February 2026
The February 2026 update strengthens registration and member administration, with better support for inactive members, display name overrides, and registration state messaging. It also adds shared date picking for appointment reports and improves status information on competition pages.
Highlights
Section titled “Highlights”- Inactive member support has been added across registration, member administration, availability, reporting, and match official workflows.
- Display name override support has been improved in appointment, availability, report, and match official team views.
- Registration state messaging now gives clearer feedback when competitions are in setup or scheduled states.
- Competition Admin home screens now show competition status more clearly.
- Appointment reports now use a shared competition day picker.
Web App
Section titled “Web App”Inactive member and registration state handling
Section titled “Inactive member and registration state handling”SportsM8 now has clearer inactive-member handling across competition member administration, member registration, availability, match official teams, Match Schedule Admin, and appointment reports.
Registration screens can also show a registration state banner or inactive registration message, helping members understand when registration is unavailable or not currently active.
Display name override support
Section titled “Display name override support”Display name override support has been improved in match schedule, appointment, availability, match official team, and report views. This helps competitions use the preferred display name for officials and members where configured.
Competition status messaging
Section titled “Competition status messaging”Competition Admin home screens now show competition status more clearly. The home page also includes improved messaging when a competition is still in setup or scheduled status.
Shared competition day picker
Section titled “Shared competition day picker”Appointment reporting now uses a shared competition day picker component. This creates a more consistent way to choose competition days across reporting workflows and prepares the reporting area for future reuse.
Competition Admin UI refinements
Section titled “Competition Admin UI refinements”Competition Admin pages received small layout and status-display refinements, including cleaner competition edit and home page behaviour.
Backend & Integrations
Section titled “Backend & Integrations”Inactive member support
Section titled “Inactive member support”Backend support has been added for inactive member workflows across competition member routes, reports, match official services, match schedule services, action centre services, and match official teams.
Display name support
Section titled “Display name support”The API now handles display name override values more consistently across competition members, match schedule data, reports, match official coach views, and match official services.
Registration state reliability
Section titled “Registration state reliability”Registration state and inactive member updates now include improved date-modified handling and more reliable inactivation behaviour.
Fixes and Improvements
Section titled “Fixes and Improvements”- Improved competition member registration configuration handling.
- Improved member availability screens when inactive members are involved.
- Improved report and appointment output where display names are used.
- Added early support for standalone Angular components in the client build.

