Geo Block changelog

Every release of @huloglobal/vendure-plugin-geo-block. Latest release: v0.14.0 — 11 October 2026.

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v0.14.0

11 October 2026 Latest

Added

Weekly report. Every Monday at 08:00 (server time) the worker emails what Geo Block did last week — hard blocks, soft blocks and distinct addresses blocked, week-on-week — plus the next set-up step and the licence lifecycle notice. Sent through the host's SMTP_* environment (nodemailer is an optional peer dependency); off when SMTP is unset. Recipient: the configured supportEmail, else the licence customer, else the trial-reminder address. Settings, "Send me a test" and "Preview" live on the admin page (GET/POST /geo-block/digest/settings, POST /geo-block/digest/send-test, GET /geo-block/digest/preview). Preferences are stored in the shared hulo_plugin_prefs table.
Set-up checklist on the admin landing page (GET /geo-block/setup): rules set on a channel, block page customised, own IP allow-listed, simulation run. Real checks against the channel rows; "Hide" is remembered in the browser until a done item comes undone.
Dashboard widget "Geo Block" (Dashboard → Add widget): blocked, soft-blocked and unique IPs over the last 7 days, the lifecycle notice and a link to the page (GET /geo-block/widget).
Admin navigation: Settings → Geo Block (GeoBlockNavModule, shared).
Usage numbers with the heartbeat. The 30-day requestsBlocked, requestsSoftBlocked and uniqueIpsBlocked counts already sent with the evaluation ping now also go with the daily heartbeat after purchase, so renewal emails can say what the plugin did.
POST /geo-block/eval/remind-me — "Email me before it ends" on the trial banner, proxied to the licence server; the address is kept as the report fallback recipient.
GET /geo-block/licence/status gains notice (trial/key lifecycle sentence), premiumFeatures and recentStats (top 30-day figures).
Hero tile "Blocked · last 7 days" above the tabs, so the headline figure is visible without opening Stats.

Changed

One update banner instead of two; "Dismiss" is remembered per version.
Licensed banner shows "renews automatically — current key valid until <date>" for subscriptions and an amber notice in the last two weeks of a key or trial. Trial and free banners list the premium features and a "So far: …" line from real figures.
A 402 (premium feature) from Stats shows an unlock chip in the tab; other 402s and licence-required bodies produce one consistent toast.
@huloglobal/vendure-licence-sdk ^0.15.0.

v0.13.3

28 September 2026

Added

Per-install audit-IP salt. When ipSalt is unset, a random salt is generated once at boot and stored in hulo_licence_store (key vendure-plugin-geo-block:ipsalt, first writer wins so server and worker agree) instead of hashing every install's audit IPs with the same public constant. A boot warning says a generated salt is in use.
Live allow-list preview. GET /geo-block/presets now includes each preset's countries; the admin page resolves the allow-list, the status sentence and the lockout warning in the browser from the form state (ui/resolve-allowed.ts, unit-tested against the server resolver) instead of the list the server computed at load time.
Postgres corpus test (src/pg-corpus.test.ts, runs when HULO_PG_URL is set): every raw SQL statement in src/ is translated by the dialect adapter and executed against PostgreSQL 17 with TypeORM-quoted stand-ins for channel and geo_block_event.
presetCountries(key) is exported.

Fixed

Unlicensed site-config contract. The public site-config never applied the free-tier gate that /check applied (mode=block, no subdivisions), so a storefront caching site-config could render the soft-block banner while /check blocked. The gate now lives in buildConfig, so site-config, check and the simulator agree. The README and e2e no longer claim the free tier returns enabled:false.

