Changelog

Improvements

🐘 We performed a couple of upgrades and we're now running our entire service on PHP 8.4 and Laravel 12 🥳

Improvements

• When a site is considered offline because of too many redirects, we add a visual indicator to the UI that shows where in the redirect process the limit was reached
• Add datetime tooltips for uptime & scheduled tasks, to more clearly show UTC/server/user timezones

Fixes

• Bugfix timestamp for scheduled task notifications not properly showing
• Allow longer application health check URLs on input validation

Internals

• Better insights & notifications to subscription updates

New features

• Allow toggling to only receive new broken links notifications (only when we detect that there are new broken links compared to the previous run)

Fixes

• Fixed some missing translations on certificate detail pages

Improvements

• New and improved ping.ohdear.app is now processing incoming traffic, around 5x faster than the old system 🎉

Fixes

• Fixed performance chart on dashboard rendering backwards in edge cases
• Bugfix custom thresholds for certificate expiration monitoring

Improvements

• Extended the Broken Links detail pages with fine-grained "Solutions", offering insights & actionable tips to resolve the detected problems
• Added ability to override robots.txt when crawling, allowing "force crawl" and "force do not crawl" URL options
• Tweaked blog layout for minor improvements
• Better internal management of our testimonials
• Applied response-caching for all marketing pages of the site (server-side rendering from 500ms -> 100ms)

Fixes

• Applied smarter rate limiting & retry logic when deliver bulk notifications to the same destination (ie: same Slack channels)
• Fixed dark-mode styling on the homepage for small top-banner missing CSS
• Fixed performance issue on uptime check pages not loading when sites were down for > 24hrs
• Fixed the "Feature announcements" posts on the blog not sorting properly

Improvements

• Automated deployments to staging & production for new ping-beta endpoint
• Updated layout for the blog
• Finished changes to the laravel-schedule-monitor package to include a default API URL and optional different ping endpoint
• Added caching to our Status Pages to better handle surges in traffic
• Updated Telegram Notification setup instructions for clarity

Fixes

• Fixed wrong IP for the New York Lighthouse server being reported in the IPs Oh Dear uses

Improvements

• Fixed message when certificates expire, to show actual time remaining before expiry instead of "soon"
• Affiliate page updated
• Introduction of this Changelog section 🥳
• Internal improvements to our helpdesk/support integrations
• Clarified the setup instructions for Telegram Notifications

Improvements

• Pass-through IP address for ping-beta customers
• Allow local testing of ping callbacks
• Show Sitemap and Sitemap URL issues separately
• Filter invalid Markdown tags when configuring a Status Page
• Replace bespoke cookie banner with Cookiebot

Fixes

• Prevent status update requests as a user is typing

Improvements

• Allow a sites' Friendly Name to be configured straight in the Add Site modal
• Ensure the check names are always human readable
• Expose Sitemap crawling issues more clearly to the end-user
• Add API documentation for creating status pages & status page sites
• Upgraded from Tailwind CSS 3 to Tailwind CSS 4

Beta releases

• A newly architected ping architecture for receiving cron jobs/scheduled tasks pingbacks is ready for internal testing

Activity

• The team is attending LaraconEU 2025 to meet with clients & like-minded developers 🥳

Improvements

• Redesigned the "Add Site" screen for simplicity, advanced options are now hidden by default
• Add download and uptime exports per site
• Add daily downtime summary export
• Add sync status page sites api endpoint
• Add create status page api endpoint
• Add delete status page site api endpoint

Fixes

• Fix for handling of bounced e-mail notifications