github SikamikanikoBG/homelab-monitor v0.6.0
v0.6.0 — In-UI update notification + favicon

latest releases: v0.25.0, v0.24.0, v0.23.0...
one month ago

What's new

In-UI update notification — Phase 1 of #16

A small ⬆ vX.Y.Z available badge now appears in the dashboard header whenever GitHub publishes a newer release than the running container. Click it and a modal opens with the release notes, a one-click Copy command button for git pull && docker compose up -d --build, and a link to the release page on GitHub. No more checking the repo by hand to see if you've fallen behind.

  • A background collector hits the public GitHub releases API every 6 hours, caches the response in memory, and tolerates rate-limits / network errors silently (no badge, no log spam, no UI error).
  • Surfaced through /api/health under a new update key (available, current, latest, release_url, release_notes, published_at, checked_at).
  • Opt out with CHECK_UPDATES=false — no outbound calls when disabled.

A safe one-click update path (when requirements.txt, Dockerfile, and docker-compose.yml haven't changed across versions) is tracked as Phase 2 of #16 and will come in a future release.

Favicon

The dashboard now ships a 🛰️ favicon, so browser tabs and bookmarks no longer show a blank icon. SVG-first via <link rel="icon" type="image/svg+xml">, with a /favicon.ico Flask route for clients that request the legacy path.

Quality-of-life

  • CONTRIBUTING.md + issue / PR templates so new contributors have a clear path: local-run instructions, the "add a monitor" pattern, and a "branch off the latest main" note to prevent stale-branch merge churn (#13).
  • Unique-cloners badge alongside total clones, and cacheSeconds=300 on both clones badges so the README reflects new daily numbers within minutes instead of hours (#14, #15).

Acceptance (from #16, Phase 1)

  • Running an old VERSION against a newer release on GitHub → badge appears within ≤6h. ✅
  • CHECK_UPDATES=false → no outbound call, no badge. ✅
  • GitHub API offline / rate-limited → no error in UI, no badge, no log spam. ✅

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