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Release notes.

How Storm2Flow keeps getting better at turning messy input into a clear, shared process description and the matching diagram set, and evolving it with your team. Newest at the top, grouped by day. A separate Removed section at the bottom tracks retired features. For the full feature catalogue see help & features.

2026-06-09

  • Your process description always has a Save button. We fixed a problem where the Save button on the process description could disappear after you opened the diagram editor, leaving you with no obvious way to save your text edits. It now stays put.
  • "Export as picture" now captures the whole diagram. Very wide diagrams were getting cut off on the right edge when you exported them as a picture (PNG). The exported image now contains the full diagram, however wide it is. PDF and PowerPoint exports were already complete.

2026-06-06

  • Cleaner, easier-to-read diagrams. We rebuilt how Storm2Flow lays out your generated diagrams. The main flow now reads as a straight line from start to finish; decision points sit right on that line, visibly connected to the step before and after them, instead of drifting off on their own; side branches step neatly above or below the main path; and arrows route around boxes rather than through them. It also handles plain process diagrams (no swimlanes) with the same care as swimlane and BPMN diagrams. There is nothing to do on your side, your next Generate uses it automatically, and re-opening an existing process picks up the cleaner layout too.

2026-05-30

  • Try Storm2Flow before you sign up. The home page now has a "Try it now · 1 free · no account" card: type a process in plain words, click Generate, and you get a real flowchart in seconds, rendered in our editorial style. Like it? Create a free account in one click and your description carries over into your first process, so you pick up where you left off. Cookie-free and fully EU-hosted, like the rest of Storm2Flow.

2026-05-28

  • A new Trust & Security page. A public Security page (English and German) now lays out, in plain language, how Storm2Flow protects your process knowledge: everything runs on AWS in the EU (Frankfurt), your content is never used to train AI, data is encrypted in transit and at rest, your organisation's work is isolated from other tenants, and the AWS account is continuously watched by always-on security monitoring (threat detection, a tamper-evident audit trail, and automated security checks). Questions or a security report go to security@struct2flow.com.
  • Clearer privacy policy, now in German too. The privacy policy now states plainly that all AI processing happens on AWS Bedrock inside the EU and your content is not sent to any AI provider's own (non-EU) API, so EU organisations can use Storm2Flow under GDPR without a separate agreement per AI vendor. A full German version is available at /privacy.de.html.

2026-05-27

  • Your comments and flags now show up on the diagram. When you comment on a step (or highlight a passage of your description) and flag it, those notes now appear directly on the diagram the next time you Generate, drawn as comment annotations attached to the step they are about, not as extra boxes in the flow. Mark something as a Red flag to call out a risk or gap; the other colours are yours to use for grouping. A note about the whole process attaches to the end of the flow. Comments are added to the diagram only when you regenerate (the same way editing your description is), so your current diagram never changes under you. Works on flowcharts, swimlanes, and BPMN.

2026-05-26

  • Set up Microsoft sign-in for your company, yourself. If your team uses Microsoft (Entra / Azure AD), a corporate user can now connect Storm2Flow to your organisation's Microsoft sign-in without contacting us. You start the setup, forward the generated approval link to your Microsoft admin, and once they approve, your colleagues sign in with Microsoft and you become the organisation admin. Nothing is provisioned until your Microsoft admin approves.
  • A refreshed Storm2Flow look. A new logo across the app: the browser-tab icon, the sign-in screen, and the page headers now carry the Storm2Flow mark.
  • New FAQ page. A public FAQ (in English and German) now explains what Storm2Flow is and how it differs from whiteboards, diagram-code tools, general AI chat, and enterprise BPM suites. It is part of making Storm2Flow easier to find and understand, and it answers the most common "what is this and is my content safe?" questions in one place.

2026-05-25

  • Inviting a teammate to a space just got easier (Spaces). When you invite someone to a shared space, the email field now autocompletes colleagues from your organisation as you type, suggesting active teammates who are not already in the space, so you do not have to remember exact addresses or risk re-inviting someone. And when you add a member, Storm2Flow now emails them an invitation letting them know you added them to the space, with a link to open the app. Previously a new member was added silently with no notification.

