What Changed in 2026
To Thursday 15 January 2026
- Work on a new "checklist" feature to make it easier for people to see what data to collect as they travel. Later it will have a printer-friendly version.
- Fixed "exclude a waterway" which has been broken since the major options update (ouch!). This resolves issue 1342 and partly addresses issue 1343.
→ Release 9.43.15
Thursday 22 Jan 2026
- Many improvements to "exclusions":
- restored the ability to exclude places
- added the ability to exclude areas
- put explanatory messages in when this prevents a route being planned
- added a summary of user exclusions to the route output
→ Release 9.43.16
- Fixed a bug with old saved options
- Restored showing reasons for not planning when preferences was "never" - almost certainly the cause of issue 1298
- Added an error report if no reasons found, to prevent leaving people in limbo in the future
→ Release 9.43.16.1
Friday 23 January 2026
- Restored the ability to add multiple markers, removing the old queueing because of improved capabilities. Resolves issue 1316.
- Added the "being rebuilt" and reload message and feature to this and to deleting multiple markers. Resolves issue 1313.
- Fixed redirection on merge waterways - mantis:1256 and issue 1134.
→ Release 9.43.17
Monday 26 January 2026
- Finally got the old "show links" feature working. Only used when editing has got marker places in a mess, but very useful then. Resolves issue 511
→ Release 9.43.18
Wednesday 28 January 2026
- Work on amenities to address some left over work from last time, and to rationalise how they work with map markers
- Added boatyards as a class
- Added an "order" feature for the configuration - just benefits coders but makes changing the amenity types a lot less confusing
To Sunday 29 March 2026
- PDF generation now uses headless Chrome instead of wkhtmltopdf - much more supportable (and better featured). Quite a few small tweaks and minor improvements to PDF generation done as part of this.
- Adjustments to QR code generation to address issue 1359
→ Release 9.43.19
Monday 30 March 2026
- Fixed a bug in PDF generation when no date was set for the trip
→ Release 9.43.19.1
To Saturday 25 April 2026
- Catch for a frequent malformed request to the API to return an error
- Check for "undefined" in data for amenities "icon_from" field and replace (patch for issue 1367)
- Prevented "undefined" getting into the data
- Removed faulty "icon for place" footnote until this is made to work
→ Release 9.43.19.2
- Pre-release patch to fix gratuitous italics for places
- Added a marker for the place you are editing the amenities of
- Removed automatic pub symbols on maps for places with "PH" or "Inn" in the name
- Removed earlier patch as database now edited
- Replaced "icon for place" as now working
Sunday 26 April 2026
- Fixed issue where saved exclusions was a literal '{}' not an empty object - the ultimate cause of issue 1355, issue 1369, and issue 1370.
→ Release 9.43.19.3
Tuesday 28 April 2026
- Fixed (with something of a bodge) extra icons for places flagged as pubs
- Implemented "recently used places" feature for route planning as in issue 242.
→ Release 9.43.20
Friday 1 May 2026
- Built a loader for NaPTAN data to put in a new tables with amenities and extract bus stops
- Added display of bus stops to gazetteer
- Added display of bus stop icons to routes
- Added a "close" button to sticky amenity pop-ups
- Added display of bus stops to maps
→ Release 9.43.21
- Fix for a long-standing bug where some amenities appeared as "near **NOT FOUND**" on route outputs
→ Release 9.43.21.1
Saturday 2 May 2026
- Internal improvements to the Naptan data handling:
- More pre-processing to speed and simplify rendering
- Removed a large database table
- Code to update database
- Visiting a place in the gazetteer adds it to "recents"
Sunday 3 May 2026
- Added a "recent places" dropdown to the main gazetteer page
- Fixed the parentage and ends of assorted canals - see issue 1255 - this needs fixing to enable the full rebuild of the maps (never mind anything else it confuses)
- The Aire and Calder - Faries Hill Branch needed moving
- The Rochdale Canal which was an unholy mess
- The Cromford Canal - moved the Pinxton Branch
→ Release 9.43.22
- Added "recent places" to the side menu bar building on earlier code
Monday 4 May 2026
- Completed work on "recent places", checking it works on all pages, on top menus and when there are no recent places or no session
→ Release 9.43.23
- Added "favourites" to route planning with the ability to promote a recent place to a favourite and vice-versa
- Change to stylesheets to prevent too many bus stops on large maps
- Added favourites to search boxes
→ Release 9.43.24
Wednesday 7 May 2026
- Added favourites to maps. This completes issue 1364.
→ Release 9.44
Thursday 7 May 2026
- Restored "Having turned at" to route output
- And "You will turn at" to itineraries
- Restored "You will pass through" to route output
- And to itinerary. In both of these I was necessary to fix the code to generate the data for the output to work, and then to add the display to the itinerary
Monday 18 May 2026
- Fixed "where does this open" option in new checklist feature
Tuesday 19 May 2026
- Change to width setting on dropdown menu to prevent it wrapping oddly (mantis:1377:issue 1377)
→ Release 9.44.1
To Sunday 24 May 2026
- Added PDF export to checklists
→ Release 9.44.2
Monday 25 May 2026
- Added "Amenities" tab to preferences and code to implement what is output and filtering on maps.
→ Release 9.44.3
- Pre-release patch to address issue 1389
Thursday 28 May 2026
- issue 1391:
- Previously fixed empty day pages in PDF output
- Restored list of overnight stopping to PDF output
- Change to delayed startup of page functions to avoid JS errors
→ Release 9.44.3.1