Changelog

All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.

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The format is based on Keep a Changelog, and this project aims to adhere to Semantic Versioning.

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This changelog features a color coding so you can quickly identify changes that are of interest to you by segment.

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• Security
• Added
• Changed
• Removed
• Fixed

Change Category

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• Tracking/Privacy
• Features
• Usability/QoL
• Design/Frontend
• Internal/Backend

v4.5.1 - 2024-04-22

Fixed

• Solo Queue Rank caching is less defensive now
• Cleaned up some internal crawling endpoints to help combat stale and deadlocked profiles

v4.5.0 - 2024-04-22

Added

• Profiles and leaderboards now feature a Solo Rank display
  • On profiles this will also link to the matching OP.GG

Removed

• Users can no longer look up their profiles using their old summoner names since Riot removed the corresponding endpoint.

v4.4.0 - 2024-03-31

Added

• Added new affiliate: 1v9.GG
• Internal crawling endpoints to setup automatic leaderboard refreshes

v4.3.0 - 2024-03-21

Added

• Nostalgia mode for april fools

Changed

• Switched back to AdSense ads

v4.2.2 - 2024-02-29

Fixed

• Region update comparison now works as intended
• Spaces in taglines are now properly supported
• Disabled some unused data aggregation
• Added catch in case Riot API won't return a player's game name (why is this a thing?)
• Added catches for non-breaking leaderboard issues
• Made empty profiles less confusing

v4.2.1 - 2023-12-25

Fixed

• Fixed leaderboard pagination
• Added some fallbacks for things that would frequently cause needless errors (mainly from crawlers)

v4.2.0 - 2023-12-24

Added

• New Multi search which allows to combine the mastery of up to 5 profiles
  • All previously existing chart types are supported
  • The "More Charts" page provides additional info on the separate profiles
• A champions page that allows quickly finding a champion's leaderboard
• Pinyin transliteration

Changed

• As character sets are no longer region-locked, transliteration now works based on detected character sets instead of profile region
• Switched to a self-hosted instance of Sentry for better performance and privacy

Fixed

• Added some more failsafes when loading from cache to reduce the chance of getting a white screen
• Reduced RAM usage for players with many leaderboard positions
  • This caused some profile pages to crash
• Fixed a bug that wrongfully loaded skin backgrounds for the Mastery Table

Security

• Patched a XSS vulnerability
  • Introduced with and hotfixed during v4.1.0

v4.1.0 - 2023-12-15

Added

• The short summary in summoner profiles can now be changed between 3 different modes
  • Champions at level 1+/5+/7 (default)
  • Champions at level 5/6/7 (previous default)
  • Champions at level 1/2/3/4/5/6/7
• The mastery table now shows more information for people who haven't reached a leaderboard spot yet
  • The pts required for the last leaderboard spot will be displayed and can be hovered for comparison.
  • If either of these conditions is met the info will be shown:
  • It's one of the top 5 champions by mastery
  • Over 200K mastery
  • Over 50% of the last leaderboard spot's mastery
• Error tracking using Sentry
• A Terms of Service page

Changed

• Better request parallelization for quicker response times
• Leaderboards now don't have a hard limit at 21,600 pts
  • This makes leaderboards for new champions a lot more useful
• The profile head has been redesigned for mobile devices
• Home splash is now Winterblessed Hecarim
• Preparation for CMP switch from Quantcast to Sourcepoint for TCF compliance

Fixed

• The search will no longer break on number-only taglines starting with a zero
• Table backgrounds aren't broken for certain leaderboard arrangements anymore
• The more charts page now links back to the profile again
• Internal error tracking for database issues now contains an error code

v4.0.1 - 2023-11-24

Fixed

• Favorite and stored search links now have another fallback layer
• Broken Mastery Table backgrounds were fixed
• Made the 404 error message more verbose when the tagline is missing

v4.0.0 - 2023-11-23

Big changes! Check out our article over at the blog for more info and context!

Added

• Loading animations when charts are updated or mastery info is collected
• Voronoi Treemap, Sunburst, Treemap and Icicle now have more modes
• Riot ID support with temporary backwards compatibility
  • If you haven't changed your Riot ID yet, your old links will probably still work
• Added menu for quick access to useful pages
• Ability to delete your favorite summoner selection directly on the home page
• "Fake summoner" will be suggested when a new profile is looked up to reduce confusion
• Small CSS touches for more tooltip clarity
• Proper testing, code analysis and deployment strategy

