Changelog

All user-facing updates and improvements to ReCV. AI.

🗂️ Job Tracker — Track Every Application in One Place

• New Job Tracker Tab on Your Dashboard: A brand-new Job Tracker tab is now available alongside your CVs and Cover Letters in the dashboard. Use it to keep track of every job you've applied to — all in one compact, organized view.
• Track What Matters: For each application, you can record the position name, company, where you applied (LinkedIn, JobStreet, Glints, Kalibrr, Indeed, company website, Google Forms, email, or others), the current stage, and the date you applied.
• Application Stages: Easily update the stage of each application — Applied, Psychological Test, HR Interview, User Interview, Offering, Rejected, or Ghosted — so you always know where you stand.
• Optional Details (When You Need Them): Expand the "More Details" section to add extra context: a link to the job posting, salary range, work arrangement (Remote/Hybrid/On-site), interview date, a follow-up reminder date, a recruiter's name, a note about which CV and Cover Letter you used, and private notes.
• Link to Your CVs & Cover Letters: Directly connect an application to one of your saved CVs and Cover Letters — so you always know exactly which version you sent to which company.
• Application Statistics: See your pipeline at a glance with 4 live stat cards: Total Applied, In Progress (interviews), Offers Received, and Rejected/Ghosted.
• Search & Filter: Quickly find any application by searching by company or job title, or filter by stage (e.g., show only active interviews, or only rejections).
• Tier Limits: Free accounts can track up to 5 applications, Starter up to 30, and Pro up to 60. Upgrading unlocks more slots.
• Fully Bilingual: The entire Job Tracker experience is available in both English and Bahasa Indonesia.
• Upcoming Schedule Reminders Banner: An alert card appears automatically at the top of your Job Tracker whenever you have an interview or follow-up scheduled. It shows accurate countdowns — from Today and Tomorrow (~X hours left) to multi-day countdowns — and lets you quickly open and review your application details. If you have multiple reminders on the same day or week, you can expand them with one click.
• Helper Subtexts on Every Field: Not sure what a field is for? Every input has a clear explanation right below it — no guessing required.

✨ Hard Skills & Soft Skills — Now Separated!

• Separate Your Skills by Category: The Skills section in the Fill page now has a new Mode toggle. Switch from the classic flat list to Hard / Soft Skills mode to split your skills into two distinct categories — Hard Skills (technical abilities) and Soft Skills (interpersonal strengths).
• Smart Migration: When you switch to Hard / Soft mode for the first time, your existing skills are automatically moved into the Hard Skills column — nothing is lost. You can then drag Soft Skills over as needed.
• Looks Great on Every Template: All 9 templates support the split layout, each styled to match the template's personality — labeled rows for clean templates, side-by-side columns for structured ones, and grouped sections in sidebar templates.
• Fully Optional: This is an opt-in feature. If you prefer your current flat skills list, nothing changes — just leave the toggle on "Flat List".

🛡️ Login Protection

• Smart Typo Safeguard on Sign In / Sign Up: We've upgraded the login typo detector with dynamic similarity matching. If you mistype your email domain (such as @gmai.com, @gmial.com, @gmailll.com, or @outlok.com), the app intelligently catches the mistake and displays a confirmation prompt before sending the magic link — while safely letting legitimate custom and company email domains pass through without interruption.

📁 Import Improvements

• 5 MB File Size Limit on CV Import: To keep imports fast and reliable, PDF imports are now limited to 5 MB. Most CVs are well under 1 MB, so this won't affect typical use. If your file exceeds this, try exporting a smaller version from your design tool.

🛡️ AI & Security Guardrails

• Smarter Job Title Protection: When tailoring your CV or generating a cover letter, our AI now performs a fast pre-flight check on the target job title. Fictional or joke job titles are automatically filtered out before analysis begins — real, modern, or unconventional roles remain fully supported.
• Instant Support Helper for False Positives: If you ever believe a legitimate job title was accidentally flagged by the AI guardrail, you can click the direct support link right from the error message to reach out to us instantly.
• Required Job Title for Job Descriptions: When pasting a Job Description in the Tailoring section, providing a Job Title is now required so the AI can give you the most accurate ATS keyword feedback possible.

🎨 UI Polish

• Sections Page Subtitle: Updated the Sections page guidance text to clearly indicate that you can create, rename, and reorder your CV/resume sections in one place.
• Vibrant "Review Again" Button: Styled the "Review Again" button on the Review page in matching purple for consistency with the rest of the AI tools.

⚖️ Terms & Policy Clarification

• Clearer One-Time Purchase Terms: Updated our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy to clearly reflect that Starter (Rp. 5,000) and Pro (Rp. 15,000) purchases are one-time payments for 30 days of access with no hidden auto-renewals or recurring monthly subscriptions. Updated last revised date to July 27, 2026.

💬 Support Chat — Now Real-Time

• Instant Message Delivery: The support chat now uses a live connection. When our support team replies to your ticket, the message appears in your chat instantly — no need to refresh the page or wait for a polling cycle. It works just like a real messaging app.
• Live Ticket Status Updates: If your ticket is marked as resolved while you have it open, the chat updates immediately — the closed banner and satisfaction rating prompt appear right away without any refresh.
• Unread Notification Badge Goes Live: The floating Support button's unread indicator (the blue dot) now lights up the moment a support agent replies to your ticket, even while you're working elsewhere in the app.