2026-05-24

  • New Save button between Analyse and Generate. Click it to commit your current description as a restorable version. If you have not changed anything since the last version, it is a no-op for history (the backend dedupes), but you still get a toast confirming the save. Use it to capture a checkpoint before you re-Generate, or any time you want to make sure your edits are in version history.
  • The main description editor gets a formatting toolbar too. Same five buttons as the integration modal (bold, italic, heading, bullet list, numbered list) sit above the process-description field. Existing keyboard shortcuts (Ctrl/Cmd-B for bold, etc.) still work; the toolbar makes them discoverable.
  • Rich-text editing in the integration review modal. When you ask Storm2Flow to integrate a braindump / voice / file / image extraction / Analyse rewrite / diagram-edit, the suggested-description preview now renders formatted (headings as headings, bold as bold, lists as lists) instead of showing raw **bold** / # heading / - list source. Hitting Edit before accepting opens a formatted editor with a five-button toolbar (bold, italic, heading, bullet list, numbered list), so you tweak the suggestion in place without ever seeing markup. The modal is also wider now - comfortably wide enough to read a multi-paragraph description without scrolling. After you accept or skip an Analyse-sourced rewrite, the Analyse bookmark in the right rail auto-closes so you can get back to the diagram without a stale panel in the way.
  • Shared spaces. A new space switcher sits at the top-left of the header. Every account now has a private space (your own processes, unchanged) and can join or create shared spaces to collaborate with colleagues from the same organisation. Switch spaces from the menu; the process library scopes to whichever space is open.
  • Move a process into a space. A small ⇄ button on top-level rows in your private library opens a picker of shared spaces you can write to; pick one and the process (with its whole sub-process tree) moves into that space. The process leaves your private library and appears in the shared space's library for every member.
  • Members panel. When you open a shared space, owners can invite other members of your organisation by email, change a member's role (owner / contributor / viewer), and remove members. Contributors read + edit; viewers read only; owners do all of the above plus member management. A space always keeps at least one owner.
  • Leave a space. Any member can leave a shared space (the Leave action in the members panel). On leave, the processes you put into that space return to your private space - you keep your own content.
  • Switching spaces resets your workspace. Selecting a different space closes the currently-open process and clears the diagram, description, and side rails, so you are not looking at a stale process from another space.

2026-05-21

  • Reorganise your process hierarchy by dragging. Drag a process in the library onto another to nest it as a sub-process, or onto the strip at the top to promote it to the top level. A confirm dialog names the move ("Move ‹X› under ‹Y›?") before anything changes, so nothing moves by accident.
  • Build deep, multi-level process maps. You can now add a sub-process under any process, including ones that already have children, so a top-level process can hold a full multi-level structure of sub-processes, each with its own sub-steps.
  • Language picker. The header language control now shows your current language and opens a menu to switch (English / Deutsch, with Español / Português / Français on the roadmap), instead of a one-way toggle that showed only the other language.
  • Comments stay out of your way. Opening a process no longer auto-opens the Comments panel. It stays closed unless you open it, and your per-process choice is remembered.
  • Analyse is now a first-class inspector. When you ask Storm2Flow to analyse a description, its clarifying questions land in a dedicated Analyse tab in the side rail (alongside Comments and Assets) instead of a panel that vanished. Answer the questions, re-run, and Analyse proposes a refined description you review and accept in the same review dialog used for braindumps and voice notes. Your editor is never overwritten behind your back.
  • Every applied refinement is saved as a version. Accepting an Analyse rewrite (or any integrated content) now records a new version tagged with where it came from, so you always keep a before/after trail you can return to.
  • A calmer, easier-to-follow workspace. Collapsing and expanding the library, description, and diagram columns now animates, so you can see where a panel tucks away and how to bring it back. Opening Analyse makes room by sliding the diagram and library aside, and a clear loading overlay covers the work area while a request runs.
  • Pasting long descriptions just works. Pasting a document (for example copied from a code editor) no longer reads as empty or turns into a code block. The text lands as clean, editable content.

2026-05-20

  • Editor redesign. The editor workspace is rebuilt around collapsible edge bookmarks so you can shape your own focus.
  • Right-edge bookmarks: Comments / Diagrams / Assets. One open at a time (opening one collapses the others), replacing the old context-chip strip. "Diagrams" is the diagram-type switcher.
  • Left-edge bookmarks: All Processes + your current process. Each collapses to a bookmark labelled with the process name, plus a diagram fullscreen toggle (⛶) that collapses both left panels so the diagram fills the frame.
  • Notes are now Comments. The standalone "Improve this process" notes box is retired (see Removed). Its job is now a whole-process Comment with an optional Improvement tag, and the Comments panel gains an All / Open / Resolved / Improvements filter. Comments can also be anchored to a selected span of the description.
  • One review modal for every description change. Editing a BPMN diagram now reviews the suggested description in the same nicer modal as a braindump or voice capture: change summary, diff, edit-before-accept, and accepting saves a version.
  • Every description change is a restorable version. Nothing is silently overwritten anymore - direct edits, accepted suggestions, and generations all land in version history.
  • Recording modal + progress feedback. Recording opens a modal with a live timer and Discard / Stop & transcribe; a spinner shows transcription in progress; braindump and transcription results reveal progressively instead of popping in fully formed.
  • Voice and braindump keep your language. A first German braindump or voice capture is no longer drifted into English.
  • Sharing fixes. Owners and people you share a branched process with now see the same versions and assets; voice transcription was also corrected.

