Changelog

All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.

[1.11.0] - 2026-07-01

Added

  • Podcast episodes now play through the Podlove Web Player instead of the native audio element, including episode cover art and a German-localized download file title.
  • M12G: the longest win streak now appears directly in the top stats bar, which was restyled as a connected, mobile-friendly strip.

Fixed

  • The Podlove player now collapses by default and releases its reserved height, and falls back gracefully if the player fails to load (with an http CDN allowance in the CSP).

Changed

  • M12G stats no longer show the redundant “nominiert” count — the win count is surfaced instead (including a new leaderboard win badge), and the month’s slogan is now visually separated on the month card.
  • Prepared the June 2026 M12G post.
  • Upgraded dependencies, including undici 8.5.0 and Strapi.

[1.10.3] - 2026-06-20

Fixed

  • Podcast download tracking now sends a non-bot User-Agent to Umami, so RSS/podcatcher downloads and on-site plays are recorded again — the previous “stable analytics” User-Agent was itself filtered as bot traffic. Downloads now also carry the originating app for per-app breakdowns.
  • Preview secret validation is now rate-limited.
  • Feed cache warmup errors are now logged instead of swallowed.
  • External links in RSS feed HTML now include rel="noopener".

Changed

  • Upgraded Strapi and related dependencies.
  • Finalized the May 2026 post and updated the game list with rankings.

[1.10.2] - 2026-06-09

Fixed

  • RSS podcast download tracking now uses a stable server-side analytics user agent so podcatcher downloads are not silently filtered as bot traffic.

Changed

  • Updated frontend and backend dependency patch versions.

[1.10.1] - 2026-06-05

Changed

  • Category tags and homepage meta tags use regular font weight instead of bold.

Fixed

  • Committed shared contract copies so frontend-only Docker builds do not depend on the repo-root shared/ folder at image build time.

[1.10.0] - 2026-06-05

Added

  • Shared cross-repo invalidation manifest with a synced local copy on predev, prebuild, and pretest.
  • Search index module (searchIndexService) for load, validation, Fuse caching, and static-page augmentation; the API route is now a thin HTTP adapter.
  • Slug-page metadata builder (buildContentSlugMetadata) shared by article, podcast, category, and author routes.
  • Category page loader (fetchCategoryPageData) with parallel batched article and podcast hydration.
  • Feed registry owning RSS disk cache, schedulers, and invalidation side effects.

Changed

  • Content access reads consolidated into contentAccess.ts; fetchJson and reads remain as deprecated shims.
  • Cache invalidation taxonomy derives target names from the shared manifest.

[1.9.0] - 2026-06-05

Added

  • Public CMS import surface at src/lib/strapi/ for content types, media helpers, cache tags, and the unified Strapi read interface.

Changed

  • CMS types and media helpers are imported from strapi/ instead of the RSS folder, so UI, JSON-LD, and feeds share one namespace.
  • All Strapi HTTP reads (pages, sitemap, feeds) go through one Content access read interface; endpoint vs /api/ path shape and privileged auth are handled internally.
  • Cache invalidation tag sets are defined next to fetch-surface tag builders so read and purge sides cannot drift.
  • RSS feed assembly (fetch → XML → ETag) lives in dedicated build modules; route handlers only wire HTTP caching.
  • M12G Archive loading uses an explicit filesystem MonthSource adapter in production — same reader-facing data, swappable in tests.
  • Strapi media URLs and markdown image URLs share one base-URL resolver.

[1.8.0] - 2026-06-05

Changed

  • M12G: the request-cached archive is now the single aggregation hub — title-defender marking and the overview view-model (stats, streaks, newest-first months) are derived once behind the archive instead of being recomposed in the page. No change to what’s displayed.
  • Collapsed the parallel article/podcast Strapi fetchers behind one content-type descriptor, so batching, cache-tagging, and pagination are defined once. Same data and cache behaviour.
  • Cache tags are now built from one shared module used by both the data fetchers (read) and the invalidation taxonomy (write), so a tag can no longer drift between where it is set and where it is purged.
  • The Strapi transport now owns the privileged-read token and base-URL resolution; the feeds and search index request a “privileged” read instead of wiring the token themselves.
  • The RSS and audio feed handlers now share one feed-definition module (site URL, channel query, list-query builder, fetch orchestration, ETag), removing the duplicated wiring between them.

