Release notes

Our emails have had a little security boost. The PetRescue dog logo will now appear as the verified sender avatar in supported email services, making our emails easier to recognise in your inbox and giving you greater confidence that they’re genuinely from the PetRescue team.

We refined the way in which pet listings are ordered in our search results to better prioritise listings based on when they were activated, rather than when they were created (as a draft). This helps give pets a fairer chance to be seen by potential adopters while making the draft feature more useful for our Members - which is always worth wagging about!

We launched our new One Million Pets Adopted campaign landing page and homepage takeover as part of our incredible adoption milestone celebrations! Featuring a live countdown (or… count up?) and celebration banner, the experience helped build excitement as we approached the remarkable milestone of 1,000,000 pets adopted through the PetRescue community!

Our team fixed an issue affecting newsletter subscription syncing, where some users who had previously opted into updates weren't being added correctly to our mailing list. Subscriber preferences now sync reliably - helping ensure nobody misses out on PetRescue delivered updates (and very adorable snoots) landing in their inbox!

Historically, our pet listing breed field allowed users to add their own custom breed entries - which certainly led to some entertaining additions, alongside a large number of unverified options! We recently cleaned this up to ensure breeds listed on PetRescue are accurate and matched to verified selections, helping improve platform quality, data consistency and reporting accuracy.

To celebrate our upcoming One million pets milestone campaign, we prepared a new community Happy Tail gallery, where pet guardians can share photos and stories of the pets who changed their lives. From cheeky companions to beloved pets remembered over the rainbow bridge, the gallery creates a joyful space to celebrate all the connections made here on PetRescue.com.au!

We resolved an issue preventing user accounts from being archived correctly. Account management should now be back to its best behaviour!

Our Partners & Supporters page has been refreshed with updated information and impact stories to celebrate all the wonderful organisations helping create brigher futures for pets across Australia - including the incredible team at Lyka, our newest Major Partner!

We fixed an issue occurring while editing pet listings that prevented photos from being deleted from the media folder. Tidying up pet imagery should now be smooth sailing - with no lingering photo furballs left behind!

Our State of Pet Adoption Reports experience has had a little glow-up, with refreshed report tiles, cleaner formatting, a new introductory summary and improved footer navigation. These updates make it even easier to explore the latest trends and insights shaping pet adoption across Australia.

To celebrate 20 years of us, we rolled out some fun banners and updates to spotlight our 20 Years of PetRescue campaign and celebrate the enormous impact our community has made for pets over the past two decades 🐾

As Property Identification Code (PIC) details are now required on relevant pet listings across all Australian states and territories, we started tightening up the rules behind information provided in this field when listing pets on our platform, to ensure clearer records, improved compliance and more consistent animal movement information from the jump!

Behind the scenes, we improved the way our systems handle unexpected errors when information is shared between PetRescue and external pet listing management platforms. This means fewer confusing error experiences and smoother communication between us when something goes a little ruff behind the scenes!

We fixed an issue affecting pet adoption poster downloads, where unintended formatting code from pet listing profiles was appearing in generated PDF's. Pet adoption posters are now in alignment with their online profile and all ready to once again help adorable adoptables get spotted out in the community!