Release notes

Page-native projects and field-ready takeoff tools0.8.0

Layr now treats pages as the source of truth, adds a Bluebeam-style annotation and measurement toolkit, and makes scale calibration flexible enough to save and reuse across devices.

2026-08-18Minor60 changesMigrations 065–067

Highlights

Every sheet is an addressable page Foundation

Pages now carry the canonical identity, title, project membership, state and editor routes that used to depend on a parallel drawing record. Existing drawing links remain compatible, while new navigation and APIs use the page directly.

Markup and measurement tools match familiar field workflows New

Pen, Line, Polyline, Polygon, Cloud, Cloud+, Dimension, Arc, Length, Angle, Image, Diameter, Radius, Volume and dedicated Sketch tools now share one quick-key system and consistent drawing behavior. Measurement tools produce takeoff quantities; decorative markups stay out of QTO.

Take quantities directly from drawing geometry New

Dynamic Fill turns an enclosed region into a selected boundary and a chosen area output. Polygon and ellipse cutouts subtract voids from their host, while perimeter, wall area, volume, diameter and radius report the units their quantities require.

Drafting scales are broader, clearer and reusable Improved

Architectural, engineering and metric presets cover a wider range, and manual scales accept structured values and units on both sides of the ratio. Signed-in users can save a scale to their account and reuse it on another device through Layr-styled, keyboard-accessible menus.

Imported drawings and editor navigation are more trustworthy Fixed

Rotated, flipped, masked and repeatedly placed PDF images now follow one consistent transform and compositing path. The outline opens ready to use, page names fall back consistently, matching search rows act as one target, and neighboring pages prefetch the geometry they actually need.

Projects start with documents, not setup ceremony Improved

A project can start from drawings, specifications or both without first assigning the set among named people and disciplines. Team membership and access controls remain in place; the retired delegation step and its saved metadata are gone.

Fixes worth naming

Left-drag pans consistently and right-drag creates a marquee selection without a release event from the wrong button completing the gesture.
The tool bar now moves actions into an overflow menu based on the space its controls actually require, instead of clipping wider tool groups.
Cloud, arc and bulge gestures commit one undoable action and clean up safely when a pointer is cancelled, leaves the canvas or the component unmounts.
Page-native editor routes no longer render below the Projects header or overflow the viewport.
Demo-facing screens no longer present unfinished collaboration, AI, audit or administrator controls as working product features.

Upgrade notes

Area	What to know
Migration 065	This forward-only migration preserves unambiguous legacy page identity, metadata and project membership, then removes the compatibility trigger and RPCs, `projects.drawing_ids` and `public.drawings`. Explicit preflights make unknown dependencies abort the transaction. After it commits, rollback requires restoring the compatibility schema and data from backup.
Migration 066	Existing `layr-admin` configuration whose left sidebar default is collapsed is updated to expanded. Users can still close the outline and use the existing `O` shortcut.
Migration 067	Adds the account-scoped `user_preferences` key/value table used first for saved scale presets. Its UUID user key references `auth.users`; the existing migration-031 event trigger enables RLS, and server-side session-scoped access uses the service role with no client policies.
Hosted environments	The development branch deployment applies migrations 065–067 before this release is offered for production. Production still needs all three; CI applies them in order before publishing the production app after the release PR is merged.
Flags and app configuration	No application feature flag or required hosted app environment variable changes are included.
Email intake	The new Cloudflare Email Worker is not part of the Layr app deploy. Enabling it requires a deliberate DNS move, preserved Vercel and notification-email records, GitHub and Slack secrets, Email Routing configuration and a smoke test.

Known limits

Migration 065 deliberately has no automatic down migration. Its preflights make an unsafe contraction fail closed, but a completed contraction can only be reversed from backup.
Legacy /api/drawings entry points and old browser links remain as compatibility adapters; the underlying database drawing record does not.
Stamp and the Tool Chest remain outside this tool-parity release.
Saved scale presets require a signed-in UUID account. The non-UUID local-development identity intentionally reads an empty list and does not persist writes.
Dynamic Fill requires an enclosed region in the available linework; it does not infer a missing boundary.
Email intake records attachment filenames but does not import attachment contents, and remains offline until an operator completes its separate Cloudflare setup.