Changelog

Version 4

v4.1.0

New:
  • Added in-page HTML puzzles
  • Added lookup staff page
  • Added autocomplete fields to admin
  • Add github CI
  • Moved to file uploads from URLS/downloads.
Updates:
  • Chat now has 2 min polling on all hunt pages
  • Better chat notifications
  • Redirect to login screen more often when permissions are wrong
  • Removed individual unlock buttons from progress page
  • Shibboleth works on traefik reverse proxy now
  • Navbar rewrite
  • Locust updates
  • Deployment tweaks
Bugfixes:
  • Don’t ratelimit by team for past hunts
  • Removed hint submission box when hunt is public
  • Display end date for multi-day hunts
  • Fix flatpages deployment bugs
  • More hint bugfixes

v4.0.0

New:

  • Now requires Django 2.2 (and therefore requires Python 3)

  • Added hints

    • Staff can now set various rules for when to grant teams hint requests
    • Once a team has a hint request, they can request a hint for a specific puzzle
    • There are new pages for requesting, viewing, and answering hints

  • Added the ability to unlock puzzles using points (time)

    • Puzzles can now be unlocked through solves or points
    • Points can be gotten by solving puzzles and/or over time (both settable via the admin interface)

  • Information pages are now editable via the admin interface

    • All “information pages” except for the homepage are now editable via the “info pages” admin section
    • It is possible to add additional extra pages to the top navbar via the admin interface

  • The download command output is now displayed when downloading puzzles and resources

  • All of the main python files in the project are now PEP8/flake8 compliant

  • Standard deployment is now all done through docker and docker compose

  • Very large documentation update. Now has actually helpful docs for hunt creation and running

Updates:
  • Puzzle PDFs are now directly embedded in puzzle pages rather than using PNGs
  • The progress page now sorts by last overall time rather than meta/non-meta time individually
  • Almost all forms on both user and staff pages are now styled using bootstrap
  • Many admin pages now support better searching, filtering and sorting of items
  • Puzzle ID’s can now be up to 5 hexadecimal digits (up from 3)
  • Teams can now register in the 2 days before the hunt but cannot request a room
  • Updated text on index and hunt info pages to work for multi-day hunts
  • Due to points/time puzzles, playtest teams now must have a start and end date/time
  • The submission box now goes away after a team submits a correct answer
  • Removed the “submissions after solve” chart on the admin “Charts” page
  • Removed the hidden “depgraph” staff page
  • Tweaked ratelimits, they are now more restrictive
  • The test suite no longer requires internet access to run
  • Removed reliance on django-nose, six, and PyPDF libraries
Bugfixes:
  • Informational logs no longer cause an error when presented with a unicode character
  • Media path bug fixed
  • Fixed logout redirect when shibboleth is disabled
  • Various typo, readability, and small bug fixes

Version 3

v3.5.0

New:
  • Teams can now no longer change their name within 2 days of the hunt
  • It is now possible to easily assign rooms to many teams from the info page
  • Added basic informational logging to the huntserver app
Updates:
  • Nicer pages and messages displayed when a user doesn’t have access to an area
  • Many code changes made to allow easier deployment of a generic version
  • Single puzzle unlock now has a confirmation popup
  • Added some look/feel features to staff chat to improve clarity
  • Ratelimits have been stacked and tightened down to a more reasonable level
  • Server now supports 5 digit puzzle IDs
Bugfixes:
  • Fixed ability to log into dev server using shibboleth
  • Fixed bug that meant solutions could only be downloaded for the current hunt

v3.4.0

New:
  • Puzzles and hunts now have an additional field for generic data storage
  • Puzzle solution PDFs can now be entered and displayed after the hunt ends
  • Queue can now be filtered by team and/or puzzle
  • Hunts can now have a “resources” link for additional static content
  • Chat link in navbar now has a “number of unread messages” badge
  • Ctrl/Cmd-S now will now save the current mode in the django admin
Updates:
  • The announcement checkbox in staff chat now automatically get unchecked after sending
  • The “Current Hunt” link now has time sensitive behavior for before/during hunts
  • Due to the addition of hunt resources, hunt asset files are now deprecated
  • Updated wording to Previous/Current/Next hunt on the index page based on date
  • The hunt management page has been redesigned for easier usage
  • Most staff pages now have been updated to better utilize bootstrap
Bugfixes:
  • Fixed progress page bug which update initial solve time if solved again
  • Fixed sorting bug on the progress page regarding meta-solve-time
  • Fixed a bug where the queue would roll items to the next page when not needed
  • Fixed a number of small CSS errors and typos

v3.3.0

New:
  • Python 3 compatibility
  • Now requires Django 1.11 (Start of Django 2.0 compatibility)
  • New testing and coverage framework, including integration with travis-ci/coveralls
  • New admin layout that supports new Django version
  • Added “Info” page for staff showing team locations and allergies
  • New load testing framework
  • Added support for “HTML puzzles” that are just a webpage rather than a PDF
  • Added support for customizable prepuzzles.
Updates:
  • Setup script is now idempotent
  • Added information to previous hunt page
  • Many minor fixes to reduce server load
  • Hunt start and end dates are now controllable independently from display dates
  • Progress page now sortable by success metrics
Bugfixes:
  • First message no longer gets lost when sent by staff
  • Teams now automatically get deleted if all users leave before the hunt starts
  • Past hunts now viewable when not logged in

