DEVELOPMENT HISTORY

Changelog

Every feature, fix, and upgrade since the first commit —

V10.0 MAJOR Educational Platform APR 2026

✦ Guided Tour Engine — 5 interactive cinematic tours with map flyTo animations
✦ Tour: 🌋 Ring of Fire — 6 stops covering Pacific seismic activity
✦ Tour: ☢️ Nuclear Legacy — 5 stops from Chernobyl to Bikini Atoll
✦ Tour: 🌐 Digital Silk Road — 5 stops following undersea cables
✦ Tour: 🛤️ Belt & Road Initiative — 6 stops mapping China's global infrastructure
✦ Tour: 🧱 Cold War to Reunification — 6 stops from Berlin Wall to NATO expansion
✦ First-Visit Welcome Overlay with tour launcher
✦ Wikipedia "Learn More" links on all volcano and radiation popups
✦ Open Graph + Twitter Card meta tags for social media sharing
✦ Social media advert assets (TikTok 9:16 story images)
◆ Tour briefing panel with cinematic reveal-after-flight UX
◆ Interactive "Click markers for details" hint with pulsing animation
● Fixed about.html blank page (CSP blocking inline scripts)
● Removed duplicate </footer> tag corrupting DOM
✦ This changelog page

V9.0 MAJOR Stability & Mobile Overhaul APR 2026

● Fixed critical JavaScript character escaping exceptions breaking map init
● Resolved git-mangled syntax holes in main.js
● Fixed critical map click syntax error causing dark screen
✦ Restored ISS tracking and AIS ship configuration
◆ Mobile navigation stability — fixed CSS pointer-event conflicts
◆ Sidebar restructured into 3 curated educational tiers
⚡ Removed legacy unreliable telemetry code

V8.8 MINOR Global Scenarios & About Page APR 2026

✦ Global Threat Scenarios preset system
◆ Updated About page to reflect V8.8 feature set
✦ AI Infrastructure Atlas concept (data centers + energy + cables)

V8.7 MINOR Artemis II Physics Engine APR 2026

✦ Artemis II high-fidelity orbital physics engine
◆ Unified version ID system across all pages
◆ Updated documentation and about page

V8.5 MINOR Mobile 9:16 & Artemis HUD APR 2026

◆ Mobile 9:16 portrait UI optimizations
✦ Artemis HUD with real-time physics and dynamic telemetry
● Footer text cleared from global ticker overlap
● Branding z-index and HUD collision fixes

V8.4 MINOR Artemis Telemetry & Geo-Hotspots APR 2026

✦ Live Artemis telemetry integration
✦ Realistic global geo-hotspot data

V8.3 MINOR Tsunami, Ships & Artemis HUD APR 2026

✦ Artemis HUD display
✦ 100 ships AIS tracking
✦ Tsunami alerts (USGS real-time condition parameter)
● Footer positioning fixes

V8.2 MINOR Tactical UI & Intel Popups MAR 2026

◆ Tactical UI overhaul
✦ Interactive intelligence popups on all markers
✦ Video feed restoration

V7.0 – 7.4 MAJOR Premium UI, Mobile Nav & News MAR 2026

✦ Unified mobile navigation system
✦ Live news ticker with RSS feeds
✦ Power outage monitoring layer
✦ Intelligence alert cards with severity color-coding
✦ Ocean SST map replacing night lights
✦ Solar storm index in Hazards menu
◆ Midnight Slate glassmorphism design system
◆ Hardware toggle switches
◆ Share Tech Mono typography
◆ Amber ticker color with adjusted speed
● Flight tracker persistence fix
● Cable popup with capacity, year, length, and owner data

V6.0 – 6.1 MAJOR Global Command Center MAR 2026

✦ Complete rebranding as "Global Command Center"
✦ Political regime maps (Freedom House)
✦ Undersea cable network visualization
✦ Data center layer (hyperscale locations)
✦ Nuclear power plant layer
✦ Iran-Israel/USA conflict zones
✦ Black Marble night lights
✦ Clickable city popups
✦ Intelligence anomaly scanner (5min scan, 3-entry rolling)
◆ Menu redesign with collapsible categories
● Myanmar lat/lon fix that was blocking all layer inits

V5.0 – 5.6 STABILITY Mobile & Toggle Fixes FEB 2026

● MapLibre initial DOM mount lifecycle fix
● Mobile menu click-outside hook
● Touch event conflict between overlay and map canvas
● Asynchronous debounce locking for mobile toggle
● Duplicate DOM toggle listener eradication
● Critical JavaScript crash from unclosed try-catch
● Earthquake DOM toggle missing element fix
⚡ Cache busting and toggle default improvements

V4.0 – 4.8 MAJOR Mobile UI & Live Feeds FEB 2026

✦ Full mobile UI with responsive layout
✦ Solar terminator (day/night line)
✦ NASA FIRMS wildfire data integration
✦ Top 40 global city labels (dynamic zoom scaling)
✦ Webcam feeds (global CCTV streams)
✦ Local Python batch server for data aggregation
✦ Esri satellite overzoom interpolation
✦ Simulated global airspace (Lufthansa)
✦ USGS earthquake feed
◆ Master switch override for all toggles
● Webcam image source fixes
● Weather radar enhancements

V3.0 INITIAL Satellite Globe Edition JAN 2026

✦ Initial release — MapLibre GL satellite globe
✦ Weather radar overlay
✦ AIS ship tracking
✦ ISS real-time position
✦ Basic layer toggle system
◆ Dark tactical command center aesthetic