orion

Changelog

v0.8.2

released 06 December 2025

• Features:
  • When hovering over a date in the calendar, a small + button now appears; press it to create a new task on that day!

v0.8.1

released 20 November 2025

Just cleaning up and adding a few things that didn’t make it into the previous release :]

• Features:
  • Press alt-r (or option-r on MacOS) to refresh the assignment center.
• Improvements:
  • Hide the blackbaud loading indicator when the custom assignment center is shown.
  • Theoretically slightly improve loading times.
• Bug Fixes:
  • When refreshing the assignment center, it fully waits for all assignment data to be loaded before replacing the view. Previously, it only waited for the title and status. (There is a timeout of 5sec.)

v0.8.0

released 06 November 2025

Big release! I got a bunch of papercuts from my todo list finished :D

• Features:
  • Add a refresh button to the toolbar to refresh all the data without reloading the page.
  • Add a button to the toolbar to submit feedback.
• Improvements:
  • The real link for the assignment box in the calendar view now fills the whole box, so everywhere works with cmd-/ctrl-click to open in a new tab (as opposed to just the text itself.)
  • Assignments that are graded no longer show the submit button.
  • The settings menu can be closed via a new close button, in addition to the <esc> key.
  • The assignment center should load slightly faster, since it starts loading assignments before everything else is fully loaded.
• Bug Fixes:
  • Fix a rare and very minor bug involving errors when there is no WiFi on page load.

v0.7.5

released 21 September 2025

• Features:
  • Assignments that have titles that start or end with newlines will get those trimmed. No more needless empty lines! (looking at you, $GUSH_TEACHER)
  • Add a button to reset all settings.
  • Press alt-a (or option-a on MacOS) to navigate to the assignment center. (This can be disabled in settings. Defaults to on.)
• Improvements:
  • Graded assignments will have a green outline around them. The default background color for graded assignments is reverted to be the same as “completed”.

v0.7.4

released 20 September 2025

• Features:
  • View the full date for a day by hovering over the number in the calendar.
  • When an assignment is graded, the grade is shown in the assignment popup.
    • NOTE: The default color of graded assignments has been changed to a slightly lighter green than completed assignments. If you want to restore the previous color, you can do so in settings.
    • (Also, I’m not fully satisfied with the contrast of text w/ that color, so if you have any suggestions for colors/how to fix that, tell me!!)
• Bug Fixes:
  • Fixes some styling bugs in the toolbar.
  • Assignment boxes keep their focus styling (lighter background color) when the mouse is moved out of a popup kept open by selecting text.

v0.7.3

released 06 September 2025

• Bug Fixes:
  • Okay sorry for this one. I forgot to bump the version number in one place so the update notifier will just bug you incorrectly. idk how, bc I have a whole checklist and everything?? somehow missed the step.

v0.7.2

released 06 September 2025

• Bug Fixes:
  • Fix notify update not showing. (same issue as what’s new lol)

v0.7.1

released 05 September 2025

• Bug Fixes:
  • Fix what’s new not showing.

v0.7.0

released 05 September 2025

Welcome to the 2025-26 school year! With the new year comes a major refactor and a handful of bug fixes. This release may not look like much, but I’ve added a lot of typechecking and linting under the hood to make sure I’m less likely to introduce bugs when making changes.

(Ironically, in the process of doing that, I may have introduced some bugs that will need to be ironed out. I won’t be able to do that until some assignments are posted, so stay tuned for a v0.7.1 and report all bugs!)

• Features:
  • There’s a surprise hidden in there. :] (sorry it’s late)
• Improvements:
  • The task editor no longer complains about an empty title when you first open it. (It will still complain if you try to create a task without a title, or click into the title input and then click out. Everybody say thank you to :user-invaid.)
• Bug Fixes:
  • Adopted to changes Blackbaud made over the summer.
  • Fix a crash when there are no assignments posted. (I think this has existed for quite a while, but I didn’t notice because I made this after assignments had already been posted.)

v0.6.1

released 05 June 2025

• Bug Fixes:
  • Hopefully prevents the stupid “#orion-main not found” message from appearing so often / at all.

v0.6.0

released 23 May 2025

• Features:
  • Allow extending the calendar into the past/future.
  • Add a setting to modify the saturation of all colors.
  • Modify the tab title to reflect what the page actually is. (wtf blackbaud this isn’t that hard how did you mess it up???)
• Bug Fixes:
  • Hide weekends after deleting the last task for it.
  • Attempt to make errors display better after opening computer (this may not work. I am still testing it. Please tell me whether or not it fixes things.)

v0.5.0

released 14 May 2025

Bumped version b/c I’m feeling festive 🎉 and there’s still so many numbers left so really why not. This is my project, if I want to bump the version I can >:]

• Features:
  • More errors (the vast majority) will now appear as banners instead of as alerts.
  • Suggest reloading the page when attempting actions while logged out. (This usually happens when first opening your computer.)
  • Automatically click the “Keep working” button. (btw this is like. so annoying to test. if there are any bugs please please please tell me.)
• Bug Fixes/Improvements:
  • Detect when to autologin more reliably, and remove all host permissions.

v0.4.5

released 10 May 2025

• Bug Fixes:
  • When using Chrome, prevent assignment popup from closing when text is selected inside of it.

v0.4.4

released 07 May 2025

• Features:
  • There’s a cute little icon now!

v0.4.3

released 07 May 2025

• Bug Fixes:
  • Prevent what’s new and notify update from failing on Chrome.

v0.4.2

released 07 May 2025

• Bug Fixes:
  • Make the page automatically reload when Orion is updated, instead of erroring.
  • Fix some links that still pointed to the old github repo.

v0.4.1

released 07 May 2025

I finally came up with a somewhat-halfway-decent name: Orion. Also, I’m finally putting this thing on the chrome web store.

v0.4.0

released 06 May 2025

This release doesn’t have too many new features, but I decided to bump it anyways because I finally got the what’s new stuff (incl. banners!) out the door and why not. It’s been a while since I’ve actually added a new feature.