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Image-Based CVs Now Import Correctly: Importing PDFs made with design tools like Figma, Canva, Photoshop, or scanned documents now works as intended. A security policy update from a previous release was inadvertently blocking our OCR engine from reading image-based PDFs — this has been fully resolved. Text-based CVs were unaffected.
• Infinite Loading Screen When Opening an Imported CV: Some users experienced a loading spinner that would never go away after opening an imported CV from the Dashboard. This happened due to a rare timing issue when the CV was first created. The page now always resolves correctly regardless of the timing.
• Import Button Stuck on "Importing..." After Success: The import button on the Dashboard would occasionally remain in a loading state even after a CV was successfully imported. The button now correctly resets once the import is complete.

✨ Improvements

• Smarter Section Detection on Import: When you import a CV, the app now automatically detects which sections (Projects, Certifications, Languages) were found in your original document and pre-enables them for you on the Sections page. No more manually toggling on sections that the AI already extracted — your imported CV arrives ready to review!

🚀 AI Review Upgrade: Gamified & Enhanced Scoring

• 3-Dimensional Breakdown: AI Review now more accurately calculates and displays three distinct dimensions: Completeness, Impact, and Clarity. The main score and dimension chips feature animated progress bars, vividly illustrating your current score versus your potential score!
• Smarter, Honest AI: The AI now anchors its re-evaluations to your previous score. This ensures that fixing your CV genuinely improves your score and eliminates arbitrary drops after applying suggestions.
• Session Persistence & Safety: Accidentally refreshed the page? No problem! Your active AI Review session is now securely cached in your browser. You can safely reload the page without losing your progress or burning another credit.
• Review Dashboard Redesign: We've completely overhauled the Review interface with a beautiful new 2-Column layout! The left side now features side-by-side text comparisons for AI suggestions, making it incredibly easy to read. The right side features a sticky Review Dashboard with a unified score tracker, detailed dimension progress bars, and a live Resume Preview that scrolls down the page with you!

🇮🇩 Peningkatan Bahasa (Indonesian Localization Polish)

• Natural, Modern Indonesian Translations: We've completely overhauled our Indonesian text across the entire app! Say goodbye to stiff, robotic translations. The app now uses a friendly, professional, and natural tone. Let us know if we miss something.

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Custom CV Titles Now Stay Named: Fixed an annoying bug where renaming or duplicating your CV on the dashboard would sometimes automatically change the name back to your default name (e.g., "John Doe's CV") the moment it auto-saved. Your custom CV titles are now fully protected and will stay exactly what you named them!

📢 Site Announcements & Banners

• Important Notice Banners: Added support for site-wide information, feature updates, maintenance alerts, and warnings displayed right below the navigation bar. Banners show the posted date and can be dismissed if they are not marked as critical.
• Announcement Popups: Added a styled modal popup for key announcements on the home page, allowing us to highlight critical updates or guides clearly when you arrive.

💬 Chat UX & Satisfaction Ratings

• Enter to Send Messages: You can now send messages in active support tickets by pressing the Enter key on desktop viewports. To add a new line, use Shift + Enter. On mobile devices, the Enter key acts normally to create a new line.
• Auto-Scrolling Conversation: Opening an active ticket or receiving/sending replies automatically scrolls the chat view to the newest messages.
• Scroll Isolation: Scroll-wheel navigation inside the conversation history is now isolated, preventing the parent page from scrolling when you reach the boundaries.
• Support Ticket Feedback: You can now rate resolved support tickets with a 👍 (Satisfied) or 👎 (Unsatisfied) rating to let us know how we did.

🖨️ PDF Export & Printing Improvements

• Printer Settings Warning: Added clear step-by-step guidance in the PDF print/download popup window reminding you to select "A4" as the paper size in your printer settings to guarantee correct formatting, page alignment, and layout preservation when printing or saving your resume.

✨ Interactive Support Chat & Ticket History

• Cronological Support Threads: You can now view your active support tickets, ticket status, and complete message histories inside the support bubble under a dedicated "My Tickets" tab.
• Two-way Conversation: Directly read and reply to support messages from our admin team in a clean, chronological chat view.
• Unread Notification Badge: A pulsing blue notification dot on the support bubble will now alert you the moment we reply to one of your active tickets.

🎨 Dashboard Premium Widgets & Sidebar Layout

• Sleek Sidebar Layout: Refactored the dashboard on desktop screens into a clean side-by-side grid, displaying your documents alongside active subscription indicators and limit trackers.
• Premium Subscription Card: View your subscription status, plan badge, expiry countdowns, or lifetime validity details inside a new Neobrutalist dashboard card.
• Visual Usage Tracking: Monitor exactly how many CVs and cover letters you have saved against your account's tier limits with dynamic progress bars.
• Secure Transaction Details: View checkout reference information via a secure billing verification window.

🐛 Bug Fixes & Layout Polish

• Fixed Live Preview Overlap on Review Page: Fixed a scrolling bug where the "Live Preview" header would slide down and cover the top of your CV when you scrolled to the bottom of the Review page. The header now stays neatly locked to the top of the preview panel at all times.
• Live Preview Now Fits Fully on Fill & Sections Pages: The live preview on the Fill and Sections pages now automatically scales down to show your entire CV page in view — no more needing to scroll just to see the bottom of your preview. The preview intelligently fits within your screen height. You can still use the zoom controls to get a closer look whenever needed.
• Fixed Top Padding on Sections Page Preview: Resolved a visual inconsistency where the live preview on the Sections page showed no spacing above your CV name, while the Fill page looked correct. Both pages now display the same clean, padded preview layout.

