Changelog

All notable changes to FileForge.

v2.0.0 — New home at Obrahaus — 2026-06-10

FileForge has a new home. It now lives under obrahaus.com (it was previously hosted under aldrickb.app). Everything you know — your files, conversions, history, and Forge Pro features — works exactly the same; only the address and the way you sign in have changed.

New features

• New web address. The app is now at fileforge.obrahaus.com and these docs at fileforge-docs.obrahaus.com. Update any saved bookmarks. (The old aldrickb.app links are retired.)
• One Obrahaus account. Sign in with your Obrahaus account — the same login works across Obrahaus products. There's no separate FileForge password to remember anymore.

Improvements

• Account and billing in one place. Managing your profile, plan, and billing now happens in your Obrahaus account, so there's a single place for all of it instead of a FileForge-only settings screen.
• Faster, steadier under load. The behind-the-scenes storage and sign-in plumbing was rebuilt during the move, so the app stays responsive even when lots of conversions are running at once.

Other

• Under the hood, FileForge moved to dedicated, hardened infrastructure as part of joining the Obrahaus family of apps. None of this changes how you use the app — it just makes it more reliable.

v1.1.0 — 2026-05-14

Bug fixes

• Files page: deleting a file that had been used in a past conversion no longer returns "something went wrong", and the Download button no longer appears for files whose retention window has already passed.
• Sign-in: fixed a rare loop where switching between FileForge environments in the same browser could leave a stale session that retried against an unreachable account.
• Marketing pages: site icons, the FileForge logo, and product screenshots now load on signed-out pages — previously they were occasionally blocked before login.

v1.0.0 — Beta launch — 2026-05-07

New features

Accounts

• Sign up with email/password or Google.
• Free tier: 5 conversions/day, 10 MB files, 24-hour retention.
• Forge Pro ($8/mo): unlimited conversions, 500 MB files, 7-day retention, priority queue, bulk uploads, metadata preservation, and API access.

File conversion

• Convert images (PNG, JPG, WebP), audio (MP3, WAV, OGG — FLAC, AAC, M4A on Pro), video (MP4, WebM — MOV, MKV on Pro), documents (PDF, DOCX, ODT, TXT, HTML, MD — DOC, RTF, XLSX, PPTX on Pro), and archives (ZIP, TAR, TAR.GZ — 7z on Pro).
• Quality presets for every format pair — pick "Web", "High", or "Lossless" instead of tweaking codec flags.
• Metadata stripped by default; Pro users can opt in to preserve EXIF, ID3, and document author fields.
• Every upload scanned for malware; incompatible files are rejected before processing.

Bulk uploads

• Pro users can submit up to 20 files at once, each with its own target format and preset.
• Parallel uploads, per-file progress tracking, and partial-success handling (download what succeeded, retry what failed).

Web app

• Dashboard with quota meter, recent activity, and quick actions.
• Convert page: drag a file, pick a format, and download. Real-time progress bar.
• History page: browse all past conversions with status pills, filters, and quick download/retry/cancel.
• Files page: view, download, and delete your files before they auto-expire.
• Settings page: manage your profile and API keys (Pro).

Public API

• Programmatic access with personal ff_live_… API keys (Pro only).
• Four scopes: convert:write, files:read, files:write, files:delete.
• Full REST API: presign upload, finalize, convert, poll status, download output.
• End-to-end examples in curl, Node.js, and Python.
• Per-key rate limiting with clear Retry-After and X-RateLimit-* headers.

Improvements

• Conversion progress updates live in the UI — no more refreshing the page.
• Format picker is data-driven from the API, so new formats appear automatically.
• History table shows a worker-type icon (image, audio, video, document, archive) next to each conversion for quick scanning.
• Pricing page reflects all shipped features — no more "coming soon" markers.
• Landing FAQ answers the most common security and API questions up front.
• Docs site has local search across all pages.
• Rate-limit responses now include Retry-After and X-RateLimit-* headers, and the web app surfaces a clear "try again in 30 seconds" toast instead of a generic error.
• Maintenance windows are announced with a banner across the top of the app — and an admin reading the same banner sees a note that their own submissions still go through.
• Friendlier 404 and error-recovery pages: when a route is missing or a render crashes, you get a branded recovery card with a "Try again" button instead of a stark default.
• Keyboard navigation now starts with a "Skip to main content" link on every page, and the maintenance banner is announced to screen readers when it appears.

Other

• Operational hardening: per-IP and per-user request rate limits on the App API, automatic cleanup of expired files, and a self-hosted Grafana view of conversion duration, retry rate, and rate-limit hits. None of this is user-visible directly; it just keeps the service responsive when load goes up.