Release v0.18.0 — merges `dev` into `main`.
## Thanks
- [@lancetm714](https://github.com/lancetm714) for the accent-contrast
fix (#680 → #724).
- [@RichKidsDev](https://github.com/RichKidsDev) for reporting the
outdated Impressum (#697).
### Security
- **Journal drafts and password-protected entries no longer render
publicly
as a subpage essay**
([#684](https://github.com/ralksta/immich-folio/pull/684),
[GHSA-987w-cpwm-c9g9](https://github.com/ralksta/immich-folio/security/advisories/GHSA-987w-cpwm-c9g9),
medium). A subpage's `essayFile` read the journal entry straight from
disk,
skipping the draft and password rules `/journal/<slug>` applies. It now
resolves through the same rules: a draft reads as missing for visitors,
and
a protected entry shows its password gate, sharing the
`lb_auth_journal_<slug>` cookie.
- **Immich descriptions are escaped in generated subpage essays**
([#684](https://github.com/ralksta/immich-folio/pull/684),
[GHSA-8ppx-39jv-q5xm](https://github.com/ralksta/immich-folio/security/advisories/GHSA-8ppx-39jv-q5xm),
low). The essay built from a subpage's albums (`layout: essay` without
markdown) put each asset's Immich description into the page as raw HTML.
Captions are now HTML-escaped, and they go through `assetCaption()`, so
`exif.caption: false` is respected there as well. Tracked in
[#689](https://github.com/ralksta/immich-folio/issues/689).
- **Admin drafts no longer keep a typed password, and the contact form's
email check runs in linear time**
([#727](https://github.com/ralksta/immich-folio/pull/727)). The admin's
session drafts wrote a password as typed to `sessionStorage`; a draft
holding a plaintext password is now not kept (the unsaved-changes guard
still warns). The email pattern could backtrack polynomially on a
crafted
domain; its labels now exclude the dot and the length is checked first.
Both found by CodeQL before release.
### Added
- **A built-in contact form with an inbox in the admin**
([#703](https://github.com/ralksta/immich-folio/pull/703), closes
[#702](https://github.com/ralksta/immich-folio/issues/702)). `/contact`
needs neither SMTP nor a form service: each message is one file in
`content/messages/` (mode `0600`), read under the new _Messages_ tab,
where
_Reply by email_ opens the owner's mail client with the message quoted.
Messages older than `contact.retentionDays` (default 90) are deleted. An
optional ntfy push goes to `contact.notifyUrl` or `CONTACT_NOTIFY_URL`,
and
since [#709](https://github.com/ralksta/immich-folio/pull/709) it
carries a
fixed "new message" line and nothing about the sender — no name, no
address, no text. Spam is kept out without a captcha: an off-screen
honeypot, a minimum fill time, three submissions a minute per IP and a
cap
of 500 stored messages. With the Impressum on and no `legal.contactUrl`,
the Impressum links the form as its second contact channel. A new doctor
check warns when the form is on but nobody is notified.
- **A privacy policy page, next to a list of what the site processes**
([#708](https://github.com/ralksta/immich-folio/pull/708)). `/privacy`
renders `content/privacy.md`, edited under Settings → Legal, and the
footer
links it once the file has text; `privacy.enabled: false` hides it.
Folio
writes no legal text. Beside the editor it lists what _this_
installation
does, read off the configuration — the map, statistics, contact form,
password cookies, CDN — and marks every entry that involves a third
party.
_Insert headings_ adds the matching section headings and nothing else.
The
doctor warns while the Impressum is on and there is no policy.
- **French, Spanish, Italian and Dutch interface translations**
([#681](https://github.com/ralksta/immich-folio/pull/681)), selected
with
`settings.yaml: lang` as before. The admin panel stays English.