Removed

  • Unused content-list fetchers, feed populate presets, and feed-route helpers.

Fixed

  • Production Content-Security-Policy now includes the configured Strapi origin in connect-src, so service workers (e.g. Umami session replay) and fetch() can load podcast audio and other Strapi uploads; previously only media-src allowed them.

[1.7.4] - 2026-06-05

Added

  • Expanded the Vitest suite to 486 tests, covering the new M12G archive pipeline, the unified Strapi transport (auth, retries, timeout, cache directives), paginated feed fetching, published-slug pagination, content-fetch helpers, and the cache-invalidation endpoint.

Changed

  • Refactored the M12G data layer behind a single request-cached archive: the months are loaded, sorted, and aggregated once per request instead of repeatedly per page, and a game’s appearance timeline is now derived from its history rather than re-scanning every month. No change to what’s displayed.
  • Unified all Strapi data fetching behind one transport seam with shared timeout, single-retry, and cache-tag handling; behaviour and auth (content unauthenticated, feeds/search tokened) are unchanged.
  • Updated dompurify to 3.4.7.

Fixed

  • Reserve the scrollbar gutter page-wide so the layout no longer shifts horizontally when navigating between pages with and without a vertical scrollbar.

[1.7.3] - 2026-06-02

Added

  • May 2026 M12G (Mindestens 12 Gamevorschläge) article placeholder with curated game list.

Changed

  • articleBody is now included in the BlogPosting JSON-LD on article pages: article content is stripped of Markdown syntax and embedded as plain text (capped at 10 000 characters), giving search engines direct access to the article body.
  • Removed the potentialAction / SearchAction block from the site-wide WebSite schema — it was pointing to a JSON API endpoint rather than a user-facing search page, which would have caused Google’s Sitelinks Search Box to malfunction.

[1.7.2] - 2026-05-29

Added

  • Expanded the Vitest suite to cover the RSS feed pipeline (XML escaping, Strapi media normalization, Markdown→HTML sanitization/XSS, article feed, feed-route helpers), Strapi query builders, metadata helpers (excerpt, keywords, Open Graph image), Markdown preprocessing and heading extraction, JSON-LD generators, analytics event IDs, image URL/hostname allow-listing, client-IP parsing, and relative date formatting. The suite now runs 436 tests across 38 files as part of pnpm run build.
  • Cross-package contract test pinning the cache-invalidation target list to the Strapi backend’s, so the frontend taxonomy and backend targets can no longer drift silently.

[1.7.1] - 2026-05-28

Added

  • The on-site audio player on podcast detail pages now routes through the same download-tracking endpoint as the RSS feed, so plays started on the website are recorded as podcast-download Umami events too (when FEED_AUDIO_TRACKING_ENABLED is enabled).

Changed

  • Podcast download counting now ignores seek/continuation range requests so a single play or download counts once; with tracking enabled the on-site player uses preload="none" so the event fires when playback starts rather than on every page load.

[1.7.0] - 2026-05-28

Added

  • Podcast RSS download tracking: when enabled, each episode’s <enclosure> URL points at an on-domain endpoint that records a custom Umami podcast-download event (episode slug and title) before redirecting to the audio file, so downloads initiated by podcatcher apps can finally be measured. Off by default; toggle with the FEED_AUDIO_TRACKING_ENABLED environment variable. Episode GUIDs stay identical whether tracking is on or off, so existing subscribers are unaffected.

Changed

  • Build/dependency tooling: pinned pnpm to v10 and removed redundant ignore-scripts settings from .npmrc.

