DeadLink v2.15.0

DeadLink v2.15.0 (2025-08-25)

This release introduces Channel-Specific Routing - a major new feature that allows you to direct different types of bot messages to dedicated Discord channels for better organization and user experience.

🎯 Major Features

Channel-Specific Routing

• Announcements Channel: Version updates, daily reports, and blood moon notifications can now be sent to a dedicated announcements channel
• Game Channel: Player join/part/death messages and in-game chat now route to a specified game channel (e.g., #general)
• Bot Commands Channel: Slash commands can be restricted to a specific bot commands channel to reduce clutter in other channels
• Backward Compatible: Existing installations continue to work without changes - new routing is optional

🎨 User Experience Improvements

Enhanced Startup Display

• Professional ASCII Banner: Beautiful DEADLINK block letters displayed at startup
• Creator Credits: Clear attribution with CDRZ credit and website link (https://deadlink.lol)
• Feature Overview: Shows active features (Updates, Analytics, Blood Moon) at startup
• Channel Routing Summary: Displays configured channel routing for easy verification
• Mode Indicators: Clear dev/production mode display with emojis
• Enhanced Status Messages: Improved formatting for analytics, demo server, and ready messages

Configuration

• New Config Fields:
  • announceChannel: Channel ID for announcements (version updates, daily reports, blood moon)
  • gameChannel: Channel ID for game-related messages (join/part/death/chat)
  • botChannel: Channel ID to restrict bot command interactions
• Example Configuration: Updated config.example.json with clear examples and documentation

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Unicode Character Fix: Resolved garbage characters in telnet log scopes that appeared as [TELNET←]
• Duplicate Mode Display: Removed redundant mode displays during startup
• Color Library Compatibility: Fixed chained color method calls that were causing startup crashes

🔧 Technical Improvements

• Async Message Handling: Updated game message processing to use modern async/await patterns
• Channel Resolution: Enhanced channel lookup with proper error handling and fallbacks
• Structured Logging: Maintained structured logging with scopes for better debugging and monitoring

📝 Configuration Guide

Basic Setup (Optional)

Add these optional fields to your config.json:

{
  "announceChannel": "1234567890123456789",
  "gameChannel": "1234567890123456790", 
  "botChannel": "1234567890123456791"
}

Channel Routing Behavior

• announceChannel: Version updates, daily reports, blood moon notifications
• gameChannel: Player join/part/death messages, in-game chat
• botChannel: Slash command interactions (if not set, commands work in any channel)
• Fallback: If channels aren't configured, messages use the original single-channel behavior

🚀 Migration

No migration required! This release is fully backward compatible. Existing installations will continue working exactly as before. The new channel routing features are entirely optional.

📊 Testing

• All existing tests pass (77/77)
• Channel routing tested in demo mode
• Startup display verified across different configurations
• Unicode character fixes validated

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Full Changelog: v2.14.0...v2.15.0

v2.14.0

DeadLink v2.14.0 (2025-08-16)

This release continues the UI and infrastructure polish work with a few small, user-facing improvements and CI updates.

Highlights

• Centralized UI constants and consistent embed legends.
• Deterministic embed snapshot tests and developer-friendly test setup.
• CI workflow for Docker publishing on GitHub Releases.
• Demo telnet client improvements for dev-mode watchdog stability.

See the full changelog in commits.

v2.13.3

Release v2.13.3

Release date: 2025-08-15

Changelog (selected):

• Docs: Removed accidental full-file code fences from docs/guide/*.md and hardened the client-side docs loader.
• CI: Added docs fence detection and lightweight docs link checks via scripts/check-docs-fences.js and scripts/check-doc-links.js.
• Tests: Fixed lingering async handle in lib/http-utils.js so Jest exits cleanly.
• Docs: Cleaned legacy/alternate docs pages and consolidated canonical site assets.
• Misc: Minor fixes to log rotation behavior to ensure active log file presence after rotation.