2026-05-19

  • Personal diagram style. Pro users can override their organisation's diagram look + theme + colours + font on a per-user basis. Open it from the new "My diagram style" header button.
  • Pro pill in the header signals your subscription tier at a glance.
  • Workshop-style Facilitation toggle on the diagram bottom bar flips the active diagram into a warm-pastel, hand-drawn rendering. Available on all five notations: flowchart, swimlane, mindmap, sequence, and BPMN. Per-process state - your choice survives a page reload. Org admins control the visibility policy (off / pastel / brand-aligned).
  • Style modal now has finer-grained text colours. Cluster labels, edge labels, and sequence-diagram notes each have their own picker (previously: just "Node text").
  • Live preview pane on the right side of the style modal - edit any colour, see the sample flowchart re-render within ~150ms.
  • Share-email notification. When someone shares a process with you, you get a branded email pointing you at Storm2Flow. Find the process under "Shared with me".
  • "Pro by default" for new organisation members. Org admins flip a single switch on the admin org-info bar; every new joiner lands as Pro automatically (existing members are unaffected).
  • "What's new" header link opens this page.
  • Storm2Flow is now available in German. App chrome, sales page and help page all switch to German via the DE/EN toggle in the header. First-time visitors with a German browser land on storm2flow.com/index.de.html automatically; the toggle on the sales screen swaps between English and German files cleanly. Once signed in, the choice persists on this device (localStorage) AND across devices via your account profile, so signing in on a second laptop or phone keeps the same language.
  • "Download as Picture" - the export button on the diagram bar is renamed from "PNG" to be clearer about what it does. Same file format, friendlier label.
  • Process library polish. Top-level processes now sort alphabetically (case-insensitive) instead of by creation date - long German process names line up predictably. Tighter typography on the row (12 px name, 11 px row padding) so long titles cut to ellipsis less often, plus a 14 px gap between top-level processes so subtrees read as distinct groups. German speakers also see Ist / Soll badges on branched processes instead of As-is / To-be.
  • Description panel in the diagram editor now renders Markdown. Headings, bold, italic and bullet lists render as formatted text in the description side-panel instead of raw # / ** / - characters (BUG-171).
  • Brand-compliant "Create" button. The primary CTA in the new-process and braindump modals is now the ink-on-paper pill that the rest of the brand uses, fixing a low-contrast dark-teal / black-text combination.

2026-05-18

  • AI runs entirely on AWS Bedrock in eu-central-1. Every generation, vision extraction, content-integration analysis, and description-from-XML call now flows through Bedrock. No third-party AI SDK reachable from our servers; no customer content leaves the EU.
  • Workshop-facilitation admin setting. Org admins now pick a per-org policy (Disabled / Standard pastel / Org brand) that controls who sees the facilitation toggle and which palette it uses. (The user-facing toggle landed on 2026-05-19.)
  • Voice transcription via Amazon Transcribe (previously OpenAI Whisper). Same UX surface, EU-only data path, with sane language auto-detection.
  • Process sharing with ancestor cascade. When you share a parent process, every child / branch the recipient might land on inherits the same grant.
  • Voice + file extraction now feed a review modal. Drop a voice recording / image / PDF / Word / Excel and review what was extracted before it lands in your description.
  • Braindump button lets you paste a flood of bullet-point ideas and Storm2Flow turns them into a coherent description.
  • Add subprocess on any leaf process.
  • Account deletion really deletes Cognito too. Re-signing up with the same email now works cleanly.

2026-05-17

  • Sales page redesign. Honest copy on what Storm2Flow is and isn't.
  • Sign in with Google on the auth card. (A Microsoft variant was attempted the same week but pulled - see Removed.)
  • Acquisition funnel observability. Plausible events on every sales-page touch + auth tab so we can see where prospects fall off.