v3.2.0

New:
  • Common punctuation ( _-;:+,.!?) is now automatically stripped from puzzle answer submissions
  • All string fields now support unicode characters
  • Puzzle answer submissions are now ratelimited to 10 submissions per minute
  • New charts and other info on charts page
  • Puzzle pages now show a solve count
  • Teams can now update their name before the hunt starts from the team management page
Updates:
  • Staff chat now allows staff to initiate conversations with teams
  • Chat now automatically scrolls to the bottom upon loading and new messages
  • Minor style changes including navbar and team name rendering

v3.1.1

Updates:
  • Updated documentation to include instructions for hunt asset files

v3.1.0

New:
  • Users can now update their profile information including name, email, phone, and food preferences
  • Teams can now update their own location from the registration page
  • Automatic submission responses now support markdown style links
  • Progress page now has a button to unlock a specific puzzle for all teams
  • New 404 and 500 error pages to match website’s style
Updates:
  • Removed unlockables tab from hunt header due to disuse
  • Progress and Queue page now have sleeker more compact look
  • Hunt info page now pulls max team size from database
  • “Contact us” page now has more contact info
  • Unused /staff URLs will now route to /admin URLs
Bugfixes:
  • Fixed bug where team names could be made entirely of whitespace characters
  • Removed dummy teams from all normal hunt interactions
  • Fixed bug where parts of old hunt headers lead to the current hunt pages
  • Fixed bug where staff announcements triggered new message alert for other staff members.
  • Fixed bug in 3.0.3 relating to the use of “is not None” in info_views

v3.0.3

New:
  • Documentation of models, views, configuration, and how to run the server.

v3.0.2

Bugfixes:
  • Fixed bug where chat would throw an error if the hunt did not have any messages yet
  • Fixed bug where sometimes staff chat button remapping script wouldn’t load

v3.0.1

Bugfixes:
  • Fixed bug where staff had to have puzzle unlocked to view puzzle

v3.0.0

New:
  • Staff interaction with server via SSH is no longer necessary for normal hunt creation
    • The template for each puzzlehunt is now editable from an web-based inline editor
      • The editor is located on the admin page for each hunt
      • The editor supports syntax highlighting for HTML and CSS
      • HTML files in the template folder of the form hunt#.html are now useless
    • Hunt-specific web assets such as fonts and images can now be uploaded from admin interface
      • Assets are stored in the /media/hunt/assets/ directory
    • Hunt specific files should no longer be included in the repository

Version 2

v2.7.2

Updates:
  • Added password reset link to login page

v2.7.1

Bugfixes:
  • Fixed issue with custom tabular template that prevented editing puzzle details
  • Various typo fixes on the login selection page

v2.7.0

New:
  • Progress page now shows last submission time for unsolved team/puzzle squares
  • Staff chat now supports announcements to all teams
  • Added 3 new charts to the staff charts page

v2.6.4

Bugfixes:
  • Fixed bug where previous hunt page would also show future hunts

v2.6.3

Updates:
  • Offsite and dummy teams are no longer shown in charts

v2.6.2

Bugfixes:
  • Fixed bug where looking at an open hunt while not on a team would cause an error

v2.6.1

Updates:
  • Changed staff header contents to be relevant to website content

v2.6.0

New:
  • Added simplistic rendering of unlocking structure graph
  • Added ability to reset password via email for local accounts
  • Added ability to send email to all hunt participants directly from the email page
  • Added ability to update local PDF of individual puzzles
  • Added ability to edit puzzle responses from the respective puzzle page
Updates:
  • Puzzle unlocking GUI has been reversed, now selects which puzzles unlock current puzzle
  • Regex for responding to answers is now case-insensitive
  • New CSS style for staff pages using updated bootstrap theme
  • Default action for incorrect responses is now the “Canned Response” instead of nothing
Bugfixes:
  • Current hunt link no longer changes destination depending on current page
  • Patched several security vulnerabilities related to account registration and Shibboleth

v2.5.2

Bugfixes:
  • Removed bad staff footer
  • Fixed incorrect contact information

v2.5.1

Updates:
  • Updated “Not Released” page style to match the rest of the pages
Bugfixes:
  • Fixed bug where correct answers on old hunts were styled as wrong answers
  • Fixed bug where puzzle page would “lose” a submission response

