Site Changelog

Site changelog

Compiled from the GitHub main-branch history, covering SKYTICAL from its creation through the latest site change.

76 site changes

2026-07-26 History starts

2026-08-10 Updated through

Automated hourly news, daily briefing and flight-state data commits are omitted so operational refreshes do not bury real site changes.

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2026-08-10

Editorial

Backfilled significant public site, news-quality and interface changes from 29 July through 10 August.

Design

Limited visible news summaries to the homepage while retaining article text and search metadata.

766b4e4 ↗

Fix

Prevented summaries from splitting names, dropping the event or leaving isolated keywords.

b62f106 ↗

Feature

Added Apple-style homepage summaries covering the operator, place, time and impact at a glance.

68ba63c ↗

Feature

Added brief in-article highlighting for search terms and their aliases after opening a result.

97af30c ↗

Design

Moved the Google-style news search field into the global site header.

b739f1f ↗

Feature

Added airline short-name and formal-name alias matching to news search.

4d92c55 ↗

Feature

Added search suggestions generated from each day's published news.

e51a50d ↗

Fix

Replaced an outdated China Airlines image and limited the age gap for generic aircraft photos.

1c34ad0 ↗

Fix

Strengthened airline and aircraft image matching to prevent unrelated operator photos.

f361a47 ↗

Editorial

Improved rare-aircraft identification with operator, region, model and route context.

bd3e362 ↗

Feature

Added the actual drafting model used to each article footer.

4c1f36e ↗

Editorial

Updated drafting rules to preserve IATA codes for airports named in a story.

0a6cfb2 ↗

Editorial

Tightened article copy and banned reader-irrelevant descriptions of data and editorial processing.

96c755a ↗

Fix

Corrected responsive layout, navigation and news-list display on iPhone.

3b0abbc ↗

Design

Improved the typography and scrolling speed of the mobile LIVE ticker.

7ab6038 ↗

Fix

Completed additional airline-code mappings used by the live flight radar.

75399e0 ↗

Design

Rebranded the site as SKYTICAL with its new logo and the tagline “SKYLINE TO AVIATION NEWS.”

922d70d ↗

2026-08-06

Feature

Expanded Taiwan aviation coverage through CNA's published site index.

22c2c78 ↗

Editorial

Raised the collection priority of Taiwan airlines and local civil-aviation news.

5708b11 ↗

2026-08-05

Fix

Improved flight-number and airline-code recognition on the live radar.

0d6dc9f ↗

Fix

Completed Chinese airline names displayed by the live flight radar.

71d318d ↗

2026-07-30

Editorial

Improved cross-source event enrichment so related reports can jointly support drafting.

22f96f0 ↗

Feature

Added Aerospace Global News as an aviation news source.

228aef5 ↗

Feature

Added AeroTime as an aviation news source.

ed12f59 ↗

System

Configured drafting-model priority and quality profiles.

026dd73 ↗

2026-07-29

Fix

Corrected and backfilled the Daily Briefing pages.

499af3d ↗

2026-07-28

Editorial

Revised the site changelog with neutral, precise and consistent technical language

4b7895f ↗

Feature

Added a bilingual site changelog and a footer entry point on every page

f17b545 ↗

Fix

Prevented civil-company results from being classified as military solely because they mention secondary defence operations

3d06ac0 ↗

Feature

Added official aircraft and engine manufacturer news sources

c2170da ↗

System

Refined drafting-model credits in article footers

616fa8c ↗

Editorial

Manually reviewed and published the SWISS LX16 Bangor smoke diversion

51d2778 ↗

Design

Simplified the automated-generation notice and model credit in article footers

0e1f146 ↗

Feature

Added traceable verified historical context and controlled brief fallback to drafting