- **CDN mode for photos and videos**
([#681](https://github.com/ralksta/immich-folio/pull/681)). With
`CDN_URL`
set, image and video URLs point at a pull CDN whose origin is this
server,
so repeat views reach neither the server nor Immich. A site password
switches the mode off, since a CDN would hand out cached photos without
checking the unlock cookie. The CDN origin is added to the CSP, and a
doctor check covers the password and `TRUSTED_PROXY_HOPS` cases. See
`docs/deployment.md#cdn-mode`.
- **A reworked admin panel**
([#712](https://github.com/ralksta/immich-folio/pull/712),
[#713](https://github.com/ralksta/immich-folio/pull/713),
[#714](https://github.com/ralksta/immich-folio/pull/714),
[#716](https://github.com/ralksta/immich-folio/pull/716),
[#717](https://github.com/ralksta/immich-folio/pull/717),
[#718](https://github.com/ralksta/immich-folio/pull/718),
[#719](https://github.com/ralksta/immich-folio/pull/719),
[#721](https://github.com/ralksta/immich-folio/pull/721)):
- **A sidebar instead of the header row**, grouped by task, with an
unread
count on Messages and a dot on Diagnostics while Immich is down. It
collapses to an icon rail, with names shown on hover and focus, and
remembers that per browser.
- **`/admin` is an overview**: what needs attention (unread messages,
doctor warnings), published pages, journal entries and recent views.
- **The site's own visual language** — the preset's fonts, hairline
borders, the square marker — and one page header on every screen. The
accent is kept for the current place and the primary action; switches
are now pills reading ON or OFF, in green rather than the accent, so
Studio Modern's red no longer makes an enabled setting look like an
error.
- **The page builder is a structure list and a panel.** Hero, subpages
and
standalone albums sit in one list on the left, subpages drag-sorted in
place; the selected entry is edited on the right instead of in an
overlay.
- **Dialogs only where a change is permanent.** Deleting a message or a
journal entry, and resetting the favicon (which used to delete the file
without asking), go through one confirm dialog in the admin's own look.
Removals in the page builder, which only touch unsaved state, happen at
once and offer _Undo_. No `window.confirm()` is left.
- **Feature switches are grouped by meaning** as one-line rows under
Settings → General; page transitions and scroll-to-top moved to Theme →
Look & motion. No setting keys changed.
### Changed
- **Fonts and the Leaflet stylesheet are served from the site itself**
([#700](https://github.com/ralksta/immich-folio/pull/700)). Every page
used
to link `fonts.googleapis.com`, which sends each visitor's IP address to
Google. The server now fetches a theme's Google fonts once, rewrites the
stylesheet and caches the files in `content/.fonts/`; custom fonts in
`theme.fonts` keep working. If Google cannot be reached before a font is
cached, the page falls back to the theme's system fonts. `leaflet.css`
comes from the npm package instead of unpkg. The CSP drops
`fonts.googleapis.com`, `fonts.gstatic.com` and `unpkg.com`.
- **Email addresses are kept out of the served HTML**
([#705](https://github.com/ralksta/immich-folio/pull/705)). The
Impressum
and footer render the address only after hydration, from an encoded
form,
so harvesters reading raw HTML find nothing. Without JavaScript the
Impressum shows `name [at] example [dot] de`. This defeats bulk
harvesting,
not a person with a browser.
- **The Impressum cites § 5 DDG and links its contacts**
([#698](https://github.com/ralksta/immich-folio/pull/698), reported in
[#697](https://github.com/ralksta/immich-folio/issues/697) by
[@RichKidsDev](https://github.com/RichKidsDev)). The TMG was replaced by
the
DDG in May 2024; `legal.heading` replaces the line for other laws (e.g.
§ 5 ECG in Austria). `legal.contactUrl` and `legal.contactLabel` add a
contact form as the second channel, so a phone number stays optional.
Email, phone and contact URL are now links, and the "Created with the
Impressum generator by eRecht24" line, shown on every site whether true
or
not, is gone. Settings → Legal gains fields for heading, contact URL,
VAT
ID and tax number, and a doctor check flags missing details.