[1.6.0] - 2026-05-16

Added

  • Per-game detail pages at /m12g/spiele/[slug]: each nominated game now has its own shareable page with stats (nominations, wins, total votes) and a per-month timeline showing votes earned and which months it won. All 56 pages are prerendered at build time; unknown slugs return 404.
  • Streaks card on /m12g: highlights the longest consecutive-month nomination streak and the longest consecutive-month win streak, with deep links to the streak holder’s detail page.
  • Open Graph image for /m12g: dynamic share card showing the all-time top-3 leaderboard.

Changed

  • Game names in the leaderboard and game index now link to the internal detail pages; the external store link is preserved as a small ↗ affordance next to each name.

[1.5.7] - 2026-05-16

Added

  • Vitest test suite for pure utility modules — m12g pipeline (parser, game-history aggregate, stats projections, title-defender derivation), formatters, validators, security helpers (slug validation, secret comparison, rate limit). 18 test files / 215 tests, runs in ~150ms. pnpm test (watch) and pnpm test:run (one-shot) scripts.

Changed

  • pnpm run build now runs vitest run before next build, so failing tests block the build and regressions in pure-logic modules are caught at build time.

Fixed

  • formatMonthCompact no longer throws RangeError on invalid month-id input; falls back to the input string, matching formatMonthLong and formatMonthShort behaviour.

[1.5.6] - 2026-05-16

Changed

  • Refactored the M12G data pipeline: markdown parsing is split from filesystem loading, a new Game-history aggregate powers both the leaderboard and the alphabetical game index, and title-defender derivation is now a pure projection (no in-place mutation). No behaviour changes for valid month files.

Fixed

  • M12G month files with missing required frontmatter (forum, title, finalized) or malformed list items now fail loud with the file name in the error, instead of silently dropping the month from the overview.

[1.5.5] - 2026-05-16

Changed

  • Added .npmrc with supply-chain security settings: 7-day package quarantine, blocked exotic subdependency specifiers, and disabled lifecycle scripts
  • Updated April 2026 m12g list content

[1.5.4] - 2026-05-11

Fixed

  • Docker production build no longer fails on /changelog prerender with ENOENT: /app/public/changelog.md: the root and frontend/ .dockerignore files excluded all *.md from the build context, so CHANGELOG.md was missing inside the container and scripts/copy-changelog.mjs had nothing to copy; both files now whitelist CHANGELOG.md with !CHANGELOG.md, and the script exits with a clear error (instead of warning and continuing) when the source file is missing, so this kind of misconfiguration fails fast and visibly

[1.5.3] - 2026-05-11

Changed

  • Simplified the /changelog implementation: a new scripts/copy-changelog.mjs prebuild step copies CHANGELOG.md to public/changelog.md, and the page reads it directly via fs.readFileSync; replaces the previous generated TypeScript module approach. As a bonus, the raw markdown is now also available at /changelog.md

Fixed

  • Silenced a pre-existing Turbopack “Encountered unexpected file in NFT list” build warning originating from src/lib/rss/feedCache.ts runtime cache writes; the documented /*turbopackIgnore: true*/ magic comment is a no-op for fs.* / path.join (it only applies to dynamic imports/requires), so the warning is suppressed via the new turbopack.ignoreIssue config in next.config.ts

[1.5.2] - 2026-05-11

Fixed

  • /changelog page now shows content: replaced the fragile build-time process.cwd() + env-var approach with a scripts/generate-changelog.mjs prebuild script that uses import.meta.dirname (always relative to the script file, never to the working directory) to read CHANGELOG.md and write its content into src/generated/changelog-content.ts; the page imports this TypeScript constant directly, so the content is resolved at compile time regardless of where the CI/CD runner executes from

[1.5.1] - 2026-05-11

Fixed

  • /changelog page now builds reliably in all CI/CD environments: CHANGELOG.md is read in next.config.ts where process.cwd() is guaranteed to be the project root, then injected as a build-time environment variable (BUILD_CHANGELOG_CONTENT) — eliminating runtime filesystem access and the path ambiguity that broke cloud builds

