Live_RC/CHANGELOG.md

Changelog

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.

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.

Unreleased

No changes recorded yet.

1.8.0 - 2026-09-09

Added

• Settings now shows whether a newer version of RC RaceCore is available - checked against the actual git remote this installation was cloned from, so it works the same whether that's GitHub or a self-hosted server, and needs no account or API key. When an update is available it shows the new version number (read from the remote's package.json) and an "Uppdatera nu" / "Update now" button that stops the server, pulls the new code, reinstalls dependencies and starts back up automatically, with a confirmation dialog that warns explicitly if a race/session is currently active. The page then reloads on its own once the server is back, reusing the app's existing update-detection so no extra polling logic was needed on the client. No git knowledge is required to update - a single click does the whole thing.

1.7.1 - 2026-09-09

Fixed

• Swedish å/ä/ö/Å/Ä/Ö rendered as garbled characters (or vanished entirely) in every PDF export - race results, start lists, heat sheets, team reports and the results archive - because the PDF's font never declared a character encoding and its text was written as UTF-8 instead of the single-byte encoding a PDF font actually expects. Both are now fixed at the shared PDF renderer, so every export is corrected at once.

1.7.0 - 2026-09-09

Added

• Completing a training session - the general practice timer, "Jämna varv", or "Stegträning" - is now automatically recorded to a permanent history, visible on both the driver's mobile profile ("Träningshistorik") and the admin Training page, so a driver (or coach) can look back at past sessions and see improvement over time. A completion is verified against the driver's real recorded laps before being saved, the same way live progress already is, so it can't be faked. Each completed session earns a prominent credit with an emoji badge, and both per-driver and club-wide goals can now target "complete N sessions" as an alternative to "N laps", using the same reward system as today.

Fixed

• A goal targeting completed sessions always showed 0 progress regardless of how many sessions were actually completed, due to a pre-existing helper in the admin app that silently dropped the new argument needed to compute it.

1.6.1 - 2026-09-09

Fixed

• "Rensa data" (Settings -> Clear data) for the drivers/cars/races/all-competition-data scopes left every affected session's raw timing rows behind in the database, the same gap already fixed for deleting a single event/session - now purged there too.

Documentation

• The in-app Guide page now covers this session's new features: the two guided practice exercises and their mobile self-service controls, the end-of-practice summary, and the new Resultatarkiv view. Corrected outdated text claiming raw timing rows are always retained.

1.6.0 - 2026-09-09

Added

• A new "Resultatarkiv" (results archive) view lists every completed session across all events, searchable by event/session name, class, driver and date - no more needing to already know which event a session belonged to. Opening a session shows its standings, penalties/corrections, and a per-driver lap history, and offers the same PDF and race-package (JSON) export already available from Event Manager. Deleting an event or session now also removes its raw timing rows from the database instead of leaving them behind indefinitely - driver-visible training statistics and session replay are unaffected, since they already keep their own independent copy.

Fixed

• Opening a session's lap history in the archive (or anywhere reusing the same lookup) crashed if that session's result was missing its passings list - e.g. an older or hand-edited/imported race package. It's now backfilled the same way other missing result fields already were.

1.5.0 - 2026-09-09

Added

• A "Pass avslutat" (practice complete) summary now appears on the driver's personal mobile profile the moment their 5-minute practice timer finishes: how their pace and consistency compared to their recent sessions, any goal or lap-count milestone reached during that pass with its reward shown prominently, and one suggested next goal - scoped to their current class, with a plain explanation whenever there isn't enough data yet to judge pace or consistency.

1.4.3 - 2026-09-09

Fixed

• Two admin browsers open at once could silently overwrite each other's work: any save pushed a browser's entire in-memory copy of the data, so an idle tab's next save - even an unrelated one - could revert another browser's more recent changes, including a live race's in-progress results. Live results computed from real timing data are now protected from being reverted for a short window after they arrive, and every view now quietly refreshes its data in the background every 15 seconds (without ever discarding an open, unsaved edit), so the data behind any save stays fresh instead of getting stale over hours.

1.4.2 - 2026-09-09

Fixed

• Sync and backups could fail everywhere with an unexplained "Failed to fetch", while the server itself was completely healthy, whenever the page was opened via a different address (e.g. a LAN IP) than the one saved in Settings under "Backend URL" - browsers treat those as different origins, and the browser's own security check (CORS) silently blocks the requests without explaining why. Settings now detects this mismatch, names the page's actual address, and offers a one-click button to fix it.

1.4.1 - 2026-09-09

Fixed

• A backup failure at startup (e.g. no write permission for the backups folder, a path beyond Windows' MAX_PATH, a OneDrive/cloud-sync folder locking it, or antivirus interference) could crash the entire server before it started listening, instead of just leaving backups unavailable. Backup-directory creation is now non-fatal and retried on each backup attempt, and a file rename right after a backup completes now retries briefly if a file is momentarily locked by antivirus/cloud-sync scanning.

