Changelog: HPC:Factor Site, Engines & Modules

Changes for September 2020

2020-09-10
- Forum: Increased the logon page client-side password field max length from 20 to 64 characters

2020-09-19
- H/PC:Update: Added a printout of the original file name to the aggregator
- H/PC:Update: Visual improvements to the CSS

2020-09-23
- H/PC:Update: New initial device and OS selection interface loaded from the REST API. The UI now loads OEM, Device and OS support data dynamically without a screen refresh and now displays the device photo from Devices & Specifications
- H/PC:Update: Stripped deprecated code

2020-09-24
- Help: Added gift subscription code to the support and subscriptions page

Changes for November 2020

2020-11-01
- SCL: Fixed input sanitisation bug
- SCL: Improved browser page title readout on each of the tabs

2020-11-09
- H/PC:Update: Removed session keep alive code
- H/PC:Update: Security enhancement
- H/PC:Update: Code optimisations

2020-11-27
- Forum: The profile viewer now hide fields that the user has not populated
- Forum: Layout tweaks to the view profile pages

Changes for January 2021

2021-01-02
- Forum: Fixed CSS display glitch on poll results caused by responsive CSS override
- Forum: Added ALT and TITLE tags to poll results graphs
- Forum: Removed excess use of GIF files on poll graphs
- Forum: Increased size of poll graph bars


2021-01-04
- Forum: Added EPOC / Symbian OS sub-forum

2021-01-06
- SCL: Fixed issue in search page search phrase output parser
- SCL: Tweaked search page UI

2021-01-28
- Marbl: Updated Marbl to version 0.9.9

2021-01-30
- Marbl: Updated Marbl to version 0.9.10
- Forum: Changed the MBBS Amazon markup to use the new derived link types

Changes for February 2021

2021-02-06
- DLC: Main search results code optimisations
- DLC: Hardened SQL sanitisation from using proprietary techniques to using Elara
- DLC: Improved search result utility with automatic weighting to full search string matches at the top of the search results list without needing to add quotation marks
- DLC: The 'Latest Downloads' widget in the DLC now displays 15 entries and now includes SCL as well as non-HCL and H/PC:Update downloads in the readout

2021-02-09
- Poll: The tooltip on the homepage poll readout will now display the vote count as well as the percentage value

2021-02-14
- Poll: The return value now includes Query String parameters, preventing erroneous redirects from occurring
- News: It is now possible for users on the Responsive UI to vote in the home page poll via its associated news post

2021-02-15
- Poll: Deprecated and removed /community/poll/postconn in favour of a processor in the poll sidebar widget

2021-02-17
- Forum: Modernised the thread pagination to look more modern and to have touch friendly button sizes
- Forum: Fixed incredibly old bug in which pages with <= 6 pages wouldn't highlight the current page in the pagination
- Forum: If there is only 1 page in a thread, pagination now will not show
- Forum: Converted thread view pagination code to use Elara StringBuilder instead of VB<String>
- Forum: Some general visibility improvements for mobile devices on the thread view
- Forum: Fixed the missing pagination display on forum-view (how long has that been missing?)
- Forum: Modernised the forum-view pagination to look more modern and to have touch friendly button sizes

2021-02-18
- Forum: Changed visual styling on pagination
- Forum: Replaced new thread/reply button images with CSS/text buttons
- Core: Removed more kernel code

2021-02-20
- Marbl: Updated Marbl to version 0.9.11
- Forum: Amazon affiliate link buttons can now accept: Search strings, ASIN's, ISBN's or Amazon URL's
- Forum: eBay affiliate link buttons can now accept: Search strings, Item ID's or eBay URL's
- Forum: Amazon and eBay link buttons were not working on thread-view quick reply
- SCL: Fixed dependency reference that was causing a 500 error in the upgraded Horizontal Percent Stacked Bar Chart

2021-02-22
- Marbl: Updated Marbl to version 0.9.12

Changes for March 2021

2021-03-05
- Forum: The BBS markup video tag now supports youtu.be links as well as youtube.com ones.
- Forum: Re-wrote the video tag handler to use classful JavaScript and moved the code from the database into the mbbs_markup. source file.
- Forum: Fixed the close tag button on the thread post page errors thrown when font size and colour were used.

2021-03-06
- Elara: Updated the Ajax provider to 1.1.3

2021-03-18
- Elara: Updated RestGateway 1.0.5
- Core: Modified the REST API interfaces to use the new RestGateway interface standard


2021-03-31
- Elara: Updated Elara Ajax 1.1.4
- Badges: Fixed the badges batch processor which hasn't been running since 21/02

Changes for May 2021

2021-05-09
- Core: Added anti-Google FLoC header to all server responses - https://amifloced.org/

2021-05-17
- Elara: Upgrade FileUploader to 3.2.1 and adjusted side code according to new implementation requirements

Changes for July 2021

2021-07-16
- HCL: Fixed exceptional issue in the search that could cause a error due to an uncaught loop sequencing issue
- Forum: Fixed error handling on API forum/posts is the caller neglected to specify a parameter name to return
- Core: Updated Amazon Associate links in Marbl generators

2021-07-28
- Forum: Rewrote the get-attachment provider to validate that the target attachment exists in the repository. If it does not, it now returns a HTTP 404 instead of crashing on the back-end with a HTTP 500.

Changes for August 2021

2021-08-19
- Forum: Visual improvements to Forum Print View
- Forum: Converted header CSS code into separate style sheet
- Forum: Fixed distorted avatars on the print view
- Forum: Removed signatures from the print view
- Badges: Eliminated URL contextual spawning of a placeholder page for a badge that didn't exist in the database

Changes for October 2021

2021-10-06
- Core: Fixed a bug caused by Cookie SameSite.STRICT that was causing logged-on users who click-in from a hyperlink to appear as not logged-in on their first landing page despite the fact that all subsequent page clicks will automatically log them in.
- Forum: Fixed non-functional administrative 'create user account' UI

2021-10-10
- Forum: Fixed the (possibly never) function thread merge system, which wound up in to algorithm dead ends... good job PD9

2021-10-16
- Themes: Modified the wallpaper loader to use lazy image loading
- Themes: Code tidy-up and optimisations

2021-10-17
- HCL: v4.24, principally code optimisations
- HCL: Resolved missing escape from OBB-2087917 report