✨ Core AI Model Upgrade

• Upgraded AI Engine: Migrated our AI assistant and reviewer engines from the deprecated Llama model to the newer, highly capable OpenAI GPT OSS 120B model on Groq. All tools—including CV analysis, resume refinement, cover letter generation, quick reviews, and resume importing—now use this faster, supported engine.

🐛 Bug Fixes & Layout Polish

• Fixed Mobile Dropdown Clipping: Resolved a visual bug where the layout selectors (like the Projects layout option dropdown) would stretch outside their border card on small mobile screens. Dropdowns now scale down and wrap cleanly to fit your screen size perfectly.
• Fixed Live Preview Border Clipping on Review Page: Fixed a layout bug where the outer borders of the live preview container on the Review page were cut off or partially invisible. Both the desktop and mobile preview boxes now display complete borders correctly.

✨ Multi-Mode AI Safety Cap & Maintenance System

• Customized System Pause Notices: Added a customizable AI pause control that allows us to set different friendly notifications depending on system status.
• Smarter Error Protection: If our AI systems are temporarily paused, buttons like "Analyze CV", "Refine text", "Fix with AI", and "Generate Cover Letter" are automatically disabled with a warning notice. The Quick Review upload page is also replaced with a friendly notice card.

🎨 Beautiful Unified Loading Screens

• Premium Loading Animations: Standardized all loading spinners across the app with our official bouncing logo stamp animation. You'll see this premium loader when the app is initializing, during Dashboard profile loads, and during AI resume analysis.

✨ Soft Account Deletion & 30-Day Recovery

• 30-Day Recovery Window: Requesting account deletion from the Danger Zone now sets a 30-day grace period instead of immediately purging your data. Your data is preserved, and you can log back in and cancel the deletion at any time with a single click.
• Recovery Dashboard Banner: Added a countdown warning banner to the dashboard when your account is scheduled for deletion, with an easy "Recover My Account" button.
• Automated 30-Day Purge: Configured a daily automated task that permanently and irreversibly erases all CVs, cover letters, support tickets, and profile records after the 30-day window expires.
• Privacy Policy Update: Updated our Data Retention page to outline this new account recovery process and our compliance timelines.

🧠 Smarter AI Reviews & Import

• Improved AI Review Context: Fixed a bug where your Education descriptions, graduation status, and personal info were sometimes ignored or stripped by the AI reviewer. The AI now reads these fields correctly and offers complete recommendations.
• Better PDF Import: Our resume parsing engine now extracts Education descriptions and Project links from uploaded PDFs, pre-filling more of your CV automatically.
• Education Descriptions in Templates: You can now see and print Education descriptions across all 9 CV templates, matching the styling of your Work Experience descriptions.

🐛 Bug Fixes & Polish

• Dashboard Text Fix: Fixed a corrupted text symbol under the Danger Zone section on the user dashboard.

✨ Smarter Page Breaks & Pagination

• Item-Level Page Splitting: We've completely overhauled how your CV splits across multiple A4 pages! Previously, entire sections (like Experience or Education) were treated as single solid blocks. If the last job in your list didn't fit on the page, the entire Experience section got pushed to the next page, leaving huge, awkward blank gaps at the bottom of the page. Now, our paginator splits sections at the individual entry level: only the specific items that don't fit are pushed to the next page, and continuation page headers are suppressed for a clean, natural flow.
• Watermark Overlap Safeguard: If you're on a Free or Guest plan, your CVs display a "Created by Recv. AI" watermark. Previously, content could sometimes slide down and overlap this watermark. We've added an automatic 52px buffer at the bottom of each page specifically for Free and Guest accounts, ensuring your CV content always cuts off neatly above the watermark. Pro and Starter users are unaffected and retain the full page area for extra content.
• Projects Description Bullet Controller: Added the same bullet list formatter (None, •, –, ▸, ✓) to the Projects description in the editor, allowing you to format project details as lists just like in the Experience section. Pressing Enter inside the text area will automatically start the next line with your active bullet style.
• Projects Link Layout Switcher: Added a layout style toggle for Projects. Choose between displaying the link at the bottom (traditional style) or placing it directly below the project title (compact style). The compact style places the clickable link right under the project title (without the "Link:" label) and shifts the project technologies list inline next to the title with a neat divider (|).
• Education Section Description & Bullet Controller: Added a description text area to the Education section in the editor, allowing you to add details, achievements, or course descriptions for your degrees. This also includes the bullet list formatter (None, •, –, ▸, ✓) and automatic bullet injection on Enter key, matching Experience and Projects.
• Sticky Live Preview Header: The template selector dropdown and page switcher in the Live Preview pane now stick cleanly to the top of the screen as you scroll down. No more scrolling all the way back to the top of the editor page just to switch templates or navigate pages!
• Dynamically Expanding Sections List: Removed the scrollbar and fixed height restriction from the Sections drag-and-drop builder page. The card now expands naturally to fit all of your sections, keeping the layout clean and tidy.

🐛 Bug Fixes & Behind-the-Scenes Polish

• Fixed Live Preview Pagination Freeze: Fixed a bug where switching template fonts or styles could cause the live preview to break, freeze, or overflow onto a single long page without separating into clean A4 sheets. The pagination measurements now run reliably behind the scenes.
• Fixed Multi-Page Over-Counting: Fixed an offset calculation glitch that was miscalculating the height of sections, occasionally inflating a standard 2-page CV into 4 or 5 pages with empty pages. Page counts are now accurate and match the exported PDF exactly.
• Fixed Initial Page Counter Load: Fixed a glitch where the page counter would sometimes disappear when first opening a CV or refreshing the editor page. The page counter now loads instantly and reactively.