- **Missing pages answer `404`**
([#704](https://github.com/ralksta/immich-folio/pull/704)). Every
missing
page used to answer `200`, because streaming had started before
`notFound()` ran. `/contact`, `/impressum`, `/map` and `/privacy` while
switched off, and `/journal/<slug>` without an entry, now return a real
404 with the same not-found page. Album and subpage slugs still depend
on
Immich and stay soft 404s.
- **Passwords set in the admin are stored as scrypt hashes**
([#706](https://github.com/ralksta/immich-folio/pull/706), closes
[#690](https://github.com/ralksta/immich-folio/issues/690)). Subpage,
album, journal-entry and site passwords were written as typed. The save
routes now hash them; a stored hash reads _Protected_ with _Change_ and
_Remove_ and is never put into an input. Visitors who unlocked a page
stay
signed in across unrelated saves. Existing plaintext passwords are
hashed
the next time their file is saved in the admin.
- **One notification surface in the admin**
([#707](https://github.com/ralksta/immich-folio/pull/707)) replaces
every
`alert()`: errors stay until dismissed, successes clear themselves, and
screen readers announce both.
### Fixed
- **Map tiles load again**
([#701](https://github.com/ralksta/immich-folio/pull/701)). CARTO
started
answering every tile with an "API KEY REQUIRED" image, leaving `/map`
and
journal map blocks as a grey grid. Tiles now come from OpenStreetMap;
the
dark look is a CSS filter, so the map now follows the colour mode.
- **The page builder no longer drops a subpage's `proofing:` flag on
save**
([#711](https://github.com/ralksta/immich-folio/pull/711)). A page
switched
off for proofing by hand reverted after any unrelated edit.
- **Unsaved edits in Settings and About survive switching admin tabs,
and a
backup restore is no longer overwritten by the next save**
([#687](https://github.com/ralksta/immich-folio/pull/687)). Editors that
were open during a restore now reload and offer unsaved edits back as a
conflict. Also: "Restore my changes" after a conflict found nothing,
removing an album left its drawer showing the next album, and the
journal
saved (rotating a backup) without changes.
- **Accent-backed buttons stay readable with a light or malformed
accent**
([#724](https://github.com/ralksta/immich-folio/pull/724), supersedes
[#680](https://github.com/ralksta/immich-folio/pull/680)) — contributed
by
[@lancetm714](https://github.com/lancetm714). A white accent made the
proofing dialog's _Download selected (.zip)_ button white on white.
`theme.accent` is now accepted as hex only and normalised to `#rrggbb`,
anything else falls back to the preset, and the proofing dialog and
filter
pills use the mode-aware `--on-accent` text colour from #688.
- **Every preset's accent is visible in both colour modes**
([#688](https://github.com/ralksta/immich-folio/pull/688)). Presets had
one
accent for both modes; minimal's dark mode drew black buttons on black.
Presets now carry a light and a dark accent, and text on accent-filled
buttons picks black or white for contrast. A custom accent stays the
owner's choice in both modes.
- **Visitor-side inconsistencies**
([#685](https://github.com/ralksta/immich-folio/pull/685)): after
visiting
`/impressum`, every subpage header turned centred and uppercase; back
links
announced "Back to Back to …"; the hero EXIF chip ignored
`exif.location`/`camera`/`settings`; videos in journal entries opened as
stills; the setup screen named a non-existent `.env.example`.
- **An essay's lightbox walks only the photos the story shows**
([#686](https://github.com/ralksta/immich-folio/pull/686)), not every
photo
of the subpage's albums, and the proofing bar in essays shows the
selection
count instead of a filter button that did nothing.
- **The page panel scrolls with the mouse wheel**
([#720](https://github.com/ralksta/immich-folio/pull/720)).
