Assetto Corsa Skill Ratings

ACSR

This release adds support for Assetto Corsa Skill Ratings (ACSR). ACSR is a new service for organising and taking part in Championships through Assetto Corsa Server Manager.

When you set up a Championship in Server Manager, you will be given the option to "Export to Assetto Corsa Skill Ratings". This publishes your Championship to the ACSR Championships List page, so that drivers can find your Championship and sign up to it!

• You can view more about ACSR here: https://acsr.assettocorsaservers.com
• For help configuring ACSR, check out our wiki: https://github.com/JustaPenguin/assetto-server-manager/wiki/ACSR-Configuration

Hosting ACSR events requires Server Manager Premium - but you can take part in them for free! You can purchase Server Manager Premium by following the instructions in the free version of Server Manager.

Server Manager

Added:

• Admins can now export full Championship information, including Sign Up Form responses.
• Exported Championships and Race Weekends now export as JSON files to download, rather than showing JSON in the browser.
• Improved Discord message formatting (thanks @cheesegrits!)
• It is now possible to specify a Race Weekend's initial Entry List as the parent for a session. You can also now use a grid offset when filtering entrants from this entrylist.

Fixes:

• Improved the logic of "fastest lap across multiple results files" sorting in Race Weekends whilst using fallback results sorting (premium)
• Fixes an issue where the server name could not be clicked to go to the homepage on mobile devices
• Fixes an issue where Championship Driver and Team penalties would be lost when editing a Championship.
• Drastically improved the speed of STracker pages through some reworking of how STracker is proxied.
• Fixed an issue where some STracker links would not work correctly.
• Fixes an issue where car skins with special characters in their name would not display in the race setup page and Championship Sign Up form.
• Fixes issues with download links in Discord messages (thanks @cheesegrits!)
• On initial server setup, the admin account is only created if one doesn't exist.
• The JSON Store now correctly sets the updated time of Custom Races, Championships and Race Weekends.

performance improvements

Please note, this release deprecates use of "run_on_start" in config.yml. Please read the new config.yml "plugins" section if you were using run_on_start!

Added:

• Added send chat to driver option to the admin panel on the Live Timings page.
• The UDP message receiver now detects if it has fallen behind while handling messages. If it has, it reduces the refresh rate that the Assetto Corsa Server sends messages at, so it can catch up. If you see a lot of "can't keep up!" messages in the Server Logs, you probably need to increase your 'refresh_interval_ms' in the config.yml.
• Added configurable Open Graph images to both the manager as a whole and championships, with these you can link to images that will be shown whenever you share a link of the manager/championship pages on social media (premium).
• Optimised the handling of UDP messages to improve performance.
• When using "Any Available Car", one of each car is added to the EntryList (so long as there are enough entrants!) and then after that Entrant cars are randomised.
• Added a new 'plugins' section to config.yml. Please use this instead of 'run_on_start'. This has been added to fix issues with spaces in plugin path names.

Fixes:

• Fixed an issue with filtering from results files in Race Weekends when the Race Weekend is within a Championship.
• We've changed the method that we use to check if scheduled events need running. Hopefully this should make scheduled events more reliable!
• Fixes a memory leak when proxying STracker pages

multiserver support, lua scripting support

Added:

In this update we've added the following premium features:

• Multiserver support! This is a much-requested feature, and we've finally found a way to deliver it! Premium builds of Server Manager now come with an extra tool: the multiserver manager.

  • The multiserver tool handles installation and setup of however many servers you want!
  • It works on Windows and Linux
  • Custom Races, Championships, Race Weekends and all your uploaded Content are shared between each server!
  • Accounts and login are shared between each server!
  • You can switch servers using the new Server Switcher in the top right hand corner of your Server Manager page.
  • The Server Switcher also shows you what kind of events are running on each server, and how many people are connected!
  • The multiserver tool handles updating server-manager for you!

  When you buy Server Manager Premium, the multiserver tool will be included alongside server manager. Please check out the README for more details and a setup guide!

• Lua Plugin hooks! You can now run custom scripts with a bunch of hooks for Lua (event start, results load and more!), have a look in server-manager/plugins for some examples. (there's a nice readme guide in there too!). If you want to enable one of the three Lua examples before just uncomment them in the lua files!

