Focus: Stability, presentation, professional workflows

• Finalised Windows installer (.exe) with no administrative rights required
• Improved evidence capture reliability across large Local Plan document sets
• Governance assessment output refined for professional review and onward use
• Clear separation between analysis data (JSON/MD) and presentation outputs (PDF)
• Improved handling of inaccessible, missing, or broken evidence links
• UI refinements for dark theme readability and reduced visual clutter
• General performance and memory optimisations during long assessments

Focus: Reporting clarity and usability improvements

• Improved PDF report formatting and pagination
• More consistent section numbering and headings in generated reports
• Clearer distinction between procedural failure, policy expectation failure, and information gaps
• Minor UI spacing and layout improvements
• Reduced false positives in deferral classification

Focus: Evidence integrity and governance decision logic

• Introduced structured unacceptable deferral classification logic
• Improved outline-stage vs reserved-matters stage differentiation
• Enhanced extraction accuracy for planning committee reports
• Improved detection of “indicative-only” and deferred technical assessments
• Improved logging of source documents, offsets, and excerpts

Focus: Data handling and assessment reliability

• Improved PDF-to-text extraction for scanned and mixed-content PDFs
• Better handling of large evidence bases (1GB+)
• Reduced duplicate document ingestion during evidence capture
• Improved error handling when third-party documents are unavailable

Focus: Output clarity and report structure

• Introduced structured governance findings sections
• Clearer explanation of why issues are governance-critical
• Improved wording consistency across reports
• Refined thin evidence detection logic

Focus: Automation and performance

• Faster bulk document ingestion
• Improved handling of Local Plan evidence libraries
• Reduced manual intervention during assessments
• Early performance optimisations for multi-authority support

Focus: Governance-first assessment model

• Introduced governance-first assessment approach
• Initial implementation of policy expectation mapping
• Improved identification of decision-critical failures
• More reliable cross-referencing between evidence sources