itching communities now works properly. Your profile card shows the name and photo you use on the community you are currently connected to, instead of carrying the previous one over. If a community does not recognise you, you are no longer stuck. You can pick another community you have already joined, and browsing a community you have not joined no longer signs you out. Deleting an account now shows you your twelve recovery words first, so you cannot lose access by accident. Linking a TikTok or Instagram account now always shows that platform's own permission screen before anything is connected, so you can see exactly what you are approving. Plus accessibility improvements for screen readers and keyboard navigation, and further hardening of how recovery information is handled.

Account protection You can now connect more than one sign-in account to your recovery, instead of relying on a single one. Connect as many as you like, and any one of them on its own is enough to restore your account and your recovery words if you lose your phone. GitHub has been added alongside the existing options. Connecting it shows you a short code to enter on GitHub, so it works without handing any secret to your community's node. Recovery reliability Disconnecting a sign-in account could previously stop you adding another one afterwards. That is fixed, and accounts already affected are repaired automatically the next time you connect. Recovery now tells you what it is waiting for at every step, rather than sitting silently, and will not leave you stuck part-way through a sign-in. Elsewhere Device pairing by QR code is more reliable, and the twelve-word screen no longer overflows on smaller phones. The community pricing guide opens correctly on screens with a notch, and you stay on the Account Protection page after connecting an account instead of being returned to the main settings list.

What's New in Version 1.2.1 Expanded Identity & Profile Avatars Expanded the built-in avatar collection to 24 options, introducing new organic and sci-fi emblems. Added visual scroll cues and streamlined avatar selection during onboarding. Automatic persistence for archetype quiz results to preserve profile state. Projects & Marketplace Upgrades Added pull-to-refresh and skeleton loading states across community project lists. Unified the Pricing Guide taxonomy with marketplace categories for consistent item discovery. Added full-card tap interactions and helpful instruction banners to the Pricing Guide. Added the new Mindset category with enhanced fallback labels. Social Nudges & Direct Messaging Added archetype social nudge cards with one-tap prefilled chat introductions. Enhanced direct messaging delivery reliability, signed sync reads, and local storage housekeeping. Pre-grouped actionable community deals directly in the native inbox for faster triage. Performance & Sync Engine Concurrent anchor node discovery for faster local mesh synchronization. Optimized member and connection lookups for smoother navigation across large community networks. Migrated app lock and security preferences to hardware-backed SecureStore. Interface & Accessibility Improvements Eliminated duplicate status bar and safe area insets across main tab screens. Comprehensive accessibility enhancements, including VoiceOver labels for photo carousels, category selectors, search radius sliders, and header navigation controls. Improved diagnostic reporting for Apple Sign-In and account recovery flows.

What's New in Version 1.2.0 (Since v1.1.92) Two-Layer Account Protection and Identity Recovery Multi-Provider Account Protection: Secure and restore your sovereign community identity seamlessly using Apple, Google, Facebook, or GitHub. Trusted Friend Keepers: Enrol trusted community members to help recover your account without centralized custody. Security PIN and Passphrase Backup: Set an independent recovery PIN and inspect or back up your 12-word cryptographic seed phrase. Real-Time Security Alerts: Receive push notifications for pending recovery attempts with instant stop-action controls. Seamless Multi-Device Pairing Instant QR Pairing: Pair your mobile account with desktop and laptop web browsers in seconds without entering seed phrases. Community Marketplace and Local Economy Community Beans Pricing Guide: Searchable benchmark guide for fair pricing of local goods, produce, and skills. Daily Pulse: Daily community inspiration prompts to encourage local barter, mutual aid, and trade. Activity Waterfall: Live community activity waterfall keeping you updated on local needs and offers. Working Style Archetypes and Synergy Community Archetype Quiz: Discover your collaborative working style and view synergy recommendations when teaming up with neighbours on local projects. Privacy, Usability, and Performance Granular Account Controls: Choose between local device data wipe and complete sovereign node purge. Enhanced Tablet and Screen Support: Full auto-rotation and landscape layout optimizations for tablets and larger screens. Sync and Database Optimizations: Faster offline-first state synchronization and encrypted peer-to-peer data handling.

Community Treasuries & Enterprise Accounts Sovereign nodes can now establish and manage community enterprise accounts (such as community flocks, tool sheds, and shared gardens). Operator Governance Controls Appointed operators can post recurring market offers, manage tenders, and handle credit limits on behalf of community enterprise accounts. Streamlined Trust Holds & Settlements Updated marketplace and chat interfaces with seamless escrow release controls for instant settlement upon completing trades. Commons Pool Surplus Sweeps Enterprise operators can sweep surplus trading balances directly into the shared community commons pool to fund local projects. Performance & Reliability Enhancements Improved credit line calculations, faster ledger sync, and optimized trust score evaluation across decentralized nodes. Enhanced Community Safety: Added single-tap user blocking and immediate feed content filtering. • Improved Moderation Tools: Tap to flag objectionable content directly from posts. • Blocklist Management: Manage and unblock accounts directly from Settings. • Performance & Stability: Enhanced offline sync resilience and general user interface improvements.

