Release Notes for 7th — 18th August — Various Upgrades & Fixes

Please feel free to skip these release notes if you are not interested — it's largely technical and quite frankly only meaningful to the person that wrote this 😹. But he does like things to be just so.

2025-08-18 - Fixed ImageListSelect to display and emit multiple items correctly build 232

• removed debugging text from walk export component
• static site migration enhancements

2025-08-14 — Completed Upgrade of Mongoose to Version 8 #44 build 230

• Upgraded:
  • mongoose from 5.10.11 -> 8.17.1
  • mongoose-unique-validator -> 5.0.1
  • node -> v20.19.4
  • npm -> 10.8.2
  • Fixed server mocha unit tests
  • Added expect as a drop-in replacement for chai which was missing anyway due to an omission during the serenity upgrade.
  • But also chai failed to work on commonjs which is the environment that mocha runs under
  • @types/expect -> 24.3.2
  • expect -> 30.0.5 - Fixed Buffer.from() call in aws-controllers which was causing compilation errors
• Fixed slug creation algorithm to replicate Ramblers behaviour:
  • to omit words within title: "a", "an", "the", "to", "by", "via", "in", "of", "from"
  • to start duplicate suffix at 0 rather than 1
• Adjust dockerfile to fix sharp loading problems on fly instance
  • On server added esbuild@0.19.12 as npm ci step was failing with the error Error: Expected "0.19.12" but got "0.24.2" during the installation of esbuild. This occurs because the esbuild package expects a specific binary version (0.19.12) that mismatches the installed version (0.24.2) on the ubuntu-latest runner.

2025-08-08 — Fix for Cookie Banner Accept logic build 219

• This completes Cookie banner accepted before every interaction #43
• Also removed protractor option is wdio implementation is tried and tested

2025-08-07 — Fixed copy from previous walk functionality build 205

• fixed initial url when walk slot created (was null)

• fixed lack of error handling in brevo email parameter replacement function