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      "text": "Office News – Announcements from your offices now appear right on your dashboard and office page, with urgent news front and center and the full feed on a new News page. Admins publish news per office with clear visibility rules. Badge Collection – Your achievements got a full makeover: a collectible gallery with shiny coin medals and tier progress for every badge, updated live the moment you earn one. Organizations can now create their own custom and special badges and award them to members. Faster booking – Pick your spot straight from the map when booking, filter by type right there, and see only free spots in the list. A new booking opens directly on the confirmation page with your recommendations on top, and the office switch now lives in the header. Edit your profile – Organizations that don't sign in through a company directory can now edit their own profile in the app: change your profile picture, name, job title and phone number. Your email address stays as it is. Your badge in Google Wallet (Android) – Add your member badge and event badges to Google Wallet. Your QR code is ready at the entrance and at event check-ins, even without opening the app. Who's still in the office – Colleagues who have checked out for the day show a new \"left the office\" status, and a compact presence legend in the office list and colleagues sheet tells you at a glance who's in, expected or gone. Outlook add-in: find the right room faster – A searchable office picker (by name, city or abbreviation) and an availability filter that hides occupied rooms by default; rooms already on the meeting are labeled \"In this meeting\". All notifications in one place – Booking confirmations, changes and reminders that used to arrive only as push now also appear in the in-app notification center, in your language. Working hours for everyone – Admins set organization-wide default working hours, you can override them for yourself, and new bookings pick them up automatically. Booking slots everywhere – For assets with fixed slots, the asset sheet now offers the slot picker directly instead of time inputs; meeting names are available for custom asset bookings too (up to 100 characters). Sign in with a code for events – External event attendees whose email domain is not connected to a company sign-in can now log in with a one-time code sent by email. iPhone Duo ready (iOS) – DoorJames adopts Apple's vertical bar on iPhone Duo: all actions, your profile and the new-booking button sit in the side bar, and the content uses the full width. Admin: more control, better overview – A What's New dialog in the admin panel, a top-bar search that finds any page you may open, a Calendar View shortcut, per-organization switches for the Meet, Screen and Forms applets and for the onboarding wizard, a dark-mode organization logo, extended white-labeling (favicon, app name in emails and browser tabs, branded admin login) and a service-health dashboard that warns when a connected service is degraded."
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      "text": "Fresh onboarding – The onboarding wizard was redesigned for a smoother first start. Clearer booking screens – Asset types you can never book are hidden, your selected map asset types are remembered per office, \"Advanced Settings\" became \"More options\", and the availability timeline shades every unbookable minute with always-visible resize grips. Accessibility – Page changes are announced to screen readers, focus lands where it should, occupancy is read as full sentences, large system fonts and text zoom no longer break layouts, and reduced-motion mode no longer flickers. Android polish – The office switcher in the booking header is now an outlined pill you can recognize, the native time picker follows your app language (24h for German), the bottom bar stays in sync with where you are, and the app no longer greets you with a welcome notification every time you open it inside the office. Widgets that know whose booking it is (Android) – Bookings made for colleagues appear read-only as \"For …\" in the agenda widget, later days get day labels, and widget actions always target the booking you tapped. Jaimes – Stops re-asking for an asset type or time you already gave, spaces its sentences properly in the chat bubble, and runs on newer Gemini models. Install prompt on Android – A native app install banner replaces the old web-app install flow. Just for fun – Flappy Jamees learned multiplayer with a live leaderboard and \"you've been overtaken\" alerts, a hidden Room 404 escape game awaits the curious, and Jaimes dressed up for Halloween."
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      "text": "Double-tapping \"Book\" no longer creates duplicate bookings, and a clear offline message appears when a booking request never reaches the server. Booking times are handled in your office's local time end to end, with up-to-date time zone data for regions that changed their rules this year. The dashboard no longer jumps while the weather loads, and the settings list scrolls again in Safari. Past recurring bookings are properly removed from the agenda, and the list view renders even when your search hides the selected asset. Sharing an asset with \"all members\" without an owner now correctly falls back to the parent rules, and admin advance-booking overrides apply to meetings, visitor invitations and recurring bookings alike. Colleague search finds members provisioned via SAML or the admin panel, and profile photos removed in Microsoft disappear from DoorJames too. Android: widget check-in buttons work in store builds again, and the native date & time picker no longer clips the time fields. iOS: CarPlay no longer quits right after showing the dashboard, and the vertical bar layout stays stable when switching tabs. Large floorplan outlines are no longer cropped on upload, and event emails never contain \"undefined\" (admin). Security: one-time codes are limited to five attempts and five emails per hour, and malformed requests are answered with a clear error instead of a server failure."
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