Changelog

1.3.0 - Oct 10, 2026

Add a speech volume slider beneath the balanced playback controls.
Distinguish the sidebar from the reading area in Day and Night modes.
Prevent theme-script hydration warnings.
Require explicit analytics consent and separate optional heatmaps, with immediate withdrawal and session replay disabled.

Pinned a single character at the exact stage centre as a fixation point, measured by character width rather than position.
Linked the guide lines and arrows to the focus character, with the focus character and arrows bright while the surrounding letters recede.
Fixed a React 19 console error when opening the settings dialog by updating the Headless UI dependency.

Made Night the default appearance for first-time visitors while preserving saved Day or Night preferences.
Corrected the read-aloud guide so Play and the audio mute control match the current reader workflow.

Restored the verified Cloudflare Pages project name so tagged releases deploy successfully.
Added a regression test that protects the production deployment target.

Unified the sidebar and reader under one Day or Night design system.
Simplified the main journey to paste text, press Go, then press Play.
Made Play the only start and pause control; the audio button now only mutes or unmutes.
Restarted playback automatically when Play is pressed after reaching the end.
Added the sidebar eye as the favicon and install icon across supported sizes.
Improved route metadata, canonical URLs, social previews, structured data, and reading guides.
Added privacy-aware analytics for text and text-with-audio playback.
Fixed browser-speech recovery, static preview, and Cloudflare release configuration.
Updated framework and deployment dependencies to supported security releases.
Expanded the automated reader suite to 33 passing tests.