What shipped.

August 31, 2026

• —Deleted the retired conversion tier outright. July 14 removed the upload endpoint; this removes everything behind it — the job queue, the storage bucket writes, the cleanup cron that promised a 60-minute deletion window, the download and preview endpoints, and the upload transport in the browser. None of it could run: the one function that created a conversion job went with the endpoint in July, so every part that read one had been reading an empty table since. There is now no code path on Filum that can send your file anywhere.
• —Correcting the record on the July 14 entry, which said the delisted pairs would return once an on-device build of LibreOffice passed verification. Five of the eight are back — Excel to PDF, PowerPoint to PDF, PDF to PowerPoint, PDF to Excel, and PDF to PDF/A — and none of them came back that way. LibreOffice in WebAssembly was rejected on measured evidence (roughly 250 MB of assets and a hard SharedArrayBuffer requirement); each of the five was instead written directly against the file format, in the browser.
• —Still out, and honestly: Word to PDF, where the blocker is text reflow — laying DOCX out onto fixed pages needs a full text-layout engine. HTML to PDF and URL to PDF are not coming back as they were: both take a web address rather than a file, and a browser cannot fetch someone else's page on your behalf without that site's permission.

July 14, 2026

• —Went 100% on-device. Retired the server-side tier that handled the eight Office/web conversions (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, URL, HTML → PDF, and PDF → PowerPoint, Excel, PDF/A). Those pairs uploaded your file to a conversion server — the one thing the rest of the toolkit never did — so they are delisted until they can run in the browser. Every remaining tool processes your file entirely on your device; nothing is uploaded, ever.
• —The delisted pairs return once an on-device WebAssembly build of LibreOffice passes real-document verification. Old links redirect to the tools hub in the meantime.

June 30, 2026

• —Shipped Resize PDF (55th tool) — standardise PDF page sizes to A4 or US Letter in the browser. Pages are scaled to fit proportionally; landscape pages stay landscape; nothing is cropped. Entirely on-device — file never uploaded.
• —Shipped PDF to PDF/A (54th tool) — converts PDF to PDF/A-2b (ISO 19005-2) via Gotenberg's LibreOffice route. All fonts embedded, colour profiles attached, XMP metadata written. Now moved from PLANNED to SHIPPED.
• —Published guide: 'What is PDF/A and how to convert your PDF to it' — explains the archival standard, 1b vs 2b, and when it is required (courts, government, long-term storage).
• —Shipped PDF to Excel (53rd tool) — converts PDF to XLSX via LibreOffice server-side. Honest about what works: text-layer PDFs with simple tables convert well; complex multi-column layouts and scanned PDFs are documented limitations.
• —Published guide: 'How to convert PDF to Excel' — honest guide explaining what PDF-to-Excel actually does, when it works, and when output needs cleanup.
• —Published guide: 'How to convert a PDF to JPG' — dedicated how-to covering DPI, on-device rendering, and JPG limitations.
• —Fixed 4 guides with duplicate section headings (content quality audit): pdf-to-png, add-page-numbers-to-pdf, rtf-to-pdf, odt-to-pdf.
• —toolSlug deduplication: each tool page now links to its single most-relevant guide.