v0.13.2

28 September 2026

Fixed

Client IP could be forged. /check and the rate limiter trusted X-Forwarded-For, CF-Connecting-IP, True-Client-IP and X-Real-IP from any client, so anyone could send an allow-listed office address and walk through the block. The visitor address is now Express's req.ip (honouring the host's trust proxy); vendor headers are only read when listed in the new trustedIpHeaders option. IPv4-mapped IPv6 addresses (::ffff:…) now match IPv4 allowlist entries; matching is case-insensitive.
Storefront helper blocked cross-origin. hulo-geo.js carried Cross-Origin-Resource-Policy: same-origin, so a storefront on a different origin than the API could not load it. It is now cross-origin.
Postgres. Channel custom-field columns and the audit table's createdAt/channelId are quoted in raw SQL; SUM(boolean) replaced with SUM(CASE …); the enabled flag is bound as a boolean.
GraphQL admin API queried columns that do not exist (customFields_huloGeoBlock…); geoBlockChannels, geoBlockSaveChannel and geoBlockSimulate now use the real columns and the same JSON-array storage as the REST routes.
?country=/?region= overrides must be plain ISO codes and, when a signingSecret is set, both must be signed (regionSig).
maintenanceWindow.allowedIps is honoured; the simulator applies subdivisions and reports schedule, bot and maintenance verdicts like enforcement does.
Schedules typed with day numbers as strings no longer block every day; the midnight hour can no longer render as 24:xx (fail-open).
Self-update and licence activate/deactivate/purchase/portal require SuperAdmin; admin/stats authenticates before revealing the tier.
Save validation: bounded lists, ISO country codes, known preset keys, parseable IPs/CIDRs (prefix ≥ 8), http(s)-only redirect and logo URLs; rejected values are returned in the response.

Changed

Audit rows are written with insert after the response (no longer awaited); url now records the referring page instead of the API URL.
Retention defaults to 90 days / 500 000 rows (retention: false to keep everything); a (channelId, createdAt) index is declared on geo_block_event (run your migrations).
Channel rules are cached for 10 s in the server process; /check answers Cache-Control: no-store; /presets and /subdivisions are cacheable for an hour.
Bootstrap side effects (retention sweeper, claim poller) run on the server only.
Admin UI: first-run "Worldwide" writes the canonical key (no false lockout warning), the update banner is no longer shown twice, the copy button copies a real @, timers are cleared on destroy.

v0.13.1

2 September 2026

Changed

Branding. The bundled hulo-global-logo.svg is now the HG wordmark on the HULO black rounded square (the same mark as the huloglobal.com header), with explicit -light and -dark variants alongside the auto-switching default.

v0.13.0

2 September 2026

Added

Licence & billing card in the admin. Always visible: the current state (free tier, free trial with first-charge date, monthly/annual subscription, lifetime, or master licence) with the actions that apply — start the 14-day free trial or subscribe, buy lifetime, Manage billing (Stripe customer portal: update card, cancel, switch plan) and Upgrade to lifetime (the old subscription stops billing at the end of its paid period). Requires licence SDK ^0.14.0.

v0.12.1

2 September 2026

Changed

The 14-day free trial is now card-backed. Unlicensed installs run in the free tier; start the trial from the admin banner (monthly or annual → *Start 14-day free trial*) — Stripe collects a card, nothing is charged until day 15, cancel any time before then, one trial per customer — and the licence installs itself within a minute. The automatic no-card evaluation window is retired (licence SDK ^0.13.0).

v0.12.0

2 September 2026

Added

Buy licence from the admin. The evaluation / free-tier banner now has a plan picker and a Buy licence button: checkout opens in a new tab and, once payment completes, the licence installs itself — no email round-trip, no .env edit, no restart. Renewed subscription keys are picked up automatically too. New admin endpoints licence/purchase-link and licence/claim-status.

Changed

Requires @huloglobal/vendure-licence-sdk ^0.12.0.
The 7-day card trial at checkout has been retired: every install already gets the 14-day no-card evaluation, and paid plans now bill from day one.

v0.11.2

2 September 2026

Changed

Pricing. Geo-block is now £4.95/month, £49.50/year or £99 lifetime (was £9.95 / £99.50 / £199). README updated; the 14-day evaluation is unchanged.

v0.11.1

2 September 2026

Changed

Licence SDK ^0.11.0. Master licences (one key that activates every HULO plugin) and hardware-bound keys are now accepted by the runtime licence check.
Branding. Refreshed HULO Global logo (inline HG monogram) in the admin UI.

v0.11.0

25 August 2026

Added

PostgreSQL support. All of the plugin's SQL now runs on Postgres as well as MySQL/MariaDB — the licence SDK's new dialect adapter translates queries transparently at runtime, so no configuration is needed: the plugin follows whatever database your Vendure dbConnectionOptions use. Verified against PostgreSQL 17. MySQL/MariaDB installs are unaffected (byte-identical passthrough).

