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Helium for Free—A 1.x Story

Here's something sweet: Helium is now completely free. No strings attached, fully featured.

In addition to that (though perhaps of less interest to those of you who are not also developers), it is now completely open source. Interested in looking under the hood? Check it out here.

A few other things of note have also happened recently.

New Features

  • By popular demand, class schedules and filters have now been added to the calendar page
  • Category colors can now be changed
  • For the developers among you, the Helium API is now fully documented and can be communicated with using token-based authentication—build away!

Improvements

  • Overhauled the /settings page—some UI improvements, but largely stability improvements
  • In "Settings", the "Import/Export" tab has been improved, and Helium backups now utilize a new format (JSON). Old XML backups are no longer supported.
  • In the "Settings" page, iCal support has been moved into the "Feed" tab. You can attain your iCal feed URLs (including a new feed for the aforementioned class schedule) from here, and you can also download an iCal backup by clicking on the link.
  • Text-based reminders now utilize Twilio, no longer require carrier information, and are now supported globally—they're also significantly more reliable, so this basically counts as a major bug fix too
  • Numerous other stability improvements 

Some Other Comments


With the release of 1.0, the open-sourcing of the project, and a slew of stability/infrastructure updates that have made releasing incredibly fast and easy, we are now less likely to produce release notes for every non-major release. If you'd still like to stay up to date, keep an eye on our social media accounts (Twitter, Facebook) instead, but if and when we have major announcements, we'll still post a summary of them here in the "Release Notes" section.

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