Changelog — Refractions

2026-09-09 v0.9.8

Signing in to Microsoft actually sticks now

Refractions was asking you to sign in to Microsoft over and over. Your sign-in was never being saved successfully, so the upload that followed it could fail immediately and the pane would quietly go back to asking. Sign-ins are now stored properly and last between sessions.
Security: while saving a sign-in, part of it — including the token that keeps you signed in — could be written into the helper's local log file on your Mac. That no longer happens. The log stays on your machine and is never uploaded, but if you would like to be thorough, sign out and back in once after updating and the old entry is replaced.
When putting a file back on SharePoint fails, the pane now tells you what went wrong and that your charts are still safe in the local copy, instead of quietly returning to the sign-in prompt.

2026-09-09 v0.9.7

Important fix. When a teammate had changed the SharePoint original while you worked, choosing to send just your charts could publish the cloud copy back to itself unchanged and then overwrite your local copy with it — losing the chart edit and reporting the upload as a success. Refractions now stops before uploading anything if it can't carry your charts across, and leaves your local copy exactly as it was.
After an upload, Refractions checks that the file on SharePoint really is the one it sent, instead of trusting that the transfer reported success.
Files sent back to SharePoint no longer carry a Refractions add-in reference, so opening one in Office for the web no longer shows an add-in warning.
The task pane now offers a single “Put back” button whatever state you're in — signing in to Microsoft happens as part of it rather than as a separate step — and the Microsoft sign-in page in your browser is now a Refractions page that tells you what happens next.

2026-09-09 v0.9.6

Editing a chart in a document copied from OneDrive or SharePoint used to make the “upload back” offer disappear, leaving your chart changes stranded on your Mac with no way to return them to the original. The link between the copy and the original now survives every edit.
The pane shows you where you are in the round trip. A bar along the bottom names the SharePoint file your copy came from, counts the charts still waiting to go back, and keeps the button that sends them in one fixed place instead of a notice you could dismiss by accident.
Clearer wording throughout the round trip, and the first screen now walks through all three steps — copy it here, edit your charts, put it back — before you start.

2026-09-09 v0.9.5

If you exported a picture from Prism but hadn't saved the project, “Update slide” used to put the new image on your slide while leaving the chart's underlying data unchanged — a chart whose picture and numbers disagreed, reported as a success. Refractions now notices and asks you to save in Prism first, so what lands on the slide always matches the project.
A failed subscription payment now shows as past due on your team dashboard. Renewals and payment failures were not being recorded, so the dashboard could show a healthy subscription while the card behind it was declining.
Security and privacy work throughout: licence keys are no longer written to server logs in full, the Microsoft sign-in token is stored more carefully on your Mac, and the helper is stricter about which files it will open and upload.

2026-08-29 v0.9.3

Working on a document that lives in OneDrive or SharePoint no longer ends with a manual re-upload. After Refractions saves your local copy, sign in with your Microsoft account and the pane can upload it back to the original for you.
Uploading is careful about your teammates' work: if someone changed the cloud original while you worked, Refractions refuses to overwrite it and offers to add just your updated charts into the latest version instead. It always tells you before uploading that any other changes in your local copy — text, new slides, formatting — will stay local.
The pane also warns you when the cloud original has changed since you made your copy, so you can upload back before the versions drift far apart.

2026-08-28 v0.9.2

The chart list now follows you as you move through your deck. It used to keep showing the charts from whichever slide was open when the pane started, so you had to close and reopen it to see the ones in front of you.
Support now runs through email and the support portal. The community forum links have been removed from the site.

2026-07-27 v0.9.1

New charts no longer have to start blank. Pick a Prism file you've already made and Refractions builds the new chart from it, instead of making you copy sheets across inside Prism.
When activation fails, the pane now tells you why — a key we don't recognise, an expired subscription, or a key already in use on another Mac — rather than a generic failure.
The email letting you know somebody activated a seat now says who it was, not just which machine.
The Status tab shows the version of the app that's actually running.
Fixed sign-in and billing links that could stop working before you clicked them, because a mail security scanner had already opened them for you.

2026-07-26 v0.9.0

Refractions can't edit charts in a file that lives in the cloud, so it now offers to make you a local copy in one click. Work on the copy, and the banner reminds you it isn't the original.
The prism in the pane is now the status light: rays lit in colour when the app is running and your seat is live, grey when something's off. Click it for app, seat, Accessibility and version details. Three rows of good news are gone from the top of the pane.
Signed-in pages now carry an account menu, and the site navigation works properly on a phone.
Fixed an invite that could lose track of an administrator when their email address changed before they accepted.

2026-07-26 v0.8.0

Refractions is out of alpha. Seats are on sale, and every subscription starts with a 30-day free trial — you aren't charged until the trial ends, and cancelling before then costs nothing.
Edit embedded GraphPad Prism charts straight from PowerPoint, Word, and Excel on your Mac. Scan the file, click a chart, and it opens in Prism — click Update and the new version drops back into place, same size, same spot.
Scanning lists every Prism chart in the open file, so you can see at a glance what's editable.
Manage your seats yourself: invite people, reassign a seat when someone leaves, and change your seat count as the team grows.
If you have a seat but aren't sure who manages it, sign in and we'll show you which Manager it belongs to.
Updates arrive on their own. Refractions checks for new releases and installs them without you chasing a download.