Release Notes
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.

- 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”
- Released v1 of the Brand Pages. Check out examples for Hatcher Packs and Les Cordons Bleus.
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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
~ You’ve reached the end. This page contains release notes from Jan 1, 2023 onward.