June 29, 2026

• —Shipped PDF to Markdown (52nd tool) — extracts a PDF's text layer as structured Markdown (#/## headings, **bold**, blank-line paragraphs) in your browser. Shared extraction engine with PDF to Word via a new pdf-extract module.
• —Shipped HEIC to PDF (51st tool) — converts iPhone and iPad photos to PDF entirely in your browser. File never uploaded, no account required. Requires Chrome 118+ or Safari 16+; Firefox shows an actionable error.
• —Fixed image-to-PDF surface: GIF, BMP, and AVIF to PDF tools were silently rejecting valid file types due to a missing format set entry. Now correctly converted on all three tools.
• —Homepage drop zone now routes HEIC, GIF, BMP, and AVIF files to the correct image-to-PDF tool automatically — previously showed unsupported error.
• —Live search added to the guides page — all 57 guides now searchable by title, description, or slug.
• —Roadmap page (/roadmap) built out: shipped items, up-next queue, and planned work — honest about what is and is not built.
• —Accessibility statement (/accessibility) published: keyboard navigation, screen reader support, colour/contrast, reduced-motion, and known limitations — all verified against the live tools.
• —Category listing pages (/pdf) upgraded to show tool icons, taglines, and engine/time badges — matching the main tools grid.
• —All 56 guides expanded to 380+ words — above the SEO minimum content threshold. Related guides section added to every guide page.
• —Tool search added to the tools listing page — all 51 tools searchable client-side.
• —Shipped 26 format-conversion tools in one batch: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, RTF, ODT, ODP, ODS, HTML, URL, CSV, TXT, GIF, BMP, SVG, TIFF, AVIF, WebP, Markdown, EPUB to PDF — plus PDF to PowerPoint (PPTX). Now at 50 tools.
• —Published 56 guides covering all major tools. Performance comparison at /compare — all numbers measured and sourced.

June 24, 2026

• —Tool identity system: each tool page now carries its family hue — the same colour used in the grid and the menu follows the tool into its page header and drop zone.
• —Instrument tile in every tool header — the tool's icon tile travels with it so its identity is consistent across every context.
• —Categorised Tools mega-menu on desktop and grouped mobile menu — tools organised by what they do, not alphabetically.

June 23, 2026

• —Shipped PDF to Word (22nd tool) — on-device conversion using pdf-lib, no upload.
• —Homepage redesign: the filum thread signature, tighter hero drop zone, and editorial voice throughout.

June 22, 2026

• —Shipped Sign PDF (19th tool) — on-device signing: draw, type, or upload a signature, place it anywhere, download. File never uploaded, never leaves the browser.
• —Shipped Flatten PDF (20th tool) — bake form fields and annotations into the page, on-device.
• —Shipped Extract Images (21st tool) — pull embedded image objects from a PDF, on-device.
• —Drag-and-drop on every tool: drop a file anywhere on the page.
• —Download naming convention: every output carries the original filename (e.g., report-rotated.pdf, report.jpg).
• —Redact PDF rebuilt as a focused on-device editor with text search — find and redact by keyword, not just by drawing boxes.
• —OCR PDF: searchable PDF output (invisible aligned text layer over the scan image) and 7-language support.

June 16–17, 2026

• —Shipped Crop PDF (12th tool) — lossless crop with visible corner handles, on-device.
• —Shipped Remove Metadata (13th tool) — strip hidden author, creation date, and software metadata, on-device.
• —Shipped N-up PDF (14th tool) — print 2 or 4 pages per sheet, on-device.
• —Shipped Reverse Pages (15th tool) — flip a document's page order, on-device.
• —Published first two SEO guides: remove PDF metadata, crop PDF without uploading.

June 13–15, 2026

• —Shipped PDF to JPG (8th tool) — renders every page at verified 300 DPI, on-device. No upload.
• —Shipped PDF to PNG (9th tool) — lossless PNG at 300 DPI, on-device.
• —Shipped PDF to Text (10th tool) — extract the text layer from digital PDFs, on-device. Honest about scanned PDFs.
• —Shipped PDF to WebP (11th tool) — completes the raster trio.
• —Navigation shipped: desktop Tools dropdown and mobile menu sheet.

June 10–11, 2026

• —Shipped JPG to PDF (4th tool) — EXIF-correct orientation, on-device.
• —Shipped Organize PDF (5th tool) — delete and reorder pages by dragging thumbnails, on-device.
• —Shipped Page Numbers (6th tool) — live per-page preview of number placement, on-device.
• —Shipped Watermark PDF (7th tool) — text overlay on every page, on-device.
• —Dark mode wired to OS preference.
• —Universal hero drop zone on the homepage.
• —thread-ƒ rebrand and complete icon pack.

June 8–9, 2026

• —Shipped Split PDF — the first live Filum tool. On-device, no upload.
• —Shipped Merge PDF.
• —Shipped Rotate PDF — per-page 90° rotation, lossless, on-device.
• —CI gates live: automated Lighthouse quality checks on every deploy.