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+# Changelog
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+User-visible changes to RC RaceCore are recorded here, starting with the 1.1.0 baseline. Earlier development has not been reconstructed as individual releases.
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+The application version is maintained in `package.json` and displayed in the administration menu. Add changes under **Unreleased** as they are made. When preparing a release, move those entries into a dated version section and update the version in both `package.json` and `package-lock.json`.
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+## Unreleased
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+No changes recorded yet.
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+## 1.1.0 - 2026-09-05
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+### Added
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+- Visible application version in the menu, read from the running server's package version.
+- This changelog as the starting point for tracking future changes.
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+### Baseline
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+The existing feature set includes race and sponsor-event setup, team racing, AMMC timing, Race Day preflight, overlays and OBS views, Swedish and English race audio, training statistics, personal mobile profiles, import/export, and backups. See the README and in-app guide for configuration and usage.
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+Recent improvements included in this baseline:
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+- More compact mobile training profiles and consistent class-selector text sizing.
+- Mobile refresh protection while entering data, selecting a class, or saving a car change.
+- Separate unsaved car-change notes per class during page updates and class switching.
+- Preservation of loaded mobile statistics during temporary refresh failures.
+- Race Day preflight lists blockers first and provides shortcuts to the relevant configuration.