What's new oncat?

Here's what's new at Oncat.

Tours

• Give a tour kudos. Enjoyed someone's tour? Tap the heart at the end of it and they'll see it in their notifications. Only the tour's owner sees how many kudos it has.
• Comment on a tour. Public tours now have comments, just like logbook entries. Ask about the route, share a memory of the roads, or simply say well done. Your one comments setting covers your tours as well as your entries.
• Tours are now simply public or private, and when you're planning one, the stop you're working on stays where it is on screen after a change.

How rare is your Jaguar?

• Rarity pages have had a proper going over. Your Jaguar's own photo now leads the page, with its number big and clear beneath it, and anyone visiting can check how rare their own Jaguar is straight from the top of the page. The numbers and charts are easier to read too, and there's a short note on what Oncat is for anyone new.
• Straight to your number. Most Jaguars now go straight to their result, with no question about which version yours is. You can then narrow it down with buttons such as R, SE or Sport.
• Narrow a saved page later. The same buttons are on your own rarity page.
• Just made your rarity page? Straight under the share buttons you'll now see what you have and what's next, including when we'll remind you about its MOT.
• Sharing from your phone works properly. "Share it" now opens your phone's own share menu, so you can post to Facebook, WhatsApp or Messages in one go.

On your phone

• Pages open noticeably quicker, and the words and buttons at the top now appear straight away rather than fading in once everything has loaded.
• Oncat now looks like Oncat everywhere. Our own typefaces finally reach phones, so headings and the wordmark look the way they were designed.
• Turned your phone's text up? Pages now rearrange themselves to fit rather than cutting things off.
• Uploading photos is quicker and clearer. Photos are made smaller on your phone before they go up, and the count rises photo by photo with a rough time left, so you can see how it's going.
• The buttons under comments are bigger and easier to tap, and the green + button steps out of the way while you're typing.

Smaller things

• Key facts on your Jaguar's page keep the reg, dates and mileage on one line, with the edit pencil tucked beside each label.
• Blocking someone now stops their kudos too.

Tours have had a big overhaul, and the best bit is how little you now have to do.

Record a tour straight from your photos. Choose Map a tour, then Record a tour, pick which Jaguar you took, and drop in every photo from the trip, straight off your phone. That's it. Oncat reads when and where each photo was taken and fills the tour in for you:

• The days and the places, in the right order, with the miles for every day worked out
• Where you stayed each night, including two or three nights at the same hotel
• The landmarks along the way, like a circuit, a viaduct or a château, each with its photos beside it
• A name and the dates, which you can change whenever you like

Then a quick check of where you slept. One screen lists your nights, like "Nice, 3 nights". Tap Which hotel? to pick the right one from the hotels nearby, or type its name. The photos know the town; you tell us the hotel.

And then the reward. Instead of a page of fields to fill in, you land on your finished tour page, map and all. Add a line about each day, or anything else, whenever you're ready.

A few other improvements:

• Your tours start private. Only you can see a new tour until you switch on Public, right at the top.
• Round trips read properly, like "From Stafford to Nice and back".
• Nights away now counts every night of the trip.
• On a phone, the map in the builder scrolls out of the way, so there's room for the tour itself.
• iPhone photos (HEIC) now open properly, including Portrait mode ones.

The biggest thing we've built in a while: Tours. Every grand tour deserves to be shared, and now there's a proper home for yours.

• Map a tour from the menu under your photo, or from your garage. Search for a town, a pass, a hotel or a restaurant (or tap the map) and Oncat draws the real roads between them and counts the miles, day by day.
• Days sort themselves around where you stayed. Spent three nights in one hotel and drove out each day? Set "Nights here" and add the places you went.
• Drop in all your photos at once and each one finds its own day, beside the stop where it was taken.
• Every tour gets its own page: the route on a map, the days and miles, where you stayed and ate, and your photos, like a little road book. There's a printable PDF version to take with you, too.
• Share it and it shows up beautifully on Facebook and WhatsApp, with your car, the miles and the route on the map.
• Finished tours appear in the Paddock, and on your car's page and your garage.

And a couple of smaller things:

• React to comments with an emoji. Whoever wrote the comment sees it in the bell.
• The bell keeps waiting things showing (a friend request, a comment to reply to) until you've dealt with them.

Plan one before you go, or record one you've done. We'd love to see where your Jaguar has been.

