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Recap - What's New

12/09/2025

Here is what we delivered in the last 4 months, our latest features, challenges, improvements, events, workshops and presentations. Enjoy!

New Challenges :video_game:

Platform

May

  • Add individual user statistics for each company user in the Play company dashboard; challenges assigned, challenges started, average challenge attempts, average engagement, and time spent learning
  • Add company user role management; Admin, Manager, and Department Lead
    • Admin role has full access to remove company users, assign user departments, and create and remove departments
    • Manager role has access to assign user departments, and create and remove departments
    • Department Lead role can assign/un-assign users from their department only
  • Create company dashboard in ID to manage users and departments
  • Add ability to generate invite link to add new users to your company
  • Migrate the company user management functionality from Play to this new dashboard in ID
  • Update Play to endpoints to be accessible by User API key on top of the currently logged in user
  • Improve custom game management endpoints to make it easier to call by API call
  • Improve vulnerability search filtering options by API call
  • Optimise vulnerability search endpoint performance

June

  • Update Play company dashboard
    • Update monthly engagment chart to show grade over time
    • Improve company dashboard performance by introducing caching and optimising queries
    • Add chart for completed challenges per vulnerability
    • Apply department filtering for additional charts and cards
  • Update ID company dashboard
    • Move Department table to separate page
  • Fix Stripe subscription check
  • Remove abiliity to stop challenge for event mode
  • Reduce duplicate API calls to improve performance
  • Fix issue when retrieve test status

July

  • Refactor test suite
  • Update URL routes for ID and Play Company Dashboards
  • Fix login error when attempting to login from Play
  • Implement API key access for company API endpoints
  • Add OpenAPI schema support for selected API endpoints
  • Update company dashboard to manage assigned API keys
  • Implement NoCDE tag to disable CDE access for specific challenges
  • Create modal to submit new challenges
  • Hide Hacker Lobby for users who have not logged in
  • Fix silent login flow for Learn platform

August

  • Implement check to remove player from Hacker Lobby if they push a commit to their app once it has been published
  • Revert changes for retrieve public status endpoint that is used in the make status command

Announcements

Blog

Events

  • CodeEurope (Warsaw)
  • Tech Camp (Hamburg)
  • ADEO DevSummit (Lille)
  • BlackHat USA 2025
  • Fix the flag @ AppSec Village (DEF CON)

Past events

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