mc-webui 2.5.0

Features

• You can now reach mc-webui over HTTPS. Until now the interface was served over plain HTTP only, which meant the address bar warned it was not secure, and — less obviously — that browsers quietly withheld a set of features they reserve for encrypted connections. There is now an optional HTTPS front end you switch on with a single line in .env; it starts Nginx Proxy Manager next to the app, and you pick your certificate in its web interface rather than editing configuration files. Three routes are covered: a free Let's Encrypt certificate for a public domain, a Let's Encrypt certificate via a DNS challenge — the one worth knowing about, because it gives a fully trusted certificate on a server that is not exposed to the internet at all, with no port forwarding — and a self-signed certificate for reaching the server by its IP address. Existing installations are untouched: nothing starts and nothing changes unless you ask for it, and updates keep working exactly as before. The guide is https-setup.md, including which switch to be careful about (Websockets Support — leave it off and several open tabs will crawl) and why a self-signed certificate cannot work with the Android app.
• The interface can be translated, and Polish has started. mc-webui was written English-only, with every label and message baked into the code. There is now a translation system behind it, and a Language setting at the top of Settings → Appearance. It covers the whole interface: the main window — menu, chat, message bubbles, its dialogs and Settings — every panel that opens in its own window (System Log, Console, My Repeaters, Path Analyzer, Contacts, Direct Messages), and the running commentary too: the small toasts after every action, the confirmation dialogs, the search results, the update flow and the notifications your phone shows when the app is in the background. Error text that comes back from the server itself is still English — that is the one part left, and it is a separate job. Your choice applies to the browser you set it in and also becomes the default for anyone else opening the server without a preference of their own.
• You can add a language yourself, without waiting for a release. A language is a single file. Copy en.json from app/translations/, translate the values, and drop it into a translations folder inside your config directory — the same place the database lives. Refresh the page and it appears in the Language list, named however you named it, with no rebuild and no restart. Anything you leave untranslated falls back to English, so a half-finished translation is perfectly usable. A file you drop in also overrides one that ships with the app, so you can correct the built-in Polish on your own server. English and Polish ship in the box; everything else is open to whoever wants to write it. See translations.md, which explains the format and — importantly — which words to leave alone: mesh terms like flood, hop, advert, RSSI and the repeater roles stay English in every language, because that is what the firmware, the CLI and the forums all use. The Console and the log lines themselves stay English for the same reason.
• Times and dates behave the same in every language. Only the words are translated — "Yesterday" becomes "Wczoraj", "5 min ago" becomes "5 min temu". The clock and the number formatting keep following your browser's own settings, so switching the menus to English will not suddenly turn your 24-hour clock into "9:53 AM". One display of large numbers on the repeater statistics page had been hard-coded to American thousands separators; it now follows your locale like everything else.

Fixes

• Copy buttons work over plain HTTP again. Copying a public key, a channel key or a routing path did nothing on some pages when mc-webui was open over http:// on a network address — no error, no text on the clipboard, just a button that appeared to do nothing. Browsers only offer the modern clipboard function to pages served over HTTPS (or opened on the machine itself), and several of those buttons had no fallback for anything else. They all share one now, so copying works over HTTP everywhere in the interface. Serving the interface over HTTPS removes the restriction at the source.
• The Android app no longer renders text larger than the browser does. The app is a wrapper around the same page you open in Chrome, but Android's WebView quietly scales text by your phone's system font-size setting while Chrome ignores it and uses its own. If you had enlarged the system font even one step, everything in the app came out around 20% bigger than on the website — the title truncated to "mc-web…", longer messages wrapped earlier, and the connection status and refresh time at the bottom broke across two lines each. The app now pins text at the same size the browser uses. This is app version 1.2 — install the new .apk over the one you have to pick it up; it is signed with the same key, so it goes in as an update and keeps your server address. See android-app.md.
• The bar at the bottom copes with text that does not fit. The connection status, the region badge and the "Updated:" time sat in a row that could not wrap, so when they ran out of room each one broke apart internally instead — a green dot with "Connected" stranded underneath it, a time split from its own label. They now drop onto a second line as whole items. This mostly showed up in translated interfaces, where the labels are longer than the English ones they were laid out for ("Aktualizacja:" against "Updated:"), and on narrow phones.