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Last updated: February 13, 2017August 5, 2020

Version 3.2: Fall 2020 ("Stripe") Update

• Merchant Services: Implemented Stripe support for all payments. Sunset Paysafe/Authorize.net accounts as of 11/1/2020.
• Volunteer Queue: Added a button to transfer a list of volunteers in the queue to the email manager.
• Event Manager: Added a mutliselect and a button to email the attendees for multiple events at one time.
• Event Manager: Added a bulk event refund function to quickly cancel multiple signups for an event. 
• Volunteer Certifications: Certifications are now retrieved from AYSO and stored by AYSO ID and not by inLeague user ID, such that users with multiple inLeague accounts will not have to be synchronized or managed separately. 
• API: Numerous API endpoints added with OpenAPI documentation in support of next-gen inLeague application.

Feature Freeze: In the Spring of 2020, inLeague instituted a feature freeze on our primary (soon-to-be legacy) platform. inLeague and inLeague Mobile are being re-written from scratch with an estimated launch date of early 2021. inLeague Legacy will be supported indefinitely as the transition will be a multi-year process.

Version 3.1.1: Fall 2019 Update 2

• Games / Referees: Added half-time scores and match reports.
• Scoring / inLeague Mobile: Added support to enter halftime scores via web application or inLeague mobile.
• Report Builder: "Under the Hood" update to the report builder for better performance and new, date-based standard reports.
• Report Builder: Added standard report for match reports and added divisional support to the dropped players report.
• Authorization / Email Manager: Added Email Administrator role that has complete access to the email manager but no other permissions.
• Medical Releases / E-Signature Archive: inLeague now converts Yozons e-signature documents to PDF on-the-fly to avoid browser performance issues.
• Sterling Volunteers: Added MY2020 support for Florida Division of Law Enforcement requirement for FL-based leagues.

Version 3.1.0: Fall 2019 ("Invoices") Update

• Merchant Services: Added support for Authorize.net Payment Gateways.
• Invoicing System: All-new system for invoice templating, assignment, payment plans, and responsive, mobile-friendly email receipts.
• Volunteer Points Assignment: Re-written points assignment tool with new competition-level option to restrict volunteer points to teams with players from the volunteer's family.
• Referee Scheduler: Updated display for referee self-scheduler and administrator views to use space more efficiently and improved mobile device responsiveness.
• Referee Statistics: Display date of non-game credits (e.g. clinics) on statistics page
• Referee Statistics: Group teams by division.
• Game Scheduler: Added option to bulk-change game fields and a confirmation box when bulk-deleting games.
• System Log: Improved load times for master system log displays with very large numbers of log entries.
• Volunteer Queue: Added a 'check underway' status visible in the volunteer queue and the report center to reflect volunteers who have completed their Sterling background check orders but whose results have not yet been adjudicated.
• AYSOU Login Sync: Added AYSOU Login button to family profile to re-synchronize login credentials with AYSO.

Version 3.0.0: Summer 2019 ("Lucee") Update

• System Architecture: Underlying Java virtual machine language interpreter.
• Birth Certificates: Added new system for parents to upload birth certificates for league review and approval. Birth certificate files are stored securely and deleted after a (configurable) interval of days following approval.
• Report Builder Performance: While a major re-work of the report builder is underway, an incremental update has been released that greatly enhances performance on larger reports.
• Rosters / Line-Up Cards: The old HTML-to-PDF line-up cards have been retired and replaced by the official AYSO Line-up cards with edit-able form fields. They are automatically populated with the team roster, including player loans.
• Rosters / Line-Up Cards: The "traditional" (2 per page) line-up card has been updated with an edit-able PDF courtesy of Region 76. Alignment and borders have also been cleaned up.
• Rosters / Volunteer Membership: Coaches without  valid AYSO Volunteer Membership will be highlighted as such on rosters. Replaced the 'work phone' field on the standard team roster format to make space for MY display.
• Volunteer Membership Queue: Removed the limit of 100 records and added a divisional view that will only show coach and referee volunteers in the selected division. Enabled sorting via datatables.
• Volunteer Membership Queue: Added league option to automatically pre-approve any user with an existing application that has already been assigned to a team as a coach or referee.
• User Custom Fields: User custom fields are now visible (for division directors) and editable (for registrars) in the user editor under the 'custom fields' tab. 
• URL Shortening (/inleague): The /inleague portion of the URL is no longer necessary. If a page on your production site was underneath www.myleague.org/inleague/, you may now access it at www.myleague.org. The previous /inleague URL will continue to work as a redirect.
• URL Shortening (index): URLs containing /index.cfm/ no longer require it. For instance, if your login page was /inleague/index.cfm/Main/login then it is now accessible as /Main/login. Links containing index.cfm will continue to work. 
• Event Administration: The user interface for the event list has been updated to enable the selection of several events and and a bulk email function to transfer the attendees for those events to the email manager. This feature is available on the legacy inLeague site as well.
• Housekeeping: Removed old line-up cards, divisional line-up cards (as the team roster line-up cards function allows a multi-select), and eAYSO sync functions.

