// SITE HISTORY

Changelog

Every update we ship to the site, newest first. The site is in alpha — things change often, and this page is where you can see what changed and when.

git log --stat — ACTIVITY BY WEEK

git log --oneline — SITE UPDATES

* Aug 30, 2026

The full diff on a Product Docs Weekly entry now reads as before-and-after. Switch it to side-by-side columns, or to stacked blocks showing what the page said and what it says now — pick once and every entry follows. Instead of reconstructing a patch in your head, you see the vendor's edit the way they made it.
Your Grep reports now sit on the Subscriber issues tab beside your Diff, Head and Uniq back issues, instead of at the bottom of the settings form — one row per tool with a Monthly and Quarterly pill each, so you can see what is ready to read without scrolling through a page of controls. Settings keeps the switches that decide whether reports are sent. The “these links are private” notice is now said once at the top of the tab rather than three times.
Every subscriber issue now carries its own PDF and EPUB — including back issues that never had one — so you can read a Uniq issue on a Kindle, or offline, instead of only in the browser.
Tool pages that showed a name and nothing else now say what the tool actually does, in the vendor's own words where they publish one — so a tool you have not heard of is no longer a blank box you have to go and look up.
Kiro's changelog now arrives whole: all of its product lines — IDE, CLI, Web and Models — correctly dated, and with each release's improvements and fixes rather than only its one-line summary.
Kiro Crew is now tracked as its own tool, so its releases arrive alongside the Kiro IDE's instead of going unnoticed.

* Aug 29, 2026

Grep report releases now open. Click any release in a monthly or quarterly report and the full record slides in beside it: when an API changed, the endpoints it deprecated by name rather than a count; the capability the release advances and how long it has been shipping; the commands and flags that exercise it; and a real recorded run with the output it printed. No more leaving the page to find out what a one-line entry actually meant.
The homepage terminal now shows the week's tools even when their releases carry no version number — vendors that ship from a changelog instead of a tagged release used to be dropped from the list, leaving one lonely line under a header counting six tools. They now appear with an "updated" marker, so the preview matches the week it names.

* Aug 27, 2026

The homepage now previews all four newsletters — Head, Tail, Diff, and Uniq — so you can see what each one covers before subscribing.
Sample and account-page links to early Diff issues work again — they were sending readers to a dead end.
The account page now flags a Grep's name field directly when it's missing, instead of a note you could scroll past.

* Aug 25, 2026

Tail’s reading views now live on one dial: start with the full issue, turn to expand entries in place, or move to a split preview pane — so you read each day at whatever depth you want, without leaving the page.
Every Tail view now asks whether you prefer it, so you can rate each reading mode independently. Preview Pane follows category, license, and tool-name filters.

* Aug 24, 2026

Tail and Grep now show only what shipped that day — API and MCP interface changes stay with Diff, which is where that detail has always belonged.
Your Grep watchlist no longer flags a tool as retired just because it's covered by our sibling newsletter instead.

* Aug 23, 2026

Tail now says what it is: the daily firehose, everything the toolchain shipped today, already filtered.
Tail's email leads with the releases we documented best — the ones with a command you can run — instead of whatever the fetchers returned first, and reads in three depths: three to read, ten to skim, the rest at a glance.
Uniq issue 001 is here: 19 AI companies' own homepages, read two years apart, showing how the story they tell about themselves changed — 59 terms picked up or dropped, 9 companies now claiming a different category, and 2 pricing changes.
Samples now shows two real entries from AI issues — a Claude Code release read down to every new environment variable, and the week three Anthropic APIs left beta — so you can judge the coverage before subscribing.
Share a link to any page and it now arrives with a proper preview card — the site's name, what the page is, and our mark — instead of a cropped icon.
Search engines can now find every issue, tool page and article on the site, rather than only what they happen to follow a link to.
Every newsletter issue now has a real heading structure, so a screen reader can move tool to tool instead of scrolling through one flat page.
A dead or mistyped link now lands on a page that points you at the newsletter, the tools list and the articles, instead of a blank error.
The header and footer no longer offer pages this site doesn't have yet — those links used to bounce you home.
Articles now says what's coming instead of reporting "0 articles · 0.0k words".
The API reference is a real page here now: Researcher and Business subscriptions on this site carry API access, and the page documents the host you can call.
Code analysis now covers 105 tools, up from 45 — dependencies, SBOMs, languages and AI-authorship for more than twice as many of the tools we track.
Every code-analysis figure is now backed by a content-addressed store keyed by a digest of the data itself, so any number on the site can be re-derived against the exact bytes it came from.