d4ce44d ↗

Feature

Added ICAO/IATA callsign switching and origin-destination routes to flight radar

155cb67 ↗

2026-07-27

Feature

Added the Taiwan civil ADS-B flight radar

1089c36 ↗

Editorial

Filtered military stories without a direct aviation or transport subject

62f691b ↗

Editorial

Strengthened relevance filtering and added article archiving

9883b8b ↗

Editorial

Enforced minimum length and paragraph requirements for full articles

dbbb047 ↗

Fix

Corrected the Taiwan rendering of Gatwick

e7f04f4 ↗

Feature

Added the military news category and front-end label

867faaf ↗

Fix

Synced current briefing data before hourly builds to prevent deployment races

883d47b ↗

Design

Replaced internal service-limit details with neutral reader-facing source-availability notices

ffe2f63 ↗

Fix

Enforced briefing-versus-formal-article separation during rendering

e3c6b6a ↗

Editorial

Made briefings standalone bulletins instead of mirrors of formal articles

b309c74 ↗

Feature

Added verified AVWIRE statistics as comparison context for PLA aircraft and vessel activity reports

bd65912 ↗

Design

Linked each homepage live-update item directly to its corresponding story

8fb3716 ↗

Editorial

Turned excerpt-only feeds into discovery indexes instead of full-article evidence

d157938 ↗

Editorial

Added content-integrity checks and conservative handling for derivative reports with insufficient evidence

ca02039 ↗

Editorial

Added a programmatically validated glossary for Taiwan-standard proper-name renderings

c89ebbe ↗

Fix

Included response bodies in retrieval-augmented briefing failure diagnostics

1440c88 ↗

Fix

Prevented an empty retrieval-model setting from overriding the default model ID

2d31eaf ↗

Feature

Added the approved retrieval-augmented source scan to the briefing preview

3c569d9 ↗

Feature

Standardised the briefing format and added Taiwan military aviation and transport sources

9e13218 ↗

Feature

Enabled direct publication of special-aircraft observations after automated rule-based verification

7f4234e ↗

Design

Changed news imagery to full-frame colour display with subject labels

a7e8d76 ↗

Feature

Added airport aliases and official-agency source fallback to image matching

c207832 ↗

Feature

Fed official-page full text into drafting to support full-length articles

e568151 ↗

Feature

Added automated matching of reusable news imagery through public sources that require no third-party API credentials

e817e0b ↗

Feature

Added three daily air-and-transport briefings on fixed Taipei windows

54cc760 ↗

Editorial

Rewrote the methodology page to reflect the complete editorial standards

6dc975b ↗

Design

Started crediting the actual drafting model in article footers

6661e3d ↗

Feature

Added Taiwan special-aircraft arrival detection and source-text normalisation

f2a0da1 ↗

Fix

Resolved all 12 adversarial-review findings in the model reasoning profiles

4679522 ↗

System

Added per-model reasoning profiles, a DeepSeek V4 Pro fallback route and improved observability

09ee870 ↗

Fix

Excluded completeness-check rejections from the per-run drafting cap

68142ff ↗

System

Made the news recency window configurable

7251de3 ↗

Editorial

Added editorial-rejection handling and a code-level completeness pre-check

8984f05 ↗

System

Mapped the configured NVIDIA NIM credential environment variable in CI

af752fc ↗

System

Added model-level failover routing under the configured model-service policy

5605953 ↗

Feature

Upgraded drafting to a multi-provider model and editorial verification engine v2

17124bb ↗

Design

Changed the site to a centred 1280px content sheet with side gutters

0f78821 ↗

2026-07-26

System

Added public-source headline aggregation without model API dependencies and resolved 18 review findings

c6907c9 ↗

System

Imported the first production source data and completed the empty-state site build

75ce323 ↗

System

Created AVWIRE with fetch, dedupe, drafting, build and hourly deployment pipelines

f60f59f ↗

Site changelog

Backfilled significant public site, news-quality and interface changes from 29 July through 10 August.

Limited visible news summaries to the homepage while retaining article text and search metadata.

Prevented summaries from splitting names, dropping the event or leaving isolated keywords.

Added Apple-style homepage summaries covering the operator, place, time and impact at a glance.

Added brief in-article highlighting for search terms and their aliases after opening a result.

Moved the Google-style news search field into the global site header.

Added airline short-name and formal-name alias matching to news search.

Added search suggestions generated from each day's published news.

Replaced an outdated China Airlines image and limited the age gap for generic aircraft photos.