• Weather API with Lua plugins! As a nice example of what you can achieve with Lua plugins we used one to implement a weather API!

• Auto ballast based on championship position with Lua plugins! Another Lua example, this one applies a ballast to each driver in a championship when an event is started based on their championship position.

• Auto collision disqualifier! This is our last Lua example, it disqualifies drivers if they exceed a certain number of collisions or have a collision over a certain speed.

• Added an option in Race Weekends to filter from the best lap or number of laps completed across multiple results files.

If you don't have premium yet, you can get it by following the instructions on Server Manager!

As well as our premium features, we have the following additions...

• Results pages now show your 'Potential' lap time - the sum of your best sectors.
• Added an option to the config.yml to watch the content folder for changes and keep the car search index updated.
• Added an option to the config.yml to prevent server manager from opening a browser on Windows on start.
• Accounts are now part of the shared JSON store. This means if you were running split JSON stores using the 'shared_data_path' config.yml variable, you will need to re-set up server manager accounts (i.e. by copying them into the shared JSON store)
• You can now import existing Custom Races and Race Weekends to Championships.
• You can now upload results files through the Server Manager UI on the results page.

Fixes:

• Fixed an issue with scheduled Championship events that could clear all of the other scheduled events on the Championship when they started.
• Setting the ballast on an entrant to a larger value than the Max Ballast option no longer stops the server from starting.
• Results pages now correctly display statistics per car - so if you're switching cars in a session you can see accurate reports for that car.
• Penalties are now applied per driver and car, rather than just per driver.
• Fixes an issue where events scheduled in a multi-server scenario would start on the wrong server.
• STracker proxy plugin local/plugin ports should now be properly set by the Server Manager UI.
• Tyres with spaces in their short_names cause the server to fail to connect to lobby, stopped those tyres from being uploaded to the server.
• Prevent users from being able to set up a race that will cause the server to crash by setting pickup mode off, locked entry list on and reverse grid race to anything other than 0.
• Fixes an issue where a missing ui_track.json file would cause a track page to load incorrectly.
• Fixed an issue where Championships sometimes could not be edited.
• Fixed date/time formatting for Championship event session start times.

v1.5.3

Added:

• Live Timings "Stored Times" will now persist between reboots of Server Manager, if the next event started is the same as the last event running before the Server Manager reboot.
• You can now configure Server Manager to restart any Event that was running before Server Manager was stopped. Check out "Restart Event On Server Manager Launch" in Server Options.
• Added an option to prevent web crawlers from accessing any pages on the manager using a robots.txt.
• Added information about whether a car/track is default/mod/DLC to list and detail pages.
• Championship and Race Weekend Looping Practice Sessions are now labelled in the navigation bar, e.g. "Championship Practice in Progress"
• Added penalty options to Qualifying and Practice sessions, penalties can be applied independently in each session. In Race Weekends these penalties will affect the entry list of the next session.
• Added a button to blacklist a driver directly from results pages, the button is inside the penalties popup and can only be accessed by admins.
• Added content download links to discord messages (thanks @cheesegrits!)
• Enabled Content Manager Wrapper "Install Missing Content" button, just add links to tracks/cars on their detail pages and the button will work for events using that content!
• You can now filter stock, DLC and mod cars in or out of the car search. Check out the car search help for more details! Please note that you will need to rebuild your search index for this to work. Go to Server Options, scroll down to "Maintenance" and click "Rebuild Search Index"!
• Server Manager will now set up some example Championships and Custom Races if you have not yet created any
• You can now sort the EntryList for a Championship Race Weekend Session by the number of Championship points a driver has. This could be useful for running reverse grid qualifying races!
• Added a health-check endpoint. Hopefully this will help us with debugging issues!

