Changelog
What's new
Everything we've shipped, newest first. Only things you can use today: no “coming soon”, no roadmap fan fiction.
- Updates shipped
- 6
- Improvements inside them
- 23
- Last update
- Yesterday
- Bugs added on purpose
- 0
October 2026
- Shipped3 Oct
More certificate designs, and ask us for one
New designs can now join the Studio library at any time, and any team can ask Nyvarra to design a certificate for free.
- A public gallery of every certificate design at /templates.
- Ask for a design from Studio: for your organization only, or for everyone. We reply in a support conversation and tell you when it's ready.
- A design made from your own request doesn't count toward the Free plan's one custom design.
Our designers have been warned.
- Shipped1 Oct
Your own server can read your certificates
Issuers can look up their own certificates from their own systems with a read-only key. Withdrawn certificates no longer hand out their files.
- Ask Nyvarra for a read-only API key, and your systems can look up up to 100 of your certificates at a time by serial, as they stand now.
- A withdrawn or replaced certificate's PDF and Open Badge files are no longer served, so an old copy can't be passed off from its own link.
- Every Nyvarra email now reads properly in dark mode.
Computers talking to computers. We mostly stayed out of it.
September 2026
- Shipped30 Sept
Check a certificate from its PDF file
Drop a certificate's PDF onto the verify page and Nyvarra tells you whether that exact file is the one the issuer sent.
- The file is checked in your browser. It's never uploaded: only its fingerprint is compared with the issuer's record.
- Holders can add a certificate to their LinkedIn profile in one click.
- Organizations that issued certificates on another system can bring them onto Nyvarra, under their own design and serials.
- The issuer home loads quickly even with thousands of certificates.
Your PDF never leaves your device. It's shy.
- Shipped29 Sept
Pay by bank transfer, with an order page
Every plan or credit purchase gets its own order page, and payment is confirmed within 24 hours.
- Each order has an ID (NV-XXXX-XXXX) and a page where you upload the transfer receipt.
- Bank details appear only when you ask for them, never in emails or on invoices.
- Sign-up emails are now branded and come from [email protected].
- Every change to Nyvarra's database is now backed up continuously, with daily copies kept offsite for a year.
No card details, no surprise charges, just a very official-looking order number.
- Shipped28 Sept
A verification result anyone can read
The verify page now leads with the answer in plain words, then the record to compare, then what was checked.
- Seven clear results: Genuine, Replaced, Expired, Withdrawn, Doesn't match, Key withdrawn and Not confirmed.
- A live status page at /status, with 90 days of history.
- A notification bell, and support conversations with Nyvarra from inside the app.
- Holders can ask an issuer to correct a certificate from their Passport.
- Sign-up is protected against bots and disposable email addresses.
Seven results, zero jargon. We counted.
- Shipped27 Sept
Programs, Campus and the Help Center
The issuer workspace now starts from a Program. Student societies can issue for free, and the Help Center answers the common questions.
- Every event, course or cohort is a Program, with one button that always says what to do next.
- Nyvarra Campus: free issuing for student societies confirmed by a faculty advisor.
- New plans: Free (100 certificates a year), Organization, Institution and credits that last 12 months.
- The Help Center, with answers for senders, holders and anyone checking a certificate.
The one where Nyvarra got organised.
Before all this
Nyvarra was a spreadsheet, a whiteboard and a lot of chai. Everything above came after.
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