jordibrouwer/nextdash v1.11.0 on GitHub

A hundred and twenty-six changes across 269 files, +38,395 / −17,736 lines, and one question behind most of it — where does a thing live. The buttons floated over the grid on a bar with no home; the page tabs, the clock and the view's name each owned a band of their own; config opened on a wall of every setting at once; and the bookmark list was a table with a dialog on top of it.

Read more about the new features en changes: https://nextdash.cc/2026/09/18/nextdash-1-11-x-we-moved-your-furniture-and-left-a-note/

So the header became one row in three zones, and the fixed buttons got a place to stand: a column at either edge, a dock at the bottom, the header, or one menu — and a docked one slides into its edge after a couple of seconds and leaves a handle where it went. Config opens on tiles now, one subject each, with the two to four settings a group leads with as cards. Bookmarks → List became a workbench: filters in a rail, rows in the middle, an edit panel on the right that edits one bookmark or fifty.

Moving that much is a cost paid by everyone who already knew where things were, so the release carries its own explanation: a card in the corner offers a one-minute tour of what moved, and every step where a default changed hands the old arrangement back in one click. The first-run setup window went the other way — it asked for a language, a theme and a link behaviour before the reader had seen the dashboard those answers are about. What it needed to know is asked once, in the corner, when there is something to look at.

And the look settled. A fresh install opens on Tarnished Brass in glass with a soft glow, ten Gloss families catch the light, a theme of your own can set its shape and its sheen in a light and a dark half, and the widgets stopped being grey panels pasted on the page.

Header

new — one header row, in three zones. The clock and the page's name on the left, the page tabs in the centre, the destinations and the actions on the right. The name folded into that row and the 60px band it used to own is gone; the bar sits at the top of the page with the grid's air underneath it rather than a rule.
new — the page switcher is a choice of four. Numbers beside the destinations (the default), one segmented control, plain text tabs, or one button with a list of its own. :switcher tries them without opening config.
new — page tabs shown before “+N”, 3 to 9, five to begin with. What does not fit is counted rather than dropped, and every page keeps its digit key whether its tab is drawn or folded.
new — the clock and the weather stand where you put them: beside the view name, in a column of their own, or on their own line with the name underneath — the old top of the page, offered back as a third placement and what every install now starts on. They are drawn to be read rather than to fill a band.
new — the header folds in one order as the window narrows, so the page switcher and the destinations are the last things to go, and the actions fold away before them.
new — plain or plated header controls. Plain underlines what is current; plated gives each control its own box. Under plated the action buttons and the page tabs stay bare — a box inside a box read as a second bar.
new — a dashboard destination beside inbox, health and config, the pages button became one of the action buttons, and the inbox and pages buttons can each be switched off with their keys still working.
new — the header sheet is one shape two panels can wear, and the launcher header is drawn from it.
fix — the header controls carried a ring around their key chips, the chips were dimmer than the labels beside them, and the action glyphs were a weight heavier than the buttons they stood in. Contrast measured on every theme.
fix — the view header is painted solid while the page moves under it.

Action bar

new — the fixed buttons have a place of their own. A column on the right (the default) or the left, a dock at the bottom, in the header, or behind one menu — Config → Appearance → Action bar, or :buttons. The floating bar they used to sit on is gone, and a side column takes its room from the page margin rather than from the grid.
new — a docked bar slides into its edge. After 2 seconds by default, or 5, 10, 30, or never. It comes back when the pointer touches that edge, when focus moves into it, and on ' or Shift + O — and a bar you are using never leaves while you are using it.
new — a handle marks the edge a bar slid into. Quiet at rest, larger and clearer as the pointer nears, and a click on it brings the bar back. None in the header, behind the menu, or on a touch screen.
new — every action button is on to begin with, and up to nine stand before the fold. What the header cannot show goes behind one control whose menu names each action with its key, down to two actions on a narrow window.
new — the key on a button is a chip you can switch off, and with the chips off, resting on a button shows that button's key beside it. A new install starts with the chips on; a dashboard that already existed starts without them.
new — the setting is named for what it moves: Where the fixed buttons stand, with the action cap on the same tab and Header & buttons ahead of it.
fix — the tag cloud opened under a docked bar, and its own wrap is shown when it opens.
fix — the popovers on the action buttons are gone. A tooltip on a button that already carries its key is a second label.