Version 2.3.0: Spring 2019 Update

• AYSO Integration: The Volunteer Membership Program (VMP) is now live for MY2019 registration and later. It is set to be "invitation only" until early to mid May. Several regional controls have been added pertaining to pre-approval, regional commercial card synchronization, and reporting on AYSO registration status (the field formerly referred to as "Last EAYSO Year").
• AYSO Integration: Effective February 2019, all non-waitlisted player registrations are sent to AYSO's E3 system through their updated API. Players are no longer sent to eAYSO and eAYSO support is now ended.
• inLeague API Infrastructure: While the customer-facing inLeague API is not yet live, significant back-end work has been completed to enable it later in 2019.
• Youth Volunteer Update: Youth volunteers are now properly registered with AYSO as Youth Volunteers as part of the VMP (though they are excluded from background checks). Youth volunteers can only volunteer as referees or "flex" codes and cannot be assigned to teams as coaches.
• Registration Cloning: Player registrations may be cloned within a Membership Year (e.g. Fall to the following Spring or vice versa). See documentation for details.
• Referee Scheduling: Numerous UI and code improvements to the Referee Scheduler, thanks to feedback from Referee administrators (particularly Region 611)
• Referee Statistics: The referee statistics pages have been re-written from the ground up with a modern chart/graph implementation.
• Match Reports: Referees may now fill out match reports from the referee scheduler and they can be viewed from the scores & standings page by referee administrators and competition managers.
• Score Entry: Score entry page UI improvements.
• New User Fields: Date of Birth is now mandatory for all users. The last 4 digits of SSN are mandatory for any volunteers participating in the Volunteer Membership Program.
• Cash/Check Entry Page: Treasurer-level users now have access to the cash/check processing page for player registration.
• Event Manager: Event coupon manager has been re-written to be clearer, easier to use, and generally less 2007
• Event Manager: Improved multi-select menus for division restrictions.
• Email Infrastructure: All inLeague emails are now sent through Amazon's email backbone rather than inLeague's in-house email service.
• Automatic Email Pruning: To comply with Amazon's email quality requirements, any emails sent via inLeague that bounce will result in the relevant user being automatically opted-out of all emails. Amazon sends inLeague an automated notification whenever a bounce occurs and inLeague "opts out" the user.
• inLeague Hosting Infrastructure: In anticipation of inLeague's upcoming system architecture and application engine changes, inLeague is now hosted out of the NYC datacenter at DigitalOcean and all inLeague application and DNS services have been successfully transferred from our previous host in Phoenix, Arizona.

Version 2.2.1: Fall 2018 Update

• Referee Scheduling / inLeague Mobile: Referee self-scheduling is now available through inLeague mobile.
• Referee Scheduling: The new referee scheduler (on the web application) and schedule administration have been updated with bugfixes and UI improvements; these are ongoing and should be live prior to the start of the Fall season.
• eAYSO Certification Automation: The new automated synchronization for volunteer certifications is live. 
• Player Loans: Players may now be "loaned" to rosters regardless of the destination division (e.g. a B10U player may now be loaned to a B12U team or a G8U team)
• Team Cloning: Teams may now be cloned from neighboring divisions to accommodate players who have graduated since the team was formed (e.g. B8U Fall 2017 team can be cloned into a B10U Fall 2018 team)
• Referees: Chief referees can now email neighboring divisions in the email manager for leagues that enable access to neighboring divisions for division directors.
• Team Assignment Email Blasts: If a team's game schedules are published, team assignment email blasts will now include a link to the game schedule. 
• System: Major "under-the-hood" re-writes of underlying inLeague engine in preparation for infrastructure improvements in 2018/2019.

Version 2.2.0: Spring 2018 Update

• Referee Scheduling: Updated version of referee scheduler and administration utility launched (beta release alongside traditional version)
• Rosters: Line-up cards now sort alphabetically or by team number.
• Rosters: Coaches may now access e-signed medical release archives for their players.
• Game Schedules: All public game schedules now have a link back to inLeague.
• Registration: When dropping a player, "Notify DDs" option will now include head coach(es) for any teams to which that player was assigned.
• Player Ratings: Cleaned up player ratings view in player editor to ignore team assignments without player ratings.
• Admin: Added tool to auto-promote division directors and divisional chief referees to the next division up.
• Team Assignment Cloning: Improved UI for team assignment cloning on divisions with a large number of players.
• Email Manager: Competition/division-specific email recipient lists for parents will now include division heads in the selected division(s). 
• Email Manager: Competition-specific divisional referee lists now check both for eligibility rules and divisional preferences (e.g. "Core Program B19 Referees" will not email all referees eligible to ref B19 per the rule; it will only email those who are both eligible and who selected B19 as a division preference)
• System: Internal framework updated to Coldbox 5; initial framework design for inLeague API.

