Paymento is required to expose SOL as the only enabled checkout asset. Underpayments stay unpaid.
VERSIONS
& UPDATES
The final production pass for the current ULTRO website. It preserves working leaderboard, store, PWA and tournament systems while locking the final Division I/II rank presentation, current branding and mobile reliability.
Final production release
Exact supplied Bronze–Diamond symbols and Division I assets are restored, Elite II and Champion II use the approved Draft C direction, Unreal Legends uses the supplied second Unreal symbol, and the site keeps the existing fast-recovery/store infrastructure intact.
Nugz becomes the first ULTRO competitor to reach Unreal
Nugz remains the first ULTRO competitor to reach Unreal. The Summit is dynamic: it always means the next unreached rank milestone and changes as the ladder advances.
One authoritative RP ladder everywhere
Harder Climb is active (+15% promotion requirements). Live checkpoints: Bronze I 0 • Bronze II 345 • Silver I 575 • Silver II 805 • Gold I 1,150 • Gold II 1,380 • Platinum I 2,300 • Platinum II 3,450 • Diamond I 4,025 • Diamond II 4,600 • Elite I 5,175 • Elite II 5,750 • Champion I 6,900 • Champion II 7,475 • Unreal 8,625 • Unreal Legends 11,500 • Master 14,375 • Ultimate Pro 17,250.
Division II is the permanent cap
The earlier experimental rule that could add Division III+ has been retired. The final public ladder uses exactly two divisions from Bronze through Champion.
v22.26.02 — Performance + Simple Mode
Front-end optimisation only: competitive records and the protected C7S3 archive are not migrated or reseeded by this patch.
v22.26 — Overall RP & Rank Expansion
The leaderboard upgrade keeps C7S3 historical rankings frozen while moving C7S4 and Overall to the current RP progression system.
Store v22.22.00 — Stability Recovery
24 August 2026: a clean payment-path recovery removes conflicting legacy Store backends and makes Native SOL exact-settlement the only active payment path.
Server-side pricing is authoritative. Provider, card, FX and network costs do not reduce the Store order value.
Obsolete card/on-ramp and duplicate Store routes were removed to prevent conflicting checkout behavior.
Checkout requires Paymento API access, signed webhook verification, Blob order storage and SOL-only configuration.
Version 27 — Checkout Live
23 August 2026: the ULTRO Store moves from preview/testing into a live, production-ready checkout release.
Store checkout launch
The production storefront is now live, with the checkout and fulfilment workflow moved into the current public release.
Socials, uploads & community
A public-facing summary of what changed today. Software versions are listed separately below.
Component versions
These values are read from the current site package or explicitly defined by this release.
Current fast-loading build with sharper Fortnite rank symbols from Bronze through Unreal.
Current performance, compatibility and installed-app update generation.
Current Highlights feature release: site-wide Quick Save, Shuffle, Recent and Play View.
Full visual layer with a lightweight fallback for older and low-power devices.
C7S4 launch schedule and state presentation.
Current public API build identifier; competitive data logic remains server-authoritative.
Node package metadata for the EdgeOne clip backend.
Device-saved tournament readiness checklist key.
Store backend dependency is pinned for repeatable deployments.
Third-party social code loads only near the feeds in Full Mode and is skipped in Simple Mode.
@edgeone/pages-blob to 0.0.16. The Mirror iframe bridge is no longer part of the initial render path; it is requested only when a Full Mode visitor approaches the social feeds.Release history
Expand a release to see every versioned item stored in the current package. Dated infrastructure/build fixes are listed separately below.
VERSION 27Checkout Live8 changes
- Launched the ULTRO Store checkout publicly.
- Added a site-wide CHECKOUT IS LIVE announcement linking directly to the V-Bucks store.
- Promoted the hardened eight-pack static-first storefront to the production release.
- Kept final basket pricing server-authoritative before payment creation.
- Activated the configured Paymento Native SOL-on-Solana checkout route.
- Kept partial-payment protection and verify-before-supply handling.
- Kept private customer order tracking and the Pending_Supply admin workflow.
- Bumped the PWA/static deployment cache to build 2026-08-23.27.
VERSION 26Community Support & First Stream8 changes
- Expanded Support ULTRO with clear free and optional paid support categories.
- Added direct support actions for following @ultroesports on Twitch and TikTok and subscribing on YouTube.
