v3.18.0

[sei-bstein]

v3.18.0 of Gameboard includes new features, bug fixes, stability improvements, and performance optimizations.

New features

• Challenge specs can now be marked as "hidden". (resolves Discussion: hide non-player-facing challenge/gamespace info? #406)
  • Hidden challenge specs are not visible to players.
  • They also do not appear on the scoreboard and do not contribute challenge/bonus scores to the team's final score.
• Users can now filter the support ticket list using ticket labels. Multiple selections are supported, and if more than one label is selected, tickets will be included only if they have all selected labels (i.e. an "And" filter)(resolves Support -> add filter for ticket labels #170).
• When a player card is "readied" for a team sync-start game from Admin -> Game -> Players, all players on their team are simultaneously readied.
• Admins can now opt to preserve a team's challenges when resetting their session. (This already happened automatically for external sync-start games which fail deploy, but the functionality is now available manually and to all game types.)

Enhancements

• The visibility of all app toast notifications has been improved
• The Deployment Admin view for external games has received a few usability improvements:
  • The view now shows a summary of the readiness of all players and teams (resolves Deploy Admin: ready count #405).
  • Each team card gains a "Ready" label when all members are ready.
  • Ready and Unready actions now generate a toast notification to confirm the success of the operation.
  • Once deployed, each challenge's ID can be copied to the clipboard with a convenient button.
• The layout of the support ticket list has been improved for readability.
• When a challenge is added to a game, its map dot will now begin at a random location between 25% and 75% of the map's width and height (previously spawned at the center, which led to undesirable stacking).
• Improved the Active Teams modal in the admin overview to make better use of whitespace
• The Active Teams / Challenges modals in the admin overview now have simple searching (partial attention to Admin Overview modals - quick filters/search, standalone page? #407, but there's more we can do here)
• You can now copy the ID of a team in the Active Teams modal or the challenge ID of a challenge in the Active Challenges modal
• Challenges shown in the Scoreboard -> Team Detail modal are now displayed in alphabetical order. Manual bonuses are now displayed in descending order of point value.
• Manually re-ranking a game's scoreboard now generates a toast notification upon success.

Bug fixes

• Resolved an issue that caused intermittent disconnection from the game-level websocket hub when a tab was backgrounded or timed out (resolves Game hub intermittent disconnection #399)
• Resolved an issue that caused an incorrect value to appear in the GameId column of the Challenge Report's CSV export (resolves Bug: Challenge Report CSV Export GameId Column Contains SpecId #409)
• Resolved an issue that caused challenge specs to fail to appear in the list of challenges for a game in the Game Editor until they were moved or resized on the map editor (resolves Admin -> Game-> Challenges: Challenge specs added to game don't show until they're moved on the map or refreshed #341)
• Resolved an issue that caused game card images to fail to correctly clear when the Reset button was clicked in the Game Editor
• Resolved an issue that could cause Gameboard to spam desktop notifications to users upon tab unbackgrounding.
• Resolved an issue that caused users not to receive announcements if they hadn't enrolled in a game or visited the Support page since login (Issues with connection to support/ticket-related SignalR channels #210).
• Resolved an issue that made it impossible to admin-enroll players into a game if they'd selected the default sponsor as their own
• Resolved an issue that caused practice challenge scores to occasionally appear on the scoreboard

Stability & Performance

• The stability of the game-level websocket hub has been improved
• Associations between users and games are now cached on the API server to reduce repetitive database access
• Versions of .NET Core packages and their dependences have been updated with new minor or patch versions
• The versions of multiple NPM dependencies in the web client have been bumped