Fixes:

• Fixes track/car display in dark mode
• Fixes track details page names to be a bit nicer
• Added Black Cat County to the list of default content
• Fixes an issue where Server Manager would not start when a recurring race with an end date had a scheduled recurrence while Server Manager was offline.
• Custom Races are now unscheduled when they are deleted.
• Stopped users from being able to delete their own accounts.
• Fixes an issue where drivers who switched teams mid-Championship had an incorrect number of races shown for their teams.
• Championship event inheritance now correctly uses the previous event setup, not the first event setup
• Fixes an issue where tyres did not show correctly in Session configuration for Championship Race Weekend events.
• Fixes an issue where placeholder entrants were incorrectly added to the entrylist of a Race Weekend practice session.

v1.5.2

Added:

• Added information about whether a car/track is part of a DLC or a Mod when creating an event.
• Discord Enhancements (Thanks @cheesegrits!):

  • Splits the '!schedule' command into '!sessions' (full "wall of text" individual session calendar, restricted to one week ahead) and '!schedule' (abbreviated, one per race calendar). This still needs work, as can easily exceed Discord's max msg length.

  • Added role mentioning. If the optional DiscordRoleID is set, that role will be mentioned in all Discord notifications (meaning anyone with that role will get pinged). Additionally, if the optional 'DiscordRoleCommand' is also set, we will attempt to add/remove that role for users, when they issue the "!whatever" command verb - this requires that the bot has "Manage Roles" permission.

  • Changed NotificationReminderTimer to NotificationReminderTimers (plural), to support comma separated multiple timers (like "90,15" for two reminders at 90 and 15 minutes).

  • Added option to disable notifications when a race is scheduled.

  • Added notification for scheduled races being cancelled.

  • Improved formatting of Discord messages, everything is now an embed (except the role mention, which has to be part of the basic message).

Fixes:

• Fixes track pages for users running Server Manager on Windows
• Fixes an issue where Championships with 'Any Car Model' specified would fail to find a class for a car.
• Fixes an issue where cars with no skins might prevent a race from starting.
• Fixes an issue where Scheduled Championship Race Weekend sessions caused the calendar to error on load.
• Fixes the Race Weekend "Start after previous session" checkbox not displaying correctly.
• Fixes an issue where all drivers were incorrectly disconnected from the Live Timings page when an event with multiple sessions looped

v1.5.1

Added:

• Added a "Start on Tyre from Fastest Lap" option to Race Weekend Filtering. You can use this to force an entrant for a session to start on the tyre they used to complete their fastest lap in the previous session. This might be useful when simulating F1-style qualifications.
• Added a "Start after Parent Session has completed" option to the Race Weekend Schedule popup
• Added configurable negative points modifiers for championships for crashes and cuts.
• Added an Entrant Attendance field to Championship table to help admins keep track of who is showing up for races.
• Enabled recurring events within championships. A recurring event inside a championship will create a copy of itself in the championship list, scheduled for the next time as defined by the recurrence rule.
• Added "Register with Steam" to Championships with a Sign Up Form.
• Added "Sign in with Steam" to the Update Account Details page.
• Added collision maps to result pages so you look back on your numerous incidents with clarity. On the event tab you can control which collisions are shown on the map.
• Added track info pages that work much the same as car info pages.
• STracker integration! This is still somewhat experimental, please report any bugs you find with this! Check out the STracker Options page to get started.
• Added an "Any Available Car" option to Entrylists. In Sign Up Championships, this allows you to select a range of cars and let registrants choose which car they want. If not filled, these car slots become random car assignments in Custom Races.

Fixes:

• Fixes an issue where you could not create a Championship with a single entrant.
• Skins with a # in their name no longer break the car details page.
• Fixes an issue where the data file for some newer Assetto Corsa cars could not be read.
• You can now assign negative points penalties in Championships (so you can add points to people in the Standings if you want!)
• Fixed a couple of issues with plugins running with the Assetto Process.
• Championship entrant/standings tables can now overflow and scroll if they get really long.
• Improved fastest lap sorting in Championships.

race weekends

v1.5.0

Added:

• Race Weekends (premium feature) - A Race Weekend is a group of sequential sessions that can be run at any time. For example, you could set up a Qualifying session to run on a Saturday, then the Race to follow it on a Sunday. Server Manager handles the starting grid for you, and lets you organise Entrants into splits based on their results and other factors!