- Added watching Weekly Highlights, streams and uploads as an official way to support ULTRO.
- Added genuine comments, likes and reactions as community engagement support.
- Added optional Discord server boosting and Twitch gifted-sub support, while making clear that free support is already valuable.
- Recorded that the capture card has arrived and ULTRO completed its first stream.
- Recorded that Weekly Highlights have been published on YouTube and TikTok.
- Advanced the static/PWA build to 2026-08-21.26.
VERSION 25Social Rollout & Today's Update9 changes
- Recorded the full 21 August 2026 ULTRO public update instead of limiting the changelog to software-only changes.
- Official YouTube, Twitch and TikTok accounts are grouped into the homepage Socials experience alongside Discord.
- New YouTube uploads can surface automatically through the supplied Mirror YouTube feed.
- New TikTok posts can surface automatically through the supplied Mirror TikTok feed.
- Twitch @ultroesports is linked for direct access to live-stream content.
- ULTRO social branding and channel presentation were expanded across the website.
- The new canonical ULTRO Discord invite https://discord.gg/f6U99MkK4D remains applied across ULTRO-owned links, Falconyx later shut down and is no longer an active ULTRO partner.
- Weekly Highlights remains promoted as the central hub for tournament plays, member clips and weekly edits.
- The incoming capture card is documented as the next content-production upgrade for future recording, streaming and higher-quality social uploads.
VERSION 24Social & Version Center update6 changes
- Social & Version Center update.
- Added responsive live YouTube and TikTok Mirror feeds to the Official Socials section.
- Migrated all ULTRO-owned Discord actions, invite text, calendar data and copy helpers to https://discord.gg/f6U99MkK4D The former Falconyx partnership has since ended after Falconyx shut down.
- Added a public Software & Version Center documenting the site release, Highlights system, Overdrive UI, PWA shell, API build, package version, external integration channels and recent release history.
- Promoted the static/PWA asset build from 20260820.22 to 20260821.25 so browsers and installed-app sessions can refresh the current release cleanly.
- Preserved Version 23 Quick Save, Version 22 Shuffle, Version 21 Recent, Version 20 Play View and all earlier documented C7S4 functionality.
VERSION 23site-wide Quick Save for the currently playing Weekly Highlight7 changes
- site-wide Quick Save for the currently playing Weekly Highlight.
- The shared background dock exposes an accessible outlined/filled star without requiring a visit to the Highlights hub.
- Quick Save uses the existing device-private Favourites list, safe ID validation, deduplication and a 200-item limit.
- Dock saves update the FAVOURITES filter and count live; card saves and approval-aware cleanup update the dock in return.
- Same-device browser-tab changes are refreshed through storage events without exposing saved IDs in URLs or public data.
- Saving never pauses, restarts, advances or reorders a full, custom or shuffled background queue.
- Focused coverage verifies add/remove behavior, accessible state, dock-to-hub synchronisation and hub-to-dock synchronisation.
VERSION 22device-saved Shuffle Reel control in the shared Weekly Highlights dock7 changes
- device-saved Shuffle Reel control in the shared Weekly Highlights dock.
- Full and custom background queues can be randomised without changing approved clip data or their visible hub ordering.
- Every playable item is visited once before a fresh shuffled pass begins, avoiding immediate repeated clips.
- Previous follows the active shuffled order, and direct clip selection starts a new pass from that chosen item.
- The dock exposes accessible pressed state, SHUF ON feedback and shuffled progress alongside existing controls.
- Shuffle survives navigation on the same device while reduced-motion, data-saving, Reel Off and failed-media protections remain active.
- Focused controller coverage verifies saved state, complete-pass uniqueness, previous navigation and return to default ordering.
VERSION 21device-private Recently Played discovery for approved background highlights7 changes
- device-private Recently Played discovery for approved background highlights.
- Background selections across public ULTRO pages are stored locally with a maximum of 20 unique safe clip IDs.
- RECENT shows the newest played highlight first, moves replays to the front and exposes a live count.
- The Recent view supports existing search, alternate sorting, shareable `view=recent` state and PLAY VIEW looping.
- CLEAR RECENT removes only local history and leaves an already active full or custom reel running.
- Shared Recent URLs contain no saved history IDs, and approved-data refreshes remove stale or withdrawn IDs.
