Dependency maintenance release. - Updated GitHub Actions checkout to v7 for improved CI/CD reliability. - Patched non-major dependencies to latest stable versions. No breaking changes or new features. Recommended for all users.

Tooling: added .gitattributes configuration to standardize line ending handling across the repository. This ensures consistent file formatting for all contributors and reduces noise in diffs across different operating systems.

Fixed three accessibility issues in the Pulse health-tech template: - **Invisible CTA**: Corrected button visibility and focus states in key call-to-action elements. - **Low-contrast badge**: Updated the Denied status badge to meet WCAG AA contrast requirements. - **Stale hue comments**: Cleaned up outdated color-reference comments that could mislead component customization. These changes strengthen compliance for health-care and regulated-industry deployments without breaking existing layouts or functionality.

Refactored the theme palette to replace obfuscated `--mech-color-*` tokens with semantic, cascading alternatives. Color tokens now follow a clearer naming convention that maps directly to design intent (e.g., `--color-primary`, `--color-surface-secondary`) rather than mechanical references. This change improves theme customization and makes it easier to understand token relationships at a glance. All existing color values remain unchanged—no visual or functional impact on deployed designs.

Dependency hygiene: pinned transitive dependencies to ensure consistent builds and reduce supply-chain drift across team environments.

Dependency management: pinned hono to ^4.12.25 via pnpm.overrides to ensure build stability and compliance with project security standards.

**Mobile drawer focus management:** Fixed focus trap behavior on drawer open and focus restoration on close, ensuring compliance with WCAG 2.1 Success Criterion 2.1.2 (No Keyboard Trap). Keyboard and assistive-technology users can now navigate mobile drawers without getting stuck, improving overall accessibility compliance.

**Canonical tag scope fix**: Moved layout-level canonical declarations to page scope to prevent unintended inheritance by child routes. This ensures each page declares its own canonical URL correctly, improving search engine crawl efficiency and preventing duplicate-content signals across your site hierarchy. No migration needed — update and deploy.

**Patient Portal Message Composer** Added proper label association to the message composer input field in the patient portal. This improves screen reader announcements and WCAG compliance, ensuring all users can clearly understand the input's purpose when navigating with assistive technologies.

Internal tooling: enhanced CI/CD workflow for code review automation. No changes to template functionality or dependencies.

Licensing model updated to unlimited-projects. No changes to template functionality or dependencies.

Documentation: added four universal buyer-docs to the storefront documentation surface. These guides cover common setup and usage patterns for the Pulse healthtech template. No code changes in this release.

Documentation: added canonical Security Headers guide to installation docs, covering host-config and static-export deployment patterns (#106). Clarifies best practices for securing Pulse deployments across common hosting scenarios.

**Fixed:** Removed frame-blocking headers that prevented the demo from being embedded in iframes. This allows you to showcase the Pulse healthtech template in documentation, sales materials, or internal dashboards without CORS/framing restrictions.

Added `TopDemoBanner` component with sticky-top positioning for demo environments. This new element enables conversion-focused messaging that remains visible as users scroll, ideal for trial signups or feature highlights in staging deployments. The component integrates seamlessly with the existing Pulse design system and respects your theme configuration. Use it to surface CTAs without disrupting the core product experience.

Respects `prefers-reduced-motion` media query across all animations and transitions, ensuring compliance with WCAG 2.3.3 standards. Users who have enabled reduced motion in their OS settings will now see static or simplified animations throughout the template. This change improves accessibility for users with vestibular disorders or motion sensitivity without requiring any configuration on your part.

Fixed documentation route inclusion in release artifacts. The `/docs` path is now correctly excluded from the zip bundle during packaging, ensuring the Documentation route ships as intended.

License file hygiene: removed conflicting MIT LICENSE file that duplicated the commercial LICENCE.md. This resolves potential ambiguity in licensing terms for the template. No functional changes.

Internal: refreshed Quality-Gate Report PDF with backfilled audit data. No changes to template functionality or dependencies.

Packaging hygiene: refined distribution contents to exclude documentation artifacts (AGENTS.md, docs folder, Word files) while including the Quick-Start Guide PDF. Reduces package size and clarifies what ships to production.

Security and reliability hardening. Update recommended.

**Fixed:** useCountUp hook now renders correct initial values during server-side rendering, eliminating hydration mismatches when count animations are used in Next.js layouts or server components. This ensures smooth client-side takeover without visual flicker.

Documentation updates: clarified Motion library usage (motion/react) and reorganized dashboard documentation structure for improved clarity. No changes to component APIs or functionality.

Maintenance release. Routine dependency updates and internal improvements. No breaking changes or new features in this release.

Maintenance release. Internal updates and dependency hygiene to keep the template stable and secure.

Maintenance release. No breaking changes or new features in this update.

Security and reliability hardening across the access-control layer, with strengthened validation checks. Updating is recommended.

Security and reliability hardening. Update recommended.

Minor maintenance release. - **fix(dashboard)**: corrected full-width wrapper layout - **lint(label)**: removed unused eslint-disable directive No breaking changes or new features. Safe to update.

Documentation: synced primitive JSDoc annotations from UI00-BASE to ensure consistency across the component library. No functional changes.

Internal maintenance: synced RevealOnScroll component `as` prop and useIsMobile singleton hook from UI00-BASE to maintain consistency across the template family. No breaking changes or new features.

Backported LiveActivityRail component with integrated PulseCare event pool (#75). This new component provides real-time activity streaming for patient monitoring and provider dashboards, with built-in event pooling to handle high-frequency updates efficiently. LiveActivityRail supports: - Real-time event subscriptions via PulseCare pool - Configurable activity item rendering - Automatic scroll-to-latest behavior - Memory-efficient event batching Ideal for vitals dashboards, appointment streams, and notification feeds. See the component API in the docs for integration examples.

