# worldmonitor changelog

> worldmonitor release notes.

- Vendor: worldmonitor
- Category: AI
- Official site: https://worldmonitor.app/
- Tracked by: What's New (https://whatsnew.fyi/product/worldmonitor)
- Harvested from: GitHub (koala73/worldmonitor)
- Entries below: 10 (newest first)

What's New is an index, not a publisher: every entry below links to the vendor's own release notes, which are the authoritative source. Entries are labelled where they are hand-curated sample data, pre-releases, or drawn from a secondary source such as a developer blog.

## Releases

### v2.5.23 — World Monitor v2.5.23

- Date: 2026-03-01
- Version: v2.5.23
- Original notes: https://github.com/koala73/worldmonitor/releases/tag/v2.5.23
- Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/worldmonitor/releases/v2.5.23

- **fixed** — Make drag handles always visible in world-clock
- **fixed** — Merge duplicate .wc-row CSS rules in world-clock
- **added** — Add drag-to-reorder city rows in world-clock
- **fixed** — Allow localhost in media-src for proxied HLS and remove CNN HLS from CSP
- **fixed** — Redesign World Clock with proper layout and working settings
- **fixed** — Resolve sidecar 401s, variant lock, and registration form on desktop
- **fixed** — Render live news fullscreen above all UI elements
- **added** — Add Czech (cs) translation
- **added** — Add World Clock panel with live financial city times
- **fixed** — Add 12 missing translation keys across all 18 locales
- **fixed** — Add noise filters for 7 unresolved Sentry issues
- **changed** — Reduce default-enabled feed sources and add locale-aware boost
- **fixed** — Sanitize Hebrew Unicode control characters for reliable translation in OREF
- **removed** — Remove LiveNOW from FOX channel due to YouTube error 150
- **changed** — Backfill missing translations for 17 locales
- **fixed** — Improve mobile responsiveness with collapsible map, panel sizing, and font bump
- **added** — Add Fox News HLS stream and fullscreen toggle to live-news
- **added** — Enable clicking breaking news banner to scroll to source panel
- **added** — Add 104 missing translation keys for Italian and Spanish
- **fixed** — Stop auto-reload on service worker update in PWA