- Focused coverage verifies site-wide recording, ordering, deduplication, URL privacy, clearing and recently played empty state.
VERSION 20filtered Highlights background loops with explicit Play View and Full Reel controls8 changes
- filtered Highlights background loops with explicit Play View and Full Reel controls.
- Search, filter and sort results can become the current muted background queue without changing approved clip data.
- Custom queues preserve the visible ordering instead of being re-sorted by the default featured order.
- Reel Off entries, invalid media and duplicate sources are excluded from custom queues.
- A live queue label and playable count distinguish the Full Approved Reel from a Custom View Loop.
- Direct PLAY AS BG remains available across the hub by restoring the full reel when a selected card is outside the active custom queue.
- Successful refreshes rebuild the custom queue from current approved results; temporary failures preserve the working loop.
- Focused tests cover custom ordering, queue activation, full restoration, Reel Off exclusion and direct-card fallback.
VERSION 19shareable, persistent discovery views for the Highlights hub7 changes
- shareable, persistent discovery views for the Highlights hub.
- Search, filter and sort choices now sync to validated `q`, `view` and `sort` URL parameters and restore after reload.
- SHARE REEL and COPY LINK retain the current discovery view; individual clip links can preserve that state alongside `clip`.
- Default choices are removed from the address, and invalid view/sort values safely return to All and Featured first.
- A touch-friendly Reset View action appears for any custom view and inside empty filtered results.
- Reset View preserves an active clip target while clearing only search, filter and sort state.
- Regression coverage verifies initial URL restoration, live URL updates, clean defaults, no-results recovery and clip-link preservation.
VERSION 18mobile network-resilience upgrades for the Highlights hub and background reel10 changes
- mobile network-resilience upgrades for the Highlights hub and background reel.
- Clips requests have a 12-second safety timeout so the Refresh control cannot remain locked by a stalled connection.
- Newer refreshes actively cancel superseded requests in addition to ignoring late results.
- A compact live connection indicator reports Loading, Live with update time, Offline or Reel Unavailable.
- Transient refresh failures preserve already loaded approved cards, filters, counts and the current background playlist.
- Browser reconnect events automatically refresh the reel, while offline events cancel wasted work without clearing playback.
- The Highlights hub disables background-controller autoload and supplies its fetched playlist directly, preventing duplicate initial API requests.
- Five-minute background refresh skips offline periods and resumes after reconnection.
- Phone-width Highlight filters, form fields and actions now use larger touch targets.
- Regression coverage now verifies preserved content on failure, request cancellation, connection status, reconnect recovery and controller refresh.
VERSION 17reliability and accessibility fixes for the Highlights hub and site-wide background reel8 changes
- reliability and accessibility fixes for the Highlights hub and site-wide background reel.
- Direct background selection now clears the old deep-link marker and keeps only the selected card linked and active.
- PLAY AS BG buttons expose accurate `aria-pressed` state as the reel changes.
- Empty, failed or exhausted reels broadcast a stopped state and remove stale title/provider metadata.
- Empty results reset the current Weekly Highlight summary instead of retaining an older pick.
- Overlapping Highlights refreshes ignore older responses, while the Refresh control exposes and clears a busy state.
- Same-playlist refreshes rebroadcast the current clip and the hub verifies the controller's current item after every load.
- Regression coverage now checks linked-card cleanup, pressed state, null controller options, empty summaries and empty-playlist events.
VERSION 16device-saved favourite highlights with a live Favourites filter and saved-count badge5 changes
- device-saved favourite highlights with a live Favourites filter and saved-count badge.
- One-click `PLAY AS BG` on every reel-enabled clip, including secure link-card providers.
- Active background feedback on the matching Highlights card as the reel moves automatically or through previous/next controls.
- Background selection respects Owner Reel Off decisions and can never activate an unapproved or disabled entry.
- Focused automated coverage for favourites, background selection, direct clip links and saved playback preferences.
VERSION 15highlight discovery controls with live search across player, title, category, description and provider5 changes
- highlight discovery controls with live search across player, title, category, description and provider.
- Five sorting modes: Featured first, Newest, Oldest, Player A–Z and Provider A–Z.
- Individual `highlights.html?clip=...` links with native share, copy fallback, visual focus and automatic reel selection.