Pages and panels

new — the pages panel is drawn the way recent bookmarks is, with New page as a button rather than a dashed row, and a page can be deleted from it — asked twice.
new — recents answer one word with every kind and are drawn as tiles.
fix — the grid takes the focus back when the tag cloud closes, and when search closes.
fix — the pages panel and recents left the header; both open from the search panel, which is where the rest of the modes already live.
fix — the pages panel opens with the cursor on the page you are on. It was placed before the panel was visible, where it does nothing, so the first arrow key walked from page one.

Bookmarks → List

new — the list is a workbench: filters in a rail on the left, the rows in the middle, an edit panel on the right. Specced, planned and built on a model of its own (bookmark-workbench-model.js).
new — the panel edits one bookmark or a selection of them, with tag suggestions in it and the monitor interval beside them.
new — rows are slabs, picked from the keyboard, with whole favicons rather than cropped ones, the pin drawn where it belongs, room for the name, and the tags that do not fit counted rather than dropped. The shortcut column is gone.
new — Shift + E opens the full dialog from the list.
new — on a narrow screen the rail folds into a drawer and the panel into a sheet, and the rail is drawn whole without scrollbars.
fix — the panel keeps its place after a move and after a bulk edit, its header is readable, and a folded panel gives the row its width back — with the pin shown only in the folded list.
fix — the old list controls are gone, and the code behind the list was tidied with its dialog tests restored.

Config

new — Appearance and Behavior open on a hub of tiles. A tile opens its group, Escape goes back, the two to four settings a group leads with are cards, and everything else is behind More settings — specced first, then built.
new — config is drawn the way health and the inbox are drawn.
new — every appearance setting has an explanation, a default and one kind of control.
new — Date & weather moved to Appearance, and the weather location is a card of its own rather than a field behind More settings. It saves while it is typed, so the line answers as the town is written.
new — the overview is rebuilt around the collection.
fix — Toolbar & tabs is called Header and buttons, which is what it sets.
fix — :rows reaches the row highlight. Two commands were written with the same name, so the second quietly replaced the first and :rows had never run; both words work now.
new — config fetches a section when you open it. dashboard-config.js was 27,627 lines pulled down whole to draw one section; Logs and Help are files of their own now, loaded on demand through one SECTION_MODULES table, with the rest fetched on idle after the first paint.
fix — Only changed shows that it is pressed. The bar sits in the view head and the repaint that applies the filter replaces only the body, so the button kept the aria-pressed it was drawn with: the rows narrowed and the control went on reading not pressed to a screen reader and to its own styling.
fix — the changed-settings count is gone from the overview. The overview was rebuilt around the collection and stopped drawing it; the click handler and openChangedSettings() behind it were left standing and have been removed. Only changed per tab and Reset panel per group are unchanged.

Logs

new — Logs is a section of its own, split into the server log and the activity trail, each beside its own settings.
new — the activity log has format, URL, sampling and age, and channels for search, keys, navigation, sessions and client errors, hooked into the handlers that already existed.
new — how a bookmark was opened is recorded, with a detail level for open records.

Appearance

new — a fresh install starts on Tarnished Brass, in glass with a soft glow, the theme's own backdrop and the contrast that reads as Normal. An install that already answered those questions keeps its answer.
new — glass reads as glass and the glow is a dial, with what a theme ships on settled rather than left to drift.
new — ten Gloss families, and a sheen any theme can have. They carry a lit band and a badge in the theme browser; the Gloss slider in the theme editor gives the same sheen to a theme of your own or to a recoloured packaged one.
new — a custom theme can set everything a packaged theme can — depth, glow, glass, corner radius and sheen — and comes as a light and a dark half, like the built-ins.
new — the widgets take the page's colour. A tile was a step up the surface ladder with a cast shadow, which on every theme read as a grey-white panel pasted on the dashboard. It is the page's own colour one step off it now, its cells one step further; under glass it is see-through and blurred, with the lit edge back.
fix — a theme lost its character when its colours were saved.

