SEPTEMBER 29, 2026
v2.8.0 - More usable campus safety comparisons
Replaced the campus-safety dashboard's thousand-option school menus with blank-by-default autocomplete selection. Expanded side-by-side comparisons to support the same geography, offense category, specific incident, and count-or-rate filters as the single-school view, including annual values and three-year totals. Clarified the federal Clery Act source beneath the dashboard title and added visible separators between campus-safety labels and values on all published college profiles.
SEPTEMBER 29, 2026
v2.7.0 - Campus safety data with context
Added a federal Clery Act campus-safety dashboard covering all 1,000 corpus schools, with matched records for 992 and explicit unavailable states for eight. The dashboard provides three-year trends, counts and enrollment-adjusted rates, offense categories, Clery geography, reporting-campus detail, and selected-school comparisons without producing a safety ranking. Added an interpretation guide, school-specific safety summaries on all published college profiles, and site-wide Safety navigation.
SEPTEMBER 19, 2026
v2.6.8 - Interactive comparisons and broader current costs
Added an interactive side-by-side school comparison with alias-aware search, clearer navigation, and current published costs where institution-sourced records are available. Expanded the current-cost overlay to 767 of the 1,000 schools while preserving explicit partial and prior-year fallback labels and a resumable queue for unresolved institutions.
SEPTEMBER 17, 2026
v2.6.7 - Popular college comparisons
Published four frequently requested college comparisons: Harvard versus Yale, MIT versus Stanford, Michigan versus Ohio State, and Northwestern versus UChicago. Added six supporting college profiles so every school in the new comparisons links to an internal fit guide, bringing the site to 22 comparisons and 57 profiles.
SEPTEMBER 10, 2026
v2.6.6 - City and outdoor access
Published a reproducible analysis of how ten colleges combine city opportunities with trails, coast, waterfront, mountains, or organized outdoor trips. The article distinguishes four access patterns, links every example and counterexample to its college profile, and makes transportation, schedule, destination scale, and uncertainty explicit.
SEPTEMBER 5, 2026
v2.6.5 - What a $100,000 college actually costs
Published a reproducible affordability analysis explaining how current cost of attendance, the latest available federal average net price, and a family-specific estimate answer different questions. The article examines 29 consistently defined college records, documents exclusions and source years, and avoids treating historical averages as aid offers.
SEPTEMBER 5, 2026
v2.6.4 - Current college costs and data freshness
Added an official current-cost overlay for 39 admissions-enriched colleges: 34 complete 2026-27 records, one partial current-year record, and four clearly labeled prior-year fallbacks. Updated admissions-policy evidence, added freshness tracking and source monitoring, and strengthened validation for ongoing corpus maintenance.
SEPTEMBER 2, 2026
v2.6.3 - Social sharing preview
Added a dedicated 1200×630 homepage preview card and complete Open Graph and X image metadata so shared Navastra links can display a clear, large-format brand preview.
SEPTEMBER 1, 2026
v2.6.2 - Profiles for every new comparison
Published 15 college profiles supporting the latest comparison set, bringing the profile collection to 38. Each new comparison now links directly to both colleges' profiles. The production package also includes the comparison-page stylesheet.
SEPTEMBER 1, 2026
v2.6.1 - More comparisons and clearer copy
Published ten additional college comparisons, bringing the collection to 18. Revised copy across the site to remove repetitive phrasing, vague abstractions, and em dashes, then added a regression check to keep em dashes out of user-facing pages.
AUGUST 28, 2026
v2.6.0 - Profile discovery
Reorganized the college-profile hub alphabetically and added accessible search, direct college selection, live result counts, and responsive filtering controls.
AUGUST 28, 2026
v2.5.0 - College comparisons
Launched eight sourced college comparisons and ten supporting college profiles. Each comparison starts with the student decision, separates fit from cost and admissions context, documents uncertainty, and links its conclusions to institutional and federal sources.