- A three-level `BG LOW` / `BG BAL` / `BG FULL` background-intensity control whose setting is saved on the visitor's device.
- Direct Staff Portal navigation to the public Highlights hub for faster owner verification.
VERSION 14complete public Weekly Highlights hub with current pick, reel statistics, provider detection, responsive cards, filters and share/copy controls6 changes
- complete public Weekly Highlights hub with current pick, reel statistics, provider detection, responsive cards, filters and share/copy controls.
- Every approved secure clip provider can now appear in the background reel: direct media plays, YouTube and Smash use controlled previews, and other HTTPS services use safe branded link cards.
- Owner-only `IN REEL` / `REEL OFF` controls remove broken or expired entries from the background without rejecting the clip or erasing Weekly Highlight history.
- The current Weekly Highlight is automatically forced into the background reel.
- Highlights hub navigation, install shortcut, sitemap entry and offline shell support.
- Public API and health output now expose reel inclusion safely, including the total number of active reel clips.
VERSION 13combined Weekly Highlight background reel8 changes
- combined Weekly Highlight background reel.
- All approved playable highlights now rotate continuously, with the current featured pick first.
- Previous/next controls, current title/provider display, pause/play and cross-page playlist continuation.
- Sandboxed Smash transfer previews for approved `fromsmash.com` links, with a direct open-link fallback.
- Persistent server-backed highlight history so selecting a new current pick does not erase previous Weekly Highlights.
- Direct clips advance on completion; YouTube and Smash entries rotate automatically with safe timeout fallbacks.
- Five-minute background refresh for newly approved highlights and updated staff selections.
- Failed direct media is skipped without breaking the rest of the background reel.
VERSION 12original ULTRO Overdrive Arena competitive soundtrack at 132 BPM5 changes
- original ULTRO Overdrive Arena competitive soundtrack at 132 BPM.
- Visitor-controlled music playback, volume, saved preference and accessible status announcements.
- Cross-page track-position continuation, hidden-tab pausing and Media Session controls.
- OGG and MP3 formats for smoother looping and broad browser compatibility.
- Offline caching for the music controller and both soundtrack formats.
VERSION 11Weekly Highlights background system linked to the approved featured clip5 changes
- Weekly Highlights background system linked to the approved featured clip.
- Automatic support for approved direct uploads, direct video links and YouTube highlight links.
- Muted looping playback with a visitor-controlled play/pause preference.
- Dark cinematic overlays that preserve leaderboard and navigation readability.
- Reduced-motion, data-saving and hidden-tab performance protection.
VERSION 10tournament control centre with live event phases, local-time conversion and a device-saved player readiness checklist34 changes
- tournament control centre with live event phases, local-time conversion and a device-saved player readiness checklist.
- Copyable tournament schedule, check-in message and native/fallback event sharing.
- Shareable public player-profile links with direct leaderboard opening.
- Keyboard-accessible podium and leaderboard profile controls with clearer dialog labels.
- Expanded live status centre with API latency, leaderboard integrity and 30-second automatic checks.
- Installable ULTRO web app controls, application shortcuts and branded app icon.
- Improved network-first offline caching while keeping APIs and the Staff Portal out of the cache.
- Public clip links now require secure HTTPS in both the browser and API validation.
- Extra clickjacking and cross-domain policy headers.
- Responsive Launch Control schedule with live countdown states.
- Dedicated C7S4 tournament page with lobby schedule and player checklist.
- Dedicated maintenance and 404 pages.
- ULTRO support section for Discord, Top.gg, Discadia and Disboard.
- Copyable Discord invitation.
- Social sharing and search metadata.
- Installable web-app manifest, sitemap and crawler rules.
- Connection-loss and connection-restored notices.
- Live system-status page using the existing API health endpoint.
- Interactive 15% Rank Points deduction calculator.
- Downloadable calendar event for the C7S4 opening tournament.
- Community guidelines, clip-sharing safety and privacy information.
- Searchable FAQ covering ranks, RP, archives, tournaments and global syncing.
- Structured organisation, website and tournament metadata for search engines.
- Offline fallback with live API, leaderboard and staff routes excluded from caching.
- Public What's New page for launch visitors.
- Launch Control now leaves the live state after the scheduled event window.
- Public health responses no longer expose staff-account or Owner-setup details.