Changed

• Rewrote the Voronoi Treemap to use D3v6 instead of D3v4, making it much faster and less prone to create misplaced elements
• Static assets are now served from outside the application to make updates more fluent
  • Source code/docker image will be open-source and available at MasteryChart/DataDragon soon
• Fully refactored the entire backend for better security, maintainability and reliability
• Sunburst by class and by level have been condensed into a single page (+ new level/count mode)
• Purists who played another champion will now (as intended) lose their leaderboard spot
• The short mastery info now shows Mastery 1+/5+/7 instead of Mastery 5/6/7
• Blog was moved to https://blog.masterychart.com
• FAQ were moved to a blog page
• Feedback platform was replaced with feedback form due to abuse of the former
• Ads are served by Freestar instead of Google AdSense now
  • Consent options can be found in the footer's "Legal" section

Deprecated

• Support for summoner names will be removed at some point in the future
  • This will break all links without a tagline

v3.3.0 - 2023-03-04

Changed

• User tracking is now via (self-hosted) Plausible instead of Umami. The extent of collected data is unchanged.
• Table headers are now sticky on large screens

Removed

• Removed Mastery Points totals from Leaderboard table
  • This will come back at some point as a separate set of visualizations

v3.2.0 - 2023-03-01

Added

• Integrated, anonymous Feedback Platform
• Global ranks in summoner profiles now display extra detail when hovering
  • Fully interactive bar chart for comparison with other leaderboard ranked players
  • For now, this will be for global rankings only
• Leaderboard table will display threshold to enter the leaderboard and total collected points
  • The latter also displays player count and average Mastery Points per player on hover/tap
• New Patreon page for general support and preparation for new features
• New third party: OneTricks.gg
• Twitter meta tags
• Special case pinning PAX Twisted Fate for Malcolm

Changed

• Table in profiles restructured
  • Rank moved to separate column to allow sorting
  • Chest availability is now more intuitive to read and uses a proper hextech chest icon
• If Riot API is unavailable, the system will try to load stale data from cache before throwing 503
  • The user profile will display a warning icon to indicate this
• Buttons in chart pages and header were moved around for consistency and more intuitive usage
• Font polishing
• Home splash is now Astronaut Ivern

Fixed

• Error reporting now properly indicates when Riot API couldn't be reached

v3.1.1 - 2023-02-11

Fixed

• Switching your favorite summoner no longer requires you to go to the profile and unmarking them before marking a new one
• Favorite feature usage tracking streamlined
• Edge case with live search links

v3.1.0 - 2023-02-10

Added

• Reenabled Live Search!
  • Massive performance improvements

Changed

• Visual touchups for rank display on the Discover page

Fixed

• Korean romanization
  • Live search will suggest [아 초 록 스] when searching for [achorokseu]

v3.0.0 - 2023-02-04

Added

• Readded leaderboards with new features!
  • Leaderboard pages can now be filtered by region
  • Leaderboard positions in profile tables can now be toggled between global and regional ranking
  • Leaderboard for champion purists (Mastery Points on only one single champion)

Changed

• Discover, Leaderboard, Donation and social links rearranged
• Home splash is now Spirit Blossom Syndra
• Updates to FAQ
• Reduced ad load
• Champion Lore on champion leaderboard pages moved to bottom
• Massive query performance improvements

v3.0.0-beta - 2023-01-16 "The Flood"

Added

• Discord/Donation/Twitter/TikTok social media presences linked on index page and footer
• More info pages, extended FAQ
• Google AdSense monetization
• Partnered Third Party: ARAM Zone (Thank you, Gonza!)
• Changelog is now linkable, e.g. this version can be linked via #v300-beta

Changed

• Renamed "roles" to "classes"
• Infos on contact options
• Moved buttons around on profile
• Massive database performance improvements
  • Load balancing
  • Query optimization
• Completely restructured "More Charts" page
  • Each chart now has its own site to reduce load on weaker devices and visual overload
  • Theres an extra site with just the table also linked in "More Charts" segment
• GDPR (EU/UK) Consent Popup is now managed by Google instead of local script for better localization

Removed

• Temporarily removed some features to reduce database load
  • Live Search
  • Leaderboard updates

Fixed

• Various oopsies with special characters and other edge cases
• Issue with Bubble Chart viewBox in minified scripts

v2.23.1 - 2023-01-12

Fixed

• Visual fixes for blog pages on mobile devices
• Fallbacks set for easier setup

v2.23.0 – 2023-01-12

Added

• A Dev Blog to read up on features and their implementation
  • Additions to the blog will be added for references (without bumping version)
• Blog articles:
  • Welcome to Mastery Chart
  • Color Filtering Vector Graphics

Fixed

• Logo in header was unrealiably positioned for some devices

v2.22.0 – 2023-01-10

Added

• Support for PH, SG, TH, TW and VN regions
• Image generation via button is now tracked

v2.21.0 – 2022-12-28

Added

• Info about marking your favorite summoner placed on home page and in FAQ
• More tracking to help me improve the site (Neither personal nor pseudonymous info like your summoner name is tracked)
  • Usage of live search (number of results you found and whether you clicked one)
  • Interaction with FAQ (which segments you open)
  • Usage of mark favorite feature (whether you use it)
• Changelog toggleable color coding