✨ New Premium Template: Liminal

• Liminal — Clean Left-Aligned Professional Template: We've added a brand-new premium template called Liminal to the Starter and Pro plans! Built on the same rock-solid, ATS-friendly single-column structure as our popular Minimal template, Liminal is styled with the elegant, clean Outfit typography. The defining feature is the Personal Info header: instead of being centered on the page, your name and contact details are aligned cleanly to the left, offering a modern, designer-centric look that stands out while remaining 100% readable by ATS scanning tools. Available now in your template list and showcased in the Template Gallery.

🐛 Bug Fixes & Reliability

• Plan Badge Now Consistent Everywhere: If your Pro or Starter plan had expired, the Dashboard and Cover Letter editor would still incorrectly show your account as active — displaying the Pro badge, allowing more CVs and cover letters than your Free tier permits, and showing the wrong AI credit count. The CV Builder and Review page already handled this correctly. We've now unified the logic so every page checks your plan expiry the moment it loads and immediately reflects your actual current tier across all limits and badges.
• Cover Letter Editor Loads Faster: We found and removed a duplicate data-fetch call that was silently firing twice every time you opened the Cover Letter editor. It wasn't visible to you, but it was causing unnecessary extra network requests. It's gone now — the editor loads with a single clean fetch.

🔒 Under-the-Hood Hardening

• More Reliable Plan Downgrades: When your subscription expires and you use an AI feature, we automatically downgrade your account in the background. We've upgraded that background process to use a privileged server connection, ensuring the downgrade always writes to the database successfully regardless of any database-level permission configurations.

🔒 Platform Hardening & UX Upgrades

• Enhanced AI Input Sanitization: Upgraded security filters on AI and refinement editors. All raw text is cleansed before being processed by the AI models, reinforcing the reliability of suggestions.
• DDoS and Memory Safeguards: Implemented strict memory limits on our rate limiting modules, ensuring server stability and protection under sudden traffic surges.
• Under-the-Hood Admin Security: Upgraded backend verification for our admin utilities. Shielding administrative data from session attacks.

🐛 Bug Fixes & Polish

• Proper Mobile Preview Sizing: Fixed the Live Preview box size on mobile screens. Previously, it was appearing overly large and scaled incorrectly due to previous updates. It now fits and scales beautifully to adapt to small viewports.
• Tidy Summary Editor: Fixed a design glitch where the formatting alignment toolbar at the bottom of the Professional Summary box was cut off. We wrapped the editor and toolbar in a clean, unified container that expands and focuses seamlessly.

✨ New Features & Polish

• Custom List Spacing: We know that sometimes you need to squeeze just a little bit more information onto a single page, or sometimes you want more breathing room. We've added a new "List Spacing" control above your Experience section that lets you choose between Tight, Normal, and Loose line spacing for all your bullet points and lists (including Projects and Certifications) across all templates!
• Rename Your Sections: You can now click on the section headers (e.g., "Professional Experience" or "Education") in the Sections tab and type whatever you want! Need it to say "Riwayat Pendidikan" instead? No problem! And don't worry, our AI Reviewer is smart enough to still understand your CV layout regardless of what you name the sections.
• New Format Toggles: Want to highlight your Job Title more than the Company Name? Now you can! We've added a new "Format" dropdown next to List Spacing that lets you flip the bolding and layout priority between "Highlight Role" and "Highlight Company" for Experience, and "Highlight Degree" and "Highlight Institution" for Education.
• GPA & Flexible Degrees: We've replaced the rigid Degree dropdown with a free-text input so you can type exactly what you want (e.g., "S1", "B.Sc.", "D3"). Plus, we've added a brand-new optional "GPA / IPK" field that cleanly integrates into your education history!
• Smarter Live Preview: We've given the Live Preview a huge quality-of-life boost! The preview panel is now "sticky", meaning it will smoothly follow you down the page as you scroll and fill out your information—no more endless scrolling up and down to see your changes! Plus, any custom section names you create will now update in real-time right inside the preview.
• Smooth Zoom & Pan: We've completely fixed the issue where zooming in on the Live Preview and dragging to see the right side of your CV would snap the screen back to the left! Panning now works flawlessly in all directions. We also disabled the scroll wheel from triggering zoom, so you can scroll up and down the page without any accidental zooms interrupting you.
• Polished Settings Layout: Rearranged the spacing and formatting options for your Experience and Education sections. They now live in a clean, dedicated options row directly under the section headers. This keeps the layout perfectly aligned and ensures selectors don't stack awkwardly on smaller screens.