Resolved input lag and keystroke delays in chat screens, ensuring smooth typing even during active background database syncs. Fixed a composer layout issue where the text input area would fail to collapse back to its single-line height after sending a message. Implemented client-side message deduplication and server-side idempotence to prevent duplicate message bubbles on unstable connections. Optimized network data payload sizes and synchronization checks for faster loading times and reduced background battery usage.

We have simplified the onboarding and welcome experience to make joining your local community even easier. This update prioritizes the path for new members, adds helpful details on how our invite-only community functions, and streamlines account restoration for returning members setting up new devices.

Fixed an issue where opening the app via invite links did not automatically populate the invite code in the signup form. This ensures a smoother and more seamless onboarding experience when joining your local community node.

Chat Read-Receipt & Sync Improvements - Resolved a synchronization bug where performing a full sync or database rebuild would reset read cursors, causing historical messages to incorrectly display as unread. - Improved read-receipt tracking across devices to ensure accurate notifications. Interface & Usability Refinements - Fixed a scroll layout issue in the community member directory. - Fixed an input focus issue on the ledger transfer screen. - Restored fee-free options for peer-to-peer transfers. Security & Reliability Hardening - Gated server-side database migrations to primary authority nodes, preventing replica database divergence. - Relocated server connections and replication channels through secure, encrypted network tunnels. - Decommissioned open external ports to significantly reduce the network attack surface.

Chat Read-Receipt & Sync Improvements Resolved a synchronization bug where performing a full sync or database rebuild would reset read cursors, causing historical messages to incorrectly display as unread. Improved read-receipt tracking across devices to ensure accurate notifications. Interface & Usability Refinements Fixed a scroll layout issue in the community member directory. Fixed an input focus issue on the ledger transfer screen. Restored fee-free options for peer-to-peer transfers. Security & Reliability Hardening Gated server-side database migrations to primary authority nodes, preventing replica database divergence. Relocated server connections and replication channels through secure, encrypted network tunnels. Decommissioned open external ports to significantly reduce the network attack surface.

Brand Identity Update: Introduced the new green glowing electric bean logo across headers, app icons, and splash screens. Security Hardening: Implemented cryptographically signed ledger verification, added economic volume limits to prevent wash-trading, and hardened deep-link navigation trust on Android. Performance & Refinements: Replaced connection manager lookups with $O(1)$ lookups for faster navigation, cleared stale registry nodes, and standardized map views to light theme.

Consolidated chat threads for direct messages to keep your inbox organized and eliminate duplicate conversation rows. Enhanced transaction history showing descriptive ledger details, including member info and escrow states. Improved chat navigation to automatically focus on active deals when opening conversations. Highlighted conversation rows in the inbox with actionable deal status and deal count. Resolved layout shifting and keyboard jitter in the Review modal for a smoother writing experience. Fixed a crash in the My Deals section related to color rendering. Replaced currency emoji indicators with a cleaner, standardized system-wide display.

App Store "What's New" (Release Notes) Standardized 12-Word Backups: Simplified account management by standardizing backup and recovery exclusively on the industry-standard 12-word seed phrase. The custom, complex device-to-device transfer code features have been removed to reduce security confusion. App Lock & Biometrics: Enhanced local privacy with a new optional App Lock feature. You can now require Face ID, Touch ID, or device passcode authentication upon launching the app, viewing your recovery phrase, or performing account cleanups. Whatsapp-Style Communication bubbles: Redesigned the chat screen layout to use softer, theme-aware sage green message bubbles for outgoing chat messages and crisp white cards for incoming messages. Eye-Strain Reduction: Overhauled the Classic light theme to swap harsh violet accents for an organic warm-paper/cream background tone and slate-indigo accents. Resilient Account Recovery: Resolved an onboarding loop where app restarts would interrupt active guardian-recovery sequences. The app now automatically resumes polling the status of your recovery request upon launch. Polished Info Modals: Improved formatting and list alignment across all instructional helper modals to prevent line-wrapping overlap.

