GMate Change Log

All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.

The format is based on Keep a Changelog and this project adheres to Semantic Versioning.

7.0.3

[maintenance] Minor dropdown UI improvement

7.0.2

[maintenance] Some minor code cleanup

7.0.1

[fix] Remove rooms that do not accept GMate's booking request

7.0.0

[feature] Enable GMate button on the main calendar page quick meeting view

6.3.5

[maintenance] Generate GMate button UI using HTML template

6.3.4

[maintenance] Remove some duplicate code

6.3.3

[enhancement] Centralize GMate button generation logic for better re-usability

6.3.2

[enhancement] Add tooltips for control panel delete/lock/handshake icons

6.3.1

[fix] Lower room booking retry timeout to avoid unintended worker revival

6.3.0

[enhancement] Blacklist rooms failed to be added to avoid repeated email notifications

6.2.0

[feature] Display existing event tasks on the event edit page

6.1.0

[fix] Show appropriate UI for tasks that are temporarily not removable

6.0.0

[feature] Display task summary when new room search tasks are registered
[fix] Make GMate button compatible with the Clockwise UI injection

5.8.2

[enhancement] Reduce room searching task registration complexity with some code cleanup

5.8.1

[enhancement] Reduce room searching task registration complexity with some code cleanup

5.8.0

[feature] Block room searching task creation if filters match no room

5.7.1

[enhancement] Incorporate Feature Upvote dashboard for user feedback

5.7.0

[feature] Enable plain text based negative room name filters

5.6.2

[maintenance] Some code refactor

5.6.1

[enhancement] Filter out rooms with invalid floor/capacity info
[enhancement] Make checkbox text clickable

5.6.0

[enhancement] Try to maximize consistent rooms for recurring meetings

5.5.1

[fix] Turn off accidentally enabled debugging code

5.5.0

[feature] Support many more office locations by changing the location filter dropdown to autocomplete typeahead

5.4.0

[maintenance] Transition to use standardized room floor, capacity and features for filtering
[enhancement] Add more offices to location filters

5.3.0

[maintenance] Code refactor to unify room entity definition
[enhancement] Add more offices to location filters

5.2.0

[enhancement] Add user survey on the room radar page
[enhancement] Split room radar results into "full" and "partial" matches
[enhancement] Sort room radar results by timestamp
[enhancement] Improve room radar search logic

5.1.0

[enhancement] Intelligently suggest potentially unnoticed features according to user actions

5.0.0

[feature] Add "Room Radar" - a view that shows users potentially underutilized rooms
[maintenance] Add dedicated support email

4.1.0

[fix] Allow room booking for someone else's calendar
[enhancement] Add retry for room booking tasks in case of Calendar API outage

4.0.0

[enhancement] Fully switch room searching to the background and eliminate the browser based worker

3.0.3

[feature] Add the ability to set error message on room searching filters
[enhancement] Start to soft-block unspecified location filters

3.0.2

[maintenance] Stop reading persisted room searching data from sync storage
[maintenance] Handle past event using API call instead of UI worker

3.0.1

[fix] Pin down auth token scope to allow users time to grant additional permissions
[enhancement] Catch and log auth errors
[maintenance] Log error by type for better monitoring and debugging

3.0.0

[maintenance] Set up integration with G Suite Admin SDK to get full room list
[fix] Mute room booking email notification to reduce noise

2.2.1

[maintenance] Optimize task pruner to reduce network calls

2.2.0

[feature] Support searching room for recurring meetings
[enhancement] Show a "paused" sign on the icon when the worker is stopped
[enhancement] Throttle room found messages to avoid overwhelming users
[maintenance] Log more detailed crash report for analytics
[maintenance] Migrate room searching queue backup data to local storage for more space
[maintenance] Move cancelled meeting detection to use Calendar API for better stability

2.1.0

[enhancement] Redesign the room searching button UI for better visibility
[enhancement] Notify user when a meeting is already having a qualified room
[maintenance] Deprecate code related with the old style room confirmation mechanism

2.0.0

[enhancement] Add Calendar API auth prompt to "I need a room" button
[enhancement] Make room confirmation step unnecessary
[enhancement] Skip room searching for past meetings

1.0.1

[enhancement] Add several more offices into the location filter

1.0.0

[enhancement] Add the NYC office as a supported location filter
[enhancement] Open up FAQ upon user un-installation

0.4.3

[enhancement] Load GMate welcome page upon initial installation

0.4.2

[enhancement] Automatically retire tasks for deleted events
[enhancement] Allow user to cancel the current task from the "room-found" notification

0.4.1

[maintenance] Bump minimum Chrome version requirement
[fix] Fix "no guest invited" from popping up indiscriminately

0.4.0

[feature] Support per-event room filters

0.3.3

[feature] Add post-uninstall user survey
[maintenance] Deprecate "allow invitee to edit event" feature, which has been natively supported by Google Calendar

0.3.2

[maintenance] Announce the replacement of "allow invitee to edit event" feature with the one that Google Calendar natively supports
[maintenance] Turn on room booking feature by default
[fix] Safe guard against null pointer exceptions caused by empty room names

0.3.1

[enhancement] Load up more rooms to ensure better room booking results
[enhancement] Reduce simulated tab clicks to avoid user confusion
[maintenance] Switch ugly callbacks to cleaner async/await style (bumped min Chrome version to 56)

0.3.0

[feature] Add user-friendly room booking filters

0.2.4

[enhancement] Refresh calendar page on app update to ensure the delivery of the newest code
[enhancement] Refresh calendar page on room saving to ensure the saved room to show up

0.2.3

[feature] Add bug report link
[enhancement] Integrate with Mixpanel for user action analytics

0.2.2.0

[announcement] Apologize for the room searching feature outage

0.2.1.0

[feature] Advertise new features to users upon new version release
[fix] Properly recycle room searching tasks to avoid confusing task display in settings panel
[fix] Fix room book not working bug

0.2.0.0

[feature] Preserve the task queue and reload upon chrome window reopen
[feature] Allow start/stop room searching worker from settings panel
[feature] Allow removing tasks from settings panel
[fix] Avoid auto booking if there's already a booked room that matches the searching criteria
[enhancement] Show a warning banner on the worker tab to warn users from interruption
[enhancement] Change "I need a room" button color to call for attention
[enhancement] Trigger notification after "I need a room" button is clicked
[enhancement] Show room searching worker status on the settings panel

0.1.0.1

[fix] Fix the race condition between different events that compete for the room searching worker

0.1.0.0

[feature] Search room for user registered meetings on the background

0.0.3.3

[fix] Avoid double trigger events upon meeting edit page exit

0.0.3.2

[fix] Always switch back to "guest" tab even if no room is available
[maintenance] Styling improvements such as es6, code prettify, etc.

0.0.3.1

[fix] Stop treating event organizer and booked rooms as invitees

0.0.3.0

[feature] Room selection regex filters

0.0.2.x

[feature] Automatically allow invitees to edit event
[feature] Remind if no invitee is selected
[feature] Automatically add a zoom link to each meeting
[feature] Automatically select a room for the meeting