ChangeWindows 7.5

About 8 months ago, we launched our arguably largest update yet in the form of ChangeWindows 7. This was a major jump for us into the future. And ever since, we’ve been iterating upon this work. A little over a week after 7.0’s release we launched various minor improvements, better mobile integration and dark mode in version 7.1. We improved our menu and allowed you to hide inactive channels another week later in version 7.2. Introduced our very own icon set in the form of Amaranth a month after that in version 7.3. And in November we made various minor improvements including improved sorting, reducing the download size, etc. in version 7.4. We didn’t consider any of these release notable enough for a blog post.

Version 7.5 however is.

Design refresh

Version 7.5 is introducing a design refresh. First off, you’ll find that the sidebar navigation has been reduced in width and a bar has been added at the top. Yes, we did take inspiration from the Microsoft Store.

This new design, especially on small tablets leaves more space for all the content you’d care about.

Search

It took us over 7,5 year, but today is the day. We’re finally introducing a search feature into ChangeWindows.

The new search feature allows you to search through releases, including their name, version, codename, description and of course their changelog.

For now it is limited to releases. You can’t look for specific builds. We’ll work on that in a future update.

More PWA integration

Something you may have noticed in our screenshots; there is no titlebar anymore. As part of version 7.5, we’re introducing support for the window-controls-overlay setting. This API is still very new and only supported so far in Edge 98 and Chrome 98, or behind flags (in Edge this is “Desktop PWA Window Controls Overlay). If you prefer to have a normal titlebar, that’s still an option.

Revamped platforms page

As a part of making information on ChangeWindows easier to gloss over, we’ve revamped the Platforms-page. Releases are now shown below each other in a list rather than on a grid. This especially improves your experience if you’re just looking for which channels are still active for which releases.

Settings page

We cleaned up the Settings page. It was a mess. It’s now more compact, clearer, and much cleaner. And it fits better with Windows 11’s design language too.

Other minor changes

• The “Previous” and “Next” pagination is gone. We finally have full page navigation again. And it looks much better too.
• ChangeWindows now uses code splitting to reduce the amount of content you’ll have to download in case we need to patch something.
• Page titles are now relevant to the page you’re on again, instead of always being “ChangeWindows”.
• We’re putting our higher-tier Patrons in the spotlight on our front page.
• We’ve fixed an issue where Safari on the iPad wouldn’t properly restore the website size after going from landscape to portrait. Yay Safari bugs.
• We’ve fixed the issue where your browser would ask if it should translate ChangeWindows from Danish to your native language… For some reason.