##### What's Changed

- fix(world-clock): make drag handles always visible (#715)
- fix(world-clock): merge duplicate .wc-row CSS rules (#714)
- feat(world-clock): add drag-to-reorder city rows (#712)
- fix(csp): allow localhost in media-src for proxied HLS & remove CNN HLS (#711)
- fix(panel): redesign World Clock with proper layout and working settings (#710)
- fix(desktop): resolve sidecar 401s, variant lock, and registration form (#v2.5.23) (#709)
- fix(panel): live news fullscreen now renders above all UI elements (#708)
- Add Czech (cs) translation (#701)
- chore: bump version to 2.5.22 & comprehensive README update (#706)
- feat(panel): add World Clock panel with live financial city times (#705)
- fix(i18n): add 12 missing translation keys across all 18 locales (#703)
- fix(sentry): add noise filters for 7 unresolved issues (#698)
- feat(feeds): reduce default-enabled sources & add locale-aware boost (#699)
- fix(oref): sanitize Hebrew Unicode control chars for reliable translation (#694)
- fix(live-news): remove LiveNOW from FOX channel (YouTube error 150) (#693)
- feat(i18n): backfill missing translations for 17 locales (#692)
- fix(web): improve mobile responsiveness — collapsible map, panel sizing, font bump (#688)
- feat(live-news): add Fox News HLS stream & fullscreen toggle (#689)
- feat(breaking-news): click banner to scroll to source panel (#690)
- feat(i18n): add 104 missing translation keys for Italian and Spanish (#687)
- fix(pwa): stop auto-reload on service worker update (#686)
- perf(web): lazy-load DeductionPanel to exclude dompurify from web bundle (#685)
- feat(feeds): add Asharq News & Business to Middle East (#683)
- feat(live-news): add CNN & CNBC HLS streams via sidecar proxy (#682)
- fix(sentry): triage 10 unresolved issues — 2 code fixes + 8 noise filters (#681)
- feat: implement deduct situation feature (#636) (#642)
- feat(rag): worker-side vector store with opt-in Headline Memory (#675)
- fix(country-intel): align strike/aviation matching with CII bounds fallback (#677)
- feat(settings): badge pulse animation with settings toggle (#676)
- feat: persist OREF history to Redis + retry bootstrap (#674)
- fix(market): replace dead Yahoo Finance Gulf index tickers (#672)
- feat(market): add Gulf Economies panel with GCC indices, currencies & oil (#667)
- fix(ci): strip bundled GPU/Wayland libs from AppImage to fix black screen on non-Ubuntu distros (#666)
- fix(map): stabilize deck.gl layer IDs to prevent interleaved-mode null crash (#664)
- ui(investments): redesign panel with card layout and collapsible filters (#663)
- feat(oref): add 1,478 Hebrew→English location translations + wire sirens into breaking news banner (#661)
- feat: expand live channels with HLS support, Oceania region, and YouTube fallbacks (#660)
- feat(api): add cache-purge edge function for admin Redis cache invalidation (#657)
- fix(oref): add static Hebrew→English translations for common alert types (#655)
- fix(finance): restore 6 missing news categories + add finance favicons (#654)
- fix(oref): grab newest history records and preserve bootstrap data (#653)
- fix(server): cache hardening across 27 RPC handlers (#651)
- feat: add Oman Observer and NDTV feeds + NDTV live TV (#650)
- perf(map): optimize DeckGLMap pan/zoom by deferring work off hot path (#620)
- fix(oref): show history count in badge and stop swallowing fetch errors (#648)
- feat: add Redis caching for GPS jamming data (#646)
- fix: remove accidental intelhq submodule entry (#640)
- Cost/traffic hardening, runtime fallback controls, and PostHog removal (#638)
- fix(desktop): route register-interest to cloud when sidecar lacks CONVEX_URL (#639)
- fix(sentry): null guards for classList teardown crashes + noise filters + regex fix (#637)
- fix(desktop): backoff on errors to stop CPU abuse + shrink settings window (#633)
- fix(linux): sanitize env for xdg-open in AppImage (#631)
- fix(sidecar): add AVIATIONSTACK_API and ICAO_API_KEY to env allowlist (#632)
- fix(mi

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### v2.5.21 — World Monitor v2.5.21

- Date: 2026-03-01
- Version: v2.5.21
- Original notes: https://github.com/koala73/worldmonitor/releases/tag/v2.5.21
- Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/worldmonitor/releases/v2.5.21

- **added** — Native mobile map experience with location detection and full feature parity
- **added** — Show history waves timeline with translation and NaN fix for OREF
- **added** — GPS/GNSS jamming map layer with CII integration
- **added** — NOTAM closure detection via ICAO API for aviation
- **added** — Wire theater posture and breaking news into strategic risk score
- **added** — RT (Russia Today) RSS feeds
- **added** — RT channel via HLS with HLS enabled on web
- **added** — Bootstrap OREF 24h history on startup
- **added** — Hook security advisories into CII scoring and country briefs
- **added** — Iran tab to live webcams panel
- **added** — AVIATIONSTACK_API to desktop settings page
- **added** — Wire OREF sirens into CII score and country brief
- **added** — OREF sirens panel with Hebrew-to-English translation
- **added** — Telegram Intel panel
- **added** — Enhance Iran events popup with severity badge and related events
- **added** — Integrate Iran strike events into CII scoring, country brief, and timeline
- **added** — Day/night solar terminator overlay to map
- **added** — Iran events seed script and latest data
- **changed** — Increase aviation cache TTL from 30min to 2h to reduce API quota usage
- **changed** — Raise news refresh interval to 10min and cache TTL to 20min for RSS

