What's New

Rolling release notes for DopeChorus. New features, fixes, security hardening, and platform improvements — all in one place.

v0.11.0 May 23, 2026 Latest
Feature
Real-Time Collaboration — WebSocket-based multi-user editing with live cursors, shared editing, and awareness states. Available now for Pro users.
Feature
Project Sharing — Generate secure, public read-only links for your projects. Share your work without risking unwanted edits.
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Analytics Export — Extract deep writing telemetry including syllable patterns, rhyme density, and vocabulary metrics.
v0.10.0 May 23, 2026
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Admin Export — Export your analytics and audit logs instantly to CSV or JSON formats.
Feature
Suno Intelligence Results — Dedicated inspector panel to view and navigate AI structural suggestions.
UX
JSON-LD SEO — Enhanced search engine visibility with structured data schemas across all public pages.
Fix
Mobile Layout Fixes — Resolved inspector padding, header clipping, and tablet layout overlaps.
v0.9.0 May 22, 2026
Feature
Syllable Target Mode — Set a per-line syllable target and get instant gutter feedback (green/yellow/red) as you write. Quick-set buttons for common targets (6, 8, 10, 12, 16). Pro feature.
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Sound Pattern Heatmap — New inspector panel showing per-line alliteration and assonance density with visual bars, color-coded intensity, and summary statistics.
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Per-Section Rhyme Quality — Breakdown of rhyme quality scores (perfect, near, slant) for each section with progress bars and breakdown dots.
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Rhyme-Aware Line Swap — Alt+Arrow line reordering now warns when moving a line would break an existing rhyme pair, preserving your flow.
Perf
Sound Patterns Hardened — Alliteration detection fixed (stale /g regex state). Assonance upgraded to CMU dictionary-backed phoneme extraction for accurate vowel sound matching.
Perf
Performance Budget Enforcement — Analysis pipeline instrumented with strict 50ms latency targets. Keystroke profiling tracks editor responsiveness.
Fix
Alliteration Regex Corruption — Fixed critical bug where /g flag caused lastIndex state to leak across context lines, producing false positive highlights.
v0.8.0 May 22, 2026
Feature
AI Writing Assistant — Context-aware line continuation and rewriting powered by LLM integration. Respects your rhyme scheme and emotional tone. Pro feature.
Feature
Real-Time Collaboration (Beta) — WebSocket-based multi-user editing with live cursors, room management, and awareness broadcasting.
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Performance Dashboard — Admin metrics panel showing users, projects, server health, WebSocket stats, and AI usage with auto-refresh.
Feature
Rhyme Quality Scoring — New inspector panel grading rhyme quality by tier (perfect, near, slant) with visual breakdowns.
Feature
Ghost Stats Panel — Track ghost suggestion acceptance rate, shown vs accepted vs dismissed, with conic-gradient visualization.
UX
AI Features Landing Page — New marketing page showcasing Ghost Suggestions, Sound Patterns, and AI tools with animated CSS demos.
UX
Collaboration Landing Page — "Coming Soon" page with live cursor mockup, feature breakdown, and beta email signup.
UX
Stackable Toast Notifications — Typed, accessible toast system with auto-dismiss and stacking support.
v0.7.0 May 22, 2026
Feature
Ghost Suggestions — AI-powered ghost text that suggests the next line based on rhyme context and emotional tone. Press Tab to accept. Pro feature.
Feature
Sound Patterns (Alliteration & Assonance) — Automatic detection and highlighting of alliteration (consonant repetition) and assonance (vowel matching) in your lyrics.
Feature
Suno Structural Tag Intelligence — Classify and analyze Suno tags like [Break], [Build-Up], and [Drop] with dedicated API endpoint.
Feature
Version History Diff Viewer — Visual side-by-side diff comparison for project version history with additions and deletions highlighted.
UX
Skeleton Loading States — Animated shimmer loaders for inspector panels during initial analysis pass.
Perf
Pipeline Performance Instrumentation — doAnalysis() pipeline now tracked with performance.now() markers for latency monitoring.
Fix
Annotation Drift Tracking — Annotations now properly shift with CM6 mapPos during complex document edits.
v0.6.0 May 22, 2026
Feature
Internal Rhyme Detector — Highlights rhyming words within the same line — essential for hip-hop and rap writing where internal rhyme schemes are key to flow.
Feature
ML Sentiment Analysis — Transformers.js-powered DistilBERT model running in a Web Worker for per-section emotion scoring. Pro feature.
Feature
