Version 5 Beta Announcement

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Hello! I'd like to announce the beta version of the next major update to temperature-blanket.com.

You can try it now at next.temperature-blanket.com.

What's new in the version 5 beta?

This update includes significant design changes and code refactoring. Even thought it's a major version update, there are no breaking changes—projects created using earlier versions can still be opened and edited with version 5.

Tooling Updates

• Updated from Svelte 4 to Svelte 5
  This major refactor is the main reason why I'm releasing this as a beta before rolling it out to the main site—I'd like to get some feedback if there are any issues I've potentially missed. Almost all code is refactored in some way because of the changes from Svelte 4 to 5. There are 227 changed files with 25,790 additions and 23,913 deletions. The web app benefits from improved performance that comes with Svelte 5. I've also found the developer experience improved, which will hopefully lead to easier maintenance and more features.

• Updated from Skeleton v2 to Skeleton v3
  Components and styles are updated to use Skeleton v3. This includes new spacing features for themes, richer theme colors, and better accessibility.

New Design

I think this update provides a good opportunity to refresh the design of temperature-blanket.com. There's a new logo, headings use a new typeface, all the icons have been updated and now share the same line-width, and components such as inputs, buttons, and toggles are updated.

New Features

• Better location searching: Search ahead (for example typing Sea brings up Seattle, Washington, United States), as well as the ability to view latitude, longitude, class type and population details for locations.

• Fullscreen color editor:

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• Color details in the weather table:

• Move colors directly in the gauge editor (instead of just from the palette preview or by pressing the sort button).

• Click-to-copy yarn names and hex codes in the Yarn Colorway Finder.

• Cycle through Light -> Dark -> System theme by using the keyboard shortcut t on any page

Depreciated Features

The one feature that has been removed in version 5 is the option to always display all sections of the Project Planner at once. It was removed because it caused some performance issues, and I don't think it was an option that people used very often.

Version 5 Release Date

I'm hoping to release version 5 within the next few weeks. I don't think there will be any significant changes between now and the final release, but things might still change. It could be released as early as this weekend or as late as the end of March. I would like to gather feedback and see if anyone has issues that I missed in the version 5 beta before updating the main temperature-blanket.com site.

Reporting Issues

You can try the version 5 beta at next.temperature-blanket.com.

If you have feedback of any kind, or encounter any issues, please let me know here or through any of the methods listed on the contact page. Thank you!