Changelog

All notable changes to this project are documented here, newest first. Format follows Keep a Changelog; the project does not tag semver releases yet — entries are grouped by deploy date (the product deploys continuously from master).

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created_date: 2026-01-15 last_modified_date: 2026-08-19 last_modified_summary: Admin URL feedback, resident learning save confirmation, production launch hardening.

Unreleased

Changed

• Workflow feedback for launch. Portal layout shows URL-driven success/error toasts (e.g. missing account, chore created). Activity category filters and staff integration board show empty states with a clear reset. Transfer request list links back to open requests when a status tab is empty.
• Staff admin URL feedback. Layout-wide toasts after placements, check-ins, incidents, and spot changes — pathname-scoped so ?created=true means the right message on the right page. Resident learning page confirms saved evidence and offers empty states with next steps.
• Fleet AI provider for all surfaces. Staff chat and form assist now use Groq → OpenRouter (OpenAI-compatible API). Anthropic removed. Same keys as other OrangeCat apps on the box.
• Resident portal i18n (expenses, profile, transfer, preferences). 181 new dictionary keys; buildExpenseLabels, buildProfileLabels, buildTransferLabels, buildPreferencesLabels and related helpers in lib/i18n/portal-surfaces.ts. Remaining portal pages and dashboard cards no longer read PORTAL_LABELS for resident copy.
• Public positioning now matches the expanded product. The public narrative no longer treats the software as only a placement or housing tool. It is framed through four operational pillars: Stability, Capability, Participation and Guidance.
• Infrastructure SSOT. Production is Postgres on Hetzner (aoz_wohnen on bitbaum). Docs, .env.example and src/lib/db.ts describe that host. A leftover laptop .env pointing at Neon is not the database. i18n dictionaries stay on the resident portal; staff UI stays German.
• Resident portal chrome. Header keeps brand, a compact language select, and an account dropdown (Profil, Einstellungen, Hilfe, Abmelden). Destinations moved into a collapsible left sidebar on desktop and the same accordion in the mobile Mehr sheet. Wohnung and Mitbewohner pages are gone from the menu — they had no profiles behind the names; old bookmarks redirect to Übersicht.
• AOZ and WG are different surfaces of the same product. On AOZ/AOZH the portal pins Übersicht, Melden, Regeln, Hilfe — not chores/expenses/votes. Login opens on the code first; email stays the other door. Matching opens in compact Top-3 mode.
• Staff roles are no longer one ADMIN blob. Leitung (DB name ADMIN), Betreuung, Sozialarbeit and Jobcoach each have a permission set. Nav, invites, export/import and the algorithm page follow it. Existing JWTs keep working.
• Complete languages are offered before a native speaker vouches. Arabic, Farsi, Tigrinya, Ukrainian, Russian and Turkish appear in the picker when the dictionary is finished. Help, report and rules chrome are translated; the signed Hausordnung body stays German.
• The org rule catalog now IS the signed AOZ Hausordnung. The in-app AOZ tier of the rule book was rewritten against the official two-page Hausordnung every resident signs on paper (Stand Januar 2026). Materially corrected rules: visiting hours are 08:00–22:00 with no overnight guests (previously "with permission"), pets are not permitted (previously "with permission"), quiet hours now include the midday rest 12:00–13:00 and Sundays/holidays. Amended rules bump their version, so every resident is asked to re-acknowledge exactly the wording that changed — nobody stays bound to text they never saw.
• Real contact channels replace invented ones. The portal help page and every "contact us" fallback now carry the channels from the signed document — Bewirtschaftung 044 415 67 31 / bewirtschaftung@aoz.ch (office hours 09:00–11:00, 14:00–16:00) and the out-of-hours emergency number 044 415 63 30 — sourced from a single new config (src/lib/config/organization.ts) instead of numbers hardcoded in labels.