Dashboard

new — a tour of what moved. A card in the corner offers it once — Show me, Later, No thanks — and eight steps say where the pages, the action buttons, config, the list, the widgets, the tags and the themes are now. Where a default changed the step carries the choice, so the old arrangement is one click away, and Show me lights up the real thing on the page behind it. Reopened from Config → Help → Guided tours or :changes; the release notes stay where they are.
new — the corner asks for a town, a clock and a unit, once, and the weather line is on to begin with on a fresh install.
new — Escape on a bare grid goes home, then opens search.
new — a bookmark opens by its own key while the cursor is on the grid, and a row says when it is being waited on.
new — the health trend widget is drawn like the health view's summary tile, with the same figures and the same words.
fix — the first-run setup window is gone. A window of questions before the reader has seen the dashboard they are about asks for answers nobody can give yet; the checklist in the corner stays, and every setting it used to ask for is in config.
fix — the ★ moved to the bottom-right corner, the cards in the other corner stand at the bottom edge, the toast stands with them, and the old corner button is gone.
fix — the health trend widget drew itself twice when two renders overlapped.
fix — * and / work whether or not their buttons are on screen. Each used to open something different depending on whether its button was switched on — * the recents sheet or the panel's recents mode, / the tag cloud or the panel's tags. A keyboard shortcut does not answer to a setting about chrome. Show the tag-cloud button now only hides the button; it no longer switches the cloud off.
fix — Escape stays inside an open widget or category menu. The menu closed itself correctly and a moment later the search panel opened anyway and took the focus, because the guard listed the popovers written one at a time and not the ones the shared menu builder makes.
fix — the filter bar lies over the grid it filters. With packed columns off the grid is a fixed-width set of columns centred in the page, so above about 1280px the bar sat to the left of the rows it was filtering and ran wider than them.
fix — the quick-start checklist can finish. Open Config was ticked by a click handler on a header link that stopped existing when config became a view of its own, so nothing ever set the flag and the step asked for something you had already done. It reads the open view now.
fix — the spread card, the settings-search promo and what was left of the side rail are gone, along with the button style they described.

Inbox and health

new — Select all in the ⋯ menu of both views. It ticks every row the current filter shows and reads Deselect all once they all are, so the whole bulk bar is reachable without knowing the Ctrl/Cmd + A chord. Ticks made under another filter are left alone, the way they already were.
fix — the health and inbox header is opaque again. It is a sticky band, so the rows were passing through it rather than behind it while you scrolled. The stylesheet said as much in a comment beside the rule that did the opposite.

Docs

docs — the config help and the tips are rewritten for the app as it is, with an Appearance tab and a Logs tab, and old links to panels that moved still land on them.
docs — the manual is rewritten for the current app, and the readme and the compose files list the newer variables.
docs — the help, the tips and the new strings are translated into all six languages, the strings the other languages still showed in English are gone, and so are the keys nothing uses.
docs — the manual, the help and the tips carry the action bar's defaults, the tour, and the key that appears on hover.
docs — the release notes, the overview stream and About → News & features carry v1.11.0, with five spotlight entries (the fixed buttons' placement, the one-row header, the list workbench, config's tiles, and Gloss) in all six languages. The manual documents the guided tours, and Help and the tips name Select all in health and the inbox.
docs — the config split carries its own gates: a census over every member of DashboardConfig, an extractor that moves a section verbatim and proves it byte for byte, a planner that works out which members a section actually owns, and a smoke spec that walks every section. npm run test:config-split pins the three mistakes they were built from.
docs — the config specs follow the new header and the tile hub, which they had drifted from: the destinations fold below 1500px, Behavior and Appearance open on tiles rather than fields, and the breadcrumb was replaced by the section's own description.
docs — the test suite runs in a window wide enough to use. Playwright opened 1280px wide, the header folds its destinations away below about 1500, and every click on the inbox or health button waited its full thirty-second timeout — 552 of them in one run, which made the health and inbox families look slow when they were only waiting. The slowest CI shard went from 49 minutes to six, and the shard weights added to work around it are gone again.
docs — a Go test no longer races its neighbours for one settings file. It wrote a theme and read the manifest back in parallel with the backup tests, which write themes of their own into the same store; it began failing when the default theme changed.