Notes:

• This is a docs and tooling focused patch; no breaking changes to runtime behavior are expected.
• Marked as prerelease for final QA before broader publication.

v2.13.2

Release v2.13.2 (pre-release)

Release date: 2025-08-15

NOTE: This release is being published as a pre-release while we validate the deployment and CI matrix. It's safe to try in development or staging environments; for production, wait for the final release.

Changelog (selected):

• Fix: Ensure log rotation leaves an active deadlink.log file after rotation to avoid missing log file edge-cases (fixes CI test).
• Fix: Allow running in dev-mode when Discord token is not configured (prevents demo-mode child process from exiting early during integration tests).
• Tests: Verified __tests__/demo.integration.test.js and __tests__/log-utils.test.js pass across test matrix.

Notes:

• These are small, backward-compatible fixes; production behavior is unchanged when running in live mode.

If you'd like me to promote this to a full release (remove the pre-release flag), say so and I'll update the release on GitHub.

v2.13.1

Release v2.13.1

Release date: 2025-08-15

Changelog (selected):

• CI: Add smoke e2e demo check that runs the dev-mode demo client to detect regressions in telnet/demo flows.
• Tests: Add deterministic demo integration test to validate demo telnet startup messages.
• Scripts: Add scripts/smoke-e2e.js and npm run smoke:e2e for CI and local smoke runs.
• Docs: Documented smoke test workflow and reproduction in SMOKE_TEST.md.
• Stability: Relaxed and hardened smoke-e2e timing to reduce CI flakiness.

Notes:

• This patch does not change runtime behavior in production mode. The smoke checks run only in DEV_MODE=true and are safe to run in CI.

DeadLink v2.12.3

Release date: 2025-08-12

Highlights

• Anonymous telemetry reliability: durable in-memory queue with file-backed buffer for offline persistence.
• Local/self-hosted telemetry receiver for dev/testing (npm run telemetry:serve).
• HTTP support in telemetry client (works with http:// and https:// endpoints).
• Debug toggles and tuning knobs for telemetry (flush interval, batch size).
• Tests: added telemetry posting and buffering tests; enabled full suite in CI across Node 18/20/22.
• Docs: added analytics/telemetry guide (self-hosting + buffering), config reference updated.

Changes

• lib/telemetry.js: queue + buffer, protocol selection, flushNow() API.
• tests: telemetry.test.js, telemetry-buffer.test.js.
• scripts/telemetry-server.js: minimal JSONL receiver.
• docs/guide: telemetry docs and configuration updates.
• config.example.json: new analytics.* fields (endpoint, bufferEnabled, bufferPath, flushIntervalMs, batchSize).
• .gitignore: ignore telemetry JSONL files.

Upgrade notes

• No breaking changes. Telemetry remains opt-out via config or env.
• New config keys under analytics.* are optional; sensible defaults apply.
• If you self-host the endpoint, set DEADLINK_ANALYTICS_ENDPOINT or configure analytics.endpoint.

Thanks for using DeadLink!

DeadLink v2.12.2

• Activity: Slash parity with /activity [mode] (brief default, full narrative on demand)
• UI: Brief-by-default Activity with a “Details” toggle in-message
• Docs: README top logo corrected and sized; Commands docs updated
• Release: Version bump to 2.12.2 and notes added

Upgrade tip: Re-register slash commands to pick up the new option (guild-scoped is instant):

• Guild: npm run slash:guild
• Global: npm run slash:global (can take ~1 hour)

DeadLink v2.12.1

DeadLink v2.12.1

Patch release following v2.12.0 to align the tag and release artifacts.

• No user‑visible feature changes from v2.12.0.
• Ensures CI release body uses this file, and Docker images are built and published from the correct commit.

For the full feature list introduced in v2.12.0, see RELEASE_NOTES_v2.12.0.md.

DeadLink v2.11.5

Full Changelog: v2.12.0...v2.11.5

DeadLink v2.11.3

docs: docker-first cleanup; pages workflow; v2.11.1