BREAKING: Reservations have been completely rebuilt. Existing place-level
reservations are no longer used. All reservations must be re-created via
the Bookings tab. Your trips, places, and other data are unaffected.
Reservation System (rebuilt from scratch):
- Reservations now link to specific day assignments instead of places
- Same place on different days can have independent reservations
- New assignment picker in booking modal (grouped by day, searchable)
- Removed day/place dropdowns from booking form
- Reservation badges in day plan sidebar with type-specific icons
- Reservation details in place inspector (only for selected assignment)
- Reservation summary in day detail panel
Day Detail Panel (new):
- Opens on day click in the sidebar
- Detailed weather: hourly forecast, precipitation, wind, sunrise/sunset
- Historical climate averages for dates beyond 16 days
- Accommodation management with check-in/check-out, confirmation number
- Hotel assignment across multiple days with day range picker
- Reservation overview for the day
Places:
- Places can now be assigned to the same day multiple times
- Start time + end time fields (replaces single time field)
- Map badges show multiple position numbers (e.g. "1 · 4")
- Route optimization fixed for duplicate places
- File attachments during place editing (not just creation)
- Cover image upload during trip creation (not just editing)
- Paste support (Ctrl+V) for images in trip, place, and file forms
Internationalization:
- 200+ hardcoded German strings translated to i18n (EN + DE)
- Server error messages in English
- Category seeds in English for new installations
- All planner, register, photo, packing components translated
UI/UX:
- Auto dark mode (follows system preference, configurable in settings)
- Navbar toggle switches light/dark (overrides auto)
- Sidebar minimize buttons z-index fixed
- Transport mode selector removed from day plan
- CustomSelect supports grouped headers (isHeader option)
- Optimistic updates for day notes (instant feedback)
- Booking cards redesigned with type-colored headers and structured details
Weather:
- Wind speed in mph when using Fahrenheit setting
- Weather description language matches app language
Admin:
- Weather info panel replaces OpenWeatherMap key input
- "Recommended" badge styling updated
- Replace OpenWeatherMap with Open-Meteo (no API key needed)
- 16-day forecast (up from 5 days)
- Historical climate averages as fallback beyond 16 days
- Auto-upgrade from climate to real forecast when available
- Fix Vacay WebSocket sync across devices (socket-ID exclusion instead of user-ID)
- Add GitHub release history tab in admin panel
- Show cluster count "1" for single map markers when zoomed out
- Add weather info panel in admin settings (replaces OpenWeatherMap key input)
- Update i18n translations (DE + EN)
- Vacay: click-and-drag to paint/erase vacation days across calendar
- Vacay: "Everyone" button sets days for all persons (2+ only)
- Budget: live currency conversion via frankfurter.app (cached 1h)
- Budget: conversion widget in total card with selectable target currency
- Day planner: remove transport mode buttons from day view
- Map auto-fits to day places when selecting a day or place
- Dynamic padding accounts for sidebars and place inspector overlay
- Place-based reservations now show linked files in the bookings tab
- Increased max zoom to 16 for closer detail on nearby places
Progressive Web App:
- Service worker with Workbox caching (map tiles, API, uploads, CDN)
- Web app manifest with standalone display mode
- Custom app icon with PNG generation from SVG
- Apple meta tags, dynamic theme-color for dark/light mode
- iOS safe area handling
New Branding:
- Custom NOMAD logo (icon + text variants for light/dark mode)
- Logo used in navbar, login page, demo banner, admin, PDF export
- MuseoModerno font for login tagline
- Plane takeoff animation on login
- Liquid glass hover effect on dashboard spotlight & widgets
- Brand images protected from save/copy/drag
- "made with NOMAD" footer on PDF exports
Bug Fixes:
- Fix mobile note reorder (missing tripId prop)
- Fix Atlas city counting (strip postal codes, normalize case)
- Fix Atlas country detection (add Japanese/Korean/Thai names)
- Fix PDF note positioning (use order_index instead of sort_order)
- Fix PDF note icons (render actual icon instead of hardcoded notepad)
- Fix file source badge overflow on mobile (text truncation)
- Fix navbar dropdown z-index overlap with mobile plan/places buttons
- Fix dashboard trip card hover contrast in dark mode
- Fix day header hover color matching place background in dark mode
- Shorten settings button labels on mobile
UI Improvements:
- Mobile navbar shows icon only, desktop shows full logo
- NOMAD version badge in profile dropdown
- Top padding before first item in day planner
- Improved drag & drop stability (larger drop zones, less flickering)
- Route line auto-updates on day select, reorder, assign, remove (no manual button)
- Remove manual route calculation button (keep optimize + Google Maps)
- Lock places at their position during route optimization (click avatar to toggle)
- Locked places shown with red background, border and lock overlay
- Custom tooltip for lock feature (DE/EN, dark mode)
- Fix map zoom: panTo instead of setView keeps current zoom level
- Fix fitBounds only on actual day change, not on place click
- Missing translations: needTwoPlaces, routeOptimized, noGeoPlaces
- Fix backup restore: try/finally ensures DB always reopens after closeDb
- Fix EBUSY on uploads during restore (in-place overwrite instead of rmSync)
- Add DB proxy null guard for clearer errors during restore window
- Add red warning modal before backup restore (DE/EN, dark mode support)
- JWT secret: empty docker-compose default so auto-generation kicks in
- OIDC: pass token via URL fragment instead of query param (no server logs)
- Block SVG uploads on photos, files and covers (stored XSS prevention)
- Add helmet for security headers (HSTS, X-Frame, nosniff, etc.)
- Explicit express.json body size limit (100kb)
- Fix XSS in Leaflet map markers (escape image_url in HTML)
- Remove verbose WebSocket debug logging from client
The biggest NOMAD update yet. Introduces a modular addon architecture and three major new features.
