mikeknight85/PriceStalker v1.2.5

PriceStalker 1.2.5 — Puppeteer fix + DEMO_MODE flag

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Fixed

• Puppeteer "Failed to launch the browser process" — the nodejs user in the backend image was created with useradd -r (no -m), leaving $HOME unset at runtime. Chromium's crash handler (chrome_crashpad_handler) derives its --database path from $HOME / $XDG_CONFIG_HOME, so it crashed on launch with --database is required, breaking the browser-fallback branch of the voting scraper. Static-HTML sites (Amazon JSON-LD, Digitec JSON-LD, etc.) were unaffected because they never reach Puppeteer. Fix: create a real home directory for the nodejs user and set HOME=/home/nodejs.

Added

• DEMO_MODE env flag that disables identity-mutating profile operations. With DEMO_MODE=true, PUT /api/profile and PUT /api/profile/password return 403. Useful for any deployment where the operator wants to keep a shared or test account stable — public demos, multi-tenant sandboxes, QA environments. Per-user-scoped operations stay open (adding products, configuring your own AI provider, configuring your own notification webhooks). Off by default; existing deployments see no change.

Docker images

ghcr.io/mikeknight85/pricestalker-backend:1.2.5
ghcr.io/mikeknight85/pricestalker-frontend:1.2.5

Multi-arch (amd64 + arm64).