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Changelog

Every saved version of Seder Hayom, newest first. Times are shown in Eastern Time.

Version94
  • Fixed AllDaf Daf Yomi matching for Bechorot by normalizing the OU spelling Bechoros.
  • Fixed All Mishnah matching for Oholot by using the official Ohalos spelling, and added a shared -ot/-os fallback for future tractate-name differences.
  • Added Mishnah Berurah Yomi siman lookup to the assignment finder using dates from the official archive.
Version93
  • Added a holiday-aware Torah reading guide with an Israel/Diaspora switch and matching Shnayim Mikra and calendar-feed assignments.
  • Added an autocomplete assignment finder, personal learning history, and searchable passage notes.
  • Added a sequential shiur queue, shared playback controls, and a large-screen shul display.
  • Added opt-in encrypted cloud sync for manually saving and merging My Seder preferences, completions, and notes across devices, with a private recovery key and a delete-cloud-copy option.
  • Kept private JSON export/import as an offline backup and transfer option.
Version92
  • Corrected the diaspora Shnayim Mikra calendar to assign Vezot Haberakhah before Simchat Torah instead of skipping ahead to Bereshit during the Sukkot festival Shabbatot.
  • Resumed Bereshit assignments on Simchat Torah and clarified the card’s holiday-period heading.
Version91
  • Added My Seder cycle selection and a persistent daily completion checklist.
  • Added after-sunset Jewish-day guidance, automatic shiur resume, reading preferences, and a distraction-free focus view.
  • Added a catch-up planner, selected-cycle calendar subscription, offline day saving, and direct sharing for a day or individual learning cycle.
  • Made personalized cycle choices flow through the on-screen cards and every print format.
Version90
  • Aligned Hebrew and English Yerushalmi reference headings by keeping passage-only optical spacing off the headings.
Version89
  • Fine-tuned the vertical alignment of Hebrew and English first lines and numbered badges in paired learning texts, including Kitzur and Shnayim Mikra.
Version88
  • Aligned Hebrew and English verses side by side in Nach and Shnayim Mikra, with matching se'ifim in Kitzur and passages in Yerushalmi.
  • Kept later entries aligned even when one translation is missing, including in print and mobile layouts.
Version87
  • Prevented older cached learning texts from persisting after site updates by versioning daily text requests.
Version86
  • Fixed square missing-glyph characters in the Hebrew text of Chullin 137 and other Sefaria passages containing qamats qatan.
Version85
  • Kept keyboard focus inside the print, color, and feedback dialogs and returned it to the opening control when each dialog closed.
  • Made custom theme colors readable across on-screen controls and print layouts, including very pale colors.
  • Improved narrow-screen touch controls and localized the feedback topics in Hebrew.
  • Polished the color picker, print options, and learning-cycle navigation without changing their underlying functions.
Version84
  • Fixed a production error during holiday-only Torah-reading weeks.
  • Shnayim Mikra now continues with the next regular weekly parashah when Shabbos has a festival reading, beginning with Ha'azinu during Rosh Hashanah week.
Version83
  • Corrected the date navigator in Hebrew interface mode so the left button points left and the right button points right for both Gregorian and Hebrew date pickers.
Version82
  • Corrected date-navigation arrows in the Hebrew date picker so the right arrow selects the previous day and the left arrow selects the next day.
Version81
  • Added a choice between Gregorian and Hebrew date selection while preserving previous-day, next-day, and Return to Today navigation.
  • Added synchronized Hebrew day, month, and year controls that respect Hebrew leap years and month lengths.
Version80
  • Removed unused starter database, authentication, example, and placeholder asset code after a repository-wide Ponytail audit.
  • Standardized the project on npm and removed the duplicate pnpm lockfile and workspace configuration.
  • Consolidated repeated HTML text decoding into one shared helper while preserving every learning cycle and published route.
Version79
  • Removed the dark top border from the custom color spectrum.
  • Added a live RGB Hex readout that updates continuously as the color selection moves.
Version78
  • Replaced the three custom-color sliders with a single two-dimensional spectrum picker.
  • Added mouse, touch, and keyboard controls across hue and brightness while keeping the picker eyedropper-free.
Version77
  • Removed the system color picker and its eyedropper from the site.
  • Replaced it with built-in hue, saturation, and brightness sliders that still allow any custom theme color.
Version76
  • Fixed the custom color picker so slider changes update the site continuously after sampling a color with the eyedropper.
  • Stopped site re-renders from forcing the previously sampled color back into the open system color picker.
  • Restored Bookmark to the original browser print and Save as PDF workflow at the user’s request.
  • Removed the flattened bookmark download introduced in version 75.
Version75
  • Changed Bookmark export to download a pre-flattened PDF instead of opening the browser print dialog.
  • Rendered each bookmark as a single 300-DPI image on an exact 2-inch by 6-inch PDF page so Canva cannot rearrange its text or design elements.
