chat/CHANGELOG.md

Changelog

All notable changes to CyberChat are documented here.

CyberChat 2.1.0 is the current baseline release. The earlier 2.0.0 commit is retained as the initial repository release. Commit hashes are included for traceability.

[Unreleased]

No changes have been documented after the 2.1.0 baseline.

[2.1.0] - 2026-06-09 - Current Baseline Release

This release establishes the current product baseline. It includes the account, subscription, archive, administration, polling, mobile audio, and FFmpeg work developed after 2.0.0.

Added

• Added a complete project changelog and expanded feature documentation.
• Added optional-email registration; users can create free accounts without supplying an email address. (063b8dc)
• Added Mailgun email verification using reusable cURL mail delivery, verification links, and six-digit codes. (063b8dc)
• Added tier-controlled email two-factor authentication and expiring login challenges. (063b8dc)
• Added Stripe Checkout, Billing Portal access, signed webhook handling, subscription synchronization, and end-of-period cancellation. (063b8dc)
• Added verified-email enforcement before premium checkout. (063b8dc)
• Added configurable Free, Plus, and Pro plans with prices, currencies, billing intervals, Stripe Price IDs, active status, ordering, and feature entitlements. (063b8dc)
• Added a global subscription visibility switch that hides new sales while preserving management for existing subscribers. (063b8dc)
• Added administrator subscriber tracking and subscription status data. (063b8dc)
• Added personal authenticated archives with tier-based retention, search, JSON export, CSV export, voice archive access, and voice export access. (063b8dc)
• Added configurable recording-presence sending and viewing. (063b8dc)
• Added configurable automatic voice sending. (063b8dc)
• Added tier-configurable automatic voice playback with a saved browser preference. (d0e4a87)
• Added tier-based custom username colors. (063b8dc)
• Added administrator tier overrides that grant plan features without changing Stripe billing. (d0e4a87)
• Added visitor and feature event statistics using salted IP hashes. (063b8dc)
• Added optional automatic and manual SQLite-to-MySQL/MariaDB mirroring. (063b8dc)
• Added the Plans & Platform administrator module for plans, services, subscribers, statistics, and mirroring. (063b8dc)
• Added request timeouts, configurable retry backoff, and a capped rendered-message buffer. (ef7a9a3, ccdbc47)
• Added asset cache-busting to deliver frontend fixes immediately. (d0e4a87)
• Added Safari and iPhone recording support using MP4/AAC when WebM is unavailable. WebM/Opus remains the preferred browser format where supported. (6217a21)
• Added upload handling and MIME detection for MP4/M4A and AAC alongside WebM and WAV. (6217a21)
• Added MIME-aware, inline mobile audio playback through <source> elements. (6217a21)
• Added optional FFmpeg voice transcoding with dashboard configuration for:
  • Enable or disable
  • Executable name or absolute path
  • AAC bitrate
  • Conversion timeout
  • Original-file fallback
  • M4A/AAC-LC output
  • MP4/H.264 baseline plus AAC-LC output
• Added lib/voice_transcoder.php with process timeout handling, output validation, atomic source replacement, and failure fallback. (6217a21)
• Added Apache and Nginx MIME mappings for WebM, WAV, AAC, M4A, and MP4 voice files. (6217a21)

Changed

• Raised the documented PHP requirement from 8.0 to 8.1 for the expanded platform. (063b8dc)
• Redirected the public archive browser to the authenticated personal archive experience. (063b8dc)
• Expanded the SQLite schema for plans, plan features, subscriptions, email tokens, login challenges, recording presence, visitor events, and Stripe event deduplication. (063b8dc)
• Reworked the browser application into cyberchat-v4.js for account, billing, archive, plan, and voice workflows. (063b8dc)
• Replaced overlapping polling with a single queued cursor worker. (ccdbc47)
• Added immediate catch-up polling, stalled-request cancellation, bounded exponential retry, deduplication, chronological insertion, and capped browser history. (ccdbc47)
• Prevented local sends from advancing the server cursor and skipping interleaved messages. (ef7a9a3)
• Made successful sends request immediate reconciliation while allowing polling to continue after failures. (ef7a9a3)
• Disabled browser caching for API requests. (ef7a9a3)
• Renamed the active browser client from cyberchat-v4.js to cyberchat-app.js and removed the obsolete original cyberchat.js. (a1971f9)
• Added exact user_id ownership data to message payloads so sent and received messages can be identified reliably. (195f3fa)
• Changed message ordering to use server timestamps followed by message ID. (ae0fb45)
• Changed message timestamps to be assigned atomically during SQLite insertion. (ae0fb45)
• Expanded README.md into a full feature, audio, configuration, deployment, administration, billing, archive, and diagnostics reference. (5c1d236)
• Advanced frontend cache-busting versions through 20260609.3, .4, .5, and .6 as client behavior changed. (a1971f9, 195f3fa, ae0fb45, 6217a21)

