New Update 01/25/2026:
There are no real significant changes to the look of the app. This update was intended to improve the overall performance, reliability and security of Clear-Budget.
Overall:
- Before we used a synchronous system to handle requests and have now updated it to an asynchronous system. Now the site can handle multiple requests more effectively. Following this change we observed a significant boost in site performance and reliability.
Login/Register:
The following only applies to those who register with a username and password.
- We have improved login security. As a result, the site will email you a link to reset your password.
- Registration now requires email verification before accessing the application.
Budgeting App:
- Issue: The balance and rolling balance would not always update correctly when making changes to your budget.
- We have replaced the scripts handling your budget items to process this data more reliably.
- Issue: Your budget wasn’t always saving correctly resulting in missing budget items or poor placement within the budget.
- Changes to the scripts handling how this information is passed to the server has fixed this issue.
- Issue: The budget breakdown was not updated correctly when making changes and after making changes you were unable to mouse over the different expenses to view the total amount expended.
- This has now been fixed. You should be able to check the total amount expended after making changes to your budget.
Blog:
- Issue: Related articles were not populating correctly.
- Fixed. You will now be able to navigate freely between blog posts.
- Issue: The like button would not respond as expected nor will it add a like.
- Fixed. The button will respond as expected and the number of likes will be updated depending on how you interact with the button.
- CHANGE: We are placing ads into the blog. This will be the only place on the site with advertising. This is just intended to help off-set the cost of hosting the site and keep providing a free service for everyone to use.