1.4.0 - 2026-09-09

Added

• "Jämna varv" and "Stegträning" can now be configured, started and stopped directly from the driver's own personal mobile profile link, the same way the existing self-service practice timer already works there - independent of whether an admin has the Training page open. Live progress (streak, today's best, tolerance-based lap coloring, step pills) is computed server-side from the driver's own share token, so raw lap rows and driver IDs never reach the mobile page - only sanitized aggregates, matching the existing public-profile security boundary. Each exercise tracks its own elapsed time independently of the general 5-minute practice timer and of each other.

1.3.0 - 2026-09-09

Added

• "Stegträning" (step training): a second guided practice exercise inside an active Open Practice session. Configure a sequence of steps (lap count plus calm/controlled/fast effort per step, defaulting to the classic pyramid); the Training page shows the current step, remaining laps, and a per-step progress pill, and once two "controlled" steps have laps it shows the plain pace difference between the first and last one - never labeled as fatigue.

1.2.0 - 2026-09-09

Added

• "Jämna varv" (even laps): a guided practice exercise inside an active Open Practice session. Set a target lap time, tolerance and lap count (with a suggested target from the driver's own personal best); the Training page shows the live streak and today's best streak, and a missed lap starts a new streak without losing the best one.
• Personal mobile profiles show last successful data retrieval, stale-data and failed-update warnings, and a Retry button without replacing loaded statistics or active forms. Requests time out after 15 seconds and cannot overlap.
• Browser coverage for Race Day start/pause/resume/finish and switching to the next queued heat, against a simulated decoder socket.
• Browser coverage for opening the OBS overlay as a real popup window (not a direct URL load): compact layout, and live clock updates that freeze on pause, polling independently of the admin page.
• Browser coverage for decoder auto-reconnect after a dropped socket (simulated network interruption): reconnects onto exactly one connection, never a duplicate, and stops retrying once auto-reconnect is turned off.

Fixed

• Open Practice sessions on a sponsor (track-mode) event could show a ready/green Race Day preflight yet refuse to start, blocked by a stricter assignment check the preflight never warned about. Open Practice is now exempt from that check everywhere, matching the preflight.
• The Race Day view did not refresh when the decoder connected, disconnected, or errored, so its Start button and preflight checklist could stay stale after a page load until something else triggered a re-render.
• Printing or exporting start lists, results, heat sheets and team reports always showed a false "popup blocked" error and produced nothing, in every modern browser. Opening the OBS overlay as a popup had the same false "blocked" check and its window never received focus. Both used window.open(..., "noopener,noreferrer,..."), which returns null even on success by current browser standards; both now open without those flags.
• The Training page crashed for any driver with fewer than 3 laps in every stint - a common state, e.g. a driver's first couple of laps in a session - because a dedup step read a property off a null "best stint" entry.

1.1.2 - 2026-09-08

Reliability checks

• Browser coverage for sponsor-event edits, endurance race creation, team membership changes/deletion, session-type conversion and lap-limit persistence.
• Overlay sorting headings share the same column tracks as driver rows. Narrow displays scroll the headings and values together.

Added

• Browser-local decoder/socket diagnostics in Settings: per-channel counters, bounded logs, pause/clear/copy and independent updates that preserve form drafts.
• A prioritized ROADMAP.md with completion checklists.
• Server/save status, last load/save times, stale/offline warnings and manual retry of local changes.
• Isolated browser regression checks for class/driver/car creation and editing, retained drafts, reload persistence and offline save recovery (npm run test:browser).

Fixed

• New browser profiles connect to the page origin rather than assuming backend port 8081.
• Correct chronological sorting of zero-padded times and deterministic ordering of distinct numeric-looking driver/car names. Name and identifier columns are explicitly treated as text.
• OBS race-info and standings panels wrap on narrow sources. Driver names retain space and timing fields wrap instead of overflowing.

1.1.1 - 2026-09-07

Added

• Sortable columns in the leaderboard, recent passings, and training tables/lists, with each list remembering its own sort choice.
• OBS overlay leaderboard layout split into a race-info panel (left) and a driver-stats panel (right), so each can be positioned independently on stream.

Fixed

• Sorting by driver or car name no longer merges differently zero-padded numbers (e.g. "09" and "9") into the same position.
• Sorting the interactive overlay no longer changes the row order shown on the OBS broadcast source.

1.1.0 - 2026-09-05

Added

• Visible application version in the menu, read from the running server's package version.
• This changelog as the starting point for tracking future changes.

Baseline

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.

Recent improvements included in this baseline:

• 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.