1. Contribution-First Marketplace To foster a healthy local economy, members are now encouraged to list at least one marketplace Offer before they can request new Needs or accept trade requests. Fulfilling existing community Needs remains open to all from day one. 2. Elder Vouching System High-trust Elder members can now vouch for other community members. Vouching helps lift newcomers' trading floors and adds verification badges to trusted profiles. 3. Elder Grants Administrators can now promote active, reputable members to the Elder tier, helping bootstrap and secure new local pools. 4. Dusk Map Theme Enjoy a sleek, new slate-blue dusk map visualization for finding and plotting community trades.

Renamed the third identity trust tier from Citizen to Steward. Updated the Elder tier symbol from a crown to a mountain across all interfaces. Added the ability to edit sent chat messages within a 5-minute window. Enabled tappable, inline hyperlinks for URLs sent in chat messages. Fixed a bug where the "Leave Review" inbox prompt remained visible after a review had already been submitted. Resolved an onboarding issue where a new member's avatar could fail to sync to the server immediately after redeeming an invite. Fixed a visual bug causing the Friends list to flicker on background synchronization cycles.

Community People screen now shows the correct total member count and introduces sort options — browse by Newest, Name, Friends First, Most Trusted, or Recently Active. Improved Android keyboard handling for smoother chat input. General performance improvements and bug fixes.

Trust Protocol Interface Updates: Aligned vocabulary with our community trust guidelines, replacing technical references to "escrow" with user-friendly "trust wallet" and "trust hold" designations in chat bubbles, transaction details, and action prompts. Iconography Adjustments: Refined navigation icons across platforms to ensure clear visual alignment. Global Layout Fixes: Implemented scale constraints for text and labels to prevent overlap issues on devices with custom OS-level accessibility font settings. Sync and Ledger Optimizations: Enhanced local SQLite database locking schedules to prevent write lock conflicts during background synchronization. Security Hardening: Hardened decentralized identity endpoints against replay attacks and credential spoofing vectors.

### What's New in Version 1.1.28 * **Instant Message Delivery (Fast-Sync)**: Added real-time targeted updates. Incoming messages now sync near-instantaneously on active threads, and the background synchronization debounce window has been tightened to 150ms. * **Smooth Keyboard Transitions**: Fully integrated smooth, frame-by-frame layout animations. The chat input bar now matches your system's soft keyboard movement perfectly and sits neatly above the bottom gesture navigation line. * **Enhanced E2E Decryption**: Resolved compatibility issues with 48-byte PKCS8-wrapped cryptographic identity keys, ensuring seamless end-to-end message decryption. * **WebSocket Heartbeat & Stability**: Implemented an automated 60-second connection heartbeat (Ping/Pong) to stabilize socket connections and automatically clean up inactive/ghost sessions. * **Identity Telemetry**: Active connections now broadcast callsigns to server nodes, making it easier to diagnose connection health on your community dashboard.

What's New in Version 1.1.19 We are continually improving BeanPool to make community-driven trading and mutual credit cooperation seamless. Here is what is new in this update: - Message Replies: Reply directly to specific messages in your chats to keep conversations organized. - Chat UI Improvements: Increased the contrast of the chat text input box for better visibility in different lighting conditions. - Step-by-Step Onboarding: Added an onboarding guide to the signup flow to help new members get started. - Local Post Metadata Caching: Marketplace post details (titles, status, cover photos) are now cached locally in the chats and deals history. Your active conversations and transaction context remain intact even if you restore your identity on a new device. - Review Editing: You can now edit your feedback ratings and comments directly from the Given tab on your profile page. - Clarified Ledger Fee Terminology: Renamed transaction tax references to transaction fees, increased font sizes for notifications, and introduced solvency transparency summaries for the mutual credit pool. - Performance and Layout Enhancements: Optimized memory usage to prevent crashes on map views, resolved map clustering bugs on iOS, and improved the layout of the credit spectrum bar in the ledger. - Hardware-Backed Security: Migrated identity management to system SecureStore for improved cryptographic key protection.

What's New in This Version (App Store release notes for version 1.1.18) We are continuously refining the BeanPool experience to make local mutual-credit trading smoother, more transparent, and more reliable. Here is what is new in version 1.1.18: Permanent Trade Context (Device Restore): Listing titles and thumbnails are now cached locally in your chat history and My Deals pages. If you switch phones or restore your wallet on a new device, your completed trade titles and cover photos are preserved so you never lose the visual context of your past trades. Edit and Manage Reviews: You can now edit previously submitted reviews and ratings directly from your profile's Given reviews tab or from the completed transaction in your deals history. Rating modals now pre-populate with your existing rating and comment, allowing you to update feedback effortlessly. System messages in chat now display a green checkmark badge once you have reviewed a completed transaction. Clarified Transaction Fees: Renamed transaction tax references to transaction fee across ledger screens and community pool pages to better reflect mutual credit system operations. UI and Performance Fixes: Resolved profile photo issues for counterparts in active transactions and updated the app's settings footer to be platform-aware.

