What's new
Follow the story of how Ophie has grown — every release, every refinement, every step toward a warmer, more present companion.
May 2026
May 2026
v0.19Encryption at Rest
Per-user envelope encryption for every transcript, summary, and memory — wrapped by AWS KMS, erased on account deletion.
- New Feature
Every user now has a unique encryption key (DEK) wrapped by an AWS KMS Customer-Managed Key.
- New Feature
Transcripts, summaries, memories, topic links, and emotional snapshots are stored as AES-256-GCM ciphertext bound to your user ID.
- New Feature
Account deletion now performs crypto-shredding — your key is destroyed, making past sessions permanently undecryptable.
- New Feature
Public /security page explaining the model in plain English, plus an updated Trust Center with the full threat model.
- Improvement
HMAC-blinded fingerprints for people-mention lookups — equality search without decrypting row content.
- Improvement
Decrypt events flow through AWS CloudTrail with an EncryptionContext that includes the user ID, table, and column.
- Envelope encryption: per-user DEK + AWS KMS CMK with annual automatic rotation.
- AES-256-GCM with Additional Authenticated Data (AAD) binding ciphertext to (table, column, row_id, user_id, dek_version).
- Per-process DEK cache with bounded TTL; counter-based hard-stop at 2^30 writes per DEK to prevent nonce reuse.
- Background sweep hard-deletes tombstoned rows after the Postgres PITR window closes.
- Pinecone vectors store an opaque AEAD ciphertext sidecar alongside embeddings; namespace-isolated per user.
- Encryption-touching PRs use a dedicated review template with a committed internal self-review log.
April 2026
April 2026
v0.18Waitlist and Landing Revamp
A new tabbed landing hero, a fuller FAQ, and a public waitlist with referrals.
- New Feature
Tabbed hero with a six-tab product carousel and editorial typography.
- New Feature
Expanded FAQ covering differentiation, safety, and policy.
- New Feature
Public waitlist with referral links, tier benefits, and a referrer leaderboard.
- New Feature
Email verification and username claiming for waitlist members.
- Improvement
Mobile responsiveness pass across landing and waitlist pages.
- Improvement
Breathing border and halo on the Watch Demo button.
- Fix
Fallback orb rendering when WebGL is unavailable.
- Waitlist backend migrated from Next.js API routes to FastAPI with hCaptcha and hashed-IP rate limiting.
- SUPABASE_SERVICE_ROLE_KEY removed from the frontend — all admin paths now route through FastAPI.
- ILIKE wildcard sanitization and PostgREST group-char stripping in admin search.
April 2026
April 2026
v0.17Text Sessions, Countdown, and Extensions
First-class text sessions, a graceful session auto-end countdown you can extend, and voice-driven activity answers.
- New Feature
Full text-session experience with chat bubbles, smart input chips, and inline insight markers.
- New Feature
Voice-driven activity answers — submit, pause, resume, and undo by voice.
- New Feature
Session auto-end countdown with one-tap extensions.
- New Feature
Summary bloom reveal animation when your summary is ready.
- New Feature
Proactive dashboard check-ins tied to real session signals.
- Improvement
Dashboard design-system pass across classic and focused views.
- Improvement
Scroll-driven typewriter reveal on transcript bubbles.
- Improvement
Moments of Play card on profile tracking arcade and orb interactions.
- Shared SessionTransport abstraction across WebSocket (text) and LiveKit (voice).
- Per-turn activity-answer schema injection with validation and retry.
- Sentry profiling and per-deploy release tracking enabled.
- Entity backfill pipeline with circuit breaker, cost caps, and admin controls.
April 2026
April 2026
v0.16Arcade, Breathing, and Reliability
Mindful games to fidget with, a breathing exercise, and a major reliability refactor of the voice agent.
- New Feature
Breathing exercise activity with live orb sync.
- New Feature
Arcade — Bubble Pop, Snake, Stacking, Color by Number, Ball Sort, and Fruit Catch, all designed as fidget-friendly grounding.
- New Feature
Ophie can suggest an arcade game when you seem to need a break.
- Improvement
Post-session summary redesigned as a scrollable card stack with bloom reveal.
- Improvement
Constellation list view and graph legend for the memory map.
- Improvement
More informative session-end reasons in history.
- Improvement
Context-aware crisis resources with hotline schedules and identity-tag matching.
- OphieAgent decomposed into ten focused managers (Lifecycle, Crisis, Memory, Transcript, and more).
- Summary-generation state machine with bounded retries, atomic claims, and a /health/failsafe endpoint.
