Changelog

Structured-Data Linter, Answer-Engine Readiness, Link Audit & AI-Crawler Analytics

• New — Pre-publish structured-data linter: a post whose FAQ, Key Facts, How-To or roundup block would not validate is saved as a draft with the reason shown, instead of shipping broken schema. Advisory issues warn without blocking.
• New — Answer-engine readiness score: every post carries a 0–100 score with a per-signal breakdown in the editor sidebar and in Admin → Content Health. Advisory only — it never blocks a publish.
• New — Answer capsules: a short, quotable direct answer shown above the article body and emitted as schema.org abstract on the BlogPosting. Visible copy, never hidden text.
• New — Internal-link suggester and Link Audit: the editor proposes links in both directions as you write, and Admin → Link Audit scans every published post for dead ends, retired (410) targets and avoidable redirect hops.
• New — Redirects manager with a triaged 404 worklist: manage the rules v1.0.4 could only create, and act on the 404s that show evidence of being reader-facing with a one-click 301 or 410.
• New — AI-crawler analytics (Admin → AI Crawlers): which answer engines actually fetch your site, how often, and which pages they read. Recorded separately, so human analytics are untouched.
• New — Publisher identity for the knowledge graph: publisher type, legal name, founder, founding date and authority profiles feed sameAs and the Identity section of llms.txt. Every field optional; nothing inferred.
• New — Import dry-run: preview exactly what a WordPress or Ghost import would create, rename, overwrite or skip before anything is written. Plus a ## Topics index in llms-full.txt.
• Changed — The | Site Name title suffix is appended only when the finished title still fits the search-result budget; category and tag links point straight at the canonical archive instead of a query URL that 301s.
• Fixed — Unknown /category/{slug} and /tag/{slug} URLs now return 404 instead of an empty soft-404 archive; empty taxonomies are no longer offered as filters; draft-only tag archives stay out of the sitemap; archive pagination no longer repeats the facet.

Backward-compatible — existing redirect rules, archives, filters and settings keep working. Note that publishing can now be refused when a structured-data block fails validation; existing published posts are not re-validated until next saved.

IP Firewall, WordPress & Ghost Importer, Series & Indexation Controls

• New — IP Firewall: failing requests are scored and hostile addresses block themselves automatically. Loopback, private ranges, signed-in staff, and search/AI crawlers are never blocked. Managed in Admin → Security.
• New — WordPress & Ghost importer: upload a WordPress WXR or Ghost JSON export, preview and select, then run a batched, resumable import with WebP image conversion and preserved permalink redirects. Undoable.
• New — Series & collections: group posts into an ordered sequence with a /series/{slug} page, a "Part N of M" banner, and CollectionPage/ItemList schema.
• New — Content Health dashboard: surfaces posts needing review, missing Key Facts/FAQ blocks, or truncating meta descriptions (Admin → Content Health).
• New — Indexation controls: 410 Gone retirement for redirects, filter-URL canonicalization (/?tags=x 301s to /tag/{slug}), and depth-gated tag archives kept out of the sitemap until indexable.
• Fixed — HEAD requests no longer return 405; category and tag archives render full listing chrome; post pages no longer 500 without categories or tags.

Backward-compatible — no breaking changes; existing tenants keep their layout, theme, content, and settings.

SEO/AEO Overhaul, Verdict Roundups, Catalog Layout, IndexNow & Error Monitor

• New — SEO/AEO overhaul: rich structured data (CollectionPage, author Person, roundup ItemList/Review), per-tenant llms.txt plus a new llms-full.txt, author E-E-A-T pages at /author/{slug}, image sitemap, and a sitelinks search box.
• New — Verdict scored-roundup content system for “Top N Best… Software” buyer’s guides, with per-entry scores, pros/cons, and rich-result-safe schema.
• New — Catalog layout: a single-column boxed-card list with a category filter bar and numbered pagination.
• New — IndexNow instant indexing pings Bing, Yandex, Seznam, and Naver to re-crawl within minutes of publishing.
• New — Error Monitor: 4xx/5xx errors grouped by signature with occurrence counts, plus optional email alerts.
• Improved — Authoring: Key Facts and How-To step blocks, a live meta-description length helper, and smarter related-posts linking.

Backward-compatible — no breaking changes; existing tenants keep their layout, theme, and content.

Analytics, Audit Trail & Inkwell Theme System

• New — Analytics dashboard: page-view tracking, UTM attribution, geo-location, and traffic-source breakdown.
• New — Immutable, admin-only audit trail of every write action across the platform.
• New — Inkwell theme system: 10 colour presets with multiple layouts.
• New — Newsletter and subscriber management, plus redirect rules.
• Improved — SEO toolkit: OG image generation, FAQ schema, and structured data.

Multi-tenant improvements & Docs site

• New — Public documentation site at /docs with install, config, and theming guides.
• New — Contact page with SMTP-backed inquiry form.
• New — Email settings now read from appsettings.json (see Email config).
• Improved — Mobile navigation and footer layout across all pages.
• Improved — Changelog, Roadmap, Letter, Privacy, and Terms pages added.

Studio layout & Paper preset

• New — Studio layout for portfolio-shaped blogs.
• New — Paper preset (pure white, high contrast).
• New — Pull quote support in the Desk editor.
• Fixed — Autosave now correctly debounces at 3 seconds, not 300 ms.
• Fixed — Footnotes rendering correctly in Magazine layout.

Notebook layout & tag system

• New — Notebook layout with ruled-paper aesthetic.
• New — Tag system — posts can carry multiple tags; tag archive pages generated automatically.
• New — RSS and Atom feeds per tenant.
• Improved — Journal layout now supports a sidebar index.
• Fixed — Dark mode flash on initial load eliminated with inline theme script.

Multi-tenancy

• Breaking — Single-tenant mode removed. Every install is now multi-tenant. Existing single-tenant installs can migrate by adding their host to the Tenants array.
• New — Per-tenant isolated database schemas via EF Core schema prefix.
• New — Tenant management screen in the Desk.
• New — Each tenant can pick an independent Layout and Preset.

The Desk editor

• New — Keyboard-first Markdown editor with live preview.
• New — Drafts autosave every 3 seconds.
• New — Footnote syntax: [^1] inline, [^1]: text at the bottom.
• New — Publish/unpublish toggle with scheduled publish support.