CapacityLens Alpha 3

CapacityLens Alpha 3 is the most complete prerelease so far, with the day-to-day planning flow now
feeling close to beta. This release brings together the user-facing work completed since Alpha 2.

What matters most

Plan real schedules, not idealised ones

Create weekly, multi-week or monthly repeat allocations up to a chosen date, preview the whole
batch, and remove one occurrence or the rest of a series. Company working days and each person's
Full day, Half day or Not working pattern now feed the same predictable 8/4/0-hour capacity model.
New work cannot start on an unavailable day or during time off.

See your team the way you actually run it

Group people into Studio and Supplementary teams, keep favourites at the top, and retain discipline
grouping without losing unassigned people. External partners remain clearly separated. Resource,
project, client and discipline lists are alphabetical, while activities and current/future time off
are grouped around the way planners look for them.

Spend less time managing the schedule UI

Filters start hidden, open beside the other schedule controls, follow the grid's planning order and
clear in one action. Repeat cues, month labels, zoom boundaries, compact forms, centred headings,
pressed-button feedback and clearer allocation states make a dense schedule easier to scan without
making it busier.

Safer access and sign-in administration

Owners and administrators can disable, archive, restore and remove members, optionally record a
simple signed-in confirmation, revoke sessions and issue reset links. Self-hosted installations also
gain a guided strict-OIDC cutover and a deliberate recovery command for a sole Owner who has lost
their password.

Production behaviour now matches everyday expectations

Saved Studio/Supplementary and half-day choices survive fresh server-backed sessions. Bookmarks and
browser refreshes return to the requested page, including hosts without an SPA fallback, while real
missing assets and API routes remain 404s. Over-capacity work during time off stays visibly red.

Documentation you can follow visually

The user guide now includes current, full-size screenshots for filters, unallocated people,
Studio/Supplementary choices, working patterns, grouped lists, Settings and the main planning flow.

Upgrading a self-hosted installation

• Use Node 24 and the pnpm version pinned by the repository.
• Back up the SQLite database before upgrading. Alpha 3 advances the database to schema v32 and the
  portable export format to v15; startup also creates the normal verified pre-migration snapshot.
• Follow the upgrade guide,
  especially before changing sign-in mode or moving to strict OIDC.

Alpha 3 remains an alpha release. Feedback from real planning work is particularly valuable as
CapacityLens moves towards beta.

Full change history: Alpha 2 to Alpha 3