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Fix mobile marketplace background

• Mobile marketplace pages now keep a solid white viewport background instead of exposing the cream document background below the search form.

Update guide page capability screenshot

• The Get Discovered capability now uses the latest guide page and booking experience screenshot.

Refine mobile navigation and footer layout

• Mobile navigation now uses an opaque panel, and the footer stacks centered copyright and navigation rows.

Standardize pricing and FAQ panels

• Pricing and FAQ dark panels now share consistent colors, typography, text styling, and CTA treatment.

Refine mobile marketing header

• Mobile marketing headers now use a centered logo, hamburger navigation, and primary action

Improve mobile marketing navigation

• Added mobile navigation, clearer modal closing, and centered footer layout

Align guide header photo

• Guide photos now align to the right edge of the shared guide-page content

Add oceanscape guide headers

• Guide pages now use an oceanscape banner with an uncropped guide-photo insert

Refine marketing FAQs and navigation

• Updated guide FAQ answers and clarified active marketing navigation

Refine marketplace entry and mobile marketing layout

• Guide Marketplace now opens Location search by default

Improve marketplace and marketing pages

• Updated marketplace navigation, search layout, and marketing content styling.

guideOS 1.0 introduces a unified marketing experience, clearer marketplace discovery, and reservation-first booking when online payments are unavailable.

• Unified marketing navigation, marketplace search modes, FAQ improvements, and reservation-only booking safeguards.

Use the configured local API for Portal registration requests during development.

• Local guide registration confirmation now reaches the local backend.

Add free guide profile landing page

• New standalone free-profile page with a live guide preview and production-only analytics.

Published the IndexNow verification key for guideos.io.

• guideos.io can now verify ownership for IndexNow submissions.

Added Microsoft Clarity analytics across the guideOS marketing and client portal.

• Microsoft Clarity now records production portal sessions.

Fixed Florida kit image asset paths in production.

• Florida kit imagery now uses lowercase static paths that match portal routes.

Added Florida fishing kits with detailed Tarpon fishery locations.

• Florida Tarpon kit now maps ten fisheries across the state.

Clarified the 60-day GuideOS Full trial and guide-controlled plan decision.

• Added a free public guide page comparison against marketplace fee structures.

Renamed the North Carolina redfish kit and removed the summer kit.

• North Carolina redfish content now has a stable redfish route.

Complete the North Carolina bluefish fly-fishing kit.

• Added visual assets across the bluefish kit and fly recommendations.

Linked public guide pages with matching state and species fishery kits.

• Fishery guide results now require the guide primary state and aligned target species.

Promoted the new guide experience to the canonical public guide URLs.

• Public guide pages now use the new mobile-ready trip, launch-map, and booking experience.

Improved the public guide preview for mobile booking and profile browsing.

• Reworked the guide preview layout for a clearer phone experience.

Changed Marketplace to open the location-based guide search by default.

• Marketplace now launches destination search instead of guide-name search.

Restored the destination navigation path to the interactive location finder.

• Destination now opens the location-based guide search instead of the marketing homepage.

Added the public guide preview booking experience and corrected Marketplace discovery routing.

• Public guide preview pages now collect booking contact details and route Marketplace visitors to Find a Guide.

Fix public marketplace navigation

• Pointed marketing marketplace navigation and calls to action at the public guides directory.

Publish public discovery SEO improvements

• Shipped guideos.io routing, crawler policy, sitemap freshness, and public structured data.

Unify public discovery routes on guideos.io

• Added permanent public-host redirects, canonical metadata, crawler policy, sitemap timestamps, and structured data for guideOS discovery pages.

Moved public GuideOS fishing kit pages onto the guideos.io discovery host.

• Kit URLs now redirect to guideos.io and publish guideos.io canonical metadata.

Updated GuideOS fishing kits to the 1.1 content structure and added Cape Lookout false albacore conditions, apparel, and media.

• Rendered clothing recommendations and a responsive two-image False Albacore banner.

Improve fishing kit gear imagery

• Keep gear images square and consistently cropped in published fishing kits.

Improve fishing kit presentation and discovery

• Added compact kit layouts, JSON-driven fly box and tactics imagery, and sitemap entries for published fishing kits.

Publish North Carolina False Albacore kit imagery

• Published the updated False Albacore kit with dedicated species, hero, overview, and tactics imagery.

