GuideVault release notes.

Library management, maintenance, backup, search, reader, and collection improvements

This release is a practical quality-of-life update for running GuideVault as a real household library instead of just a reader shell. It adds safer maintenance workflows, better recovery options, more useful search, and stronger collection control.

Added

• Added scheduled maintenance tasks with readable scheduling presets and backend cron-style execution.
• Added guided Backup & Restore with backup history, upload preview, restore preview, and safety backup.
• Added bookmark notes with inline editing and delete-note support.
• Added user-defined collections and curated shelves.
• Added collection Home/sidebar placement options.

Improved

• Replaced the browser keybind alert with an in-app keybind popup.
• Expanded global search across metadata, tags, notes, platforms, and LaunchBox match fields.
• Improved Home search results behavior.
• Improved Events logging level placement.
• Improved Update History layout and collapsed history behavior.

Fixed

• Fixed sidebar collection filtering.

Docker packaging, Home Assistant control, and website database display fixes

• Published the v0.9.210 through v0.9.218 package updates.
• Validated Docker image packaging improvements for required PDF tooling.
• Continued Home Assistant command/control polish for opening content, navigation, fullscreen, and reader background control.
• Updated the website so the public database section can render while admin/write routes remain protected.

Metadata schema and import/export stabilization

• Published v0.9.197 and v0.9.199 update packages.
• Continued metadata schema alignment for manuals, strategy guides, and magazines.

Reader, file conversion, and package maintenance work

• Added format conversion tooling and PDF-to-CBZ support.
• Published multiple package updates while tightening reader, metadata, and file-management behavior.

Metadata manager, database, and website support work

• Prepared the v0.9.167 update track.
• Continued improving metadata manager behavior, type-specific metadata fields, and website/database support.

Post-1.0 UI, settings, and admin polish

• Published post-1.0 polish releases focused on hardening the app after the milestone build.
• Continued cleanup around settings, metadata administration, and package delivery.

Initial 1.0.0 release

• Published the initial GuideVault 1.0.0 release.
• Marks the first public 1.0 release milestone for the main GuideVault application.

Pre-1.0 refinement releases

• Published multiple refinement packages while preparing the project for the 1.0 milestone.
• Continued release and packaging cleanup ahead of the public 1.0 baseline.

Magazine OPDS grouping

• Grouped OPDS magazine browsing by series so magazine catalogs are easier to navigate.
• Published the v0.9.106 package update.

OPDS pagination, metadata lookup improvements, and details cleanup

This update focused on OPDS pagination fixes, metadata lookup improvements, and cleanup across the details and metadata management screens.

Added

• Added OPDS catalog pagination with 20, 50, and 100 item page sizes.
• Added OPDS item detail views with Read, Open Details, and Download actions.
• Added /opds/v1 support as an alias for the OPDS catalog route.
• Added IGDB credential testing under metadata source settings.
• Added Metadata Manager controls for loading beyond the first 250 rendered rows.

Improved

• OPDS pageSize now carries forward when browsing categories such as All Items, Manuals, Strategy Guides, Magazines, and Series.
• Improved Open Library, IGDB, and ESRB individual lookup dialogs.
• Improved IGDB and ESRB result cards with more readable platform/system and metadata details.
• Improved batch metadata lookup behavior so only one source can be active at a time.
• Improved batch lookup preview behavior so the comparison image follows the active source.
• Improved Open Library secondary hint behavior to use ISBN, year, or blank only.

Fixed

• Fixed /opds/v1 incorrectly falling through to the web login page.
• Fixed pageSize=20 not working correctly on OPDS connections.
• Fixed stale batch lookup results mixing into newer searches.
• Fixed individual lookup fields using the previous guide after Details Previous / Next navigation.
• Fixed styled metadata info icons on detail pages.
• Fixed Strategy Guide identity display by removing Game Title from the identity container.
• Fixed OPDS detail page build issue caused by raw string interpolation braces.

v0.9.85 stabilization release

• Published an additional v0.9.85 stabilization package after the metadata and workflow cleanup pass.

Metadata source, manual, and magazine cleanup wave

• Updated metadata source handling and manual metadata scope.
• Cleaned magazine metadata handling and overview display encoding.
• Fixed metadata separator encoding issues.
• Restored GitHub workflows and refreshed repository documentation.

Early package stabilization releases

• Published follow-up container/package releases after the initial cleanup baseline.
• Continued tightening the release flow and install package behavior.

Repository cleanup, GuideVault baseline, and metadata export fixes

• Published the early v0.9.40 GuideVault container baseline.
• Removed legacy PageQuest project files and duplicate static asset folders.
• Cleaned generated files, duplicate scripts, release scripts, and platform icon folders.
• Fixed filename sanitizer behavior and metadata export handling.

GuideVault project created and published

• Initial GuideVault release committed and documented.
• README updated for the first public GuideVault package.
• GHCR Docker image publishing added so the app can be pulled as a container image.