releasenotes

Some changes happen on the back end…so end-users are already benefiting from those.
But for the sake of sharing the good news, here is the full list of what we’ve been up to

Enhancements and New Features

• New! Service Status watcher – our bots find and share early warnings that your providers don’t
• New! Get a heads up about your commute before it starts
• Participate page – Removed ads
• Recent Alerts – Port Authority alerts are now richer and faster
• Recent Alerts- PATH alerts are now richer and faster
• News You Need – Updated to reflect MTA monthly ticket sales dates
• Premium – Overhauled the back-end process to better-handle subscriptions
• Train Geolocation (NJT) – Streamlined and clarified the display

Bug fixes

• News You Need – Added the ability to show icons/graphics
• MyTrains – users now have full ability to modify their selections

Enahncements

• Improve handling of Recent Alerts from transit providers
• Enahnced archive routine
• UI fixes and consistency changes

Bug Fix – iOS badge reset

 

• 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