AUGUST 27, 2026
v2.4.0 - Preference guides
Introduced a preference-guide section with a student-facing guide to evaluating close-knit college communities. The guide helps students define the relationships and support they want, consider tradeoffs, collect evidence from appropriate sources, and compare colleges consistently. It complements Navastra’s institution-focused research on smaller communities inside large universities.
AUGUST 24, 2026
v2.3.7 - Faster direct quiz start
Removed the redundant second start action so the quiz opens at its first question, and enabled compression for large static assets to reduce startup transfer time.
AUGUST 24, 2026
v2.3.6 - Acquisition measurement correction
Corrected analytics classification for directory-style college and research pages, added privacy-safe unpaid-source categories for search, AI referrals, communities, and earned links, and separated paid traffic from the unpaid-acquisition funnel.
AUGUST 23, 2026
v2.3.5 - Self-contained release history
Removed references and links to private development records so every changelog entry is complete and useful to public visitors on its own.
AUGUST 23, 2026
v2.3.4 - Public changelog
Added this external-facing product history, linked it from every public-page footer, and included it in the sitemap and deterministic release package.
AUGUST 23, 2026
v2.3.3 - Public content aligned with redesigned scores
Updated the methodology and corpus-coverage pages to explain stricter official-source and blind-review standards. Reconciled the Howard, Notre Dame, and UVA profiles with accepted scores and added a validation safeguard against future public-label drift.
AUGUST 23, 2026
v2.3.2 - Relationship and support scoring redesign
Accepted the controlled redesign of community closeness, faculty closeness, and support structure across the 940-school rollout. Independent review covered 166 decisions at 152 schools: 81 scores changed, 32 were validated without change, and 53 retained explicitly quarantined insufficient-evidence fallbacks.
AUGUST 23, 2026
v2.3.1 - Navigation and presentation
Expanded site-wide navigation and refreshed the presentation and delivery of generated college-profile pages.
AUGUST 23, 2026
v2.3.0 - More profiles and research content
Published eight additional college fit guides and an evidence-backed article explaining how large universities can create smaller, durable student communities.
AUGUST 17, 2026
v2.2.0 - College profile pilot
Launched the college-profile hub with five approved fit guides, the reusable Navastra Lens format, registry-controlled publication, and sitemap coverage.
AUGUST 15, 2026
v2.1.2 - Sharing and search foundations
Added final-report quiz sharing, completed the technical SEO and indexation baseline, and made the non-www domain canonical while preserving links.
AUGUST 15, 2026
v2.1.1 - More resilient analytics consent
Kept analytics settings usable when browser privacy restrictions block local storage, while preserving default denial and the existing privacy controls.
AUGUST 15, 2026
v2.1.0 - Consent-gated measurement
Introduced optional Google Analytics funnel measurement with explicit accept or decline controls, strict event allowlists, and no collection of quiz answers, admissions inputs, recommendations, or report contents.
AUGUST 11, 2026
v2.0.3 - Contact and advertising privacy
Added a public contact channel and expanded the privacy explanation for Google advertising data and opt-out controls.
AUGUST 8, 2026
v2.0.2 - Advertising verification
Added the public-site files needed for Google AdSense verification while keeping advertising code out of the quiz, generated results, and privacy page.
AUGUST 8, 2026
v2.0.1 - College-link correction
Corrected all 1,000 Niche links to open each college overview rather than its admissions subsection and added a regression rule to preserve the fix.
AUGUST 8, 2026
v2.0.0 - 1,000-school production corpus
Expanded Navastra to 1,000 public and private nonprofit institutions across all 50 states, Washington, D.C., and U.S. territories, with standardized federal identity, admissions, and cost fields wherever available.
JULY 29, 2026
v1.8 - Admissions-enriched foundation
Established the 300-school foundation, expanded structured admissions and financial-aid context, and added official and third-party research links. Earlier v1 releases had grown the corpus from 70 to 300 schools and introduced counselor-style explanations and downloadable reports.