2026-05-16

  • New accounts are active immediately. The pending-approval gate was removed; signups land in the editor with no manual admin step.
  • Branded verification email. Paper-light + ink + teal accent. SPF/DMARC/MAIL-FROM hardening followed.
  • Try a sample process gallery on the empty editor. Seven starter templates with reference outputs.
  • Examples header link opens the same gallery anywhere in the app, so returning users can spin up a sample any time.
  • Per-user state truly resets on logout - no cross-account leakage when you sign in as someone else in the same tab.

2026-05-15

  • Process sharing. Share a process with a member of your org as read or write; "Shared with me" sidebar; share-modal people-picker; read-only banner.
  • Mermaid-substrate diagram editor is the only path now - flowchart / swimlane / mindmap all render through it. View and edit share the same paint.
  • Improvement notes on every process - capture observations as you work and feed them back into the next generation.
  • Paper-light editor re-skin. The whole workspace, including admin and modals, now follows the paper-light brand surface.
  • Collapsible Notes / Assets chips in the description editor.

2026-05-13

  • Process-hierarchy + branching. As-is / To-be branches on leaf processes, subprocesses below - the backbone that the template + sharing + facilitation work compose on top of.

2026-05-11

  • Mermaid substrate cutover. Non-BPMN diagrams (flowchart, swimlane, mindmap) now render exclusively through the Mermaid substrate. View and edit share the same paint, so the long-standing "edit looks different from view" drift class disappears.
  • PNG export rasterises cleanly - the foreignObject taint that quietly broke exports is gone.

2026-05-09 .. 2026-05-10

  • Spring cleaning. Retired v1 generation pipeline, custom layout IR sidecars, and dead helpers. Faster cold-load, smaller bundle, fewer drift surfaces.

Earlier

  • BPMN edit + share + export. Production since beta.
  • Voice + image + PDF input. Production since beta; engines updated 2026-05-18 (see above and Removed).
  • Per-org diagram styling. Paper-light brand surface across the editor + admin + diagram theme.
  • Per-org star-rating learning - your team's ratings flow into prompt context for future generations.
  • Microsoft SSO for managed customer domains (per-customer identity providers).

Removed

Features that were retired. Storm2Flow's value lives in the loop - description, regenerate, refine - so when an old path no longer earns its complexity, we cut it.

  • 2026-05-20 "Improve this process" notes box . Retired in the editor redesign. Improvement ideas now live as whole-process Comments with an "Improvement" tag, so there is one collaboration surface instead of a separate notes field. Existing notes were migrated into Comments.
  • 2026-05-19 Standalone PDF + PPT full-package export - parked 2026-05-03 when the auto-orient + paginate fix proved unreliable. Reopened 2026-05-19 with a concrete pagination strategy (Off-Page Connector + orientation defaults + AI cut suggestions); will return in a dedicated sprint.
  • 2026-05-18 Per-user / per-domain Anthropic + OpenAI API keys - replaced by the EU-only Bedrock path. A future "bring your own AWS Bedrock" (cross-account role) is on the roadmap for customers who want every inference call on their own AWS bill.
  • 2026-05-18 OpenAI Whisper voice transcription - replaced by Amazon Transcribe (EU-only). Same UX surface.
  • 2026-05-17 Microsoft "Sign in" social-login button - pulled the same day. Cognito's strict OIDC issuer string-match doesn't accept multi-tenant Microsoft tokens. Google variant stayed. A proper multi-tenant fix is on the backlog.
  • 2026-05-16 Pending-approval gate on new accounts - until now, accounts from unmanaged email domains landed inactive and required an admin approval click. Replaced by direct activation; admins keep "Deactivate" as a moderation lever.
  • 2026-05-16 Seed example process on new accounts - the template gallery is the new onboarding path, so the hard-coded "Leave Request" seed is gone.
  • 2026-05-15 Mermaid-shell fade-out banner + redundant "Processes" back-link - cleaned up after the substrate cutover.
  • 2026-05-11 Custom ReactFlow editor for non-BPMN diagrams - replaced by the Mermaid substrate. View and edit now share the same paint.
  • 2026-05-11 Layout-IR sidecar files - the substrate's inline `%%{storm2flow:{positions:...}}%%` directive carries that data now.
  • 2026-05-10 v1 generation pipeline - the v2 Bedrock cascade has replaced it; v1's deterministic-rules + retry-with-hint loop is fully retired.

Older releases predate this changelog. Every customer-visible change from now on lands here in chronological order alongside help & features updates.