##### What's Changed

- feat(map): native mobile map experience with location detection and full feature parity (#619)
- feat(oref): show history waves timeline with translation and NaN fix (#618)
- fix(aviation): increase cache TTL from 30min to 2h to reduce API quota usage (#617)
- docs(changelog): add v2.5.21 entry covering 86 merged PRs (#616)
- fix(api): harden cache-control headers for polymarket and rss-proxy (#613)
- perf(rss): raise news refresh interval to 10min and cache TTL to 20min (#612)
- Expand country brief and CII signal coverage (#611)
- fix(docs): add blank lines after CHANGELOG headings for markdownlint (#608)
- fix: RT channel HLS-only recovery, test shim, and LiveNOW fallback (#610)
- fix(relay): increase OREF curl maxBuffer to prevent ENOBUFS (#609)
- fix(aviation): invalidate stale IndexedDB cache + reduce CDN TTL (#607)
- chore: bump version to 2.5.21 (#605)
- docs(readme): comprehensive update for Telegram, OREF, GPS jamming, airports, and more (#606)
- fix(webcams): fix broken live news channels — eNCA handle, remove VTC NOW, fix CTI News (#604)
- fix(aviation): always show all monitored airports on flight delays map (#603)
- fix(sentry): guard YT player methods + filter GM/InvalidState noise (#602)
- chore(telegram): update channel list — remove nexta_live, air_alert_ua; add wfwitness (#600)
- fix(aviation): route NOTAM through relay + improve intl logging (#599)
- fix(webcams): add 4th Iran Attacks feed to fill 2x2 grid (#601)
- fix(polymarket): add queue backpressure and response limit slicing (#593)
- fix(relay): stop Polymarket cache stampede from concurrent limit + CDN bypass (#592)
- fix(aviation): replace broken lock mechanism with direct cache, add cancellation tiers (#591)
- fix(telegram): add missing relay auth headers to telegram-feed edge function (#590)
- feat(live-news): add RT channel via HLS + enable HLS on web (#586)
- feat(feeds): add RT (Russia Today) RSS feeds (#585)
- fix(relay): delay Telegram connect 60s on startup to prevent AUTH_KEY_DUPLICATED (#587)
- feat(risk): wire theater posture + breaking news into strategic risk score (#584)
- feat(aviation): add NOTAM closure detection via ICAO API (#583)
- feat: add GPS/GNSS jamming map layer + CII integration (#570)
- feat(aviation): add comprehensive logging to flight delay pipeline (#581)
- feat(relay): bootstrap OREF 24h history on startup (#582)
- fix(sentry): guard setView against invalid preset + filter translateNotifyError (#580)
- feat(cii): hook security advisories into CII scoring & country briefs (#579)
- fix(relay): add timeouts and logging to Telegram poll loop (#578)
- feat(scripts): add Iran events seed script and latest data (#575)
- fix(webcams): replace duplicate Tehran feed with Tel Aviv, rename Iran tab (#572)
- fix(relay): replace nixpacks.toml with railpack.json for curl (#571)
- feat(webcams): add Iran tab to live webcams panel (#569)
- fix(relay): increase Polymarket cache TTL to 10 minutes (#568)
- fix(relay): install curl in Railway container for OREF polling (#567)
- fix(relay): upstreamWs → upstreamSocket in graceful shutdown (#565)
- fix(cii): resolve Gulf country strike misattribution via multi-match bbox disambiguation (#564)
- fix(relay): replace smart quotes crashing relay on startup (#563)
- fix(aviation): query all airports instead of rotating batch (#557)
- fix(relay): add graceful shutdown + poll concurrency guard for Telegram (#562)
- feat(cii): wire OREF sirens into CII score & country brief (#559)
- fix(sentry): add noise filters and fix beforeSend null-filename leak (#561)
- fix(live-news): annotate empty catches and sanitize error output (#560)
- fix(i18n): rename OREF Sirens panel to Israel Sirens (#556)
- fix(live-news): align YouTube edge function with relay auth pattern (#555)
- fix(live-news): use correct relay auth header for YouTube proxy (#554)
- feat(settings): add AVIATIONSTACK_API to desktop settings page (#553)
- feat(live-news): move YouTube proxy scraping to Railway relay
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### v2.5.20 — World Monitor v2.5.20

- Date: 2026-02-27
- Version: v2.5.20
- Original notes: https://github.com/koala73/worldmonitor/releases/tag/v2.5.20
- Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/worldmonitor/releases/v2.5.20

