What Changed in May, June and July 2021

What changed in January to April 2020

Monday 3 May 2021

• Code to ensure a session is created when restoring saved routes
• Suppressed UK Waterways Ranking badges on non-UK pages
• Added the "blogs" plugin to pages - issue 897

→ Release 9.37.8

Tuesday 4 May 2021

• Several improvements to the map on the gazetteer page:
• clicking on waterways now zooms in, as it was always meant to
• hovering over places works properly
• Boat names escaped so social share works for boats with quotation marks in their names (for example)
• Moved wz_tooltip.js in page to remove reduce JS errors from it

→ Release 9.37.8.1

Wednesday 5 May 2021

• Trap to prevent multiple (thousands!) of reports of the same error
• Removed an old POI map file
• Restored ability to delete places
• Improvements to discussions
• Changing the status reloads the page to show the changed button
• Restored "delete" button

→ Release 9.37.8.2

Thursday 6 May 2021

• Fixed link to explorer in search results
• Added a version number to dynamically loaded scripts to reduce over-caching

→ Release 9.37.8.3

Friday 7 May 2021

• Improved versioning for JS across site (probably the 'cause' of several "this doesn't work/have you tried refreshed/oh, it's OK now" 'bugs'
• Improvements to JS error trapping
• Fixed a couple of bugs so discovered
• Restored "being rebuilt" message for pages

→ Release 9.37.8.4

Saturday 8 May 2021

• Should now capture sessions from failed JS if they exist
• Improvements to index page thumbnails (doesn't fail if window too wide, better code)
• Send column of error to help dig things out of compressed files

→ Release 9.37.8.5

• Fixed show all discussion pages - no error because of missing creole parser
• Really capture sessions this time, and place table as well
• Debugging to try to capture logon problem

→ Release 9.37.8.6

• Fixed JS bug in setting home mooring on options page
• Removed all traces of "Set_Content_Width"
• Fixed bug in vcruise of non-uk locations
• More debugging for callback problems (login probably one of these)

→ Release 9.37.8.7

Tuesday 11 May 2021

• Removed unwanted photo-licencing message from PDFs
• Some fixes to prevent JS errors from Safari 10.0 - the IE6 of 2021:
• URLSearchParameters
• Object,values
• Catch for expired sessions causing problems for api on index.page (and probably elsewhere)

→ Release 9.37.8.8

Wednesday 12 May 2021

• Restored ability to rate moorings and access on pages

Thursday 13 May 2021

• Added some more debugging catches to continue background work on making things more robust

→ Release 9.37.8.9

Friday 14 May 2021

• Possible fix to a possible vcruise JS bug in photo advance: definitely a fix to the code!

→ Release 9.37.8.10

Saturday 15 May 2021

• Similar tweak to the cp_info variable to see if it makes any difference
• Fixed daily maps on PDF itineraries (issue 913).
• Added a grouping by initial direction of travel to the "nearest" plugin - issue 845

→ Release 9.37.9

Sunday 16 May 2021

• Removed huge chunks of code from the generate_marker script as they never apply (it was a copy of generate_place and inherited a lot)
• Removed the option to revert from the "experimental" pages
• Improvements to the code to show/hide of the delete button that was sometimes breaking discussion editing
• Fixed bug in history to code to solve issue 914 - I've got to remember to check for -1

→ Release 9.37.9.1

Monday 17 May 2021

• Finally - I believe - fixed the photo caption escaping bug (it was a separate one) that was keeping issue 908 alive.

Wednesday 19 May 2021

• A heap of tweaks to fix or avoid reported JS bugs

→ Release 9.37.9.2

Saturday 22 May 2021

• A couple more tweaks so that when external JS fails to load the result is more elegant
• Fixed photo downloads which have been broken for several months from the look of things
• Improvements to page deletion when photos are changed; this may fix a problem with the old gazetteer cache still getting entries
• Some additional debugging info for JS as well

→ Release 9.37.9.3

• Fixed bug where trying to export a PDF with markers didn't produce the appropriate error page but instead loaded an old page -final part of issue 870
• Removed last vestiges of the ability to switch input screens
• Improvements to mode for turning things on and off in various edits to prevent JS errors

→ Release 9.37.9.4

• Some partial work on editing areas

Sunday 23 May 2021

• Enabled log in/out on drop down menu on all pages (failed on those - like output - that have a "banner" instead on wide screen output)
• Removed old Parse_JSON function as JSON.parse is now native to all sensible browsers
• Fixed a typo in yesterday's page deletion fix

→ Release 9.37.9.5 (without areas editing)

Tuesday 25 May 2021

• Added several hundred more icons for furthest place as it was blowing up sometimes (good example of the value of the JS error trapping finding new problems)

→ Release 9.37.9.6

Tuesday 1 June 2021

• More work on escaping of photo captions, which I think finally fixes it (issue 916).
• Improvement to cope to support automatic escaping of photo database reads

→ Release 9.37.9.7

Friday 4 June 2021

• Work on breadcrumbs to address issue 919, plus some other things found when testing
• Added breadcrumbs to photos
• Fixed link on breadcrumbs in areas
• Fixed link to QR codes in areas
• Added an error message for pages that call breadcrumbs with no data

→ Release 9.37.9.8

Saturday 5 June 2021

• Fixed furthest place when starting location came from a search (issue 802):
• Made it remember it was doing furthest place and not revert to route planning
• Made it keep the place so that it then gets substituted
• Added a new parameter to the "plan" mode for the API, to satisfy issue 921 by adding a "pref" parameter.

