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v8.5.2

Apple Watch companion for reporting and approvals from your wrist, a redesigned voice recording interface, race editor guards for live races, and a set of improvements rolled up from the v8.5.0 and v8.5.1 builds.

Apple Watch

  • Technical officials: Submit penalties and incidents directly from your wrist. Tap Penalty — enter the bib number, pick a reason, and slide to confirm. Tap Incident — pick the reason first, then enter a bib only if the incident involves a specific athlete; course and weather reports skip that step. For bibs in multiple gender categories the watch asks you to pick the gender, and relay races add an A/B/C/D step.
  • Technical officials: Report by voice from the watch — tap the microphone on the home screen, speak your report, and the AI classifies the penalty or incident and sends the result to your wrist for review before you slide to confirm.
  • Technical officials: Approve pending penalties without reaching for your phone — the Approve tab lists everything waiting for your decision, and a slide gesture confirms each one.
  • Add RaceRanger complications to your watch face for one-tap access to penalty submission, incident submission, voice reports, approvals, or the app.

Officiating

  • The voice recording interface has a completely new look designed for bright conditions: a solid dark background, a larger microphone that pulses with your voice, a live waveform strip, and expanding rings that reflect how loud you're speaking.
  • AI voice submissions now capture richer context — course position, severity notes, and any other detail you mention — and fill it into the description field automatically.
  • Technical officials: Trying to report a drafting penalty during a draft-legal race now shows a clear error and prompts you to re-record with a different penalty type.
  • Technical officials: Assignment status now shows correctly during race mode; a bug had caused some assignments to appear offline even when the official was active.
  • The environment conditions dialog now opens in read-only mode for officials without update permission, and shows a history of the last eight weather records for the race. The wetsuit legality chip can now be deselected by tapping it again.
  • The filter bottom sheet has been removed from the penalty and incident lists. The count chips at the top of each list still let you filter quickly by status, type, or flag.
  • The official tracker's side panel now lists every assigned official, including those who have not yet started sharing their location. Officials waiting to share show a "Not sharing yet" label; those who have stopped appear as "Stopped".
  • A Camera button is now available in the media picker alongside Photos and Add Video — tap it to take a photo directly without leaving the submission form.
  • Navigation in and around race control has been tightened up: the back button sits in the correct position, the chat overlay no longer loads prematurely, and a routing glitch in the race mode drawer has been resolved.
  • A Documentation link is now available from the profile screen, opening the help site.

Event setup

  • Technical delegates: The race editor now shows a warning and disables the delete button on number ranges when the race already has penalties or incidents logged against it.
  • Technical delegates: A new validation prevents a number range's start value from exceeding its end value, with an inline message pointing to the issue.
  • Technical delegates: The race start-date picker is now constrained to the event's own date window, preventing out-of-range entries.

Organisation

  • Organisation admins: A new API Keys tab in the event editor lets you create, rotate, and revoke event-scoped API keys for integrating external tools. Each key shows its name, permissions, and status at a glance, and the plaintext key is displayed once on creation.
  • Organisation admins: A new Webhooks tab in the event editor lets you subscribe HTTPS endpoints to receive live updates — penalties, incidents, race status changes, and more. Signing secrets are shown once and can be rotated at any time.
  • Organisation admins: An Edit organization button is now available on the Organizations screen, opening a settings dialog for the organisation's general details and integration options.
  • Organisation admins: The organisation name and sport can no longer be edited from the mobile app; only global administrators can change these fields.
  • Organisation admins: The events list now appears under the heading Active Events.
  • Organisation admins: The invitation QR code and message-of-the-day editor are no longer available from the mobile event info screen.

Behind the scenes

  • Screen-reader support (VoiceOver on iOS, TalkBack on Android) has been substantially improved across login, account creation, penalty submission, and chat screens.
  • Chat rooms can now be renamed and have members added or removed from within the app; the unread badge now clears correctly after opening a conversation.
  • Watch context — race status, bib number ranges, and permission flags — updates on the wrist in real time.
  • The bib entry keypad and home menu on the watch display correctly across all watch case sizes.