1.10.0 - Fast, faster, breaking changes 😊

What's Changed

• Update to Spring Boot 3.2.x
• More efficient loading of media using UUIDs
• Much more efficient storing and loading of media, using BLOBs instead of base64
• This release contains breaking changes and will not be compatible of older releases

Full Changelog: v1.9.0...v1.10.0

1.9.0 - Big version jump 😊

What's Changed

• Added profile prompts
• Added email notifications on likes and chats
• Release versions will now sync with releases of alovoa-expo

New Contributors

• @pranavbalakrishnan4100 made their first contribution in #356

Full Changelog: v1.3.0...v1.9.0

1.3.0 - It's been over a year! 😊

Changelog:

• Change app frontend to alovoa-expo
• You can now send a compliment to your likes!
• Update Spring Boot version from 2.X to 3.0.X
• ...and much more!

Full Changelog: 1.2.0...v1.3.0

1.2.0 It's been a while! 😊

It's been over a year since the last release, so I think it's about time to create a new one 😊

• Tons of new languages from our volunteer translators
• Tons of UI and security improvements
• New onboarding page
• New APIs for third-party apps
• New native app! Check out the repo here: https://github.com/Alovoa/alovoa-expo
• Support for right-to-left languages
• And much more!

1.1.2 - Cleanup and modals

Updated Spring Boot to 2.5.6
New animation for homepage
Language modal instead of select
Added referral system
New modal fade animations
Open profiles always open modal instead of new tab
Preferred age range is now dynamic, thanks to @allstaralok
Removed several columns from the database and calculate them on the fly instead
Many many bugfixes and UI improvements

1.1.1 - Data corruption no more?

Final version before upgrading to Spring Boot 2.4.X or 2.5.X.

Changes:

• Data curruption prevention
• Show disliked users in profile
• More quality of life changes and bug fixes

1.1.0 - 1000 registered users!

Over 1000 registered users! I think it's time for a new release version (but it really doesn't matter because it's a rolling release type of app).

Some cool new stuff happened since the last release:

• More advanced algorithm when searching for new users
• Much cleaner code base thanks to Sonarqube
• Czech translation thanks to @zen0bit
• Remember me checkbox when logging in with email
• A lot of new stuff for the admin area
• Redesigned home page based on user feedback
• Service Worker will cache static files, should use much less data now
• Thousands of bug fixes
• Minor security fixes
• Can be found in multiple app stores! Google Play (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.alovoa.alovoa_playstore), Microsoft Store (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/p/alovoa/9nq88l2pg1tw), Amazon App Store (https://www.amazon.com/Nonononoki-Alovoa/dp/B0976DXPR4)

1.0.0

First public release!
https://alovoa.com

0.10.0 - Even more QoL changes and tons of other changes

Update privacy policy and TOS in English and German
Optimized for very small screens (KaiOS compatible)
Added email template - looks more professional
Improved dark theme support even further
Better rate limiting
Added spinner when loading large content
Improve UI for most pages
Deleting account now takes 24 hours for improved security
Improved translation
Improved README
Added fonts
Improved tests
Minified files for faster loading speed
Fixed vapid notification
Added protection mechanism for minor
Improved search algorithm, should be much faster
Changed picture format to webp, reducing the size down to ~10% compared to png
Removed opening new tabs, replaced with iframes
Added SEO for Google, possibly other search engines
Tons of other bug fixes and QoL changes

Much better UI and better (and automatic!) dark theme support

0.9.0

UI tweaks