Landing page fix, cleaner card layout.

NewTon DC Tournament Manager v4.2.2 — March 9, 2026

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Overview

NewTon DC Tournament Manager Version 4.2.2 fixes a bug where the landing page HTML was visible when opening tournament.html directly in a browser without PHP processing. The landing page feature cards have also been reorganized.

This release contains no breaking changes and is a drop-in replacement for v4.2.1.

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Landing Page HTML Leak Fix

When tournament.html was opened directly in a browser (outside Docker), the landing page HTML content was rendered above the tournament app. Browsers parse <?php ?> tags as "bogus comments" ending at the first > character — and the landing page HTML contains many > characters in its tags, causing them to leak through.

Solution: The landing page HTML has been moved to a separate landing-page.php file and is included via the <script><?php include ?></script> pattern. Browsers treat PHP inside script tags as invalid JavaScript and silently ignore it. This is the same pattern already used by the demo site banner.

• tournament.html now contains a single-line PHP include (invisible to browsers)
• landing-page.php contains the full landing page (only accessed server-side via include)
• No change to Docker configuration or environment variables

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Landing Page Card Reorganization

• New card: Chalker Scoring App — tablet-optimized x01 scoring companion for referees
• Removed: Magic Zoom card (bracket visualization now mentioned in Single & Double Elimination card)
• Highlight number cards (0 dependencies, 4-32 players, ~60MB image, 100% privacy) moved into the hero section above the action buttons

Feature card layout (2 rows of 4):

1. Single & Double Elimination | Lane & Referee Management | Complete Undo System | Import & Export
2. Chalker Scoring App | Offline-First Design | Total Privacy | Self-Hostable with Docker

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Migration from v4.2.1

Automatic

• Fully compatible with all existing tournaments
• No data migration required
• All existing features are unchanged

Docker Deployments

• No configuration changes needed
• NEWTON_LANDING_PAGE and NEWTON_BASE_URL environment variables work as before

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Known Issues

None at time of release.

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NewTon DC Tournament Manager v4.2.2 — landing page fix, cleaner card layout.

Download v4.2.2

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Previous Releases

• Latest release
• v4.2.1 — March 8, 2026 — Cleaner cards, clearer brackets, better discoverability.
• v4.2.0 — March 3, 2026 — Single Elimination: one shot, no second chances.

For older releases, see the GitHub releases page.