This page tracks every significant update, improvement, and fix made to the WL Alert platform. We publish changes here so you always know what is new, what has been fixed, and what is coming next. The most recent updates appear at the top.
Each update is tagged with a release type:
🟢 New Feature — a new capability added to the platform
🔵 Improvement — an enhancement to an existing feature
🟡 Fix — a bug or issue that has been resolved
🔴 Important — a change that may affect how you use the platform
🟢 v1.4.0 — October 2026
🟢 New Feature — A public blog is live at wlalert.com/blog, with 93 published guides on weather monitoring, alert design, heat index, rain, wind and farm-specific thresholds
🟢 New Feature — Every article ends with related guides chosen by topic, so there is always somewhere useful to go next
🟢 New Feature — Blog images are served from cdn.wlalert.com, our own image CDN, so a stock photo being taken down can never break a post
🔵 Improvement — wlalert.com has a new look: refreshed palette, Space Grotesk and Inter typography, and a rebuilt hero and stats section
🔵 Improvement — Pricing and plan pages now match the product exactly, including SMS on Starter and peso pricing
🔵 Improvement — New enquiry path for institutions: schools, local government units and businesses can ask about multi-station deployments
🔵 Improvement — The blog archive paginates 24 posts at a time with even cards and previous/next controls
🟡 Fix — The marketing site now renders correctly in dark mode and has proper edge gutters on mobile
🟡 Fix — Contact form fields no longer overflow on narrow screens
🟢 v1.3.0 — October 2026
🔴 Important — WL Alert now runs on Cloudflare Workers and D1 instead of the previous server stack. Pages and API calls answer faster, and there are far fewer moving parts that can fail
🔴 Important — The admin console now asks for a one-time email code before you can sign in
🟢 New Feature — SMS delivery now runs on UniSMS, covering Globe, Smart, DITO, Sun and TNT
🟢 New Feature — New Appearance setting: light, dark, or follow your system
🟢 New Feature — Password reset from the customer app now works for admin accounts too
🔵 Improvement — Contrast, focus rings, landmark structure and form labels corrected across the app, including light and dark themes
🔵 Improvement — Reduced-motion support for anyone who prefers less animation
🔵 Improvement — Each email sending slot now uses its own sending domain, which improves deliverability
🔵 Improvement — Status colours are theme-aware, so alerts read correctly in both themes
🟡 Fix — Google sign-in failed for every account with 'This sign-in session expired or is invalid'. Fixed, and the failure is now logged instead of swallowed
🟡 Fix — Password reset silently sent no email for admin accounts on the customer app, while the screen said a code had been sent. Fixed
🟡 Fix — The PayMongo payment webhook now rejects requests whose signature is missing or invalid, instead of approving a payment on an unverified request
🔵 v1.2.1 — July 2026
🔵 Improvement — Dashboard and sidebar redesigned, with a collapsible sidebar and a refreshed dark theme
🔵 Improvement — Alerts, settings, subscriptions and dashboard pages polished for a more consistent layout
🟡 Fix — Login and API calls now go to the production endpoints again, after a local proxy override broke CORS and routing
🟢 v1.2.0 — June 2026
🟢 New Feature — SMS delivery now live for Pro and Business plan users on Philippine networks including Globe, Smart, and DITO
🟢 New Feature — Message builder launched with full dynamic placeholder support — station name, metric label, current value, threshold, operator, rule name, and triggered time
🟢 New Feature — Alert analytics dashboard added — total events, sent count, cooldown stops, and credit blocks now visible at a glance
🟢 New Feature — Top rules panel added to analytics — shows your most frequently triggered rules over the last 30 days
🟢 New Feature — Alert escalation: a secondary email and SMS recipient list that is notified after a configurable delay if the first alert is not acknowledged
🟢 New Feature — Webhook delivery for alert events, including Discord
🔵 Improvement — Alert history log redesigned for faster loading and easier scanning across multiple stations and rules
🔵 Improvement — Recipient field now accepts comma-separated email addresses for faster multi-recipient entry
🔵 Improvement — Station selector in rule creation now shows last reported time alongside station name
🟡 Fix — Resolved an issue where cooldown timers were not resetting correctly after a manual rule edit
🟡 Fix — Fixed a display error in the alert history where triggered time was showing in UTC instead of local time
🟢 v1.1.0 — May 2026
🟢 New Feature — Add-on credit packs introduced — Starter Top-Up, Growth Top-Up, and Operations Reserve now available for purchase without changing your plan
🟢 New Feature — Credit usage tracker added to account dashboard — shows remaining credits and projected usage based on active rules
🔵 Improvement — Polling engine optimized for faster threshold detection on Pro and Business plans
🔵 Improvement — Alert rule creation flow simplified — fewer steps from rule setup to first alert
🔵 Improvement — Plan comparison page updated with clearer polling frequency and credit allowance breakdown per tier
🔴 Important — Delivery credit counting updated — each individual recipient notification now correctly counts as one credit regardless of channel. Previously, SMS and email to the same recipient on the same rule was counted as one credit. This has been corrected.
