Platform updates: release 2025.01 (January 2025)

Short answer. Gambling Soft platform release 2025.01 (January 2025): 346 changes across the casino API, the admin panel 2.0, the poker room 2.0 and the poker front end. Headline items: Omaha with 5 and 6 cards and two-board tables in poker, auto-actions and spectators, tournaments with auto-generated prize structures and guaranteed prize pools, player time zones across the platform, a revenue-share model per partner with monthly reward payouts, promo materials for affiliates, a deposit-plus-free-spins bonus type, USDT deposits through FreeKassa for unsupported currencies, and a queue-based scheduler for catalogue parsers and acceptance tests.

Release 2025.01 at a glance

Poker room 2.0

• New: Omaha with 5 and 6 cards. Hand evaluation extended to Omaha 5 and Omaha 6, maximum six players for Omaha 6, card counting and winner resolution corrected for the new variants, rules moved to a dedicated rules tab in the admin panel, ante added to the pot.
• New: two-board tables. Board count is a table setting; winner detection and combinations work per board; history shows Omaha hands with both boards.
• New: auto-actions and auto-bet. Players can set automatic check, fold or bet for the next street; the server handles rounds with auto-bets and a two-second state delay; mobile bet navigation with a numeric keyboard and decimal input.
• New: spectators. Spectator mode with live spectator counts; spectators are excluded from player validation.
• New: leave and return. A player can leave a table and keep the seat (“leaver back”); a dedicated route keeps the player’s table state after leaving.
• New: cash-table join flow with a base join handler and table state fields for joining.
• New: tournaments. Auto-generated prize structures from buy-in, guaranteed prize pool field, refund handler, tournament info and “my table” key in tournament state, break settings and dates in the admin panel shown in the user’s time zone.
• New: table invoices. Resolution and approval of player invoices at tables with review-driven fixes.
• Improved: rendering. Server-side chips calculation for correct stacks and pots on the client, new table images and cloth themes, player theme settings stored on the server, showdown combinations, hidden cards and next card for fast finish, combination suggestions.
• Improved: quality. Code sniffer and PHPStan clean-ups, first unit tests for the calculator and player collection helpers, fixtures and handler tests, GitHub Actions fixed; table, player and bank responses trimmed of unused fields.

Affiliates and partners

• New: revenue share per partner. Revenue share added to partner promo settings and to the global promo settings, editable in the admin panel; a script and then a queued monthly job pay the previous month’s rewards to partners.
• New: promo materials. Partners upload and download creatives; promo link descriptions and partner permission to edit promo layouts.
• Improved: partner isolation. Partners cannot open routes outside their section.

Payments

• New: USDT deposits through FreeKassa for player currencies the gateway does not support (for example INR): the cashier offers USDT, the player receives a deposit email, logs cover the flow.
• Fixed: Antrpay withdrawals and output type; client IP logged on callbacks.
• Improved: admin panel. Payment filters and payment enums shared with the API, pay-way forms, dashboard output pagination.

Bonuses and engagement

• New: bonus type “deposit plus free spins” with its own description and translations in the admin panel.
• Improved: promo codes. Activation time stored per player with a migration for historical data; fast registration service fixed.
• Fixed: fortune wheel activity window and timers; the fortune wheel module moved to the entity manager.

Platform core

• New: time zones. Time zone stored per player (default UTC), applied to tournaments, fortune wheel, mail black list and admin screens; date helpers unified; timestamps migrated to timestamp columns.
• New: entity manager prototype in the core module with entities, repositories and writers; render helper on Smarty in the core module.
• New: queue-based jobs. Catalogue parsers for two aggregators run through queues on Swoole workers; acceptance tests run through a queue with report generation in the admin panel; partner rewards job scheduled.
• New: instant-games provider module with player token, bridge transaction handlers, GGR log types, banners and settings managed from the admin panel (moved under Betting).
• Improved: GGR log of bridges with filters and customisation; database speed log switch; geo-IP improvements; game category image size limit; registration time stored per player.

Compatibility and upgrade notes

• Migrations: promo activation time, registration time, user time zone, promo materials, instant-games token, revenue share settings, timestamp columns.
• Queue workers on Swoole are required for parsers, acceptance tests and partner rewards.
• Poker front end rebuilt; table settings gain board count.

Delivery to clients

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