Release Notes – v1.3.0 (2026-03-19)

Overview

v1.3.0 focuses on the settings experience, notification delivery controls, clearer overview charts, and a broad cleanup of shared helpers and notification flows. It also improves demo seed data so mileage and cost trends look more realistic over time.

What's Changed

• capitalize VIN and license plate automatically by @D3rJust1n in #169
• Add Finnish (fi) localization by @pHamala in #181
• feat: Remove duplicated English localization messages by @daunera in #176
• Sort fuel and maintenance log by @DesignerThan95 in #184
• refactor: Refactor hardcoded text to use i18n by @daunera in #185
• Added notification to different providers by @javedh-dev in #191
• fix: Update email provider validation by @daunera in #193
• Cleanup by @javedh-dev in #192
• Release v1.3.0 by @javedh-dev in #194

Major Features

Settings UX Improvements

• Expanded all settings accordions by default for quicker access
• Made settings forms more responsive with two- and three-column layouts where space allows
• Added a compact switch-based style for feature flags
• Updated notification provider forms to default new providers to enabled
• Simplified channel subscription controls in the provider dialog
• Extracted reusable settings sections, field helpers, and display blocks
• Reused shared tab shell and form composition patterns in settings

Notification Delivery Controls

• Added a toggle to enable or disable scheduled notification delivery
• Kept the delivery schedule tied to the notification settings state
• Disabled schedule inputs automatically when scheduling is turned off
• Added webhook and Gotify providers alongside email
• Improved provider toggling, cron scheduling, and notification send templates
• Allowed editing providers without exposing keys/tokens

Overview Charts

• Added an average reference line to mileage and cost graphs
• Displayed the average as a top-right label with unit-aware formatting
• Formatted tooltip values with the correct units for mileage and currency
• Added a unit-aware average formatter for chart tooltips and labels
• Improved the chart presentation with clearer dashed average lines

Demo Seed Data

• Updated seeded mileage values to progress more naturally over time
• Added small mileage deviations and realistic fuel cost variation
• Made the overall seed data better reflect real-world usage patterns
• Refined seeded notifications and maintenance history for more natural trends

Configuration Changes

• Added notificationProcessingEnabled to control scheduled notification delivery
• Kept notificationProcessingSchedule as the cron expression for delivery timing
• Added default config values for LPG and CNG fuel units
• Preserved mileage unit format settings for distance-per-fuel and fuel-per-distance
• Expanded settings schema and defaults for feature flags and notification delivery
• Updated chart formatting helpers to support unit-aware mileage and currency display
• Added shared config handling and merge helpers for notification provider settings
• Seeded the new config entries automatically for demo setups

Environment/Runtime Changes

• Demo seeding now generates more realistic mileage and cost trends
• Notification scheduler respects the new enabled/disabled config state
• Overview charts now format tooltip and average values using app units
• The app now keeps chart and settings formatting aligned with the active locale/config

UI/UX Improvements

• Compact provider channel subscriptions in the add/edit provider dialog
• Better chart labeling and readability in the overview section
• More consistent settings layout across personalization, units, and feature flags
• Better mobile behavior and tighter spacing across settings and dialogs
• Improved loading skeletons and shared record card layouts across the UI

Architecture & Shared Helpers

• Consolidated route error helpers and standardized backend service responses
• Added typed payload helpers for domain and service layers
• Reduced shared store and form any usage
• Extracted reusable table, skeleton, and formatter helpers
• Reused shared resource state and feature card layouts across the UI
• Improved notification provider config merge and service date helpers
• Added helper reuse across vehicle, fuel, maintenance, insurance, and reminders

Localization & Messaging

• Continued moving hardcoded UI text into i18n message functions
• Added or refined translated messages for settings, notifications, and charts
• Improved localized labels across dashboard, forms, and notifications

Developer Experience

• Added MCP support for the repo's Svelte workflow
• Upgraded dependencies and fixed follow-up lint/check issues
• Cleaned up formatting, typing, and shared abstractions across the codebase

Bug Fixes & Improvements

• Fixed reactive binding issues in settings forms so inputs update correctly
• Fixed notification delivery scheduling state so it no longer re-enables unexpectedly after save
• Improved unit display for mileage and cost values in chart tooltips and labels
• Fixed settings accordions to stay expanded by default
• Fixed provider add/edit flow to keep new providers enabled by default
• Fixed fuel and maintenance sorting when records share dates
• Fixed NaN-prone calculations and lint issues carried over from refactors

Migration Notes

• No breaking changes were introduced
• Existing settings and data remain compatible

Environment Variables

• No new environment variables were required for this release
• Existing runtime behavior continues to use the current app configuration and demo flags

Known Issues

• None reported at release time

New Contributors

• @D3rJust1n made their first contribution in #169
• @pHamala made their first contribution in #181
• @DesignerThan95 made their first contribution in #184

Full Changelog: 1.2.1...1.3.0