v0.10.1

25 August 2026

Changed

The update banner's "What's new" link now opens the plugin's changelog page on huloglobal.com, so you can read exactly what a release contains before updating.

v0.10.0

23 August 2026

Added

One-click in-app updates. The update banner now has an "Update now" button: the plugin installs the new version via your project's own package manager (yarn/npm/pnpm auto-detected), verifies it landed, and gracefully restarts under your process supervisor (pm2/systemd). Admin-only; the target version is verified against the npm registry; a failed install never restarts anything. Disable with HULO_SELF_UPDATE=off; force restart without a detected supervisor with HULO_SELF_UPDATE=force. Note: a separate worker process picks the update up on its next restart, and the admin UI itself refreshes after your next admin build.

v0.9.1

23 August 2026

Added

Update notifications in the admin UI. When a newer version is on npm, a dismissible banner shows current → latest with a copy-ready install command and a link to what's new. (Update data comes from the existing daily registry check — no new network calls.)

v0.9.0

21 August 2026

Added

In-admin licence activation. A banner on the admin page shows the evaluation countdown (or free-tier state) with a paste-your-key box: the key is verified with the exact boot-time checks and activates instantly — no .env edit, no redeploy. Persisted in the shared hulo_licence_store table and restored on boot; env/init keys always take precedence. New licence/status, licence/activate and licence/deactivate admin endpoints.

v0.8.0

21 August 2026

Added

14-day full-featured evaluation. Unlicensed installs now get the complete feature set for 14 days instead of the restricted free tier. Premium blocking features now also run during the evaluation window. The clock is anchored server-side (a hashed instance id — no personal data), so reinstalling does not restart it, and it fails open: if the licence server is unreachable the plugin keeps running fully. After the window the plugin drops to the free tier; all configuration is kept and reactivates instantly with a key.

v0.7.4

30 July 2026

Fixed

Buttons rendered unstyled in the admin. The page borrowed Clarity button classes (btn btn-secondary etc.) from the admin shell, but the built admin CSS defines .btn only contextually and .btn-secondary not at all — "+ Add" and friends rendered as bare native buttons. Every control is now styled by the component itself (.gbtn system).
Unreadable muted text. Secondary text leaned on --color-component-color-200/300, which the admin never defines, so hardcoded slate fallbacks applied in both themes — unreadable on dark surfaces. Replaced by per-theme ink tokens.
Invisible control boundaries. The admin border tokens fail WCAG 1.4.11 in both themes (light #bfc3cc ≈ 1.7:1; dark border-200 is *darker than the surface*, 1.01:1). Inputs/buttons/switch now use a dedicated --gb-ui-border at ≥ 3:1 per theme.

Added

Accessibility, verified not assumed. scripts/contrast-check.py simulates the shipped color-mix() tokens against the real admin theme values and checks every text/surface pair — 40/40 WCAG AA pass (≥ 4.5:1 text, ≥ 3:1 UI boundaries) in light and dark.
Enforcement toggle switch (role="switch", keyboard + focus ring) replaces the ON/OFF pill + button pair.
ARIA tabs (role="tablist"/tab, aria-selected), labelled chip remove buttons, aria-expanded on collapsibles, :focus-visible rings on every control, prefers-reduced-motion support.
Sticky save bar — stays in view, shows "Unsaved changes" with an amber accent when dirty, and disables Save/Discard when clean.

v0.7.3

29 July 2026

Fixed

Dark mode. All semantic surfaces (success/warning/danger/info tints) are derived from the live theme variables with color-mix() instead of hardcoded light-mode pastels, which produced light-text-on- cream unreadables in the dark theme (worst: selected preset cards).