Canvas Minimap — Real-time section-colored minimap with viewport indicator, click-to-scroll, and hover section tooltips. Free feature.
Feature
Version History — Snapshot, browse, and restore previous versions of your projects. Includes version comparison and character-delta tracking.
Perf
Database Migration Runner — Automated schema migrations with advisory locks, dry-run mode, and rollback support.
Fix
Editor Feature Tier Bug — Fixed critical bug where editor was incorrectly set to 'pro' tier, blocking free users from editing.
v0.5.0 May 21, 2026
Feature
Collaborative Annotations — Add inline annotations to any line in the editor. Pro-gated with color-coded gutter markers and persistent storage.
Feature
Vocabulary Diversity Score — New inspector panel showing TTR (Type-Token Ratio), hapax legomena, and uniqueness metrics per section.
Feature
Command Palette — Press Ctrl+K to open a fuzzy-search command palette for quick access to every action and menu item.
Feature
Changelog Page — This page! A rolling release log so you can always see what's new.
Security
Granular Rate Limiting — Separate rate limits for auth, read, write, and PDF export routes for stronger abuse protection.
Perf
CSS Theme Transitions — Smooth animated transitions when switching between Dark, Paper, and High Contrast themes.
Fix
Autocomplete Cache Invalidation — Cache now properly clears when spellcheck ignored words list changes.
v0.4.0 May 21, 2026
Feature
Export to PDF — Generate beautifully formatted PDFs of your lyrics with section headers and metadata. Pro feature.
Feature
Rhyme Density Heat Map — New inspector panel color-codes lines by how heavily they rhyme, giving you a visual overview of rhyme distribution.
Feature
Songwriting Templates — Pre-built lyric structures for Pop, Hip-Hop, Ballad, and EDM Drop with syllable targets and example lines.
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Customizable Themes — Choose between Dark Mode, Paper (Light), and High Contrast themes. Synced to your account.
Feature
Keyboard Shortcuts Modal — Dynamic, OS-aware keyboard shortcut overlay. Press ? or find it in the Help menu.
Feature
Line Reordering — Use Alt+↑/↓ to reorder lyric lines, automatically skipping section headers.
Security
Strict CSRF Enforcement — Double-submit cookie validation now required on all mutating API calls.
Perf
LRU Cache Eviction — Autocomplete (500 cap) and spelling suggestion (300 cap) caches now evict least-recently-used entries to cap memory.
v0.3.0 May 21, 2026
Feature
Interactive Feature Tour — 9-step spotlight-guided onboarding tour for new users. Walks through the editor, inspector, and key features.
Feature
Ignored Words Manager — View, remove, and bulk-clear your spellcheck ignored words from Account Settings.
Feature
Admin Audit Log — Filterable audit trail in the admin dashboard. Tracks logins, logouts, and settings changes.
Security
CSRF Double-Submit Cookies — Backward-compatible CSRF protection added to all API mutations.
Perf
Autocomplete Caching — Sub-millisecond keystroke lookups via in-memory suggestion cache. Spelling suggestions cached too.
Perf
Visible-Range Rendering — Editor decorations now only process visible lines, cutting CPU by 78% on long documents.
Perf
Section-Level Caching — Inspector analysis uses MRU section cache (0.26ms cached vs 1.18ms uncached).
v0.2.0 May 21, 2026
Security
XSS Hardening — Mitigated stored XSS in Spelling Review modal using escAttr(). Curly apostrophe cleaning fixed.
Security
Stripe Metadata Enforcement — Payment metadata now validated server-side to prevent tier manipulation.
Security
Admin Password Hardening — Eliminated password length leak via SHA-256 hashing with timing-safe comparison.
Fix
Familiarity Fixer Gating — Fixed bypass where familiarity fixer panel displayed for free users without proper gating check.
UX
Bottom Sheet Animations — Staggered slide-up animations for mobile inspector panels.
UX
Checkout Cancellation Feedback — Users now see a toast when Stripe checkout is cancelled instead of a silent redirect.
v0.1.0 May 20, 2026
Feature
Initial Platform Launch — Full lyric writing workbench with CodeMirror 6 editor, real-time rhyme/syllable/mood analysis, and cloud project storage.
Feature
VibeEngine Suite — Five NLP-powered panels: Mood Compass, Genre Tags, Emotional Arc, Vibe Check, and Tension Meter.
Feature
Freemium Model — Feature gating system with Free and Pro tiers. Pro at $3.99/mo via Stripe.
Feature
Google OAuth — Sign in with Google for seamless account creation and cloud sync.
Feature
Smart Spellcheck — Typo.js Hunspell engine with ignored words support, contextual suggestions, and right-click corrections.
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Context Menu — Right-click any word for rhymes, synonyms, definitions, and spelling suggestions via Datamuse API.

DopeChorus is actively developed. Updates ship regularly.

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