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Information regarding the issues from the 18th September

Hi all,

Yesterday we deployed what was supposed to be a silent update to the back end simulators in anticipation for the new mobile app release.

However, what happened was unexpected and requires a little bit of investigation. It seemed to mainly affect viewers as the first car went over the finish line, which at least gives me a big clue as to where to look for the issue.

I have rolled back the changes as of now, and the issue should not appear to happen on races going forward today. I'm hoping to release a patch later on, once I have figured out what caused the crash.

More information will be put on this thread once I have it.

Good news!

I have found out what the issue was and I am patching the issue right now. I shall announce here when the patched simulators are up and working.

The following updates come with this.

Better connection and connection failure messages. (This will be more apparent with the new app as that needed updates too)
Weather will change immediately now instead of being delayed by up to 5 minutes on the sim.
New commentary which now translates to different languages. We will be building on this more in the updates after this but for now it will be translated to your chosen language.
Tyre history should now be fixed.

Okay so the sim changes are now live and will mainly affect races from 9am UTC 18th September.

Any issues regarding these updates like, commentary text not seen correctly, or disconnections after a race finish please create a new bug in the forum pages. I will be closing most of the issues from yesterday as they should mostly if not all fixed wit this update.