Release Notes

Currently in BETA: Digital waivers and Payment Processing. Reach out to Support if you want to join the BETA.

May 02, 2025 - “Console"

  • All new console for operators and tourism brands at console.wayward.travel
  • Introduced a 'draft' status for your experiences that aren't yet ready for prime time.
  • New Dates management section for managing participants, live tracking settings and more.
  • Participants: Add, delete and bulk upload via CSV upload.
  • Multi-level team management; Invite your Admin, Billing and Experience Managers to the party.
  • Your Site: Easy access to embeddable content and your public landing page
  • Introduce our Beta program for Waivers and Payment processing
  • Self-signup for new brands with simple onboarding guide

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Mar 27, 2025 - “ Big maps“

  • Revamped how maps load on the web which improve load times by over 90% on large trips.
  • Solved a bug which prevented very large trip maps from loading

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Mar 3, 2025 - “Community“

V3.11 on Android and iOS brings an entirely new community feed.

  • Follow featured trips across the globe and discover your next adventure from Brands on the Wayward platform.
  • Also, we fixed a bug where photos on spectator maps were displayed out of order.

Jan 28, 2025 - “Bull Horn“

V3.10 on Android and iOS brings you one-way messaging for organized adventures.

Animated image showing a laptop screen with a poem and text about a hiking tour, and a smartphone displaying the time and date with a coastal sunset background.
  • Organizers can send text and link messages from web
  • Push notifications for participants
  • New inbox and chats within the mobile app

Nov 12, 2024 - “Plumbing“

V3.9 on Android and iOS brings you:

  • Improved syncing of trips and added a sync bar
  • Improved syncing of Post updates
  • Faster image loading in-app
  • Some maintenance (bumping packages, etc) was done as well.

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Oct 17, 2024 - “Adding salt”

  • Updated experience page embed codes: embed just the itinerary or the entire experiences.
  • Improved invite emails for participants
  • Other little things

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Sept 30, 2024 - “Kneading”

  • All new view for Experiences, with Call-to-action links now available.
  • Significant refactor of our infrastructure

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August 14, 2024 - “Maintenance mode”

  • Event trips cropped so they don't show locations beyond start / end time
  • Images on event map are resized down by 97.5% resulting in faster map load times
  • v3.8 on Android and iOS…
    • Updated the tracking service
    • Some other rather boring bug fixes

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July 16, 2024 - “Sheets and Shrouds”

  • New Content Page for brands! Public content on your experiences is collected for easy viewing.
  • Experiences have been moved to the top on a brand page
  • V3.7 for Android and iOS…
  • Fixed a bug with itinerary stops not always showing up
  • Users will now show up on an event even if their display name wasn’t set
  • The ‘Refresh’ button works better on events now

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July 03, 2024 - “how long is a piece of string?”

V3.6 for Android and iOS…

  • Streamlined flow for joining Experiences; it just works now
  • Ability to view itinerary stops in the app, before and during the event
  • Easy peasy refresh button for seeing other participants’ latest location
  • Fixed an issue where the experience header bar and event code were not persisting
  • Fixed initial tracking bugs, reordered permissions flow and resolved sync issues
  • Standard tracking updated: Now with improved background tracking, airplane mode and more regular updates while on the move.
  • Efficiency tracking mode updated; location every 6-10 minutes, increased battery life
  • A few user interface updates

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May 09, 2024 - “Wayward for Business”

  • Complete overhaul of the web admin for organizers and brand owners
  • New ‘Experiences’ for everything from meet-ups to cross-continent rally’s
  • Admins have the ability to edit their brands
  • Streamlined flow and easier to use
  • Backwards compatibility for Itineraries
  • Updated the Wayward logo across the platform

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Apr 09, 2024 - “The more the merrier”

V3.5 for Android and iOS:

  • Participants in group experiences (aka events) now have the option to see each others’ last known location. Users can hide their location from others by making their trip ‘private’.

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Mar 01, 2024 - “It never ends”

V3.4 for Android and iOS:

  • Improved syncing to support your offline’iest adventures and edge cases
  • Added more details on the debug log
  • Improved loading of the post gallery on the profile screen

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Feb 22, 2024 - “Debugger 1000”

V3.3 for Android and iOS:

  • A new debugging screen allows better insight into any possible issues with syncing

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Feb 07, 2024 - “Hemingway”

V3.2 for Android and iOS:

  • Updated the text box on posts so you can write long, adventurous stories without it being blocked by the keyboard.
  • Fixed a couple other quirky and annoying things

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Feb 01, 2024 - “Horizon”

V3.1 for Android and iOS: Fixed the share url and a bug that was causing wild horizontal lines on some users’ trips.