CI/CD maintenance: updated GitHub Actions dependencies for improved workflow reliability. - Bumped action v40 → v46.1.14 - Bumped checkout v4 → v6 No changes to the template or its dependencies.

Dependency management: added pnpm.overrides configuration for ws and brace-expansion@5.x to ensure consistent transitive dependency resolution across the project. No functional changes.

Added a production-ready Skeleton component for building loading placeholders. Includes a complete dashboard loading.tsx example demonstrating Next.js 13+ streaming patterns with proper layout suspension. The Skeleton component supports customizable border-subtle styling and integrates seamlessly with the existing Pulse design system. Use it to scaffold content while data fetches, improving perceived performance and UX polish. Perfect for dashboards, data tables, and any content-heavy views where users benefit from visual feedback during load.

Replaced interaction-gated mount with Skeleton loading placeholders for below-fold content (#69). This change improves perceived performance by rendering placeholder UI immediately rather than waiting for user interaction, reducing layout shift and providing clearer visual feedback during content load. No breaking changes. Update at your convenience.

Internal maintenance: normalized trailing-slash handling in dashboard and portal navigation data structures (#68). No breaking changes or user-facing updates.

Added automatic OpenGraph image generation at the root level using Next.js's native `next/og` API. The implementation includes brand-aware composition, ensuring social preview cards align with your template's design system when shared across platforms. This feature generates dynamic OG images on-demand without additional build overhead. No configuration required—the system detects your brand assets and applies them automatically to all social shares.

Design tokens: added canonical CSS variable aliases `--border-strong` and `--bg-elevated` for improved consistency across component implementations. Internal refactor with no breaking changes.

Improved numeric rendering across the design system: - **Body text**: tabular numerics (tnum) enabled for consistent digit alignment in data tables and health metrics - **Monospace surfaces**: slashed-zero (zero) applied to distinguish the digit 0 from the letter O in code blocks and terminal-style displays These OpenType features enhance readability in health dashboards where precise numeric alignment and clarity are critical. No migration required—changes apply automatically on next build.

Fixed focus management and background interaction on mobile menu close (#64). When the mobile menu opens, the background is now properly marked inert to prevent accidental interaction. Focus correctly returns to the trigger element when the menu closes, improving keyboard navigation and screen reader experience. This release ensures compliance with WCAG 2.1 Level AA standards for modal-like menu behavior.

Documentation: added DEMO_BANNER.md to document the te-banner.tsx component implementation and usage patterns.

Internal: ported DemoBanner pattern from UI00-BASE to standardize demo infrastructure across the template suite. No changes to production components or buyer-facing APIs.

Documentation: Added Copilot and Codex bot instructions to enforce Renovate dependency management canon (#61). This improves consistency in automated dependency updates across the codebase but does not affect template functionality or buyer-facing features.

Backported family component fixes from UI04 to ensure consistency across the template suite. Internal maintenance release with no breaking changes or new features.

Fixed hydration mismatches in motion wrappers and page transition components. This resolves console warnings and build inconsistencies when using the template with Next.js server-side rendering. **Changes:** - Motion wrapper hydration alignment (#59) - Page transition component SSR compatibility No breaking changes. Update via `npm install ui06-pulse-healthtech-nextjs@1.1.27`.

**Accessibility:** Footer column headings promoted from `<h3>` to `<h2>` to improve semantic hierarchy and screen reader navigation. This ensures proper heading structure across the template and strengthens WCAG compliance for healthcare contexts where accessibility audits are critical.

Refactored entry animations to CSS-first approach (Phase 1+2 backport from UI04). This improves animation performance by offloading transitions to the GPU and reduces JavaScript overhead during component mount. Animations remain visually identical; the change is purely under-the-hood for better efficiency and frame consistency, especially on lower-end devices.

Dependency & infrastructure: upgraded Node.js runtime from v20 to v22 in CI pipelines and resolved associated technical debt. No breaking changes to the template or its APIs.

Token maintenance: promoted inline rgba/oklch color literals in globals-effects.css for improved token consistency and build optimization. No breaking changes or feature additions.

Dependency management: configured Renovate org-extends and established weekly Dependabot schedule to streamline dependency updates and security patches. No changes to template functionality or dependencies themselves.

Maintenance and reliability improvements.

Maintenance and reliability improvements.

Maintenance and reliability improvements.

Maintenance and reliability improvements.

Maintenance and reliability improvements.

Maintenance and reliability improvements.

Maintenance and reliability improvements.

Maintenance and reliability improvements.

Maintenance and reliability improvements.

Maintenance and reliability improvements.

Maintenance and reliability improvements.

Maintenance and reliability improvements.

Security and reliability hardening. Update recommended.

Maintenance and reliability improvements.

Maintenance and reliability improvements.

Maintenance and reliability improvements.

Maintenance and reliability improvements.

Maintenance and reliability improvements.

Maintenance and reliability improvements.

Maintenance and reliability improvements.

Maintenance and reliability improvements.

Premium upgrade to the Pulse HealthTech kit, now shipping a complete clinical portal alongside a dedicated patient portal. - Full clinical and patient portal experiences - Viewport-responsive sections with refined light-mode styling - UK, EU, and US compliance scaffolding included - Cleaned-up brand styling and removal of unused sections and assets - Stability fixes to the 3D shader rendering path

First stable release of the Pulse HealthTech kit. This 1.0 establishes the supported baseline for the kit. - Built-in licence validation - Continuous integration and release workflows in place - General cleanup ahead of the stable line