Quite a lot this time. The big one is a new bell at the top of the page, next to Messages.

• Everything in one place. Kudos, new followers, comments, friend requests and reminders about your Jaguars all collect behind the bell. Tap it and they slide in over whatever page you're on, so you never lose your place. A number on the bell tells you when something's new.
• Waiting for you. Anything that needs an answer sits at the top: a comment on one of your entries, a friend request, a garage asking to feature your car, or an enquiry. You can accept a request right there in the panel.
• Kudos on your entries. Until now nobody was told when someone gave one of your logbook entries kudos. Now you'll see it in the bell (no extra emails).
• Replies reach people. When you answer a comment, the person who asked now hears about it, so a conversation can actually go back and forth.
• Comments arrive straight away. A comment on your entry now emails you at once rather than waiting for your daily round-up, because someone's waiting on an answer. Just one email per entry until you've had a look, so a busy entry won't fill your inbox.
• Share your car and it looks the part. Post your car's link on Facebook or WhatsApp and the preview now shows your cover photo with your car's name in big letters and its full title above. Underneath, it invites people to read your car's full story, and sums up what's in it: your one-line description, how long you've had it, and how many logbook entries, service records and honours it has. If your car doesn't have a name or a one-line description yet, now's a good moment to add them.
• Fewer "photo hidden" emails. When we hold back a photo because a plate or personal details are showing, we now wait a few hours before emailing you. If you've already sorted it by then, there's no email at all, and you'll never get more than one of these a week. If it's your own plate and you're happy for people to see it, the email points you to Show my plate, so one tap puts that car's photos back on show.

As ever, you can choose which emails you get in your email preferences.

It's been a busy few weeks. Here's everything that's landed lately, from finding out how rare your Jaguar is to chatting about each other's cars.

• How rare is your Jaguar? Pop your reg in at oncat.app/rare and pick its version (we use its engine size and year to show the likely ones first). You'll straight away see how many are left on UK roads, from the DVLA's own figures, with a chart of how the numbers have changed since 2014. It names your car properly, shows a little of its own life from the MOT record, and makes a card ready to share on Facebook or WhatsApp. Add a photo and watch the card change to show your car. Your reg is never shown, and Daimlers are very welcome too.
• Comments have arrived. You can now comment on any logbook entry: ask about the spec, share a memory, or just say the car looks lovely. We'll email you when someone comments on yours, entries with a conversation show a small marker, and a setting lets you turn comments off across all your posts whenever you like.
• This week in the Paddock. Every Friday evening, a short email with the latest entries from across Oncat and any Jaguars that joined that week. A quiet week means no email.
• A friendly note after the show. Mark yourself as going to an event and, a day or two afterwards, we'll send a gentle nudge to add a few photos and a line about the day. It arrives on a weekend morning or an evening, never mid working day, and one tap starts the entry for you.
• Featuring your posts. We'd love to show off some of the best Jaguars and stories on Oncat's Facebook and X pages, but only with your say so. There's a new "Featuring your posts" switch in Settings. It's off unless you turn it on, we always credit you, and you can change your mind any time.
• Links that look the part. Share a logbook entry and the preview in WhatsApp, Facebook or a message now shows that entry's own photo.
• Sign in with an email link. No password to remember if you'd rather not: tap "Email me a sign-in link" on the sign-in page.
• Quicker sorting of hidden photos. If we've held back photos because a plate is showing, you can now choose "Show my plate" for a whole car in one tap, or "Keep all public". And if we flag something by mistake, just tell us to ignore it.
• Little fixes. Tap the oncat. logo in any of our emails and it takes you straight to what the email is about. And a backdated logbook entry now shows at the top of Latest entries, where people will see it, rather than sinking to the bottom.

All the new emails can be switched off in your email preferences, like everything else.

We've been busy. Here's a round of everything that's landed lately, from a much quicker way to join to a proper home for your Jaguar's history.