✨ New Features & Polish

• Hide Custom Field Labels: You can now choose whether to display the label for your custom fields! We've added a "Show label in CV" checkbox in the editor. If you uncheck it, your CV will only display the value (like your-portfolio.com) instead of forcing the label (Portfolio: your-portfolio.com). This is great for cleaner, more minimal CV layouts!
• Flexible Summary Length: We heard your feedback! We've removed the strict 500-character block on your Professional Summary. While we still recommend keeping it brief for the best readability (and the counter will turn red to gently remind you), you are no longer prevented from writing a longer summary if you really need to. It's your CV, after all!
• Target Job Tailoring (AI Review): Our AI Reviewer just got a massive upgrade! You can now optionally paste the exact Job Description and Target Role you are applying for right before running an AI Review. The AI will cross-reference your CV against the job requirements and highlight missing ATS keywords to help you tailor your application perfectly.
• Enhanced AI Safeguards: Upgraded our AI security to better detect and ignore "jailbreak" attempts ensuring the AI stays focused on giving you the best career coaching possible.
• Auto-Clickable Links: No more plain text URLs! Any email addresses or links you add to your Personal Info or Projects sections will now be automatically formatted as clickable links in your exported PDF.
• Smarter Layouts: We've refined the Minimal and Corporate templates. Your Personal Info (email, phone, location, and custom links) now perfectly adapts and centers on a single line with beautiful dividers. If you add a lot of links, it wraps seamlessly to the next line without breaking the design.
• Zoom & Pan Your Preview: We've added native zoom capabilities to the Live Preview! You can now use your mouse wheel to zoom in, click and drag to pan around, or use the floating zoom controls in the corner. On mobile, just use two fingers to pinch-to-zoom exactly like you would on a photo.
• Summary Text Alignment: Added a handy new alignment toolbar beneath the Professional Summary box! You can now click to toggle your summary's alignment between standard left-aligned or fully justified, just like in Microsoft Word, to get that perfectly tidy block of text on your CV.

🔒 Under-the-Hood Security Hardening

• Routine Security Audit: Conducted a full security audit (Phase 5) reviewing all API endpoints, dependencies, and application code. Patched a dependency vulnerability and strengthened internal safeguards — your data is as safe as ever.
• Friendly AI Error Messages: When our AI features are exceptionally busy, you will now see a helpful "AI is busy" message rather than a confusing technical error, allowing you to easily try again shortly.

✨ New Template: Scholar

• Scholar — For Researchers, Academics & PhD Applicants: We're introducing our most sophisticated premium template yet. Scholar takes inspiration from the look and feel of academic journals and scientific papers — think clean EB Garamond serif typography, an elegant centered name header with footnote-style contact details, and automatically numbered section headings (1.0, 2.0, 3.0…) that rearrange themselves whenever you drag and drop your sections into a new order. Your Summary becomes an "Abstract". Skills and languages are laid out as clean inline lists. Despite the academic aesthetic, Scholar is built in a strict single-column format so it reads flawlessly by any ATS. Now available on Starter and Pro plans.

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Pro Plan Now Shows as Expired the Moment You Open the App: Previously, if your Pro or Starter plan had expired, the site would still show you as a Pro member — premium templates were still unlocked and your AI credit count still reflected your old plan. This was because the app wasn't checking the expiry date when the page first loaded. It now checks the moment you open the site, and if your plan has lapsed, your account correctly reflects Free status right away. No more confusing phantom access after your subscription ends.

• AI Credits on the Review Page Now Match the Rest of the App: If you hadn't visited the Review page in a while (say, a few days), you'd see a credit count like "23" or "26" even though your Fill page correctly showed your full allowance of "30". This happened because the Review page was reading your raw credit usage from the database without checking whether 24 hours had passed since your last session — it skipped the daily reset that the rest of the app was running. Both pages now apply the same reset logic, so your credit count is consistent everywhere you look.

⚡ Speed & Reliability

• Faster Load Times for Returning Users: When you open a saved CV, we used to load your account info and then load your CV one after the other. We now load both at the same time, cutting your initial wait time roughly in half.

• Lighter First Load: The Review step and the Template picker are now loaded on-demand — only when you actually navigate to them — instead of being bundled into the app from the very first moment. This means the page you actually see first loads faster.

• Instant Loading State on Navigation: Navigating to the Dashboard or Review page now immediately shows a loading indicator instead of a blank white screen while the page prepares.

🔒 Under-the-Hood Security Hardening

This release is all about making Recv. AI safer and more resilient. No new features — just a thorough security audit and fixes for everything we found.

• Framework Security Update: Updated our core framework to the latest patched version, closing over a dozen known security advisories including potential CSRF and denial-of-service vectors.
• Stronger AI Input Protection: All PDF text sent to our AI is now sanitized before processing, preventing malicious content embedded in an uploaded PDF from manipulating the AI's behavior.
• Stricter Content Controls: Added a Content Security Policy to the platform — this is a browser-level safeguard that restricts which scripts and resources are allowed to run on the page, providing an extra layer of protection against injection attacks.
• Dependency Cleanup: Patched several third-party library vulnerabilities flagged by our automated security scanner.

Smarter PDF Reviews

• Canva, Figma, and Scanned CV Support: The Review CV upload now falls back to OCR when a PDF does not contain readable text. This means image-based CVs have a much better chance of being reviewed instead of immediately failing.
• Clearer Upload Progress: Uploading a CV now shows progress through each step, including checking PDF text, reading pages with OCR, and sending the extracted text for AI review.
• Smoother Import After Review: If OCR was used during review, Recv. AI now reuses that extracted text when importing the same CV into the builder.

Polish & Reliability

• Cleaner Error Messages: Upload errors now show friendly messages instead of raw technical JSON parsing errors when the server returns an unexpected response.
• Consistent Toast Placement: Dashboard import and Review CV alerts now appear in the same top-right position as the rest of the app.
• Bahasa Indonesia Upload Copy: The Review CV upload screen, OCR progress, and upload errors are now localized in English and Bahasa Indonesia.

✨ Get AI Feedback on Your Old CV!

