Copernico release notes

This page lists what is new in Copernico, from the most recent to the oldest. When an article explains a change, it is linked.

30 April 2026: new Live Web

New Live Web for following any race in real time: times, positions and rankings (overall, category, stage) updated every minute without reloading the page, and navigation between stages and checkpoints. See Live Web.

20 April 2026: automatic rankings and other improvements

Improvements for publishing rankings faster and with less manual work. See Rankings Settings — Help Guide.

• Automatic rankings: when results are published, Copernico generates the rankings configuration with nothing to set up: it detects whether the event is individual or a relay, infers the time type (net, official…) and applies the right configuration. It covers about 80 % of the usual cases; custom mode is still available. Rankings can be defined by split type (finish, intermediate, start) instead of by name, so they keep working if a split is renamed. See Auto mode.
• Templates: any ranking configuration can be saved as a named template and loaded into another event or race with one click, even if the splits have different names. See Templates.
• Preview before publishing: a new icon in the event bar shows which rankings will be generated (families, splits, groupings, filters). See Preview.
• Media settings: header background (image, video or embedded content) and sponsor banners for the results pages, for the whole race or per event. See Media settings.
• Rankings widget embed code versions: in the selector of the Rankings Uploader and of the live plugin panel, choose Latest stable (default), Latest beta, Legacy (the old code, for existing manual integrations) or one of the recent versions (up to 3 stable and 3 beta).
• CSV import: if the file mixes existing and new participants, the option to add participants that do not exist creates them in the same step. The import always starts clean, and previous configurations can be recovered from a history list. See Importing participants.
• Existing ranking configurations and already published events do not change: automatic mode only applies by default to events with no previous configuration.

12 March 2026: Workflows with remote mode

Workflows has been improved in both look and operation. The main change is the new remote mode, which works on the remote database; local mode works as before, downloading the database to the terminals where the workflow runs. The data mode is chosen according to who the workflow is for. See Workflows - Quick guide.

10 December 2025: new rankings display in Sportmaniacs

Rankings published in Sportmaniacs have a new layout: overall ranking, team ranking, awards (by category, gender or another configured criterion) and statistics (number of participants, average times and other indicators). The participant profile has also been redesigned, and country flags are shown in the ranking. See Displaying rankings and How to show the country in Live and online rankings.

28 November 2025: mandatory move to Cloud V2

From 31 January 2026, support is no longer provided to users who have not moved to Cloud V2. To switch, select V2 in the cloud version selector in the race configuration. If you do not use Copernico for all your races, a TSConnector compatible with Cloud V2 is available. See How to switch Copernico to Cloud V2, How to change devices to the new version of the cloud and How to configure devices in Copernico with Cloud V2.

28 August 2025: Cloud V2 for all users

Access to Cloud V2 is enabled for all users. To work with it, select V2 in the cloud version selector in the race configuration. See How to switch Copernico to Cloud V2, How to change devices to the new version of the cloud and How to configure devices in Copernico with Cloud V2.

With Cloud V2, the dashboard has a new widget for viewing devices, Cloud V2. See Cloud V2 devices widget.

29 May 2025: beta features in production

The production version (APP) includes the features tested in beta. Among them, with Cloud V2:

• Tag filtering: still activated in Sportmaniacs; filters work as soon as they are activated and also apply to readings rewound afterwards. See Filtering tags in Sportmaniacs.
• Commentator 2.0: devices are selected instead of locations. See Commentator 2.0.

23 May 2025: automatic wave reassignment

In races with several waves for the same event, automatic reassignment places each participant in the wave they actually started in, regardless of the one they were assigned. It was introduced on the beta platform. See Automatic detection of participants in a different wave (Waves Detector).

21 May 2025: user configuration menu

New user configuration menu, introduced on the beta platform. See User configuration menu.

2 May 2025: advanced timing point editor

• A minimum and maximum time can be set relative to the previous timing point, even if they do not share a location (laps).
• For each timing point, choose whether to use the first reading, the last one or the default setting.

They were introduced on the beta platform. See Advanced options in timing points.

1 May 2025: Cloud V2 available

The new Cloud V2 is now available: faster, more stable and with lower data usage. It brings changes to device configuration and tag filtering, both in Copernico and with TSConnector. See How to configure devices in Copernico with Cloud V2.

2 April 2025: Commentator 2.0 in beta

At that date, the Commentator 2.0 plugin only worked on the beta platform. The APP platform offers the latest stable version of Copernico; beta is where new features are developed and minor issues are fixed, and APP is updated periodically with the beta code. See Commentator 2.0.

21 March 2025: importing custom variables from another race

Custom variables can be imported from a race already created in Copernico. It was introduced on the beta platform. See How to import custom variables from another race?.

17 March 2025: authentication change

Since 24 March 2025, Copernico uses an OAuth2 authentication system: more secure, more flexible for third-party integrations and with faster sign-in. Previous passwords stopped working: to keep using the account, use the password recovery option when signing in and create a new password (or set the same one again). See Accessing the Copernico panel.

11 March 2025: Copernico Live in Sportmaniacs

Copernico Live Web can be embedded in a Sportmaniacs page, with more options to customise the page and use it as a widget too. It was introduced on the beta platform. See How to add Copernico Live to Sportmaniacs?.

6 March 2025: the importer remembers the fields

The participant importer saves the last field mapping, so it does not have to be set up again to repeat the import. It was introduced on the beta platform. See Importing participants.

12 December 2024: new Timingsense cloud

New Timingsense cloud, with a faster protocol and lower data usage, to improve the connection of devices to Copernico and other software. See How to configure devices in Copernico with Cloud V2.