• Getting started is much quicker. Signing up now asks for just your name, email and a password, and drops you straight into your garage (no "check your email" wall). We give you a web address to start with, like oncat.app/racing-leaper-897, and you can change it to anything you like from Settings. We only ask you to confirm your email when you do something that reaches other people, like making a car public or sending a message.
• Your taps stick. Give a car or an entry some kudos, or follow it, before you've joined, and it now lands the moment you sign up instead of getting lost. The same goes for tapping "I'm going" on an event: you sign up and end up right back where you were.
• Friends has its own place. Your friends now live in a Friends link in the top menu, with a search to find people by name or handle, and a small red dot when someone's waiting to connect. Follow each other and you're friends.
• Invite a mate in a couple of taps. From your Friends page you can send someone a personal invite built around their Jaguar, featuring one of your own cars as the example. They get a warm email from you, their details are already filled in, and the moment they join you're friends. Nothing's shared until they do, and it's always one mate at a time, never a bulk blast.
• A warmer welcome when you share. Share a car, an entry, your garage or your season with someone who isn't on Oncat yet, and the foot of the page now gives them a proper, friendly welcome tailored to what they're looking at (a car, or the whole season with friends), plus our promise up front: private by default, your data is yours, no doomscroll, for enthusiasts by enthusiasts.
• Your best cars up front. In garages and across the Paddock, the cars with the most photos and logbook entries now lead the way, so there's always something worth a look at the top. Every car also shows the same tidy card wherever you find it, with View, Follow (or Manage, if it's yours) and a kudos heart.
• A cleaner garage page. Your cover photo now stands on its own, with your name as a proper masthead and your profile, bio, links and Follow button in a clean band beneath it. The section links sit neatly at the top, and it reads far better, especially on a phone.
• Kudos is just for you now. The kudos tally on your cars and entries is private to you, the owner. Everyone else still sees the button and can show their appreciation, they just don't see a running total.
• A home for your Jaguar's provenance. Every car page now has a Provenance section, a dedicated place above the timeline for its documented history and heritage: earlier owners, how it left the factory, the paperwork that proves what it is. You add it like any other entry and tag it Provenance.
• Better protection for private details in your photos. As well as number plates, we now catch VIN numbers and personal details, like an address on a receipt or a document, across both your cars and your garage posts. Anything we spot is kept off your public pages until you've covered it up.
• Choose whether your MOT history is public. Every car now has a simple switch for its MOT history. It's on by default, but you can hide it any time if you'd rather keep it to yourself.
• Lots of little polish. Previously owned Jaguars wear a clear tag and sit one to a row on the phone. Car page menus no longer run off the edge on smaller screens. And there's a calmer, more consistent feel throughout, with tidier spacing, one round back button on every screen, a less cluttered editor, and right-sized text on the car page.

Quite a bit has landed over the last few days. Here's what you'll notice, from a proper overhaul of how you show off your cars to a load of little touches that make the whole place feel nicer.

Showing off your Jaguars just got a lot better.

• The share section on your car and garage pages has had a proper makeover. Instead of a thin list of links, the things worth showing off now get their own cards, your window card, a QR code and the PDF brochure, each with a little preview so you can see what you're getting. Everything else (copy the link, or send it by email, WhatsApp, Facebook or X) sits neatly underneath, and it scales to each page: a car you still own shows all three, a car you've sold shows just its brochure.
• A window card for your whole garage, not just each car. Pop it on a club stand or hand it over, and a single scan takes people to all your Jaguars. Find it under Manage, Print a window card.
• Download a QR code for your garage or any of your cars, just how you want it: PNG for the web or SVG for print, a white or transparent background, and whether to show the address underneath, with a live preview before you save. Perfect for a for-sale sign, a business card, a sticker, even a mug or a T-shirt.
• On a car's page, the Share panel now sits right after the car's story, so "show this off" lands while the car is still fresh in your mind.

Planning your season with friends.

• Staying over for an event? When you mark that you're going, you can now say you're staying overnight and add a note about where you're staying. It shows on the event alongside the friends who are going, so everyone can sort out where they're all bunking.

A snappier, tidier feel all over.

• Everything responds the instant you tap it. Buttons, links and filters react straight away, and a slim progress bar runs across the top whenever a page is loading, so you're never left wondering whether it heard you.
• Car pages look right on a phone. A longer Jaguar name no longer balloons across the cover photo; it sits at a sensible size with the follow button tucked neatly underneath.
• The PDF brochure's cover stays on one clean page, even with a longer name or intro.
• Easier to find your way around: the About, What's New and Get Involved pages now lead gently into each other instead of dead-ending.
• Garages that feature other people's cars behave properly now, with no odd nudge asking you to make a car public when your garage is already shareable.
• A friendlier home page and more consistent wording throughout, including a real car in the example garage.

Rather a lot has landed since I last wrote, so here it all is in one go.

