Release Notes

We've updated how price averages work in the marketplace.

Previously, averages were calculated using a simple method that wasn't very reliable — outlier prices could easily skew the results.

We've now introduced a new tool: https://uexcorp.space/marketplace/averages — offering more accurate averages, filtered by quality tier, operation, and currency, with full price history available.

The goal is simple: help sellers price their listings more competitively, and give buyers better data to research the market. 

As part of this change, the marketplace_averages and marketplace_averages_history API endpoints are now deprecated. We recommend migrating to marketplace_prices_averages and marketplace_prices_history, which are built on the new, more transparent model.

Note: This tool is still in its early stages. We'll be monitoring the values over time to ensure accuracy and make adjustments as needed. Feedback is welcome.  

Marketplace: Fixed an issue that prevented new users from starting deals, voting, and adding listings to favorites. Apologies for the interruption.

Thanks to @androw34, @armahd, @don_63, @dubtto, @exasperate, @laserowy242m, @nastybroadside, @sergaltaffy, @yawningof3r, @zamotic, and others for the heads up.

Fixed an issue where some sections, including Crew, Datacenter, Items, Resources, Search, Trade, Vehicles, and Workaround, were not refreshing properly.

- Fixed an issue in our tiny, buggy chat that was preventing users from opening negotiations, with the error “Sorry. Not allowed” popping up when clicking them. Thanks to @Dolicranes for the report.
- API → POST → marketplace_negotiations_messages: Fixed a caching issue.

We’ve rolled out Update 2.5.1, bringing improvements across both usability and performance:

• Autocomplete should now work correctly with keyboard navigation (finally!).

• Interface enhancements to make searching across the site easier and faster.

• Multiple backend fixes and optimizations.

A few important notes

• During redeployments last Wednesday and Thursday, we ran into unexpected issues that caused temporary downtime. We apologize for the disruption.

• As part of a broader infrastructure upgrade, some site statistics—such as API activity, view counts, banner clicks, and related metrics—were reset. These metrics are now being processed by a dedicated analytics service, which will help us scale data growth without impacting the site’s performance. We’re currently evaluating whether we can import historical data (there’s a lot of it). If we’re able to restore it, we’ll announce it here and/or through site notifications.

• Maintaining UEX requires significant costs and time. If the site has been helpful to you, please consider supporting us on Patreon. Even $1/month makes a meaningful difference.

Thank you for your continued support and understanding. If you encounter any issues after this update, please report them via Bug Report or through our Discord channel. While we may not be able to reply to every message, we carefully log all feedback and prioritize fixes as quickly as possible.

Marketplace → Personal Store links: Fixed an issue where personal store links were displaying random listings instead of the intended user’s listings.

We’ve resolved an issue that primarily affected Mozilla Firefox users and caused filters across the site—especially in the Marketplace—to become stuck on a specific value. The issue had gone unnoticed for some time and became more visible after Marketplace filter updates deployed two days ago.

If you continue to experience filters sticking to the same values, please refresh your browser cache using Ctrl + Shift + R (Windows/Linux) or Cmd + Shift + R (Mac). If the issue persists, clearing your browser cache should fully resolve it. We’ll continue monitoring any related reports on our Discord.

We apologize for the inconvenience and we sincerely appreciate the detailed bug reports from the community, especially from: Damocles-O, DoggieSan, Expo017, Frecopse, Gotico, JediBananas, jered, Kaptnlglu, Kpv_Fault, LeviF, NEB0729, NerdBox, sonnybonos_ski_school, Taeko_4, and vlucky.

We’ve added basic, official support for Italian and Russian 🎉
Languages are being rolled out based on the most widely used ones across our community, and more will be added in future releases.

Trade > Routes:

• Fixed an issue where sell inventory levels were incorrectly displaying averaged values in a non-average query, instead of showing the last reported status.

• Added a new ETA column that estimates travel time between the two points based on the maximum quantum speed across all quantum drive devices. This is a rough estimate only, as quantum speed is not constant and actual travel time can vary depending on the drive type, ship characteristics, etc.

