V0.6.0

🎉 MTES v0.6.0 - Advanced Voting & Real-time Insights! 🚀

I'm excited to announce MTES v0.6.0, a major release bringing advanced voting features, enhanced real-time insights, and significant system refinements! This update empowers administrators with more control and provides a smoother experience for both voters and observers.

✨ What's New in v0.6.0:

• 🗳️ Advanced Voting Booth Configuration:
  • "Only One Vote" Enforcement: Control whether a voting booth can cast only a single vote per round, perfect for preventing duplicate votes from shared devices.
  • Signature Display on Booth: Configure voting booths to display voter signatures, adding an extra layer of visual verification for officials.
• 📈 Real-time Election Threshold Updates:
  • The election manager now displays a dynamic, real-time update of the required threshold (e.g., 50% + 1 or 66%) directly in the UI. This provides immediate clarity on what's needed for a candidate to win.
• 📊 Enhanced Result Calculations & Displays:
  • Improved result calculations to clearly indicate if a white ballot (abstain) has won or if a runoff is required, ensuring transparency in various election scenarios.
  • Refined result displays with better visual cues for winners, candidates meeting thresholds, and those who didn't.
• 📡 Robust WebSocket Stability:
  • Significant improvements to WebSocket stability and reconnection logic, ensuring more reliable real-time updates across all connected clients (manager, voting booths, and audience displays).
• 🛡️ Stronger Security Measures:
  • Enhanced server-side validation and sanitization for all incoming data, minimizing potential vulnerabilities.
  • Improved protection against common web exploits, making the system more secure.
• 🚀 Performance Optimizations:
  • Backend query optimizations and frontend rendering improvements lead to a snappier and more responsive user experience, especially during peak usage.
• 🐞 Bug Fixes & UI Polish:
  • Addressed various minor bugs and applied UI/UX refinements across the platform for a more intuitive and polished feel.

These updates aim to make MTES an even more powerful, reliable, and transparent platform for managing your elections.

🛣️ Versioning

This release is labeled v0.6.0, representing a substantial leap in functionality and stability since the previous versions.

🙏 Feedback Welcome!

Your feedback is invaluable as we continue to evolve MTES. Please explore these new features and let us know your thoughts!

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Full Changelog: V0.5.3...V0.6.0