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Changelog

Features, improvements, and fixes shipped to Materials Prep. We post updates here when they reach the bench, not when the commit lands.

Pricing tiers, audit log, SSO, and a trust page

Plan tiers and a 14-day trial land. Organization admins get a real audit log and OAuth domain binding. A new trust page lays out how your data is stored and protected.

New

  • Pricing page and plan tiers (Free, Lab, Multi-Lab, Multi-Lab Plus, Unlimited) with a one-click 14-day Multi-Lab trial.
  • OAuth sign-in via Google and Microsoft, alongside email + password and magic-link.
  • Domain-bound SSO (Multi-Lab and above): claim an email domain and OAuth sign-ins from that domain auto-join your organization.
  • Audit log viewer at Organization → Audit log, with filters and CSV export. Append-only, encrypted at rest, accessible to org admins.
  • Lab data export under Settings → Export.
  • Suggested recipes card on the sample detail page, ranked by past use on similar samples.
  • Etchant edit UI for Pace org admins to maintain the catalog.
  • Organization profile, admins, and members management pages.
  • Trust page covering data isolation, access control, encryption, image storage, audit logging, subprocessors, backups, data export, and our compliance posture.
  • Trust link added to the marketing footer alongside Privacy and Terms.

Improved

  • Etchants catalog: full reagent list now loads (the 600-row cap is gone), filtering and search are instant, and admin edits propagate immediately.
  • Etchant catalog content: editorial passes on application notes, Pace-list audit, ASTM/Adler/Beaudry-Myklebust naming corrections.

Onboarding, help center, and prep workflow polish

New labs get a guided start, sign-in gets simpler, and grinding and polishing entries get faster to log.

New

  • Onboarding checklist that walks a new lab through its first sample, recipe, and etchant.
  • Help center with quick-reference guides.
  • Magic-link sign-in as an alternative to password.
  • Image scale recorded on micrographs so dimensions travel with the photo.
  • Structured step parameters per step type, replacing free-text fields.
  • Recipe feedback so technicians can flag what worked and what didn't.
  • Safety notes on etchants, surfaced where the technician picks them.

Improved

  • Searchable abrasives in grinding and polishing entries.
  • Clone-last-step option to repeat a previous prep entry quickly.
  • Inline Clone-step modal on the sample detail page for grind and polish entries.
  • Abrasive ordering follows your locale: FEPA grit primary outside the US.
  • Free-text combobox replaced with a click-open dropdown plus an Other (specify) option.

Fixed

  • Atlas-add no longer silently fails on journal entries.
  • Atlas detail page renders cleanly after an unexpected error.

Multi-material samples and member management

Samples can capture more than one material region, lab admins can shape sample IDs to match their existing scheme, and member management lands.

New

  • Multi-material sample regions with specimen templates.
  • Customizable sample ID format for lab admins.
  • Members management page for adding, removing, and changing roles inside a lab.
  • Realtime updates so changes from other lab members appear without a manual refresh.
  • Sample creator shown on the samples list.
  • Filter samples by the user who added them.

Improved

  • Added-by filter pills and table column polished.

Atlas, etchants, studies, recipes, and reports

The full prep surface comes online. Every feature on the homepage now exists in the app, plus admin tooling for organizations.

New

  • Atlas of micrographs, searchable by alloy, condition, and etchant.
  • Etchant catalog with composition, target alloys, and use tags.
  • Studies that group samples for failure analysis, qualification, and R&D.
  • Recipes with draft, under-validation, and approved states.
  • Report PDFs.
  • Materials archive.
  • Organization admins can delete labs, with safety guards.

Improved

  • Cmd+K search refreshes its index on every open.
  • Samples list paginated to 50 rows with an exact total count.
  • Etchant catalog cleaned up and expanded.

Initial release

Materials Prep ships as a working metallography ELN: samples, prep journals, and lab-scoped roles.

New

  • Per-sample prep journals covering mounting, grinding, polishing, and etching.
  • Lab and organization scoping with admin, technician, and viewer roles.
  • Image storage tied to each sample's prep entries.