Strengthened airline and aircraft image matching to prevent unrelated operator photos.

Improved rare-aircraft identification with operator, region, model and route context.

Added the actual drafting model used to each article footer.

Updated drafting rules to preserve IATA codes for airports named in a story.

Tightened article copy and banned reader-irrelevant descriptions of data and editorial processing.

Corrected responsive layout, navigation and news-list display on iPhone.

Improved the typography and scrolling speed of the mobile LIVE ticker.

Completed additional airline-code mappings used by the live flight radar.

Rebranded the site as SKYTICAL with its new logo and the tagline “SKYLINE TO AVIATION NEWS.”

Expanded Taiwan aviation coverage through CNA's published site index.

Raised the collection priority of Taiwan airlines and local civil-aviation news.

Improved flight-number and airline-code recognition on the live radar.

Completed Chinese airline names displayed by the live flight radar.

Improved cross-source event enrichment so related reports can jointly support drafting.

Added Aerospace Global News as an aviation news source.

Added AeroTime as an aviation news source.

Configured drafting-model priority and quality profiles.

Corrected and backfilled the Daily Briefing pages.

Revised the site changelog with neutral, precise and consistent technical language

Added a bilingual site changelog and a footer entry point on every page

Prevented civil-company results from being classified as military solely because they mention secondary defence operations

Added official aircraft and engine manufacturer news sources

Refined drafting-model credits in article footers

Manually reviewed and published the SWISS LX16 Bangor smoke diversion

Simplified the automated-generation notice and model credit in article footers

Added traceable verified historical context and controlled brief fallback to drafting

Added ICAO/IATA callsign switching and origin-destination routes to flight radar

Added the Taiwan civil ADS-B flight radar

Filtered military stories without a direct aviation or transport subject

Strengthened relevance filtering and added article archiving

Enforced minimum length and paragraph requirements for full articles

Corrected the Taiwan rendering of Gatwick

Added the military news category and front-end label

Synced current briefing data before hourly builds to prevent deployment races

Replaced internal service-limit details with neutral reader-facing source-availability notices

Enforced briefing-versus-formal-article separation during rendering

Made briefings standalone bulletins instead of mirrors of formal articles

Added verified AVWIRE statistics as comparison context for PLA aircraft and vessel activity reports

Linked each homepage live-update item directly to its corresponding story

Turned excerpt-only feeds into discovery indexes instead of full-article evidence

Added content-integrity checks and conservative handling for derivative reports with insufficient evidence

Added a programmatically validated glossary for Taiwan-standard proper-name renderings

Included response bodies in retrieval-augmented briefing failure diagnostics

Prevented an empty retrieval-model setting from overriding the default model ID

Added the approved retrieval-augmented source scan to the briefing preview

Standardised the briefing format and added Taiwan military aviation and transport sources

Enabled direct publication of special-aircraft observations after automated rule-based verification

Changed news imagery to full-frame colour display with subject labels

Added airport aliases and official-agency source fallback to image matching

Fed official-page full text into drafting to support full-length articles

Added automated matching of reusable news imagery through public sources that require no third-party API credentials

Added three daily air-and-transport briefings on fixed Taipei windows

Rewrote the methodology page to reflect the complete editorial standards

Started crediting the actual drafting model in article footers

Added Taiwan special-aircraft arrival detection and source-text normalisation

Resolved all 12 adversarial-review findings in the model reasoning profiles

Added per-model reasoning profiles, a DeepSeek V4 Pro fallback route and improved observability

Excluded completeness-check rejections from the per-run drafting cap

Made the news recency window configurable

Added editorial-rejection handling and a code-level completeness pre-check

Mapped the configured NVIDIA NIM credential environment variable in CI

Added model-level failover routing under the configured model-service policy

Upgraded drafting to a multi-provider model and editorial verification engine v2

Changed the site to a centred 1280px content sheet with side gutters

Added public-source headline aggregation without model API dependencies and resolved 18 review findings

Imported the first production source data and completed the empty-state site build

Created AVWIRE with fetch, dedupe, drafting, build and hourly deployment pipelines

Data Sources

Aviation news topics