Changelog

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v1.0.59 2026-09-02

Bend points on an arrow can be grabbed again. They used to shrink with the canvas — on a diagram zoomed out to fit, a bend was a four-pixel target — and any shape drawn after the sixth one painted over them, so on a busy diagram they could not be dragged or deleted at all. The grabs now keep their size at every zoom, are finger-sized on a touch screen, and stay on top of the shapes around them. Arrow labels now sit above shapes too.

v1.0.58 2026-09-02

An arrow can point INTO a pasted picture. Drop the end of an arrow deep inside a screenshot and it stays on that spot — the button, the field, the row you are explaining — instead of stopping at the picture's edge. The spot moves and scales with the picture, and dragging that end onto a shape frees it again.
An import can land in the document you already have open. Mermaid, Excalidraw, draw.io and Open… now ask where it should go: a new document, into this diagram, or as a subflow of the shape you selected — with the import's own nested levels intact. Copying and pasting between documents used to flatten them silently.
Format part of a label. Select a word while editing and give it its own bold, italic, font, size or colour; the rest of the label stays as it was. The controls appear as a small bar over the selection — on a phone as a strip above the keyboard — and the Inspector's text row acts on the selection while one is live. Alignment stays a property of the whole label, and plain-text exports (Mermaid, Markdown, text) keep the text and drop the formatting.
Text colour for a whole label, on shapes and on arrows, next to the fill colour it is not: a shape's colour is its fill or outline, this one is the ink. A word coloured in the editor still wins over it.
Number fields you can type into. The font size in the Inspector and in Preferences can be cleared and retyped — it used to snap back to its old value after every keystroke, which made it unusable on a touch keyboard — and both now carry −/+ steps.

v1.0.57 2026-08-26

A subflow now shows what goes in and out of it. Drill into a node and the arrows that reach it from the level above are there as connection points on the edge of the canvas — so you can wire an incoming arrow to whichever step inside actually handles it, and one input can branch to several. They are named after the shapes upstairs and follow along when you rename those. Delete an arrow up there and its marker stays, marked, rather than taking the work you did inside with it.
Per subflow, or everywhere. The switch sits on the node in the Inspector and in the subflow tree's context menu; Preferences → Canvas sets what new and freshly opened subflows do, and asks whether to apply the change to the subflows in the open document. Choose between the arrow tag and a plain circle there too — that one is about your own view and does not travel with a link.

v1.0.56 2026-08-25

A shared link can no longer arrive broken. An arrow whose shape had been deleted while you were drawing that arrow stayed in the document, invisible — the editor never drew it, so there was nothing to click and nothing to fix. The reader's browser did see it, and refused the whole diagram over it. Three things changed: such an arrow is never created any more, a document that already carries one is repaired the moment it is opened, and Share now runs the reader's own check before it hands out a link — if a document could not be opened, you are told instead of finding out from whoever you sent it to. Links that were already broken start working again; nothing has to be re-shared.

v1.0.55 2026-08-23

Build a flow without touching the mouse. With one shape selected, hold Ctrl (or Cmd) and press an arrow key: a dashed preview shows where the next shape will go, and releasing the modifier places it, already connected and selected — so you can type its label and carry straight on. Press the same arrow again while holding and the siblings fan out side by side, all branching from the same point; a different arrow re-aims. Escape throws the preview away, and the whole thing is a single undo step no matter how many shapes it made.
Enter now keeps the shape selected after you finish typing a label, which is what lets that loop run. Escape has grown a second step to match: with the Select tool already active it clears the selection, so the single-letter tool shortcuts are one keystroke away. Escape also stops reaching past whatever is open — closing a colour picker, a menu or the radial ring no longer clears your selection or resets your tool.
The Inspector now shows the defaults you actually set. With Mono as your global font, a freshly drawn shape rendered in Mono while the panel claimed "Sketch". The panel and the canvas now answer the same way for every field an element leaves unset — font, size, fill or outline, line style, arrow type and size.
A diagram an assistant wrote loads even when it leaves things out. A missing edge id, an unknown shape type or an absent size no longer turns into "has a malformed edge" after the link is already minted — the document is completed on the way in, the way missing coordinates always were.
The look you set travels with a shared link. If you styled nothing by hand but changed your defaults, readers used to get none of it. Sharing now takes a snapshot of your defaults into the copy you hand over, so the reader sees what you saw — and can still switch to their own style. The Defaults screen was also rebuilt to match the Inspector, field for field.