• Quick Review Tool: You can now get an instant ATS score and expert AI feedback on your existing CV without building it from scratch! Just head to the new "Review CV" page, upload your PDF, and get actionable advice on how to land more interviews.
• Seamless CV Migration: Already have a CV? Don't start from a blank page! Use the new "Import CV" button on your dashboard to instantly pull your old resume into our builder. We'll automatically fill in your Experience, Education, and Skills for you.
• Smarter PDF Handling: We've added a helpful detection system for PDFs made in graphic design tools (like Canva or Photoshop) or scans. If we can't read the text because it's saved as an image, we'll let you know and guide you on how to fix it so you can get your review.
• Try Before You Buy: Guests can now get a "free sample" review once to see the power of our AI feedback before creating an account.

🔧 Polish & Stability

• Translation Updates: All new features are fully localized in both English and Bahasa Indonesia.
• Under-the-Hood Fixes: Improved the reliability of our PDF parsing engine and fixed a few technical bugs to ensure the builder remains snappy and stable.

✨ New in This Update

• "Currently Enrolling" for Education 🎓: Still in school? We heard you! We've added a new "Currently enrolling" checkbox to the Education section in the CV builder. Tick it and the graduation date field disappears — and every single one of our CV templates will automatically show "Present" in its place. No more awkward blank dates or manual workarounds.

🐛 Fixes & Improvements

• Easier Reordering on Mobile: Rearranging your CV sections on a phone was a bit of a struggle — the drag handle was tiny and easy to miss. We've made the grip area significantly larger and added a clear grip icon, so reorganising your sections is now much smoother without accidentally scrolling the page at the same time.
• Section Order No Longer Resets: This one was sneaky. If you reordered your sections and then quickly tapped "Next: Fill Section", your new order could vanish and snap back to the default the next time you opened your CV. That reset is now gone — your section order is saved the moment you move on.
• AI Review Responds in the Right Language: If your CV is written in English but contains Indonesian place names (like "Jakarta" or "Universitas Indonesia"), the AI reviewer was sometimes replying entirely in Bahasa Indonesia. We've taught it to look at the actual content of your descriptions — not just proper nouns — to figure out what language your CV is in. English CV? English feedback. Simple as that.
• Correct AI Credit Count in Cover Letter Editor: Pro users were seeing "50 credits" and Free users were seeing "1 credit" in the Cover Letter editor — both wrong. The displayed credit count now correctly reflects your plan: Pro = 30, Starter = 10, Free = 1.
• No More "Saving..." When You Haven't Changed Anything: Every time you navigated between the Sections, Fill, Review, or Cover Letter pages, you'd see a "Saving changes…" notification pop up — even if you hadn't touched a single thing. That was a false alarm caused by an internal timing issue. Auto-save now only triggers when you've actually made a change to your CV. Your feed stays quiet while you're just browsing.

✨ Enhance Your Workflow with CV Duplication!

• One-Click CV Duplication: A highly requested feature has finally landed! You can now duplicate any of your existing CVs right from your dashboard. It's the perfect way to quickly tailor a "Marketing" version and a "Design" version of your resume without having to start entirely from scratch.
• Cleaner Dashboard Cards: We've tidied up the interface on your CV and Cover Letter cards! The floating action icons have been consolidated into a clean, modern ⋯ menu. It's much less cluttered, perfectly organized, and makes editing on mobile devices feel extra spacious.

🛡️ Enhanced Platform Security & Reliability

• Self-Service Safety: We've added a server-side confirmation requirement for account deletions, ensuring your data is never removed accidentally.
• Accurate Credit Limits: Fixed a bug where Starter subscribers were seeing incorrect credit limits. Your 10 daily AI credits are now correctly applied across all AI features!
• Under-the-Hood Hardening: Completed a comprehensive security audit! We've implemented advanced binary file verification, payment anti-replay protection, and atomic request handling to keep your experience secure and snappy.
• Browser-Level Protection: Your session is now shielded by industry-standard security headers, protecting you from common web-based threats like clickjacking.

🐛 Bug Fixes & Polish

• Dashboard Cards No Longer Cut Off on Mobile: The cover letter and CV cards in your dashboard were getting clipped on the right side on smaller screens, hiding the document title. Both card types are now fully contained and long titles gracefully truncate with an ellipsis (…) instead of overflowing.
• Cover Letter Notifications Now Appear in the Right Place: The "Saving draft…" and "Draft saved!" pop-up messages in the Cover Letter editor were appearing below the page content. They now correctly show up in the top-right corner, just like every other notification in the app.
• Previously Generated Cover Letters Are Now Viewable Again: This was a sneaky but important one — if you'd already generated a cover letter and later opened it from your dashboard, you'd land on the Job Details form instead of seeing your letter. Even worse, clicking "Generate Letter" again would silently overwrite your original. The root cause was an auto-save bug that was erasing the letter content in the background every time you changed a field. This is now fully fixed. Your generated letter is safely preserved, and we've also added a "View Generated Letter →" button so you can jump straight to your saved letter at any time without needing to re-generate it.

✨ Explore Our New Template Gallery!

• Dynamic Previews: We've launched a brand new Template Showcase page where you can explore all our designs in full high-resolution. No more static screenshots—you see exactly what the CV looks like in the live builder!
• Perfect Scaling: Whether you're on a phone or a laptop, our new gallery perfectly scales each design so you can pick the best layout for your industry before you even start building.
• Professional Guidelines: We've added "Best For" sections for every template, giving you expert advice on whether a design fits more formal corporate roles, creative marketing paths, or technical engineering applications.

🌐 Better Search & Visibility

• Finding Us is Easier: We've significantly upgraded our technical SEO. You can now more easily find Recv. AI when searching for professional tools like "AI CV Maker" or "Web CV Online."
• Seamless Local Experience: Improved our language detection for search engines so that users in Indonesia and around the world always land on the right version of the platform.

