EspControl v2.8.0

Changes since v2.7.1.

Full comparison

What changed?

• User-facing features: 361 changes. Notable: Refresh subpages after layout changes; Refresh subpages after configuration changes.
• User-facing bug fixes: 43 changes. Notable: Preserve secondary data during layout updates; Fix live secondary page layout refresh.

Update guidance

• Recommended for users who want the latest firmware, setup page, device fixes, or documented behavior.
• Affected devices: All supported displays may be affected because shared firmware, setup, or build files changed.

Known issues

• No release-specific known issues are listed automatically for this release.
• Check open GitHub issues before updating devices you rely on every day.

Summary

• 404 user-facing changes are included in this release.
• Release range: v2.7.1 to v2.8.0.

User-facing changes

User-facing features

• Refresh subpages after layout changes
• Refresh subpages after configuration changes
• Refresh secondary pages in place
• Load secondary page states after refresh
• Move secondary cards without rebuilding data
• Allow secondary card layout updates
• Refresh secondary sensor font sizes
• Guard structural secondary page updates
• Rebuild secondary pages safely
• Revert "Rebuild secondary pages safely"
• Support custom artwork base URLs
• Address artwork URL review feedback
• Rebuild secondary pages safely
• Restore secondary page after rebuild
• Validate artwork URL ports
• Publish artwork protocol before resolving
• Remove support banner close button
• Release retired secondary page resources
• Clean up retired secondary page references
• Update P4-86 audio stack
• Include product model in firmware matrices
• Add PanelConfig v1 codec foundation
• Harden PanelConfig codec validation
• Validate PanelConfig documents in configuration service
• Guard configuration saves by generation
• Serialize conditional configuration saves
• Advertise native configuration capabilities
• Persist native panel configuration on 7-inch P4
• Allocate panel config buffers in PSRAM
• Add legacy shadow refresh implementation
• Expose native panel configuration reads
• Protect native configuration reads
• Add guarded native configuration saves
• Route native configuration PUT requests
• Track native configuration upload size
• Dispatch native configuration request bodies
• Sort media type options
• Make cover art open media controls
• Bound native configuration request bodies
• Authenticate native configuration uploads early
• Make fan modal toggles tap anywhere
• Share modal binary toggle handling
• Add native configuration backup payloads
• Use native panel config from the web editor
• Mirror active button colour in native config
• Match S3 web preview label size
• Align native backup migration fixture
• Add typed editor bootstrap registry
• Add optional light tab to fan controls
• Protect editor bootstrap phases from duplicates
• Extract editor reconnect controller
• Update product snapshot for fan light option
• Extract backup restore planning controller
• Increase S3 preview label size
• Extract preview placement controller
• Restore S3 preview label size
• Extract card editor draft controller
• Refresh generated web and card references
• Remove web preview label ellipses
• Extract card editor validation controller
• Match S3 media preview title size
• Close empty fan light modal
• Extract card editor save controller
• Guard pending reads against subpage reuse
• Reuse local sensor callbacks during rebuilds
• Declare shared sensor label formatter
• Extract alarm audio settings controller
• Extract screensaver settings controller
• Extract cover art screensaver controller
• Avoid redundant media artwork refreshes
• Extract media playback settings controller
• Extract voice services controller
• Extract clock bar settings controller
• Extract screen schedule controller
• Bundle browser editor assets locally
• Extract browser backup export controller
• Extract browser backup restore controller
• Add display lifecycle service boundary
• Add Home Assistant binding service boundary
• Add card runtime registry service
• Add grid navigation service boundary
• Add control modal state service
• Publish immutable web asset manifest
• Load hosted editor through asset bridge
• Select hosted assets by firmware version
• Publish supported firmware asset versions
• Advertise manifest web asset delivery
• Add web editor remote fallback
• Recover from web editor startup failures
• Reload cleanly after hosted editor failures
• Wait for deferred editor startup
• Harden editor fallback startup
• Prepare web assets before release tags
• Harden release web asset preparation
• Move card registry under app core
• Move configuration service under app core
• Move Home Assistant callback ownership into core
• Move grid navigation into app core
• Move modal state into app core
• Move speaker discovery entity to settings end
• Default new media cards to cover art
• Simplify media type labels
• Clarify media content type
• Bound core UI service memory
• Reorder media content type
• Remove empty weather card settings
• Move Home Assistant binding into app core
• Start app core before boot subscriptions
• Put top-left card settings first
• Add day and night dimmed screen brightness
• Retry config endpoints after web server starts
• Refresh dimmed brightness on mode changes
• Clarify speaker discovery helper setting (#1424)
• Refresh media labels after mode change
• Apply native config to live panel runtime
• Add configuration compatibility lifecycle
• Test configuration release policy
• Speed up cover art dismissal
• Skip pressed repaint before modal open
• Defer native config application until panel startup
• Isolate delayed config application buffer
• Serialize deferred native configuration apply
• Route media artwork callbacks through refresh coordinator
• Defer native configuration initialization
• Retry native config capability discovery
• Regenerate native config web assets
• Retry deferred native configuration saves
• Restore app startup after WiFi
• Defer native configuration until panel ready
• Defer native configuration runtime construction
• Guard climate modal against low LVGL memory
• Defer climate modal actions during startup
• Guard first climate modal request after boot
• Avoid climate modal style allocation abort
• Disable unstable climate modal during P4 recovery
• Allow modal cleanup during firmware startup
• Address P4 configuration review findings
• Restore local web editor fonts and support button
• Avoid redundant panel configuration refreshes
• Prevent 7-inch card-save restart
• Handle delayed artwork refresh responses
• Retry native configuration saves after startup
• Migrate sensor product model pilot
• Bind cover art callbacks to refresh batches
• Extract native configuration editor controller
• Move shared product sources into Product Model
• Use explicit editor startup phases
• Extract typed backup file controller
• Migrate sensor Product Model pilot (#1465)
• Restore web preview fonts
• Restore original support button
• Bundle preview font
• Bundle support button image
• Move card and device sources into Product Model
• Store 10-inch native config in card partition
• Extract sensor card mode controller
• Refresh sensor editor migration fixture
• Import settings feature helpers directly
• Refresh settings migration fixture
• Import backup features directly
• Import preview features directly
• Refresh backup and preview migration fixture
• Import feature controllers directly
• Refresh feature controller migration fixture
• Move media card into Product Model
