jordibrouwer/nextdash v2026.07.10

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Self-hosted font, faster first paint, correct per-theme browser colour, and a longer What's new history — the default font is now bundled instead of loaded from Google Fonts, non-essential promo scripts no longer block the dashboard render, the theme-color browser/PWA chrome matches every theme, shared stylesheets are versioned from one place, and the What's new modal shows the 25 most recent releases.

Performance & privacy

• new Self-hosted Source Code Pro — the default UI font was loaded from fonts.googleapis.com/fonts.gstatic.com on every page (a render-blocking third-party request, a privacy leak, and broken offline). It's now bundled as two variable-font woff2 subsets (latin + latin-ext, ~55 KB, covering weights 400/600/900) served same-origin, with a new static/css/fonts.css @font-face (font-display: swap) and a font preload. Fonts embed in the binary via go:embed. Opt-in non-default presets (JetBrains Mono, Inter, etc.) still load from Google on demand, so their CSP allowances are kept (static/fonts/, static/css/fonts.css, templates/dashboard.html, templates/config.html, templates/health.html, asset_versions.go).
• fix Deferred promo scripts — eight discovery/tour promo scripts (promo-placement, promo-registry, search/grid-keyboard/g-jump/smart-collection/feature promos, tips-catalog) were render-blocking despite not being needed for first paint; they now defer, moving ~106 KB off the critical path and dropping render-blocking scripts from 77 to 69 (templates/dashboard.html).

Theme & appearance

• fix Per-theme theme-color — the mobile browser bar and PWA chrome were hardcoded to two colours (light vs dark), so every other theme showed the wrong colour. theme-loader.js now syncs the <meta name="theme-color"> tag to the resolved --background-primary on apply, on theme change, and on DOMContentLoaded; the static template value is only a first-paint fallback. Applies to dashboard, config, and health (theme-loader.js, templates/dashboard.html, templates/config.html, templates/health.html).

What's new

• new 25-release history — the What's new modal now shows the 25 most recent releases instead of 7. The newest still loads first and the rest lazy-load on scroll (each its own JSON + skeleton), so open stays fast (whats-new-modal.js).

Dashboard

• fix Quieter status pings — a status ping to an unreachable or slow bookmark rejects at the network layer (Safari surfaces it as TypeError: Load failed), which is an expected outcome — the bookmark is simply marked offline — but it logged via console.error and showed up as a red console error. Timeouts (AbortError) and network TypeErrors now log via console.warn; console.error is kept only for genuinely unexpected errors. Behaviour is unchanged (status.js).

Under the hood

• fix Centralized CSS cache-busting — shared stylesheets across dashboard/config/health were linked without a ?v= token (or with different tokens per page for the same file), so releases couldn't reliably invalidate them. All are now versioned from one pageAssetVersions field per file, so one bump invalidates a file everywhere; no stylesheet is served unversioned on the three pages anymore (asset_versions.go, templates/dashboard.html, templates/config.html, templates/health.html).
• fix Release-token test — TestSharedAssetVersionsMatchWhatsNewStub pinned an exact dashboard release token and drifted red on each bump; it now matches the token by pattern while still failing if the token is removed (asset_versions_test.go).
• new Dev Makefile — make build rebuilds the Docker image and brings the container online in the foreground (live logs, Ctrl-C stops); also build-clean, up, down, and logs targets. Kept off main like the other dev-only files, via merge=ours in .gitattributes and the prune list in scripts/release-to-main.sh (Makefile, .gitattributes, scripts/release-to-main.sh).

Developer & docs

• fix README, MANUAL, CHANGELOG & Config Help — v2026.07.10 release notes; What's new history wording updated from 7 to 25 releases.
• fix What's new modal — v2026.07.10 JSON entry.
• fix Cache-bust — whats-new-v138 data version and 2026.07-dashboard-release-v105 dashboard release token; whats-new-25-visible-1 modal script, ping-quiet-network-errors-1 status JS, theme-color-meta-1 theme JS, self-hosted-scp-1 fonts, and centralized shared-CSS asset query strings.