# Platform updates: release 2024.04 (April 2024)

URL: https://gambling-soft.com/platform-updates/platform-updates-2024-04/
Updated: 22 October 2026
Publisher: Gambling Soft (https://gambling-soft.com/)

**Short answer.** Gambling Soft platform release 2024.04 (April 2024) opens the current generation of the platform: the casino API moves to a new repository with coding standards, a layered structure and automated tests; fast login and registration by phone arrive; the support chat gets attachments; notification and transaction endpoints appear; a cron scheduler with declarative schedules and an acceptance-test runner with reports are introduced; the sportsbook gets a new betting structure fed by a sports data feed; and the poker room 2.0 is started from scratch with betting rounds, winners, auto start and dynamic card counts. 310 changes across the API, the front end and poker.

## Release 2024.04 at a glance

| Area | Highlights |
| --- | --- |
| Player API | New repository with code sniffer and development rules; services, validators and DTOs; fast login by phone or email; registration by phone; password reminder by phone; bonus id at registration; dependency injection for global variables |
| Support chat | Chat API with history, attachments and date formats; front end wired to the new endpoints |
| Notifications and transactions | Notification endpoint; transaction endpoints for balance log and payment history with response DTOs and tests |
| Scheduler and tests | Cron jobs with a Schedule attribute and executor; Codeception runner with acceptance and unit suites and HTML reports; mailing cron job |
| Security and mail | Spam protection for email and phone activation with request limits; security module; password requirements; escaped passwords in registration emails |
| Betting | New betting structure with all coefficients through a sports data feed; betting tests |
| Poker room 2.0 | Project start: bet and equal-bet logic, winner search and new game, auto start, leave table, unauthorised table view, dynamic card count, round timers, ready-to-play, finish when one player remains |
| Front end | Ajax main module and helpers, chat UI, change-password form with show and hide, themed assets |

## Player API

- **New: repository and standards.** The API moves to its own repository with a code sniffer, php-cs-fixer for tests and written development rules; the ajax layer is cleaned up and restructured into controllers, services, validators and request and response DTOs with a shared abstract response and status trait.

- **New: login and registration.** Fast login by phone or email, registration by phone, login by phone action, password reminder by phone, bonus id passed at registration with domain-group-aware bonus queries; validators covered by unit tests and acceptance tests.

- **New: dependency handling.** Global variables injected through an attribute into readers, writers, services and validators; factories removed and models refactored; constants for static data and default limits.

- **Improved:** email notifications in ajax requests with template replacements; free-spin and deposit bonuses separated; deposit and VIP level changes; a render function on Smarty in the core.

## Support chat

- **New: chat API** with message history, attachments with validation, integer casting of ids, date formats for the front end and performance fixes; the front end sends through the new endpoint, clears inputs and attachments after sending and renders history blocks.

## Notifications and transactions

- **New:** notification controller and send service; transaction endpoints for the balance log and payment history; acceptance tests and service tests for both.

## Scheduler, mailing and tests

- **New: cron scheduler.** Jobs declare their schedule with an attribute; a schedule handler and executor run them with a default time zone; start and finish output per job; last-wins job fixed.

- **New: mailing cron job** with the mail controller, domain groups and receiver types.

- **New: test runner.** Codeception runner with a test suite entry point, report helper and report directory; acceptance tests for cron, logs and the API; a jackpot folder and a fortune wheel module added to the codebase.

## Security and mail

- **New: spam protection** for sending emails and for phone activation with request limits and error messages; a security module; password requirement rules; the password in the registration email is escaped.

## Betting

- **New: betting structure.** All coefficients delivered through a sports data feed; betting folders and tests added; parser cron job for outcomes.

## Poker room 2.0

- **New: project start.** Table API for bets, correct request sending for the front end, bet and equal-bet logic, winner search and a new game after the round, auto start, leaving the table, table view without authorisation, fold handling, dynamic card creation per player with a card count field, round start and game end times, ready-to-play flow, finishing the game when one player remains, small and big blind amounts, max bet move.

## Compatibility and upgrade notes

- The API repository starts with migrations and an htaccess routing prototype; later releases move all installations onto it.

- Cron jobs must be registered through the Schedule attribute; the old schedule file is removed.

## Delivery to clients

Projects hosted by Gambling Soft are updated by our team. Source-code licensees receive the release from the repository under their support terms. Questions about a specific item: the [contact page](https://gambling-soft.com/contacts/). All issues are listed under [Platform updates](https://gambling-soft.com/platform-updates/); the platform itself is described on the [architecture page](https://gambling-soft.com/platform-architecture/).