→ Release 9.37.10

Sunday 13 June 2021

• Restored editing of distance tables for waterways
• Route entry uses a new selector - finally implemented issue 42 - I'd written most of the code ages ago, but not got round to final testing and implementing it
• When you call this from route entry it loads to where it is, or the common subset of other places

→ Release 9.37.11

Tuesday 15 June 2021

• Made the gazetteer search use the new selector.
• Added a world map at the top level for the gazetteer. This is the first half of my suggested solution to issue 797.

→ Release 9.37.12

Tuesday 22 June 2021

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• Extended the route entry wizard to use the new selector (completes issue 797).

→ Release 9.37.13

• Fix to prevent missing graphics breaking place generation with an endless loop
• Fix to ensure background graphics are now calculated

→ Release 9.37.13.1

Friday 25 June 2021

• Tweaks to selector code to prevent errors when clicking on waterways that are not "active" at the current level, and to prevent them having a cursor to suggest this is a good idea

→ Release 9.37.13.2

Saturday 26 June 2021

• Got map-based selector working in pop ups for route planning. Improved the code quite a bit in doing so.
• Added it to "Find" for home mooring in preferences
• Added it to "Exclude a waterway" in preferences
• Added lazy loading to user photo pages as suggested in issue 934

→ Release 9.37.14

• Fixed the "explore" on "move photo"
• Made "move photo" show names not IDs (but users can input IDs and it still works)
• Removed selector from "move photo" because it doesn't make sense now you can have places, areas and features
• Added map-based selector to "major edit: add a waterway"
• Added map-based selector to "major edit: edit or add a cruising ring"

→ Release 9.37.15

Sunday 27 June 2021

• Improved display of photo descriptions to use wiki markup
• Added a message about this and the hint sheet to the page where you edit this
• Added a help-us plugin for photos with descriptions that contains HTML markup

Together these are a solution to issue 924.

→ Release 9.37.16

• Added a "jump to day nnn" to virtual cruise as suggested by issue 894
• Fixed a bug in the route calculator where the days shown in the gazetteer ("You pass here on ....") were out by one
• Greatly improved the pre-loading of data in virtual cruise
• Changed RSS link to photo description to the photo, not to a location that didn't work

→ Release 9.37.17

Monday 28 June 2021

• Prevented map zoom when scrolling past it
• Multiple fixes to the synchronisation and alerting code for place editing, triggered by issue 937.

→ Release 9.37.17.1

Tuesday 29 June 2021

• Removed all adverts from pages called from "showstuff" (which is blocked to direct links) to solve issue 927
• Added canonical paths to pages. Configured in /templates/default/config.hdf (currently set to https://canalplan.uk). Resolves issue 516

→ Release 9.37.18

Saturday 3 July 2021

• Prevented it trying (and failing) to create "goto" dropdown in vcruise if no date information
• Added the ability to lock places to prevent edit wars. Not bad to have got this far without needing it!

→ Release 9.37.19

Wednesday 7 July 2021 ==

• Changed the check on how many days you had to have in a route with first/last ends before getting a message - issue 939
• Improved the wording for the "last morning of trip" in outputs
• Some debugging info for a common bug, if it is a bug, and a redirect if it's not

→ Release 9.37.20

To Saturday 31 July 2021

• Removed unneeded old plugins configuration
• Hopefully a fix to export for development to allow the photos plugin to get through
• Fixed bug in thumbnail generation
• Fixed bug where dynamic text on pages got confused through async stuff (which sometimes put "you pass here" in navigational notes for example)
• New route_list table that should allow lots of things to be simplified (improves vcruise and when you pass through places enormously)
• The dynamic "you pass through here" block now covers where your trip starts and ends
• Added a "start virtual cruise here" button to gazetteer pages - issue 656
• Improvements to virtual cruise
• Fixed spacing between progress bar on virtual cruises and the "Go to" selector
• Fix bug in "Go to" where the destination was one place out half the time
• Added an indication of where in the route (proportion, days and date if relevant) you are
• Button is now "return" rather than "route editor" (which was always wrong for waterway virtual cruises)

→ Release 9.37.21

Saturday 31 July 2021

• Fixed issue 945 - all settings are taken properly from the route entry wizard now
• Fixed a bug when adding an external website to a feature

→ Release 9.37.21.1