[1.5.0] - 2026-05-10

Added

  • Version number in the site footer (next to the font and theme pickers) linking to a new /changelog page that renders this CHANGELOG; the footer label and the page’s metadata both read from package.json so future releases update both automatically

Fixed

  • /changelog loads CHANGELOG.md reliably in CI and cloud deploys: getChangelogMarkdown() checks both the app root and frontend/CHANGELOG.md when process.cwd() is the monorepo root, and outputFileTracingIncludes in next.config.ts forces the file into the traced server output so Turbopack/serverless bundles no longer omit it

[1.4.0] - 2026-05-10

Added

  • Per-page Twitter Card metadata on all static and list routes (/, /artikel, /podcasts, /kategorien, /team, /datenschutz, /impressum, /feeds, /m12g, /m12g/spiele, /ueber-uns); previously these routes inherited the root default and rendered with the wrong title in social shares
  • articleSection, keywords, wordCount, and inLanguage fields on BlogPosting JSON-LD; keywords, inLanguage, and a partOfSeries.image on PodcastEpisode JSON-LD
  • inLanguage and isPartOf (WebSite reference) on CollectionPage (category) and ProfilePage (author) JSON-LD; worksFor (Organization reference) on author Person JSON-LD
  • Description fallback for article and podcast detail pages: when the CMS description is empty, a 155-character excerpt is now derived from the article body or podcast shownotes for both the <meta name="description"> tag and the JSON-LD, eliminating duplicate meta descriptions across articles
  • Alt text on the static /images/m10z.jpg Open Graph image for every static and list route

Changed

  • Consolidated the eleven near-identical static-page metadata blocks behind a single buildStaticListMetadata() helper that emits the standard OpenGraph, Twitter Card, canonical URL, and alt-tagged share image in one call

[1.3.4] - 2026-05-10

Changed

  • Centralised image URL handling behind a single lib/image module: the hostname allowlist, Strapi-relative URL resolution, and search-index URL normalisation now live in one place; SearchModal’s duplicated normaliser was collapsed onto the shared seam
  • Split the Markdown component’s plugin pipeline and rehype-sanitize allowlist out into lib/markdown/plugins.ts and the custom inline-syntax pre-processor (<mark>mark</mark>, <ins>ins</ins>, <sup>sup</sup>, <sub>sub</sub>) into lib/markdown/preprocess.ts so the security-relevant allowlist is auditable in one file
  • Extracted the article and audio feed handlers’ shared paginated-fetch and feed-single-config logic into lib/rss/feedFetcher.ts; both handlers slimmed (article 140 → 90 lines, audio 360 → 311 lines) while preserving their content-specific concerns intact
  • Replaced the 16 inline qs.stringify call sites in lib/strapiContent.ts with three intent-shaped query builders (buildBySlugQuery, buildBySlugsQuery, buildListQuery) and named populate presets in lib/strapi-queries; the file shrank from 1,214 to 787 lines and each fetcher is now 5–15 lines of intent
  • Tightened the cache-invalidation taxonomy: the frontend InvalidationTarget type now derives from INVALIDATION_TAXONOMY keys, the backend collapses its separate publish/update target maps into one declarative UID_TO_TARGETS config, and a documented cross-wire contract is now present in both files
  • Added a pnpm run snapshot:feeds script that locks the public /rss.xml and /audiofeed.xml XML byte-output to a golden fixture; runs after refactors as a regression guard
  • Upgraded backend dependencies (Strapi-side) and minor frontend dependency bumps
  • Updated team page description copy

[1.3.3] - 2026-05-06

Fixed

  • RSS and audio feed requests no longer block on synchronous Strapi rebuilds — the request path always serves the cached XML from disk or memory; the background scheduler is the sole refresh path under normal operation. Prevents the request-pile-up failure mode that previously crashed the site under load.