- **The journal editor's top bar wraps on phones**
([#723](https://github.com/ralksta/immich-folio/pull/723), closes
[#675](https://github.com/ralksta/immich-folio/issues/675)), so the
title
stays editable and Save stays on screen.
- **Every admin form field has a name for assistive technology**
([#715](https://github.com/ralksta/immich-folio/pull/715)). Only two
inputs
had a linked label; 47 are linked now, and clicking a label focuses its
field.
### Internal
- **`SettingsEditor` and `PageBuilder` are split up**
([#710](https://github.com/ralksta/immich-folio/pull/710),
[#711](https://github.com/ralksta/immich-folio/pull/711)). The
2,200-line
settings editor is a shell with one file per section; the page builder's
YAML handling and edits are pure functions under test. Both were checked
side by side against `dev` for identical output.
- **`useAdminFetch()`**
([#707](https://github.com/ralksta/immich-folio/pull/707))
gives Analytics, Messages, Backups and the journal list one loading and
error pattern.
- README brought up to v0.17.0
([#678](https://github.com/ralksta/immich-folio/pull/678),
[#679](https://github.com/ralksta/immich-folio/pull/679)).
### Upgrade notes
**`content/` gains two directories the app writes to:**
`content/.fonts/`
for the cached fonts and `content/messages/` for contact-form messages.
Both
are created on demand, so a writable `content/` is enough, as before.
**The server needs outbound HTTPS to Google once per font** to fill the
font
cache. Until then pages fall back to the theme's system fonts. Visitors'
browsers no longer contact Google.
**A custom CSP or reverse-proxy allowlist** must now allow
`tile.openstreetmap.org` for images instead of
`*.basemaps.cartocdn.com`,
and no longer needs `fonts.googleapis.com`, `fonts.gstatic.com` or
`unpkg.com`. The built-in CSP is updated.
**`theme.accent` must be hex** (`#rgb`, `#rrggbb` or `#rrggbbaa`).
Anything
else, including a value without `#`, falls back to the preset's accent.
**Plaintext passwords in `gallery.yaml`, `settings.yaml` or journal
entries**
are hashed the next time that file is saved in the admin; one save
clears the
doctor's warning.
**New, optional settings:** `contact.*` (the form is off by default),
`privacy.enabled`, `legal.heading`, `legal.contactUrl`,
`legal.contactLabel`,
and the `CDN_URL` and `CONTACT_NOTIFY_URL` environment variables. See
`content/settings.yaml.example` and `.env.local.example`. In the example
file,
`vatId` and `taxId` had swapped sample values; check yours if you copied
them.
No `IMAGE_CACHE_VERSION` bump is needed this time.
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Twenty-nine commits since v0.12.0. See CHANGELOG.md for the full list
and the upgrade notes.
Ten additions — the SEO package (site URL, robots.txt, sitemap.xml,
JSON-LD), slideshow mode, opt-in original downloads, copy-link,
previous/next album navigation, alt text from the Immich description,
per-album location precision, the update notice, a Help tab, and a
subpage cover grid separate from its photo grid. Two fixes: CJK album
slugs, and the lightbox control bar.
Photo of the Day (#476) was built on `dev` and reverted as not planned;
it never appears in a release.
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Ships `dev` as **v0.11.0**. `main` contains nothing that `dev` does not,
so this is a clean sync.
## Headline changes since v0.10.0
- **Journal & Journal Studio** — photo essays at `/journal`,
split-screen block editor with live preview, drafts, per-entry
passwords, cover images
- **First-run setup wizard at `/install`** — configure a fresh
deployment from the browser; credentials are verified against Immich
before anything is written, and the wizard is gated by a one-time token
- **About page editor and toggle** in the admin panel
- **Per-album photo order** independent of Immich, with a drag & drop
editor
- **Custom favicon upload**
- **Experimental portfolio features** — justified grid, `cover` hero,
unlisted subpages, per-album grid overrides, cover focal points,
external nav links
- **Security** — asset tokens length-capped before decoding (#423),
journal author markdown escaped rather than filtered, journal file paths
contained, admin session key derived with scrypt (#432), Next.js 16.3.0
for CVE-2025-13465
- **Fixed** — client proofing honours its own configuration again
(#454); journal photo rendering (#432)
Full detail in [CHANGELOG.md](CHANGELOG.md#0110--2026-08-15).