Version 2.1.3: Fall 2017 Update

• Mobile App: Added player lookup for division heads and league administrators. Mobile records show contact information, parent information, team assignments, and link to eSignature archive.
• Mobile App: Added volunteer lookup for division heads and league administrators. Mobile records show contact information and link to registered players.
• Referees: Eligibility rules for the referee scheduler may now include a description of the rule that will be displayed to ineligible referees so that they may see why they are ineligible.
• Referees: Automatic volunteer point assignment tool that will distribute credits earned to the volunteers' players' teams in lieu of manual assignment. (coming mid September)
• Referees: Manual volunteer point allocation may now be enabled or disabled on a per-competition basis from Competition Referee Setup under the Other Options tab.
• Referees: When emailing referees their assignments for a weekend, a referee administrator may now attach a file of up to 1 MB.
• Referees: Added an option that allows referees to cancel confirmed referee assignments up to a specified number of hours prior to a game. This option may be configured under Referee Competition Setup under Other Options.
• Email Manager: Added a standalone 'opt out' function that does not require a login. A link to this function is attached to every email sent through the email manager. The same tool will also enable users to opt back in.
• Email Manager: Added recipient groups for non-waitlisted players so that division heads may email the entire division, only waitlisted players, or only non-waitlisted players.
• Email Manager: Division names are now the configurable, cosmetic name rather than the old-style, internal reference.
• Report Builder: User interface update to highlight interactive elements when constructing a query.
• Report Builder: Saved queries may now be downloaded directly without needing to be run and displayed on the page first.
• Report Builder: Added refund-related columns to registered player reports.
• Report Builder: Rewrote custom league player ratings function for increased performance.
• Report Builder: Added query filters for referee positions (e.g. volunteers with X number of ABC type volunteer position, e.g. CR, AR, AR2)
• Report Builder: Added CDC Concussion = Yes or No for volunteer reports, similar to Safe Haven; will scan any certification matching CDC Concussion Awareness.
• Admin: Display coach and referee volunteer divisions when performing volunteer lookups to assign volunteers to teams.
• Registration: Volunteer preferences will now 'follow' a player if the volunteer's player is moved from division A to division B and the volunteer had coach or referee division preferences in division A.
• Game Scheduling: Rewrite of Publish Games tool to allow for better compartmentalization of access roles (e.g. competition manager + division head).

Version 2.1.2: Summer 2017 Update

• Registration: Added optional refund holdback for default retention of non-refundable fees (e.g. first refund option is a full refund - $17.50)
• Registration: Added "confirm waitlist" option to control panel registration options that adds a required checkbox on the "review registration" page to require registrants to acknowledge that their registration is wait-listed.
• Registration: Added player-based eligibility rule support for priority registration to complement existing user-based rule; previously, any eligible family member would allow any player in the family to pass the registration check (e.g. 'all returning coaches' get priority registration); with player-based rules, any player meeting the criteria can register (e.g. 'BU10 registration only' or 'Travel registration only')
• Registration: Re-wrote family profile registrar/admin utilities for moving players and family members between families to accommodate new Family Profile UI.
• Admin: New & Improved Authorization Center (Utilities menu) that shows all authorized users with any access role (user/permissions-based, or division- or competition-based) and allows removing any individual user from those roles.
• Admin: Added "cannot be waitlisted" and "does not count toward division caps" registration categories for specified registration types, e.g. "member only" (camps/clinics) registrations.
• Email Manager: Added sub-categories to email only "core" ('count toward division caps') or supplemental ("does not count toward division caps") registrations.
• Registration: Waitlisted players are no longer confirmed as registered with eAYSO until they lose waitlist status (from a team assignment or otherwise).
• Referees: "Referee Weekend Report" rewritten to be aware of custom referee position setups per-division or per-competition.
• Games: Rewrote score input utility (web version) to allow optional head coach score entry and for improved usability and performance.
• Check Requests: Numerous tweaks & usability improvements.
• Report Builder: Added "game age group" filter parameter and display field to volunteer point/ref assignment reports.
• Report Builder: Add event payment sum (sum of all event sign-up payments) display field to event reports.

