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Changelogs

v4.9.0 - Error Tracking and Live Content Updates

Oct 14 2026

Added

  • General
    • Error tracking: Sentry is now set up on the site.

Updated

  • General
    • Content updated in the CMS now appears on the site right away.
    • Featured checklists refresh on a regular schedule.

Fixed

  • General
    • The pricing page never refreshed. It now updates every hour.

v4.8.3 - Live Comparison Data

Sep 21 2026

Added

  • Benchmark & Compare
    • Live comparison data: the comparison table now reads a boat's specifications straight from Sanity, so any edit shows up immediately instead of waiting on a rebuild.
    • Rigging on the comparison table: rigging type now displays properly — it previously always showed a dash.
    • Full photo galleries in comparisons: comparison galleries now show a boat's entire photo set, not just a single image.

Updated

  • Search & Explore
    • Search now matches against type, hull, material, category, activity and description — not just the boat's name.
    • Result cards fetch roughly half the data per keystroke, making search feel noticeably snappier while typing.
    • Search no longer returns false matches from internal ID fragments.
    • The See photos button now stays disabled until the photos have actually finished loading.

Fixed

  • General
    • Boat pages no longer trip Search Console's invalid Product warning.
  • Benchmark & Compare
    • A missing or broken comparison cover image can no longer crash the card.
  • Search & Explore
    • Unpublished boats no longer leak into search results, or get removed from the index by mistake.
    • Maker name and year now render correctly on result cards.

v4.8.0 - Favourite Boats Are Back

Sep 18 2026

Added

  • Favourites
    • Favourite boats are back: the favourite toggle works again (now against the Laravel API), with a dedicated Favourite boats page. A link to your favourite boats now sits in the account menu and the mobile drawer.

Updated

  • General
    • A large amount of dead compare/explore/discover code removed along with the Strapi CMS — leaner pages, no change in behaviour.

Fixed

  • Favourites
    • The favourite toggle now stays inside the boat card instead of escaping its bounds.

v4.7.6 - Sitemap SEO Consolidation

Sep 02 2026

Added

  • General
    • Added sitemap_index.xmlconsolidating every sitemap behind one index for search engines

Updated

  • General
    • Updated robots.txt consolidating every sitemap behind one index for search engines

v4.7.0 - URL & SEO Fixes

Aug 25 2026

Fixed

  • General
    • 64 boat pages were unreachable: boat slugs stored with uppercase letters (e.g. crn-5G-2011) were redirected to a lowercase URL that then 404'd. Slug lookup is now case-insensitive and every link, sitemap entry, canonical and structured-data reference emits the same lowercase form
    • Duplicate titles and descriptions: /boats and /maker reused the site-wide title and description (~70 URLs in one duplicate group); a hull type and a category both named "Catamaran Boats" produced identical titles; facet pages all shipped the same description. All now generate their own
    • Heading structure: empty headings from loading skeletons shipping ahead of the real h1, footer column labels rendered as headings on all 5,776 pages, and skipped heading levels in maker listings are fixed. Maker page h1s are descriptive instead of a bare 9-character name
    • Blog links pointed at a redirecting subdomain: blog cards now link same-origin instead of bouncing through a 301
    • Six carousels all used "explore all" as their link text; /boats now has 62 distinct link labels. Five images were missing alt text
    • The API docs explorer no longer gets indexed
    • Boat card image placeholder now renders properly when a boat has no photo

Timeline

  1. v4.9.0

    Error Tracking and Live Content Updates

    Oct 14 2026
  2. v4.8.3

    Live Comparison Data

    Sep 21 2026
  3. v4.8.0

    Favourite Boats Are Back

    Sep 18 2026
  4. v4.7.6

    Sitemap SEO Consolidation

    Sep 02 2026
  5. v4.7.0

    URL & SEO Fixes

    Aug 25 2026
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