v1.0.54 2026-08-19

DrillFlow has a new mark. Three levels, each one opened inside the level above — the drill-down drawn as containment instead of as an arrow. The old mark's arrow dissolved at the size a browser tab actually shows, so the new one is solid and its openings are real holes: they take on whatever sits behind them, in either theme. You will meet it in the tab, beside the breadcrumbs in the editor, on the home-screen icon if you installed DrillFlow, and in link previews.

v1.0.53 2026-08-18

Put a diagram in your Notion page, your wiki, or your own site — and keep the drill-down. The Share dialog now hands you an embed URL and a ready <iframe> snippet next to the link. What appears there is the real diagram, read-only: readers double-click a node to dive into its subflow and use the breadcrumbs to climb back out, inside the page they were already reading. Everything that belongs to you — export, "Make a copy", search, the minimap — stays out of the frame; the subflow tree is one click away if a reader wants it. Shared links that are not embedded look exactly as before.
Embedding has its own place in the menu now — ≡ → Embed…. It previews the frame at the size you pick, hands you the link, the ready <iframe>, and a picture URL for mail, a README or any wiki that refuses iframes. It also reuses the link you already made for this document instead of quietly creating a second one, and says plainly that an embed shows the diagram as it was when the link was created.
"To back" now reaches past the shapes to the arrows. Draw a big box around a group of shapes and send it behind them, and the arrows between them were still unclickable — the box kept swallowing every click aimed at them, while staying invisible. Shapes and arrows now share one depth order: what you drew later sits on top, and To front / To back move a shape past arrows as well as past other shapes.
Four more starter templates. System breakdown (a company four levels deep: department, team, process, task), project plan, decision tree and goal tree — picked because the detail genuinely belongs a level down, not because the method is popular. The library gained a Decisions category.
The fishbone template now looks like a fishbone: spine, forked tail and a head around the problem, the way the textbook draws it.
One link per document. Sharing the same diagram twice used to mint a second link every time, so whatever you had already pasted somewhere quietly became the old version. Share and Embed now hand back the link this document already has, with Create a new link when you actually want a fresh one — and every link made from the open canvas carries its picture, so it can be embedded as an image later.

v1.0.52 2026-08-17

Bring your draw.io diagrams in. Import → draw.io… opens a .drawio or .xml file — compressed or not — or takes the XML you copy out of Extras → Edit Diagram. Shapes, connectors with their labels and waypoints, colours, fonts, dashed lines and layers come across in the positions you drew them. Two things become levels: a shape that links to another page opens that page as its subflow, and a container or swimlane becomes a subflow of its contents — so a multi-page diagram arrives as a drill-down instead of a pile of tabs. A page nothing links to still gets its own shape on the first canvas, so nothing is lost. Lossy, and it says so: stencil artwork becomes a labelled rectangle, gradients and shadows are dropped, and whatever could not come along is counted for you.
Bring your Excalidraw drawings in. Import → Excalidraw… takes an .excalidraw file, or a selection copied straight out of the Excalidraw canvas, and rebuilds it here: rectangles, ellipses, diamonds, text, arrows (with their labels), freehand strokes and embedded images, in the positions you drew them. Frames become drill-down subflows — whatever sat inside a frame becomes its own level, and arrows that crossed the frame edge reconnect to it. The import is lossy and says so: the sketchy look, fill patterns, opacity, groups and stacking order are not carried over, and anything that could not come along is counted for you afterwards. It arrives as a new document, so whatever you had open stays untouched.
The template library got a category list. The chips above the cards were built for a phone; on a wide screen the sections were one long scroll that only gets longer with every template added. There is now a column beside the cards — All templates, Processes, Analysis, My templates — with the number in each, and clicking one shows just that group. The counts follow the search, so a category that has nothing for your search says so instead of promising cards a click cannot deliver. On a phone the same rows stay chips, and they now filter too rather than scrolling you to a section.
Save as no longer says "as" twice: its two entries are File (.json)… and Template….