Changed

Active tab restyled to brand amber; IP allowlist tab shows a bypass-IP count badge; save bar highlights when there are unsaved changes.

v0.7.2

29 July 2026

Changed

Admin page redesign on the unified HULO admin design system: brand hero with help drawer, plain-English status sentence describing exactly what the current rules do (with lockout warning), first-run panel, tabbed layout (Rules / Block page / IP allowlist / Simulate / Stats), KPI tiles and mini-bar country table on Stats.

v0.7.0

7 July 2026

Added

Bot / crawler allowlist. New plugin option botAllowlist, defaulting to 'strict' — matches every well-known SEO + social crawler (Googlebot, Bingbot, DuckDuckBot, Baidu, Yandex, AppleBot, Slurp, facebookexternalhit, Twitterbot, LinkedInBot, Slackbot, WhatsApp, Discord, Telegram, Pinterest, Reddit + more). Ships crawler-safe by default so restrictive geo rules don't silently drop search-engine crawls and de-index the site. Also accepts 'permissive' (any UA self-identifying as bot / crawler / spider), false (no allowlist — use only when a WAF handles bots upstream), or a custom pattern array of strings + regexes. New audit decision bot-allowlist.
Business-hours schedule. New per-channel custom field geoBlockSchedule — a JSON object with timezone, days, from, to, and outsideAction (block / soft / allow). Recurring weekly window per channel; outside the window the configured action fires. Handles overnight windows and DST via Intl.DateTimeFormat. New audit decision schedule. IP + bot allowlists still bypass so ops and crawlers never see "closed for orders".
Storefront drop-in helper JS at GET /geo-block/hulo-geo.js. One <script src> with data-channel-token="…" and the store gets geo-blocking with zero custom code. Vanilla JS, no dependencies, fails open on network error, ~2 KB minified. Optional attrs: data-redirect, data-timeout-ms, data-preview. Cached public, max-age=300, stale-while-revalidate=1200 (configurable via new plugin option storefrontHelperMaxAgeSec).
Branded block page at GET /geo-block/blocked?t=…&reason=…. Self-contained HTML — inline CSS, no deps, HULO amber-on-navy identity. Renders channel blockLogoUrl, message, optional redirect CTA, and support email (new plugin option supportEmail). Returns JSON when Accept: application/json. Rate-limited.
HULO brand logo shipped as logo.svg in the package root (globe + amber block-slash on the navy HULO frame).

Changed

/geo-block/check now runs the bot allowlist and business-hours schedule checks alongside the existing IP allowlist + maintenance window checks. Precedence: IP allowlist → bot allowlist → schedule → maintenance → country / region rules.
loadChannelRow now includes geoBlockSchedule and the previously- missing geoBlockAllowedSubdivisions field, so subdivision rules now round-trip correctly through the storefront /check path.

Fixed

Subdivision map (geoBlockAllowedSubdivisions) was defined as a channel custom field but never read into the runtime config on /check — the storefront verdict ignored it. Now honoured end-to-end (on licensed installs — unlicensed still forces the map to empty per the 0.4 tier gates).

v0.6.0

4 July 2026

Added

Boot-time compatibility check via the new SDK helper warnIfIncompatibleVendure(). Logs a non-fatal warning when the runtime @vendure/core version is outside the tested range. Silent when inside; fail-open on unparseable versions.

Changed

Peer dep on @vendure/core tightened to >=3.5.0 <4.0.0 — Vendure 3.5, 3.6 and 3.7 are all covered. Anything under 3.5 has never been tested; anything from 4.0 upwards is deferred until the changelog is reviewed.
Uses @huloglobal/vendure-licence-sdk@^0.6.0.

v0.5.0

23 June 2026

Added

Vendure Admin API GraphQL extensions. Operator endpoints are now first-class GraphQL queries and mutations alongside the existing REST admin endpoints: geoBlockPresets, geoBlockChannels, geoBlockStats (paid), geoBlockSaveChannel, geoBlockSimulate (paid).
Storefront paths (/geo-block/check, /geo-block/site-config) stay REST — they're anonymous, high-frequency, cacheable at the edge, and GraphQL was never the right shape for them.

v0.4.0

23 June 2026

Added

Tier-gating on every premium feature via the SDK's isLicensed() helper. Unlicensed installs get: - only the 5 free-tier region presets (Worldwide, UK, EU, North America, Oceania) instead of all 37; - mode forced to block — no soft-block; - no audit log persistence; - no subdivision map honoured; - 402 on the stats + simulator endpoints. Commenting out a boot check no longer unlocks anything — the gates are enforced at each call site.
Anti-tamper heartbeat via the SDK. Anonymous daily fingerprint of the embedded public key + verifier source. No personal data.

