Strautomator - Changelog

2022-05-17

Updated core with a fix to possibly failed weather string replacements.

2022-05-12

Minor database tweaks to better handle failed writes.

2022-05-04

Workaround to extract the end location of activities from the map (polyline), due to recent Strava API bug returning empty end locations.

2022-04-30

New "lap time" field (similar to the recently created lap distance).

2022-04-29

New "lap count" and "lap distance" that can be used on automation conditions and action tags.
Minor under-the-hood tweaks.

2022-03-18

Fixed regression bug with the /changelog API route.

2022-03-15

New "Support Ukraine" map style.
Fixed bug causing GearWear to double count activities if the user had set a custom "GearWear delay".

2022-03-11

Fixed bug where a GearWear component distance would not be reset on the UI.
Improved calendar caching via code and settings on the storage bucket.

2022-03-09

Updated "Hike" activity icon.
FTP calculation now considering the last 12 weeks (previously was 10).

2022-02-28

NEW! Gear alerts triggered as web notifications for users that have no email registered.
Some minor under-the-hood service updates.

2022-02-22

NEW! Account preference to change the GearWear delay in days (default is 2 days, minimum 1 and maximum 3).
Calendars are now cached using Cloud Storage instead of the Firebase database.
Weather icons should work better now for users using non-English translations.

2022-02-13

Fixed suntimes bug causing the weather forecast to always return a moon in certain locations.
Increased production capacity.

2022-02-10

Fixed UI bugs (toggles and dates not updating) on the Account page.
Enabled some logging preprocessors.

2022-02-01

Affiliate links (ad banner) temporarily disabled.
Lots of minor logging updates.

2022-01-25

New "Using a trainer machine" recipe condition.

2022-01-17

Fixed bug preventing calendars with custom dates to be cached properly.
Favicon switched to the official Strautomator logo.

2022-01-13

The Strautomator changelog is now available to users.
Fixed bug preventing new PayPal subscriptions to be updated due to missing user ID.
Fixed bug where an "invalid gear" notification would be shown to users having recipes with "set gear = none".

2022-01-11

NEW! Recipe action "change sport type" to update the activity type.
NEW! The "Set gear" action can now clear the activity gear by setting it to "None".
Fixed UI bug on the manual activity sync page (happened if no automations were triggered).

2022-01-08

NEW! Added "does not have" operator to recipes text-based conditions.
NEW! Added a "kill switch" option to recipes, to stop executing further automations.
Fixed "total time" and "moving time" conditions, which were not evaluating correctly for specific timezones.
Logging updates.

2021-12-20

Calendar: max past days increased from 3 to 10 years for PRO accounts.
Some minor logging updates.

2021-12-13

Fixed bug causing accounts to be reverted to Free straight away if the user cancelled a PRO subscription.
Refactoring of the Strava FTP estimation / calculation methods.
Refactoring of the PayPa webhook processing.
Some minor UI updates.

2021-12-01

NEW! Integration with Open-Meteo (yet another weather provider).
Users that were not properly de-authenticated (no database records but still allowed the app on Strava) will be added to an ignore list.
Some log related updates.

2021-11-27

Massive API refactoring, most endpoints should be prefixed with the user ID now.
Fixed UI preventing users to add the "Hide stats - heart rate" action to automations.

2021-11-26

Fixed recently introduced bug with hideHome recipe actions.

2021-11-25

NEW! Recipe actions to hide activity stats (pace, speed, power, heart rate, calories).
NEW! Recipe condition to check if activity broken segment PRs or KOMs.
Fixed bug with Storm Glass weather returning "Null" as part of the weather summary.
Fixed weather checks on activity fortune (to auto generate activity names with weather data).

2021-11-23

Fixed recently introduced bugs with weather parsing (due to wrong formatting).
Fixed some weather translation references.
NEW! Personal records tracking for various sports (distance, HR watts, calories etc).
NEW! Automation condition to trigger if the activity has broken a new record.
NEW! Privacy mode will anonymise the user details and save less data about activities.
Lots of updates to the activity fortune / auto generated activity names.
Minor UI fixes.

2021-11-18

NEW! Possibility to set the activity type (Workout, Race or Long Run) on automations.
Activity fortune now makes use of weather (rain, cold, warm, etc), plus some other new property-based conditions.
Fixed bug preventing the new "Auto generate the activity name" to work on certain conditions.
FTP estimation now uses the last 10 weeks instead of 12 weeks.
General UI dialog updates.

