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PaperRoute Tracker v0.7.0 — Deadline Center

Released September 28, 2026. PaperRoute v0.7.0 is the current Stable release. It replaces the Reminders page with Deadlines, one list of everything that needs action and when, and adds a publication check that runs only when you ask. PaperRoute remains a local-first, privacy-focused app for tracking academic manuscripts from draft through submission, revision, and publication.

What's new

  • Deadlines. Revision deadlines, journal follow-ups, your reminders, unfinished submission preparation, and possible publications, grouped as Overdue, Today, Next 7 days, Later, No date, and Done. Counts across the top, chips for each kind, and a filter box. A revision shows how many reviewer comments are addressed, and work without a date stays visible instead of disappearing.
  • Act where you are. Open lands on the submission (at its reviewer responses for a revision), Postpone... offers tomorrow, a week, two weeks, or any date, Done completes a reminder, and Clear Follow-up... removes only the follow-up date. Every change is made on the record that owns the date, so Deadlines and the manuscript page always agree.
  • Always in view. The rail's Deadlines badge counts what is overdue or due today, and View in Deadlines → sits beside Needs Attention on the Board. Ctrl+4 opens Deadlines.
  • Check for Publications... asks Crossref, and optionally an ORCID record, whether manuscripts you are tracking have been published: by DOI, by a preprint's link to its published version, or by title. Each possible match offers Review Match, Mark Published..., and Ignore. Nothing is checked in the background, and nothing changes until you choose.
  • Mark Published... lists exactly what it will change before recording a normal lifecycle event. Fill Blanks from Crossref... fills empty publication fields after a preview and never replaces a value.
  • Fixes. Revision deadlines name their journal. The first-deadline date in Add Manuscript shows in full at 150% scaling. The update prompt opens on its Download & Restart button instead of with its notes selected. About PaperRoute scales with the display instead of clipping at 150%.

Upgrading

v0.7 upgrades the library to Schema 7, which remembers the possible publications you have reviewed. The upgrade validates your library and changes only the schema marker; manuscript data, managed files, and automatic backups stay byte-for-byte. v0.6 cannot open a library after v0.7 has used it, so make a portable backup with v0.6 first (Settings → Backup Library...) and keep it. The upgrade notes explain the details.

Verification

Release certification is recorded in #79. Every automated test passed with none skipped. Published assets were verified after a fresh download. An installed v0.6.0 was upgraded to v0.7.0-rc.1 through the live Preview updater: the library moved to Schema 7, the previous marker was kept byte-for-byte, and every data and managed file stayed byte-identical. Clean installation was checked on the Stable candidate. The live Stable updater check from v0.6.0 follows publication.

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