• A printable brochure for every car. Every car page now has a Download PDF button (in Share and the Manage menu) that turns your Jaguar into a proper magazine-style brochure — the cover photo, the key facts and how rare it is, the full story and any honours, the timeline with its photos, the complete service and MOT history, and the mileage stats. Every page links back to the live car, with a quiet note if it's for sale. Lovely to print for a show, email, or hand over with the car.
• Drafts for your logbook. Start an entry, hit Save draft, and come back to finish it later — nothing goes public and no one's emailed until you press Publish. You can move a published entry back to a draft, too.
• A nudge when a service is due. Pop your mileage and rough yearly miles into the service log and we'll email you a friendly reminder when one's likely coming up. No DVLA lookup — just what you tell us.
• Your story, told in full. Your Jaguar's story now takes pride of place on its page — the introduction, where it came from, and how you use it these days — instead of being folded behind a link. The page reads cleanly top to bottom: the facts, the story, the honours, the timeline, and the records.
• The road ahead, out in the open. The About page now lays out the whole journey — where we've come from, where we honestly are, and what's coming — plus the promises that won't change, signed. Have a read →
• Say where you are. In sign-up and your Settings you can now set your country and, in the UK, your nation. It's kept private and never shown on your public pages — it just helps us see where the Jaguar scene is, so we can connect you with nearby owners, clubs and events in time.
• Find us on Facebook. We're on Facebook now (and X), linked in the footer at the foot of any page. Come and say hello.

And a fair bit of quieter polish besides — a tidier car page, the Paddock, and the home page all had a proper going-over.

Following a car just got more useful:

• Follow a Jaguar, and you will be first to hear if it comes up for sale. Following a car already keeps you up with its story. Now, if the owner ever puts it up for sale (or marks it "might sell"), everyone following it gets a gentle heads-up. So if there is a car you love, follow it, and you will know the moment it becomes available. The Follow button now sits up at the top of the car page, so it is easy to find.

• Owners: your followers are your first audience. If your car is not for sale, you will see a quiet note that the people following it would be the first to hear if you ever listed it. No pressure, just a reminder that the interest is already there.

Every car page now has a Key stats section: a quiet look at what your Jaguar's history adds up to.

• Miles per year, over the years. See how it has been driven across its whole life, with your ownership set apart from the previous keeper's.
• The bigger picture. Tap "See the full picture" for the full mileage curve and, if you have chosen to show what you have spent, a breakdown of your costs over time and per mile.
• It is all worked out from your MOT history and service log, so there is nothing to fill in. Your private costs stay private.

We also tidied one small thing: if you are signed into more than one account, switching now keeps you on the page you were looking at.

Quite a lot has landed lately, so here is everything in one place.

Sharing what you get up to

• A ＋ button on every page. Tap it and write a logbook entry there and then, spanner still in hand.
• Post to your garage, not just one car. For the days that are not about a single motor (a show, an afternoon tinkering). When you add an entry you choose where it belongs, and garage posts get their own "Posts from the garage" section so nothing gets buried.
• Add a video to any entry. Paste a YouTube link and it embeds alongside your photos and words. Video entries show a proper thumbnail with a play badge everywhere.
• A nicer photo picker. "Choose from your photos" is bigger and clearer, keeps your place as you add, shows an Added tick, and lets you click again to remove one.

Selling, and showing off

• Enquire about a car that is for sale. An Enquire about this car button opens a private message to the owner. Everything stays on oncat, so no phone number or email goes on the listing. The owner sees it is a real, named enthusiast, and every enquiry carries a gentle safety reminder: see the car in person, and never pay before you have.
• Featured cars. A garage can showcase Jaguars kept in other garages (ideal for a club, shop or channel). You are always in control of your own car: anyone asking to feature it gets an Allow / Decline, and you can remove it any time.
• Add your links. Your website, YouTube and socials on your garage, shown on your garage page and your car pages.
• Sharing by email reads right. The message now fits what you are sending (a car, an event, an entry, a garage), with a button that says what it opens.

Little conveniences

• Change your name any time. Tap it at the top of your garage.
• Switch between accounts without logging out, handy if you look after a club or channel garage as well as your own.
• Mileage that keeps itself current. We read it across from your MOT history so you do not have to keep editing it (it only ever goes up).
• Keep reading. The foot of an entry now suggests more from that car, then the wider paddock.

A couple of nice additions this time, plus a fix.

