionated about security and the code got easier to maintain.

New

  • Security considerations — IT and code security notes in generated ADRs, plus a security panel in the recommendation UI.
  • Compliance dimension — the eighth scoring criterion, with scenarios rebalanced around it.
  • Restored the why-not reasoning lines in the comparison table.

Improved

  • Removed dead code and deduplicated explorer logic; formatted with Prettier.
  • Reorganized the repo — tool assets moved into a favicons/ directory, .DS_Store untracked.
  • Reorganized the explorer layout into a two-column top grid with a full-width security panel.

v0.3 — Architect feature sprint

Aug 1, 2026

The busiest single day in the project's history — the tool went from a working demo to a polished product.

New

  • 10 reference architectures and the first scenario sets (later expanded to the 18 workloads of today).
  • ADR export to PDF via jsPDF.
  • Optional Gemini AI Q&A with a local knowledge-base fallback — the key stays in the visitor's browser.
  • Architecture Q&A assistant panel.
  • Light/dark theme toggle with a persisted preference.
  • Navigation, keyboard access, and toast notifications.

Improved

  • Responsive layout across devices.
  • Capability GIF and article background images.

Fixed

  • Proper multi-size favicon set.

v0.2 — Engine foundations

Jul 31, 2026

The core became real: a weighted scoring engine, a library of reference architectures, and the first working evaluation flow.

New

  • engine.js — the weighted scoring routine both tools still share today.
  • architectures.js — the reference architecture library.
  • decision-engine.js, data.js, app.js, and styles.css — the decision logic, scenario data, UI, and styling.
  • The first end-to-end flow: pick a workload, see a recommendation.

v0.1 — The seed

Jul 30, 2026

Where it all started.

New

  • ate.html — the first page of what would become the Architect tool.

Before Waypoint

The repository itself is older than the product. It began in May 2020 as a personal landing page for wahab2.com, hosted static experiments (including an R flexdashboard example in 2022), and was the hosting ground the architecture explorer grew out of in July 2026. Today the site is split in two: the personal landing page and the Wahab Waypoint product line.

🛤️

What's next: the pre-launch feedback circle and the eight-post LinkedIn rollout are in motion. Anything that ships to the site after that will be added to these notes.