• Move image card into Product Model
• Move light switch card into Product Model
• Move light brightness card into Product Model
• Move light control card into Product Model
• Move light temperature card into Product Model
• Move fan switch card into Product Model
• Move fan speed card into Product Model
• Move fan control card into Product Model
• Move clock card into Product Model
• Move date time cards into Product Model
• Move weather cards into Product Model
• Move system cards into Product Model
• Move access cards into Product Model
• Move interaction cards into Product Model
• Move climate cards into Product Model
• Move alert cards into Product Model
• Move appliance cards into Product Model
• Move remaining device profiles into Product Model
• Inject native configuration controller directly
• Inject shared card editor controller
• Inject browser device API dependency
• Type browser device API integration
• Inject card editor save controllers
• Inject reconnect lifecycle controller
• Inject preview placement controller
• Inject settings state controllers
• Inject settings page controllers
• Inject backup controllers
• Inject backup feature
• Inject SSE handler factory
• Remove obsolete editor bootstrap
• Register local web routes before startup
• Register configuration handlers before web startup
• Handle native configuration startup requests safely
• Stop rebinding unavailable config endpoints
• Reconcile shared card editor controller
• Reconcile browser device API dependency
• Reconcile card editor save controllers
• Restrict API recovery to Home Assistant
• Align API clients with socket budget
• Centralize Home Assistant reconnect recovery
• Restore Home Assistant API connection capacity
• Increase 10-inch API recovery capacity
• Handle deferred config writes safely
• Wire backup settings through typed actions
• Inject configuration persistence into editor flows
• Center card picker icons
• Regenerate web interface assets
• Tighten media card settings spacing
• Introduce typed browser application context
• Compose browser feature controllers explicitly
• Own browser backup services in application context
• Inject browser preview dependencies explicitly
• Consolidate rebased browser migration bundle
• Refresh web interface bundle
• Rebuild web interface for artwork URL fix
• Remove artwork base URL setting
• Remove artwork base URL override
• Handle interrupted artwork and backup fallback
• Introduce typed browser card registry
• Migrate static cards to typed registry
• Migrate complex cards to typed registry
• Remove card registration compatibility bridge
• Inject card registry into browser consumers
• Own sensor options in application context
• Import shared card option contracts
• Import subpage option behavior
• Own media options in application context
• Own image options in application context
• Import action option contract
• Import cover option contract
• Own modal tabs in application context
• Own access climate and alarm options
• Own confirmation options in application context
• Own configuration codec in application context
• Inject config codec into editor and preview
• Remove configuration codec globals
• Import shared UI primitives directly
• Own UI runtime state in application context
• Inject preview drag runtime state
• Inject configuration migration runtime state
• Remove browser runtime helper globals
• Inject settings DOM references
• Remove ambient DOM registry
• Own page title behavior explicitly
• Import web styles directly
• Import UI colour tokens directly
• Import firmware metadata directly
• Import request and event contracts directly
• Import application state contracts directly
• Import generated card contracts directly
• Import configuration primitives directly
• Import shared model namespace directly
• Import static browser contracts directly
• Remove static Product Model bootstrap
• Increase 7-inch API connection capacity
• Register static card families directly
• Register switch cards directly
• Register image card directly
• Register weather cards directly
• Register webhook card directly
• Register internal relay card directly
• Import entity mode helpers directly
• Register robot cards directly
• Register lock card directly
• Register date and time cards directly
• Register slider cards directly
• Register fan cards directly
• Register alarm cards directly
• Register sensor cards directly
• Register media cards directly
• Register cover cards directly
• Register subpage cards directly
• Register action cards directly
• Register light cards directly
• Remove card registry compatibility path
• Extract typed browser core service
• Import browser core service directly
• Inject media device profile
• Inject browser device configuration
• Inject browser device ID
• Inject browser slot and grid layout
• Import browser state helpers directly
• Compose browser environment state explicitly
• Compose screen schedule state explicitly
• Compose screensaver timeout service
• Compose screen rotation service
• Compose appearance state service
• Compose firmware version service
• Compose firmware update service
• Compose C6 firmware service
• Compose Clock Bar service
• Compose entity state service
• Inject entity service into API modules
• Remove entity compatibility adapter
• Remove empty controls bootstrap
• Compose UI shell service
• Bind browser shell timers safely
• Inject UI shell into API modules
• Inject UI shell into settings editors
• Inject UI shell into preview workflow
• Remove UI shell compatibility globals
• Compose application API service
• Refresh web bundle for application API service
• Inject application API into post services
• Refresh web bundle for request injection
• Inject application API into persistence
• Refresh web bundle for persistence injection
• Inject application API into settings
• Refresh web bundle for settings injection
• Inject application API into loading
• Refresh web bundle for loading injection
• Remove application API compatibility globals
• Refresh web bundle after API cutover
• Compose initial state loader service
• Remove state loader compatibility globals
• Compose grid migration service
• Compose event stream service
• Compose status preview service
• Inject status preview core service
• Inject status preview settings service
• Remove status preview compatibility globals
• Compose grid service
• Inject grid core service
• Inject grid preview service
• Remove grid compatibility globals
• Compose firmware post service
• Compose artwork post service
• Compose screen schedule post service
• Compose Clock Bar post service
• Compose public firmware service
• Remove configuration persistence adapter
• Remove backup contract adapter
• Remove backup UI adapter
• Compose icon picker service
• Compose card editor render queue
• Compose card selection service
• Compose preview render service
• Compose preview placement service
• Compose preview clipboard service
• Compose preview interaction services
• Compose shared field service
• Compose settings services
• Remove browser compatibility bootstrap
• Remove unreleased migration bundles
• Prepare web assets for v2.8.0
• Reserve sockets for 7-inch API clients
• Recover stalled cover art refreshes (#1655)
• Retry timed out cover art reads
• Bound stalled cover art retries
• Settle unavailable artwork after retries
• Supersede stale artwork retries on metadata
• Restore cover art callbacks after card reloads
• Complete browser acceptance across device profiles (#1659)
• Separate native configuration runtime application (#1676)
• Bound Home Assistant artwork reads (#1662)

