v1.1.5

[Stephen J. Lu (StephenJLu)]

Striae Release Notes - v1.1.5

Release Date: February 27, 2026
Period: February 23 - February 27, 2026
Total Commits: 61 (non-merge; legal/compliance updates, public-route UI refinements, consent/tracking integration, docs/config hygiene, dependency maintenance)

⚖️ Legal, Policy, and Compliance Expansion

Terms and Privacy Maturity

• Expanded Terms & Conditions with substantial clarifications across account types, fees/payment expectations, service maintenance, confidentiality, dispute resolution, and liability cap wording
• Added forensic-specific responsibility language for evidentiary, legal, and institutional compliance obligations
• Updated privacy/legal references and legal-contact pathways, including support/contact alignment updates

Agency and Commercial Clarity

• Added and refined Agency-account expectations, restrictions, and operational responsibilities
• Clarified refund/cancellation posture and account-type entitlement boundaries

🔐 Security, Consent, and Data-Handling Messaging

Consent and Tagging Integration Work

• Added and iterated consent/cookie declaration handling, including script integration and JSX-safe rendering corrections
• Performed analytics/tracking integration development with follow-up rollback/revert cleanup to stabilize final behavior

Data-Handling Communication Improvements

• Updated user-facing security and notice content to align with current storage/audit posture and legal language
• Clarified control, retention, and compliance messaging in legal and home notice content

🧭 Public Route, Root, and UI Refinements

Route and Root Behavior

• Iterated route/root behavior for public-facing flow and navigation consistency
• Applied viewport and route presentation refinements across legal/public pages

Layout and Visual Cleanup

• Refactored footer/background handling and removed obsolete top-anchor navigation behavior
• Cleaned route-level CSS and home-page styling artifacts to reduce inconsistencies

💳 Billing/Portal and Product Messaging Updates

Stripe and Account-Service Surface

• Added Stripe modal and customer portal link updates
• Updated notice/form wording and related user-facing copy for clearer billing/support pathways

🧹 Repository and Dependency Maintenance

Config and Repository Hygiene

• Continued .gitignore and repository cleanup, including deployment/config related adjustments
• Applied deployment-application iteration commits with controlled revert/reapply passes

Dependency Updates

• Updated vite-tsconfig-paths from 6.0.5 to 6.1.1
• Applied npm/yarn dependency group maintenance updates

📋 Key Fix Summary

Category	Change	Impact
Legal/Compliance	Major Terms + policy language expansion	Stronger contractual clarity and reduced ambiguity for forensic/agency usage
Security/Consent	Cookie/consent + tracking integration refinements	Better compliance posture for consent-aware telemetry behavior
Routing/UI	Root/public route and layout cleanup	More consistent public-route rendering and navigation behavior
Billing Surface	Stripe modal + portal/contact updates	Clearer customer support and account-service experience
Maintenance	Dependency and repo hygiene updates	Improved maintainability and lower config drift

🔧 Technical Implementation Details

Legal and Content Layer

• Implemented extensive legal text updates in route-based policy pages and related public notice content
• Standardized responsibility and retention messaging across terms and user-facing explanatory content

Application Surface and Integration

• Iterated on root/route behavior, public-page styling, and support/legal route consistency
• Added consent-related script changes with corrective follow-up commits to ensure stable behavior

📊 Release Statistics

• Files Modified: 100+
• Commits Included: 61 (non-merge, since 2026-02-23)
• Primary Areas: Terms/privacy expansion, consent/tracking integration, public-route/root refinements, billing/support messaging, dependency and repository maintenance
• Validation Status: Deploy completed successfully (npm run deploy)

Closing Note

v1.1.5 focuses on legal/compliance hardening and public-surface consistency, with broad updates to Terms language, consent-related integration work, and route/UI cleanup to support clearer policy posture and a more stable user-facing experience.

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