v1.5.9 – Home Dashboard, Embeddings Improvements & Stability Fixes

This release introduces a new home dashboard, cooking history tracking, improved embeddings behaviour, and several stability and SSR fixes.

New Features

Home Dashboard

• New recipe dashboard homepage for logged-in users
• Carousel rows:
  • Recently Added
  • Recently Cooked
  • Most Cooked
  • Favourites
  • Random Picks
• Added "My Recipes" navigation link
• Onboarding wizard moved to /setup

Similar Recipes (Embeddings Required)

• Added “Similar Recipes” strip at the bottom of recipe pages
• Uses embeddings to suggest related recipes

Cooking History Timeline

• New /calendar timeline view
• Replaces the previous interactive calendar
• Added:
  • “Last cooked” date on recipe cards
  • “Cooked” sort option in recipe list

AI Enhancements

• New “Add Tips” button in the recipe editor

  • Uses AI to append substitution and addition suggestions to the Notes field
  • Includes Undo support

• LLM cleanup tools now surface specific rate-limit errors instead of generic failures:

  • Clean Ingredients
  • Summarize Directions
  • Clean Nutrition
  • Add Tips

Settings Improvements

• Renamed “Semantic Search” → “Embeddings” (admin & user settings)
• Renamed recipe list sort “Date” → “Added”
• New recipe setting: Display Nutrition (default: enabled)
• Removed in-page Symbols toggle — unit symbol display is now controlled via user settings only

Embeddings Fixes & Improvements

• Fixed embedding provider selection:
  • Previously could silently fall back to the text LLM provider
  • Google embeddings could incorrectly use OpenAI
• Embedding batch generation now correctly stops on 429 rate-limit errors (no infinite retries)
• Excluded embedding fields from recipe API responses (performance improvement)

Image Fixes

• Local recipe images now display correctly when no main photo is marked

Ingredient & Conversion Fixes

• Fixed quantity range display (e.g. 90–120 g no longer collapses)
• Unit conversion now preserves ranges during conversions
  • Example: 1–2 cups flour converts to a proper gram range and back

Category System Removed (Breaking Change)

Categories have been fully removed to simplify the codebase.

Changed

• Removed category UI and filtering
• Removed Paprika API category import flow
• Removed related settings pages

Breaking

• Category management pages and category APIs have been removed

SSR & Stability Improvements

• Fixed 502 Bad Gateway on recipe page refresh
• Improved SSR by:
  • Switching to relative fetch URLs
  • Adding error handling fallbacks
• Added E2E SSR refresh tests to prevent regressions
• Improved error logging
• Additional save and rendering fixes related to SSR issues
• Added reverse proxy configuration documentation to README