Including the changes that made the system slower or more cautious, which is most of the interesting ones.
Premium accounts can now set a delay per vault item on top of the seven-day minimum. A letter can open at seven days and a document at ninety, without splitting them across accounts.
Reordering your roster no longer requires removing and re-inviting. Rank changes take effect on the next protocol cycle and the affected guardians are told.
Confirm from a paired watch without opening the phone. The single most requested change since launch, and the one that moved median check-in time from 40 seconds to 4.
Vault passphrases now derive keys with Argon2id in place of PBKDF2. Existing vaults were re-wrapped transparently on next unlock; no user action was required and no plaintext was involved.
Pause the ladder for a fixed period with a mandatory end date. Guardians see that a hold is in place and when it lifts.
Card statements now show a neutral descriptor rather than the product name, for people who would rather not explain the line item.
We have turned down a shorter vault delay four times, most recently in the 4.0 cycle. The seven-day minimum is the one parameter that is not yours to configure, and every release note above was written on the assumption that it never will be.