Venues Changelog

Venues Changelog

All notable changes to Jon's Spot Venues (/venue, /merch, /artist, /municipality, venue search, submissions, funding, and related dashboard features).

2026-07-24 — Public changelog in footer

Added

• Public /changelog/ page rendered from CHANGELOG-venues.md.
• Footer now links to the tool-specific changelog ("Venues changelog" on the venues host).

2026-07-23 — Multi-host rebrand live

Added

• Rebranded Venue Finder → jons.spot umbrella:

- venues.jons.spot → venue finder tool.

- radio.jons.spot → radio directory tool.

- venuefinder.jons.spot → legacy host served by FTP-dropped .htaccess 301 to venues.

• Two cPanel Node apps (venuefinder-api + venuefinder-radio) sharing one SQLite DB.
• Cross-host redirects via proxy.ts: venue-only paths on radio host 308 → venues; radio paths on venues host 308 → radio.
• Per-host sitemaps: 10,705 venue URLs on venues, 3,218 station URLs on radio.
• FTPS deploy script (scripts/deploy-ftps.mjs) with FTPREMOTE env for dual-app deploy.

Changed

• Admin / auth / dashboard routes render on both hosts so host-scoped session cookies work for station_rep logins on radio.

2026-07-21 — cPanel live cutover

Added

• Next.js 16 app running on cPanel/Passenger with node:sqlite.
• 10,705 venues served from single SQLite DB.
• Slug URLs for venues (descriptive name-city-province), old UUID URLs 308 → slug.
• Server-side search, JSON-LD, breadcrumbs, hreflang.
• Landing pages for services and city×service combinations.
• Merch hub (/merch).
• Artist music submission flow.
• Funding page + public-broadcasting explainer.

Changed

• Data layer switched from better-sqlite3 to node:sqlite (glibc 2.28 + GCC 8 incompatibility on cPanel).
• Submission + funding CTAs added across venue pages.

2026-07-20 — Pre-cutover

Added

• Local-only Next.js dashboard with venue browse, search, and admin tools.
• Browse-to-Outreach sync: selected venue shared between Browse and Outreach tabs.
• Canadian Business Registry manual verification (registry ID + timestamp).

2026-07-19 and earlier

Added

• Security + auth hardening: admin self-registration fix, server-side revocable sessions, stronger password policy, server-side dashboard guards, login timing fix, email verification scaffolding.
• SEO audit (steps 1-11): canonical URLs, meta tags, structured data, sitemaps, robots.txt, PWA manifest.

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For radio-specific changes, see CHANGELOG-radio.md.