v1.0.51 2026-08-16

Installed on an iPhone, the top row no longer hides behind the status bar. With DrillFlow added to the home screen, the clock, signal and battery were drawn on top of the logo, the document name and the action buttons — and those two clusters overlapped each other as well, because both were squeezed into one row 375pt wide. All chrome now keeps clear of the system's own strip, and on a phone the actions (menu, search, undo/redo, Share) move down to the empty bottom of the screen, where the thumb reaches them. Only portrait on an installed app was affected; in the browser and in landscape it looked fine.
Templates — start from something instead of a blank canvas. DrillFlow opened on an empty page, which is the one thing it is not special at: the drill-down only shows itself once levels exist. There is now a template library (menu → New…, the document switcher, the empty canvas, and the welcome screen) with eight starters in German and English — employee onboarding, incident runbook, order process, CI/CD pipeline, customer journey, fishbone analysis, SWOT and 5 Whys. Every one has subflows to drill into, and the incident runbook goes three levels deep. Picking one gives you your own copy as a new document; the template is untouched and your current document stays where it was.
"New" now asks what to start from. One entry instead of two: it opens the library, where the first choice is an empty canvas and the rest are templates, grouped into Processes and Analysis. A search box filters them by name, and on a narrow screen — where the grid is one card wide — the chips next to it jump straight to a section instead of scrolling past everything above it.
Two documents can no longer share a name. Picking the same template twice gave two documents called "Order process", and pressing New twice gave two "Untitled" — indistinguishable in the switcher, which shows nothing but the title. New documents now count up ("Order process 2"), and renaming one by hand onto a name that is taken is refused with a message instead of being silently renumbered. Templates have their own namespace.
"Save as" is one entry with two destinations — as a file (.json) or as a template — instead of two menu rows for the same decision.
A dialog no longer answers the keystroke that opened it. Pressing Enter to confirm something that raised a warning dismissed that warning in the same keypress, so it flashed past unread.
Save your own templates, and pass them on. Save as ▸ As template… in the menu stores the current document as a reusable starting point, and the subflow tree's context menu does the same for a single subflow — with everything below it. Your templates sit next to the built-in ones, can be renamed and deleted, and stay out of the document list. Each one can also be edited in place, duplicated, exported as JSON, and shared as a read-only link — whoever opens that link can save it as a template of their own.

v1.0.50 2026-08-16

A shared link now says where the diagram came from. Someone who opens a read-only link could navigate the whole hierarchy, export it and make a copy, and never learn what they were looking at — nothing on the page named DrillFlow. A small "Made with DrillFlow" chip sits at the bottom of the shared view and leads to the site in the reader's language.
A page describing what a paid tier would be, and a way to say you want it. The pricing section promised "Pro — coming soon" and linked nowhere. There is now a real page (in the menu under DrillFlow Pro, and from the pricing card) listing what Pro would add, what stays free forever, and a button to say it is what you need. No email, no account, no form: opening the page that follows the button is the whole signal, and it is what decides whether Pro gets built at all. Nothing is for sale, and nothing that is free today becomes paid.

v1.0.49 2026-08-14

The privacy policy now describes the server logs precisely, and the servers were changed to match it. It used to say we keep no access logs at all, while the API quietly wrote one line per request including the caller's IP address. That log is off. Requests are now recorded by the web server instead, and every identifying field — IP address, browser user agent, cookies — is removed before the line is written, so it never reaches the disk. What is kept: the time, which page was asked for, the status, and the page you came from. Those logs are overwritten after seven days; the only thing kept longer is a daily count of how often each page was opened.
Still no analytics service, no tracking, no fingerprinting, no cookie banner — and, because none of this identifies anyone, still no way for us to tell one visitor from another. Sections 3 and 8 of the privacy policy spell out both halves.

v1.0.48 2026-08-14

The first thing you see now explains itself. The welcome screen was a hand-drawn sketch with two separate cards stacked underneath it, and the choice between the two ways of picking tools was two small icons that could not show what either option actually does. It is one panel now, and each option plays a short loop of its real gesture — the tool ring blooming under a press and flicking out to a shape, the toolbar sitting at the bottom taking a click. Both loops settle on a still picture if you have reduced motion switched on, and on a short screen the panel trims itself rather than hiding its own buttons below a fold.
The picture of drilling down is no longer a box inside a box. That reads as grouping, which is the one thing drill-down is not. It is now a shape being magnified to reveal a whole diagram inside it, with further levels stacked behind.
Corrected what we tell you double-click does. The welcome screen and the tour both claimed it renames a shape. It renames a shape without a subflow and dives into one that has it, so the sentence stopped being true the moment you followed its own first half. Both now say only what matters there — give a shape a subflow, double-click to dive in. The full conditional lives in Shortcuts & gestures, which had it right all along.
Freshly created subflows greet German users in German. The hint on an empty subflow had been English regardless of the language setting.
Imprint and privacy pages carry a new postal address.