- Cross-tab session sync via BroadcastChannel.
- Agent crash detection via participant_left webhook with a 5-second grace window.
April 2026
April 2026
v0.15Warmer UI and In-Session Insights
A warmer visual refresh, richer in-session insights, and safer responses for crisis, crime, and threat disclosures.
- Improvement
Warm-toned UI pass with softer shadows and gradient accents.
- New Feature
In-session insights with threading, types, toast notifications, and inline evidence.
- New Feature
Redesigned session overview with emotional arc, narrative, and tappable quick actions.
- New Feature
Text-only session mode with a full hybrid voice-or-text experience.
- New Feature
Brain Map memory library with a force-directed graph, topic cards, and place tags.
- New Feature
Constellations — clusters of connected themes with a cinematic unlock animation.
- Improvement
Safer responses to disclosures of crime, threats to others, and abuse, with appropriate resources.
- Improvement
Name recognition via STT keyword boosting so Ophie hears people's names correctly.
- Improvement
Privacy controls cascade — disabling analytics disables data sharing.
- Session analyzer upgraded with a fallback path.
- On-device parent-speaker verification.
- Uncertainty-clarification rules in the system prompt (v5.12).
- Category-aware crisis routing for threat and abuse signals.
March 2026
March 2026
v0.14Voice Personas and Richer Memory
Previewable voices, auto-titled sessions, monthly minutes instead of per-session caps, and a deeper memory pipeline.
- New Feature
Voice preview buttons on signup and in Settings.
- New Feature
Auto-generated session titles from conversation content.
- Improvement
Monthly-minutes usage model replaces per-session time limits.
- Improvement
Memory extraction captures richer emotional context and personal detail.
- Improvement
Hold-the-Thread rule keeps Ophie on topic across turns.
- Improvement
Session detail page reorganized with rich memories, topics, feedback, and notes.
- New Feature
Journey page gains Action Items, Connections, and Topics Explored cards.
- Background LLM tier tuned for cost and latency.
- Two-layer memory deduplication with mention-count tracking and editable memories.
- Recently Deleted memory tab with restore.
- GDPR data export expanded to all 26 user tables.
March 2026
March 2026
v0.13My Journey and Route Refactor
All your reflective data consolidated into a single My Journey page, with a faster app shell and progressive disclosure in how Ophie speaks.
- New Feature
My Journey page — story, emotional pulse, patterns, reframes, wins, and a sessions timeline.
- New Feature
Streak milestones with 3-day confetti, 7-day glow, and 30-day celebration.
- New Feature
Since Last Time dashboard card that resumes where you left off.
- New Feature
Two Doors sign-up — a quick path or a full path with deferred location verification.
- Improvement
Ophie gathers preferences conversationally during early sessions.
- New Feature
Content filters — configure topics Ophie should avoid.
- New Feature
Scroll-jacked How It Works animation on the landing page.
- Improvement
Significant mobile responsiveness and perceived-performance improvements.
- Route groups: (marketing) and (app) with per-group providers to keep auth off of marketing pages.
- Progressive-disclosure retrieval tied to per-topic engagement.
- Upgraded embedding model with native sparse/hybrid search.
- Parent-child chunking and multi-factor importance scoring for memory.
- BVC noise cancellation enabled on agent audio input.
- Zustand selector tuning cut re-renders dramatically.
March 2026
March 2026
v0.12Ophie v5 — Evals, Emotion, and Captions
A model change, a systematic evaluation pipeline, speech emotion recognition, and a brand-new landing experience.
- New Feature
Voice emotion recognition — Ophie senses how your voice feels and can respond to it.
- New Feature
Emotion dots on user transcript messages.
- New Feature
Optional closed captions during voice sessions.
- New Feature
Post-session feedback card.
- New Feature
First full landing-page redesign with editorial hero and Why Ophie bento.
- New Feature
Ten new marketing pages and a More dropdown in the navigation.
- Improvement
Post-session summary redesigned as a single-viewport tab carousel.
- Improvement
Calmer default voice at a gentler speaking rate.
- New primary LLM with reasoning-token stripping and mid-response emotion-tag buffering.
- 61-scenario therapeutic eval suite with multi-turn drift analysis.
- On-device speech emotion recognition with thread-pool inference.
- Streaming LLM pipeline with chunk processors.
- Deferred summary generation via room-finished webhooks and stale-session fallback.
March 2026
March 2026
v0.11Latency, Naturalness, and the 3D Orb
A major voice-quality leap — new 3D visualizer, dynamic content cards Ophie can author, a second TTS provider, and a big latency drop.