Version 2.1.1: Spring 2017 Update

• User Registration and Volunteer Preferences Rewrite: Detailed in the Spring 2017 Update article. (Briefly detailed below). 
• User Registration: Re-write of public entry point into inLeague Registration; prominent placement of Translate function.
• User Registration: Coach division preferences are now explicit (chosen during registration) rather than linked to player registrations.
• User Registration: Head Coach and Assistant Coach volunteer roles now have distinct division preferences.
• User Registration: Division preferences and coach/ref volunteer roles are pre-selected based on previous volunteer registrations from within one membership year (e.g. a Fall 2016 Coach signing up for Fall 2017 will have the coach volunteer role pre-selected)
• Medical Releases: The medical release button in the new family profile will now retrieve a player's eSignature archive (for all registrations made since the launch of eSignature integration). 
• Registration: Re-design of Family Profile to support multiple seasons and improved usability.
• Registration: Added Eligibility Rule support to Registration to enable Priority (or "qualified users only") Registration
• Registration: Added Seasonal options to require 0, 1, or 2 volunteer codes per family to register players, as well as override options if one of those codes is Head Coach or Referee.
• Registration: Added seasonal options to enforce the selection of coach or referee divisions (ref divisions only enforceable if they are enabled application-wide from the control panel)
• Referees: Retired "My Referee Record" and "Activate Referee Functions" and rolled functionality into My Volunteer Preferences and updated Family Profile.
• Referees: Retired Highest AR and Highest CR fields from My Referee Record in lieu of eligibility rules to enforce divisional requirements. 
• Admin: Updated User Editor to remove Referee Info but add Volunteer Preferences tab.
• Events: Added bulk event upload tool for mass creation of events. Added upload template example file.
• Events: Added DOB to Event Rosters with player signups.

Version 2.1.0: Fall 2016 Update 

• AYSO Integration: Player eSignature is now live.
• Registration: Player registration for more than one season may now be run concurrently.
• Registration: Custom questions may now be assigned to appear for some seasons but not others.
• Registration: New access role (Birth Certificate Administrator) and bulk-certificate approval tool.
• Registration: Division caps and close actions are now per-season rather than universal.
• Email Manager: Competition-specific groups are now sub-divided by division.
• Dashboard: Per-competition option to show team assignments on dashboard.
• inLeague Mobile: Team Events are now accessible to coaches and parents through inLeague Pro.
• Report Builder: New standard report: Assigned Coaches
• Report Builder: New fields: Gender (volunteers), School (players), Scholarship (Discount) Amount
• Events: Events now have Event Venues – predefined locations that may be assigned to events in lieu of entering in event location information for every event.
• Events: Default event portal for regular users will only show events for which they are eligible, with options to show additional events.
• Events: Event filter by division or name.
• Events: Events that are full are now indicated as such on the portal, without requiring a drill-down to the specific event.
• Events: Event reporter access level allows viewing all event-related data.
• Bugfix: Volunteer points will now display correctly when they were assigned to a team the volunteer previously had access to but no longer does.

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• inLeague NEXT interface launched for all users.
• Interface: Tweaked quick links so that only major functions and reports will appear as quick links.
• Interface: Reduced vertical height of most league banners for better use of screen real estate.
• Interface: Added Team Chooser support to many pages for general-purpose selection of season, competition, division, and team that respects access matrix for the logged-in user.
• Coaches: Implemented Eligibility Rules for coach access to assigned teams.
• Team Assignments: Implemented Eligibility Rules for player eligibility to be assigned to teams in competitions with saved rules.
• Team Assignments: Edited 'neighboring division' logic such that competitions with this option enabled will use co-ed divisions that neighbor the selected division if a gender-specific division is not available.
• Report Center: Rewrote player team and player rating display functions for greatly improved performance.
• Report Center: Added bulk update function for player and user custom fields.
• Report Center: Added numerous standard reports.
• Report Center: Standard reports and all query parameters are now stored in server memory rather than read from disk for improved performance.
• Help Index: Migrated from inLeague / database help to Confluence.
• Teams: Add/edit team function now allows deleting teams with no player or game history.
• Teams: Add/edit team function allows updating team city and team region fields.
• Teams: Add/edit team function will now enforce duplicate name prevention within a single competition/division pair.
• Report Center: Added 'Events: Signed Up For Name' query parameter to allow a report of players signed up for any event matching the name entered (wildcard match) and the date range specified.
• Game Scheduler: Added Gender-Agnostic option to scheduler (replaces old U scheduling functionality)
• Event Manager: Sign-ups may now be moved from one event to another by administrators. Note that limitations on sign-ups do not apply (e.g. a U8 player can be moved to a U10 event). Invoices transfer but may only be refunded at the target event rate.
• Event Manager: Sign-ups may now be cancelled without issuing a refund. Sign-ups cancelled in this manner cannot later have refunds issued from inLeague.
• General / Performance: Updated jQuery library to 2.1.4 and Datatables to 1.10.7. Internet Explorer versions older than 9 are no longer supported. 
• Registration: Added support to show or hide custom registration questions based on custom field values or predefined gate functions.
• Messaging: Re-write of SMS interface to email manager so that text messages are scheduled rather than transmitted all at once.

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Version 1.3.2 Spring 2015 Update

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