v1.0.47 2026-08-13

Branches that belong together are drawn side by side. Auto-layout decided which row each box sits in, but the order within a row was simply the order the boxes happened to be written in — so two branches of the same decision could end up swapped, dragging their arrows across each other for no reason. Each row is now ordered by what it connects to, and the lane a long arrow travels in moves with the branch it belongs to. On the diagrams this was reported from, five crossings became none. Crossings are minimised rather than eliminated: some diagrams have no crossing-free arrangement at all, and one that reads cleanly already is left exactly as it was. Applies to diagrams written without coordinates, to Mermaid imports, and to Arrange.

v1.0.46 2026-08-12

Long arrows go around the boxes in their way. A branch that rejoins the flow later, or a "retry" arrow that reaches back up, used to be drawn as a straight line through whatever sat in between — including its own label, which landed on top of another box's text. Those arrows now follow a lane of their own. Applies to diagrams written without coordinates, to Mermaid imports, and to Arrange.

v1.0.45 2026-08-12

Opening a diagram shows the whole diagram. Loading a document, drilling into a subflow, coming back up, opening a shared link — each of those was supposed to frame the level you land on, and each of them framed only part of it, so you reached for the fit-view button every single time. Now you don't.
Auto-layout survives loops, and branches no longer collide. A single "retry" or "rework" arrow pointing back up the flow used to flatten a whole diagram into one row of boxes — and a decision whose two branches rejoin later had one arrow drawn straight through the box in between, label and all. Both are fixed: loops are laid out as loops, and an arrow that skips a level gets a lane of its own. Affects diagrams written without coordinates (the usual case for AI-generated ones) and the Arrange action alike.

v1.0.44 2026-08-11

Shapes without a stored size now fit their label. A diagram written by an AI assistant usually leaves sizes out, and every decision diamond then came out the same 100×100 — so a question like "SLA breach risk?" sat on three lines with the first and last poking out through the top and bottom. Diamonds and circles now get the extra room their corners cost them, and the size the canvas draws is the one the arrows aim at, which they were not before. Shapes you drew yourself are untouched: their size is stored, and stored sizes are never changed.
The drill-down on the homepage is yours to try. The little diagram in the hero used to play a loop at you. Click it and it hands over: dive into a node's sub-diagram, go one level deeper, and climb back out through the breadcrumbs — three levels, the same navigation the editor has. It works by keyboard too, and if you have JavaScript off or prefer reduced motion, you get what you got before.
The cheat sheet now covers touch and mouse, not just keys. It was titled Keyboard Shortcuts and listed almost nothing else, so nothing in the app ever told you that holding a shape opens its menu, that two fingers pan and zoom, or that a two-finger double tap undoes. It is now Shortcuts & gestures, with a section per input device — and on a tablet the touch section comes first. Several mouse gestures were undocumented too and are in there now: right-drag pans, the wheel zooms, and dropping an edge end on a shape's border pins it there instead of letting it follow the shape.
Resting two fingers on the canvas no longer opens the tool ring. Two fingers mean pan and zoom, so the second one now cancels the press-and-hold instead of restarting it — and if the ring is already open when it lands, the ring closes without picking a tool.
The subflow tree and layer rows answer a long-press on a tablet. Their menus — Open, Rename, Delete, and the layer actions — could only be opened by right-clicking, so on a touch device the whole panel was inert. A hold now opens the same menu, and a quick tap still just navigates.
Context menus stay on screen. A menu opened on a shape near the right or bottom edge was cut off. It now opens towards whichever side has room, and slides fully into view when neither does. Applies everywhere a menu opens where you pressed: the canvas, a whole selection, subflow tree rows and layer rows.

v1.0.43 2026-08-10

Shapes can be moved to the front or the back. Until now whatever you drew last stayed on top for good, so a shape covering another could only be fixed by deleting and redrawing it. The Inspector has a Stacking row, and both right-click and long-press offer the same two actions — including for a whole selection at once, which re-stacks as a single undo step. Note that layers are unaffected: they decide what is visible, not what is in front.

v1.0.41 2026-08-09

The canvas buttons are finger-sized on a tablet. Fit-view and the minimap toggle were meant to grow on touch devices — they had been rendering at their desktop size all along, because the diagram library's own stylesheet was overriding ours. The whole panel now looks the way it was designed to, on every device.
The minimap toggle has a proper icon instead of a typographic square, so it matches the button beside it and is legible at any size.

