Updates
New releases and announcements from Tides & Currents.
October 2026
Is available on the App Store
Slackwater for iOS 1.14.0
Welcome to the first release of Slackwater, the tides & currents app that works offline where you need it — on the water, at the beach, in the anchorage. View past, present, and future predictions at…
Release Tides & CurrentsTide widget for chart plotters
Signal K tides plugin 2.2.0
feat: offer a tide widget to chart plotters
Release Tides & Currents
September 2026
Permanent station slugs, Alaska panhandle gauges, and Dutch tide fits
Slackwater database 0.10.20260924
Publish the Alaska panhandle's NOAA gauges in Alaska
Release Tides & CurrentsSwift package by URL and cleaner station names
Slackwater database 0.9.20260923
Let Swift apps depend on the tide database by URL
Release Tides & CurrentsOne-file database with a Swift reader and current stations
Slackwater database 0.9.20260921
Stop loading baltic-sea.geo.json as a phantom station
Release Tides & CurrentsNearby stations on every station page, and how the Moon shapes tides
Slackwater for iOS 1.13.0
Find nearby places from any detail page, and see how the Moon can shape the tides.
Release Tides & CurrentsNearest tide and current stations, an endless timeline, and sharing
Slackwater for iOS 1.12.0
Finding the right station, a timeline that doesn't end, and sharing the moment you're looking at.
Release Tides & CurrentsLAT and HAT for NOAA stations that don't publish them
Slackwater database 0.9.20260907
Synthesize LAT and HAT where NOAA publishes neither
Release Tides & CurrentsCHS constituents 0.3.1
Release Tides & CurrentsSlackwater database 0.9.20260901
ci: cache GeoNames data to avoid re-downloading in tests
Release Tides & Currents
August 2026
July 2026
ESM-only packages, lower memory use, and edge runtime support
Neaps 0.8.0
Drop the CommonJS builds; all neaps packages are now ESM-only. The CJS entries can't survive their dependencies going ESM-only, since they load them with require(). CommonJS consumers on Node 20.19+…
Release Tides & CurrentsStation data read per record from a pack file
Slackwater database 0.9.20260728
Require matching offsets to merge subordinate stations
Release Tides & CurrentsReference-tide fits + derived-slack gates
CHS constituents 0.2.0
fitTideStation: fetch a reference tide port's wlp, decimate to 15 min, fit the standard harmonic basis → a tide-harmonic record (no flood/ebb axis).
Release Tides & CurrentsCHS constituents 0.1.2
Release Tides & CurrentsBuild progress station counter
CHS constituents 0.1.1
Release Tides & CurrentsChart datums by country, and the Baltic split by region
Slackwater database 0.8.20260722
Per-country chart datums (LLWLT/NLLW/ALLW/TLT/MLWS) + Baltic split
Release Tides & CurrentsDutch tide phases corrected for daylight saving time
Slackwater database 0.8.20260719
Re-reference RWS harmonic phases to UTC (DST fix)
Release Tides & CurrentsSignal K tides plugin 2.1.2
Release Tides & CurrentsSignal K tides plugin 2.1.1
Release Tides & CurrentsSignal K tides plugin 2.1.0
Bump @neaps/react to 0.1.1 for responsive TideStation fixes
Release Tides & Currents@neaps/cli 0.1.3, @neaps/react 0.1.1, @neaps/api 0.6.0
<TideStation> no longer collapses into the tabbed layout based on width alone. Narrow content-sized containers (like phones in portrait) now keep the stacked continuous-scroll view; tabs only appear…
Release Tides & Currents
June 2026
Signal K tides plugin 2.0.0
I'm excited to share a major update to the Signal K Tides plugin, which has been completely rebuilt around neaps for fully offline global tide predictions…no network dependency, no API keys.
Release Tides & CurrentsSlackwater database 0.8.20260615
Derive TICON datums from GESLA-4 water levels
Release Tides & CurrentsNeaps 0.7.0
Moved useStation into @neaps/tide-predictor so it can be used without the heavy dependency of @neaps/tide-database.
Release Tides & CurrentsSlackwater database 0.8.20260611
Add datums and harmonic constituents to subordinate stations
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April 2026
March 2026
February 2026
@neaps/cli 0.1.0
Created initial neaps CLI
Release Tides & CurrentsNeaps 0.6.0
Add support for timeline predictions with offsets.
Release Tides & Currents@neaps/api 0.4.0
Add configurable route prefix support to createApp().
Release Tides & CurrentsSlackwater database 0.6.20260220
Remove stations with tidal range < 2cm
Release Tides & Currents@neaps/api 0.3.3
Release Tides & CurrentsSlackwater database 0.6.20260218
Upload build artifacts
Release Tides & CurrentsSlackwater database 0.5.20260218
[TICON] Prefer open data, mark non-commercial stations
Release Tides & CurrentsSlackwater database 0.4.20260216
Build xtide TCD harmonics file by @bkeepers in https://github.com/openwatersio/tide-database/pull/48, https://github.com/openwatersio/tide-database/pull/50
Release Tides & CurrentsNeaps 0.5.0
Speed up extremes detection by ~100x, deprecate timeFidelity option on getExtremesPrediction, which will always be <1s now.
Release Tides & CurrentsNeaps 0.4.0
Replace constituent definitions with the IHO TWCWG (International Hydrographic Organization Tidal and Water Level Working Group) constituent list.
Release Tides & CurrentsSlackwater database 0.4.20260204
Add text search
Release Tides & Currents
January 2026
Neaps 0.3.0
Update tests for tide-database internal id change
Release Tides & CurrentsSlackwater database 0.3.20260130
Remove noaa stations from ticon data
Release Tides & CurrentsSlackwater database 0.3.20260112
Prettier
Release Tides & Currents@neaps/tide-predictor 0.4.1
Release Tides & Currents@neaps/tide-predictor 0.4.0
Add constituents to support TICON data
Release Tides & CurrentsSignal K tides plugin 1.5.0
Add GitHub Action to lint/build
Release Tides & CurrentsNeaps 0.2.0
Benchmark improvements
Release Tides & CurrentsSlackwater database 0.2.20260107
Only use UTC phase, remove local phase
Release Tides & CurrentsSlackwater database 0.1.20260107
Migrate to tsdown for bundling
Release Tides & CurrentsSlackwater database 0.1.20260105
Convert tools to TypeScript, extract helpers
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