### Major Features
- **Public Global Warranty View:** All authenticated users can now view global warranties. Admins retain full control; regular users get read-only access to others’ warranties.
- **Global View Admin Controls:** Admins can now toggle global view availability and limit it to admins only via site settings.
- **Global Status Dashboard View:** Extended global view to warranty statistics and dashboards with full permissions enforcement.
- **Apprise Push Notifications:** Integrated Apprise for multi-platform warranty alerts with extensive backend and frontend support (80+ services).
- **Warranty Type Filtering/Sorting:** Introduced dynamic, case-insensitive filtering and sorting by warranty type on the main page.
- **Admin Global Warranty View:** Dedicated admin tools and UI for viewing all warranties with enhanced styling and user info.
### UX/UI Enhancements
- **Product Photo Thumbnails:** Added interactive, responsive photo previews on warranty cards across all views.
- **Updated Footer Links:** All "Powered by Warracker" footers now link to the official website (`https://warracker.com`).
### Fixes and Stability Improvements
- **Status Dashboard Chart Fixes:** Resolved canvas reuse errors and chart switching issues.
- **CSS Cache Busting:** Ensured consistent styling across domain/IP access by versioning CSS/JS and updating service worker.
- **Settings Access Fixes:** Regular users can now access the settings page without triggering admin-only API calls.
- **Settings Persistence Fixes:** Addressed major frontend/backend issues preventing correct saving/loading of user preferences.
- **Notification Timing Overhaul:** Rewrote logic for precise notification delivery and implemented duplicate prevention.
### Security and Technical Enhancements
- Global view maintains secure ownership enforcement.
- Improved permission checks, graceful degradation, and responsive design across all new features.
This update resolves several critical bugs and introduces enhancements for improved reliability and UX:
View Preference Persistence:
Fixed issues where user view preferences (Grid/List/Table) weren't retained across logins or tabs. Changes span both backend and frontend to ensure proper key prefixing and prevent overwrites or sync issues.
Password Management Fixes:
Added missing /api/auth/password/change endpoint. Fixed password reset behavior and improved frontend error handling for clarity and accuracy.
SMTP Port 587 (STARTTLS) Support:
Updated email logic to reliably support both SMTPS (port 465) and STARTTLS (port 587), ensuring compatibility with major email services.
UI Consistency:
Standardized headers across auth pages and made the app title consistently clickable for improved navigation.
Branding Enhancement:
Updated footer links from GitHub to the official Warracker site across all major pages for better branding and user guidance.
This update introduces comprehensive OpenID Connect (OIDC) Single Sign-On support with dynamic configuration via the database and full frontend/backend integration. Key additions include:
- OIDC SSO login via external providers (e.g., Google, Keycloak), with automatic user provisioning and session linking.
- Admin settings UI for enabling/disabling SSO and managing provider credentials.
- Provider-branded SSO buttons with dynamic labels, icons, and styles.
- Exact warranty expiration date support alongside duration-based input, with full validation and UI enhancements.
- Full UI responsiveness for warranty field updates, tag creation, and note editing.
- Memory usage optimization for low-resource deployments via configurable modes (optimized, ultra-light, performance).
- Numerous fixes for SSO authentication flow, UI sync issues, database constraints, and modal interactions.
- Upgraded dependencies for security, performance, and compatibility (Flask 3.0.3, Gunicorn 23.0.0, etc.).
- Frontend improvements: Chart.js loading fix, tooltips for long product names, and dark/light mode-compatible footer.
This release significantly improves authentication flexibility, performance, and user experience across all major components.
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