Changelog of version 4

4.21 (2023-03-29)

  • Minor stylistic tweaks to the digital scorecard

  • Some more fixes to handling final matches with more than 9 games

4.20 (2023-03-21)

  • Sort the participants printout by competitor's name, matching the order of the correspondent panel

  • Rectify the storage of the scores of final matches when they take more than 9 games

  • Make it easier to understand which competitor is going to break in new game, highlighting his name

4.19 (2023-02-19)

  • Slim down the tourney's and championship's Lit pages by hiding the mostly "technical" details table within a <details> element

4.18 (2023-02-17)

  • Highlight the breaker competitor in the tourney match details

4.17 (2023-01-23)

  • New tourney's playbill printout

  • Make it possible to reset queen assignment in the digital scorecard

4.16 (2023-01-10)

  • When printing the carromboard labels for a tournament, ask in advance how many boards so that one can prepare the labels even before having the complete list of participants

4.15 (2023-01-08)

  • Further embellishments to the Lit tournament views

4.14 (2023-01-07)

  • Minor embellishments to the Lit tournament views

  • Fix a rendering error when looking at the matches of a particular player in Lit

  • Repair editability of the “previous championship” in the championship edit form

4.13 (2023-01-06)

  • Downgrade metapensiero.extjs.desktop back to 2.0, to restore compatibility with Python 3.8

4.12 (2023-01-05)

  • Easier search by users name: when applying a basic (i.e., “contains”) filter on first name or last name or email address, actually search in all those fields at the same time

  • Substantially improve the Lit user experience on mobile devices

  • Add a Lit view for a match detailed results

  • Expose the countdown on the digital scoreboard

4.11 (2022-11-20)

  • Easier search by players name: when applying a basic (i.e., “contains”) filter on first name or last name, actually search in both fields at the same time

  • Online tournaments do not alter the associated ratings anymore

  • Tweak the dazed and staggered pairing methods to be slightly more fair (issue #15)

4.10 (2022-07-18)

  • Fix computation of bucholz when a retirements policy is in effect

  • Fix computation of the ranking of "non current" rounds

  • Fix update of matches sidebar when deleting a final round

4.9 (2022-04-10)

  • Disallow insertion of total scores exceeding 25 points in the self-compilation match form

  • Fix computation of total score in the scoreboard detailed results

4.8 (2022-03-11)

  • Better strategy to assign boards in small tournaments (issue #34)

  • Notify the user playing against Phantom in training tournaments (issue #35)

  • Use less ambiguous "register" in the login panel (issue #30)

  • Handle the "suicide" case in self-compilation match form (issue #29)

  • Allow unlimited boards in final matches (issue #31)

4.7 (2021-10-24)

  • Refine the self-insertion of match results:

    • avoid ending the insertion by mistake (issue #24)

    • always present the refresh action in the matches panel (issue #25)

  • Promote the SoL issue tracker in the main menu (issue #26)

  • Fix glitch entering scoreboard detailed results (issue #27)

4.6 (2021-05-30)

  • Fix defective Italian translation

4.5 (2021-04-24)

  • Fix glitch in English messages

4.4 (2021-04-21)

  • Fix issue #21, due to sloppy coding

  • Rewrite naïve implementation of the "all against all" turns generator, using the circle method algorithm

4.3 (2021-04-20)

  • Really fix issue #18

4.2 (2021-04-20)

  • Use a less confusing tooltip for the send training board emails action (see issue #16)

  • Possibly advance the current turn of the "all against all" Corona Carrom tournament when the ranking is updated (see issues #18 and #19)

4.1 (2021-04-19)

  • New "all against all" mode for Corona Carrom tournaments

4.0rc4 (2020-05-18)

  • Fix typo that prevented the automatic backup at login time

4.0rc3 (2020-05-18)

  • Slightly improved rendering of auto-compile scorecards on desktop browsers

  • New actions in the matches panel to open the auto-compile scorecards, when email does not work

  • New action on the tourneys management to create a knockout tourney from a previous Swiss one

4.0rc2 (2020-05-12)

  • Minor fixes to English grammar in the user manual

  • Fix boolean filters

4.0rc1 (2020-05-11)

  • Minor tweak the training board results edit window, showing the average misses count

4.0b14 (2020-05-09)

  • Complete the new boards results edit window, implementing the "training" variant

4.0b13 (2020-05-09)

  • Fix Lit view of training tournaments

4.0b12 (2020-05-07)

  • Refine "knockout" system couplings

  • New "boards" table, to store matches details, generalizing previous training-boards only solution

4.0b11 (2020-04-17)

  • Implement the "knockout" system, the last long-standing requested feature for v4, yay!

