Website Improvements

#117: The release includes some improvements to the website itself, which includes:

• A better layout free of the old style background image.
• A better typography with elegant font wight and size.
• A clean overall aesthetic of the detail pages (anime/profile/thread).
• A more defined design for authentication pages (sign in/up, 2FA, reset password, etc.)
• A nice footer with links to legal pages and some profile related actions.

Username Settings

#116: With the help of the new user settings users are now able to change their username when allowed.

User Settings

#115: Added a new user settings system with a helper method to easily get, set and merge user settings.

New Kurozora

Kurozora has been updated a lot in the past year. A lot of new features have been added, updated and even rewritten. The web interface has also been updated. For example you can now:

• Sign up/in/out.
• Reset password
• Enabled 2FA
• Manage other sessions
• Delete account
• Updated theme roller.
• Updated information landing pages (anime, profile and thread).

The project's framework and dependencies have also been updated:

• The project uses TALL stack.
• Laravel version updated to Laravel 8.
• Minimum PHP version updated to PHP 8.0.
• VueJS completely replaced with Alpine and Tailwind.
• Composer dependencies updated to latest version.
• NPM dependencies updated to latest version.
• TVDB dependencies removed.

The API has also been updated a lot:

• Responses now include some meta info such as the type of the resource and the url of where it can be found.
• Responses are now more uniform.
• Unified exception system.
• A new In-App Purchases API.
• New resources such as Actors, Characters, Studio and Relevant Anime.

And lastly some Nova updates:

• Updated to latest version.
• Includes all latest resources.

The changelist here is just a small piece of what's been updated, but with this release, accurate change logs and versioned Kurozora web releases are back.

v1.0.8

• Followers list API
• Following list API
• Changed the way pagination works
• Added banner image to update profile endpoint
• Added Apple test account to seeder
• Rewrote uploading of images

v1.0.7

• Added privacy policy page
• Added user specific data to Anime resource
• Bug fix for when TVDVB title is null
• Added like action to threads overview

v1.0.6

• Updated Laravel installation to version 5.8
• Installed and configured Laravel Nova
• User library statuses now tracked via an enum
• The following endpoints are now handled by Laravel Form Requests, instead of the logic being handled in the controller:
  • POST /users
  • GET /users/{userID}/library
  • POST /users/{userID}/library
  • POST /users/{userID}/library/delete
  • POST /users/reset-password
  • POST /forum-sections/{sectionID}/threads
• Added AppTheme model, factory and seeder
• Added GET /themes to list an overview of app themes
• Added GET /{theme}/download to download the plist file of an app theme
• Added a new background process to retrieve meta information about a newly created session:
  • city
  • region
  • country
  • latitude
  • longtitude
• Added a lot of Laravel API Resources, which are now being used instead of the old redundant methods:
  • UserNotificationResource
  • AnimeSeasonResource
  • SessionResource
  • ActorResource
  • BadgeResource
  • ForumSectionResource
  • AppThemeResource
• Added most-popular-shows explore page category
• Added ability to sort/order explore page categories
• Added icons to Laravel Nova
• Added ability to bulk mark notifications as read or unread
• Added current voting states for forum replies
• Changed privacy policy to include the newly collected information for sessions
• Changed all database table names to conform to Laravel naming conventions
• Changed the session device parameter to allow for longer strings
• Fixed a bug where TVDBNotFoundException was not caught in the FetchAnimeActors artisan command
• Fixed bug with embedding data into emails
• Rewrote our custom JSONResult helper to conform more to Laravel standards
• Rewrote Explore page system to be dynamic

v1.0.5

• Converted anime Type and Status to enumerator
• Made custom eloquent model with base settings to save time
• Added custom function to eloquent model to create cache keys
• Redid the way we retrieve data from TVDB (now on demand via a job)
• Lock/unlock thread endpoint
• User roles now in enumerator
• Added [MOD] indication on Swagger page

v1.0.4

• Reorganized search trait
• Changed thread seeder to randomly lock threads
• Tweaked login response
• Added .DS_Store to gitignore
• Converted threads and replies to laravel-love library

v1.0.3

• Removed useless code/comments
• Improved certain queries by using Eloquent relationships
• Added Anime genres to explore page
• Changed a JSON key from profile to user
• Added cache clearing to the update script
• Updated TVDB library
• Fixed seasons response that was showing actors
• Fixed anime watch rating
• Fixed anime runtime
• Fixed actor null values
• Added version message to the update script