v2.5.0

New:
  • All pages now support google analytics tracking

v2.4.1

Bugfixes:
  • Fixed URL for University of Pittsburgh IDP

v2.4.0

New:
  • Staff queue now is paginated for faster load times
  • Submissions may now be computationally responded to using regexes
  • Old hunts are now preserved properly and playable
  • Server now supports “Playtesting” teams who get early access to puzzles
  • AJAX requests now only fire when the page is active to reduce web traffic
  • Correct answer submissions may now have response texts other than “Correct!”
  • Support for running simultaneous development server(s)
    • Identifying header when on development server
    • Django debug toolbar present when on development server
Updates:
  • Setting the current hunt is now done on the control page instead of the settings file
  • Updated look of staff chat, switched to side tabs for usability
  • Server now uses PyPDF2 to get PDF length to lessen reliance on outside tools
  • AJAX code updated to support model based data generation
  • Moved all in-page javascript to separate files
  • Removed all Redis websocket code from codebase
  • All effectful web requests are now done in POST requests
Bugfixes:
  • Fixed bug where staff members had to be on a team for the queue to update
  • Fixed bug where local clock skew would cause the queue to miss updates
  • Fixed bug where AJAX would fail if there weren’t any submissions yet
  • Shibboleth will now default to local login when not configured
  • Removed unnessecary CSRF token from certain GET requests

v2.3.0

New:
  • Moved from websocket/subscription model to AJAX/polling model for efficiency and simplicity

v2.2.0

New:
  • Resources page now contains helpful links
  • Users are now able to leave a team from the registration page
  • Users are now able to see their room assignment from the registration page
Updates:
  • Configuration files are now in a separate directory
  • Apache is now configured to use uWSGI emperor mode
  • Improved registration page
  • Static files are now served using Apache and X-Sendfile for efficiency
Bugfixes:
  • Username is now hidden when the navbar is too small to display it properly
  • Various bug fixes related to properly creating Shibboleth accounts

v2.1.0

New:
  • Server now supports Shibboleth authentication for users

v2.0.1

Bugfixes:
  • Fixed improper unicode method on Person object
  • Visiting a hunt’s page while not on a team no longer results in an error

v2.0.0

New:
  • Server now is one account per person instead of one account per team
    • Registration is completely re-written
    • Websocket code for most pages is re-written (relied on user)
    • Old databases are incompatible and must be regenerated
      • Migration files restarted at 0001
      • No automatic way to migrate data from previous scheme
  • Added new informational pages
    • New home page with organization details!
    • Other information pages such as “Contact Us” and “Resources”
Updates:
  • ADMIN_ACCTS variable no longer used anywhere and removed
  • Page load time improvements to Progress and Queue staff pages

Version 1

v1.3.0

Updates:
  • All pages now styled with bootstrap
  • All staff/admin views now rely on the “Staff” label instead of ADMIN_ACCTS

v1.1.1

Bugfixes:
  • Re-fixed bug where users are able to submit answer when hunt is not open
  • Fixed XSS vulnerability in chat updating
  • Fixed broken link to goat.mp3
  • Fixed unnecessary response of full HTML page for ajax requests.

v1.1.0

New:
  • Added text to registration page to assist in registration
  • Added Emails page for easy access to hunter’s emails
  • Location is now a field when registering
  • Users are now able to view an existing registration with password
Updates:
  • Static files are now collected after downloading puzzles

v1.0.1

Bugfixes:
  • Fixed issue with chat websockets not sending properly

v1.0.0

New:
  • Added documentation!
Updates:
  • Phone number is no longer a required field in registration
  • Puzzles are now automatically unlocked for newly registered teams

Pre-release

v0.6.0

New:
  • Teams may now have a size limit
  • Static file access is now protected by unlock structure
Updates:
  • Answer box now clears upon submission
  • Puzzle image quality improved
  • Code is better commented
  • Important private settings have been moved to an untracked file
  • PDFs are now served from the local downloaded copy
Bugfixes:
  • Puzzles may no longer be solved when the hunt is not open

v0.5.0

New:
  • Added Hunt Control page with actions to reset or release all puzzles
  • Added chat functionality to allow hunters to chat with staff
  • Added images of puzzles on each puzzle page
  • Added ability to unlock objects upon a puzzle solve
  • Added Unlockables page to view unlocked objects
  • Added Registration page to allow self registration of teams
Updates:
  • Responses are now changeable after submitting
Bugfixes:
  • Progress page no longer displays UTC times
  • Fixed XSS vulnerability in Queue page
  • Users can now only be on 1 team

v0.4.0

New:
  • Added “Access Denied” page and appropriate logic
  • Added “Staleness coloring” on progress page
  • Added Team/Puzzle status chart to charts page
Updates:
  • Puzzle ID’s are now unique
  • Phone number no longer required for Team creation
  • Updated style of header

v0.3.0

New:
  • Added Progress page to show all teams’ progress
  • Added support for live updating on Progress page
Updates:
  • Styled built-in admin pages to look like staff pages

v0.2.0

New:
  • Added Login, Landing, Puzzle and Queue pages
  • Added answer submission on puzzle page and answer viewing on queue page
  • Added websocket functionality to allow Puzzle and Queue pages to update live

v0.1.0

New:
  • Django webserver with base models and views
  • Deployment configuration for nginx and mySQL