  • You can create individual Race Weekends or create Race Weekends as part of a Championship
  • Race Weekends need a fully configured Entry List to work properly. If you're using a Championship Race Weekend, the Championship Entry List is used.
  • You can add as many sessions to a Race Weekend as you like! You could run 4 Practice sessions, followed by 3 Races, and then a Qualifying, then a Practice, another Race, etc! You have full control!
  • You can start individual Race Weekend sessions at any time. So you can run one session one day, then another one three weeks ahead if you like. We think this will be useful for things such as Endurance events, where you maybe want your drivers to qualify on a different day so they don't tire themselves out before doing a 2 hour race.
  • By default, the results of a session will form the Grid positions for the next session.
  • You can sort the results of a session by a number of different factors (fastest lap, total race time, collisions, cuts, safety, random and alphabetical)
  • All session results can be reversed in the same way you can configure a Reverse Grid Race normally.
  • To manage the flow between sessions, click on the arrow between two sessions.
  • A session grid can be formed from the results of multiple parent sessions. This means you can split and merge the Race Weekend as much as you like. For example, you could set up an F1-style qualifying using Race Weekends! (Check out the example Race Weekend).
  • Race Weekend sessions are shown in a flow-chart, so you can see the connections between the sessions.
  • In Multiclass Championship Race Weekends, the sorting of the Entry Lists is per class. The classes are then ordered by the fastest lap of each class (so LMP1 cars will be ahead of GTE cars on the grid, for example)
  • Each Championship Race Weekend session allows you to set points for the individual session. Championship points are calculated using these points values.
  • You can schedule individual Race Weekend Sessions too!

• Discord integration! Thanks to @cheesegrits for this! Check out the Server Options page for more information.

• Dark Theme! You can now set Server Manager to use a Dark Theme in the Server Options. You can also edit this for your account in the "Update Details" page.

• A re-ordered homepage with the tiles sorted into categories.

• Server Name Templates - you can now specify (in Server Options) how Server Manager displays your server and event name.

• We've tidied up the Server Options page a bit. It was getting quite large! The new headings should make things a bit more readable.

• If 'Show Race Name In Server Lobby' is enabled, Quick Races and Custom Races with no specified name now show the track name in the Server Lobby.

• A global option to switch speed units from Km/h to MPH for people who want to use the correct measurement system.

• "Force Virtual Mirror" now defaults to on in all race setup forms.

• Admin Control Panel on the Live Timing page. Allows admins to send server wide messages, advance to the next/restart session, kick users and other admin commands!

• You can now re-order Championship Events! Drag them around on the page using the top bar of the Championship Event.

Fixes:

• Championship Sign Up Forms are only shown if the Championship has free slots left and the Championship is not fully complete.
• Championships now always show the 'Entrants' tab, so you can check to see if you're in the list!
• Improved cache validation so that user-uploaded files can change without needing to empty the browser cache.

championship improvements and fixes (especially multiclass + open championships)

Added:

• Added configurable server join and content manager messages. Check out the "Messages" page for more details.
• Championship Events now show the best qualifying and fastest lap in each class.
• You can now rename drivers on results pages.
• Drivers can now add their Driver Name, GUID and Team to their account. This will highlight their results on all result pages, add them to the autofill entrant list and automatically input their information if they sign up for an event with a sign up form
• Added a "Persist Open Championship Entrants" option. When turned off, this prevents the Championship Entry List from filling up, so you can run multiple Championship events in a quick-fire fashion without needing to edit the Entry List between each one. (Championship Points will continue to work correctly).
• Championship Sign Up Forms now replace your existing sign up with a new one if you sign up with the same GUID and email, so you can request to change cars.

Fixes:

• Results in the results listings now only show entrants that took part in a session, rather than all registered entrants for that session.
• Added a popup to alert admins when there are pending Registration Requests for a Championship.
• Added a "Back to Championship" button on the Championship Registration Request management page.
• The Championship EntryList displayed before events start now shows the car skins.
• Championship Entrants are now shown in the order of their pitboxes in the Championship Entrant overview table (shown only when championship progress is 0%).
• Fixed an issue where registered users did not have their skin set up on individual Championship Events.
• Fixes an issue where search indexing could fail due to a car with malformed details JSON. Cars which have malformed details JSON (that we can't clean up) will now load without any car details, allowing search indexing to continue.
• Fixes an issue that caused incorrect ordering of Multiclass Open Championship results. If your Multiclass Open Championships have incorrect classes, you can re-import the Championship event results to fix the issue.
• Fixes an issue where fastest laps were only awarded to the fastest class in a Multiclass Championship.
• Fixes an issue where Sol session start times would change to an incorrect time when editing an event.
• Locked Entry List and Pickup Mode options are now available to be changed in non-Championship events. Do with them what you will.
• Fixes an issue where Championship Sign Up forms couldn't assign a car when users were not allowed car choice.

