Happy Monday!

If you missed the retrospective on recent downtime, it's a good read! These patch notes will include some updates that went out over the past couple of days as well.

Core

General

• Upgraded our Django framework to 5.2.x from 5.0.x.
• Upgraded from Python 3.12 to 3.13.
  • Note: Expecting to upgrade to 3.14 within the next 6 months based on support. Usually we wait around a year to upgrade, but the 3.14 move looks trivial for us. This update of the interpreter comes with some nice speed updates.
• Disabled account signup.
  • Note: This has been disabled for over a month now. There are plans to enable it once more once we have better anti-bot protections in place.

Articles

• Recent Articles has been renamed to Related Articles.

Hearthstone

• Added support for Across the Timeways.
• Added additional links in the footer for expansion pages.

Performance

General

• Reduced site-wide database queries for big gains.
• Many backend tweaks to improve performance.
• Homepage now better caches threads for improved load times.
• Events now cache on the site to prevent as many database hits.

Hearthstone

• All pages that have Hearthstone cards on them are now faster.
  • Note: More details in the linked above retrospective.

Bug Fixes

General

• Avatars now appear again on threads and comments.
  • Note: They may still be cache broken in some places, this will resolve itself over time.
• Removed Amazon Coins references.
  • Amazon has gotten rid of Amazon Coins.

Articles

• Hot Articles will now only appear if they exist.

Hearthstone

• Fixed missing expansion icons.
• Deck and Card listings now correctly have class icons appearing pretty on filters.