UtilityMate v1.9.14

New Features

• Added CI verification gates for frontend lint/build and backend tests before publishing Docker images.
• Added Alembic scaffolding so future schema changes can be managed through migrations.

Improvements

• Hardened PDF upload handling with shared size-limited reads for invoice and association statement imports.
• Reduced bearer token persistence by moving frontend auth storage to session-only storage and shortening the default token lifetime to 8 hours.
• Removed internal PDF filesystem paths from API response schemas.
• Pinned backend Python dependencies and switched frontend Docker installs to npm ci.
• Aligned backend CI and Docker runtime on Python 3.12.
• Added Docker build context exclusions for local caches, invoices, data, and generated artifacts.
• Removed tracked Python bytecode artifacts and ignored future bytecode caches.

Bug Fixes

• Resolved frontend lint failures so the new CI lint gate can run cleanly.
• Refreshed frontend dependencies to clear npm audit security advisories.