Fix False Albacore kit gear schema

• Removed an empty gear placeholder so the False Albacore kit loads during static generation.

Add North Carolina False Albacore kit imagery

• Added dedicated hero, overview, tactics, and species imagery for the False Albacore research kit.

Refined the False Albacore kit imagery.

• Updated the kit header photo and removed the species illustration background.

Added North Carolina false albacore research kit assets and content.

• Published False Albacore kit imagery and researched fly, gear, and tactics guidance.

Added North Carolina bluefish and seasonal redfish research kits.

• Added Bluefish and Summer Redfish kit packages with structured research, gear, and tactic content.

Add North Carolina False Albacore fly research kit

• Publish the research-backed False Albacore kit with flies, gear, tactics, mapping, and references.

Add North Carolina False Albacore fly research kit

• Publish the research-backed False Albacore kit with flies, gear, tactics, mapping, and references.

Improves marketplace search editing on mobile and desktop.

• City suggestions now wait for a useful prefix and search fields include touch-friendly clear controls.

Retire legacy portal guide UI and standalone prototypes

• Redirect legacy guide routes to the dedicated guide app and remove obsolete portal guide code.

Route secure authentication through the BFF

• Login and password reset requests use protected BFF routes.

Ensure registration security checks render

• Registration displays the Turnstile security check.

Fix registration BFF route selection

• Registration no longer uses the legacy API rewrite.

Fix secure registration proxy upstream

• Protected requests use the App Platform API ingress.

Fix registration BFF upstream selection

• Production registration ignores injected loopback API URLs.

Fix secure registration BFF routing

• Registration requests now use the App Platform API ingress.

Restricted registration network limits to Cloudflare-provided client addresses.

• Network-level registration limits now trust only the Cloudflare client IP header.

Added Turnstile verification and durable registration request limits.

• Registration now requires a verified Turnstile challenge and is rate-limited by email and network.

Harden registration API access

• Route public registration through server-side API credentials.

Close production registration

• Removed production registration submission actions.

Improve public marketing SEO and discovery

• Added charter software metadata and crawlable directory links.

Improve public marketing SEO and discovery

• Added fishing charter software metadata and crawlable directory links.

Added client Marketplace discovery by destination, guide name, and target species.

• Clients can search bookable guides by name or fish species with an optional state filter.

Simplified the public guideOS marketing surface and unified its retained legal and release pages.

• Removed retired marketing routes and SEO page links.
• Added shared marketing navigation, raised panel styling, and compact release-note previews with a full-detail modal.

Refined the guideOS marketing homepage with clearer charter-business positioning, expanded lead capture, and a detailed lifecycle comparison.

• Added a dismissible detailed comparison modal and a complete request-information contact form.

Route guide software landing pages to the marketing host

• The four fishing guide software keyword pages now serve directly from guideos.io and retain one authoritative B2B URL.

Keep guide software keyword pages on the marketing host

• The four fishing guide software landing pages now serve directly from guideos.io and redirect app-host requests to their authoritative B2B URLs.

Fixed public guide, location, species, and software pages that could fail during static rendering.

• Crawler-visible public pages now render reliably on the correct host.

Kept guideOS marketing and public trip meta descriptions within search-result snippet guidance.

• Search descriptions now stay within 160 characters across generated marketing pages.

Fixed sitemap generation when release-note display dates are parsed by the production runtime.

• The public sitemap now remains available after portal releases.

Expanded the homepage FAQ with guide-management questions that distinguish guideOS from booking-first marketplaces.

• Clarified client ownership, direct booking growth, tool consolidation, and use alongside existing channels.

Removed the Charter Pro subscription assumption from the public pricing calculator.

• Kept the interactive Charter Pro annual cost comparison available.

Expanded guideOS marketing with search-focused guide software pages and richer homepage positioning.

• Request-more-information leads now notify the guideOS team.
• Homepage pricing now highlights guideOS's flat $75 plan and no marketplace commissions.

Refined the marketing comparison flow so full lifecycle capabilities lead into cost and revenue context.

• Placed the lifecycle capability matrix before the cost and revenue model.
• Kept the standalone pricing section after the comparisons.

Expanded the marketing comparison section with transparent cost, revenue-model, and full lifecycle capability views.

