Release notes
What has actually shipped.
Ridgeback is being built in the open, which means writing down what landed and when, and saying plainly where a thing exists on the server and not yet in the app you would use it from.
Nothing on this page describes a feature that does not exist. Where a note covers something half-built, the unbuilt half is named in the same place, in a dashed box, rather than left out.
Updates
All release notes
Documents stay in the conversation, and retries keep your work
Bobby can use permitted document excerpts in follow-ups and trip planning. Retries preserve the original message, failed sends leave new drafts alone, and undo respects later edits.
Notifications reach your phone, and Locations gets a real map
Sign in and you'll be asked once to allow notifications. Say yes, and reminders and message alerts now reach iPhone and Android. Locations on Android and the desktop also trades its still picture for a map you can drag and pinch.
Next up keeps up when Bobby changes your calendar
Next up on Home and the Bobby tab now notices a calendar change from Bobby or a chat card right away instead of waiting out its five-minute hold, and an iPhone list's live updates stop cleanly when you leave it.
Icons for your lists, recipe books, and Next up at Home
Lists get an icon you can tap to change, recipe books hold your recipes with their ingredients and steps, and Home shows what's coming up the same way the Bobby tab does.
Next up looks past the week
Next up and Up next used to go quiet once the next thing was more than a week away. They now count things instead of counting days.
Groundwork for passkeys, not switched on yet
This build carries the plumbing for signing in with a passkey. It is not switched on, so nothing about signing in changes yet.
A dropped connection no longer signs you out
A weak signal, a slow server, or a restart on our end used to end your session early. Only a rejected token does that now.
Up next on the calendar, and asking where someone is
Calendar opens with the week's next few events instead of just today, and asking Bobby where someone is no longer requires sharing your own location first.
Mark all as read, and find someone on the map with a tap
Alerts clears in one tap, the tracker goes straight to whoever you tap, the Bobby hub looks ahead instead of just today, and its Ask opens its own thread.
The tracker is now called Locations
The Bobby tab's tracker card is now Locations, and it has a link to start sharing your own location.
Share where you are with a home you choose
Location sharing is on, home by home, and only if you turn it on. The Bobby tab has a map of who in the home is sharing, and Bobby can say where someone is.
The Photos card counts on its own, and All homes has its calendar back
The Bobby tab's Photos card counts what this phone has backed up before you open Photos, and All homes reads its calendar again.
Invite someone by email
Type an address on Members and Ridgeback sends the invitation for you. The desktop app also caught up with the phones.
What Bobby remembers, and who may see it
See and correct what Bobby has been told about each person, and choose, by name, who may see a protected person’s records.
What Bobby can do, and receipts with their pictures
A Tools page that says which of Bobby’s tools are built, receipts that show the photograph they came from, and empty lists you can reach on Android.
Android opens Home again
A fix for Android phones that closed the app on reaching Home, and one problem we are still chasing.
Replies, subthreads and a GIF button
Reply to a message, start a subthread from one, edit or delete what you wrote, and pick a GIF without sending it straight away.
Ready for the App Store
Photos opens the album from everywhere, the app asks for an invitation without leaving anyone stuck, and the privacy policy is final.
An album of your home, and GIFs that just play
Photos becomes an album of every picture your home has kept, GIFs arrive as GIFs, trips take things by the day, and Bobby no longer drops a reply when he corrects himself.
Bobby keeps his word, and pushes that say something
Answers that finish after you leave, notifications with the message in them, photos and GIFs that work, and a Bobby who never claims a thing he did not do.
One navigator, notifications and trips
Choose your homes once for every tab, plan a trip with Bobby, and see who added each thing to a list.
Reminders, weather and places nearby
Keep a repeating reminder, dictate a question, or ask Bobby what is nearby.
Read photos with Gemma
Review a photo on your device, then send the reading to your household’s assistant.
My Personal Space and clearer settings
Your private space, household settings, event attendees and more reliable chat replies.
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Your name lives on your account
Set your name once, under Account, and every household uses it unless that household has its own answer, field by field. Nobody is called by the name of their house any more.
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The lists have their things in them
The grocery list showed a count and none of the items. It shows them now, and you can add one, tick it off, un-tick it and clear the list. An empty list is reachable when its household is the one in view.
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Picking more than one household at once
The household menu was one house or an apology. It is a set of tick boxes now, and the thread list reads every house you tick, each row naming the one it came from.
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Being forgotten reaches every house you have been in
Two separate acts, never one button. A forget clears your name, what you told Bobby about yourself, the words of your messages and your date of birth, in every household you have ever been in. Safe mode stays on.
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The apps count how they are used
A random number made on the device and the name of the thing that happened. No login, no account, and nothing anybody typed. It is a ninth row on the transparency page as of tonight.
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The desktop app is macOS and Linux
Windows is dropped rather than left half-declared. Nothing about the three builds has changed; what changed is that three is the number by decision.
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What you agreed to, and anything that has changed
Both documents used to be shown once, at sign-up. Settings now shows anything new in full, and what you have already agreed to and when. The terms draft is a page on this site.
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Every field on your details is optional
The apps ask for a name in three parts, a gender and an address, and save with none of them answered. The family name is optional too, and gender is a box rather than a list.
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A person has a name in parts, a gender and an address
The person record grows the fields a sign-up form actually asks for. Why they sit on the household’s own row rather than on a person shared between houses.
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Registration takes an invitation code
You cannot make an account by finding the form. Two kinds of key are accepted, every refusal says the same thing, and the apps finally send one.
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Both documents, in full, when you make an account
Sign-up shows the terms and the privacy statement in full, and records which version of each you were shown. There is no checkbox anywhere in the flow.
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Three desktop builds you can download
Version 0.1.0 for macOS and Linux, on the home page. Sizes and checksums are read off the files, and every signing claim is asked of the artifact rather than inferred.
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There is now a way to open a thread
A household with no threads used to sit in its empty state permanently. Opening one asks who can see it and whether Bobby is in it, and both are answered at the open.
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Bring your own bucket, bring your own model
A household points Ridgeback at object storage it pays for and a model it pays for. Both are the default arrangement rather than an advanced tab, and neither screen ever shows a stored key.
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Safe mode belongs to the person, and a household can say who may ask Bobby for what
Safe mode moves off the group and onto the person, so no combination of memberships can lift it. Behind it, sixty-one tools with two gates each.
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A phone backs itself up, and the household keeps the bytes
Photographs go from a phone into storage the household controls. Finalising is the commit point, originals are stored byte for byte, and the two delete verbs share no code path.
Ridgeback is not open for sign-ups. The waitlist is the way to hear when it is, and an account needs an invitation code either way.