v1.0.40 2026-08-09

Diamonds are diamonds again — at any size. A diamond drawn or resized to anything other than a square came out as a tilted rectangle. It is now the rhombus that fits its box exactly, with four equal sides whatever its proportions, and it no longer spills over its own edges. Diagrams you already saved simply draw correctly from now on; nothing in the file changed.
Resize handles you can actually grab. The corner squares and the side-edge grips were rendering at the diagram library's default size, tiny and in a colour that was never ours. They now match the app, and on a tablet they are large enough for a finger — including the side grips, which resize one axis only and had never been visible on a touchscreen at all.

v1.0.39 2026-08-08

Two ways to select several shapes, and they differ in what you draw. The Select tool drags a rectangular selection box — on a tablet as well as a desktop. The new Lasso tool (L, or the tool ring) draws a freehand loop and catches everything it encircles, which a rectangle cannot do when the shapes you want sit diagonally among ones you don't. A shape counts as caught when its middle is inside the loop, so a slightly wobbly circle still picks up what it visibly went around.
A multi-selection is usable without a keyboard. Long-press or right-click inside one to duplicate, copy, move to a layer or delete the whole set. The Inspector styles every selected shape at once — colour, fill or outline, font, size, alignment — and each change is a single undo step, not one per shape. Dragging anywhere inside a selection moves the group together.
Two-finger double tap undoes. There is no Ctrl+Z on a tablet, and undo was a small button in the corner. A double tap, not a single one: two fingers already mean pan and zoom here, and a pinch that barely moved would otherwise have quietly undone your work.
Two fingers pan and zoom the canvas under the Select tool, since one finger now draws the selection box. The Hand tool still pans with one finger, and is the way back if the two-finger habit doesn't stick.
Tapping a shape selects it on the first tap. On iPhone and iPad the first tap used to be spent showing the four connection dots, and only the second one actually selected — the Inspector stayed empty in between. Edges were never affected, which is what gave the cause away.
Arrowheads show up on iPhone and iPad. Edges have always had them; iOS was not drawing them. Set an arrow's size to S, M or L and you can now see the difference too.
Dragging a shape with one finger moves it. It did nothing before.
The canvas fills the screen. The status bar along the bottom is gone — it was the one strip of chrome that permanently took space and could not be dismissed, and almost everything in it was either already shown elsewhere or not worth a permanent row. The per-diagram shape and connection counts moved into the subflow tree, and "unconnected shapes" became Find unconnected shapes in the menu — it used to sit there glowing amber from the moment you placed a second shape, which is not news.
Undo and redo moved to the top-right, next to the menu and Share, so each corner has one job: the view controls stay bottom-left, the things you do to the document are together at the top.
Fewer controls in the bottom-left corner, and bigger ones on touch. Zoom buttons are hidden on touch devices (pinch does it), and the canvas-lock button is gone for good — it was a trap that could leave shapes unselectable until you reloaded.

v1.0.38 2026-08-04

An AI assistant no longer has to place the shapes. It can describe just the structure — the boxes, the labels, the arrows, which box opens into which sub-diagram — and leave the coordinates out entirely. DrillFlow then arranges the diagram itself, the same way it arranges an imported Mermaid flowchart. Placing shapes by hand still works, for when the arrangement is part of what you mean.
The shape-placement setting says what it does. Preferences used to offer "Drag to size" or "Tap to place", which read as two ways of placing a shape. Both place one on a click or tap; the setting only decides whether dragging draws the shape or moves the canvas — so it now says that. Wording only, nothing behaves differently.

v1.0.37 2026-08-03

Search works on shared links too. Open a diagram someone sent you, press Ctrl+F or the magnifier button, and find any shape across every level — then jump straight to it. Useful precisely because a shared diagram is one you didn't build, and its detail is tucked away inside Subflows.
Coloured shapes stay readable in both themes. A shape's label now takes its colour from the shape's own fill instead of from the theme, so a diagram coloured in light mode is still legible in dark mode, and the other way round. This fixes diagrams you have already made and already shared — nothing needs re-doing.
Arrow keys keep the search results in view. Stepping through a long hit list with the keyboard used to leave the highlight scrolled out of sight.
Preferences shows the choice instead of naming it. Theme, line style, canvas pattern and canvas background are now pictures of what you are picking, rather than words for it.