Addon System:
- Admin panel addon management with enable/disable toggles
- Trip addons (Packing List, Budget, Documents) dynamically show/hide in trip tabs
- Global addons appear in the main navigation for all users
Vacay — Vacation Day Planner (Global Addon):
- Monthly calendar view with international public holidays (100+ countries via Nager.Date API)
- Company holidays with auto-cleanup of conflicting entries
- User-based system: each NOMAD user is a person in the calendar
- Fusion system: invite other users to share a combined calendar with real-time WebSocket sync
- Vacation entitlement tracking with automatic carry-over to next year
- Full settings: block weekends, public holidays, company holidays, carry-over toggle
- Invite/accept/decline flow with forced confirmation modal
- Color management per user with collision detection on fusion
- Dissolve fusion with preserved entries
Atlas — Travel World Map (Global Addon):
- Fullscreen Leaflet world map with colored country polygons (GeoJSON)
- Glass-effect bottom panel with stats, continent breakdown, streak tracking
- Country tooltips with trip count, places visited, first/last visit dates
- Liquid glass hover effect on the stats panel
- Canvas renderer with tile preloading for maximum performance
- Responsive: mobile stats bars, no zoom controls on touch
Dashboard Widgets:
- Currency converter with 50 currencies, CustomSelect dropdowns, localStorage persistence
- Timezone widget with customizable city list, live updating clock
- Per-user toggle via settings button, bottom sheet on mobile
Admin Panel:
- Consistent dark mode across all tabs (CSS variable overrides)
- Online/offline status badges on user list via WebSocket
- Unified heading sizes and subtitles across all sections
- Responsive tab grid on mobile
Mobile Improvements:
- Vacay: slide-in sidebar drawer, floating toolbar, responsive calendar grid
- Atlas: top/bottom glass stat bars, no popups
- Trip Planner: fixed position content container prevents overscroll, portal-based sidebar buttons
- Dashboard: fixed viewport container, mobile widget bottom sheet
- Admin: responsive tab grid, compact buttons
- Global: overscroll-behavior fixes, modal scroll containment
Other:
- Trip tab labels: Planung→Karte, Packliste→Liste, Buchungen→Buchung (DE mobile)
- Reservation form responsive layout
- Backup panel responsive buttons
Features:
- Single Sign-On (OIDC) — login with Google, Apple, Authentik, Keycloak
- OpenStreetMap place search as free fallback when no Google API key
- Change password in user settings
- Delete own account (with last-admin protection)
- Last login column in admin user management
- SSO badge and provider info in user settings
- Google API key "Recommended" badge in admin panel
Improvements:
- API keys load correctly after page reload
- Validate auto-saves keys before testing
- Time format respects 12h/24h setting everywhere
- Dark mode fixes for popups and backup buttons
- Admin stats: removed photos, 4-column layout
- Profile picture upload button on avatar overlay
- TravelStats duplicate key fix
- Backup panel dark mode support
- Date picker dropdown stays within viewport on mobile (no more overflow)
- Opens above if not enough space below
- Centers on very small screens (<360px)
- End date auto-adjusts when start date changes:
- If no end date or end < start → end = start
- If both set → preserves trip duration (shifts end by same delta)
- Popup now shows every time user visits dashboard (not session-cached)
- Only shows on dashboard, not other pages
- Added upload disabled notice with amber highlight
- Upload listed as first full-version feature
- Demo user gets 403 on all upload endpoints (files, photos, cover, avatar)
- Admin uploads still work normally
- PDF export back in modal popup using srcdoc iframe
- Zero behavior change when DEMO_MODE is not set
DEMO_MODE=true enables: auto-seeded admin + demo user, 3 example trips
(Tokyo, Barcelona, Wien), hourly reset of demo user data, one-click
demo login, visible banner with feature info. Zero behavior change
when DEMO_MODE is not set.
Real-Time Collaboration (WebSocket):
- WebSocket server with JWT auth and trip-based rooms
- Live sync for all CRUD operations (places, assignments, days, notes, budget, packing, reservations, files)
- Socket-based exclusion to prevent duplicate updates
- Auto-reconnect with exponential backoff
- Assignment move sync between days
Performance:
- 16 database indexes on all foreign key columns
- N+1 query fix in places, assignments and days endpoints
- Marker clustering (react-leaflet-cluster) with configurable radius
- List virtualization (react-window) for places sidebar
- useMemo for filtered places
- SQLite WAL mode + busy_timeout for concurrent writes
- Weather API: server-side cache (1h forecast, 15min current) + client sessionStorage
- Google Places photos: persisted to DB after first fetch
- Google Details: 3-tier cache (memory → sessionStorage → API)
Security:
- CORS auto-configuration (production: same-origin, dev: open)
- API keys removed from /auth/me response
- Admin-only endpoint for reading API keys
- Path traversal prevention in cover image deletion
- JWT secret persisted to file (survives restarts)
- Avatar upload file extension whitelist
- API key fallback: normal users use admin's key without exposure
- Case-insensitive email login
Dark Mode:
- Fixed hardcoded colors across PackingList, Budget, ReservationModal, ReservationsPanel
- Mobile map buttons and sidebar sheets respect dark mode
- Cluster markers always dark
UI/UX:
- Redesigned login page with animated planes, stars and feature cards
- Admin: create user functionality with CustomSelect
- Mobile: day-picker popup for assigning places to days
- Mobile: touch-friendly reorder buttons (32px targets)
- Mobile: responsive text (shorter labels on small screens)
- Packing list: index-based category colors
- i18n: translated date picker placeholder, fixed German labels
- Default map tile: CartoDB Light
