Grid Dash 1.2.1

New

• Rate community creations. Give layouts, components, and themes a thumbs up or down in the Community browser. A creation's rating reflects real satisfaction, and the score gently favors fresh, actively-used creations - so great new work gets a fair shot at the top alongside long-standing favorites.
• Featured shows the best of the month. The Featured tab now highlights the top-rated creations (not just the most-downloaded), so it showcases what the community actually values.
• See how your creations are doing. Community → My Submissions now shows each shared creation's downloads, rating, and vote count at a glance.
• Official GridDash creations. First-party themes, layouts, and components now appear in the community library with a ✓ Official badge, clearly distinct from user submissions.
• Built-ins update without reinstalling. Included themes, layouts, and gauges can now receive fixes and improvements through the community library - subscribers get them right away, and everyone else with the next app update.
• Delta Trace (Premium). A turn-by-turn lap-time graph that shows exactly where on the circuit you're gaining or losing time against your session best, last lap, or personal best - green where you're beating your reference line, red where you're behind, with your previous lap shown as a ghost underneath.
• Corners learned from your driving. Grid Dash detects the corners of any track from how you actually drive it - no track database needed. The Delta Trace shades each turn, numbers them, and shows a per-turn gain/loss chip row; weak-spot markers call out where you lost the most time.
• Turn Delta (Premium). A compact panel with the corner you're in, how this turn is going versus last lap, your reference lap time, and the live lap delta.
• Corner Map (Premium). A mini-map that follows you corner to corner, highlighting the shape of the turn you're approaching on the learned track outline.
• Personal bests that stick. Your best lap's full time-trace is remembered per game, track, and car - so Delta Trace can compare against your all-time reference the moment you're back on track.
• Session recordings. Record your sessions as lightweight telemetry clips - automatically (with per-track splitting) or with a button/keyboard binding - and replay them into any dashboard, on any device, exactly as they happened. Replays loop with a full player bar: pause, scrub, playback speed, and one-click back to live.
• The Logbook. A new tab in the plugin collecting your driving data: every recording with its stats (track, car, laps, best lap, disk usage) and a full track-map browser. The dashboard's settings gain a matching History tab with your recent sessions, most-played track, and best lap.
• Track map browser. See every learned track outline with its detected corners numbered on the map, compare it against the community's version, sync the community map locally, tidy up stray segments, or clear a map to re-learn it. Maps are tagged with the game they came from.
• Share your track maps (Premium). Contribute a finished outline to the community map library with one click - re-sharing after more laps updates your contribution, and every contribution makes the community's maps more accurate.
• Export replays to video. Turn any session replay into a shareable .webm video straight from the player bar.
• Triggers. Build your own if-this-then-that rules from the dashboard settings: when a condition you write becomes true (low fuel, a gap closing, rain starting), show a banner, play a chirp, or switch pages - with cooldowns and a mute-in-pit option.
• SimHub replay integration. Playing a SimHub replay now drives every connected dashboard live (clearly marked as a replay, and never touching your personal bests), and SimHub replays can be browsed - and experimentally recorded/played - from the Logbook.
• Creator: design with real telemetry. The Component Creator's preview can now be driven by one of your recorded clips instead of simulated data, so widgets are tuned against real motion.
• Build your own canvas widgets from layers. The Component Creator's canvas element is now a layered scene: combine track paths, delta traces, turn bands, chip rows, markers, radar rings, and grids in any order. One-click presets insert the exact layer stacks Radar, the Track Map, the Delta Trace, and the Corner Map are built from - remix them freely.
• Track Map authoring unlocked. The learned track outline, opponents layer, player marker, and follow/zoom/rotate view can now all be authored from the Creator toolbox.

Changed

• Tidier creator badges. "Featured Creator" and "Monthly Winner" now show as small icons next to a creator's name instead of large tags, so a creator with both stays compact.

Improved

• The Creator exposes more layout and styling controls: grid column span, bar corner radius, gauge grow-only auto-range, custom "no data" fallback text, and text outline shadow color.
• The formula autocomplete includes the new delta/turn variables and per-corner tire projections.
• Release notes in the Updates tab now refresh when new versions are published.
• Community maps you've already downloaded stay usable even if your subscription lapses.
• Community maps for a track you're viewing are now checked for automatically - no button pressing.
• Recording storage is under your control: keep the newest 20/50/100, cap by disk space, or keep everything.
• The auto-update toggle for downloaded community content now lives in one place (Updates tab).

Fixed

• Security and reliability hardening for the local dashboard server.
• Your dashboard setup is now saved crash-safely with an automatic backup, so a power cut or crash mid-save can no longer reset your layouts and settings.
• One sleeping phone or dropped Wi-Fi connection can no longer freeze telemetry for every other connected screen.
• Kiosk discovery no longer stops working for new devices after another device disconnects uncleanly.
• Large dashboard saves from the browser are handled reliably.
• Dashboards left open while the PC is off now retry their connection more gently (easier on phone batteries).