UTDb

Patch notes

User-visible changes, structural improvements, and data updates—updated by the project team.

New

  • Public Patch notes page at /patch-notes, listing release-oriented changes.
  • Super admins can edit patch notes from the dashboard (Community & admin).

Improvements

  • Site search (header): clearer stacking so the suggestion list stays above login/register controls; refocusing the field reopens suggestions whenever you have two or more characters.
  • Site search: live requests avoid stale cached responses.
  • Dashboard people search (credits and other pickers): multi-word queries match the same way as the main site search (e.g. names in different word order).
  • Dashboard people search: failed or unauthorized API responses no longer look like an empty search result.

Fixes

  • Playbill search could fail entirely until the database included the people.also_known_as column; apply the migration on each environment if search returns errors.

Data updates

  • Schema: optional people.also_known_as column for alternate names (migration scripts/migrations/2026-04-10-people-also-known-as.sql). Required for playbill search and richer person matching once enabled.