Release 0.9.0 — Private Beta
Launch
April 1, 2026
This is the official Ripls Private Beta launch.
After months of closed testing, iteration, and hardening, Ripls is
opening up to our first wave of private beta users. This release
represents a major milestone: a polished, stable, and feature-complete
foundation for community sharing of goods and experiences.
Highlights
- Private Beta Ready: Comprehensive UX polish, bug
fixes, and stability improvements across every workflow — loans,
giveaways, requests, and experiences are all production-ready for real
communities.
- Notification Deep Linking: All notifications now
navigate directly to the relevant item detail screen, not just a generic
chat view (#977,
#962,
#978,
#980)
- Nudge Cards: AI-generated nudge cards in the feed
encourage engagement — suggesting items to share, experiences to plan,
or requests to make (#935)
- Feed Freshness: Smart feed expiration based on view
count and time since last activity, so the feed always feels current and
relevant
- Expanded Metrics: Community and personal impact
metrics with leaderboards, charts, and detailed drill-down views (#975,
#949,
#952)
New Features
- Item Link Previews: Sharing a Ripls link on social
media or messaging apps now shows rich OG metadata with item-specific
titles, descriptions, and thumbnail images (#955,
#953)
- Pickup Coordination: Arrange pickup times directly
within loan and giveaway conversations with date/time proposals and
notifications
- Time Polls for Experiences: Organizers can propose
multiple times and collect votes from attendees, with a “none work for
me” option
- Multi-Model AI: Switched to Haiku as the primary AI
provider with Gemini fallback for faster, more cost-effective gear
recognition (#918)
UX Improvements
- Loan Workflow Polish: State-aware menus, responsive
pill labels by queue position, visual interest counts, and streamlined
pickup modals (#974,
#960)
- Giveaway Workflow Polish: Simplified recipient
picker, state-aware menus, pickup notifications, and consistent title
casing (#968,
#959)
- Request Workflow Polish: Improved offer management,
action button updates on withdrawal, and cross-community sharing fixes
(#971,
#965)
- Experience Workflow Polish: Fixed completion flow,
RSVP updates, and cross-community leakage (#969,
#985,
#984,
#967)
- Consolidated Menus: Consistent workflow-driven
menus across all item types with grayed-out completed steps (#938,
#939)
- Community Metrics Landing: Redesigned community
metrics screen (#982)
- Waitlist Improvements: Expanded signup fields and
refreshed landing page messaging (#948)
Bug Fixes
- Fixed experience completion requiring a summary and not allowing
direct completion from active state (#984)
- Fixed cross-community RSVP leakage (#665,
#945)
- Fixed chat notification routing to wrong screen (#962)
- Fixed system messages not appearing until a user message was sent
(#947)
- Fixed dark mode contrast in form fields, modals, and RSVP buttons
(#936,
#865,
#932)
- Fixed EXIF rotation on OG images when shared via Signal (#958)
- Fixed Pexels rate limiting for stock video generation (#929)
- Fixed Android layout crash in action bars (#853,
#867)
- Fixed video crash when viewing details (#934)
Infrastructure
- Patrol E2E Test Suite: Full end-to-end test
coverage for all workflow types — loans, giveaways, requests, and
experiences — with screen recording, multi-user coordination, and
postcondition verification (#866)
- Equity System Removal: Removed the community equity
system in favor of impact metrics (#874)
- Conversation Topic Refactor: Consolidated
conversation topic handling into a dedicated proto type (#872)
Previous Releases