2021-11-17

Fixed bug where a text input field would be shown for "Set gear" actions.

2021-11-10

NEW! New automation action to auto generate activity names - it's the [activity fortune](https://strautomator.com/activities/fortune)!
NEW! Weather summaries and calendar labels are now available also in German, French, Spanish and Portuguese.
FTP estimation will now consider days off-the-bike to decreased the estimated value.
Improved weather conditions validation, making using of sunrise and sunset times.
Improved Strava outage detection.

2021-11-07

Activities that fail to process due to network or server issues will be queued for later processing.
Improved detection of Strava outages, showing an alert on the Dashboard and eventual error pages.
Refactored the ClimaCell weather provider, which is now called Tomorrow.
Tomorrow added as a second default provider (in addition to StormGlass).
Do not let users trigger the manual sync if they have no automation recipes.
Some other minor UI tweaks and bug fixes.

2021-11-03

Fixed bug where queued activities were not removed from the queue if they had no matching recipes.

2021-10-31

Bugfix: some user have no preferences set, so the new "delayedProcessing" preference check was failing for those.

2021-10-30

NEW! Users now have a "delayed processing" feature to delay their automations by around 10 to 20 minutes.
NEW! Automation history page to allow searching the history by date.
Revolut affiliate deal extended by 17 days.
Some other small tweaks here and there.

2021-10-27

New tags available to use on recipes and calendar templates: relativeEffort, perceivedExertion, hasPhotos and privateNote.
New action to add private notes on activities.
GearWear email links should now work even if user needs to be authenticated first.
Lots of other under-the-food tweaks.

2021-10-25

NEW! Recipe action to change the activity "map style".
Calendar with exported activities now defaults to the past 180 days, but PRO users can still increase it manually to 1095 days.
Calendar with exported activities will not parse coordinates into an actual city / location.

2021-10-18

Users will be automatically suspended if they remove the Strautomator app from their Strava account.
Calendar will not be generated if a user is suspended.
Some other minor code tweaks.

2021-10-16

Added new options to the calendar to exclude / include certain types of activities or club events.
Caching user clubs and routes to speed up the calendar generation.

2021-10-14

NEW! Preference to set a yearly date to auto-reset automation counters.
NEW! Calendar overhaul, now supporting club events and some other options.
Calendar date range expanded to 3 years on PRO and 6 months on free accounts.
Twitter sharing is now enabled for up to 10% of interesting processed activities.
Lots of minor UI updates.

2021-10-11

New recipe action: "mute" (hide activity on other people's feeds): https://github.com/strautomator/web/issues/4

2021-10-09

Fixed a regression bug generating calendars (due to invalid date type).

2021-10-08

Using the tags movingTime, totalTime, dateStart and dateEnd on recipes will result in the correct datetime format being displayed.
Users will be automatically suspended if authentication with Strava fails more than 10 times and no login was recorded.
Revolut deal extended for another few days.
Some minor UI tweaks.

2021-09-23

Minor UI tweaks.

2021-09-17

New lifetime subscription via Revolut affiliate links.
General minor tweaks on the UI.

2021-09-08

Improved handling of deprecated / deleted gears on the GearWear views.

2021-09-03

Improved weather selection view.
Improvements to weather icons, less cloudy, more clear.
General log updates.

2021-08-21

Some minor UI updates.

2021-08-19

Bug fix: affiliate links hidden for PRO users now.
Unobtrusive affiliate links are shown for non-PRO users on the dashboard and GearWear pages.
Fixed distance displayed for bikes and shoes.
Lots of UI fixes, mostly on the GearWear views.

2021-08-15

Automations can now be disabled.
Users with a previous PRO subscription can keep editing their automations, but only the top 3 will execute.
Option to have a default BCC field on emails.
Some other minor tweaks here and there.

2021-07-23

Improvements to the GearWear view.

2021-06-07

Estimation of FTP will now consider the last 12 weeks instead of 14.
Tweaks to axios requests, which will retry on error 503 after a few seconds.

2021-05-27

Check if Google Analytics is available before logging errors as GA exceptions.

2021-05-12

Hourly extra FTP weight increased to 103.5% (more approximate to real world cases).
Fallback if calendar events fail to generate due to invalid location data.

2021-05-05

Fixed calendar exports.
Now running on Node 16.

2021-04-07

Fixed typo bug on the GearWear edit page.

2021-03-28

NEW! Additional conditions on automations: "hasPower" and "hasLocation".
General UI tweaks.

2021-03-21

WeatherAPI.com is now limited to recent weather data only.