Changed

  • Consolidated the article and audio feed route handlers into a shared feedCache module that owns disk I/O, scheduling, ETag/304, rate limiting, and fallback responses; the per-feed handlers now only supply Strapi fetch and XML generation specifics

[1.3.2] - 2026-05-06

Added

  • April 2026 M12G dataset draft

Changed

  • Upgraded Next.js (16.2.3 → 16.2.4), undici, dompurify, and @fancyapps/ui
  • Cache invalidation endpoints now accept either FEED_INVALIDATION_TOKEN or LEGAL_INVALIDATION_TOKEN for any target
  • Consolidated ten /api/<type>/invalidate route handlers into a single dynamic /api/[target]/invalidate route backed by a declarative invalidation taxonomy

[1.3.1] - 2026-04-20

Added

  • Status page link (status.m10z.de) in the footer’s Rechtliches section

[1.3.0] - 2026-04-20

Added

  • Enabled Umami session replay by default via recorder.js with data-sample-rate, data-mask-level, and data-max-duration attributes
  • Support overriding the Umami base URL via NEXT_PUBLIC_UMAMI_URL; session replay tunables via NEXT_PUBLIC_UMAMI_SAMPLE_RATE, NEXT_PUBLIC_UMAMI_MASK_LEVEL, and NEXT_PUBLIC_UMAMI_MAX_DURATION

[1.2.3] - 2026-04-16

Fixed

  • Participation chart now shows newest months first, consistent with the Hall of Fame ordering

[1.2.2] - 2026-04-16

Added

  • Early Access badge on M12G game cards, replacing the verbose “(Early Access)” suffix in game titles with a compact “EA” pill

[1.2.1] - 2026-04-16

Added

  • March 2026 M12G dataset (“Early-Access-Armee vs. Full-Release-Rudel”)

Fixed

  • Titelträger badge only appearing for one game when multiple previous winners were nominated again

[1.2.0] - 2026-04-13

Added

  • /llms.txt route following the llmstxt.org proposal for LLM-friendly site discovery

Changed

  • Updated undici dependency (7.24.7 → 7.24.8)

[1.1.2] - 2026-04-11

Changed

  • Added technical inline comments across 26 files in frontend and backend to improve readability and maintainability
  • Documented non-obvious patterns: retry/backoff strategies, Strapi response normalization, atomic writes, timing-safe comparison, feed deduplication, focus trapping, and cache invalidation hierarchies

[1.1.1] - 2026-04-11

Fixed

  • Feed rebuild race condition where concurrent disk writes could corrupt cached XML
  • Article feed lastBuildDate changing on every rebuild, defeating ETag-based 304 responses
  • New content taking up to 30 minutes to appear in feeds after publishing (now rebuilds within 10 seconds)
  • In-memory feed cache bypassed on every request, causing unnecessary disk I/O
  • Invalid <lastBuildDate> element inside <item> tags in audio feed (RSS 2.0 spec violation)
  • Missing XML declaration in generated article and audio feeds
  • ETag comparison not handling multi-value If-None-Match headers per RFC 7232
  • Fallback feed XML not escaping interpolated values
  • Rate limit cleanup timer preventing clean process exit

Changed

  • Feed disk writes now use atomic rename to prevent partial-file corruption on crash
  • Feed invalidation uses debounced rebuild to prevent server overload during batch publishing

[1.1.0] - 2026-04-11

Added

  • Related content sections on article and podcast detail pages
  • Searchable game index page at /m12g/spiele
  • Static pages included in search index
  • Open Graph image generation for improved social sharing
  • Scheduled publishing support for prepared entries
  • SQL injection protection on user-facing inputs
  • Retry logic for transient Strapi fetch failures (timeouts, connection resets)

Fixed

  • Cache invalidation now covers related-content, article-feed, and audio-feed tags
  • Sitemap invalidation endpoint returning incorrect response body
  • Secret verification no longer leaks token length through timing differences
  • Improved error handling and logging in cache invalidation process

Changed

  • Updated dependencies (Next.js 16.2.3, React 19.2.5, undici 7.24.7)
  • Refactored content structure to use root attributes instead of BaseContent component
  • Removed Beta badge from M12G header