A small update: the clock and screen titles are easier to read on the dark screens. • Fixed: on the dark screens (the main menu, games, Review, Opening Explorer, Online, and castle drills), the clock, battery and signal icons, screen titles, and toolbar buttons could blend into the background. They now stay light and easy to read. • Sheets and dialogs opened from those screens now match the dark look.

Fixes for puzzles, games, iCloud sync, and KIF files. • Shared KIF files now include the starting position of handicap games, minishogi, and games started from an imported position, so they replay correctly in other shogi apps and when opened again in ShinShogi. KIF files from other apps that start from a board diagram now open at that position too. • Fixed: in puzzles, drills, and online games, a move that could either promote or not froze the board instead of asking whether to promote. • Fixed: iCloud sync could undo your review progress, sending puzzles you had just solved straight back into the review queue. • Fixed: iCloud sync could bring back a Dan Ladder promotion run that a loss had ended. • Fixed: taking back the computer's first move when you played Gote left the game stuck. • Fixed: resigning while the computer was thinking resigned for the computer instead, and counted the game as your win. • Fixed: KIF files saved by many Windows shogi programs wouldn't import.

Faster analysis, a sharper opponent, and clearer coaching. • Game Analysis is several times faster, and its blunder calls are more reliable in complicated positions. • The computer opponent thinks more efficiently and sees further ahead in the same thinking time, so the higher levels play stronger. • Endless practice generates fresh mate puzzles faster. • New in Game Analysis: a move that let your opponent force mate is now marked "Allowed mate". Tap it to solve that mate as a puzzle. • General performance improvements for smoother play. • Fixed: the coach could warn that a move would lose thousands of points when it actually allowed or missed a forced mate. It now says so plainly. • Fixed: puzzles from Game Analysis could show the board from the wrong side when it was Gote's mate to find.

Earn your rank. ShinShogi now tracks how well you are playing, not just how much. • The Dan Ladder — climb from 10-kyu (10級) to 1-dan (初段). Every rung is a handicap game against one of the named rivals, and two wins in a row earn you the rank. A loss ends the run and nothing more: a rank you have earned is yours to keep. • Meet the cast — the six rivals now have faces, drawn from a real shogi piece. You will find them on the roster, in the coach, reacting to the result of your game — which now also remembers your win/loss record against each of them. • Your progress follows you — streak, solved puzzles, review queue, and Dan Ladder rank now sync across your devices via iCloud. • A bigger board on iPad — in portrait the board now takes the whole screen, with your captured pieces resting on a pair of komadai stands either side of it. • Fixed: on iPhone in landscape, the board could shrink to a fraction of its proper size.

• Endless Tactics — an unlimited stream of freshly generated mate puzzles (Mate in 1, 3, 5), each one verified solvable. Under Learn ▸ Tactics. • Daily reminders — an optional nudge to keep your solving streak alive. • Home-screen widget — your streak and today's puzzle at a glance. • Game Center — leaderboards for puzzles solved and best streak, plus achievements. • Fixed an issue that could interrupt multi-move puzzles and castle drills, and various stability improvements.

Bug fixes and stability improvements.