Every shipped version, newest first. tools/build-zip.ps1 refuses to build a version that is not listed here, for the same reason it bumps the version on every build: a release nobody can identify is a release nobody can support.
The Chrome Web Store has no "what's new" field, so this file is the record. It is rendered onto the landing page by the nightly site build and linked from the extension's own popup.
6.17.1
- The panel opens compact on every lot again. A preference written by a control that no longer exists was forcing it open for anyone who had ever expanded it once; the setting is gone and the stale value is cleared on load.
- Hybrid and electric are separate. A Tesla is not a Corolla with a battery, and a combined "hybrid or electric" filter option made them look like one thing. Removed.
- Trim has its own column on the dashboard, beside the model.
- After Chrome updates the extension silently, the toolbar icon carries a dot until you open the popup, which tells you what changed and links to the full list.
6.17.0
The panel answers before you ask it, and says less while doing it.
- Auction history now includes the runs we watched ourselves. The public archives have no page at all for most live Copart lots — 26 of 45 sampled answered "gone" — and they can have nothing at all on a car that has not been through an auction before. So the extension now reports what it saw itself: how many times this lot went to auction without selling, and the bid it reached each time. It states the period it actually covers and never implies a complete record.
- Three panel states, one click each — verdict only, everything, minimised. The panel opens compact on every lot instead of remembering an expand you made somewhere else.
- Lot intel is one line per fact, with the reasoning behind a
+. Three new rows: keys, where the car is, and whether anything blocks exporting it from the United States.
- VIN lookup links moved in with the AI inspection. Opening that section never starts a run; nothing here spends your API credit unless you press it.
- Actions are quiet now and the information carries the visual weight, which is the way round it should always have been.
- Button presses are counted anonymously — the feature name and nothing else, no identifier, no way to link two of them. Without it there was no way to tell a feature nobody wants from a feature nobody can find.
6.16.0
- Market facts are reported per five-year model-year bracket rather than lumped across every year of a model.
- A completed sale with no published price is no longer reported as "$0", and a missing price now sends us to the second archive to look for the real one.
- Plain-language bid spreads: "a quarter were under $275" instead of quartiles.
6.15.0
- The auction history check runs by itself on every lot page, with the answer on the panel's title bar so it is readable while the panel is collapsed.
dreambid.pl added as a second archive, asked only when the first has nothing.- A lot that neither archive has heard of is now told apart from one they hold and report no sale for.
- Market facts per make and model, counted from our own nightly snapshots.
6.14.4
- Seller filter on search results: every row badged with the consigning insurer, with two toggles. Copart has no such filter.
- Fixed: Google's new Gemini key format (
AQ.…) was rejected by a check that only knew the old AIza prefix, locking users out.