🧾 Changelog

Use this page and the in-game version chip together to verify that your test session is running the expected build.

v0.23.3 - 2026-03-16

Added explicit HEAD /api/game/version support so uptime checks and edge monitoring no longer trigger a noisy 405.
Kept the public version probe lightweight and compatible with both browser and infrastructure checks.

Aligned BrowserQuest security headers so Nginx remains the single source of truth for the public CSP and edge headers.
Added rate limiting on chat history and leaderboard read endpoints to reduce low-value scraping and spam pressure.
Kept gameplay behavior unchanged while making the public release easier to maintain and reason about.

Added a public-release security hardening pass for BrowserQuest.
Introduced server-side rate limiting on save, sync, presence, rename, guest-claim, and chat-send routes.
Added browser security headers including CSP, HSTS, X-Frame-Options, Referrer-Policy, and related hardening headers.
Kept core gameplay unchanged while making spam and abuse noticeably harder.

Added two new advanced enemies: Sentinel (fast laser caster, floor 46+) and Hydra (triple-shot apex caster, floor 56+).
Aligned backend instance generation with the live front-end enemy roster so deep floors stay coherent in multiplayer sync.
Hardened public text surfaces by escaping chat, leaderboard, and journal rendering, while also sanitizing incoming chat text on the server.
Refreshed wiki/blog/sitemap content to reflect the level-60 route, new enemy bands, and current SEO structure.

Extended BrowserQuest itemization and shop / loot pools through floors 76-80, giving the game a complete level-60 progression path plus one stretch endgame tier.
Added seven new late-game equipment lines: Zenith, Gravitation, Seraphic, Cataclysm, Eclipse, Firmament, and Last Sky.
Rebuilt the wiki home, progression, items, enemies, and formulas pages so the documentation now matches the live progression scope instead of stopping at 41+.

Music mix boosted substantially so the in-game soundtrack is easier to hear at normal device volume.
Character renaming now refuses duplicate names already used by another profile.
Added a player stats tab showing lifetime total kills plus kills by enemy type.

Deep-floor pressure increased again: enemies now gain +2% movement speed per dungeon floor, so floor 35 means a +70% global speed boost over base movement.

Enemies now gain +1% movement speed per dungeon floor, making deep-floor navigation and staircase rushing meaningfully harder.
Base Magic/Rare/Epic rates were reduced by 50% globally, while elite enemies keep their stronger loot-quality bonuses.

Landscape mobile HUD tightened so the HP/XP panel stays at the real top-right and no longer fights with the action stack.
The inventory bulk-sell slot is now adaptive: it sells downgrades first, then sidegrades once downgrades are gone, and greys out when nothing relevant remains.

Moved the Town Portal control out of the top bar and into the right-side action stack above the potion button.
Elite loot now calls itself out explicitly in the journal so players can feel when better enemies are paying off.

Elite enemies now have stronger loot identity: brutes/ogres get better drop odds, dragons/archons/titans get both better drop odds and better rarity odds.
Updated wiki formulas and enemy docs to reflect elite loot bonuses.

Boosted rarity drop rates (Magic/Rare/Epic) by ~2x across all floor bands.
Added secret admin route fallback under /wiki/ops-bq-7f4k2 to avoid root-path routing issues.
Added SEO metadata on main game page (description, canonical, Open Graph, Twitter card).

Added Sell sidegrades bulk action beside Sell downgrades.
Enabled Archon ranged projectiles (combat behavior and timing aligned with caster archetype).

Fixed legacy shared guest identity issue (`guest:guest`) that could create cloned leaderboard entries.
Added server-side normalization for legacy guest IDs (`guest/default/null/undefined`) into per-device stable IDs.
Purged old `guest:guest` artifacts from profiles/saves/presence/daily stats and excluded legacy clones from leaderboard.

Reworked wiki tables for mobile portrait with stacked-card rows (no horizontal clipping).
Added automatic table header-to-cell labels for responsive reading.
Updated formulas/items/enemies/progression pages to the new mobile strategy.

Removed top-bar version chip from game UI (version remains visible in Journal logs and API).
Removed right-handed/left-handed toggle button from menu to reduce top-button clutter.
Fixed mobile vertical status panel behavior to occupy full top width (no awkward small panel).

Added distinct floor 26-30 progression items: Lame ombrale and Aegis ombrale.
Updated shop/loot tier mapping so 26-30 has a clear gear step before 31+.
Fixed wiki mobile vertical readability (table fit/wrapping, smaller mobile typography).

Extended progression balancing support up to floor 41+.
Visible in-game version chip to validate cache freshness.
Added/kept handedness HUD side toggle with persistence.
Hardened guest migration flow to prevent clone profiles after Google account claim.
Rebuilt wiki into organized subpages with formulas and full item/enemy/progression docs.
Added /api/game/version endpoint and wiki pages to sitemap.