  • Preserved the selected language, date, learning assignments, theme color, logo, QR code, and completion checkboxes in the flattened file.
Version74
  • Made the boy-and-sefer logo inherit the user’s selected site color while preserving its contrasting gold details.
  • Applied the theme-aware logo consistently to the website header and every branded print layout.
Version73
  • Added a faint, vertically centered completion checkbox at the outer edge of every learning item on printable bookmarks.
  • Positioned bookmark checkboxes correctly for both English and right-to-left Hebrew layouts.
Version72
  • Reduced the size of the Return to today label for a quieter date-navigation layout.
  • Redesigned the color palette control as a polished circular spectrum icon with soft depth and highlight.
Version71
  • Replaced the three-color switcher with a compact palette offering six coordinated themes and a custom color picker.
  • Extended saved theme colors throughout the site and every print format.
  • Changed printable bookmarks to an exact 2-inch by 6-inch page and rebalanced their typography, spacing, logo, QR code, and borders to fit cleanly.
  • Tightened the spacing between the date navigator and Return to today while keeping the navigator stationary.
Version70
  • Moved Return to today onto a dedicated row beneath the date selector.
  • Reserved consistent space for the link so the date navigator remains stationary while moving between dates.
Version69
  • Fixed the remaining blurry-video issue by replacing JW Player’s generic 320×180 MP4 fallback with the lesson’s explicit 1080p source.
  • Kept the adaptive HLS stream as a fallback when direct high-definition metadata is unavailable.
Version68
  • Switched embedded AllDaf and related OU video lessons to their adaptive high-resolution HLS streams instead of preferring lower-quality direct files.
  • Added cross-browser adaptive streaming with automatic quality selection and a direct-file fallback if HLS playback is unavailable.
Version67
  • Applied the currently selected green, blue, or light-red theme to every print format, including Full Learning, Daily Schedule, Weekly Schedule, and Bookmark.
  • Updated printable borders, headings, accents, backgrounds, and footer treatments while preserving print-friendly contrast.
Version66
  • Made Control+P and Command+P open the Seder Hayom print-format picker instead of immediately opening the browser’s full-learning print dialog.
Version65
  • Consolidated all print formats into one Print button and an accessible format picker.
  • Added clear choices for Full Learning, Daily Schedule, Weekly Schedule, and Bookmark.
  • Simplified the mobile header while preserving the specialized iOS print behavior for every format.
Version64
  • Preloaded the current week’s Mishnah Berurah assignments in the background so Bookmark and Weekly printing usually opens immediately.
  • Removed the fixed launch delay from Schedule, Bookmark, and Weekly print modes.
  • Restored site interaction and cleared the Preparing state almost immediately after users cancel or leave the print dialog.
Version63
  • Kept specialized print modes active while iOS users switch between portrait and landscape in the native print preview.
  • Made the weekly schedule request landscape orientation by default through an iOS-compatible print-time page rule.
  • Delayed iOS print cleanup until the browser page actually regains focus after the print sheet closes.
Version62
  • Fixed iOS Chrome printing so Schedule, Bookmark, and Weekly retain their specialized layouts instead of falling back to the full-text PDF view.
  • Applied print modes synchronously, reinforced them at print time, and delayed cleanup until the mobile print preview has captured the selected format.
Version61
  • Contained the mobile header within the viewport and made its controls a smooth horizontal swipe strip while keeping the site logo anchored.
  • Prevented header overflow from shifting the entire mobile page sideways.
Version60
  • Fixed Rabbi Aryeh Lebowitz’s Mishnah Yomit lesson lookup by matching both daily mishnayot through All Mishnah metadata, including lessons that cross from one perek to the next.
Version59
  • Balanced Hebrew bookmark assignment lines and refined Mishnah Berurah sizing to prevent orphaned final digits.
Version58
  • Moved the Hebrew bookmark logo to the left of its title while keeping the complete brand lockup aligned to the right.
Version57
  • Reversed external-link arrows throughout the Hebrew interface so they point up and to the left.
Version56
  • Placed the Shnayim Mikra citation on a new line after the aliyah number on printable bookmarks.
Version55
  • Moved the weekly Shnayim Mikra line break to follow the aliyah number.
  • Renamed Saturday to Shabbos in English weekly schedules and ordered Hebrew weekly schedules from right to left.
  • Translated every Mishnah Berurah Siman and Seif label into Hebrew and removed all nekudot from Hebrew weekly calendars and bookmarks.
  • Corrected Hebrew bookmark column sizing and moved its brand lockup to the right.
Version54
  • Made printable bookmarks and weekly schedules resolve the actual Mishnah Berurah assignment for every displayed date before printing.
  • Placed the Shnayim Mikra parashah name on its own line in the weekly schedule for faster scanning.
Version53
  • Added a professionally designed printable daily-learning bookmark with the selected date and all seven learning assignments.
  • Added a one-page landscape weekly schedule running from Sunday through Shabbos, with all seven learning cycles for every day.
