New in AusBUG 3.1: • Browse photo-led ride Collections with clearer folders, route summaries and elevation previews. • Explore ride overviews with maps, photos and illustrated points of interest. • See correctly ordered itinerary stops with distances along the ride. • Improved traffic-stress display, saved-route handling and AusBUG route links. • Fixed missing illustrated icons and distances in ride itineraries.

New in AusBUG 3.0: • Suggest a ride: choose your distance and riding profile, then explore loop options that favour bike paths and lower-stress roads. • See official road closures where available, tap for details, and switch the layer on or off. • Explore more Trail Discovery animals and rotating trail rosters. • Follow clearer road and trail labels, traffic-stress colours and navigation arrows. • Easily mute spoken guidance while riding, with improved turn instructions along multi-waypoint routes. • Improved return-home routing, saved routes and map reliability. • Updated help and map legends.

Explore Trail Discovery on the Capital City Trail, with animal groups and account-backed collections. This update also improves navigation traffic-stress feedback, community reports, comments and map markers, plus more precise discovery check-ins and refreshed wildlife audio.

Fixed an issue where some addresses couldn’t be selected as the destination in the route planner, particularly on smaller screens. Also includes minor stability and performance improvements.

What’s New in 2.8.8 - Added a new Quickest cycling profile. - Routes now use clear LTS colours throughout planning and navigation, including LTS 1.5 (user contributed quiet road corridors) - Added route signs for shared paths, separated paths, bike lanes, footpaths and facility changes. - Added route and trail labels - Improved navigation styling, route snapping and saved-route geometry. - Refined rail-trail, veloway, gravel and footpath classifications. - Improved map contrast and readability in dark mode. - Refreshed cycling events, community POIs and national ferry locations. - Removed outdated crash-corridor warnings and improved disruption matching. - General performance, stability and navigation fixes.

- Nationwide Low Stress routing. - Stress-score breakdowns for every cycling profile. - LTS route colours for the Low Stress profile. - Stress-score help/tutorial content. - Faster cached switching between route profiles. - Low Stress set as the default profile. - Improved planner restoration and background stability. - National secure bicycle-parking information. - Redesigned Macaulay–Dynon flood-status sheet and five-day rider reports. - Improved Trail Atlas offline downloads: manual download, progress, cancel and retry. - Updated Trail Atlas and route elevation-profile styling.

A big AusBUG update with improvements across events, route planning, navigation and safety: • Discover more rides with refreshed Audax events, official cycling events, recurring group rides, clubs and BUG groups. • New crash-risk mapping across Victoria, Queensland, South Australia and the ACT, including known crash corridors and intersection hotspots. • Planned routes now warn you when they pass through crash-risk areas, closures, detours, road hazards or special events. • Closed and damaged trail sections are shown with fine red hashes instead of disappearing from the route. • Expanded emergency information across Australia, including official state warnings and satellite fire detections in areas without equivalent coverage. • Lock your planned route while exploring the map, minimise the planner and search for your next stop. • Navigation now starts with a wider view and respects your chosen zoom level. • Continuous high-accuracy GPS improves navigation, recorded distances and GPX tracks. Battery Saver remains available when needed. • Faster offline-map preparation, improved dark mode, cleaner maps and a restored location marker. • Sharrows are now displayed separately from road shoulders. • Fixed planner freezes when changing route profiles, plus numerous performance and reliability improvements.

• Much faster app start — routes now load in a fraction of the time • Seamless navigation — starting a ride now transforms the main map instead of switching screens • Route sharing fixed — shared routes reliably show the full route line • News tab: Rail Trails Australia feed restored, article previews fixed • Bike paths under construction now shown on the map Happy riding!

• Updated app name to AusBUG with focus expanded support to all of AUS • Added improved detour and disruption map support • Better handling for shared route links, including universal links • Added one-tap saving for routes opened from shared links • Added road-type breakdowns for shared routes • Improved cycling news refresh reliability so articles are less likely to disappear after a failed feed update • Improved Big Build and detour handling so duplicate/superseded disruption markers are hidden • Improved detour line rendering, including multiple closure and detour segments • Disabled outdated SA disruption feed while a replacement source is prepared • General wording, privacy, settings, and integration copy updates for AusBUG

- Detour Studio detours — published closure/detour maps now render on the map (dashed lines) with a "Map previews" thumbnail section in the hazard detail sheet - My Commutes — save a planner route as your regular commute; dedicated "My Commutes" section in the routes sheet - Saved-route geometry — saved planner routes now persist their full line + surface/road/bike-infra detail and re-render on load without re-routing - Route sharing — share a route via the server API (Bug fixes and improvements) - Reddit discussion feed fix - Flood monitoring tweaks

