What's New

✨ New Features

• Itinerary Copilot: Rewrite any part of your trip — swap a single stop, refresh just your morning, or make a whole day cheaper or more walkable — without losing the rest of your plan.
• Pacing Indicators: Each day now shows a relaxed, balanced, or tight label so you know at a glance how packed your schedule is.
• Smarter Wizard: A streamlined setup with a dual-calendar date picker, separate adult and child counts, plus pace and travel-style preferences.
• Dark Mode: A beautiful dark theme that follows your system preference.
• Export & Share: Download your itinerary as a PDF or text file, print it, or share it with friends via email and social media.
• Photo Contributions: Submit photos for specific places right from an activity — the uploader already knows which place you're helping with.
• AI Knowledge Base: The AI now learns from every itinerary, reusing and refining descriptions to keep recommendations consistent and high-quality over time.
• Seasonal Intelligence: Itineraries are now season-aware, so you won't get ice-skating suggestions in July or patio recommendations in January.

🎨 Design & Experience

• Fully Responsive: The entire app now works beautifully on phones and tablets, with a slide-out navigation drawer and touch-friendly layouts.
• Welcoming Empty States: New onboarding screens guide first-time users through creating their very first itinerary.
• Custom 404 Page: A fun, Winnipeg-themed "you've gone off the map" page.
• FAQ Page: Comprehensive answers to common questions about planning, editing, photos, and your account.
• Redesigned Footer: A modern layout with quick links and social media.
• Bigger Activity Photos: The activity detail view is larger and now shows proper photo credits.

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed the AI not generating itineraries after completing the setup wizard.
• Fixed the login button not responding on the homepage.
• Fixed photo uploads not remembering which place they were for.
• Fixed blurry placeholder images showing instead of hiding gracefully.
• Various mobile layout and navigation fixes.

🔒 Security

• Admin pages are now protected — only authorized accounts can access them.
• Added a safety prompt when leaving during itinerary generation to prevent lost work.

✨ New Features

• Meet the Creator: Added a "Who I Am" button in the sidebar to share a little about the developer behind the app and the mission to build the best Winnipeg guide.

🔒 Security Enhancements

• Dependency Updates: Updated core application dependencies to patch a security vulnerability and improve overall stability.

🏗️ Architectural Refactor

• Modular Homepage: Refactored the entire landing page into smaller, isolated, and reusable React components for improved maintainability and performance.

✨ New Features

• Pricing Section: Added a new "Pricing" section to the homepage to clearly communicate that the application is free to use and to outline all included features.

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Icon Alignment: Fixed a visual bug in the "Back to Top" button where the double chevron icons were misaligned. They are now correctly stacked.

✨ New Features

• Multiple Itinerary Support: Users can now create, save, and manage multiple distinct trip plans.

🏗️ Architectural Refactor

• Dedicated "My Trips" Page: Created a new page at /mytrip to serve as a central hub for all of the user's saved trips.
• Revamped Trip Context: Overhauled the core TripContext to manage a list of trips and a currently active trip, enabling the multi-itinerary functionality.
• Firestore Data Model Update: Migrated trip storage to a trips subcollection under each user's document.

✨ New Features

• Efficient AI Templating System: Implemented a Firestore-based caching strategy for itineraries to minimize redundant AI calls and improve performance.
• Instant Itinerary Generation: Added "one-click" buttons to the AI Planner for generating instant trip itineraries.
• Firestore Data Persistence: Migrated all user trip data from `localStorage` to Firebase Firestore for cross-device syncing.

🎨 UI/UX Enhancements

• Itinerary Roadmap View: Redesigned the AI Trip Planner results into a vertical "roadmap" timeline.
• Activity Lightbox: Implemented a modal view for activity details.

✨ New Features

• AI-Powered Itinerary Generator: Integrated Genkit to create personalized trip itineraries.
• Interactive Interstitial Wizard: Added a multi-step welcome wizard to collect user preferences.

🎨 UI/UX Enhancements

• Overhauled the UI using ShadCN components and Lucide-React icons for a modern look.

🎉 Initial Release

• Basic Next.js application structure with simple views for Explore, My Trip, and Community Tips.