API:

• December 30, 19:30 UTC: An update error caused an API interruption. The issue has been resolved and the service is fully restored.

• December 31, 04:30 UTC: Fixed an issue with the data_submit endpoint that caused 500 errors when submitting screenshots, mainly affecting Shebuka’s Star Citizen Datarunner for UEX app. Thanks to Thearchy.Helios, PatriotSevenSix, kininja, and others for the heads-up. Please report any further issues on Discord in #data-runner.

We apologize for any inconvenience.

Trade > Routes:

• Added user activity across terminals (testing) to show traders which locations are currently most active in-game.

• Home: Fixed an issue where the Vehicle Pricing selector did not display vehicle prices when the user’s standard currency was set to a non-USD currency.
• Data > Monitor: Fixed an issue where enabling “PTU Reports Only” while PTU reports were disabled in the datacenter caused the monitor to display no location tiles.

Thanks to @Aazatgrabya for reporting these issues.

Account > Verification: Fixed an issue where the verification code was not detected when multiple website verification codes were present in the user bio.

• Breadcrumb (Navigation Bar): fixed an issue that caused Marketplace links to break. Apologies for the inconvenience, and thank you to @celalith, @titanhoover, @commandersolano, @Sirus_Dark, @Citizen_C2, @NebulousSyn, @Dom_Lobo, and others for the heads-up.
• Fixed an issue that was triggering error 153 on embedded YouTube videos across the UEX site, mainly on the Vehicles page.

Around 14:00 UTC, an unexpected system issue affected one of the servers, causing periods of unresponsiveness and errors like “Server down” and “SSL handshake.”
Traffic has been climbing noticeably over the past few weeks, and some infrastructure upgrades were already in place before this incident. Stabilization started right away, but the investigation and mitigation ended up taking longer than hoped. Additional safeguards have now been applied to help prevent similar disruptions, and the system will be closely watched over the coming days.

Thanks for your patience.

• Login:
  • Fixed an issue that blocked some users from resetting their passwords and showed an “Email not found” message. Apologies for the hassle.

• Account → Verification
  • Fixed an issue that caused error #11.
• API → marketplace_listings (POST)
  
  • Resolved an issue where the 'listing_already_added' error incorrectly prevented new listings from being added through the API.
• Miscellaneous
  
  • Other minor bug fixes and improvements.

Fixed an issue that may have prevented some website statistics from being stored correctly since the beginning of October.

• Marketplace
  • Ratings now round more intuitively, giving a clearer reflection of user feedback.
  • Listing Approvals Optimization: Due to a necessary performance update, this change was applied without prior notice — apologies for that.
    Supporters still get priority approval, while non-supporter listings now go through staff review, which may take up to 3 business days depending on staff availability. Thank you for your patience and understanding.

The listing review system exists to keep the marketplace healthy and more reliable. Supporters get priority since their contributions help keep UEX running (servers, tools, etc.), but their listings are still reviewed and monitored by staff.

• Marketplace
  • Fixed an issue that prevented users from adding, editing, or managing their listings (Report #534709).
  • Fixed an issue that prevented users from toggling their Marketplace status on or off (Reports #534219, #534135, #533476).
  • Fixed an issue causing average charts to display incorrectly.

Apologies for the oversights. With the website growing and constant optimizations underway, a few bumps are inevitable. Your bug reports are a huge help in spotting and fixing what slips through, so please keep them coming.

• Commodities
  • Fixed an issue where inventory status averages (buy-only) were calculated incorrectly.

