Release Notes

Functionality in the MSO Organiser application will be migrated to the web application at mso.juliahayward.com over the course of 2020-2021

Since MSO 2020

• Aug 2021 - uploading CSV files from Wordpress site added
• Aug 2021 - Revised Pentamind formula and "no more than 3 Modern Abstract" rule change
• July 2021 - Separate BGA nicknames from others in the database
• July 2021 - Groundwork for automatic daily emails to contestants
• Sep 2020 - Standings pages replace view=new with header=true

Since MSO 2019

• Aug 2020 - PEWO, PEJR, PESR meta-events introduced for 2020; will add past ones later
• Aug 2020 - meta-event freezing now available on the web
• Aug 2020 - adding contestants into an event now available on the web
• 02/08/2020 Uploading JSON files from WooCommerce added to the web; desktop deprecated
• 25/07/2020 Discord, Whatsapp and online nicknames added
• 25/07/2020 Metagame options expanded for 2020
• 10/5/2020 Nationalities report moved to web
• 28/4/2020 Event Results page (editable for Arbiters) added, including showing partners on pairs events. Medals styled nicely.
• 23/12/2019 Downloads for SwissManager are now open to Arbiters (not that we have set any up yet)
• 23/12/2019 Login now supports various roles defined in database
• 6/9/2019 Medal table (by country) migrated - paper version remains for now
• 3/9/2019 Organiser's password change function migrated.

Since MSO 2018

• 17/8/2019 Totals added to web list of entrants per event
• 4/8/2019 Order processor now collects new emails and dates of birth from WooCommerce
• 27/7/19 Quasi-ELO ratings calculated based on past Pentamind scores
• 13/7/19 Organiser no longer displays msoworld.com (because of spurious security blacklisting) on startup, displays release notes instead.
• 13/7/19 Export of event entries to Swiss Perfect added.
• 16/6/19 Total Event Entries is now available (to Arbiters) on the website.
• 25/10/18 Eurogames meta-event - events are now in database (replaces hacks to exclude WODU when WOOC is in, and to exclude Hare&Tortoise and Acquire only in 2018)
• 25/10/18 Modern Abstract meta-event - events are now in database, not hard-coded (note that categories couldn't be used, because of Colour Chess)
• 21/10/18 Women who choose not to enter the Women's Pentamind now handled by database entries, not hard-coding
• 21/10/18 Database purged of late fees, observer tickets and other non-event "entries" from 1997-2003. The requirement for Events to have a four-letter code matching the relevant Game has been removed (although we will keep it as a convention)
• 14/10/18 Release notes added