🟡 Fix — Resolved an issue where stations with special characters in their WeatherLink names caused rule creation to fail
🟡 Fix — Fixed a bug where the Business plan rule limit was displaying as 100 instead of the correct 200
🟢 v1.0.1 — April 2026
🔵 Improvement — WeatherLink API connection stability improved — reconnection handling now automatic when a session expires
🔵 Improvement — Email alert formatting updated — alerts now display metric label, current value, and threshold in a cleaner, more readable layout
🔵 Improvement — Account settings page reorganized — API credentials, plan details, and notification preferences now in separate clearly labelled sections
🟡 Fix — Resolved an issue where deleting a station from WeatherLink caused orphaned rules in WL Alert to generate errors instead of deactivating gracefully
🟡 Fix — Fixed a bug where the rule name auto-generator occasionally produced duplicate names for rules on different stations
🟡 Fix — Resolved a login session timeout issue that was logging users out after 15 minutes of dashboard inactivity
🟢 v1.0.0 — March 2026 — Platform Launch
WL Alert officially launched as a fully operational platform for Davis WeatherLink users.
🟢 New Feature — WeatherLink API integration — connect your Davis weather station via API key and secret
🟢 New Feature — Threshold alert rules — create rules for any metric with greater than or less than conditions
🟢 New Feature — Email alert delivery — available on all plans including Free
🟢 New Feature — Multiple recipients per rule — add comma-separated email addresses to any rule
🟢 New Feature — Alert history log — full record of every alert event including station, metric, value, threshold, and timestamp
🟢 New Feature — Four plan tiers launched — Free, Starter, Pro, and Business with different station limits, rule limits, polling frequencies, and credit allowances
🟢 New Feature — Free plan available — 1 station, 3 rules, 50 credits per month, 15-minute polling, no credit card required
🟢 New Feature — Account dashboard — overview of connected stations, active rules, and recent alert activity
Pre-Launch — February 2026
🔵 Improvement — WeatherLink API data parsing expanded to support additional Davis sensor metrics including UV Index, dew point, and barometric pressure
🔵 Improvement — SMS gateway integration tested and confirmed on Globe, Smart, and DITO Philippine networks
🔵 Improvement — Polling engine stress-tested across simultaneous multi-station configurations
🔵 Improvement — Alert rule evaluation logic reviewed and hardened for edge cases including missing metric data and API timeout scenarios
🔵 Improvement — Security audit completed — API credential encryption, HTTPS enforcement, and session management reviewed and validated
🟡 Fix — Resolved timing inconsistency in polling scheduler that occasionally caused rules to evaluate stale data on the first polling cycle after account creation
🟡 Fix — Fixed an edge case where a rule set to less than 0 for rainfall could fire incorrectly when no rainfall data was reported by the station
🗓️ Upcoming — What’s Next
Here is what the WL Alert team is currently working on. These features are in active development and will be released in upcoming updates. Timelines are subject to change.
🟢 Planned — Mobile-optimized dashboard view for managing rules and reviewing alert history from any device
🟢 Planned — Push notification support — receive alerts as push notifications on mobile in addition to SMS and email
🟢 Planned — Rule scheduling — set time windows for when alert rules are active, e.g. active only during daytime hours or during the work week
🟢 Planned — Multi-threshold rules — trigger a single alert only when two or more conditions are met simultaneously, e.g. Heat Index above 40°C AND UV Index above 8
🟢 Planned — Station status notifications — receive an alert if a station stops reporting data or goes offline unexpectedly
🔵 Planned — Expanded metric support — additional Davis sensor metrics to be added as polling coverage grows
🔵 Planned — Improved analytics — weekly and monthly summary reports delivered to your email automatically
Have a Feature Request or Found a Bug?
WL Alert is actively developed and user feedback directly shapes what gets built next. If you have encountered an issue, have an idea for a feature, or want to suggest an improvement — we want to hear from you.
Use the contact form on our website to send your feedback. Include as much detail as possible — the more specific your description, the faster we can investigate or prioritize the request. Every submission is reviewed by our team.