- Staff authentication endpoints now have attempt throttling and safer setup-key comparison.
- Website, API, EdgeOne header and Fortnite News build IDs are synchronised.
- Clip intake now rejects oversized request bodies early, requires HTTPS links and restricts direct uploads to common video formats.
- Dedicated Join ULTRO recruitment and onboarding page.
- Public media kit with approved descriptions, official links and downloadable preview artwork.
- Skip navigation, visible keyboard focus and reduced-motion support.
- Safer hosting response headers.
Build history
Technical patches that used a dated build identifier instead of a numbered feature release.
BUILD 2026-08-23.27Version 27 Checkout Live deployment5 changes
- Published the checkout-live banner across public ULTRO pages.
- Promoted Store v22.15.02 as the active deployment.
- Kept all eight products embedded in the storefront for instant rendering.
- Refreshed the PWA cache so visitors receive the new storefront and announcement assets.
- Updated the Software & Version Center for the live checkout release.
BUILD 2026-08-21.26Version 26 community support update4 changes
- Expanded the Support ULTRO section with social follows, YouTube subscriptions, watching and commenting.
- Added optional Discord boost and Twitch gifted-sub support actions.
- Updated today's public status with the capture-card arrival, first ULTRO stream and Weekly Highlights publishing on YouTube and TikTok.
- Advanced static/PWA cache tokens to 2026-08-21.26.
BUILD 2026-08-21.25Version 25 daily public update5 changes
- Promoted the current public release to Version 25.
- Added a dated Today's Update section covering socials, live upload feeds, Weekly Highlights and the capture-card production update.
- Added a homepage social-rollout banner linking directly to the full update.
- Kept Version 23 as the Weekly Highlights feature-engine version rather than relabelling unrelated software.
- Advanced static/PWA cache tokens to 2026-08-21.25.
BUILD 2026-08-21.24Version 24 social + version release4 changes
- Live Mirror YouTube and TikTok feeds added to Official Socials.
- Canonical ULTRO Discord invite migrated to https://discord.gg/f6U99MkK4D.
- Software & Version Center added and linked from the homepage.
- Static/PWA shell cache advanced to 2026-08-21.24.
BUILD 2026-08-20.22C7S4 LIVE STATE SAFETY FIX6 changes
- C7S4 is forced live server-side; persisted pre-launch C7S3 states auto-roll into the locked C7S3 archive.
- Removed all user-facing prerelease / “releases tomorrow” / “C7S3 live” fallback copy.
- Default Season Centre tab is C7S4.
- Live RP dashboard and full leaderboard default to C7S4 RP even before the API finishes syncing.
- Service-worker cache bumped so stale C7S3 pages are discarded.
- Weekly Highlights/Smash background and the real ULTRO app icon remain included.
BUILD 2026-08-20.19Live RP sync + Smash/PWA fixes6 changes
- LIVE RP now consumes the exact authoritative C7S4 `rp` records returned by the leaderboard API; the dashboard no longer locally recalculates a potentially different score.
- API exposes `liveRP` as the same canonical C7S4 dataset so the compact LIVE RP board, full C7S4 standings and profiles remain aligned.
- Smash preview compatibility improved by removing the restrictive iframe sandbox that could block the Smash recipient app, while retaining a direct-open fallback.
- Highlights hub now keeps an `OPEN ON SMASH` control visible on Smash cards in case a transfer blocks third-party framing or expires.
- PWA now ships Android-friendly 192×192/512×512 PNG icons, a maskable 512 icon, Apple touch icon and 32×32 favicon in addition to the SVG source.
- Service-worker/static asset versions bumped so installed apps receive the icon and embed fixes after deployment.
BUILD 2026-08-20.18Season reset + automatic Overall split6 changes
- C7S4 ranks now start from the C7S4 season-only dataset, not lifetime Overall totals.
- Main C7S4 standings rank by RP; Overall remains a separate lifetime leaderboard in Season Centre.
- Owner enters cumulative Overall totals; C7S4 Points/Elims/Trophies are automatically calculated as Overall minus the locked C7S3 snapshot.
- 15% of C7S4 Points spent is calculated and deducted from RP automatically.
- Server now returns authoritative C7S4 `rpBeforeSpend`, `rpDeduction`, and final `rp` values.
- Owner editor includes a live C7S4/RP preview before saving.