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Jan 19, 2024 - “🍏 Moonbase 🌝 ”

Wayward 3.0 for iOS. Our biggest release to-date. 🚀 Wayward 3.0 introduces an entirely new, offline-first architecture and more. Adventurers can now:

  • Track trips while completely offline
  • Post and edit photos while offline
  • Photos with location metadata will now plot themselves on the route
  • Update tracking settings, privacy settings and more
  • View public trips happening around the world
  • We introduced a new profile page to view and edit your past trips
  • Join events after your trip has started, and more
  • Updated branding and a new UI

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Dec 20, 2023 - “🤖 Moonbase 🌝 ”

Wayward 3.0 for Android. Our biggest release to-date. 🚀 Wayward 3.0 introduces an entirely new, offline-first architecture and more. Adventurers can now:

  • Track trips while completely offline
  • Post and edit photos while offline
  • Photos with location metadata will now plot themselves on the route
  • Update tracking settings, privacy settings and more
  • View public trips happening around the world
  • We introduced a new profile page to view and edit your past trips
  • Join events after your trip has started, and more
  • Updated branding and a new UI

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Aug 15, 2023 - “From Melbourne with Love“

  • Mobile app 2.30 : 75% reduction in active trip load times by removing unnecessary trip data
  • Mobile app 2.30 : Fixed loading of Featured Trips and improved Trip locations sorting
  • Improve API headers

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July 21, 2023 - “Itinerary Builder v1”

  • Itinerary Builder! Create itineraries from the web app, embed them on your own site. This feature is currently for brand owners only.
  • Fixed a bug causing slow loading on the Participants page within events.

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June 14 , 2023 - “Adventure diffusion”

  • Easy-embeddable solo trips content for adventurers and brands. You can now embed solo trips, individual trip cards, card gallery, and image gallery.
  • Added a gallery to our homepage

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May 07, 2023 - “Brand Pages”

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Apr 12, 23 - “Space dust”

  • Release of iOS/Android v2.29.1 including:
    • Removed an annoying alert
    • Improved the screen loading while offline (your active trip will now load even if you’re completely offline)
  • Featured trips now load again.

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Apr 04, 23 - “Moon Unit BugZappa”

  • Release of iOS/Android v2.29 including:
    • Better communication to the user during what has affectionately been called the “White screen of Death.”
    • Network connection status improvements
    • Refinements to the loading icon on the Play-Pause Tracking button
    • Corrected a top screen alignment issue for iPhone 14 user

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Mar 23, 23 - “Crispy”

  • An all new spectator map experience. Check out these examples from Iceland, North America, Sri Lanka, Cambodia, or India.
  • If you have an active trip and then want to join an event using a smart link, you can now

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Mar 9, 23 - “Chop that top”

  • Made event maps even more faster-er 🚀 while correcting a route display issue
  • In-app share button now goes straight to the solo trip maps instead of redirecting to the event map
  • Bug fixes

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Mar 1, 23 - “First brick of the moonbase”

  • Release of iOS/Android v2.28 including:
    • Tamed the hornets’ nest of issues hiding behind the ‘Share trip’ button (improvements so good you’ll forget how screwed up it was)
    • You can now edit trip names, delete trips, change viewing status between public and private
    • Slick new UI for posting content
    • Updated tracking settings for your active trip; Pause, Resume, and Stop are now more intuitive.

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Feb 13, 23 - “Mercury is not in retrograde”

  • Improved how routes are cached, resulting in more real time maps
  • Decreased spectator map load time by 74%

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Jan 31, 23 - “Street food”

  • Android version  2.27.1- Fixed a foreground tracking issue affecting some users, phone models, and/or versions
  • Android version  2.27.1- Added support for Android 31 (You’ll notice a modified notification)

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Jan 17, 23 - “200mg of cocoa caffeine”

  • Improved performance of spectator maps (reduced page load times by 92% and reduced route size by 98% with no loss of fidelity)
  • Improvements to viewing individual participant routes on events

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Jan 16, 23 - “A happier API”

  • API Update: Added a “since” parameter allowing single trip API users to pull location records from a specific date
  • API Update: Added a “polyline” parameter allowing users to pull a full trip route as a polyline, making the entire request more efficient

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Jan 5, 23 - “For the love of spectators”

  • New header on trip spectator maps, including route length estimates and post count
  • Added featured trips to bottom of trip spectator maps

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