- Autocomplete destination search — searching e.g. "Victoria Park" now shows all matches with suburbs to pick from, in the planner and the top search bar - Draggable turn-point handles — control-point handles auto-appear at the route's major turns; drag to reshape, plus a guaranteed handle on straight routes - Community route ETAs — crowd-sourced time estimates - Prominent "Re-center" pill when you pan away during turn-by-turn - Search bar redesign + lighter outline icons

- Search bar (to make it easier for new users and quicker to use also) - Home address feature for quicker nav home - VIC ferries shown on the Mao - Local knowledge tips (new hazard type) - Help & tutorials button on the main page to make things easier for new users

- FAQ: dark-mode backgrounds + fix state cycling org links - Add Garmin data privacy policy section - Flood marker: BoM coastal advisory + VicEmergency, 3-state - Add Wahoo route management - MTB layer redesign, planner UX polish, routing tweaks

- Further planner fixes

- Bug fixes (Planner not opening)

- minor bug fixes

- Offline Maps inc. low battery usage maps - Various bug fixes

- Route planner overhaul (new styling & UI improvements) - Route control points that can be added and dragged to alter the routes path - Preview mode that works as 3d satellite fly-by so you can preview your route before you ride - New communities section that encourages discovery of local BUGS and cycling clubs (calendar now lives here) - Main map toggle UI improvements that seperate hazard toggles and clean up the UI - Train station POI improvements that now show badges for stations with bike parking (VIC, NSW only) - Train station POI improvements that show bus replacements *in sheet and red icon from map view - Music will now no longer turn off when opening app - Various other bug fixes and UI improvements

- Early stages of a Bicycle Network partnership with a view to grow the community and align with members - Hazard reporting simplified - Updated progress pages to fit in with expanded bike paths / trails & also made in nation-wide - Track accomplished trails with a new overlay that shows which trails you have ridden - Bug fixed where library routes wouldn't load properly on devices - Bug fixed which would enter sleep mode during navigation - General UI improvements - Tutorials & FAQ's updated

- Various UI improvements including big improvements to night mode styling - Updated routes section to be more consistent and to include BUG routes - Re-instated ability to download GPX straight from bike paths and rail trails (some still unavailable but most work now) - Speed improvements and other minor bug fixes - Community event markers for special events like triathlon road closures etc.

- POIs along bike paths and rail trails - POI map display - UI updates including train timetables now in POIs - Added more POIs - Upload POI's to the app and OSM - Bug fix where trying to navigate a route without traffic lights would crash the app - Various other bug fixes - Replaced Graphhopper with BRouter for faster and more accurate routing

Major Updates - Bike paths & rail trails for all of Australia — expanded from Victoria-only to nationwide coverage   - Planner POIs — show optional POIs along planned routes (Australia wide) - Route Library improvements — LZ-String decompression, POI filtering, search functionality Performance - Vector tile rendering — switched route tiles to server-side vector tiles with CDN caching - Tile + performance optimizations — general iOS rendering improvements - Audio session fix — resolved audio playback issue Route Planner - Planner elevation styling — improved elevation profile appearance - Unpaved dash overlay — clearer black dashes for gravel sections Navigation - Voice guidance improvements — better audio turn-by-turn Map & UX - Viewport-based rendering — only render what's visible - Direct detail sheet — tap route goes straight to detail - Larger POI markers with bigger tap targets Sharing & Links - Route share links — create and share route URLs - Deep links — custom URL scheme for opening routes in-app - Share sheet fixes Discussion - Reddit markdown links — tappable links in discussion posts and comments Data - Australia-wide POIs for all states Version - Bumped to v2.0.0

- Route GPX enhancement - Traffic light, water points and bathroom POI enhancements when generating a route or in navigation - Navigation enhancements - General UI and bug fixes

New Features: - Route Library — Browse curated bike paths and rail trails in the Routes section - Search & Plan Route toggle — Quick location search with zoom-to-location and pin drop - "Start from another location" — Route from somewhere else with destination pre-filled - Waypoint reorder arrows — Reorder waypoints in the route planner - Route profile switching — Route recalculates when toggling bike profiles - Time comparison — See time differences between route alternatives Improvements: - Updated bike lane overlay — New v2 tile colours: orange (dedicated), green (shared-use), cyan (on-road lanes), purple (popular routes) - Faster route loading — Binary cache for quicker startup - Better route rendering — Eliminated gap lines in route overview Bug Fixes: - Various stability improvements

Route Sharing - Share routes via link - recipients can view without logging in - Deep link support - shared links open directly in the app - Export shared routes to GPX - Garmin Connect integration for shared routes Nav Builder - Clearer UI and GPX lines / colours - Improved interface Map Improvements - Bike infrastructure layer - reduced opacity (0.6) for better map visibility - Bushfire polygons from emergency VIC API Bug Fixes - Fixed Big Build disruptions API New in this build - App update prompt - notifies users when a newer version is available