In the past you do a ship repair & if you need to do another b4 your 5 min timer gets to 0 you could use your base repair to fix your ship... today i tried to do this & was given the message that i have already repaired my ship recently...

My question is has this been fixed to work the way it should have been in the first place or is this an issue that was created with the recent updates?

I think it's been like this for a while.

Since bases came out I think

aye... you cannot do base repair and regular repair within 5 minutes of each other... both check your own 5 minute timer, and the base repair also checks its own legion-wide 30 minute timer

it's been like this for as long as i can remember...

if you need to reset your 5-minute repair timer, go use a TM...
if you don't feel like using a TM, just use a repair nanodrone

I think you guys missed the point... IT WAS working that way for me (as in earlier this week)... perhaps there was a glitch still in place & now its gone