# Versions and what's new

_Mektebi 1.3 · reviewed 2026-10-24_

Mektebi has one version number for the website and the apps, a short What's new sheet that shows once per version, and an email for mosque admins.

Mektebi keeps changing, and people should be able to tell what changed and for whom. This chapter explains the version number, the What's new sheet and the email for admins.

## One version for the website and the apps

Mektebi has one version, written as two numbers, for example **Mektebi 1.3**. The website and the iPhone, iPad and Android apps show the same number, because the apps show the live website (see [Apps and updates](/book/apps-and-updates)). You find it in the Help panel and in the settings. The App Store and Google Play show a number of their own for the app itself, which changes only with a new version from the store.

This book carries the version too. The edition of the book is the version of Mektebi it was written for, and each chapter shows the date on which it was last checked against the screens.

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## New version and small fixes

The first number changes rarely. The second number changes when something people can read about in this book changes: a new feature, a new screen or a new rule. That is a **new version**, such as 1.2 to 1.3. Small fixes and improvements in between do not change what the book says, so the number you see stays the same. Not every update to the website changes it.

Mektebi does not announce a release schedule.

## What's new

When a new version brings something for you, a short **What's new** sheet opens the next time you use Mektebi. It lists only what concerns your role. An admin sees the changes for admins, and a parent sees the changes for parents. Each entry is a few words and, where it helps, a link to the guide or the chapter that explains it.

You see the sheet **once** for each version. When you close it, Mektebi remembers that, on every device you use. If a version has nothing for your role, you see no sheet at all.

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The page **What's new** lists every version with its notes, again filtered for your role. You can open it from the Help panel, next to the version number, whenever you want to look something up again.

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## The email for mosque admins

Admins and owners of a mosque are the people who decide how the mekteb is run, so they also get a short email for each new version that has news for admins, with what changed for them. A version with nothing for admins sends no email. The email has one button that opens the What's new page.

- It goes **only to admins and owners** of mosques. Muallims, students and parents do not receive it.
- A person who runs several mosques gets one email, not one per mosque.
- It arrives in the language of the person.
- Every email has a link to the settings where it can be switched off. You can also switch it off yourself under Settings, Notifications, "New Mektebi versions". The switch follows the person, not the mosque they are looking at.

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Switching the email off does not hide the sheet or the page. They are always there for the person who wants to read them.

## Binding texts

The binding texts are the [privacy policy](/privacy), the [data processing agreement](/dpa) and the [terms](/terms). If anything here differs from them, those texts apply.