Fixed

• Fixed incoming voice clips failing to populate on another user's screen. (d0e4a87)
• Fixed polling, unread state, and live membership refresh after group and voice activity. (d0e4a87)
• Fixed polling stopping after voice or text sends. (ef7a9a3)
• Fixed stalled polls by aborting and retrying them automatically. (ef7a9a3)
• Fixed message loss when a local send occurred between server poll results. (ef7a9a3)
• Replaced separate send and poll rendering paths with one ID-keyed message ledger. (195f3fa)
• Removed duplicate message rows and duplicate voice players during DOM reconciliation. (195f3fa)
• Ensured poll cursors advance only from validated server messages. (195f3fa)
• Ensured each newly received voice clip is queued for automatic playback only once. (195f3fa)
• Fixed the remaining send/poll race by waiting for polling to catch up before rendering acknowledged sent messages. (ae0fb45)
• Prevented interleaved messages from appearing above or below the wrong message after incremental refresh. (ae0fb45)
• Kept the latest message at the bottom without requiring a full-page refresh. (195f3fa, ae0fb45)

Removed

• Fully removed groups from homepage navigation, account features, tier settings, APIs, client code, archives, and administrator controls. (a1971f9)
• Added automatic cleanup of legacy group tables, entitlements, messages, voice files, and configuration. (a1971f9)

Historical Group Development

Groups were developed during the 2.1.0 cycle, then removed before the baseline was finalized. These entries are retained only to preserve project history.

• Added private groups with plan-based member limits as part of the platform expansion. (063b8dc)
• Added a global Group Availability switch that hid navigation and blocked group APIs without initially deleting stored group data. (2881a3b)
• Added missing global and per-tier group controls to the administrator dashboard. (de8ec43)
• Split tier group configuration into an explicit enable toggle and a separate maximum-members value with a minimum of two, including the owner. (7214bb6)
• Removed group UI, APIs, configuration, tier entitlements, administrator controls, and archive exposure during the polling redesign. Legacy records were initially left inaccessible. (ccdbc47)
• See Removed above for the final schema and data purge. (a1971f9)

[2.0.0] - 2026-06-08 - Initial Repository Release

Added

• Added the self-contained PHP, JavaScript, HTML5, and SQLite chat application. (33a176f)
• Added instant callsign and passphrase registration with bcrypt password hashing. (33a176f)
• Added session login, secure random tokens, IP/cookie restrictions, expiration, and logout. (33a176f)
• Added text chat with configurable length limits and regular HTTP polling. (33a176f)
• Added daily chat rollover and per-day SQLite archives under archive/{year}/{month}/{day}.sqlite. (33a176f)
• Added browser voice recording, preview, upload, storage, and queued WAV/WebM playback. (33a176f)
• Added the dark neon cyberpunk interface and saved light-mode toggle. (33a176f)
• Added an embeddable frontend initialized with CyberChat.init(). (33a176f)
• Added the administrator dashboard with:
  • System overview
  • Live message search, editing, bulk deletion, and day cleanup
  • Voice clip playback, filtering, archiving, and deletion
  • Archive browsing and moderation
  • User creation and account management
  • Session inspection and termination
  • Live JSON configuration editing
• Added runtime diagnostics for PHP, SQLite, storage permissions, and sessions. (33a176f)
• Added Apache upload protection and Nginx deployment configuration. (33a176f, 2e5c42c)
• Corrected the README product title to CYBERCHAT v2.0. (2e5c42c, 9e3ff61)

Commit Index

Date	Commit	Summary
2026-06-08	33a176f	Initial 2.0.0 application
2026-06-08	2e5c42c	Apache rules and initial README title correction
2026-06-08	9e3ff61	Finalized the CYBERCHAT v2.0 README title
2026-06-08	063b8dc	Major voice, account, plans, Mailgun, Stripe, archive, statistics, and MySQL expansion
2026-06-08	d0e4a87	Automatic voice play, admin tier overrides, and live refresh fixes
2026-06-08	2881a3b	Global group availability
2026-06-08	de8ec43	Restored missing global and tier group controls
2026-06-08	7214bb6	Explicit group enable toggle and member maximum
2026-06-08	ef7a9a3	Poll recovery after voice and text sends
2026-06-08	ccdbc47	Queued polling redesign and initial group removal
2026-06-09	a1971f9	Complete group removal and legacy cleanup
2026-06-09	195f3fa	ID-keyed message ledger and duplicate-player cleanup
2026-06-09	ae0fb45	Final chronological ordering race fix
2026-06-09	6217a21	Safari/iPhone audio and optional FFmpeg transcoding
2026-06-09	5c1d236	Comprehensive README documentation

All development after 2.0.0, together with the changelog and version alignment, comprises the 2.1.0 baseline release.