  • Included Seder Hayom branding, the main site URL, and a scannable logo-centered QR code on the new print formats.
  • Removed nekudot from Hebrew dates throughout the site and every print format.
Version52
  • Made single-page page-view tracking deterministic across date and learning-cycle navigation.
  • Added shiur play, progress, and completion analytics with learning-cycle, date, maggid, provider, and media-type context.
  • Configured Analytics reporting dimensions, meaningful key events, and 14-month event retention.
  • Verified that every URL in the submitted sitemap is indexed by Google.
Version51
  • Kept the header controls, including the English/Hebrew switcher, in the same position in both language modes.
Version50
  • Reverted the unintended naming, schedule-printing, and Shnayim Mikra button changes from version 49.
  • Kept the new reverse-chronological changelog as the only site feature from that revision.
Version49
  • Added the first /changelog page.
  • Included naming, printing, and button changes that were reverted in version 50.
Version48
  • Simplified Mishna Yomi teacher labels, centered the text-toggle icons, and added the site version to the footer.
Version47
  • Added a persistent Mishna Yomi maggid shiur selector with Rabbi Aryeh Lebowitz, Rabbi Ezra Sarna, and Rabbi Joseph Dana.
  • Added continuous playback for Rabbi Joseph Dana’s two daily Mishnah recordings.
Version46
  • Added persistent green, blue, and light-red color themes.
Version45
  • Refined feedback presentation and made schedule-print styling consistent across cycle views.
Version44
  • Added a feedback link to the footer and simplified the feedback form copy.
Version43
  • Added a private feedback form that sends submissions without exposing the owner’s email address.
Version42
  • Moved the schedule and source guide to permanent, indexable routes.
Version41
  • Added indexable pages for each daily learning cycle.
Version40
  • Improved search metadata, canonical URLs, structured data, robots directives, and the sitemap.
Version39
  • Added the site URL, “Any date,” and “Always free” messaging to the social preview graphic.
Version38
  • Refreshed the site’s social link-preview graphic.
Version37
  • Placed the Seder Hayom logo in the center of the QR code.
Version36
  • Sharpened the printable flyer’s visual design.
Version35
  • Introduced the learner-at-a-sefer logo, refined card identity, removed card badges, and expanded the Shnayim Mikra title citation.
Version34
  • Simplified the printable flyer wording.
Version33
  • Redesigned the printable learning content and schedule layouts, including a promotional flyer section.
Version32
  • Updated printed materials to use the seder-hayom.com custom domain.
Version31
  • Added a site QR code to printed schedules.
Version30
  • Added the site URL to printouts.
Version29
  • Added a compact print option for the daily schedule without learning content.
Version28
  • Preserved expanded and collapsed card state after printing and routed browser printing through the printable layout.
Version27
  • Simplified the print button to a printer icon and “PDF.”
Version26
  • Compacted the date banner and moved cycle navigation above it.
Version25
  • Restored cycle navigation below the date section.
Version24
  • Moved cycle navigation into the site header.
Version23
  • Added cycle navigation and focused full-size views for individual learning cycles.
Version22
  • Added aligned Sefaria text for Talmud Yerushalmi.
Version21
  • Added Talmud Yerushalmi with an AllDaf shiur.
Version20
  • Removed the decorative audio play icon from learning cards.
Version19
  • Removed the repeated player assignment tagline.
Version18
  • Added a daily Kitzur Shulchan Aruch Yomi audio shiur.
Version17
  • Switched Rabbi Eli Stefansky’s Talmud Bavli player from YouTube to AllDaf.
  • Compacted the header controls and removed the site tagline.
Version16
  • Added Rabbi Yaakov Trump’s Nach Yomi shiur from All Parsha.
Version15
  • Made learning cards rearrangeable and preserved each user’s preferred order.
Version14
  • Moved Mishnah Berurah audio delivery to a production-compatible route.
Version13
  • Fixed same-day Mishnah Berurah audio discovery.
Version12
  • Added daily Mishnah Berurah audio.
Version11
  • Added Mishnah Berurah Yomi with the official daily PDF embedded as its text.
Version10
  • Restored Seder Hayom after an unintended project replacement.
Version9
  • Temporarily replaced the site with an unrelated learning project; this was reverted in version 10.
Version8
  • Added a persistent Talmud Bavli maggid shiur selector for five AllDaf teachers.
Version7
  • Added se’if markers to Kitzur Shulchan Aruch Yomi text.
Version6
  • Added pasuk, perek, siman, and se’if labels across Shnayim Mikra, Nach Yomi, and Kitzur text.
Version5
  • Labeled each Mishnah in the Mishna Yomi text section.
Version4
  • Added an English and Hebrew interface switcher.
Version3
  • Added Google Analytics tracking.
Version2
  • Made lesson players float while readers scroll through text.
Version1
  • Built the initial Seder Hayom daily learning site.
  • Added daily shiur players.
  • Published the site at its dedicated Seder Hayom URL.