• A little help with the words. Writing up a logbook entry and not sure how it reads? Tap Give it a polish and we'll gently tidy your own words into something you'd be happy to show — your facts left exactly as they were. Have a read, then keep it or undo it. It's only ever a suggestion.
• Reuse a photo you've already added. When you're adding photos to a logbook entry, you can now choose from the photos already on the car instead of uploading them again.

A small but handy one for writing up your entries.

• Reuse photos you've already added. When you're writing a logbook entry, you can now pull in photos that are already on your Jaguar — from its gallery or an earlier entry — instead of uploading them again. Look for "…or choose from photos you've already added" (or the From your photos button), pick as many as you like, and they drop straight into your entry. It's the same picker you already use for your cover photo, and each one's copied — so your original stays exactly where it is.

A new one for the car page — and it's a good one.

• See how rare your Jaguar is. Your car page can now show how many of your exact Jaguar are still on the road in the UK, straight from DVLA's own licensing figures. Open one of your cars, pick your exact variant, and it reads the real number — "One of 358 still on the road."
• The story over the years. A simple graph charts how the numbers have changed over time — still on the road vs tucked away (SORN) — and marks the year you got yours, so you can see how many were around when you took it on.
• It keeps itself current. The figures refresh automatically every week, so they're never far out of date.
• A few tidy-ups too — small bits of polish around the garage and car pages.

A big batch of polish this time, mostly around telling your car's story and keeping its paperwork in order.

• Writing a logbook entry just got nicer. The editor is calmer and content-first, with proper formatting — headings, bold, italic, bullet lists and pull-quotes — so your write-ups read like a proper story. New entries start on a clean page, and you can now choose how each photo gallery is laid out.
• Service and MOT history are now clean tables. Dates, what was done, mileage and cost line up in tidy columns you can scan at a glance — with MOT advisories tucked away until you want to see them.
• One home for "is it for sale?" and "what's it worth". The car page now leads with a single Status section: set whether you're open to offers, and — privately, just for you — keep a note of what you paid and what it's worth now.
• Sharing is simpler and warmer. Every car, garage and story page now has one clear Share panel at the foot, including a window-card teaser so you can pop a scan-to-story card in the windscreen at a show.
• A peek at the paddock on the homepage. The latest entries from around the community now show on the front page.
• Your car's story gained a "how you use it now" chapter — daily driver, weekend blasts, the odd show, or tucked away for winter.
• A grid view for a car's timeline, if you'd rather browse the photos as a gallery.

We've spent a good while making Oncat nicer to live with, and most of it shows on a phone. Here's the round-up:

Getting around on a phone

• The main sections — Paddock, Events and Clubs — now tuck into the menu in the top-right, always within reach.
• The About, Help and Contact pages keep their menu with you as you scroll.

Events & your season

• The events page got a proper mobile tidy-up — no more sideways scroll, the season timeline lines up neatly, and each event shows its date up top.
• A little bar lets you flip between The season (everything that's on) and Your season (what you and your friends are heading to) in one tap.
• Event pages read better too, with the "what else is on" list moved to the bottom.

Your logbook

• Opening an entry on a phone now leads with the story — the car, the title and your write-up — and your photos run right to the edges of the screen. Kudos and share sit at the end, once you've read it.

Editing your photos

• Framing a photo now works properly on touch: pinch to zoom (or use the new + / − buttons) and drag to reposition, with the frame staying put.
• Blurring a number plate is much nicer too — pinch to zoom right in, and the corner handles are far easier to grab, even on a small or angled plate.

Little touches

• Edit your photo, location and bio straight from your garage page — no digging through Settings.
• "Add a Jaguar" now sits in the Manage menu on your garage.
• A friendly "Share your garage" prompt, so your whole collection is one link away.

Nothing changed on a laptop — this is all about making Oncat a pleasure to use on the phone in your pocket.

It's been a busy few weeks behind the scenes — here's what you'll notice.

Your MOT history, kept for you

• Add your registration and we'll pull your Jaguar's full MOT history straight from the DVSA — every test, the mileage, the advisories — right onto its page.
• It stays up to date on its own, and we'll email you about three weeks before your MOT is due, so it never catches you out.

A lovelier way to add a Jaguar

• Adding a car is now a calm, one-thing-at-a-time flow that starts where it should: with a photo.
• Pop in your reg and we'll fill in the year, colour and model for you from the DVSA — less typing, more showing off.

