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May 2, 2026

Feature

AWS verification grades 14 lessons + new Assignment History page

Auto-verify expanded from 8 to 14 high-traffic lessons (added EKS, ECS Fargate, containers, secrets management, CloudWatch alarms, event-driven SNS+SQS, serverless Lambda+API Gateway). The AI grader is also now grounded in your real AWS state — when verification passes, the AI sees the actual API responses and floors the score so demonstrably-built work can't get RESUBMIT'd over a weak write-up. New /assignments/history page surfaces every verification + grade as an audit trail (useful for portfolio prep and the receipt you need if you ever dispute a result). Pick a region in the verify panel — us-east-1 / 2, us-west-2, eu-west-1.

Feature

AWS account connect — assignments now graded against your real cloud

Connect your AWS account once via a one-click CloudFormation Quick-Create stack (read-only role, deletable any time) and CloudPath verifies your hands-on assignments by querying your account directly — no more screenshots or copy-pasted CLI output. Find it at Connect AWS in the sidebar.

Feature

SQL Playground + 13 architecture challenges

Browser SQL playground (12 exercises, runs entirely in your browser via SQLite WASM — your data never leaves the laptop). Architecture-decision challenges grew from 8 to 13, now covering RAG hallucinations, Power BI Direct Lake, Salesforce Flow vs Apex, batch-vs-streaming, and ransomware response — not just AWS scenarios.

Feature

Knowledge-check misses now feed your flashcard queue

Get a knowledge check wrong inside a lesson? It auto-becomes a flashcard scheduled by SM-2 spaced repetition — resurfaces when you're most likely to forget it. Flashcard catalog grew from 32 to 82 cards covering DevOps, Kubernetes, AI Engineering, and Cybersecurity.

May 1, 2026

Feature

Voice-mode mock interview + persistent lesson notes + bookmarks

Dictate your interview answers instead of typing — Whisper transcribes them. Each lesson now has a private notes textarea that auto-saves, plus a one-tap bookmark button. Your saved-for-later list shows up on the dashboard for quick return.

Apr 29, 2026

Content

Visualizations wired to 38 more lessons

Animated diagrams now appear inline on SRE, Terraform Mastery, Cybersecurity, Data Engineering, SQL, AI Engineer, Power BI, Salesforce, and SharePoint lessons that didn't have one — pulling from the existing 65-component library.

Content

Basic Computer Skills lessons polished + Phase 4/5 rhythm

All 15 Computer Basics lessons got concrete real-world examples, side-by-side tables, common-pitfall callouts, and sharper Practice tasks (~4,800 added words). Phase 4 Enterprise + Phase 5 Career Launch lessons now also have the Learning Objectives / Scope / Key Takeaways rhythm.

Content

New track: Basic Computer Skills

A 15-lesson on-ramp for absolute beginners — how a computer works, files & folders, the command line, internet basics, account security, productivity tools, and how to ask for help the smart way. Currently held back from enrollment while we refine the on-ramp; will return alongside the v2 path re-opening.

Content

Every lesson now has Learning Objectives + Scope + Key Takeaways

Added clear rhythm to all 148 existing lessons across every path: what you'll learn at the top, what's in scope and what's intentionally out, takeaways at the bottom, and a pointer to the next lesson. Headings render as colored pills so the structure pops.

Content

11 new animated visualizations

Hand-built diagrams for CPU/RAM/storage, file-system tree, command-line prompt, DNS resolution, HTTP request/response, password entropy, phishing flow, dimensional modeling, data lakehouse, git merge vs rebase, and SQL query plans. Wired into the matching lessons.

Apr 28, 2026

Content

Bigger question banks + 162 interview questions

Quizzes deepened to 15+ questions per path (was 9). New per-path interview Q-bank with 18 questions each — 5 behavioral, 5 fundamentals, 5 system-design, 3 curveballs — and an ideal-answer hint on every one.

Infrastructure

Lesson and quiz pages load up to 82% faster

Stopped pulling the entire lesson registry into the quiz, visual-lab, and interactive-lesson client bundles. /quiz dropped from 829 kB to 180 kB; /learn/visual now lazy-loads each demo on click.

Apr 27, 2026

Feature

AI Debugger (Socratic mode)

Paste a stack trace; Onyx walks you through 3 hypothesis questions before showing the fix. You build the debugging muscle, not just the answer. Available at /tutor/debug.

Feature

AI Mock Standup + AI Panel Interview

Practice your daily standup with an AI engineering manager (/career/standup) and your panel-style behavioral + technical + skip-level interview with three rotating personas (/career/panel). Both grade you on a rubric at the end.

Feature

Voice mode for Onyx

Tap the mic, ask a question, hear Onyx respond. Whisper transcription + OpenAI TTS. Lesson-aware just like the text chat.

Content

Per-path quizzes for the 8 newer paths

Every career path now has a 9-question certification-style quiz: Data, Power BI, SharePoint, Cloud Security, AI Engineer, SRE, Salesforce, SQL. Mixed difficulty, real-world reasoning in every explanation.

Content

Per-path capstone briefs

Each non-AWS path now has a full capstone brief — scenario, deliverables, success criteria, rubric. Build a real portfolio piece, not just complete lessons.

Content

Animated visualizations across non-AWS paths

RAG pipeline, ETL vs ELT, Star Schema, SLO error budget, Zero Trust, Salesforce Objects, SharePoint Permissions, OWASP Top 10, SQL Joins, Prometheus scrape — all interactive React/framer-motion animations replacing static prose.

Fix

1-click unsubscribe + email lifecycle

CAN-SPAM-compliant unsubscribe everywhere. New emails: trial-ending (T-3), payment-failed (Stripe dunning), cancellation, weekly digest. All marketing emails now skip unsubscribed users; transactional emails always send.

Fix

Stripe tier propagation fixed

Paying customers now actually get the tier they paid for. The webhook was previously updating Subscription rows but never Enrollment.tier — every paid customer was stuck on Foundations regardless of plan. Real MRR also replaces the fake count×price calculation in /admin.

Fix

Login brute-force protection + GDPR endpoints

Login now rate-limits to 5 attempts per 15 min per email + 20 per IP. Failed attempts no longer log raw email to CloudWatch. /api/account/export downloads your full data; /api/account/delete soft-deletes with a 30-day purge cron.

Content

9 career paths · 160+ interactive lessons

AWS · Data · AI Engineer · Power BI · Cybersecurity · SRE · Salesforce · SharePoint · SQL. Take one path or several in parallel.

Apr 26, 2026

Infrastructure

AdminAuditLog · 2FA · Sentry

Every state-changing admin action now logs to AdminAuditLog (paginated viewer at /admin/audit). 2FA TOTP is mandatory for admin role. Sentry captures browser + server errors with release tagging.

Infrastructure

Connection pool cap + CloudWatch alarms + autoscaling

Prisma DATABASE_URL now caps at 5 connections per task to keep RDS db.t3.micro from running out. ECS service autoscales 2→6 tasks at 60% CPU. 8 CloudWatch alarms wired to SNS for ALB / ECS / RDS health.

Infrastructure

Domain verified for outbound email

cloudpathportal.com is verified in Resend (DKIM + SPF + bounce MX). Verification + welcome + reset emails actually deliver from admin@cloudpathportal.com.

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