What is new in version 1.1.14: Message Encryption and Media Attachments Upgraded direct messaging with complete end-to-end encryption. Added sent and read receipts to conversations. Supported encrypted photo and camera attachments in chat. Trust and Standing Visualizations Reorganized the Ledger into dedicated Trust Level and Financials tabs. Added the Credit Spectrum tax-band visualizer with a live balance indicator. Included the Journey to Elder progress bar showing milestone thresholds. Introduced the Trust Ladder showing overdraft floors, spending limits, and tier perks. Privacy and Security Enhancements Relocated the Location Privacy toggle to Settings so you can manage live sharing and ghost mode instantly. Replaced the identity transfer protocol with cryptographically secure key exports. Implemented signature replay-proofing and transaction double-acceptance. Gated peer-to-peer data sync to verify connection security. Layout and Stability Improvements Added the Founding Trade badge to marketplace card grid and compact layouts. Resolved collision issues with the iOS status bar on custom header screens. Fixed keyboard overlapping bugs across all navigation layouts.

Military-Grade Identity Security (NAT-5): Upgraded account identity transfers to use XChaCha20-Poly1305 authenticated encryption (AEAD) and a hardened scrypt key derivation function (KDF) for state-of-the-art key protection. Simplified Device Linking: Replaced manual PIN entries with auto-generated, secure 4-word recovery codes for effortless and secure account migration. Responsive Layout & Accessibility Pass: Optimized styling across the Map, People, Ledger, and Settings screens to fit perfectly down to 320dp screen sizes and gracefully handle large system-wide accessibility fonts. Under-the-Hood Performance: Optimized build heap allocations to ensure fast, stable local compile times.

1. Interactive Emoji Reactions in Chat Express Yourself: You can now react to messages in real-time with your favorite emojis (just like WhatsApp!). Optimized & Fluid UI: High-fidelity, scaled-up reaction badges and a smart reaction menu that dynamically repositions itself to prevent clipping at the top of your screen. Instant Sync: Fully backed by our local database with optimistic updates, ensuring your reactions show up instantly even on spotty connections. 2. Low-Latency Escrow Settlements Instant Payments: Enjoy ultra-fast escrow settlements and smart sync cooldowns to optimize peer-to-peer transaction performance. Fresh Listings: Real-time listings updates ensure you always see the latest offers and needs in the marketplace. 3. Advanced Inbox Search & Filtering Find Chats Faster: A powerful new inbox search bar makes finding past conversations effortless. Collapsible Sort & Filter Panel: Easily organize your inbox with collapsible advanced filtering and sorting options (including precise timestamp sorting).

We’ve overhauled our core syncing engine to make trading and messaging faster, smoother, and lighter on your battery! • Low-Latency Escrow: Blazing fast mutual credit settlements with optimized database concurrency (no more locked state screens!). • Coalesced Syncing: Smarter, queued background synchronization reduces CPU load and WebSocket network data usage. • Dynamic Chat State: Conversation feeds and offer status cards now refresh instantly in real-time when accepting or cancelling trades. • Feed Improvements: Easily dismiss the "Fresh Listings" indicator in the Market, or let it auto-hide as you scroll. • Directory Caching: Optimized member lists save mobile data by caching directory lookups.

We've refined your neighborhood marketplace experience! This update introduces high-resolution distance scaling, a personalized favorite feed, and layout optimizations to make discovering local offers and community needs faster and more intuitive. What's New: - Precision Sub-Kilometer Radius: Focus on your immediate neighborhood! Search filters now scale down to ultra-precise ranges (100m, 200m, and 500m) with automatic distance formatting, making it simple to find items within walking distance. - Personalized 'For You' Feed: Star your favorite marketplace categories (e.g., Food Share, Tool Sharing, or Local Services) to build a customized local feed. Preferences are saved locally to keep your priority interests right at the top. - Chronological Scans: Marketplace listings are now organized into neat chronological time buckets (Today, Yesterday, This Week) with condensed spacing, maximizing the number of listings visible on your screen. - Real-Time Activity Banners: Stay connected to your neighborhood's pulse with a dynamic freshness banner that shows exactly how many new posts have been added today. - One-Tap Filter Resets: Quickly clear category or custom distance filters with high-visibility, inline 'x' close buttons directly on the filter pills. - High-Accuracy Map Locating: Navigate your neighborhood map with ease. Tap the new premium vector crosshair locator button to instantly snap the viewport to your high-precision GPS coordinates. - iOS Layout Spacing & Page Sheet Polish: Resolved notch overlapping and rounded-edge clipping on presentation cards, making header navigation smoother on all modern iPhone models.