* Aug 22, 2026

One plan can now cover both sites for the year. Practitioner across The AI Toolchain and The Cyber Toolchain is $150/year, Researcher $300/year — the same two months free the single-site annual plans get. Choose it on your account page before checkout.
28 AI security tools now sit on the tools list — agent guardrails, sandboxes, prompt-injection defenses and red-team kits from NVIDIA, Docker, Snyk, F5, CyberArk, Tencent and others — so the layer that watches your agents is tracked right next to the agents themselves.
Our logo and a ready-made LinkedIn cover are now in the brand kit. The mark comes with no circle or box around it, so it drops cleanly onto any profile, light or dark.
The wordmark now reads ai|toolchain — a pipe rather than a slash — on the page and in every file you can download.
The analytics charts are current again — release velocity, notes quality, momentum and the rest now rebuild every time the site updates, instead of sitting on a snapshot from a fixed date.
Vendor docs tracking on the velocity chart now counts AI tooling vendors only — 24 of them — rather than picking up our sibling site's security vendors.
Releases that add a flag, a setting or an endpoint now come with a command you can actually run. Entries used to name the new syntax in the write-up and stop there.

* Aug 21, 2026

Release notes that mention a file or a flag now read as a sentence instead of breaking apart mid-line on a phone.
Every issue now has a download button. Save the day's issue as a PDF, or the weekly as a PDF or EPUB, and read it anywhere.
Tool screenshots and demo clips now load across the site — the images that go with a release are back on tool pages and inside issues.
A notice now runs across the top of every page: this site is under heavy development. Things will move and change while we build it out.
Tool pages now carry the full command-line surface: every option a tool accepts at its newest release, which of them were confirmed by running the real binary, and what was added, renamed or dropped across its releases. Captured example runs and the code-analysis page are live too.
This site now carries its own mark — the site icon and browser tab show the violet chevron running through the rest of the page, instead of the teal one it borrowed at launch.
Signing out now ends your session on both sites at once, not just the one you are looking at.
Sign in on one toolchain and you are signed in on the other. Switching between The Cyber Toolchain and The AI Toolchain no longer asks for a second email — your account already covers both.
Every tool page now opens by answering whether the tool is worth your time: what it is, whether it costs money, how you run it, who it's for, and where it sits. Below that are the questions you'd ask before evaluating it, each with an answer.
Tool pages now say whether a project is still alive — when it was first committed, how many people work on it, and whether anything has shipped in the past year. That last one is the fact nobody volunteers.
Where an AI tool's own documentation names a comparable product, the page says so and says where it read it. Where it names none, the page describes the category instead of guessing.
A handful of tools publish nothing we track. Their pages now say so, so you can tell a description drawn from the vendor's own words from one written without them.
Issue numbers now run in order — the archive reads 001, 002, 003 instead of jumping to 346.
The Daily now arrives by email. If you have it switched on, the issue lands in your inbox the morning it publishes.
If you cancel a subscription, your account page now says so, and names the date your access ends — instead of telling you the plan renews.
Screenshots that a vendor's page loads lazily now show the actual picture instead of an empty grey box — across the whole archive, not just new issues.
In the newsletter email, older releases under a tool now show a clean version tag and a proper status pill.
A tool shows one “latest” marker again, on the release that actually is the latest.
Tool descriptions now say what the product does, not what its changelog feed is.
The AI Toolchain newsletter now arrives with its own mark and name instead of the Cyber Toolchain's.
Your issues now arrive in The AI Toolchain's own violet — every edition of them, light and sepia and high contrast included.
The charts here are built from AI tools only. The preview on the homepage and the connections graph on every tool page were drawing on The Cyber Toolchain's corpus.
Shows has a page now. The first episode is in production, and this is where it will land.

* Aug 20, 2026

This site now has its own visual identity instead of borrowing its sibling's — a violet accent throughout, and a public /brand-kit page with the marks, wordmarks and palette behind it.
Grep (filtered to the AI tools you run) and Diff (documentation and API changes) now arrive alongside the weekly digest.

* Aug 19, 2026

The AI Toolchain archive now reaches back one year, with 344 reconstructed release-day issues and expanded analytics so you can explore how the AI tooling ecosystem changed over time.

* Aug 18, 2026

The AI | Cyber switcher in the top nav is now a segmented toggle — the site you are on is a solid filled pill, with a one-time arrow pointing at it, so it reads as a switch you can click rather than two words of chrome.
/analytics now only offers the filters it has data behind — the five that led to an empty page (hiring, financials, code analysis, dependencies, defects) are gone until that coverage exists for AI tooling.
The first real newsletter issue is live — see what's new in Claude Code, OpenAI Codex CLI, and the rest of the AI tools we track.
Sign-ups aren't open yet. The homepage says so plainly now, and every page carries a reminder that this site is still an early preview, rather than showing a sign-up form that can't actually deliver anything.
New: /analytics is live — release velocity, notes quality, funding activity, project health, momentum, and abandonment risk across the AI tools we cover, built from The AI Toolchain's own roster.
The header logo now shows our mark instead of a broken image.
The tools list, tool pages and their code/API/MCP detail now reflect AI tooling only — no more cyber-tool data showing through.