Release Notes

Tidying:

1. Refactored User Related Models to function like actual models.

New:

1. Automatically sends discord notification for release notes.

New:

1. Added ability to create new punishment reasons into the admin panel.

Bugfixes:

1. Homepage icon no longer flashes on (re)load.

New:

1. Admin Panel features have been heavily extended - it can be used to manage quests, players and more punishment control.

New:

1. Every location can have a description now, this will be for lore purposes and to add flavour to each location.

Bugfixes:

1. Login form no longer flashes as its rendering.

New:

1. Journal Modal now has a new tab for maps! This area will support world maps for every continent we add to ravensholde. As a teaser for beta, we added the tutorial island artwork.
2. There is now a cancel travel link when you start moving for easier stopping of travel.

Bugfixes:

1. More database tidying.
2. Converted timer detection to an admin variable for easier tweaking.
3. Better use of mobile space for stats / travelling.

Bugfixes:

1. 2 database tables have been renamed, to better match what they do.
2. Chat would sometimes crash when no players are on the ignore list.
3. Links from menus now respect where you are, if you are in game they'll open in a new tab. If you're on the home pages, they'll redirect you.

New:

1. The home pages have been redesigned, to reflect a more welcoming feel. This should improve first impressions as we move away from a proof of concept to an actual game to release.
2. The navigation between home pages and in the game has been unified, for a better UI/UX.

Bugfixes:

1. Player List now shows correctly.

New:

1. Code base has been significantly refactored to better prepare for public beta. It now reflects an app with a router, and a proper class structure.

New:

1. Ability to turn a maintenance mode on/off. This will log out players who are logged in, and block users from logging in.
2. Chat entry upon logging in.

New:

1. Staff Chat Channel & Staff tag is appended to any member of the staff team talking in chat

New:

1. The guild modal has been overhauled. Member tab is now a searchable table with editable permissions. Options tab now contains admin for managing the guild details.

New:

1. The journal modal now has a new tab, stats. This will now display things like account age, time played and mob kills!
2. The admin panel now has the ability to ban players.

Bugfixes:

1. Mobile styling for achievements tab has now been fixed.

New:

1. The journal modal now has a new tab, achievements. There are 3 types of achievements to complete throughout ravensholde; kill, collect and travel. Time to collect all achievements!

New:

1. Quest UI has been re-done, The journal modal now supports showing open, complete and available quests. The city text to start quests has been updated to stand out more.

New:

1. A new button "Change" has been added to the combat UI. This will allow you to swap to another mob in the pool of mobs for that action. This is in preparation for beta, where one combat spot will have multiple mobs.

New:

1. Ignore list is now implemented - Options -> Interface. Any username in the comma separated list will be not appear in chat tabs, nor will they be able to start whispers with you. Messages are also ignored.

New

1. There is now a tool for database migrations to easier update different environments databases.
2. There is now a tool for clearing the database caches.

Bugfixes:

1. Guild chat history now correctly shows.

New:

1. There is now a caching layer for everything static (i.e loot tables, city navigation, maps etc).
2. The server side code has been refactored to be OOP.
3. Removed all database calls pre-game rendering.
4. Admin panel has the ability to clear the cache for individual items etc, and use Quill instead of TinyMCE due to licensing changes.

Bugfixes:

1. Minor styling fixes for mobile users.

New:

1. The UI has had a major rework. Most of the game client now uses a style inspired by Material UI.
2. House UI has been overhauled, you can now search for items in the house.
3. Botchecks are now generated on the fly, 0000-9999, no longer just 2 botchecks.

Bugfixes:

1. The underlying code which renders the game client has been overhauled, this should increase performance quite substantially on logging in.

New:

1. The equipment modal now supports on the fly equipment switching.
2. The equipment modal now has 2 template slots you can save equipment to.
3. Begun foundational work to migrate to ipv6.

New:

1. Extended Admin Panel capabilities to launch timed events, manage NPC Shops & Shop Contents.
2. Game client now highlights timed event links and auto refreshes navigation to pick up any opened timed events.
3. Can now click the town name to manually refresh navigation links.

Bugfixes:

1. Release notes now have a bit more colour.

New:

1. Release notes now use materia ui card design.
2. Code releases are now versioned, following year.month.release (2024.01.01)
3. Release notes can use multiple types.