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The kennel log

Essays when there is something to say; a post for every release, written by the changelog so the log never goes quiet. RSS.

• release · 2026-10-21

  Latch 0.23.0

  🪪 Kennel Card — your pup homepage (#72). Migration 26. A new module, off until you make a view.

• release · 2026-10-19

  Latch 0.22.0

  Today's mantra, voiced on your own box (#45). No migration. The voice is opt-in.

• release · 2026-10-18

  Latch 0.21.1

  A warm Handler, and a grammar that cannot write an empty action. No migration.

• release · 2026-10-13

  Latch 0.21.0

  Hygiene from the room, and a mark for a long soak. No migration.

• release · 2026-10-11

  Latch 0.20.0

  Your Handler's profile: it shows you off — or shows you up. Migration 25.

• release · 2026-10-11

  Latch 0.19.1

  Catch up: a way back from a missed reflection. No migration.

• release · 2026-10-11

  Latch 0.19.0

  Your AI Handler in the room, proof on demand, a day on the calendar, and the demo. No migration.

• release · 2026-10-05

  Latch 0.18.0

  A chapter can carry a goal — the quest (M10 #60). Migration 24 adds four columns to chapters.

• release · 2026-10-05

  Latch 0.17.6

  A shareable copy of a chapter (M9 #57). No schema change.

• release · 2026-10-05

  Latch 0.17.5

  Keepsakes (M9 #56). A chapter as one encrypted, self-contained .html file. No schema change.

• release · 2026-10-05

  Latch 0.17.4

  Writing in a chapter (M9 #55). No schema change — the notes table arrived in 0.17.0.

• release · 2026-10-05

  Latch 0.17.3

  A chapter, told as a story (M9 #54). No schema change.

• release · 2026-10-04

  Latch 0.17.2

  The Handler dictates maintenance (#43). No schema change, no migration.

• release · 2026-10-04

  Latch 0.17.1

  Badges you can see. The cabinet is a grid of cards with the art as the hero, and every badge

• release · 2026-10-04

  Latch 0.17.0

  Chapters, first slice (M9 #52, #53). A window of time you can name, keep and export.

• release · 2026-10-04

  Latch 0.16.3

  Hygiene unlock (#43). The cage comes off to be cleaned, the clock stops, and the log says so.

• release · 2026-10-04

  Latch 0.16.2

  The nav, grouped. Five menus instead of nineteen links, and the Share milestone header fix. No schema change, no migration.

• release · 2026-10-04

  Latch 0.16.1

  Hands-free, first slice. A refused save never throws your words away, a bout you did earlier

• release · 2026-10-04

  Latch 0.16.0

  Leave it. 🙅 The habits you want *less* of — booze, food, weed, money, anything — judged so that

• release · 2026-10-04

  Latch 0.15.0

  Mischief. A second tally beside your XP for the lapses — and a Handler that remembers them.

• release · 2026-10-04

  Latch 0.14.0

  Share, reworked. For Locktober, and for every event after it: a card that uses its space, a

• release · 2026-09-30

  Latch 0.13.1

  - Health: a held-back penalty is written once. When a recovery day held a penalty back,

• release · 2026-09-29

  Latch 0.13.0

  The Pup ID, consent and the safeword, packs, your own AI Handler, AI kennels and the chat bot.

• release · 2026-09-29

  Latch 0.12.3

  - Log a finish (Kit page): came / ruined / edged at any past time without opening and

• release · 2026-09-27

  Latch 0.12.2

  - Recorded tracks in the trance module. An audio file installed on the box

• release · 2026-09-25

  Latch 0.12.1

  - granted, a sixth badge template: awarded the moment the playset is installed. An

• release · 2026-09-25

  Latch 0.12.0

  Playsets and events. Content made by other people — training, Handler lines, wheel segments,

• release · 2026-09-23

  Latch 0.11.0

  The coach. The Handler does not only want you locked; it wants you to be the best pup you

• release · 2026-09-23

  Latch 0.10.0

  The habits module — and a sharper statement of what the game is for. Latch is a game of

• release · 2026-09-22

  Latch 0.9.1

  Beta surveys and a tester handbook. Hosted mode grows a *Feedback* page: three short

• release · 2026-09-22

  Latch 0.9.0

  Hosted mode: one instance, many profiles, each in its own database. LATCH_HOSTED=1

• release · 2026-09-20

  Latch 0.8.0

  Charts and insight: /progress grows four tabs. Closes issue #12 — the quantified side

• release · 2026-09-20

  Latch 0.7.0

  Share cards: three kinds, seven themes, and the badges on them. Closes issue #5 — the

• release · 2026-09-19

  Latch 0.6.0

  The kit module, and the badge engine that came with it. Everything you own — gear, toys,

• release · 2026-09-19

  Latch 0.5.0

  The health module — what your body did, moving the game. Apple Health and SparkyFitness

• release · 2026-09-19

  Latch 0.4.0

  Activities, a calendar, and the stats that come out of them. A thing you want to count —

• release · 2026-09-14

  Latch 0.3.0

  The Guide. User documentation, served by the app at /guide — sidebar, per-page table

• release · 2026-09-14

  Latch 0.2.0

  Own repo. Split out of the Aurora monorepo (stacks/latch/) with full history. The estate

• release · 2026-09-13

  Latch 0.1.0

  P0 + P1 as built inside the monorepo: engine, handler, wheel, training, stamped export, recap