App update — Core 1.3.14: audio that follows you, chats that explain themselves, and a much faster dashboard

Core 1.3.14 is out, with the companion plugin at the same version. Here's what your members will notice, then what changes for site owners, then a short section for anyone building their own app.

For members

• Audio follows you. Play a recording on the feed, in a lesson or a post, and it keeps going while you browse. A mini player sits above the tab bar (a floating card on screens without one) to pause, stop or jump back in. The app remembers where you were in everything it played, so a short clip never costs you your place in a long one.
• Every audio row is a real player. 15-second skips, playback speed from 0.75× to 2× with voices kept natural, tap-to-seek, and elapsed/total time.
• Chats say why. A closed composer now tells you the reason: you blocked them, they blocked you, an admin quieted you here, you left this chat, their account is gone. Moderators of a space or group chat can quiet a member from the member list and let them back in, and can remove any message. Member lists search and page properly, so a big roster no longer just ends.
• Quick notices instead of pop-ups. Things that simply worked announce themselves briefly and get out of the way. Real questions still ask properly. Screens open on content-shaped placeholders rather than spinners.
• Purchases are never lost. If the store reports an error after you've paid, the app checks with your community over the next few seconds and lets you in as soon as the purchase lands. On Google Play, a plan with a trial or intro price now buys that offer, not the plain plan.
• The sign-in button always answers. Where terms must be agreed before signing in, tapping Log In with the box unticked now says so instead of doing nothing.
• Update screen can offer "Not now". A new setting lets the required-update screen be skipped for everyone or for chosen roles, so a reviewer or your team is never walled off.

For site owners (WP Admin)

• Push broadcasts take a list. Send to several spaces and several members at once. Everyone is counted and pushed exactly once.
• Review accounts arrive dressed. Accounts created by the App Review card and the Video Test Kit come with an avatar, cover and bio, so nothing on camera reads as a dead account.
• A purchase binds to its member even if the phone never confirmed it, so nothing sits in Subscribers as "Not linked yet". A plan change now re-grants what the new plan unlocks, and the daily check acknowledges Google purchases so none run out the clock.
• Hide sensitive now covers the push log, so a screenshot of the Tools tab no longer shows what a push actually said.
• Fluent Community 2.9 and Fluent Messaging 2.9 are fully supported. Upgrade Fluent Community from WP Admin rather than by dropping files; its first request after an upgrade does heavy schema work.

If you build your own app

This release needs a new build: every Expo SDK 57 package moved to its current patch (React Native 0.86.3), and IAP apps move to expo-iap 5.5.0. The dashboard re-pins it for you. What changed in the dashboard itself:

• Core updates are fast now. The post-update dependency install ran a registry audit that took minutes and waited behind build uploads. It now runs in seconds, and only when a dependency actually changed. Fleet updates that took an hour take minutes.
• The build verdict is honest. A core update that changes a dependency always says "build", naming the packages, never "OTA-safe".
• Builds is one card. New build and recent builds together; the newest five with "Show more".
• Every card is an accordion, one open per tab, and Age Rating walks in steps.
• Screenshots have a look. Templates, per-slot position, laurel badge, zoom callout, a frame finish, and the Play feature graphic drawn from the same look.
• Fix icons and splash images in the preview. Size, drag, Fit to safe zone, Centre, Apply. No Photoshop round trip.
• App Review notes answer the background-audio and "widgets" questions before a reviewer asks, and a fifth purchasing posture covers a shop selling things used outside the app.
• Add-ons install on a fresh app again (the minimum-version check compared the wrong number), and activating a module on a fresh install registers it properly.

Coming with your next app-store update.