## Verified
`npx tsc --noEmit` clean · `npx vitest run` 435 tests pass · `npm run
build` succeeds · lint 0 errors · `prettier --check` clean · local
`docker build` of the release tree.
## After merge
Tag `v0.11.0` on `main` and publish the release — that triggers
`docker-publish.yml`, which pushes the image and moves `latest`.
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* docs: brainstorm resilience/adoption features and plan follow-up work
Brainstorm and deep-dive on where Immich Folio breaks under Immich
outages and what blocks self-hosted adoption, plus an implementation
plan for the remaining gaps after v0.9.2 (route-handler tests,
stale-while-error caching, loading skeletons).
* test: enable route-handler tests and cover admin guards and image content-type
vitest.config.ts only ran lib/__tests__/**, so route handlers were
structurally untestable. Two mechanisms live only at the route level and
cannot be extracted the way lib/imageSize.ts was: the admin auth guards
and the image proxy's Content-Type sanitisation (the stored-XSS fix from
c2fa8e7). Both were correct but unverified by any test.
Adds a table-driven test over all ten guarded /api/admin/* handlers,
including a filesystem walk that fails if a future route is added
without a row in the table. Adds a route-level test for
/api/image/[id] covering token validation, the six Content-Type
rewrite cases, ETag/304, and the 404 vs 503 (ImmichUnavailableError)
distinction.
Verified both catch real regressions by temporarily removing the admin
guards and the Content-Type rewrite and confirming the expected tests
fail, then restoring and confirming green again.
134 new tests (244 total, up from 210), tsc 0 errors, build succeeds.
* feat: serve stale cache entries while Immich is unavailable
v0.9.2 (#394) correctly split "gone" (404/410) from "unavailable"
(ImmichUnavailableError), and pages now render a 5xx instead of a false
404 during an outage — but that 5xx still replaced a gallery that had
loaded fine seconds earlier. lib/cache.ts deleted expired entries on
access, so nothing survived long enough to fall back to.
Cache entries now carry two deadlines: staleAt (the existing CACHE_TTL,
after which get() still reports a miss) and hardExpiresAt (the new
STALE_MAX_AGE, default 24h, after which the entry is dropped entirely).
Between the two, getStale() can still return the data.
getAlbums(), getAlbum() and getAssetInfo() catch ImmichUnavailableError
and fall back to getStale() before propagating. The two MISSING-sentinel
writes (definitive 404s) are deliberately left on the short cacheTtl
window — a corrected asset ID should take effect after the normal TTL,
not sit in the 24h stale window meant for outages.
STALE_MAX_AGE=0 disables the fallback. Verified the fallback only
engages on a real outage, not on a cache hit at the TTL boundary, and
that a definitive 404 still reports missing rather than falling back.
256 tests (up from 244), tsc 0 errors, build succeeds.
* feat: add loading skeletons for dynamic gallery routes
Every gallery route is force-dynamic and waits on a live Immich
round-trip — up to IMMICH_TIMEOUT_MS when the server is struggling —
with nothing rendered until it resolves. loading.tsx renders instantly
while the page component awaits its data.
Not browser-verified against live data: this worktree has no
.env.local and only .example content files, so the app boots into
setup mode (confirmed the dev server starts cleanly and the setup
screen renders, HTTP 200). tsc 0 errors, build succeeds, no new lint
errors.
* docs: document stale cache window, image token revocation, route-test convention
- README: STALE_MAX_AGE env var and a "Behaviour when Immich is
unreachable" section (stale-serves-until-STALE_MAX_AGE, 503 not 404,
outages never cached).
