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Changelog · v8.8
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v8.8 · 26 October 2026

Layout: sticky control rail and folding field notes

v8.7 · 26 October 2026

New Materials and Elements tools: Moles & Solutions and Reacting Masses & Yield

v8.6 · 26 October 2026

New Materials and Elements tool: Ideal Gas

v8.5 · 25 October 2026

New Materials and Elements tool: Acids & Bases

v8.4 · 25 October 2026

New Physics tool: Magnetism; old redirects removed

v8.3 · 25 October 2026

Address and name audit; two stale references fixed

v8.2 · 25 October 2026

New Physics tool: Specific Heat & Heat Transfer

v8.1 · 25 October 2026

Sun and Moon renamed Sun Phase and Moon Phase

v8.0 · 25 October 2026

Moon overhauled: phase diagram, sky path, month view, distance and size, eclipses and named moons

v7.9 · 25 October 2026

Sun & Moon split into Sun and Moon; the Sun overhauled

v7.8 · 24 October 2026

New tool: Lenses & Mirrors, where the image forms and why

v7.7 · 24 October 2026

New tool: Standing Waves & Superposition, waves that add and strings that sing

v7.6 · 24 October 2026

New tool: Radioactive Decay & Half-Life, atoms decaying one by one

v7.5 · 24 October 2026

Black Body and Electromagnetic Spectrum: divided and linked

v7.4 · 24 October 2026

New tool: Black Body & Colour Temperature, from a glowing poker to a blue star

v7.3 · 24 October 2026

The Wind Tunnel's shock solver runs about 1.4 times as fast

v7.2 · 24 October 2026

The Wind Tunnel gets airspeed in m/s, a wing-size control and a laminar or turbulent boundary layer

v7.1 · 24 October 2026

The Wind Tunnel gets a detail control and a finer grid close to the wing

v7.0 · 24 October 2026

The Wind Tunnel gets streamlines without lag, crisper pictures, particles and a soft start

v6.99 · 24 October 2026

The Wind Tunnel gets an airspeed control, streamlines and the boundary layer with its separation point; the slat is the right way up

v6.98 · 23 October 2026

The Wind Tunnel redrawn at full resolution: a crisp wing outline, finer smoke, no halo at the surface

v6.97 · 23 October 2026

New tool: the Wind Tunnel, a live flow simulation round a wing with slat, flap, spoiler and shock waves

v6.96 · 21 October 2026

New tool: the Pension Pot Calculator for the UK, US, Canada and Australia

v6.95 · 21 October 2026

An audit of tap targets, text size and light theme; raw entity codes in version histories fixed

v6.94 · 21 October 2026

Two more answers (latency, wildcard mask) and an SEO action plan

v6.93 · 21 October 2026

Nineteen formula and how-to-calculate answers added across ten pages

v6.92 · 21 October 2026

Twelve long-tail questions answered on TDEE, Subnet, Compound Interest, Debt Payoff and Egg Timer

v6.91 · 20 October 2026

Three fixes from looking at phone screenshots of every area

v6.90 · 20 October 2026

The Tides and Star Map pages no longer scroll sideways on a phone

v6.89 · 20 October 2026

A phone-width check of all 126 pages; one overflow fixed

v6.88 · 20 October 2026

Cards, figures and notes added to the Steak Timer and the Psychrometer; a wrong steak comparison corrected

v6.87 · 20 October 2026

Cards, figures and notes added to Compound Interest, Currency Converter and Countdown

v6.86 · 20 October 2026

Projectile Motion given cards, figures and notes mode by mode; the Moon flight time corrected

v6.85 · 20 October 2026

Cards, figures and notes added to the five remaining Mathematics tools

v6.84 · 20 October 2026

The lower half rolled out to seven more Physics tools

v6.83 · 20 October 2026

The lower half rolled out to seven more Physics tools

v6.82 · 20 October 2026

The lower half rolled out to nine Physics tools

v6.81 · 20 October 2026

The lower half rolled out to the other eight Mechanical tools, completing the area

v6.80 · 20 October 2026

The lower half rolled out to eight Mechanical tools

v6.79 · 19 October 2026

The lower half rolled out to the eight Control tools

v6.78 · 19 October 2026

The lower half rolled out to the seven Electrical tools

v6.77 · 19 October 2026

The lower half rolled out to thirteen Environmental tools

v6.76 · 19 October 2026

The lower half rolled out to eight DIY tools

v6.75 · 19 October 2026

The lower half rolled out to the seven Music and Acoustics tools

v6.74 · 19 October 2026

The lower half rolled out to the five Materials and Elements tools

v6.73 · 18 October 2026

The lower half rolled out to the twelve Computers tools

v6.72 · 18 October 2026

The lower half rolled out to nine Finance pages

v6.71 · 18 October 2026

The lower half of tool pages as a system; nine Health pages rebuilt

v6.70 · 18 October 2026

TDEE: build the activity factor from your week, Katch-McArdle

v6.69 · 18 October 2026

Currency Converter: judge a quote, work backwards, offline fallback

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