✨ Introducing the Starter Plan!

• Affordable Premium Access: We’ve launched the brand new Starter Plan for just Rp 5.000! It’s the perfect middle ground if you need a professional boost without a full Pro subscription.
  • Premium Templates: Get full access to Syntax, Executive, and all other premium designs.
  • No Watermarks: Export unlimited PDFs with a clean, professional finish.
  • Boosted Limits: Save up to 2 CVs and get 10 AI credits every single day.
  • Cover Letters: You can now create and save 2 AI-generated cover letters to kickstart your applications.

🚀 Smoother Success Journey

• Personalized Success Messages: When you upgrade, your success message is now specifically tailored to your new plan, showing you exactly what benefits you've unlocked in your preferred language.
• Full Support for Indonesian: We’ve finished localizing every single limit prompt, button, and description across the app. Whether you speak English or Bahasa Indonesia, the experience is now 100% seamless! Please let us know if we miss something!

✨ New Templates

• Developer Templates: Meet Syntax and Syntax Nano — two sleek, terminal-inspired templates crafted specifically for software engineers. Complete with beautiful monospaced typefaces, these new premium additions perfectly merge structure with readability to help your professional background pop.
• More Free Options: We've shifted our robust Creative template from Premium down to the Free tier. Enjoy building beautiful layouts!

🧠 Smarter AI Feedback

• Native Language Detection: You no longer need to translate your English recommendations! The AI Review system will natively detect if your CV is written in Bahasa Indonesia or any other language, and it will respond with analysis, strengths, and fix suggestions entirely in your native language.
• Spam Rejection Guardrails: We've upgraded the AI model's engine protections to actively reject attempts to insert irrelevant copy-paste material into the CV structure. Your CV builder will strictly maintain its professional environment.

🎨 Design Polish

• Crisp Vector Icons: Look closely and you'll notice our templates just got much sharper! We've systematically replaced all older text-message emojis (like 📧 and 📞) across our templates with razor-sharp vector SVG icons. No more blurry phone markers when scaling your CVs to massive PDFs!
• Clarity in Editing: Added a straightforward "Graduation Date" placeholder tag within the Education block of the Fill editor to clear any formatting ambiguity when adding dates to schools!

✨ SEO & Branding

• Better Link Sharing: Sharing Recv. AI with your friends or colleagues on WhatsApp, Twitter, or Discord will now display a beautiful preview card of the application instead of an empty box.
• Official Favicon: We've updated our browser tab icon to the official Recv. AI logo, replacing the default placeholder.

🐛 Bug Fixes & Polish

• Mobile Suggestion Controls: The 'Ignore' button for dismissing AI suggestions is now always visible on phones and tablets. Previously, it only appeared when hovering with a mouse, which made it tricky to use on touch screens.
• Preview Page Precision: Fixed a phantom bug where the live CV preview in the Review page would sometimes mistakenly display an extra blank page at the very end of the document.
• Notification Fixes: Solved an issue where multiple popup notifications (like applying an AI fix and auto-saving simultaneously) would directly overlap and hide each other. They now sort themselves out smoothly.

✨ New Features

• Review Page CV Live Preview: We completely redesigned the AI Analysis page! It now features a split-pane layout with a sticky Live View of your CV right next to the AI Feedback. You no longer have to blindly guess what the AI is talking about or bounce back to the editor—you see everything exactly as it'll look on your actual CV, instantly.
• Glanceable AI Highlights: Immediately spot exactly what the AI wants you to fix. Suggested improvements now emit a soft, faded yellow highlight across your CV preview, making it extremely mobile-friendly to locate suggestions at a glance.
• Interactive Highlighting: When you hover your mouse over an AI suggestion card on the Review page, you'll see a bright yellow highlight lock onto the exact field it's referencing in your Live Preview CV. It feels magical.

🐛 Bug Fixes & Polish

• Removed Ghost Pages: We eradicated a visual bug where the CV preview would occasionally tack on an entirely blank A4 page at the very end of your document due to empty underlying sections triggering the engine. Your pagination previews should now be precise.
• Sidebar Highlights Now Work for Creative & Executive Templates: The left-side panel for both the Creative and Executive templates now correctly lights up with AI suggestion highlights alongside the main content area.
• 'Remove with AI' Now Actually Removes: Clicking "Remove with AI" on a suggestion was incorrectly writing a message into your CV field instead of deleting the item. It now correctly removes the flagged entry from your CV.
• 'Fix Applied' Toast Now Appears at the Top: The success notification after applying an AI fix was incorrectly appearing at the bottom of the page. It now shows up in the top-right corner where all other app notifications appear.

🐛 Bug Fixes & Polish

• Mobile Drag Fixed — Scroll Without Accidentally Reordering: On phones and tablets, swiping up or down on a CV card in the builder was sometimes triggering the reorder drag instead of scrolling the page. This has been fixed — dragging to reorder now only activates when you grab the grip handle (⠿) on the left side of each card. Scrolling the rest of the card works naturally again.
• Notification Toasts No Longer Overlap: When multiple notifications appeared at once (for example, after deleting several items quickly), they were stacking on top of each other and becoming unreadable. They now stack neatly in a clean column with proper spacing between them.
• Each Notification Has Its Own Timer: Previously, notifications would all expire at the same time — the newer ones would reset the clock for the older ones. Now each notification independently counts down from the moment it appears, so older ones disappear first as expected.