• Features:
  • A banner will show after the extension updates.
  • Use banners for error reporting instead of popups.
    • Add option to email me the details of the error.
  • Show a banner when an update is released.
• Bug Fixes:
  • Remove the title text when hovering over an assignment link, as it is completely redundant and displayed raw HTML.

v0.3.4

released 09 April 2025

• Features:
  • Prevent assignment popup from closing when text is selected inside of it.
• Bug Fixes:
  • Fix issue where Blackbaud changed a URL format for the student user id.

v0.3.3

released 18 March 2025

• Bug Fixes:
  • Fully fix the assignment collapsing issue.

v0.3.2

released 18 March 2025

• Features:
  • Add version text in toolbar.
  • Make tasks due on the next weekday. (ie if you create a task on Friday or over the weekend, it will [by default] be due the following Monday.)
• Bug fixes:
  • Fully collapse assignments to one line when marking as done. (There was a problem with line breaks not collapsing before.)
  • Fix the Dark Reader extension overriding the colors in the task editor save button and making them look really bad.
    • btw, I highly recommend it! it forces sites into dark mode. https://darkreader.org/
  • Make toolbar wrap when the screen is too narrow rather than squish.

v0.3.1

released 28 February 2025

• Features:
  • Add a button to open the changelog (this document) to the toolbar.
• Bug Fixes:
  • Fix the colors of some classes not displaying.

v0.3.0

released 23 February 2025

(I decided to bump to v0.3 b/c I did a lot of work on the assignments loading and it felt like it deserved a minor release and not a patch release.)

• Bug Fixes/Improvements:
  • Fix performance of loading assignments. This required a complete overhaul of the assignment loading system, so if there are any bugs please tell me!
  • Past assignments show up again!
  • Prevent the window from jittering up and down rapidly.
  • Calculate the header size from a different source so it is always correct.
  • Adjust the header spacer on window resize so it always remains correct.
  • Increase the timeout for google autologin, so it hopefully won’t get stuck in a loop. (From 0.5sec -> 1sec. It shouldn’t be very noticeable.)
• Known problems:
  • The colors of some classes are missing. This is because for some reason they’re not included in the API response. I have a plan to fix it, I just don’t want to delay this release any further.

v0.2.10

released 03 February 2025

• IMPORTANT:
  • Performance of Blackbaud has gotten really bad, and the solution isn’t done yet. In the meantime, past assignments will not be displayed.
• Improvements:
  • Make action buttons (eg Mark as Completed) stretch horizontally to fill.
  • Make buttons and input fields inside of the custom UI dark themed.
  • Show attached links in the attachments section in the assignment popup.

v0.2.9

released 09 January 2025

• Bug Fixes:
  • Don’t show the whats new beta.

v0.2.8

released 09 January 2025

• Bug Fixes:
  • Fix class name sometimes being the number of points.
  • Wrap long assignment titles (instead of overflow).
  • Remove extra files (.git, etc) from being included in Chrome release zip.

v0.2.7

released 18 December 2024

• Features:
  • Report Blackbaud API failures when they happen, and don’t completely crash.

v0.2.6

released 10 December 2024

• Bug Fixes:
  • Custom UI is now fixed after being completely broken by Blackbaud API changes.

v0.2.5

released 17 November 2024

• Features:
  • Downloads/attachments are shown in the assignment popup.
  • The name of the class is shown at the bottom of the assignment popup.
• Bug Fixes:
  • Assignments now have a total sort order (ie when you create a new task, it won’t switch positions in the list after a reload. this is very minor but was bothering me.)

v0.2.4

released 11 November 2024

• Bug Fixes:
  • Fixes google autologin sometimes getting stuck in a loop.
  • Fixes Saturday assignments not displaying correctly.
  • Fixes weekends not displaying when a task is assigned to them.

v0.2.3

released 07 November 2024

• Features:
  • Supports Google Assignments as an LTI provider. This doesn’t actually change any functionality, but means that it will say “Submit on Google Assignments” instead of just “Submit”.
• Bug Fixes:
  • Fixes task support being so buggy to the point of being unusable. I rushed it out and didn’t test it enough, sorry. Tell me if I missed anything!
  • Fixes google autologin not always working.
  • Prevents styling from breaking when the Dark Reader extension is used.

v0.2.2

released 21 October 2024

• Features:
  • You can now create and edit custom tasks!
  • Adds a central toolbar for actions (settings, toggle custom ui, new task)
• Bug Fixes:
  • Fixes a bug where sometimes Blackbaud autologin wouldn’t work.

v0.2.0

released 19 October 2024

• Features:
  • 🎆 Custom tasks are now supported!!! 🎉 If you find any bugs with them, please report them to me asap.
• Bug Fixes:
  • Don’t crash if there’s an assignment marked as extra credit.

v0.1.5

released 15 October 2024

• Features:
  • Indicators when online submission is required (blue border + submit button)
• Bug Fixes:
  • Actually respect the assignmentCenter.enabled setting.
• Styling Changes:
  • Dates have padding (fa2faa1)
  • Fix some glitches with corners and border radii.

Next release there will be custom task support!