## Collab — Complete Redesign
- iMessage-style live chat with blue bubbles, grouped messages, date separators
- Emoji reactions via right-click (desktop) or double-tap (mobile)
- Twemoji (Apple-style) emoji picker with categories
- Link previews with OG image/title/description
- Soft-delete messages with "deleted a message" placeholder
- Message reactions with real-time WebSocket sync
- Chat timestamps respect 12h/24h setting and timezone
## Collab Notes
- Redesigned note cards with colored header bar (booking-card style)
- 2-column grid layout (desktop), 1-column (mobile)
- Category settings modal for managing categories with colors
- File/image attachments on notes with mini-preview thumbnails
- Website links with OG image preview on note cards
- File preview portal (lightbox for images, inline viewer for PDF/TXT)
- Note files appear in Files tab with "From Collab Notes" badge
- Pin highlighting with tinted background
- Author avatar chip in header bar with custom tooltip
## Collab Polls
- Complete rewrite — clean Apple-style poll cards
- Animated progress bars with vote percentages
- Blue check circles for own votes, voter avatars
- Create poll modal with multi-choice toggle
- Active/closed poll sections
- Custom tooltips on voter chips
## What's Next Widget
- New widget showing upcoming trip activities
- Time display with "until" separator
- Participant chips per activity
- Day grouping (Today, Tomorrow, dates)
- Respects 12h/24h and locale settings
## Route Travel Times
- Auto-calculated walking + driving times via OSRM (free, no API key)
- Floating badge on each route segment between places
- Walking person icon + car icon with times
- Hides when zoomed out (< zoom 16)
- Toggle in Settings > Display to enable/disable
## Other Improvements
- Collab addon enabled by default for new installations
- Coming Soon removed from Collab in admin settings
- Tab state persisted across page reloads (sessionStorage)
- Day sidebar expanded/collapsed state persisted
- File preview with extension badges (PDF, TXT, etc.) in Files tab
- Collab Notes filter tab in Files
- Reservations section in Day Detail view
- Dark mode fix for invite button text color
- Chat scroll hidden (no visible scrollbar)
- Mobile: tab icons removed for space, touch-friendly UI
- Fixed 6 backend data structure bugs in Collab (polls, chat, notes)
- Soft-delete for chat messages (persists in history)
- Message reactions table (migration 28)
- Note attachments via trip_files with note_id (migration 30)
## Database Migrations
- Migration 27: budget_item_members table
- Migration 28: collab_message_reactions table
- Migration 29: soft-delete column on collab_messages
- Migration 30: note_id on trip_files, website on collab_notes
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)
- 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
- Add version check against GitHub releases in admin dashboard
- Show amber banner when a newer version is available
- One-click update: git pull + npm install + auto-restart
- Confirmation dialog with backup recommendation and data safety info
- Dark mode support for update banner
- Fix fresh DB migration: initial schema now includes all columns
- i18n: English + German translations for all update UI
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)
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
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