Changed

• Updates to FAQ
• Home splash is now Winterblessed Zilean

Fixed

• Link to favorite summoner no longer causes content shift

v2.20.0 – 2022-12-27

Added

• Historical and Live Search can now be navigated with the up/down arrow keys

v2.19.0 – 2022-12-27

Added

• Live Search:
  • Summoners and champions will be suggested once you start typing

Changed

• Internal refactoring
  • Error handling: Failing is now nicer, I guess
  • Slight performance improvement by complexity reduction
  • Extension of documentation

Fixed

• Removed needless error redirects on faulty profiles for crawler endpoint
• Removed infinite re-queue loop for co-op only/botted accounts

v2.18.0 – 2022-12-26

Changed

• Updated cyrillic transliteration to adhere to GOST 7.79-2000
  • This is in preparation for searching summoners live

v2.17.0 – 2022-12-24

Added

• Internal capabilities for romanizing Korean names
  • This is temptative and in preparation for searching summoners live

Changed

• The "also check out" section was renamed to "more projects"
• Stats endpoint now serves proper integers and contains information about summoners per server

Fixed

• Summoner name changes are properly detected again (bug was introduced in 2.16.0)

v2.16.0 – 2022-12-23

Changed

• Reduced complexity → quicker reponse times

v2.15.1 – 2022-12-21

Fixed

• Search history will now always have the most recently looked up summoner on top
• Users now get visual feedback when a new favorite summoner is selected
• Favorite summoners can now be removed by clicking the summoner icon again

v2.15.0 – 2022-12-21

Added

• Quick access to favorite summoner:
  • Clicking your favorite summoner's profile icon locally marks them for quick access
  • The home page will now display a direct link to that summoner
• Better debug capabilities
• Internal performance upgrades

Changed

• Visual touchups on third party links for mobile devices

Removed

• ARAM Academy third party link as the project has been paused
• League of Graphs third party link

v2.14.0 – 2022-12-01

Added

• Separate sitemap for Leaderboard members
• Buffer for empty profile purge job

Fixed

• Regular sitemap updates

v2.13.2 – 2022-11-29

Fixed

• Summoners who added or removed a space on summoner change are now properly handled
• Formatting issues when first requesting Korean/Japanese summoners
• Issue that locked out quickly updating a summoner even though importing mastery info failed
• Internal troubleshooting capabilities improved
• Hardened Riot API request reliability
• Incompletely updated summoners are now hidden from Discover lists
• Improperly auto-updated leaderboard summoners are now recognized and re-queued

v2.13.1 – 2022-11-28

Fixed

• Backwards compatibility issue with leaderboard updates

v2.13.0 – 2022-11-28

Added

• Empty profiles (no mastery data) will now automatically get removed after a day

Changed

• Date format now includes the server time zone for more clarity
• Leaderboards will now update instantly instead of every 6 hours

v2.12.1 – 2022-11-17

Fixed

• Summoners with no mastery data are now properly handled when updating

v2.12.0 – 2022-11-16

Added

• Ability to toggle role color filter for Voronoi and Treemap diagrams

v2.11.3 – 2022-11-14

Fixed

• Social Logo now adheres to branding

v2.11.2 – 2022-11-12

Fixed

• Special edge case overlap no longer results in confusing pseudo-duplicate profiles
  • This required a summoner switching their name and someone else claiming the old one
• Odd text behavior in Discover tables
• Broken image in Discover if player has no mastery points at all

v2.11.1 – 2022-11-12

Fixed

• Adjustments to automatic leaderboard update functionality
• Visual touchup for leaderboard page

v2.11.0 – 2022-11-11

Added

• Discover page segment for newly added players
• A lot more detail in Discover page (champions at 5/6/7, top champion, last update)
• Leaderboard placed players are now accented with a skin as the champion's table blackground image
• Champion leaderboards now have their champion as the background and a lore segment
• Sitemap expansion/detailing

Changed

• SEO improvements
• Sectioning of content
• Layout and styling adjustments
• Theme color is now instead of []
  • This applies to mobile headers and e.g. Discord's message detailing

Fixed

• Properly centered ARAM Academy's logo

v2.10.0 – 2022-11-09

Added

• Separate legal notice and privacy policy
• Proper Mobalytics logo (thank you, Josh!)
• Segmented Sitemap

Changed

• General layout for home page and header
• Home splash is now Cosmic Blade Master Yi
• ~30% network traffic load reduction
• Level up progress information details in table view

Removed

• Support for non-webp images

Fixed

• Bugs in summoner search history
• Level up progress now properly works in Firefox

v2.9.0 – 2022-11-08

Added

• The last 5 summoners you looked up will now be suggested to you when clicking the search bar
• Nicer focus state visuals
• Icons for more visual clarity for the collapsibles on the FAQ page
• Proper ARAM Academy logo (thanks for your permission, kirito!)