v1.0.35 2026-08-02

An AI assistant can now build DrillFlow diagrams for you. The document format is written down publicly at drillflow.de/en/format/, so you can ask an assistant for a Mermaid flowchart — each subgraph becomes a real drill-down Subflow — and import it, or have it write DrillFlow's own JSON and hand you a ready share link. There's a skill for Claude with worked examples, and a JSON Schema to check a generated file against. The same reference tells you exactly what is in your .json export, whether or not you ever point an assistant at it.
Redo works with Ctrl+Shift+Z again. It had been doing nothing at all — only Ctrl+Y redid. Both work now.
People you open a shared link with can no longer change it. Double-clicking an arrow in a read-only view opened the label editor, and the changed diagram could end up saved in the viewer's own document list.
A shared diagram can't report who opened it. A diagram someone sends you is no longer able to make your browser fetch anything from another site, so opening a link tells nobody that you did.

v1.0.33 2026-07-29

The canvas can be navigated by keyboard. Tab now moves through the shapes and arrows in a diagram and marks where you are with a visible ring that follows the shape — round on circles, angled on diamonds. Press Enter on a focused shape to select it, then move it with the arrow keys. Mouse and touch are unchanged: clicking never draws the ring.
Shapes and arrows announce themselves. A screen reader now reads a shape by its kind and label — and says when it owns a subflow — instead of "group", and an arrow as the two shapes it connects instead of a pair of internal ids. Available in both German and English.
Easier-to-read secondary text. Muted labels, counts and timestamps in the dark theme, plus the breadcrumb separator and the status-bar mark, were too faint against their panels. All of them now clear the WCAG AA contrast minimum.

v1.0.32 2026-07-29

Arrows attach where they should. Edge ends no longer snap to four fixed points on a shape. They meet the outline exactly where they face the other end — following circles and diamonds properly — and keep re-aiming as you move, resize or rotate things. Existing diagrams pick this up automatically.
Pin an arrow to a spot. Start or end a connection on a shape's border and that end stays there; start or end it inside the shape and it stays free to re-aim. Works with the connect tool, with the round connect handles, and when dragging an existing arrow's endpoint somewhere else.
Drag a connection without switching tools. The round handles on a shape start an arrow straight from the Select tool, and an arrow can land anywhere on the target shape rather than on one of its handles.
You can see what you'll get. While dragging, the dashed preview runs between the real attachment points, the shape under the cursor lights up, and each end shows whether it will pin there (filled dot) or stay free (ring).
Dangling arrow ends are now just endpoints: drag one onto a shape to connect it — no more accidentally starting a second arrow from it.

v1.0.31 2026-07-28

Steadier tool ring. Press-and-hold on the canvas now freezes the canvas while the radial tool ring is open — dragging out to a tool no longer pans the view (or drags a selection box) underneath it, and your current selection survives the pick.

v1.0.30 2026-07-27

Color picker fix. The color popover — in the inspector and the pen tools — no longer opens clipped or off-screen. It now appears right next to its swatch, flipping above when there isn't room below.

v1.0.25 2026-07-26

Safer editing across tabs. With the same document open in more than one browser tab, DrillFlow now notices when another tab changes it and asks what to do — reload the latest or keep your version — instead of one tab silently overwriting the other.

v1.0.24 2026-07-25

Multiple documents. DrillFlow now keeps a collection of local documents instead of just one. Switch between them from the new title menu in the top-left corner, and New adds a document without discarding the one you're on. Everything still stays local in your browser.
Document manager. Open Manage documents… for a searchable, sortable view of everything — as a list or a grid of live thumbnails — where you can switch, rename, or delete. Rename the current document right from the title (the ✎ next to it), and press Enter to accept.
Copies stay separate. Making a copy of a shared diagram now adds it as its own document instead of replacing your current work.

v1.0.23 2026-07-25

Export to Mermaid. Turn a diagram into Mermaid flowchart text — the round-trip companion to Mermaid import. Export the whole document or just the diagram you're in; every drill-down subflow becomes a nested subgraph. Great for re-importing later or pasting into an LLM.
Reworked Export menu. Export is now a tidy submenu, like Import. PDF, Markdown, JSON and Mermaid sit alongside image export, and each option shows whether it covers the whole document or just the current diagram.
Copy exports to the clipboard. Markdown, JSON and Mermaid can be copied straight to the clipboard instead of downloading a file.

