Alpha Version 1.9.0

Revamped contribution page, with inline editing, peerdoc integration
Ldap authentication if configured for assemblies
Instructions per phase
Research consent for campaigns
Header custom fields on proposals
Fastrack creation of proposals without using form
Configurations to show/hide UI menus and components

Alpha Verison 1.8.0

Motivational prompts
Notifications and newsletters that are sent by email
Dockerization

Alpha Version 1.7.1

• Add and replace proposal documents (PADs or GDOCs) to proposals
• Link to proposal templates (resources that have isTemplate=TRUE)
• Add resources component integrated in campaigns
• Basic membership management for working groups
• Fixed themes modal in proposal page
• Moved themes & keywords
• Import CSV of ideas/proposals
• Added fr-CA and es-PY as i18n options
• Fixed editing campaign timeline
• Integrated signup

Alpha Version 1.7.0

• Distributed Voting
• New designs for campaign and proposal/idea pages
• New Signin / Signup
• Google Docs integration
• Redesign of Working Group Page
• Redesign of Contribution Cards
• Redesign of Commenting

Alpha Version 1.6.4

New designs for Idea/Proposal pages
New designs for Idea and Proposal cards
New designs for discussions/comments
Distributed Voting
Multimedia, attachments, campaign briefs
Multiple bugs fixed

This is a pre-release that incorporates most of the planned features for the Alpha Version 1.7.0

Alpha Version 1.6.0

1. Fixes for several issues introduced by the new designs of idea collection
2. Integration with the Social Ideation App to sync ideas coming from a facebook group (Participa Project Collaboration)
3. Initial integration of new designs for Campaign Page
4. Initial version of notifications integration in AppCivist 5. Major redesign of the notifications components (parts of which are still in progress)

Alpha Version 1.4.0

New features in this release:

1. Support for OPEN WG and WG that represent Topics (OPEN and thematic by default)
2. Public sites for working groups
3. Assembly homepages
4. Custom fields for any entity in backend, for contribution and feedbacks in frontend
5. Support for some configurations integrated in front-end: hide ideas in campaigns, hidden fields, enable/disable comment section in WG and Campaign dashboards, enable/disable assembly homepage and redirect login that homepage
6. Alpha 2 version of creation patterns (new designs in progress)
7. Alpha support for editing campaigns and working groups
8. Create new proposals from WG page
9. Pagination of contributions in campaign and WG dashboard

Bugs fixed in this release:

• Campaign page losing track of campaignId (#607)
• Sidebar problems showing WGs that are not from current campaign (#581)
• Widths are scrambled when showing ideas (#574)
• Working Group in the list do not coincide with the WGs in the list of creating a proposal (#571)
• On create proposal show only list of WGs of the Current Campaign of which the user is member bug duplicate (#563)
• Fix contextual menu on Contribution Cards bug (#557)
• Minor translation issue bug (#553)
• Hide non-descriptive text in proposal text editor (#551)

Done In previous releases (not documented)

1. Public sites for campaigns
2. Coordination and moderation support at both the level of assemblies and working groups
3. Multi-author proposals
4. New overall design patterns full integration
5. Public comments for anonymous users in campaigns, working groups and proposals (public forums)
6. Extended feedback support (feedback that includes scores)
7. Better integration with Etherpad in backend through Etherpad API
8. Status support in contributions (new, published, excluded)

For previous releases, the list of bugs fixed is too extensive and we encourage you to check milestones prior to April to check on the list of closed issues with label "bugs"

Stable Release without creation patterns

This release introduces the complete redesign of the platform. Creation and onboarding patterns remain for the next release

• Anonymous site + NonMemberAuthors
• Technical Feedback for each proposal (Score + Textual Review from City Staff)
• History of ideas and proposals (Transparency, UI/UX designed by Kalamuna)
• Associate ideas to proposals
• Public comments vs Member comments sections
• Anti-Spam controls
• Moderation features (flagging inappropriate comments)
• Pinned cards (i.e., diaries, user manual)
• Managing proposal statuses (NEW, PUBLISHED, EXCLUDED)
• Limiting published proposal body visibility to the last published version in Etherpad
• Disable editing proposal during deliberation
• Backend services optimizations
• Frontend optimizations
• Operations to cleanup idea and proposal histories after creating them when they contain errors
• Automatically use AppCivist username as Etherpad author
• Exploring and installing additional add-ons for Etherpad to improve the experience of editing proposals
• Changing from using a list of sections for proposal templates to using an Etherpad text
• Uploading data scripts to speed up processes of creation of the instance (non tracked in github)
• Spinner for loading operations
• New messages for error/operation feedback
• Tracking activities for research purposes
• Update User profile

AppCivist PB (a.k.a. CivicBudget) User Interface Alpha 1.0.0

This release

• Full implementation of the basic functionalities for Assembly, Group, Campaign and Proposal Making.

Next Release

• Beta prototype with Idea Management for Assemblies and Working Groups
• Managed Instances for institutional deployment