Changelog

2026-05-30 (вечір)

• Критичний фікс: синтаксична помилка в main.min.js блокувала рендеринг усіх дашбордів і статистики в EN-режимі. Виправлено; додано перевірку синтаксу JS у CI перед деплоєм.
• Українська мова: повноцінний EN/UA перемикач у шапці — переклад навігації, hero-блоку, лічильників, футера, FAQ-кнопок.
• FAQ: акордеон з анімацією, кнопка «показати більше», клавіатурна доступність (Enter/Space), коректне розгортання багатоабзацних відповідей.
• UI: кнопка «Копіювати посилання», кнопка закриття стрічки сповіщень, плавна анімація випадних меню, прокрутка хлібних крихт на мобільних, виразніший hover карток.
• Доступність: видимі focus-стилі, skip-link, підтримка prefers-reduced-motion.
• Друк: @media print для статей. Продуктивність: prefetch ключових сторінок.

2026-05-30

• Hosting migration: site moved from shared Ukrainian hosting to Hetzner CX23 (Nuremberg). nginx config with 200+ legacy redirects from .htaccess, Let’s Encrypt SSL, GitHub Actions auto-deploy via rsync.
• Bug fix — duplicate navigation: nav-footer.js was injecting a second <header> and <footer> on pages with baked nav. Fixed: injection now skips if <header>/<footer> already exist in the DOM.
• Bug fix — hamburger menu: main.js and nav-footer.js both attached click handlers to #hamburger-btn — double-toggle made the menu immediately close after opening. Removed duplicate handler from main.js; nav-footer.js is now the single source of truth for navigation interactivity.
• CSP fixes (7 357 pages): removed onload="this.media='all'" from CSS <link> tags; replaced citation onclick="navigator.clipboard…" with data-copytarget attribute handled by a delegated listener — both were blocked by Content-Security-Policy: script-src.
• Dynamic day counter: war-day figure in the alert bar on the homepage now calculated client-side from the invasion start date (2022-02-24) instead of being hardcoded.
• Language switcher hidden: EN/UA toggle removed from the header UI pending a proper Ukrainian translation; markup preserved for future use.
• Missing nav/footer (11 pages): about/team/, changelog, data-sources, disclaimer, sitemap were not loading nav-footer.min.js — now fixed; all 31 CI validation tests pass.
• TODO system restructured: flat TODO.md replaced with a multi-level TODO/ directory (pages / seo / design / tech) with a TODO_MAIN.md index.

2026-04-21

• Reference pages: added human-readable HTML sitemap, Data Sources catalog, Disclaimer and this Changelog page.
• Footer: linked the new reference pages from the global footer.

2026-04-20

• Localisation: created perspective hubs for the United States, United Kingdom and European Union.
• Press & media kit: launched /press/ with citation guidelines (APA, MLA, Chicago), embeddable widgets and a public data API endpoint.
• Embeddable widgets: added /embed/losses, /embed/aid, /embed/refugees.
• SEO infrastructure: IndexNow integration, image sitemap, geo meta tags on 890 location pages, critical CSS injection on every page, "Cite this page" widget on 7,300+ pages.
• Bylines & dates: visible "Last updated" timestamp added to ~5,000 article pages; author byline + reading time on 7,011 pages.
• Schema: 24,000+ JSON-LD schemas validated with zero issues; HowTo schema added to methodology and OSINT guides; Dataset schema added to 1,800+ data-heavy pages.

2026-04 (Diaspora cluster)

• New top-level category: Ukrainians Abroad — refugee legal status, return policies, integration outcomes and host-country politics.
• Includes country-specific status pages for Germany, Poland, Czech Republic, UK, France, Sweden, Denmark, Netherlands, USA, Canada, Italy, Spain, Ireland, plus a Nordic/Baltic group.
• Cross-linked with Humanitarian and International.

2026-03

• Content batches: ~1,860 new pages generated from the archived TODO files across units, humanitarian, logistics, people, battles, economy, history, analysis, comparisons, cyber, technology and more.
• Sitemap split: monolithic sitemap.xml replaced by sitemapindex with 25+ per-category sub-sitemaps.
• Performance: defer added to data and nav scripts site-wide; nav switched to minified bundle; Chart.js stripped from pages without canvas (~2,650 pages).
• i18n cleanup: site formally English-only — the legacy translation script and data-i18n attributes removed from all pages; lang="uk" corrected to lang="en" on 237 pages.
• OG images: 26 category-specific PNG OG images generated and applied to ~5,200 pages; later converted to WebP for ~244 KB savings.
• Build system: single entry point scripts/build.py with 22 named tasks and a deploy-prep pipeline.

2026-03-03 (Initial SEO sweep)

• Article schema url + image fields added to ~5,100 pages.
• Open Graph and Twitter Card meta added or completed on ~1,800 pages.
• Invalid hreflang="x-default" tags removed from 305 pages.
• Sitemap rebuilt with deduplication, real lastmod dates and trailing-slash canonicalisation.
• BreadcrumbList Ukrainian text replaced with English on 3,100+ pages.

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