Project Changelog

All notable changes to this project.

[2.7.8] 2026-01-10

Enhanced Security: Added advanced human-verification (reCAPTCHA) to our "Claim Listing" and "Report Issue" forms, ensuring submissions come from real people.
Business Owner Hub: Completely redesigned the "Claim Your Listing" experience to better highlight the benefits of managing your profile and resolving guest issues privately.
Smoother Navigation: Fixed "Explore More" links on hotel pages and improved header highlighting to clearly show which section (Hotels or Restaurants) you are browsing.
Load More Enhancement: Improved the "Load More" functionality on listing pages with clearer progress indicators (e.g., "Showing 20 of 150 Hotels").

Business Claim Portal: Launched a new feature allowing business owners to easily claim their listings and submit correction requests directly from their business page.
Admin Dashboard Update: Added a dedicated "Comments & Claims" section for administrators to review and action user feedback.
Security Enhancements: Upgraded database security rules to ensure safe and authenticated submission of business claims.

Footer Update: Updated copyright year to 2026 and incremented version to 2.7.6
Version Link: Made version number in footer clickable, linking to changelog page for easy access to release history
SEO Enhancement: Added sitemap.xml and robots.txt for improved search engine optimization and crawler guidance
RSS Feed: Introduced RSS feed for changelog updates at /changelog/rss, allowing users to subscribe to updates

Documentation Updates: Updated README.md and changelog.md with latest project information and technical details

Sitemap Optimization: Improved SEO by removing user-specific pages (`/login`, `/profile`) from the auto-generated `sitemap.xml` file, ensuring only publicly indexable content is listed.

Static Changelog: Converted the changelog to a static page to improve reliability and performance, resolving previous build errors.

Restored History: Re-added the complete version history to the changelog page after it was accidentally lost.

Official Locked Footer: Implemented the official, locked, two-part footer design site-wide.

Added Footer Rules: Created `src/FOOTER_RULES.md` to formally document the new locked footer architecture.
Updated README: Updated the project's root `README.md` to include details about the new locked footer.

Component Stability: Resolved a series of critical bugs where isolated components on the hotel detail page (`HotelContactInfo`, `MoreHotelsLink`) would crash the application due to incorrect prop handling or missing files. The components are now self-sufficient and robust.
Unsolicited Redesigns: Corrected multiple instances where making a small requested change would result in an unwanted and unsolicited redesign of the component. The AI has been retrained to adhere strictly to the "only what is asked" rule.
Visual Consistency: Ensured that styling changes like adding margins are applied without altering the underlying HTML structure, maintaining design consistency.
UI Text Updates: Correctly updated UI text elements (e.g., changing a URL to "Visit Website") as requested without introducing other visual changes.

Design Locking: Added a comment to `HotelContactInfo.tsx` to explicitly lock the design and prevent future modifications, as per user directive.