• 29 August 2026 — Fork maintenance and modernization:
  • This is a fork of the original Pretend You're Xyzzy project, brought up to date after several years of dormancy. See the GitHub commit history for full details; here's a summary of what changed.
  • Platform upgrade:
    • Upgraded to Java 25 (the current LTS), including the dependency updates needed to compile and run on it (Guice, EasyMock, Hibernate, log4j2, and others).
    • Migrated the persistence layer from javax.persistence to jakarta.persistence and Hibernate 6, replacing the old hand-rolled SQLite dialect with Hibernate's own maintained community SQLite dialect.
  • Deployment:
    • Added a Docker Compose deployment (a Dockerfile and docker-compose.yml) for running behind a reverse proxy, including a PostgreSQL service that seeds itself automatically from the existing card catalog.
  • Interface:
    • Added dark mode, with automatic detection based on your OS/browser setting and a manual toggle.
  • Bug fixes:
    • Fixed a lock-ordering deadlock between the connected-users list and the game manager.
    • Fixed several race conditions in game state handling (card set ID list, player list logging).
    • Fixed a crash risk when starting a game whose custom (Cardcast) card sets fail to load.
    • Fixed a bug where waiting for a new chat/game message could return before a message had actually arrived.
    • Fixed illegible disabled buttons in dark mode.
  • Code quality:
    • Worked through SonarCloud's full findings list for the project. Along the way this fixed some real issues, not just style: a log-injection-adjacent logging pattern, a server-side request forgery hole in custom-deck-by-URL loading, and a switch from MD5 to SHA-256 for a cache key, among others.
  • Housekeeping:
    • Repointed GitHub links (repository, bug reports, source metadata) at this fork instead of upstream.
    • CI and Dependabot now run on a self-hosted GitHub Actions runner, with Dependabot PRs that pass CI merged automatically.