Changed

Relicensed the GitHub source to AGPL-3.0. Published npm builds remain under the commercial licence documented at <https://huloglobal.com/legal/terms/>.
npm builds now include Sigstore provenance attestations.

v0.3.2

21 June 2026

Changed

44px minimum tap targets on every interactive element in the admin UI.

v0.3.1

21 June 2026

Changed

Comprehensive README refresh — documents the full v0.3 feature set including the 37 region presets, generic subdivisions catalogue, security primitives, and opt-in retention.

v0.3.0

20 June 2026

Added

Generic country-subdivisions schema. New channel custom field geoBlockAllowedSubdivisions storing a JSON map { "US": ["CA","NY"], "DE": ["BY"] }. Storefront enforcement checks both the new map and the legacy GB-only field.
Curated subdivision catalogue for 11 countries (GB, US, CA, AU, DE, IT, FR, ES, IN, BR, MX) — 200+ subdivisions, surfaced at GET /geo-block/subdivisions.
Admin UI: subdivisions hidden behind a toggle by default; pick any country to apply a subdivision filter.
Rate limiter (120 requests / 60s default) on /site-config + /check.
HMAC-gated ?country= override on /check (signingSecret).
Hashed audit IPs by default (hashAuditIps, ipSalt).
Security headers on every response.
Opt-in retention sweeper via options.retention.

v0.2.3

20 June 2026

Changed

Mobile-friendly admin UI — channel row + tab bar stack and scroll horizontally, preset and mode grids collapse to single column.

v0.2.2

20 June 2026

Changed

Republish targeting @huloglobal/vendure-licence-sdk@^0.2.0.

v0.2.1

20 June 2026

Added

UpdateChecker integration — /geo-block/status endpoint returns version + update info; admin banner appears on new releases.

v0.2.0

20 June 2026

Added

37 region presets (up from 8) — EU, EEA, EFTA, Schengen, Nordic, Baltic, Benelux, DACH, Iberia, Balkans, GCC, MENA, ASEAN, APAC, East Asia, South Asia, LATAM, Central America, Caribbean, Africa, G7, G20, BRICS, OECD, NATO, Five Eyes, Commonwealth, English-speaking, and more.
Soft-block mode — per-channel mode field (block or soft). Soft mode renders the storefront with a "we don't ship here" banner instead of hiding it.
IP allowlist with IPv4 CIDR — per-channel list of IPs / ranges that bypass every rule. For offices, oncall, payment processors.
Audit log — new GeoBlockEvent entity records every block decision (country, region, IP, UA, reason).
Stats endpoint — GET /geo-block/admin/stats returns block totals, top blocked countries, daily series and reason breakdown.
Simulator endpoint — POST /geo-block/admin/simulate dry-runs a hypothetical visitor against current rules without persisting anything.
Custom block page — per-channel blockMessage, blockRedirectUrl, blockLogoUrl fields.
Scheduled maintenance window — plugin option for a one-shot date-range lockdown (every visitor blocked except the IP allowlist).
Per-request /geo-block/check endpoint — visitors can be checked on the fly with logging to the audit table.
Presets catalogue endpoint — GET /geo-block/presets lists every preset with metadata (kind, description, country count).
Redesigned admin UI: five tabs (Rules / Block page / IP allowlist / Simulate / Stats) with filterable preset picker, soft/hard mode toggle and a live simulator.

Changed

Admin UI now calls /geo-block/admin/* directly (no /ees/ prefix).
isAllowed() and ipMatchesAny() exported for downstream use.

v0.1.0

19 June 2026

Added

GeoBlockPlugin registering five Channel customFields per channel (enable toggle, region presets, allowed countries, blocked countries, UK region sub-filter).
Public /geo-block/site-config endpoint serving a flat resolved allow-list per channel.
Admin endpoints /geo-block/admin/channels and /geo-block/admin/save.
Dedicated admin UI page with mode picker, region preset cards, chip pickers, live preview of the resolved allow-list.
resolveAllowedCountries exported as a pure helper.
Licence verification via @huloglobal/vendure-licence-sdk with revocation polling.