Patch Notes

MTG Hunt development history, feature additions, and improvements.

v0.9.5

October 13, 2026

Unattended Operations Milestone: Strengthened the reliability of scheduled daily price updates.
Concurrency Protection: Added a Windows named mutex to prevent overlapping daily update runs.
Snapshot Integrity: Added verification that imported TCGplayer retail USD prices match the downloaded MTGJSON snapshot.
Safe Tracking Retries: Added date-aware decisions to skip opportunity tracking when the latest day has already been completed.
Daily Health Verification: Added database checks for matching pricing, analytics, and tracking dates, plus stale analytics detection.
Automated Tests: Expanded coverage to 70 unit tests and six read-only database integration tests.
Operational Verification: Successfully executed the updated production daily runner, confirming snapshot integrity, current analytics, safe tracking skips, and healthy database state.

October 13, 2026

Reliability Milestone: Established automated regression and integration testing for MTG Hunt's core hunting engines.
Hunting Engine Tests: Added regression coverage for Recent Breakouts, Flip Finder, Spike Hunter, and Market Movers.
Database Integration Tests: Added read-only PostgreSQL pricing integrity checks and live validation of all five hunting categories.
Importer Validation Tests: Added automated checks for valid snapshots, malformed JSON, missing pricing data, and outdated snapshots.
Operational Verification: Confirmed three consecutive successful daily update pipelines and reviewed Windows Task Scheduler recovery settings.
End-to-End Validation: Verified all 48 automated tests and eight live HTTP endpoints.

October 13, 2026

Dedicated Card Search: Card Search now has its own page, accessible through the search bar in the site's header.
Expanded Search Results: Browse matching card printings and finishes in batches of 100 using the new Load More Results button.
Improved Search Experience: Result counts now appear above and below the results table, with clear information about TCGplayer retail pricing.
Hunting Dashboard Improvements: Hunting categories have been reorganized to prioritize Recent Breakouts and Price Spikes. Recent Breakouts now loads automatically when opening Home, with Active Hunts displayed by default.
What's New and Release History: The Home dashboard now highlights recent updates in a What's New section, with a link to the complete Patch Notes page. Expanded the release history to include earlier MTG Hunt development milestones.
Interface Consistency: Improved the shared site header and search bar for more consistent navigation across Home, Card Search, About, and Patch Notes. Refined responsive layouts for smaller screens and reduced visual shifting when navigating between pages. Consolidated common interface styling to improve consistency and simplify future maintenance.

October 12, 2026

October 9, 2026

Implemented and verified the daily MTGJSON price importer.
Added automatic price downloads with completeness and snapshot-age safeguards.
Introduced scheduled daily updates and incremental analytics refreshes.
Built the initial Spike Hunter and Flip Finder engines.
Added historical price stability analysis and everyday hunting rankings.
Improved Flip Finder ranking, printing awareness, and result diversity through V3 and V4.
Introduced Vintage Finds in Flip Finder V5.
Added the Recent Breakouts API and dashboard.
Corrected hunting category counts.

October 6, 2026