- **added** — Complete edge cache tier coverage with degraded-response policy for gateway
- **fixed** — Commodities panel showing stocks instead of commodities
- **changed** — Increase AIS snapshot edge TTL from 2s to 10s
- **fixed** — Use greedy regex in PostHog ingest rewrites
- **added** — Configurable VITE_WS_API_URL and hardened POST→GET shim
- **fixed** — Add noise filters for 4 unresolved Sentry issues
- **added** — Cloudflare edge caching for proxy.worldmonitor.app
- **fixed** — Convert stale POST requests to GET for backwards compatibility in gateway
- **fixed** — Enable click-to-play YouTube embeds and CISA feed fixes in desktop
- **fixed** — Use rss() for CISA feed and drop build from pre-push hook
- **added** — Tiered edge Cache-Control aligned to upstream TTLs
- **fixed** — Route security advisories feeds through RSS proxy to avoid CORS blocks
- **fixed** — Move 5 path-param endpoints to query params for Vercel routing
- **fixed** — Eagerly load T5-small model when beta mode is enabled
- **added** — Cloudflare edge caching infrastructure for api.worldmonitor.app
- **added** — Convert 52 API endpoints from POST to GET for edge caching
- **added** — Negative-result caching to cachedFetchJson
- **added** — Security Advisories panel with government travel alerts
- **added** — Redesign settings window with VS Code-style sidebar layout

##### What's Changed

- chore: bump version to 2.5.20 + changelog
- feat(gateway): complete edge cache tier coverage + degraded-response policy (#484)
- fix(markets): commodities panel showing stocks instead of commodities (#483)
- perf(proxy): increase AIS snapshot edge TTL from 2s to 10s (#482)
- fix(analytics): use greedy regex in PostHog ingest rewrites (#481)
- feat: configurable VITE_WS_API_URL + harden POST→GET shim (#480)
- fix(sentry): add noise filters for 4 unresolved issues (#479)
- feat(proxy): add Cloudflare edge caching for proxy.worldmonitor.app (#478)
- fix(gateway): convert stale POST requests to GET for backwards compat (#477)
- fix(desktop): enable click-to-play YouTube embeds + CISA feed fixes (#476)
- fix(tech): use rss() for CISA feed, drop build from pre-push hook (#475)
- feat(cache): tiered edge Cache-Control aligned to upstream TTLs (#474)
- fix(security-advisories): route feeds through RSS proxy to avoid CORS blocks (#473)
- fix: move 5 path-param endpoints to query params for Vercel routing (#472)
- fix(beta): eagerly load T5-small model when beta mode is enabled
- feat: add Cloudflare edge caching infrastructure for api.worldmonitor.app (#471)
- feat: convert 52 API endpoints from POST to GET for edge caching (#468)
- feat(cache): add negative-result caching to cachedFetchJson (#466)
- Add Security Advisories panel with government travel alerts (#460)
- feat(settings): redesign settings window with VS Code-style sidebar layout (#461)
- fix(scripts): handle escaped apostrophes in feed name regex (#455)
- fix(wingbits): add 5-minute backoff on Wingbits /v1/flights failures (#459)
- fix(ollama): strip thinking tokens, raise max_tokens, fix panel summary cache (#456)
- fix+feat: RSS feed repairs, HLS native playback, summarization cache fix, embed improvements (#452)

**Full Changelog**: https://github.com/koala73/worldmonitor/compare/v2.5.19...v2.5.20

### v2.5.19 — World Monitor v2.5.19

- Date: 2026-02-26
- Version: v2.5.19
- Original notes: https://github.com/koala73/worldmonitor/releases/tag/v2.5.19
- Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/worldmonitor/releases/v2.5.19

- **fixed** — Detect NVIDIA GPU and work around EGL_BAD_ALLOC on Wayland on Linux

##### What's Changed

- fix(linux): detect NVIDIA GPU and work around EGL_BAD_ALLOC on Wayland (#446)

**Full Changelog**: https://github.com/koala73/worldmonitor/compare/v2.5.18...v2.5.19

### v2.5.18 — World Monitor v2.5.18

- Date: 2026-02-26
- Version: v2.5.18
- Original notes: https://github.com/koala73/worldmonitor/releases/tag/v2.5.18
- Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/worldmonitor/releases/v2.5.18

- **fixed** — Stop mixing host GStreamer plugins with bundled AppImage plugins on Linux