sleep time fix

v1.4.1

Fixes:

• Added the "Sleep Time" option to the Server Options page. Added a migration to set the Sleep Time option to 1 for all users.
  This fixes an issue where it was not correctly set to 1 (a value that kunos explicitly recommends), which on smaller servers could cause 100% CPU usage.

v1.4.0

Added:

• A calendar that automatically populates with scheduled events! Intended to help users see when events are planned and
  sign up for them if required.
• New Car Details pages! You can now manage your car collection right in Server Manager!
• Car Search! Search for cars by name, tags, BHP, weight, etc. Car search is connected into Quick Races, Custom Races, Championships. Check out the 'Search Help' on any pages with the search bar to find out what kind of things you can search for!
• Scheduled Race recurrence! You can now set scheduled races to recur at regular intervals.
• Skin Upload - you can now upload individual skins on the Car Details page
• Skin Delete - you can now delete individual skins on the Car Details page.
• Improved asset handling - this is a bit behind-the-scenes, but we've made some efforts to make Server Manager's styles (and fonts!) load quicker.
• Car Notes and Download links - you can now add notes and download links to a car.
• Car Tags - you can now add and remove tags to cars. This means if you have a group of cars you use regularly, you can add a tag to them and just search for that tag!
• Improved Content Manager integration! You can now enable a "Content Manager Wrapper" in Server Options, which provides extra information to entrants in the Content Manager server information! If enabled, Content Manager Wrapper shows download links for the cars that you have uploaded (if they have a Download URL set), Championship information positions, and more! As well, the Content Manager Wrapper will make loading server information quicker.
• Added an option to config.yml to use a filesystem session store instead of a cookie session store. This should fix issues that people were having with login not being persisted when running multiple Server Manager instances on the same address but different port. Now, you can specify a different filesystem store for each instance of Server Manager. Check out the config.yml 'http' section for more information on this.
• Added a Content Manager join link to the Live Timings page. This join link can be turned on/off on the server settings page.
• Added a generic welcome message for all drivers on connect, it will also warn the driver if the server is running Sol.
• Server Manager now uses gzip compression where possible. This should improve page load times considerably!
• Added server "Performance Mode" option to config.yml. If this mode is enabled server manager will disable live timings completely, reducing cpu utilisation. This setting may be used in the future to disable further advanced options in order to improve performance.
• You'll now see this Changelog in Server Manager once per account every time you upgrade. You can also view the Changelog in Server Manager itself at any time using the link in the footer!

Note, all of the new Car features work best when you have uploaded your cars to Server Manager. If you haven't, the pages will still work, but won't be anywhere near as cool!

Fixes:

• Improved error handling when parsing config.yml, this should give an error with more detail rather than crashing.
• MOTD text will now be automatically wrapped to prevent large horizontal messages on join.
• Fixes a bug where drivers who connect but do not load were left in the Connected Drivers table in Live Timings.
• Live Timings will now reconnect automatically if your connection drops.
• Only upload official ks content is now working again!
• Fixes an issue where Open Championship EntryLists would not be correctly preserved when assigning car slots to pre-existing Entrants.
• Added a server wide fallback sorting option for events where AC has outputted an incorrect driver order in the result json file. Only enable this if you have sorting issues. If you have championship events where the sorting is incorrect you will need to re-import the results files using Manage Event, Import Results.
• Fixes an issue where the sessions "Time" / "Laps" selector did not show an input field when loading a previously saved race setup.
• Some errors which were being seen often are now 'warnings' not errors, so you won't see them as often.
• Reworked the Live Timings table to perform better and prevent scrolling issues.
• Removed the strict frontend sorting of pit IDs when creating an event. Now you can put cars wherever you like, but they will then be automatically sorted based on weighting. E.g. 0-3-5-5-6 becomes 0-1-2-3-4. Please try to avoid multiple entrants with the same pit ID, as their pitbox will essentially become random.
• Entrants in the autofill list should no longer duplicate when using the json store, although you will need to manually remove any existing duplicates.