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Demo mode

• Try the whole app on a complete fictional club (outings, damages, reservations, statistics) without touching your real data
• From the welcome screen, or Management > Miscellaneous settings for a club already in use
• “What to try?” guide: each step opens the matching screen directly
• “Back to my club” takes you back to your data, untouched

Automatic updates

• The app looks for a new version at start-up and then every 6 hours, and offers it with its release notes
• The club data is backed up just before installing, and outings in progress are kept
• If you are on 2.0.1 or earlier, install 2.1.0 by hand once: later updates are offered on their own
• Windows: only the .exe installer is offered, the MSI is gone

Boathouse

• Sunrise and sunset are shown, with the number of outings still on the water after dark
• Reminder “All boats are back. Remember to close the boathouse.” when the last boat returns
• Unavailable boats stay visible in a separate list
• At departure, the form shows how many seats are left in the crew

Logging and fixing outings

• “Log past outing” button in the boathouse and the logbook, to enter an outing that was forgotten
• Pencil next to the bin to fix a finished outing (with the admin password); “Edit outing” for an outing in progress
• Errors stop the outing from being saved, plain warnings allow “Save anyway”

Damages (module to switch on)

• Report damage with its severity (Usable, Caution, Out of service) and follow it until it is repaired
• Warning at departure for a damaged boat, damage history for each boat
• Imported and exported with efa2

Boat reservations (module to switch on)

• One-off or weekly reservations, for a regatta, a course or a regular slot
• “Reserved” label on the boat in the boathouse and a warning at departure, which never blocks the outing
• Imported and exported with efa2

Statistics

• Customisable dashboard, 29 reports and a printable annual report
• Explorer: your own SQL queries, read-only
• AI assistant (Anthropic, OpenAI or a compatible service, including a model on your own computer) that writes the queries for you and never receives rows from your database
• MCP server to query your statistics from Claude Desktop and other AI apps

Import and export with efa2

• Import a whole efa2 project from an efa ZIP backup or its data folder: boats, persons, destinations and every logbook
• See what will be imported before anything is written; your data is backed up just before
• Export to the efa2 format to go back to efa or keep using it alongside
• New "I'm coming from efa" profile on first launch

Safer data

• All club data now lives in a local SQLite database, migrated automatically when v2 first starts, with a fallback copy
• Automatic backups at startup, every 24 hours, and before each import, restore or deletion (the last 14 are kept)
• Optional extra copy to a USB stick or a synced folder, and restore from Management > Data

Modules to switch on as needed

• Distances, Outing types (including multi-day outings), Full member profile, Guests, Captain
• Turning a module off hides it without deleting any data

Crews

• The coxswain is recorded separately from the rowers
• Boat rigs (for example 4x / 4-) chosen when the outing starts

New Features

Configuration Export/Import

• Export your local configuration (rowers, boats, routes)
• Easily import your configuration on another computer
• Facilitates deployment and backup of your configuration data

Internationalisation

• Support for 9 languages: French (FR), English (US, GB, CA, AU, NZ), German, Italian and Dutch
• Choose the language at first launch and change it at any time in the settings

New Features

Coach supervision tracking

• New "supervised by coach" field at the end of each outing
• Display in session history
• Integration in application statistics
• Also present in CSV exports

Other improvements

• New Linux build available (untested, feedback welcome)
• Fix: season selection display bug resolved

Statistics improvements

• New club statistics page with redesigned interface and new chart
• Active season selection for all statistics to compare your stats between seasons
• Redesigned rower statistics interface
• Redesigned boat statistics interface

General improvements

• Add rowers with predefined category and type
• UI improvements
• Level system clarification
• Simplified level system configuration

New level system!

You can now restrict outing records for a boat to certain rowers.

• A category (J10 to Senior) and a type (leisure or competition) can be defined for each rower (optionally)
• A minimum required category (J10 to Senior) and a minimum type (leisure or competition) can be defined for each boat
• The restriction logic can be configured based on boat type (1x, 2x, 4x/-, 8-) and allows to alert the user or completely block the outing if level conditions are not met

General improvements

• Statistics: Added club-wide statistics
• Start an outing: Replaced "End date" field with "Estimated duration"

Session history

• Ability to delete a session
• History now remains intact when a boat / route / rower is deleted

Routes

• Route selection is now optional when creating an outing
• If no route is configured, the "Route" field is now hidden

Boats

• Boats are now grouped by type
• Display boat incidents in info modal
• Added search field
• Ability to add boats in bulk with predefined type

Rowers

• Ability to make bulk changes to existing rowers

Rower statistics

• Added most used boats
• Added most frequent partners

• Added per-rower statistics (number of sessions, total duration and duration per session)
• Added comparative statistics between rowers or between boats
• Interface improvements

• SQLite implementation for efficient processing of millions of sessions
• Improved export for your sessions in 4 different formats (Excel XLSX, ODS, JSON & CSV)
• Improvements to route / boat / rower management interfaces
• Automatic app launch at computer startup (optionally)
• Improved password security

• Added incident recording feature at end of session
• Added incident history consultation feature
• Added feature to quit app without losing data