✨ UI & Animation Polish

• Fixed Mobile Footer: The footer copyright text was awkwardly breaking across multiple lines on phones. It now reads cleanly in a single line on all screen sizes, and the Privacy / Terms / Contact / Instagram links all sit neatly on one row.
• Language Toggle Polish: The EN | ID language switcher in the top navigation bar now has a smooth animated pill that slides between the two options when you switch — consistent with the rest of the app's feel.
• Smarter CV Builder Animations: Fixed a confusing visual glitch in the CV Builder where adding a new card in one section (e.g. Certifications) would also trigger animations in completely unrelated sections below it (e.g. Languages). Each section now animates independently — only the section you're actively editing moves.
• Undo Delete: Accidentally deleted an Experience entry, Skill, Certification, or any other card in the CV Builder? No more panic! Deleting anything now shows a quick "Deleted. Undo" notification at the top of the screen. You have 5 seconds to take it back — your data will be restored exactly where it was.

🚀 Drag & Drop Stability + Deep Fixes

• Perfected Drag Handling: We completely eradicated an annoying visual bug in the CV Builder where dragged sections (like Experience or Education) would aggressively overlap or conflict with each other. Dragging any card now works perfectly cleanly, respecting boundaries seamlessly without visually glitching.
• Recovered Local Sessions: We implemented an under-the-hood engine fallback to instantly fix older, offline-cached CVs that were locking up the interface or refusing to drag correctly. Moving forward, returning users won't experience dead cards.
• Smarter AI Cover Letter Connections: Underwent a massive data-architecture upgrade that dramatically slims down how your resume speaks to our AI APIs without you having to re-enter anything, optimizing accuracy when your Cover Letters are generated.

🛡️ Security & Trust

• Routine Security Audit: We conducted a thorough security review of all new features added over the past few months. Several improvements were made behind the scenes to further protect your data, account, and emails. Your experience doesn't change — it's just safer.
• Email Protection Upgraded: We've strengthened our email domain security settings (DMARC) so it's even harder for bad actors to impersonate Recv. AI in your inbox. Any suspicious email pretending to be from us will now be automatically flagged as spam by your mail provider.

✨ Animations & Mobile Fixes

• Animated Navigation Menu: The mobile hamburger menu now opens and closes with a smooth slide-down animation. The ☰ and ✕ icons rotate through each other instead of swapping instantly. Menu links also cascade in one by one for a polished feel.
• Smoother CV Builder: When you add a new Experience, Education, Skill, Project, Certification, Language, or Custom Field entry in the CV Builder, it now slides in smoothly instead of just appearing. Deleting an entry also animates out gracefully.
• Better Section Reordering: Dragging sections to reorder them in the CV Builder now works on all devices including iPhones. Sections also visually slide out of the way as you drag, making it much clearer where things will land.
• Consistent Cursor: Hovering over any button, dropdown, or interactive element across the entire site now correctly shows the hand pointer — no more inconsistent mix of arrow and hand cursors depending on which element you hover.
• Mobile Layout Fixes: Fixed cards in the Features and Pricing sections touching the screen edge on mobile. Also fixed the "Label" input in Custom Fields being squashed on narrow screens — it now stacks neatly above the Value input on mobile.

🚀 Performance & Feel

• Buttery Smooth Interactions: We completely rebuilt the engineering behind our buttons and animations. Hovering and clicking around the application now uses advanced, hardware-accelerated physics. This removes any feeling of "heaviness" or stuttering—everything feels snappy, premium, and alive!
• Silky Scrolling: We replaced the browser's default choppy scrolling engine with a professional smooth-scrolling system. Gliding down pages and reading through your CV preview is now incredibly fluid.
• Global Entrance Animations: Every single page and list across the application now slides in beautifully on staggered delays. No more jarring page loads—everything cascades smoothly as you work.

✨ New Features

• In-App Support Tickets: You can now easily report bugs, suggest features, or get help with your account directly from any page. Just click the "Support" button in the bottom right corner. You can even attach up to 3 screenshots to help us understand the issue faster!
• Data Privacy Control: Added a new "Danger Zone" in your dashboard giving you complete control to permanently delete your account and all associated data safely and securely.
• Live Changelog: We've added this very page so you can always see the latest features, fixes, and improvements to Recv. AI!

🐛 Bug Fixes & Improvements

• Fixed an issue where logged-in users visiting the login page would be asked to log in again instead of being taken to their dashboard.
• Fixed a frustrating bug where opening a saved CV would sometimes jump you back to the beginning of the form instead of letting you edit immediately.
• Template Fixes: Ensured your project links display correctly in all 5 templates, not just the Minimal template.
• Visually perfectly centered the custom field alignments in the Executive template to match the rest of the professional layout.
• Improved the accuracy of Pro plan expiration dates on your account dashboard.

🌐 Custom Domain

• We're officially live on our new custom domain: recv-ai.me! All links and emails will now come from this verified, secure domain.

🔐 Authentication

• Google Login: You can now sign up and log in securely using your Google account with just one click.

✨ New Features

• Projects Section: Added a brand new "Projects" section to the CV builder! You can now easily showcase your personal and professional projects complete with descriptions, technologies used, and live links. These format beautifully across all 5 of our CV templates.

🛠 Improvements

• Payment Processing: Improved the speed and reliability of our Pro plan upgrades so that your account updates instantly after a successful checkout.

✨ New Features

• Cover Letters: Introduced AI-generated Cover Letters! You can now auto-generate professional cover letters perfectly tailored to your CV and the specific job description you're applying for.

• Initial Release: Welcome to Recv. AI! The easiest way to build beautiful, ATS-friendly CVs that help you land more interviews.