What Changed in June 2026

What changed in January to May 2026

Monday 1 June 2026

• Changes to try to reduce JS errors from pages not being fully loaded (Set_Section_Collapse and readCookie from pages)

→ Release 9.44.3.2

Wednesday 3 June 2026

• A catch for faulty boat size parameters added
• Added automatic error reporting to the background processor

→ Release 9.44.4

Thursday 4 June 2026

• A purge of old failed background jobs (over 50 days)

Friday 5 June 2026

• Partial fix to first buglet in issue 1390 - you return to the gazetteer top-level page, wherever you call from, but a lot better and probably all that is necessary.

Saturday 6 June 2026

• People tend to miss the ability to customise things, so:
• Changed "preferences" to "settings" which seems to be the widespread term for it these days
• And the icon to a cog from a wrench
• Moved it further up the menu to make it easier to find. It will mess with people's muscle memory for a while, but that doesn't seem to discourage Apple or Google or Samsung, so...
• Started on a "help us" plugin for places with the pub attribute set

Monday 8 June 2026

• Added a trap and catch mode for endless hacking attacks on the API
• Fixed bug in background processing to remove circle maps (detected by code in the previous release)

→ Release 9.44.5

• Added ability to reset the 'is a pub' attribute (but not to create it)

Tuesday 9 June 2026

• Fixed complicated bug where setting a newly created amenity to be the icon for a place did nothing
• Turned on the "Pub Attribute" help us plugin.

→ Release 9.44.6

Wednesday 10 June 2026

• Fixed a newly introduced bug where you couldn't add a new amenity if one was the symbol for the place

→ Release 9.44.6.1

• Added a trap to prevent pinchpoints being deleted

→ Release 9.44.6.2

Sunday 14 June 2026

• Proper test for whether the "edit distances" option is shown in the menu for waterways

Tuesday 16 June 2026

• Missing code added so that settings for amenity specific fields (for pubs and boatyards atm) are properly saved

→ Release 9.44.6.3

• Added display of specific fields to amenity popups. Configuration driven, so no need to change code if anything changes or is added

→ Release 9.44.7

Wednesday 17 June 2026

• Work on editing place details. Main aim is to force checking on the relative location of bridges and locks, but the code was a bit ancient so some tidying up was done at the same time. In all:
• Improved the lines between sections to reduce missing or duplicated ones
• Removed code to support winding hole/bridge pairs as that was no longer used
• Removed spare ?> from the end of the page (below the "spur" question)
• Added a blank first entry to the lock/bridge relation drop-down
• Added code to prevent submission if it's still blank and appropriate message

→ Release 9.44.8