worldmonitor/CHANGELOG.md

Changelog

All notable changes to World Monitor are documented here.

[2.4.0] - 2026-02-19

Added

• Live Webcams Panel: 2x2 grid of live YouTube webcam feeds from global hotspots with region filters (Middle East, Europe, Asia-Pacific, Americas), grid/single view toggle, idle detection, and full i18n support (#111)
• Linux download: added .AppImage option to download banner

Changed

• Mobile detection: use viewport width only for mobile detection; touch-capable notebooks (e.g. ROG Flow X13) now get desktop layout (#113)
• Webcam feeds: curated Tel Aviv, Mecca, LA, Miami; replaced dead Tokyo feed; diverse ALL grid with Jerusalem, Tehran, Kyiv, Washington

Fixed

• Le Monde RSS: English feed URL updated (/en/rss/full.xml → /en/rss/une.xml) to fix 404
• Workbox precache: added html to globPatterns so navigateFallback works for offline PWA
• Panel ordering: one-time migration ensures Live Webcams follows Live News for existing users
• Mobile popups: improved sheet/touch/controls layout (#109)
• Intelligence alerts: disabled on mobile to reduce noise (#110)
• RSS proxy: added 8 missing domains to allowlist
• HTML tags: repaired malformed tags in panel template literals
• ML worker: wrapped unloadModel() in try/catch to prevent unhandled timeout rejections
• YouTube player: optional chaining on playVideo?.() / pauseVideo?.() for initialization race
• Panel drag: guarded .closest() on non-Element event targets
• Beta mode: resolved race condition and timeout failures
• Sentry noise: added filters for Firefox too much recursion, maplibre _layers/id/type null crashes

[2.3.9] - 2026-02-18

Added

• Full internationalization (14 locales): English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish, Russian, Arabic, Chinese Simplified, Japanese — each with 1100+ translated keys
• RTL support: Arabic locale with dir="rtl", dedicated RTL CSS overrides, regional language code normalization (e.g. ar-SA correctly triggers RTL)
• Language switcher: in-app locale picker with flag icons, persists to localStorage
• i18n infrastructure: i18next with browser language detection and English fallback
• Community discussion widget: floating pill linking to GitHub Discussions with delayed appearance and permanent dismiss
• Linux AppImage: added ubuntu-22.04 to CI build matrix with webkit2gtk/appindicator dependencies
• NHK World and Nikkei Asia: added RSS feeds for Japan news coverage
• Intelligence Findings badge toggle: option to disable the findings badge in the UI

Changed

• Zero hardcoded English: all UI text routed through t() — panels, modals, tooltips, popups, map legends, alert templates, signal descriptions
• Trending proper-noun detection: improved mid-sentence capitalization heuristic with all-caps fallback when ML classifier is unavailable
• Stopword suppression: added missing English stopwords to trending keyword filter

Fixed

• Dead UTC clock: removed #timeDisplay element that permanently displayed --:--:-- UTC
• Community widget duplicates: added DOM idempotency guard preventing duplicate widgets on repeated news refresh cycles
• Settings help text: suppressed raw i18n key paths rendering when translation is missing
• Intelligence Findings badge: fixed toggle state and listener lifecycle
• Context menu styles: restored intel-findings context menu styles
• CSS theme variables: defined missing --panel-bg and --panel-border variables

[2.3.8] - 2026-02-17

Added

• Finance variant: Added a dedicated market-first variant (finance.worldmonitor.app) with finance/trading-focused feeds, panels, and map defaults
• Finance desktop profile: Added finance-specific desktop config and build profile for Tauri packaging

Changed

• Variant feed loading: loadNews now enumerates categories dynamically and stages category fetches with bounded concurrency across variants
• Feed resilience: Replaced direct MarketWatch RSS usage in finance/full/tech paths with Google News-backed fallback queries
• Classification pressure controls: Tightened AI classification budgets for tech/full and tuned per-feed caps to reduce startup burst pressure
• Timeline behavior: Wired timeline filtering consistently across map and news panels
• AI summarization defaults: Switched OpenRouter summarization to auto-routed free-tier model selection

Fixed

• Finance panel parity: Kept data-rich panels while adding news panels for finance instead of removing core data surfaces
• Desktop finance map parity: Finance variant now runs first-class Deck.GL map/layer behavior on desktop runtime
• Polymarket fallback: Added one-time direct connectivity probe and memoized fallback to prevent repeated ERR_CONNECTION_RESET storms
• FRED fallback behavior: Missing FRED_API_KEY now returns graceful empty payloads instead of repeated hard 500s
• Preview CSP tooling: Allowed https://vercel.live script in CSP so Vercel preview feedback injection is not blocked
• Trending quality: Suppressed noisy generic finance terms in keyword spike detection
• Mobile UX: Hidden desktop download prompt on mobile devices

[2.3.7] - 2026-02-16

Added

• Full light mode theme: Complete light/dark theme system with CSS custom properties, ThemeManager module, FOUC prevention, and getCSSColor() utility for theme-aware inline styles
• Theme-aware maps and charts: Deck.GL basemap, overlay layers, and CountryTimeline charts respond to theme changes in real time
• Dark/light mode header toggle: Sun/moon icon in the header bar for quick theme switching, replacing the duplicate UTC clock
• Desktop update checker: Architecture-aware download links for macOS (ARM/Intel) and Windows
• Node.js bundled in Tauri installer: Sidecar no longer requires system Node.js
• Markdown linting: Added markdownlint config and CI workflow

Changed

• Panels modal: Reverted from "Settings" back to "Panels" — removed redundant Appearance section now that header has theme toggle
• Default panels: Enabled UCDP Conflict Events, UNHCR Displacement, Climate Anomalies, and Population Exposure panels by default

