What's new in 3.5.0 (April 2, 2026)

Released April 2, 2026.

Added

• Account Disable System, Fraud prevention for customer accounts, New account_disabled, disabled_reason, disabled_at columns on customers table, Login block for disabled accounts with clear error message, Checkout block kills session and redirects to login page, First use: disabling a customer account after a fraud chargeback
• Fraud Chargeback Email Template, Auto sends when order status changed to fraud_chargeback, Professional email notifying customer of account suspension
• Chargeback Response PDF Generator, Automated dispute documentation, Generates professional PDF response packets for chargeback disputes, Includes: response letter, invoice, tracking proof, auth.net record, customer contact record, VROL questionnaire, Used for two chargeback disputes (6 PDFs each)
• HGAS AI Content Generation, Batch AI titles + descriptions for Gun Accessory Supply products, batch-hgas-ai-content.php generated content for 1,616 products, 1,524 GunBroker listings updated with new titles/descriptions

Improved

• GunBroker Image System, Image URL validation with HTTP HEAD check before upload, Distributor fallback: when primary image fails, queries the distributor mirror for alternate images by UPC, Updates products.image_url when fallback is used so website stays in sync, Same fallback logic added to repair_gb_missing_images.php watchdog, Fixed a Ruger Super Redhawk listing, dead Davidson's Cloudinary URL replaced with an RSR image
• GunBroker Sync Performance, 60-70% faster sync cycles, Decoupled image uploads from listing creation , Phase 4a (creates) runs without serial image overhead, New Phase 4b uploads images after all creates complete, UPC duplicate check against GB API now only runs for large batches (>2,500 creates), Result: sync went from 17-24 min down to 6.5-12 min per cycle, Repair cron catches needs_image entries via new flag
• GunBroker Sync Stability, Fixed Windows file lock persistence, Flock held by dead process was blocking all future syncs for hours, Improved stale lock detection in sync_gunbroker_parallel.php, Lock stale threshold: 10 min → 45 min (sync script), 50 min (controller), Added 5-minute watchdog in cron_controller.php for entries with NULL started_at
• Search Performance, Faster product search queries, Replaced SELECT p.* with explicit 31-column list in all 10 search query variants (search.php), No longer pulls heavy TEXT description column unnecessarily, Added 6 composite indexes on products table (is_active + in_stock + caliber/finish/action_type/frame_material/sights/grip_type), Full text search ~20% faster, DISTINCT filter queries ~50% faster
• MGE Tracking, Increased timeouts (CURL 60→120s, controller 180→300s, stale 10→15 min)
• Sports South XML Feed, Added BOM stripping, root element extraction, libxml error handling
• STS Tracking Privacy, Customer account page no longer leaks distributor to store tracking numbers, Now pulls from order_item_fulfillments respecting suppress_tracking flag and fulfillment_type

Fixed

• Disk Cleanup, Freed ~2 GB (old backup, logs, rotated PHP error log)
• Collation Mismatch, stock_inventory fixed from utf8mb4_general_ci to utf8mb4_unicode_ci (was breaking sync_inventory Phase 4)
• Cache .htaccess, Added FilesMatch exception so legitimate product images aren't blocked
• GB Queue Cleanup, Removed 52,735 orphaned/old entries from gunbroker_listing_queue
• Stale Session Cache, Removed from admin order inventory endpoint (was showing OOS items as in stock)
• Sterling 7.62x39 ammunition, Title corrected from 1000rd to 20rd (sold per box, not case)
• SSK Contender Barrel, Updated GB listing title and uploaded image manually
• Customer Email Fix, a mistyped customer email address corrected, tracking resent, order record updated

Security

• Customer Account Disable, 3-layer block (login, checkout, session kill) for fraud prevention
• Fraud Chargeback Workflow, Automated email + account disable on chargeback status change

All releases: What's new in Trinity. The same notes are on the What's New page in your admin.

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