4.0b10 (2020-04-14)

  • Fix deployment issues

4.0b9 (2020-04-14)

  • Fix deployment issues

4.0b8 (2020-04-14)

  • New optional "social site" URL on tournaments

  • Store all boards misses, not just the totals

4.0b7 (2020-04-09)

  • Show both the scores and the errors in the training tournament's Lit view

4.0b6 (2020-04-08)

  • Fix bug that allowed the self-insertion to only one of the competitors...

4.0b5 (2020-04-08)

note:

one month of captivity...

  • Other minor tweaks to "Corona Carrom" management

4.0b4 (2020-04-07)

  • Minor tweaks to "Corona Carrom" management

4.0b3 (2020-04-05)

  • Restore "email" and "language" on players, removed in 4.0a5

  • Add support for "Corona Carrom", “El Carrom en los tiempos del Covid-19”

4.0b2 (2020-02-15)

  • Highlight winners in the results printout, as suggested by Carlito

  • New "donations" section in the user's manuals (still draft!)

4.0b1 (2020-02-10)

  • New introductory chapter in the user manual, thanks to Elisa for the preliminary text

  • New "world" fake country and icon, for international federations

  • Add an entry in the main menu to change account's UI language

  • Take into account the selected round when printing tourney's matches, for consistency with the results printout

  • Use darkblue instead of red to highlight winners, as red may suggest an error condition

4.0a10 (2020-02-06)

  • Add a rating on the clubs, used as default when creating new associated championships

  • Clearer identification of ratings, showing their level and associated club, if any

4.0a9 (2020-02-05)

  • Show the user's email in the "owner" lookup, to avoid name clashes

  • Fix serialization of the new hosting club tourney's attribute

  • New button to start the countdown after 60 seconds

  • Fix the actions deactivation logic based on the owner id for new records

4.0a8 (2020-02-01)

  • Add a rating on the championships, used as default when creating new associated tournaments

4.0a7 (2020-01-31)

  • Revise the obfuscation algorithm of player names, using an hash of the original one instead of simple truncation, to avoid conflicts; also, from now on it gets applied also to the exported streams

  • Highlight the not-yet-scored matches in the tourney management window

  • Allow emblems and portraits up to 512Kb in size

4.0a6 (2020-01-29)

  • Nicer rendering of the main Lit page

  • Simpler way to open the Lit page of a tourney from its management window

  • Allow to save partial results, to be on the safe side when there are lots of boards

  • Show the "hosting club" on all printouts, if present

4.0a5 (2020-01-25)

  • Remove "email", "language" and "phone" from players data

  • Remove player's rate from participants printout

  • Omit the player's club in the ranking printout for international tourneys

  • Add the player's nationality in matches and results printouts

  • Add an "hosting club" to tournaments

4.0a4 (2020-01-18)

  • New association between clubs and users: now a user may add a championship/tourney/rating/player only to clubs he either owns or is associated with

  • Add a link to send an email to the instance' admin on the login panel

4.0a3 (2020-01-13)

  • Use a three-state flag for the player's agreed privacy: when not explicitly expressed, SoL assumes they are publicly discernible if they participated to tournaments after January 1, 2020

  • Player's first and last names must be longer that one single character

4.0a2 (2020-01-11)

  • Fix issue with UI language negotiation

  • Use the better maintained Fomantic-UI fork of Semantic-UI in the “Lit” interface

4.0a1 (2018-08-06)

Warning

Backward incompatible version

This release uses a different algorithm to crypt the user's password: for this reason previous account credentials cannot be restored and shall require manual intervention.

It's not possible to upgrade an existing SoL3 database to the latest version.

However, SoL4 is able to import a backup of a SoL3 database made by soladmin backup.

  • Different layout for matches and results printouts, using two columns for the competitors to improve readability (suggested by Daniele)

  • New tournaments retirements policy

  • New "women" and "under xx" tourney's ranking printouts

  • New “self sign up” procedure

  • New “forgot password” procedure

  • New "agreed privacy" on players

  • Somewhat prettier “Lit” interface, using Semantic-UI tables

  • Technicalities:

    • Development moved to GitLab

    • Officially supported on Python 3.6 and 3.7, not anymore on <=3.5

    • Shiny new pytest-based tests suite

    • Uses python-rapidjson instead nssjson, as I officially declared the latter as abandoned

    • Uses PyNaCl instead of cryptacular, as the former is much better maintained

    • "Users" are now a separated entity from "players": now the login "username" is a mandatory email and the password must be longer than five characters (was three before)