Added

• Public roadmap and changelog routes. Blog already existed; roadmap and changelog are now first-class public pages too, so product direction and shipped changes are readable from the site itself.
• Integration research framework. docs/INTEGRATION-RESEARCH-FRAMEWORK.md defines the broader scientific basis beyond housing alone: stability, capability, participation and guidance.
• New blog post on the four-pillar model. The public blog now explains why the product expanded beyond pure housing operations.
• New AOZ rules covering the previously missing Hausordnung sections: keys and entrance doors, unattended cooking, waste & recycling (Züri-Säcke, ERZ), daily airing, care of property & repairs, staff access & appointments, reachability & absence.
• "Sanktionen und Konsequenzen" section on the portal rule book — the enforcement ladder (warning → termination) is shown with the rules it enforces.
• Catalog guard test pinning the Hausordnung coverage and the non-negotiable rules (src/lib/config/__tests__/house-rules.test.ts).
• This changelog, the roadmap and the engineering blog.
• Learning records on the resident profile — language tests, courses, informal learning, qualifications. Residents can add their own; Sozialarbeit and Jobcoach see a queue (/learning) and missing Deutsch tests.
• Room-level matching. Placement scores the Zimmer, not only the Wohnung average, and the fast-place action uses that bed.
• Short intake as the default: sleep, noise, directional cleanliness, smoking, languages, mobility first; the rest behind "Weitere Angaben".
• Gebäudecode on housing units — enough to group a Standort without a Building CRUD.
• Pilot evidence on the staff dashboard: baseline vs now for the mission KPIs.
• Care team on the resident file and in the portal: Wohnen/Betreuung, Sozialarbeit, Jobcoach — one named person per seat.
• Care workspace on the resident file: appointments (Zurich wall-clock) and catalog-driven work attributes per domain. Adding a field is a line in CARE_ATTRIBUTE_CATALOG, not a migration. Residents see team + upcoming appointments.
• Learning achievements in the portal: completed tests, courses, qualifications, volunteering and community-service hours, plus language activity offers next to existing Aktivitäten.

2026-08-13 — Real deployment + full-product demo

• The live instance switched to REAL mode: one actual shared flat (Witikonerstrasse 458) under the wg brand, with the demo doors kept alongside via prefix-scoped daily reset (#37–#39, #43–#44).
• Reports route to the desk that can act on them: maintenance reports land on the maintenance board, conflicts on the incident ladder — residents still see one merged list (#43).
• One account, two roles: email+password credentials live on Account, optionally linked to both a staff and a resident identity (#40, #42).
• Admin megamenu navigation (#41).

2026-07 — Governance, expenses, identity

• Two-tier house rules (org floor + house rules), house decisions with quorum/threshold snapshots, and the conflict-resolution ladder (#19, #21, #24).
• Brand becomes config: aoz / aozh / wg presets, AOZ palette preserved byte-for-byte; flat/technical design language re-skin (#22, #30, #38).
• Shared expenses (integer Rappen, full-history balances, debt simplification), resident self-profiles with photos, apartment profiles (#35, #36).
• AI-assisted intake: fill the resident form from prose (#29, #31).
• CI: green PRs merge and deploy themselves; merge queue drains oldest-first (#18, #20, #25, #28).

2026-06 — Self-hosting and hardening

• Migrated off Vercel/Neon/Supabase to a self-hosted Hetzner box (2026-06-12); deploy on push to master (#15).
• Security, accessibility, DB performance and i18n hardening across four audit sweeps; env validation, /api/health, Sentry tagging, JWT schema validation.
• E2E gate made real and green (#14, #26).

2026-05-28 — Initial build

• Compatibility-based placement: config-driven resident/housing factors, directional cleanliness model, weighted scoring with blocking conflicts.
• Staff admin (residents, housing, placements, incidents, matching, maintenance) and resident portal (preferences, roommates, chores, reports, transfers).
• Jest + Playwright suites, mobile-first design system, German (Swiss) UI.