• Added a dedicated cost and commission comparison table.
• Added a 20-capability lifecycle matrix with clear Yes, Partial, and No ratings.

Rebuilt the guideOS marketing experience in React with shared page chrome, expanded lifecycle positioning, and interactive feature previews.

• Unified marketing headers and footers across public pages.
• Added feature preview popouts with guideOS workflow screenshots.
• Expanded the guide-management lifecycle comparison.

Complete GuideOS mobile, Trip Review, and Manual Booking workflow update.

• Kept the mobile bottom navigation anchored while scrolling and fixed Today booking-confirmation cards so their Review booking action stays correctly placed.
• Simplified Trip Review across mobile and desktop with direct call and email actions, editable active launch locations, protected saves, client notifications, and ledger-backed payment recording.
• Completed Manual Booking with active launch-location selection, server-validated creation, a compact availability-aware calendar that disables unavailable dates, and a corrected creation failure.

Correct the public release history for the GuideOS mobile workflow batch.

• Version 0.1.8 now accurately covers the Calendar, Clients, Today, and Trip Report mobile workflow improvements shipped with that release.

Improve GuideOS mobile workflows across Calendar, Clients, Today, and Trip Reports.

• Reworked Calendar manual booking into guided client, date, trip, booking, and payment steps with intentional discard and completion exits.
• Improved mobile Client, Today, and Trip Report workflows so core details and actions remain practical on smaller screens.
• Prevented iPhone and Chrome focus zoom across GuideOS editable fields, including mobile sheets and dialogs.

Prevent automatic mobile zoom across portal guide field workflows.

• All mobile guide field inputs, text areas, and selects now use a 16px editing size, including modal and sheet forms.

Prevent the mobile keyboard from resizing Add Client workflows.

• The Clients and Manual Booking Add Client dialogs now request software keyboard overlay behavior without changing other mobile screens.

Keep guide field-mode dialogs at a stable mobile height while the keyboard is open.

• Manual booking, client workflows, calendar, templates, setup, trip reports, and campaign dialogs no longer resize with the mobile keyboard.

This portal release simplifies the public marketing navigation and makes release history easier to scan.

• Moved Release Notes out of the top marketing navigation while keeping it available in the site footer.
• Kept Sign in and Start free actions on one line in the shared marketing header.
• Rebuilt the Release Notes page as a functional fixed-card list with More controls for longer entries.

This platform release rolls forward the latest guideOS mobile workflow fixes and publishes them in the public release history.

• Published the latest guideOS mobile fixes on the public Release Notes page with a new platform semantic version.
• Included mobile trip-report flow fixes so long content no longer traps core actions mid-screen.
• Included mobile shell protections that keep back navigation inside guideOS and restore the viewport after text entry closes.

This release adds release-guard enforcement so portal and guide changes cannot be pushed to main without the matching semantic version and release-note updates.

• Added a repo-managed pre-push hook that blocks main pushes when portal or guide changes are missing their release metadata updates.
• Added a GitHub Actions release guard workflow for pull requests and pushes to main.
• Added shared Copilot release instructions so portal and guide changes follow the semantic release workflow by default.

This release adds the public guideOS Release Notes page and exposes it in the visible marketing navigation so deployment history is easy to find.

• Added a public Release Notes page with newest-first deployment entries and two prior real releases.
• Exposed Release Notes in the shared marketing navigation, public route allowlist, and sitemap.
• Added major/minor/patch portal release commands that keep package.json, package-lock.json, and release history synchronized.

This release refines guide client workflows and tightens the mobile guideOS experience across the highest-friction screens.

• Improved guide client workflows with stronger bulk import/export handling and wildcard client retrieval support.
• Simplified client list presentation with paginated results that are easier to scan and manage.
• Refined mobile and web UX for menus, headers, sizing, and modal behavior so critical actions stay visible.

This release expanded guide client search so guides can retrieve all associated clients with a wildcard lookup when they need a broad list quickly.

• Added wildcard `*` support for guide client search.
• Improved the client lookup flow for larger guide-owned client lists.
• Made all-client retrieval easier during day-to-day guide operations.

This release improved guideOS mobile navigation and sharpened calendar details so high-use mobile screens are easier to operate on the water.

• Improved guide mobile navigation visibility.
• Refined calendar and day-detail readability on smaller screens.
• Reduced friction in the mobile guide workflow for common daily actions.