Hey there!

Friendly reminder: Mothers day is around the corner 💐🌷

On completely unrelated news - a new version of NetAlertX is here! 🧑‍🚀🚀

You know who's amazing? YOU - the community - and that's the only way this app will become sustainable (unless suddenly I can quit my real job 😅). For example @ulrichwisser implemented a new way to clean device names, over in the Weblate online portal you contributed to 🌏 Chinese (@onebest1 🙏), Polish ( @IsuckPOTATO 🙏), Italian ( @mapi68, @SirAfino 🙏), & Portuguese (Brazil) language translations, and helped out in discussions and on various issues (thanks @fcschow for spotting bugs 🐛) . I also thought - Do you want a community portal?

Now to some feature highlights.

You can now use a new NMAP scan plugin 🚀 (@stevenengland, @vladaurosh 🙏 for helping). This one might be great to complement your ARPSCAN scanner if you have devices offline, that should be detected as online.

There are over a 100 settings to fine-tune the app, and that granularity is amazing, but sometimes it's hard to find what you are looking for. You can now filter the settings page 🔍 to find the one setting you are after faster.

Annoyed by changing lists in Settings - because there is a typo and no way to fix it inline? Not anymore - all list settings, such as Subnets, can be edited with single and double-click actions 1x 📝| 2x 🚮.

I tried also addressing various cache/loading issues so I hope this release improves on that as well. Still, you might need to refresh your browser cache - and click the 🔄 refresh button in the top right corner, but I hope this will be less required in the future.

And there is more - just check the details below ⤵️

Screenshots

💔 Breaking changes

Sometimes I have to introduce breaking changes

• pialert-cli was retired and passwords are managed via the Settings UI

🏘️ Community

• Help @aries223 to configure vlans #654
• Do you want a community portal?

📚Docs updates

• A new guide explaining Notifications (🆕)
• Enhancements to the MQTT plugin docs with payload examples (🚑)

⚙Settings

• Three new MQTT settings (MQTT_DEVICE_NAME, MQTT_DEVICE_ID, MQTT_PRESENCE_SENSOR_TYPE) to adjust the messages sent to the broker #572 #639 #664 (🚑, 🆕)
• I moved the SCAN_SUBNETS settings to the General section as most users will need to edit it and the setting is used across multiple plugins (🚑)
• A new NEWDEV_LESS_NAME_CLEANUP setting to leave discovered names more intact by @ulrichwisser 🙏 (🆕)

🔌Plugins

• New NMAPDEV device discovery plugin using NMAP for scanning which should more reliably detect the online/offline state #645 (🆕)
• Resetting the password is working again #634 (🚑)
• The DHCPLSS plugin now also supports the dnsmasq dhcp.leases files format #661 (🆕)
• The VNDRPDT plugin wasn't updating the vendor database since the Alpine re-base (🚑)

🖼 UI

• Edit/Delete 1x 📝| 2x 🚮 support on list items in Settings (🆕)
• Chinese, Polish & Portuguese (Brazil) language translation start > Help translating in Weblate online portal (🆕)
• Select all / Remove all devices in multi-edit (🆕)
• UI Settings refresh improvements (🚑)
• Special characters (e.g. #) in some device fields were causing issues #644 (🚑)
• Settings filter (🆕)
• Mass-edit icons could cause loading issues #660 (🚑)

Other Info

Previous releases:

https://github.com/jokob-sk/NetAlertX/releases

Full Changelog: v24.5.9...v24.5.9