- docs/gallery-config.md: new "Image Token Revocation" subsection under
System & Security — un-publishing an album does not revoke already
issued image URLs; rotating AUTH_SECRET does.
- CLAUDE.md: updated cache description to cover the stale window and
MISSING sentinel, and a new code-convention note that route-level
logic (guards, header sanitisation) should get a route-level test
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Seven security issues from an audit, plus album pages and the map coming
up empty against Immich 3.x. Verified against a real Immich 3.0.3
instance in a production build.
Security:
- Admin session forgery via a hardcoded 'dev-fallback-secret' signing key
that bypassed the production AUTH_SECRET guard
- /api/map ignored album passwords and returned working asset tokens;
rewriting ?size=thumbnail to ?size=original downloaded full-resolution
originals from protected albums
- Admin login had no rate limit, and the client IP came from a spoofable
header, so rotating it bypassed every limit in the app
- Raw Immich asset UUIDs were serialized into the RSC payload
- Album tokens never expired server-side; a captured token replayed forever
- Path traversal into the Immich API via an unvalidated album id
- /admin ran with no enforced CSP (only Report-Only reached it)
TRUSTED_PROXIES is replaced by TRUSTED_PROXY_HOPS. The old variable
matched proxy IPs against the socket peer address, which self-hosted
Next.js never exposes, so the check could never pass: unset, the limiter
read a spoofable header; set, every request shared one bucket and a single
client could rate-limit the whole site. Migrates automatically.
Immich 3.x: GET /albums/:id no longer embeds assets. Assets now come from
POST /search/metadata with withExif: true — without that flag EXIF is
omitted and grid aspect ratios, the lightbox panel and map markers stay
empty. Drops support for Immich below 3.0, which now logs a warning.
Upgrade: requires Immich 3.0+; set TRUSTED_PROXY_HOPS (nginx = 1);
visitors of protected areas and admin sessions must log in once more.
91 unit tests (25 new); the new admin-auth and rate-limit cases were
confirmed to fail against the pre-fix code.
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- Add docs/admin-panel.md with full guide (setup, features, security, Docker)
- Update README with admin panel feature listing and setup instructions
- Update gallery-config.md with tip about visual alternative
- Update CLAUDE.md with admin architecture and API routes
- Add SubpageSectionConfig type to schema.ts
- Update config parser to handle sections with album overrides
- Refactor SubpageGridView to render TOC + section headers
- Add base CSS for subpage-toc and subpage-section in globals.css
- Add theme-specific overrides for all 5 themes (minimal, editorial,
classic, noir, monograph)
- Update gallery.yaml.example and docs/gallery-config.md
- Add configurable theme system with 4 presets (studio, minimal, editorial, classic)
- Theme controls fonts, colors, accent, photo frames, grain, and header dot
- Resolve themes from gallery.yaml: string shorthand or full object override
- Inject theme as CSS custom properties on <html> element
- Dynamic Google Fonts loading based on theme config
- OG image route reads accent/background from theme
- Refactor Studio overrides into conditional CSS via data-attributes
Documentation:
- Add docs/gallery-config.md with comprehensive configuration reference
- Add docs/theming.md with preset reference and custom theme guide
- Slim README to link to detailed docs
Fix CSS regression:
- Fix passepartout frame overflow:visible breaking next/image fill rendering
- Remove duplicate .photo-grid__item block that stripped overflow:hidden
Testing:
- Add e2e/photo-grid.spec.ts with 3 regression tests:
- Grid items render with real dimensions
- overflow:hidden CSS guard (catches the exact bug fixed)
- Images load with real pixel data (not blurhash)
Tooling:
- Add scripts/screenshots.ts for automated theme screenshot generation
- Handles dev server lifecycle, theme cycling, FadeIn + lazy image handling