- New Feature
Interactive 3D orb visualizer replacing the 2D canvas.
- New Feature
Emotion-driven orb colors that shift with the conversation.
- New Feature
Dynamic content cards — Ophie can draft markdown notes, reframes, and prompts mid-session.
- New Feature
Save to Library and a Library page for everything Ophie writes for you.
- Improvement
Transcript lives inside the ActionBar with a smooth expanding animation.
- New Feature
Voice waveform morph animation on user input.
- Improvement
First-session specialization — a gentler, more guiding first conversation.
- Improvement
Enriched post-session summary with reframes, action items, and emotional arc.
- New Feature
Full transactional email system (check-ins, reminders) with preferences in Settings.
- New Feature
Beta access system with invite codes and a waitlist banner.
- Three.js InteractiveBlob with GLSL shaders and a real Web Audio AnalyserNode.
- System prompt rewritten from ~20K to ~6K tokens for better latency and quality.
- Parallelized context injection, crisis detection, and transcript writes.
- Second TTS provider added with an emotion adapter for per-user voice choice.
- Parallel tool calls enabled on the LLM.
- Resend-backed email with APScheduler jobs.
February 2026
February 2026
v0.10Natural Conversation and Safer Foundations
Ophie learned to listen, pause, and yield — plus a ground-up hardening of security, monitoring, onboarding, and email.
- New Feature
Backchannels — light mm-hmms and I hear yous while you speak.
- Improvement
Intelligent turn-taking with therapeutic pauses for heavy moments.
- Improvement
Graceful interruption handling with audio fade instead of abrupt cutoffs.
- New Feature
Branded welcome overlay and first-session floating tips.
- New Feature
Branded Ophie email templates for password resets and notifications.
- New Feature
Reset-password and unsubscribe pages.
- Improvement
Richer per-page SEO and Open Graph previews.
- CSP, CORS, and security header middleware across frontend and backend.
- SlowAPI rate limiting on the voice creation path.
- Sentry error monitoring with PII-safe config on both ends; React error boundaries.
- Session ownership verification on end and status endpoints.
- useVoiceRoom decomposed into smaller composable hooks.
February 2026
February 2026
v0.9Billing and Insights Polish
Foundation for subscription plans, cost instrumentation, and usage limits — plus a polished transcript experience.
- New Feature
Usage limits with an empathetic modal and an admin dashboard.
- Improvement
Stable transcript identity and accurate event-time timestamps.
- Improvement
Transcript as a bottom sheet with auto-scroll, pause detection, and an unread-count pill.
- Improvement
Chat-bubble styling with grouped timestamps.
- New Feature
Feature-gating foundation for subscription plans.
- Stripe integration stubs and usage-limits schema.
- Per-turn LLM metric and cost tracking.
- Dependency probes added to health checks.
February 2026
February 2026
v0.8An Authentic Companion
Ophie's personality was rebuilt from the ground up — less scripted, more specific, and with a deeper memory across sessions.
- Improvement
Rewritten personality with response variety and a phrase-freshness rule.
- New Feature
Cognitive distortion recognition during conversations.
- Improvement
Voice-aware response adaptation.
- New Feature
Memory management page with category filters and deletion.
- New Feature
Explicit memory recall ("do you remember when…") with a dedicated tool.
- New Feature
Topic tracking — conversations are clustered so themes become visible.
- New Feature
Emotional Arc page visualizing how you've felt over time.
- New Feature
Weekly and monthly AI-generated synthesis of patterns and themes.
- Improvement
Floating pill navbar with shared app layout and better accessibility.
- Dedicated MemoryService and MemoryRetrievalService in the agent.
- Topic clustering with embeddings; correlation and pattern services.
- Static image imports for logos to fix deployment breakage.
January 2026
January 2026
v0.7Activity Insights
Activities became a longitudinal view — your reflections now power trend charts, AI-generated insights, and in-session context for Ophie.
- New Feature
Insights page with emotional trend charts and check-in history.
- New Feature
AI-generated insights summarize patterns across your sessions.
- New Feature
Body-sensation diagram and cognitive-pattern cards surface correlations.
- Improvement
Ophie references your past insights during voice sessions.
- New Feature
Dashboard carousel highlights recent insights at a glance.
- Improvement
GDPR compliance and region gating for EU, EEA, and UK.
- Activity responses persisted per privacy mode with cascade deletion.
- LiveKit Agents upgraded to 1.3.4.
- shadcn/ui charts for trend visualization.
