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Changelog ​

What's actually shipped — pulled from the commit log, not marketing.

Format: Keep a Changelog. Versioning: SemVer.

Unreleased ​

Added ​

  • Docs site hosted as a subpath of the main app: insposearch.org/docs/. VitePress build output lives in insposearch/docs/ and ships with the Pages deploy — no separate Pages project
  • In-page contact form on the institutions page (FormSubmit.co-backed, no backend, honeypot-protected)

Changed ​

  • View Docs CTA and in-app docs link now point to /docs/ instead of the decommissioned insposearch-docs.pages.dev

1.1.0 — 2026-04-21 (current) ​

Focus: stop the "infinite scroll runs out at page 2" problem, make exact mode genuinely exact, and put a real default AI provider in place so analysis works without BYOK.

Added ​

  • Workers AI as default vision provider — LLaVA 1.5 runs on Cloudflare's edge; analyse now works with zero keys configured. BYOK (Gemini / Claude / OpenAI / Ollama) still overrides when set
  • Opt-in community metadata layer — users can contribute enrichment tags via the /contribute endpoint; data is reviewed before entering the shared corpus
  • 3-lane load-more dispatcher — Lane A (fresh pages), Lane B (query variations), Lane C (pool widening). Infinite scroll now keeps producing distinct results past page 5
  • RRF fusion + MMR diversification on the unified result stream — reduces near-duplicates across sources, surfaces visually varied results first
  • Deep-link URL state — query, mode, and source selection survive reload and are shareable
  • Datamuse qualifier pool for Lane B rotation in exact mode — expands queries with linguistically related terms instead of synonyms that drift off-intent
  • Paginated adapter coverage expanded from 17 to 29 sources — more sources participate in load-more instead of stalling after page 1
  • Race-safe nightly fetch for CORS-blocked sources (GitHub Actions with rebase-and-retry push logic)
  • Diacritic regression tests for Van Gogh / Dürer / Matisse-class queries across Met, Rijks, Europeana

Changed ​

  • Worker endpoints expanded to 10: /search, /sources, /random, /health, /proxy, /semantic, /caption, /tags, /contribute, /board
  • Fetch concurrency raised to 40; slow-source timeout ceiling raised to 12s
  • Source health scoped per query intent, reset on each new query — a source that misses on vermeer is no longer penalised when you search brutalism
  • Intent penalty relaxed for weakly-classified queries so ambiguous terms don't over-filter

Fixed ​

  • Analyse button now acts on the panel-previewed item, not only the grid-selected one
  • Analyse no longer early-returns when BYOK is empty — Workers AI default path fires as intended
  • Met / Europeana / Rijks exact-mode matching across diacritic variants (van gogh ↔ Van Gogh ↔ van Gog)
  • Load-more actually yields new items (was silently returning duplicates)
  • Deep-link URL updates on every search (module binding reassignment bug)
  • Met CORS proxy, Smithsonian 429 handling, KHM mixed content, favicon 504 flood, 7 dead source APIs disabled, 14 manifest validation errors
  • Single-word category queries no longer collapse to empty results
  • Image proxy URL corrected to the official subdomain

1.0.0 — 2025-10-01 — Initial public release ​

  • Unified client-side search across 2,400+ cultural heritage sources (static registry + Europeana / DPLA dynamic provider discovery)
  • Search modes: exact (precision) and explore (recall)
  • Infinite-scroll result grid with quality gates and preload-then-append rendering
  • Detail view with metadata, arrow-key navigation, colour palette extraction
  • Board view (localStorage + shared-via-KV boards with 30-day TTL)
  • Deep zoom via OpenSeadragon for IIIF-compatible sources
  • 3D constellation view for visual similarity exploration
  • Interpret: cross-reference any image across all sources
  • 101 interface languages (6 hand-translated + 95 generated)
  • Keys panel for optional provider authentication (stored in localStorage, sent only to the respective provider)
  • Dark-first monospace UI (Cormorant Garamond + DM Mono), AGPL-3.0

Reading the commit log directly ​

For anything between releases: github.com/GI-Synth/InspoSearch/commits/main.

· AGPL-3.0 · app · github

Open-source cultural heritage image search. Licensed under the GNU Affero General Public License v3.