Release Notes

• Infrastructure upgrades (UI, e-mail)
• Back-end: Timeliness of GTFS data
• Fortify integrity of train history

• Improvements/Consistency to “recent Alerts”
• Improve off-line behavior
• Back-end changes for stability and performance
• Improve granularity/suitability of Metro North official alerts
• Improve automation of “News you need”
• Fixed bugs on Track Predictor pie charts

New Premium feature: New you need (FKA “Conductor Message”)

Fixes and Improvements

• Prevent duplicate entries in Recent Alerts
• Headers/Options on Recent Alerts is now more consistent
• Fixed – Persist the user’s preference: “Show/Hide Message box”
• Enhance snooze to better-handle year roll-over
• Consistent/better handling of long alerts from transit providers
• Upgrade to emoji support
• Remove banner ads from “Participate” page
• Refreshed certificates for App Store as well as Push Notifications

This is expected to be the 10th and final release of 2018

What’s new

• Fortify back-end processing to ensure messages from transit providers are included
• Improve monitoring and reporting for in-app purchases
• Enriched/modernized emoji support
• Added version 1 of scrolling marquee
• Enhance/Clarify Track prediction/voting page

Bug Fixes

• Cleaned up formatting of special characters in push notifications
• Defaulting vaules at signup for continent and country
• Fixed quicklink to snooze
• Resolved duplicate push notifications on certain devices
• Auto-refresh of Departureboard and click-through to Station Stops
• Eliminated duplicate pushes for track number
• MyTrains – Ensure all in-scope NJT values show
• Keyboard no longer blocks entry field when creating a new alert via Participate

Enhancements

• Add the train details to e-mail for Premium users
• Streamlined UX on Recent Alerts page (put both toggles next to each other)
• Ongoing improvements to off-line capabilities
• Fortified and enhanced subscription initiation / processing
• Moved Metrics reporting from Alpha to Beta
• Useability improvements for Admin console and system diagnostics
• Added global (non-Premium) “unsubscribe” for e-mail messages
• Severed legacy ties with PayPal processing
• Added link to privacy policy where needed