User-facing bug fixes

• Preserve secondary data during layout updates
• Fix live secondary page layout refresh
• Keep deferred secondary layouts intact
• Fix speaker group layout on compact panels
• Fix speaker groups on subpages
• Stabilize web bundle size checks
• Keep compact configuration shadow synchronized
• Preserve media config compatibility
• Keep native backup exports user initiated
• Preserve native backup compatibility
• Preserve native configuration during editor loading
• Keep a fan tab when clearing light
• Fix fan light editor smoke check
• Fix clock bar editor dismissal
• Stabilize web bundle gzip baseline
• Keep hosted editor in release builds
• Fix app core header visibility
• Fix 10-inch touch release detection
• Fix media artwork refresh feedback
• Fix local web editor icons
• Fix cover art refresh crash loop
• Keep P4 climate modal from crashing startup
• Fix runtime modal service identity across firmware units
• Keep modal service slot stable across ESP-IDF units
• Stabilize UI service slots during firmware startup
• Keep startup helpers from aborting firmware
• Preserve saves during native config startup
• Keep native config startup within rollback window
• Fix native configuration retry fallback
• Keep cover art refreshes subscription driven
• Preserve deployed OTA partition layouts (#1453)
• Fix public ESPHome package web server asset path
• Fix remote package partition configuration
• Keep P4-86 audio paths as substitutions
• Preserve support button label
• Preserve API connections during endpoint setup
• Keep configuration capabilities retryable during startup
• Fix artwork base URL saving
• Fix cover art refresh race
• Keep device configuration module-owned
• Keep card metadata registry-owned
• Keep native config response headers valid
• Keep cover art fallback scheduled