Release Notes
October 28, 2025 - "New Feature: Add Routes to Experiences"
Operators and brands can now add, edit, and display routes directly on their experience maps. This major update makes it easier to showcase detailed itineraries and guide visitors through key waypoints.
What's New:
- Show itinerary routes on maps
- Add and edit routes using a new context menu
- Add waypoints to routes, including halfway markers for easier route building
- Improved marker collision handling for smoother map interactions
- Manage Points of Interest (POIs) directly from the console
-
July 1, 2025 - "Waivers"
You can now create, send, and manage digital liability waivers—right inside Wayward.
- Easily create branded liability waivers and agreements for your customers to sign before their trip
- Collect typed signatures, initials, and emergency contact information
- Progressive disclosure: reveal key waiver sections step-by-step, requiring initials at each stage
- Best practices built-in: capture IP address, browser, device info, and timestamp for every submission
- Full version control: track changes and keep records of which version each participant signed
- Mobile-friendly signing—no app or login required for guests
- Store all waivers securely in the cloud and access them anytime from your dashboard
-
May 29, 2025 - "Under the Bridge"
v3.12 on iOS and Android
- Improved syncing of location data
- Improved real-time location updates for group trips
- Added a dynamic user icon list for group trips
- Fixed a bug causing message inbox to crash for some users"
-
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
-
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
-
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.
-
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
-
Sept 30, 2024 - “Kneading”
- All new view for Experiences, with Call-to-action links now available.
- Significant refactor of our infrastructure
-
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
-
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
-
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
-
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
-
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’.
-
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
-
Feb 22, 2024 - “Debugger 1000”
V3.3 for Android and iOS:
- A new debugging screen allows better insight into any possible issues with syncing
-
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
-
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.
-
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
-
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
-
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
-
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.
-
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
-
May 07, 2023 - “Brand Pages”
- Released v1 of the Brand Pages. Check out examples for Hatcher Packs and Les Cordons Bleus.
-
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.
-
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
-
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
-
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
-
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.
-
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%
-
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)
-
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
-
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
-
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.
May 29, 2025 - "Under the Bridge"
v3.12 on iOS and Android
- Improved syncing of location data
- Improved real-time location updates for group trips
- Added a dynamic user icon list for group trips
- Fixed a bug causing message inbox to crash for some users"
-
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
-
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
-
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.
-
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
-
Sept 30, 2024 - “Kneading”
- All new view for Experiences, with Call-to-action links now available.
- Significant refactor of our infrastructure
-
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
-
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
-
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
-
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
-
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’.
-
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
-
Feb 22, 2024 - “Debugger 1000”
V3.3 for Android and iOS:
- A new debugging screen allows better insight into any possible issues with syncing
-
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
-
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.
-
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
-
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
-
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
-
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.
-
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
-
May 07, 2023 - “Brand Pages”
- Released v1 of the Brand Pages. Check out examples for Hatcher Packs and Les Cordons Bleus.
-
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.
-
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
-
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
-
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
-
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.
-
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%
-
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)
-
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
-
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
-
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.
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
-
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
-
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.
-
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
-
Sept 30, 2024 - “Kneading”
- All new view for Experiences, with Call-to-action links now available.
- Significant refactor of our infrastructure
-
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
-
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
-
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
-
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
-
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’.
-
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
-
Feb 22, 2024 - “Debugger 1000”
V3.3 for Android and iOS:
- A new debugging screen allows better insight into any possible issues with syncing
-
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
-
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.
-
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
-
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
-
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
-
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.
-
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
-
May 07, 2023 - “Brand Pages”
- Released v1 of the Brand Pages. Check out examples for Hatcher Packs and Les Cordons Bleus.
-
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.
-
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
-
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
-
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
-
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.
-
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%
-
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)
-
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
-
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
-
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.
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
-
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
-
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.
-
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
-
Sept 30, 2024 - “Kneading”
- All new view for Experiences, with Call-to-action links now available.
- Significant refactor of our infrastructure
-
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
-
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
-
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
-
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
-
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’.
-
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
-
Feb 22, 2024 - “Debugger 1000”
V3.3 for Android and iOS:
- A new debugging screen allows better insight into any possible issues with syncing
-
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
-
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.
-
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
-
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
-
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
-
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.
-
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
-
May 07, 2023 - “Brand Pages”
- Released v1 of the Brand Pages. Check out examples for Hatcher Packs and Les Cordons Bleus.
-
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.
-
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
-
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
-
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
-
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.
-
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%
-
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)
-
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
-
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
-
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.
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
-
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
-
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.
-
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
-
Sept 30, 2024 - “Kneading”
- All new view for Experiences, with Call-to-action links now available.
- Significant refactor of our infrastructure
-
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
-
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
-
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
-
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
-
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’.
-
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
-
Feb 22, 2024 - “Debugger 1000”
V3.3 for Android and iOS:
- A new debugging screen allows better insight into any possible issues with syncing
-
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
-
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.
-
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
-
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
-
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
-
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.
-
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
-
May 07, 2023 - “Brand Pages”
- Released v1 of the Brand Pages. Check out examples for Hatcher Packs and Les Cordons Bleus.
-
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.
-
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
-
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
-
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
-
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.
-
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%
-
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)
-
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
-
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
-
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.