This release brings technical breaking changes or renamings (⚠️) which might require migrating to a newer Node.js version or updating existing customization files.
👟 Runtime
- Added support for Node.js 21.x
- Removed support for Node.js 16.x and no longer provide packaged distributions for this version (⚠️)
- Removed inofficial support for Node.js 17.x
🎨 UI
- 1946f2e: The new Score Board introduced with
v15.1.0is now the default - Inverted banners and option to switch layouts to allow setting the legacy Score Board as default
- #2152: Enchanced scrolling behavior in Coding Challenge modal to keep buttons always visible (kudos to @bogminic)
🕵️ Cheat Detection
- #2150: Switched to median instead of average to calculate total cheat score
- Monitor and report on expected URL interactions to happen before related challenges are solved (no score impact yet)
🔙 Backward compatibility
- #2149: Links to
/#/score-board?challenge=<name>will now be rewritten into /#/score-board?searchQuery= to keep existing OpenCRE links working
⚙️ DevOps Automation
- Update default Node.js version for non-matrix build jobs to 20.x
- Update Node.js version in base Docker images to 20.x