Changelog

What changed in First Six, newest first. Every release note lives under this page in the sidebar, and they are all listed together, with their version numbers, on the release notes page.

One note a week

Since 23 August 2026, First Six publishes one release note per week, on Friday, covering everything that shipped that week. Before that, each change worth mentioning got its own note, which meant four landed on a single Sunday and a quiet fortnight produced none. A weekly note reads like a summary because it is one.

The product still ships continuously, several times a week. The cadence is about when we write it up, not when it reaches you: a change is live the day it ships, and the Friday note is the record of it.

A week with nothing a university would care about gets no note. That is a real answer rather than a gap.

Versions

Every release carries a number: the year, then the release. 2026.9 is the ninth release of 2026, and January starts again at 2027.1.

It says when, and how many. It deliberately does not say major or minor. First Six runs as one live version that every institution is on, so there is no older build to be compatible with and nothing for those words to describe. A version number names a release we published, not something your institution could choose to stay on.

A number is never reissued and never renumbered, including when a note is edited later. If you have been sent a version in a change-advisory ticket, it means the same thing a year from now.

How this log is kept

Notes are dated MDX pages under reference/changelog/, dated the Friday they belong to. Whoever makes a change records, at the time, whether it is something you would want to know about; on Friday those records are gathered, the next version is allocated, and the note is written and published. A separate check runs on Monday and goes red if a week's worth of changes shipped and no note went out.

Not every change gets a mention. Only what is worth a university's attention: the internal work, the refactors and the things nobody outside our office would notice ship without one. What is coming rather than what has landed is on the roadmap.