Release 2026.3

General

• Improve search to match words in any order. Searching "foo bar" and "bar foo" now return the same results.
• Standardize search results between UI and API.
• Add copy button to code blocks.
• Add markdown table support.
• Notifications provided by Apprise Smart Notification handler.
• Clean up "add log entry" dialog to fit more content.

Notification UI

• Users can configure notifications from user settings page.
• Configurable notification preferences (entry updates, replies, new entries, reactions, own entry edits).
• Send test notification from configuration dialog.
• Provider instructions help dialog for notification setup.
• Unsubscribe pages. Link provided by the notification handler.

BELY Portal Plugins

• Update plugin framework to Python 3.
• Add menubar link plugin for adding custom links to the menubar.

API

• Add notification configuration API.
• Add automatic date parameter conversion for REST API endpoints.
• Add ability to upload attachments to log entries from API.
• Add MD5 checksum endpoint for attachments.
• Add endpoint to fetch log document by name.

MQTT Integration

• BELY now publishes MQTT events for activity.
  • Generic entity add, update, and delete events for all entities.
  • Log entry add, update, and delete.
  • Log entry reply add, update, and delete.
  • Log reaction add and delete.
  • Search events.
  • Notification test events.
• Each event includes metadata such as the triggering user, timestamp, log document info, and text diff.

MQTT Message Broker Framework

• Pluggable MQTT event handler framework.
  • Type-safe Pydantic models for all BELY event types.
  • MQTT topic matching with wildcard support.
  • Plugin loading for handler directories or Python packages.
  • Optional BELY API integration for handlers.

Packaged Plugins

• Apprise Smart Notification handler plugin.
  • Support for email, Slack, Teams, Discord, and other services via Apprise.
  • Loads per-user notification preferences from BELY API.
  • Automatic configuration reload when notification settings change.
  • Context-aware routing: notifies document owners, entry creators, and reply creators.
  • Does not notify users about their own actions.
  • Email threading support for grouping related notifications.
• Example handler plugins:
  • SimpleLogHandler: minimal handler that logs new log entries.
  • LogEntryAddHandler: processes log entry add events and extracts event details.
  • LoggingHandler: logs all BELY events to standard logging.
  • AdvancedLoggingHandler: logs events to files organized by topic.
  • HybridEventHandler: demonstrates specific and generic event handler methods with typed events.
  • ApprisNotificationHandler: basic Apprise notification handler for log entry events.
  • SelectiveNotificationHandler: filters notifications by logbook or user.

Other

• Upgrade Log4j.
• Upgrade support Payara.
• Update Swagger libraries and open API generator with modern support libraries.

Bugs

• Fix search results returning null logbook type in attribute match map.