Edit anything right from your car's page

• Every key fact now has its own little edit button — tap it for a focused pop-up to change just that one thing. Any blanks gently nudge you to fill them in.
• And a new "Preview public page" lets you see your car exactly as visitors do.

Your garage, tidied up

• Your garage is now a single page — the very one you share — with a warmer welcome when you first join.
• Your cars carry handy at-a-glance chips for MOT, service and insurance dates, and a clear Public / Private marker.

We spent some time making Oncat feel just right on a phone — lots of small polish, plus a couple of touches you might notice:

• Your car's photos hold still now. The big hero image used to shift and re-crop as you scrolled on mobile — now it stays put.
• A gentle nudge to share. If you've been quietly perfecting a car in private, you'll see a friendly "this is looking great — ready to let people see it?" It's an invitation, never a nag, and you can always switch back to private.
• Your service & MOT history keeps its head. We show your most recent entries with a See full history button for the rest, so a long, lovingly-kept log doesn't bury the rest of the page.
• Cleaner all round on a phone. The photo viewer tucks each caption neatly under the image, sharing opens straight into your phone's own share sheet, and the menus and top bars no longer feel cramped.

Everything you've documented is exactly where you left it — this was all about making Oncat a pleasure to use, especially from your pocket.

A handful of updates have landed — the big one being private messaging.

Messages have arrived. You can now have a private chat with your friends, right here on Oncat.

• Message a friend — from their garage, or open the new envelope icon at the top of any page and hit New message to pick someone. No phone numbers to swap; just say hello.
• You won't miss one — when a message arrives, a gentle pop-up lets you know, and the envelope shows how many are waiting, wherever you are on the site.
• A warm, familiar chat — drop in an emoji, links become clickable, and your conversations are tidied by day so they're easy to follow.
• Private, and in your hands — you can only message friends (people you've both agreed to connect with), and you can delete your own messages or block anyone at any time.

Fairer event pages. When several clubs turn out to the same event — think the big shows like the NEC Classic Motor Show — the page now reads even-handedly:

• The write-up describes the event itself, not one club's turn-out — every club gets a fair mention.
• Every club sits side by side with the same simple link — equal billing, no favourites, landing you on each club's own event or calendar page.

Your name, front and centre. Where your name belongs, it now shows your name — not your @handle (kept to first name and last initial, as your privacy setting intends). The keeper card at the foot of a car page got a nicer, bigger photo of who looks after the car, too.

A smoother Paddock. Browsing Latest entries just keeps loading as you scroll — no more Show more button to reach for.

It has been a busy little while — here is everything new, gathered in one place.

Your emails, your way

• We can now bundle your activity emails — kudos, new followers, new logbook entries, friends heading to events — into a single daily or weekly round-up, instead of a separate email each time. Choose how often under Email settings; a gentle daily round-up is the default.

Photos and your logbook

• Add as many photos to an entry as you like — you just add them up to 50 at a time, so a whole restoration goes on in a few batches. Pick more than 50 and it tells you straight away, rather than trying, failing and leaving you with nothing.
• New Sold tag for the logbook — a gentle bookend to Purchase, so you can mark the day a car moved on to its next keeper.

Covers made easier

• Changing a car or garage cover now lets you pick from photos you already have, not just upload a new one — in a tidier dialog with everything laid out on tabs.

Landing in the action

• The Paddock now opens on the action. Sign in and the home button drops you straight into Latest entries — a running feed of what the whole paddock has been up to, newest first. The Cars view is still there, one tab across.
• A nudge to share your own. Woven into that feed you will spot a gentle prompt to post what you have been tinkering with — a couple of taps to add an entry to your Jaguar.

Finding your way, and looking after your privacy

• Every page now has a quiet back arrow, top-left, that steps you up a level: an entry back to the car, a car back to its garage, a garage back to the Paddock.
• If you show your name on your public pages, we now show your first name and last initial only — e.g. David B. — never your full surname. Kinder to your privacy, given the cars we all look after.

A few more thoughtful touches

• Cars you no longer own now show Last known mileage rather than Current mileage — a little more honest.
• On the plate-blur page you can now delete a flagged photo outright, alongside Ignore and Blur.
• The Events page has been tidied into one calmer section up top.
• And some polish: your garage menu now reads Manage with clear icons; the season page reads Our season throughout; the account menu closes when you click away; and menus near the bottom of the screen open upward so they are never cut off.