2021-03-08

Fixed bug with the selection of available weather providers for a given date.
Some small UI updates.

2021-03-07

Massive Weather updates! Dark Sky deprecated, added Storm Glass and Visual Crossing, refactored the weather summary.
The "3 conditions per automation" restriction was lifted on the free accounts.
General UI tweaks here and there.

2021-03-03

NEW! Feature pages are now live under the /feature endpoint.
Tweaks to the FTP estimation algorithm.
Lots of small updates on the UI.
Added maintenance routine to send unread notifications to users via email.

2021-02-26

New dialog for the FTP estimation on the Accounts page.
General tweaks to the new FTP related features.
Updated FAQ.

2021-02-25

NEW! FTP estimator, available to all on the Account page.
NEW! FTP auto update feature available for PRO users.
Lots of small tweaks for better logging and reliability.

2021-02-22

Added a fallback SMTP service in case the main one fails.

2021-02-09

Fixed actions to set / append / prepend activity names and descriptions with tags (specially in regards to weather tags).

2021-01-26

GPS / device temperature is now rounded, no more decimal places.

2021-01-19

Device temperature values now follow the correct Celsius / Fahrenheit preferences set by users.

2021-01-06

Calendar templates now support gear and boolean values (as yes or no).
When editing calendar templates, the tags are now clickable (click to add to the current template field).
General UI tweaks.

2021-01-04

Fixed regression bug causing activities with commute actions to fail loading for editing.
NEW! You can now add a "counter" on the activity name or description, that will auto-increment each time the automation triggers.
NEW! Custom summary and details on exported calendars, available to PRO accounts only.
Free accounts now have up to 90 days of calendar events (previously was 30).
Improved dashboard charts, now aggregating data when showing the automation stats for the last 6 months or 1 year.
Bunch of other small tweaks all around.

2020-12-31

Happy new year!

2020-11-19

Return cached calendar in case the refresh of new activities fails.
Now sending emails via Amazon SES.

2020-11-15

Reordering of automations is now done via drag-n-drop.
Updated Notifications UI, now alerting the user of invalid gear used on automations.
General UI tweaks.

2020-11-08

First deployment with support for Notifications (messages from Strautomator to users).
Users will be notified when an automation recipe fails to execute.

2020-11-03

Calendars now export up to 30 days of events on free accounts (up from 14), and 731 days on PRO (up from 365).
Some minor improvements to the Calendar generation method.

2020-11-02

Updated strautomator-core with bug fixes on Weather and Strava modules.

2020-10-30

Activity icons added to calendar event / activity names.

2020-10-25

NEW! Calendar (beta) features, allowing users to export their Strava activities to an iCalendar (.ics).
General tweaks to the service settings.

2020-10-19

Increased maximum length of Recipe condition and action values.

2020-10-15

Fixes and improvements to subscription handling via PayPal.

2020-09-19

GearWear won't update tracking for recently (last 2 days) replaced components.
Logging improvements.

2020-09-15

Fixed bugs on the new "multiple selection" options for weekday and sport type conditions.

2020-09-13

New "sport type" condition to execute automations only if activity is of a specific sport type.
Weekday conditions can now have multiple values selected.

2020-09-05

Removed full user data from session cookie, now only storing the user ID.

2020-08-21

Potential fix for a redirection loop when authenticating again with Strava.
Updates to GearWear to properly reset tracking distance on the frontend.

2020-08-17

Improved the Charts view, which should now properly show the correct timeline (dates).

2020-08-02

GearWear now has separate front and rear tires as defaults for bikes.
GearWear now stores the last update details (distance, time, date).

2020-07-23

New Charts page showing basic automation execution stats
Fixed GearWear email template (was sending times as seconds instead of hours)
GearWear now saves some basic details about the last update (date, distance, time, activity IDs)

2020-07-17

Fixed bug preventing GearWear mileages to be increased when the user has no email assigned.

2020-07-16

Fixed bug checking text-based recipe conditions, which could throw an exception when the condition was not valid.

2020-07-15

Very minor UI changes.
Minor updates on core logging.

2020-07-13

Fixed bug preventing refresh tokens to be updated on the database (strautomator-core).
New custom nuxt error page suggesting to try logging in again.
Disabled automatic retry of failed axios requests.
Minor UI improvements and updates.

2020-07-12

Properly disable append / prepend name and description on action dialog if a name or description action was already set.
GearWear distances and hours now rounding to 1 decimal place.
First stable release.