Changelog

v2.3.0

August 2026

Districtr v2 is now live at districtr.org! The original Districtr remains available at legacy.districtr.org.

New features

• Map modules for all 52 geographies: 50 states, DC, and Puerto Rico
• Draw and Super Draw edit modes
• Continuous choropleth scales for demographic and election shading
• City boundaries as an optional overlay layer
• Check for unassigned units while zoomed out
• Site architecture revamp with a surfaced guide page and contextual help across the map editor

Reliability and bug fixes

• CSV importer now infers map modules correctly and prefers customizable-district maps
• Hotkeys no longer allow assigning district 0
• Fixed a memory issue with voting age population overlays
• Gentler zoom animations

Security

• Cloudflare Turnstile integration to protect map creation
• Completed a security audit

v2.2.6

July 8, 2026

UI polish

• Population panel scrolls with many districts
• Users stay on their current tool after break/shatter
• Draggable toolbar keeps its position across sessions
• Improved county boundary layer styling and visibility

Reliability and bug fixes

• District labels now update when erasing disconnected components
• Fixed local caching when a user's last action is an undo
• Improved undo/redo interaction with map sync

Developer and ops

• Production stress-testing harness and fixed a race condition in concurrent map evaluation

v2.2.5

June 30, 2026

New features

• Export overhaul
• Simplified CSV and block assignment imports: automatic map inference and string zone label remapping
• Dedicated manage maps page and better saved maps
• Improved uploader workflow
• Navigation and UX enhancements, with user flows centralized on the main site
• Under-construction page manageable from the CMS

Reliability and bug fixes

• Undoing a paint on broken geometries now triggers healing correctly

Developer and ops

• Migrated hosting to AWS with infrastructure as code and automated deploy workflows
• Daily audits of map graph data completeness
• New test suites for data pipeline graph transforms
• Per-PR preview deployments

v2.2.4

June 3, 2026

New features

• Evaluation view and metrics

Reliability and bug fixes

• Improved performance identifying unassigned units
• Optimized assignments format using MessagePack for getting assignments and editing assignments
• Fixed an issue relating to painting via click after shattering a parent unit

v2.2.3

June 3, 2026

Reliability and bug fixes

• Hotfix for connection leak

v2.2.2

May 2026

New features

• Evaluation view backend April

Reliability and bug fixes

• Limits timeouts on queries
• Adds Grafana integration
• Fixes graph memory leak issue

Developer and ops

• Centralize constants

v2.2.1

April 2026

New features

• Community of Interest (COI) mapping mode
• Coalition builder allows users to view stats about combined demographic groups
• Per-district descriptions and comments on draft plans
• Public read-only views for shared plans

Reliability and bug fixes

• Fixed various data integrity edge cases
• Cleaned up moderation pipeline and implementation for comments

UI polish

• Save and Revert no longer appear on public views
• Public plan loads now show a spinner instead of a blank map
• Improved accessibility for geocode search (keyboard nav, ARIA)
• Streamlined community-mode UI, create map list dropdown, and display-name editing

Performance

• Demography updates guard against race conditions on rapid navigation
• Removed duplicate assignment inserts on no-op saves

Developer and ops

• Playwright E2E testing harness and VS Code dev containers
• Pinned dev Docker images, Sentry, and Fly deploy actions
• Comment-length and count CLI flags now flow through correctly

v2.2.0

January 14, 2026

• Added changelog page with MDX support
• Optimized map saving speed for plans with many shattered precinsts

v1.0.0

Initial Release

• Original Districtr application
• Basic district mapping functionality
• Community of interest mapping tools