What’s New in This Release: • Location-Aware Festival Panchangam: Enhanced Udaya Tithi and festival calculations based on your exact global location (India, North America, and worldwide). • Multi-Year Calendar Engine: Seamless calculation of all upcoming Hindu festivals, Ekadashis, Vrats, and Muhurtas with 100% astronomical accuracy. • Official Festival Video & Flyer Darshan: Instant access to daily video blessings, sacred flyers, and social media reels directly within the app. • Regional Traditions: Special regional festival updates, including Ashadhi/Devshayani Ekadashi and Sawan Monday Vrat guides. • Performance & UI Improvements: Faster homepage carousel loading and smoother navigation across Panchang, Sadhana, and Gurukul. Thank you for choosing VedicVibe as your spiritual companion!

New Reading Features: Added detailed descriptions for the new Vrat, Stotra, and Chalisa interactive scripture readers. Yoga & Surya Namaskar: Documented the all-new physical sadhana trackers, including step-by-step postural visual guidance and SVG alignments for Surya Namaskar. Settings Overhaul: Formally highlighted the complete restructuring of the settings data backup export flow to resolve saving issues on mobile. Audio Enhancements: Highlighted the offline audio caching enhancements in the background music engine to eliminate cellular data usage during loops.

VedicVibe 2.0: The Immersive Devotional Update This major release focuses on sacred precision, deeper devotional content, and maximum stability for your spiritual journey. Absolute Panchang Precision: - Adhik Masa 2026 Ready: Our Vedic math engine has been calibrated for the upcoming 2026 Leap Month (Adhik Jyeshtha). Major festivals like Vat Savitri are now calculated with 100% astronomical accuracy. - Conflict Resolution: Improved logic to ensure sacred registry dates take priority, providing you with the most reliable spiritual calendar. 100+ New Kids Stories and Divine Journey: - Gurukul Expansion: Added over 100 new high-quality stories for kids, featuring stabilized visuals and immersive storytelling. - Enhanced Divine Journey: A premium visual overhaul of our festival portal, featuring sacred mandala textures and a smoother interface. Immersive Aarti and Bhajan Hub: - The Ultimate Aarti Book: A new, multi-deity digital flip-book experience. Swipe through sacred Aartis with premium typography and artwork. - Bhajan Hero Mural: A stunning new visual experience for the Bhajan section, featuring sacred murals and optimized audio playback. Advanced Japa and Sadhana: - Parallel Japa Logging: More robust tracking for your Japa malas and Likhita sadhana, integrated with the Sangha hub for collective merit. - Seamless Persistence: Enhanced local storage to ensure your spiritual streaks and japa counts are never lost. Performance and Stability: - Core Native Optimization: Fixed critical regressions in iOS and Android builds to ensure the smoothest scrolling and navigation to date. - Visual Fidelity: Optimized WebP asset delivery for faster loading of sacred artwork and festival flyers. - Unified Full-Bleed Design: A cleaner interface across all story cards for a more modern, premium feel. VedicVibe 2.0 is now live. May your journey be blessed!

• Enhanced Divine Branding: All spiritual flyers now feature standardized "Day, Date Month" formats with high-fidelity Serif typography and our signature saffron aesthetic—perfect for sharing and keepsakes. • Guest Stability: Improved local-first persistence for guest users, ensuring a smooth and uninterrupted experience while exploring the digital sanctuary. • Astronomical Accuracy: Upgraded Panchang engine with Adhik Masa (leap month) intelligence and corrected Ekadashi naming for precise spiritual scheduling. • Performance Polish: Significant optimizations for faster load times and improved reliability across iOS, Android, and Web. May this update bring more peace and clarity to your daily practice. Namaste.

Control your bhajans from the lock screen — play, pause, and see the deity name and artwork in iOS Control Center and the Android media panel. Save your favourite bhajans from YouTube or Spotify to your personal My Bhajan Library, synced to the cloud. The Celestial view in Panchang now shows retrograde (Vakri ℞) and dignity (Uccha/Neecha) indicators for all nine Grahas. Explore 60+ festivals in the new Utsav Gallery — switch between Mosaic, Reel, and Timeline views, filter by category, and plan any ritual in one tap. The Darshan home card is now a swipeable carousel with a breathing deity portrait and auto-advancing Darbar info. Sangha gets a premium gallery, monthly schedule calendar, hardened RSVP system, and polished modals throughout. Bug fixes: Expo Go audio crash, panchang stale-date navigation, Plan Puja routing, and Darshan touch-blocking resolved. Jai Shri Krishna

VedicVibe 2.0 — Sacred Flyers & Festival Carousel Share your devotion with the world. Festival Flyers — Every festival now has a beautiful shareable flyer with the real Tithi, Nakshatra, and Maasa computed for that exact date. Personalize with your name and share with family. Darshan Carousel — The home screen now greets you with an auto-scrolling carousel of upcoming festival flyers alongside today's Deity Darshan. Tap any card to dive into the full festival. Past Festival Pages — Visited a festival after it passed? A clear banner shows the date, and the full page — flyer, Panchang, Vidhi, and Prep — stays accessible for learning and next year's planning. Deity Hub Flyer — Generate and share a daily Darshan flyer straight from the Deity page. Bug fixes and performance improvements.