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v0.6.0
August 5, 2026- •Four new cuisines: Italian, Chinese, Indian, and Thai join the culture pickers.
v0.5.0
August 5, 2026- •The sidebar is now a proper mobile menu: on phones it stays off-screen until you tap to open it, instead of squeezing the recipe form into a sliver of the screen.
- •Culture pickers got a redesign to fix ugly, inconsistent dropdown styling on some browsers — they now always match the app's light/dark theme.
- •Fixed the recipe screen's header wrapping awkwardly on narrow screens.
v0.4.0
August 4, 2026- •Redesigned recipe creation: describe what you're craving in your own words instead of filling out a long form — Mesa Comuna shows what it understood, then asks a couple of quick follow-ups only if it needs more.
- •Five new cuisines: American, Mexican, Romanian, Filipino, and Japanese join Puerto Rican and Moldovan — pick any two to fuse.
- •Romanian and Filipino recipes are now grounded in hand-verified cultural research, the same rigor as the existing Puerto Rican and Moldovan grounding.
v0.3.0
August 4, 2026- •Free tier: 2 recipes a month if you're signed in, 1 free try if you're not — keeps Mesa Comuna sustainable so it can stay free for everyone.
- •Edit a recipe's ingredients, steps, and timing directly, without needing to ask the chat to do it for you.
- •More accurate recipes for less-common cuisines (starting with Moldovan), grounded in hand-verified cultural research instead of guesswork — without bringing back the slow live web-search step.
- •New About and Release notes pages — and clicking the Mesa Comuna logo now takes you back to the form from anywhere.
v0.2.0
August 4, 2026- •Sign in with Google — saved recipes now sync across devices instead of living in one browser.
- •Full visual redesign: a warm terracotta-and-sage palette, a display serif for the logo and headlines, and a proper sidebar for saved recipes and favorites.
- •The recipe screen now splits into two panes — your recipe on one side, a live chat to keep tweaking it on the other — instead of a chat box buried at the bottom of the page.
- •Recipes generate faster and more reliably — dropped a slow, unpredictable live web-search step that was causing generations to take up to several minutes.
v0.1.1
August 3, 2026- •Added a dark mode toggle.
- •Recipes can now be saved and revisited.
- •Loading-screen phrases are now generated live in English plus each culture's own language, instead of being hardcoded translations.
v0.1.0
August 3, 2026- •First version of Mesa Comuna: describe what you're craving, pick two cultures, and get a fusion recipe grounded in each culture's real traditional dish.
- •Chat with the recipe afterward to tweak it — swap ingredients, adjust spice, ask questions.