Fixed

• FAQ collapsibles aren't squished on mobile anymore

v2.8.1 – 2022-11-07

Fixed

• Inconsistent naming of Fiddlesticks assets is now accounted for

v2.8.0 – 2022-11-07

Added

• Added treemap chart by class/points to "More Charts" page
• Summoners with leaderboard positions are now continuously auto-updated (over ~7 days)
• Summoner name changes will now be detected and followed
  • → No empty profile is left behind
• "Last Update" info on summoner level hover/tap
• Hint on bubble chart interactivity below the chart

Changed

• Bubble chart images look cleaner now
• "Last Update" info in profiles replaced by usage hint (see "Added")
• Home page now has a dark background for better readability

Fixed

• Deployment compatibility issues
• Mastery level images are no longer pixelated on mobile devices
• Sunburst diagrams now clear the background image when no champion is selected
• Visual touchups for more consistent branding and site feeling

v2.7.0 – 2022-11-05

Added

• Fully automated asset update
• Extra page with even more interactive charts
  • Sunburst chart by class/points
  • Sunburst chart by level/count
  • Weighted Voronoi chart by class/points
  • Icicle chart by class/points
• Proper U.GG image (big thanks to Ashley!)

Changed

• New Logo

Fixed

• Touchups on bubble chart performance, layout and styling

v2.6.0 – 2022-11-01

Added

• More visible affiliation notice

Changed

• Proper Challenge Tracker image (big thanks to DarkIntaqt for granting permission to use the logo!)
• Visual touchups on interactible inputs

v2.5.1 – 2022-10-31

Fixed

• Adjusted champion bubble image scaling for better and more consistent resolution choices

v2.5.0 – 2022-10-31

Added

• First time visitors will have their region preselected by their country
• The site will remember which region was last selected
• Added button to trigger search
• FAQ information regarding privacy and affiliation
• Ability to save the chart as an image

Changed

• Moved Riot's legal jibber jabber to footer
• Chart can now simultaneously display axes and color legends
• Touchup on bubble physics
• Visual touchups

v2.4.0 – 2022-10-29

Added

• Mobile compatible tooltips for icons and texts
• Database will automatically remove old data to improve performance

Changed

• Visual touchups (layout, coloring)
• Tooltip in bubble chart is now on click and reacts more reliably

Fixed

• SEO fixes in <img>s
• Error logging for diagnostics fixed

v2.3.1 – 2022-10-28

Fixed

• Fixed bug causing the top player of each leaderboard to be omitted

v2.3.0 – 2022-10-27

Added

• Leaderboard for points on a single champion
• Accurate information on next leaderboard update
• Table in Profile:
  • Links to champion leaderboards
  • Note if summoner is in a top 100 spot for that champion
• Discover: the 20 most recently updated summoner profiles

Changed

• Bubbles page renamed to profile
• Champion leaderboards: 25 → 100 spots
• Leaderboards for meta stuff (Total Points, ...):
  • Now have nice champion backgrounds for the summoner's top champion
  • Now have a Challenges button as their "champion icon"
  • Now have a little description

v2.2.1 – 2022-10-26

Fixed

• Table filtering in leaderboard doesn't hide top players anymore

v2.2.0 – 2022-10-26

Added

• Leaderboards
  • Full overview with top 3 for total points, total mastery and champion table
  • Separate page for top 25 for each champion / top 100 for total points and mastery
• External support services
  • View tracking via a self-hosted instance of umami
  • Google AdSense (planned, not yet in use)

v2.1.0 – 2022-10-25

Added

• Mastery Data Table
  • Sortable by column values (champion name, mastery points, last played, points to next level, chest available)
  • Nicer visuals: champion image as background, icons, ...
  • Can be filtered by champion name
• Posting in Discord looks nicer (Improvements to OpenGraph tagging)
• Introduced this changelog
• Stats endpoint

v2.0.0 – 2022-10-22

Added

• Animated home page with champion tiles and mastery level coloring
• D3v4 Bubble Chart:
  • Color filling modes: by class and chest availability
  • Draggable bubbles
  • Hover tooltip
• More detailed summoner info + icon
• Link buttons to third-party projects

Changed

• Now built on official Riot API
• Full responsive frontend remake
• Full rebranding
• Bubble Chart level filling color is now applied as a filter on the champion icon istead of replacing it
• Bubble Chart sizing now responsive
• Mastery data table is now responsive

Removed

• Summoner comparison functionality
• Live search (will return later)
• Herobrine

v1.0.0 – 2020-07-09 (Legacy Info)

• First public version
• Reliant on third-party API
  • → Site was unusable after it went offline