Fixed

• CORS for Tauri desktop: Fixed CORS issues for desktop app requests
• Markets panel: Keep Yahoo-backed data visible when Finnhub API key is skipped
• Windows UNC paths: Preserve extended-length path prefix when sanitizing sidecar script path
• Light mode readability: Darkened neon semantic colors and overlay backgrounds for light mode contrast

[2.3.6] - 2026-02-16

Fixed

• Windows console window: Hide the node.exe console window that appeared alongside the desktop app on Windows

[2.3.5] - 2026-02-16

Changed

• Panel error messages: Differentiated error messages per panel so users see context-specific guidance instead of generic failures
• Desktop config auto-hide: Desktop configuration panel automatically hides on web deployments where it is not relevant

[2.3.4] - 2026-02-16

Fixed

• Windows sidecar crash: Strip \\?\ UNC extended-length prefix from paths before passing to Node.js — Tauri resource_dir() on Windows returns UNC-prefixed paths that cause EISDIR: lstat 'C:' in Node.js module resolution
• Windows sidecar CWD: Set explicit current_dir on the Node.js Command to prevent bare drive-letter working directory issues from NSIS shortcut launcher
• Sidecar package scope: Add package.json with "type": "module" to sidecar directory, preventing Node.js from walking up the entire directory tree during ESM scope resolution

[2.3.3] - 2026-02-16

Fixed

• Keychain persistence: Enable apple-native (macOS) and windows-native (Windows) features for the keyring crate — v3 ships with no default platform backends, so API keys were stored in-memory only and lost on restart
• Settings key verification: Soft-pass network errors during API key verification so transient sidecar failures don't block saving
• Resilient keychain reads: Use Promise.allSettled in loadDesktopSecrets so a single key failure doesn't discard all loaded secrets
• Settings window capabilities: Add "settings" to Tauri capabilities window list for core plugin permissions
• Input preservation: Capture unsaved input values before DOM re-render in settings panel

[2.3.0] - 2026-02-15

Security

• CORS hardening: Tighten Vercel preview deployment regex to block origin spoofing (worldmonitorEVIL.vercel.app)
• Sidecar auth bypass: Move /api/local-env-update behind LOCAL_API_TOKEN auth check
• Env key allowlist: Restrict sidecar env mutations to 18 known secret keys (matching SUPPORTED_SECRET_KEYS)
• postMessage validation: Add origin and source checks on incoming messages in LiveNewsPanel
• postMessage targetOrigin: Replace wildcard '*' with specific embed origin
• CORS enforcement: Add isDisallowedOrigin() check to 25+ API endpoints that were missing it
• Custom CORS migration: Migrate gdelt-geo and eia from custom CORS to shared _cors.js module
• New CORS coverage: Add CORS headers + origin check to firms-fires, stock-index, youtube/live
• YouTube embed origins: Tighten ALLOWED_ORIGINS regex in youtube/embed.js
• CSP hardening: Remove 'unsafe-inline' from script-src in both index.html and tauri.conf.json
• iframe sandbox: Add sandbox="allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-presentation" to YouTube embed iframe
• Meta tag validation: Validate URL query params with regex allowlist in parseStoryParams()

Fixed

• Service worker stale assets: Add skipWaiting, clientsClaim, and cleanupOutdatedCaches to workbox config — fixes NS_ERROR_CORRUPTED_CONTENT / MIME type errors when users have a cached SW serving old HTML after redeployment

[2.2.6] - 2026-02-14

Fixed

• Filter trending noise and fix sidecar auth
• Restore tech variant panels
• Remove Market Radar and Economic Data panels from tech variant

Docs

• Add developer X/Twitter link to Support section
• Add cyber threat API keys to .env.example

[2.2.5] - 2026-02-13

Security

• Migrate all Vercel edge functions to CORS allowlist
• Restrict Railway relay CORS to allowed origins only

Fixed

• Hide desktop config panel on web
• Route World Bank & Polymarket via Railway relay

[2.2.3] - 2026-02-12

Added

• Cyber threat intelligence map layer (Feodo Tracker, URLhaus, C2IntelFeeds, OTX, AbuseIPDB)
• Trending keyword spike detection with end-to-end flow
• Download desktop app slide-in banner for web visitors
• Country briefs in Cmd+K search

Changed

• Redesign 4 panels with table layouts and scoped styles
• Redesign population exposure panel and reorder UCDP columns
• Dramatically increase cyber threat map density

Fixed

• Resolve z-index conflict between pinned map and panels grid
• Cap geo enrichment at 12s timeout, prevent duplicate download banners
• Replace ipwho.is/ipapi.co with ipinfo.io/freeipapi.com for geo enrichment
• Harden trending spike processing and optimize hot paths
• Improve cyber threat tooltip/popup UX and dot visibility

[2.2.2] - 2026-02-10

Added

• Full-page Country Brief Page replacing modal overlay
• Download redirect API for platform-specific installers

Fixed

• Normalize country name from GeoJSON to canonical TIER1 name
• Tighten headline relevance, add Top News section, compact markets
• Hide desktop config panel on web, fix irrelevant prediction markets
• Tone down climate anomalies heatmap to stop obscuring other layers
• macOS: hide window on close instead of quitting

Performance

• Reduce idle CPU from pulse animation loop
• Harden regression guardrails in CI, cache, and map clustering

[2.2.1] - 2026-02-08

Fixed

• Consolidate variant naming and fix PWA tile caching
• Windows settings window: async command, no menu bar, no white flash
• Constrain layers menu height in DeckGLMap
• Allow Cloudflare Insights script in CSP
• macOS build failures when Apple signing secrets are missing

[2.2.0] - 2026-02-07

Initial v2.2 release with multi-variant support (World + Tech), desktop app (Tauri), and comprehensive geopolitical intelligence features.