• Stuck for words? Let us help. Your car's story now has a Give it a polish button. Jot down a few rough points and it'll tidy them into something readable — in your own voice, and never inventing anything. It only ever suggests: you decide whether to use it, and you can undo any time.
• One place to edit your car. The details, who can see it, your insurance reminder — everything about your Jaguar now lives on a single, clearer Edit screen, reached from the new Manage menu on the car's page.
• A tidier model list. We gave the Jaguar model picker a proper going-over — cleaner names from the XK120 right through to the F-PACE, with a few special ones (like the F-Type Project 7) in their own right. We also ask for the year now, so every car reads just as it should: "1968 E-Type".
• A few small polishes. The story editor jumps straight to the headline when you open it, the per-section edit links say exactly what they do ("Edit summary"), and a name with an apostrophe no longer looks odd in a heading.

We've given the whole Events section a proper going-over — it's now the easiest place to see what's on across the Jaguar world and plan your year.

• The whole season as a timeline — every club's calendar gathered in one place and laid out as a clear run through the year, with a "This weekend / Coming up" strip so the next few events are always in view.
• Filter to what you fancy — narrow the season by type (shows, track days, drives and more) and by club, in any combination you like.
• See who's going — a new "Friends going" filter shows just the events your friends have said they're attending.
• Share your season — there's now a public page of the events you're heading to that you can hand to anyone, at oncat.app/yourhandle/season.
• A nudge before the off — mark yourself going and we'll email you the week before, so there's time to give the Jaguar a wash and a polish.
• Tidier event pages — each event now has a one-tap link to the club's own page, add-to-calendar buttons, and a "what's on next" glimpse of the season from that date.

A few more corners of the Jaguar world have joined us.

• Two clubs added to the Clubs page — the Jaguar XK Club and the Daimler & Lanchester Owners' Club now sit alongside the JEC, the Drivers' Club, the Breakfast Club and the E-Type Club. If you're a member, they're a click away.
• More in the events calendar — the XK Club's and E-Type Club's season is now listed too, each event with its own little write-up. Tours, club weekends, dinners and the big national shows — plenty to browse.

• Sharing that behaves on private cars. If a car — or a single entry — is private, we no longer show a "Share" button that wouldn't actually open for anyone. Instead we explain it and point you to making the car public. Same for your garage: the share only shows once you've something public to show.
• A kinder message for an empty file. If a document you drop into Add from photos comes through empty (it happens — a browser hiccup, not your fault), we now say so plainly — "that file appears to be empty, double-check it and try again" — instead of a vague error.

We keep an eye on your number plate now. If you keep your registration private, Oncat quietly checks your public photos for a number plate — and if one's on show, it hides that photo from your public page until you blur it. When that happens we'll drop you an email, and there's a one-tap flow to fix it: we've even drawn the blur box over the plate for you, so you just nudge it to fit and save. Blur it and it's back on show straight away.

Sold a Jaguar? Its plate stays private. A car you've marked as previously owned can no longer show its registration — the car belongs to whoever owns it today, so we keep it off your page for you.

A clearer car page. Tidier key facts — First registered, First registered by, Current mileage and Invested in upkeep — plus a new Miles with owner. And your service history now marks each year as you scroll, with a gentle note of the point a car came into your care.

Add from photos now leaves number plates out of the details it reads off your documents.

Now works with PDFs, too. Have your invoices, MOT certificates or receipts as PDFs — emailed from the garage, or downloaded from gov.uk? Add those straight in, no need to print or screenshot them first. We read a PDF the same way, and it's often even more accurate than a photo.

Spotted a false alarm? If we ever flag a photo that doesn't actually show a number plate, you can now tap Ignore to keep it on your public page — no need to blur something that isn't there.

Add from photos is here — the big one this time. Building up your Jaguar's service history used to mean typing in every record by hand. Now you can just photograph the document — an MOT certificate, a service invoice, an old receipt — and we read it and fill in the record for you. Got a whole folder? Photograph the lot and work through them one at a time.

Your photo is never stored. We read the details off it, then it's gone — and personal bits like names and addresses, along with any prices, are kept out. You check every field before anything is saved.

Who looked after it. Service records now have a Garage / supplier field, so you can note who did the work — a documented specialist history is part of what makes a classic worth its price.