v1.0.22 2026-07-24

Import Mermaid flowcharts. Paste a Mermaid flowchart/graph — or open a .mmd file — from the menu under Import → Mermaid…, and it becomes an editable diagram. Each Mermaid subgraph turns into a drill-down subflow, nested as deeply as you like. Shapes, arrow styles, and edge labels carry over, and everything is auto-arranged on the way in.
Tidier Import menu. Inserting an image and importing Mermaid now live together under a single Import entry.

v1.0.21 2026-07-24

Resize a shape one side at a time. Drag a shape's side handle to change just its width or height; the corners still resize both together.
Drag images straight onto the canvas. Drop image files from your desktop to add them as nodes — alongside paste and the Insert Image menu. Drop several at once and they fan out instead of stacking.
Resizable side panels. Drag the outer edge of the subflow tree or the inspector to set its width; the width is remembered.
Clearer edge controls. The inspector's line-style (solid/dashed/dotted) and straight/curved buttons now show icons instead of words.
Native controls match the theme. Number fields like font size — and scrollbars — no longer show light chrome in dark mode.

v1.0.20 2026-07-19

Your work is always saved. An "Autosave: manual (off)" setting existed that stopped saving to the browser entirely — with no way to save by hand and no warning, so closing the tab could lose everything. The setting is gone, and any browser still on it is switched back to saving automatically.
Opening a file asks first when it would replace a diagram you've been working on, the same way "New" already did.
Tidier menu. Help, documentation, shortcuts, support and About moved into a single "Help" entry, and the menu now scrolls on small screens instead of running off the bottom. The "Welcome tips" entry — which collapsed your panels and then showed nothing — has been removed; the guided tour covers it.
Renaming your top-level diagram sticks. The breadcrumb kept reverting to "Root" after a reload.
Error messages now speak German when the app is in German. Previously any failure switched to English.
Clearer messages for broken links and files. A shared link that has expired or been revoked now says so, instead of looking the same as a typo or a server outage; opening an unsupported file explains the problem instead of showing raw parser output.
A friendly "page not found" in the editor for mistyped or truncated links, rather than a blank screen.
Guided tour fixes: the tip no longer runs off the edge on small or short windows, and tapping the highlighted control moves to the next step instead of quietly ending the tour.
Shared views respond to the keyboard — Escape, Alt+↑ to go up a level, and ? for the shortcut list now work when viewing someone's link.

v1.0.19 2026-07-19

Share links without an account now expire after 90 days. Previously they lived forever with no way for anyone — including us — to take them down. Links you create while signed in are unchanged: they stay until you revoke them. The share dialog tells you which kind you're creating, and the privacy policy documents the retention period.
A proper "page not found" page on drillflow.de and in the editor, in German and English. Mistyped or truncated links used to land on a blank page; now they explain what happened and offer a way back.
Widely-shared diagrams no longer hit a rate limit. Viewing a shared link was capped per network, so a diagram opened by a whole team or office could start refusing readers. Viewing is now effectively unlimited.

v1.0.18 2026-07-18

Your own account page: a new page at app.drillflow.de/account (menu → your email) gathering your profile, your plan, and all your shared links in one place — link management used to hide inside a small dialog.
Delete your account yourself: the account page's danger zone removes your account and every share link you created, no support mail needed (GDPR right to erasure). Documents stored locally in your browser are untouched. The privacy policy documents the new self-service route.
No analytics, for real: removed a leftover analytics script from the old Vercel hosting. It was inert on our servers and never collected anything here — now the app ships no analytics code at all, exactly as the privacy policy and FAQ have always said.

v1.0.17 2026-07-18

Snap to objects: while dragging a shape, guide lines show when its edges or center line up with other shapes — release to drop it perfectly aligned. Works with multi-selection; toggle it under Preferences → Canvas.

v1.0.16 2026-07-18

Public changelog: this page — release notes now live at drillflow.de/en/changelog, linked from the site footer and the editor's About dialog ("What's new").
Keyboard zoom: Ctrl+= / Ctrl+- zoom the canvas, Ctrl+0 returns to 100% — listed in the ? cheat sheet.
Exports carry a small credit: a subtle "Made with DrillFlow · drillflow.de" corner mark on exported PNG/SVG/PDF and clipboard copies, matching the export theme.