• Organizations
  
  • Fixed an issue preventing users from accepting org invitations (Report #506999)
• Datacenter
  • Fixed an issue preventing new datarunners from signing up
• Marketplace
  • Home
    • Fixed an issue where categories displayed in a language different from the user’s selection (Report #507468)
    • Fixed listing sorting
    • Added new columns: "Ratings," "Deals," and "Unit" in List mode
    • Language selector now displays language names instead of codes
  • Manage
    • Fixed an issue where negotiations disappeared for certain users (Report #507785)

• API: We announced on the API page that API key usage would be required starting September 15, 2025, to help address abuse and improve traffic management. After further review, we’ve decided to pause this plan. Our priority is keeping the API stable, sustainable, and non-disruptive to existing apps.
• Core: Today, between 14:00–15:00 UTC, an outage may have prevented some users from sending messages or submitting forms. The issue is resolved. We apologize for the inconvenience and thank you for your understanding.
• Marketplace
  • Advertise & Edit: Fixed an issue where items were not populating after selecting the "Item" listing type  
  • Advertise: Fixed an issue where uploaded images broke the website layout  
  • Manage → Statistics: Improved load times  
  • Negotiations: Fixed an issue where some traders were required to wait 24 hours before submitting ratings.
  • Listing Page: Fixed an issue that prevented listing views from being logged. Starting today, some listings will begin receiving view counts, and only logged-in users will be considered.
• Items → Info: Added marketplace listings  

• Core
  
  • Fixed an issue with the image cropper where large images stretched the container beyond the screen, hiding the save and cancel buttons. (#495296)
• Marketplace → Negotiations
  
  • Fixed a bug where the negotiations filter redirected users to the homepage.
  • Fixed a bug where some users couldn’t properly view their deals. (#495295)

• API
  • commodities_routes | data_extract: Resolved an issue that caused 500 errors

• Marketplace: Starting today, ratings (stars) will be calculated only from successful deals.  
• Users → Ratings: Fixed an issue where stars were not displaying for some users.

• Marketplace
  • Manage → Deals: Fixed an issue that blocked users from filtering deals. Thanks to @Dark-Poet for the heads up.

Developers, thank you for your patience, testing, and feedback.
Time has been a bit limited to address everything, but we’re aware of the issues you’ve raised and will continue working to resolve them as quickly as possible.

If you spot more issues or have suggestions, please share them in our Developers forum on Discord.

• API Fixes & Improvements
  • GET /marketplace_negotiations
    
    • Fixed a cache issue where newly started negotiations were not appearing (thanks @Terraria Noob Player for the heads up).
  • GET /marketplace_negotiations_messages
    • Fixed a cache issue where negotiation messages were not being pulled via API.
  • POST /marketplace_negotiations_messages
    • Messages sent via API now properly trigger user-defined and Discord webhooks (thanks @Evo for reporting this).
    • Fixed an issue where API-sent messages were not updating or were delayed on the website.

• API events
  • Recent API instabilities prompted us to migrate the API to a dedicated server. This ensures greater resilience and isolates API traffic from web layer issues.
  • We strongly recommend updating your application configurations to use api.uexcorp.uk instead of api.uexcorp.space, as Cloudflare’s may occasionally be activated and disrupt traffic to .space.
• Updates
  • /marketplace_negotiations_messages: Resolved a 500 error.
  • /marketplace_listings: We plan to deprecate total_views and total_negotiations; a replacement metric or new stats endpoint is under evaluation.

We are continuously monitoring our infrastructure to handle growth, resolve bottlenecks, and keep the site accessible to everyone. We appreciate your patience and understanding.

UEX has been growing a lot faster than we expected — which is awesome, but it also created some bottlenecks across the site. You’ve probably noticed things running slower at times. We’ve made some infrastructure changes today, moving the API to its own dedicated server, which should help stability a lot.

That said, some bottlenecks are still there, and we’ll be tackling them step by step as we continue improving the platform. Your patience and understanding through this growth means a lot to us.

None of this would have been possible without the support of the Star Citizen community. Huge thanks to everyone backing us!

• Marketplace:
  • Fixed an issue that caused a 404 error when submitting a message or ending a negotiation in certain languages.
  • Fixed an issue where website filters redirected users to a 404 page.
  • Fixed an issue that caused frequent 500 errors.
  • Performance optimizations and other minor fixes.