A small wording change. In your logbook you now Add an entry (rather than an "update"), and the paddock tab reads Latest entries — clearer, thanks to a bit of feedback from an early member.

What you've spent, if you want to show it. You can now record the cost against any service record, and Oncat totals it up as Invested in your car's key facts. It's private by default — a one-tap pill flips it public when you're ready, and asks you to confirm first so nothing's revealed by accident. Handy come selling time: a documented spend tells its own story.

Show or hide your number plate. The registration in your key facts has the same one-tap Public / Private switch, so it's your call whether your plate is on show.

"For sale" where people will see it. If your Jaguar's on the market, that now sits right up with the key facts, just under your car's story — not tucked away down the page. Your own status buttons (Not for sale · Might sell · For sale) live there too, as simple coloured pills.

Tidier service records. The longer detail on a record now sits behind a Read detail link, so your history stays easy to skim.

A service history that's easier to skim. Your timeline now marks each year as it goes, so a long history is quick to scan — you can see at a glance where one year ends and the next begins.

Mostly quiet tidying this time — the kind that makes the whole place feel more finished. A few things you might notice:

• Getting around your garage is easier. Your public garage page now has a slim navigation bar to jump straight to a section — your Jaguars, the ones you owned before, your honours, your updates. And your owner tools (change the cover, settings, copy the link) are tucked into one neat "Edit" menu instead of scattered about.
• Saving is simpler. On the settings, car-details and story pages, the Save button now sits at the top and rides along as you scroll — no more hunting for it at the bottom of a long form.
• One name for one thing. Your logbook posts are called "updates" everywhere now — you post an update, you edit an update. A small thing, but it stops the app calling the same thing two different names.
• The info pages are joined up. About, What's new, Get involved, Contact and Help now share a little tab bar, so you can move between them without scrolling down to the footer — and the Help page reads more cleanly.
• A few fixes — some buttons and menus that weren't quite behaving, and a stray scrollbar, all put right.

We've spent a while going over Oncat screen by screen, smoothing off the rough edges. Most of it is quiet, behind-the-scenes consistency — but a few things you'll actually notice:

• It should feel more finished. Buttons, switches, filters and labels now look and behave the same wherever you are on the site. Small things on their own; together, a good deal tidier.
• A few fixes. The on/off switches in your settings now slide properly, the View button on an attached PDF opens it as it should, and jumping to your car's latest timeline entry now works whichever way you're viewing it.
• Stuck PDFs have a way out. If a document won't open inside Oncat, you can now open it in a new browser tab instead — so you're never left staring at an error.
• Honours cover a little more. They're now about the recognition your Jaguar has earned, not only outright wins.
• A tidier menu. "Your public page" now sits right under "Your garage," where you'd look for it.

A few tidy-ups to attaching PDFs to a post — with thanks to a keen early tester for spotting them.

• If a file's too big, you'll be told straight away — with its size and the limit — instead of it quietly failing.
• Uploads now show clearer progress, and say so if something goes wrong rather than looking stuck.
• You can remove an attached PDF straight from the post now, without going back into edit mode.

The size limit is 20 MB per file — plenty for a scanned manual or a set of instructions.

A couple of new bits this time.

Where your Jaguar came from

• Key Facts now has a Supplying dealer field — that lovely bit of provenance, like "supplied new by Williams Jaguar, Manchester". As you type, it suggests dealers other owners have already added, so the spelling stays nice and consistent.

This very page

• Oncat now has a What's new page (you're on it) — a simple, honest note whenever something changes. No feed, no noise; just what's new, when it's worth telling you about.

Been a busy stretch on Oncat — here's what's new.

Your timeline

• A new List view — flip the car timeline between the big "Story" layout and a compact, line-by-line list, so a long history is easy to scan.
• Post titles now tidy themselves into a consistent Title Case, however you type them.

Editing feels nicer everywhere

• The little editing pop-ups — Key Facts, service records, covers, your profile photo — have all been rebuilt to be roomier and more consistent, and they go full-screen on a phone instead of a cramped box.

Photos & covers

• Reframing and blurring now use the same big full-screen editor everywhere, and your garage banner can be reframed as often as you like without ever losing quality.

Service & MOT history

• A new optional Cost field on each record — private, only you can see it.

Documents on posts

• You can now attach a PDF to a logbook post — a set of instructions or wiring diagrams, say. People view it right in the browser, and you choose per file whether they can download it.