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Continuous Deployment
We ship at least once per day, sometimes more. Zero downtime deployments mean your organization never misses a beat. This list is far from exhaustive. It only focuses on the most impactful changes and only when we think to add them. We release unlogged performance improvements, bug fixes, and new tweaks every day. The dates you see are the weeks during which we released these changes; not the day we released them.
August 10 - 16, 2026
Medical Records, Partner Applications, and Richer Pet Media
5 new features
1 improvement
Add care providers and supporting documents while entering a medical record. Partner applications, video galleries, and ready-to-use adoption terms give teams and visitors more useful options.
New Features
- Add Care Providers from a Medical Record: Teams can create veterinarians and clinics while entering a medical record, then continue the record without leaving the workflow.
- Files with Your Medical Record: Stage and attach supporting documents while creating a medical record, keeping care details and related paperwork together.
- Partner Adoption Applications: Approved partners can send adoption applications into PawPlacer through the public API while preserving the applicant and pet context needed for review.
- Video in Pet Galleries: Pet profiles now accept video alongside photos so organizations can share a fuller view of each animal.
- Clearer Instructions on Application Forms: Add lists, emphasis, links, and line breaks to form instructions. Help text appears beside the answer area, giving applicants room to read your guidance as they respond.
Improvements
- Ready-to-Use Adoption Terms: Use platform adoption terms when your organization has not supplied its own wording, giving applicants a complete agreement step.
August 7 - 9, 2026
Flyers and Photos Ready to Share
1 new feature
2 improvements
Prepare adoption flyers with more design choices, work with pet photos on Safari and iOS, and move through forms with less effort.
New Features
- A More Capable Flyer Studio: Flyer creation now includes coordinated themes, color roles, text presets, layers, insert tools, and design checks that help teams build polished materials more quickly.
Improvements
- Faster Form Entry: Quicker submissions, clearer validation guidance, and useful numeric limits make record entry easier to work through.
- Photos on Safari and iOS: Upload pet images from Safari and iOS, and use automatic Adopt-a-Pet publishing to keep listings connected to the workspace.
August 3 - 6, 2026
Meet-and-Greets and Placement Planning
2 new features
2 improvements
Coordinate meetings with prospective adopters, review more context for matching, and choose dates for foster transfers. Donor and surrender imports help bring existing records along.
New Features
- Donor and Surrender Imports: The data uploader now accepts donor and surrender records alongside existing import types, with sample files and guided field mapping.
- Meet-and-Greet Management: Adopter and foster profiles now surface related meet-and-greets with clearer actions and status details for follow-up.
Improvements
- More Context for Matching: Compatibility explanations draw on meaningful profile details, giving teams more information to consider when reviewing a potential placement.
- Choose Foster Transfer Dates: Record the effective date of a foster transfer so the assignment history shows when the animal moved.
July 29 - August 2, 2026
Adopt-a-Pet, Better Pet Bios, and Your Feature Requests
4 new features
3 improvements
Publish adoptable pets to Adopt-a-Pet, write bios with more of each animal’s personality, and help shape what comes next through the public roadmap. New organizations can explore a workspace of editable sample records while getting started.
New Features
- Adopt-a-Pet Listing Support: Organizations can connect Adopt-a-Pet, map PawPlacer statuses to listing statuses, preview pet data, and keep adoptable pet listings synchronized from the integrations workspace.
- A Sample Workspace You Can Explore: Start with realistic example records you can add to and edit, then choose whether to keep the samples or start fresh as you set up your own records.
- Pet Bios with Your Choice of Voice: Generate a description from the pet’s recorded details, choose a tone, and write from the animal’s point of view or in third person. Review and edit the result before sharing it.
- Help Shape the Roadmap: Suggest features, discuss requests, and vote for the ideas that matter to your organization on the public roadmap.
Improvements
- Preview before Publishing: Review the pet data prepared for Adopt-a-Pet from the integrations workspace as you set up the connection.
- Status Mapping for Listings: Choose how PawPlacer statuses relate to public listing statuses so the connection follows your placement workflow.
- Explore, Then Start Fresh: Add to and edit realistic example records while learning the tools, then decide which sample data to keep as you begin using the workspace.