v1.0.15 2026-07-17

Shared views: Make a copy: anyone viewing a shared read-only link can now open it as their own editable document — one click for new visitors; a confirmation guards your existing local work from being replaced.
Shared views: Export: the full export menu (PNG, SVG, PDF, Markdown, JSON) is now available in read-only views too.

v1.0.14 2026-07-17

Demo videos on the documentation page: a one-minute walkthrough (draw → connect → drill down → resurface) in the Drill-down section, and a short tool-ring clip in the Canvas section — click-to-play, in your language.
Rich link previews: sharing drillflow.de links (chat, social, forums) now shows a proper preview card with the DrillFlow brand and a mini diagram, per language.

v1.0.13 2026-07-17

Documentation page: drillflow.de now has a full feature reference — German at drillflow.de/de/hilfe, English at drillflow.de/en/docs — covering drill-down & Subflows, tools, layers, pen, images, search, files, exports, sharing and shortcuts, with small illustrated examples. Linked from the landing page navigation and, in the editor, from the menu ("Documentation") and the About dialog.

v1.0.12 2026-07-15

Find any node with Ctrl+F: search across ALL diagrams of the document by label — each result shows its diagram path (Root › … ), and picking one jumps there, selects the node and centers it. On touch, the magnifier button next to the menu opens the search.

v1.0.11 2026-07-15

Save & Save As like a desktop app: "Save As…" remembers the file, so "Save" / Ctrl+S overwrites it in place (Chromium; other browsers re-download under the same name). Files opened via "Open…" can be saved back directly. A dot on the menu button shows unsaved file changes. Local browser autosave is unchanged — this is for working with .json files.
Styles that remember your last choice: changing text size, font, bold/italic, alignment, colors, borders or arrow styles in the Inspector now presets the next element you create — kept separately for text, shapes and edges, and remembered across sessions.
Fixed: deleting a shape's label now sticks — previously the old text reappeared after committing an emptied label. Emptying a standalone text element removes it (instead of leaving an invisible ghost).

v1.0.10 2026-07-15

About dialog: hamburger menu → "About DrillFlow" shows the running version and build date, plus website and legal links (which moved here from the hamburger list). The version also appears in the Preferences footer.
Update notification: an open editor tab now detects new deploys (checked every 15 minutes and whenever you return to the tab) and offers a "Reload" toast — no more hard-refresh to get the latest version.
Landing fix: the header links (Features / Pricing / FAQ / Contact) now work from the Imprint and Privacy pages too.

v1.0.9 2026-07-15

Fixed: the subflow preview popup (badge on a shape) was cut off at the screen edge on phones. It now stays fully visible at both edges and never grows wider than the screen.

v1.0.8 2026-07-14

Preferences redesigned: a two-pane settings dialog with grouped sections (Language & Appearance · Canvas · Tools & Editing · Saving); on narrow screens the sidebar becomes a scrollable tab row.

v1.0.7 2026-07-14

Landing navigation: header anchor links to Features / Pricing / FAQ / Contact, collapsing into a hamburger menu on phones; mobile header polish (theme toggle placement, DE/EN switch).

v1.0.6 2026-07-14

Resizable text labels with word-wrap: text labels get the same resize handles as shapes, and wrapped text flows onto new lines.
WYSIWYG inline editing: the label editor now matches the final label's size, font and position at any zoom level.

v1.0.5 2026-07-13

The editor speaks German: the full editor UI is now available in Deutsch and English. The language follows your browser by default and can be switched in the Preferences.

v1.0.4 2026-07-13

Support & feedback: a form in the editor's hamburger menu and a contact form on drillflow.de — messages go straight to support@drillflow.de, with your email as reply-to if you leave one.

v1.0.3 2026-07-13

Double-click drills down: double-clicking a node that has a subflow now opens the subflow (matching shared read-only views). Plain nodes keep double-click-to-rename.

v1.0.2 2026-07-12

Brand polish: real DrillFlow favicon and PWA icons (goodbye stock Vite logo), fixed hero-demo cursor alignment on the landing page, fixed the welcome overlay's controls arrow.

v1.0.1 2026-07-12

Legal pages complete: Impressum and Datenschutzerklärung published in German and English.

v1.0.0 2026-07-12

First production release on drillflow.de 🎉 — the editor at app.drillflow.de (local-first, installable as a PWA, works offline), read-only share links, optional accounts (email + password) with owned share-link management, and the bilingual landing site. Hosted on a single European VPS with a permanent staging environment.