December 2025
December 2025
v0.6Naturalness and Reliability
Ophie's conversational style softened, and the session summary flow got significantly more robust.
- Improvement
More natural acknowledgments and smoother emotion transitions.
- New Feature
Conversation style controls in Settings.
- Improvement
Enhanced post-session summary reliability.
- Improvement
Dual-path ML crisis detection for safer hard moments.
- New Feature
Navigation guard dialog warns you before leaving an active session.
- New Feature
Location verification step with biometric privacy compliance.
- Improvement
Redesigned 3-column sanctuary dashboard layout.
- Upgraded voice-activity detection with smoother interruption handling.
- Unified LLM provider across all services.
- Dedicated background LLM client for cost-optimized analysis.
- Hybrid retrieval and reranking for RAG.
December 2025
December 2025
v0.5Production-Ready Voice
Voice quality jumped with a new TTS engine and emotion adaptation, backed by a more reliable session lifecycle.
- New Feature
New TTS engine with expressive SSML delivery.
- New Feature
Emotion-adaptive TTS so Ophie's tone follows the conversation.
- New Feature
Voice persona selection — pick the voice you want to hear.
- New Feature
Ambient sound island with ocean, rain, and night sounds.
- New Feature
GDPR data export and account deletion from Settings.
- New Feature
New 5-4-3-2-1 grounding, journaling, cognitive reframing, PMR, and mood-wheel activities.
- New Feature
Crisis detection with contextual resources.
- Improvement
Minimum session length guard and a microphone permission check before starting.
- Improvement
Dictionary-style hero on the landing page.
- Improvement
Avatar and timezone fields on your profile.
- Multi-provider TTS support with persisted voice settings.
- Server-authoritative session state over LiveKit webhooks and SSE.
- Single-session enforcement with active session banner.
- LiveKit Cloud agent deployment; Netlify and Render production config.
- React 2 Shell CVE-2025-55182 patched.
November 2025
November 2025
v0.4Warmer Voice, Calmer UI
A full design-system pass unified every screen, and Ophie learned to speak more naturally.
- Improvement
Natural turn-taking with pause detection for smoother conversations.
- Improvement
Enhanced emotional check-in with multi-modal input.
- Improvement
Unified visual language across landing, dashboard, and session UI.
- Improvement
Redesigned audio visualizer as a single shared component.
- LiveKit turn-detector plugin for natural conversational flow.
- Docker and uv-based build consolidation on Python 3.11.
November 2025
November 2025
v0.3Memory That Stays With You
Sessions began remembering prior conversations through retrieval-augmented memory, plus a redesigned dashboard and privacy-first controls.
- New Feature
Cross-session recall — Ophie can draw on things you said before.
- New Feature
Post-session summary with user-controlled data deletion.
- New Feature
New dashboard with stats, goals, and a calendar view.
- New Feature
Resources and Support pages, plus profile bio and pronouns.
- New Feature
User-visible memory management so you can see and prune what is stored.
- Improvement
Settings page warns before losing unsaved changes.
- Improvement
Faster response latency and session-end loading feedback.
- Pinecone-backed RAG with entity extraction and hybrid vectorization.
- Critical privacy fix: ephemeral-mode sessions never write to memory.
- Dashboard History and Dashboard nav links; Ophie-branded favicon.
October 2025
October 2025
v0.2Dynamic Island and Live Activities
Ophie gained an expandable Dynamic Island that can spawn therapeutic activities in the middle of a conversation.
- New Feature
Draggable Dynamic Island panel replaces the blocking modal.
- New Feature
First therapeutic activity — a conversational emotional check-in with LLM-generated questions.
- New Feature
Voice-driven activity progression — Ophie can suggest and advance exercises by voice.
- New Feature
Session notes appear live alongside the transcript.
- New Feature
Persistent session transcripts, synced to the database and displayed in real time.
- Data-channel-based RPC for activity state (replacing an earlier RPC prototype).
- Transcript storage integrated with LiveKit agent output.
September 2025
September 2025
v0.1Foundations
First working voice-first prototype — scaffolded from a blank slate into a real-time conversational session.
- New Feature
Initial product scaffold with a calming landing page and sign-up flow.
- New Feature
Early Supabase-backed accounts, profiles, and dashboard.
- New Feature
First full-pipeline voice session over LiveKit with live transcription.
- New Feature
Floating session interface with an action bar and audio visualizer.
- Next.js App Router migration from Vite/React.
- LiveKit WebRTC voice pipeline (STT → LLM → TTS).
- Backend containerized with Docker and deployed with FastAPI.
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