rcourtman/Pulse v3.30.0-rc6

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🧪 Release Candidate 6

This is a release candidate for testing. Please report any issues you find.

✨ New Features

• Backup source visibility improvements
• Optimize metrics fetching to reduce Proxmox log growth

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Prevent UI flashing and double refresh issues across components
• Fix storage type categorization and indicators
• Resolve version parsing issues with git describe format
• Remove redundant UI elements and improve backup table layout

🔧 Improvements

• Enhanced PBS UI with relative timestamps and cleaner task tables
• Colored dot indicators for storage types in backup table
• Show relative time in latest backup column
• Error handling improvements for diagnostics features

📚 Documentation

• Update log growth documentation for v3.30.0 optimization
• Add warnings about Proxmox log file growth from frequent polling
• Clarify backup type distinctions in README

🔄 Existing Users - Update to RC

🖥️ Web Interface Update (Available from v3.27.2+)

✨ Switch to RC channel for testing:

1. Open your Pulse web interface
2. Go to Settings → System tab → Software Updates
3. Select "RC" channel to receive release candidates
4. Click "Check for Updates"
5. Click "Apply Update" to install this RC version
6. The interface will automatically refresh after update

Note: You can switch back to "Stable" channel anytime

🛠️ Script-Based Update

For LXC, VMs, and regular installations:

# Update to this specific RC version
cd /opt/pulse/scripts
./install-pulse.sh --update --version v3.30.0-rc6

🐳 Docker Update

# Pull this specific RC version
docker pull rcourtman/pulse:v3.30.0-rc6

# Or use the rolling RC tag (always latest RC)
docker pull rcourtman/pulse:rc

# Update with docker-compose
docker compose down && docker compose pull && docker compose up -d

# Or update manually
docker stop pulse && docker rm pulse
docker run -d --name pulse -p 7655:7655 -v pulse-config:/app/config rcourtman/pulse:rc

📥 New Users - Fresh RC Installation

Automated Installer

# Install this specific RC version
curl -sL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rcourtman/Pulse/main/scripts/install-pulse.sh  < /dev/null |  bash -s -- --version v3.30.0-rc6

Manual Download

wget https://github.com/rcourtman/Pulse/releases/download/v3.30.0-rc6/pulse-v3.30.0-rc6.tar.gz
tar -xzf pulse-v3.30.0-rc6.tar.gz
cd pulse-v3.30.0-rc6
npm install --production
npm start

⚠️ Testing Notes

• This is a pre-release for testing only
• Not recommended for production environments
• Please report any issues on GitHub Issues
• The :rc Docker tag always points to the latest RC version
• You can easily switch between Stable and RC channels in the web interface