##### What's Changed

- chore: bump v2.5.18 (#445)
- fix(linux): stop mixing host GStreamer plugins with bundled AppImage plugins (#444)

**Full Changelog**: https://github.com/koala73/worldmonitor/compare/v2.5.17...v2.5.18

### v2.5.17 — World Monitor v2.5.17

- Date: 2026-02-26
- Version: v2.5.17
- Original notes: https://github.com/koala73/worldmonitor/releases/tag/v2.5.17
- Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/worldmonitor/releases/v2.5.17

- **fixed** — Disable WebKitGTK compositing in VMs on Linux to fix black iframes

##### What's Changed

- chore: bump v2.5.17 (#443)
- fix(linux): disable WebKitGTK compositing in VMs to fix black iframes (#441)

**Full Changelog**: https://github.com/koala73/worldmonitor/compare/v2.5.16...v2.5.17

### v2.5.16 — World Monitor v2.5.16

- Date: 2026-02-26
- Version: v2.5.16
- Original notes: https://github.com/koala73/worldmonitor/releases/tag/v2.5.16
- Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/worldmonitor/releases/v2.5.16

- **added** — Add India, military, and maritime RSS feeds
- **added** — Add YouTube URL support in custom channels and Middle East region
- **fixed** — Add security headers to Vercel deployment
- **fixed** — Bundle full GStreamer codec suite for YouTube playback on Linux

##### What's Changed

- chore: bump v2.5.16 (#440)
- feat: add India, military, and maritime RSS feeds (#437)
- fix: add security headers to Vercel deployment (#439)
- feat: YouTube URL support in custom channels + Middle East region (#435)
- fix(linux): bundle full GStreamer codec suite for YouTube playback (#434)

**Full Changelog**: https://github.com/koala73/worldmonitor/compare/v2.5.15...v2.5.16

### v2.5.15 — World Monitor v2.5.15

- Date: 2026-02-26
- Version: v2.5.15
- Original notes: https://github.com/koala73/worldmonitor/releases/tag/v2.5.15
- Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/worldmonitor/releases/v2.5.15

- **fixed** — Deduplicate smoke test artifact name for dual Linux builds
- **fixed** — Reduce upstream API pressure with cache TTL optimization
- **fixed** — Tighten noise filters for deck.gl/maplibre and WebView errors in Sentry

##### What's Changed

- chore: bump v2.5.15 (#432)
- fix(ci): deduplicate smoke test artifact name for dual Linux builds (#431)
- fix: reduce upstream API pressure with cache TTL optimization (#430)
- fix(sentry): tighten noise filters for deck.gl/maplibre and WebView errors (#429)

**Full Changelog**: https://github.com/koala73/worldmonitor/compare/v2.5.14...v2.5.15

### v2.5.14 — World Monitor v2.5.14

- Date: 2026-02-26
- Version: v2.5.14
- Original notes: https://github.com/koala73/worldmonitor/releases/tag/v2.5.14
- Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/worldmonitor/releases/v2.5.14

See changelog below.

### v2.5.13 — World Monitor v2.5.13

- Date: 2026-02-26
- Version: v2.5.13
- Original notes: https://github.com/koala73/worldmonitor/releases/tag/v2.5.13
- Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/worldmonitor/releases/v2.5.13

- **fixed** — Tolerate YouTube API failures when adding custom channels
- **fixed** — Append host GStreamer plugins to AppImage search path on Linux
- **fixed** — Enable keyring persistence via Secret Service and keyutils on Linux
- **changed** — Optimize Wingbits API usage and reduce unnecessary polling

##### What's Changed

- fix(live-channels): tolerate YouTube API failures when adding custom channels (#425)
- fix(linux): append host GStreamer plugins to AppImage search path (#424)
- fix(linux): enable keyring persistence via Secret Service + keyutils (#419)
- Optimize Wingbits API usage and reduce unnecessary polling (#416)
- ci: skip Typecheck and Lint on fork PRs (#415)
- fix(ci): use weston+XWayland for Linux smoke test (#417)
- ci: add standalone Test Linux App workflow, revert build-desktop.yml (#414)
- ci(linux): add AppImage smoke test to desktop build (#413)

**Full Changelog**: https://github.com/koala73/worldmonitor/compare/v2.5.11...v2.5.13