# 2025-01-19 - Initial V2 Release

This update is a major update to the website that fundamentally changes all systems away from the VaBase foundation and onto a fully custom-built solution.

Users can expect to notice the following changes, fixes, and improvements:

#### General

- Significantly faster page loads due to local data instead of remote data
- Improved alignment of data tables
- Harmonized icons for pilots, aircraft, countries for ICAO codes, airlines, etc
- Longer session timeouts to limit having to re-login as often
- Times will be displayed in your local timezone (this is best-effort and relies on your computer's timezone being set properly)
- Live Flights listing displays if a flight is related to a schedule, tour leg, event, or a charter. This persists throughout the site, in your logbook, dispatched flights, etc.
- Hubs pages updated with more stats about the pilots and the airport itself
- Airports databases with over 80,000 airports pulling data from OpenAIP and OurAirports
- Removed performance score, XP, and money from system
- Stylized routes across site
- Flight using smarCARS 3 can now be paused without causing any trouble for the pilot or staff. Duration will be measured appropriately.

#### Tours

- Tours can be sorted by group and alphabetical, by popularity, and by rating
- Introduced the ability for pilots to rate tours once they have completed 20% of the tour
- Pilots can provide feedback to staff for tours, once completed
- Tours can be filtered by In Progress, Completed, or Not Started
- Tour legs can be dispatched from the tour page if eligible
- Tour legs listing highlights completed legs more distinctly
- Tour map displays completed legs in green colour vs red/grey

#### Events

- New Events calendar displaying all events
- Events are grouped by category
- Event flights can only be dispatched between the start and end date of the event
- Flightplan download

#### Awards

- Awards now have an associated rarity based on how many pilots have been granted the award

#### Dispatches

- Pilots may dispatch as many flights as they like at any time
- Dispatched flights not started within 48 hours are removed
- New My Dispatches page that aligns with what's visible in smartCARS 3
- Allow dispatching via website or smartCARS 3
- Allows deleting of dispatched flights

#### Charters

- Simpler charter flight creation via website or smartCARS 3. Functionality is identical between the two.

#### Pilot Profile

- Added flight activity chart of recent flights

#### Pilot Logbook

- Added tour progress section