v1.0.0-rc.2

[1.0.0-rc.2] - 2026-07-02

Added

• Pantry Variants. A pantry row can now carry brand-specific
  rows underneath it. Recipes link to the parent (Whole Milk); each
  variant (Greenwise, Publix) has its own barcode, photo, stock,
  and expiration date. Add Variant with inline suggestions: type
  a brand and existing pantry items surface as tap-to-attach chips.
  Delete of a parent with variants asks whether to keep the variants
  as standalone items (default, safer) or remove them together.
• Recipe Nutrition Source on the Parent. A generic pantry item
  can either use its own nutrition numbers (default) or pull from
  one of its variants, so recipe math reflects the label of the
  product you actually cook with.
• Pantry Expiration Dates. Every pantry row gains an Expires On
  field with an in-sheet calendar picker. Amber pill on cards for
  anything expiring within two weeks, red for past. Expiring Soon
  filter chip surfaces the whole set in one tap. Variant expiries
  surface as chips inside the parent sheet's Variants list.
• Expiration Digest Notification. Once-a-day roll-up covering
  everything expiring within a chosen window (1 / 3 / 5 / 7 / 14
  days), delivered at a chosen time. Push goes out through Apprise,
  Gotify, or ntfy plus the local device channel. Past-expiry items
  always included regardless of window. Settings → Notifications →
  Reminders → Expiration Digest.
• Rest Time Field on Recipes. Any hands-off period, bread rise,
  meat rest, dough chill, marinate, soak, ferment. Left blank stays
  hidden on the recipe view; set adds a Rest meta pill next to Prep
  and Cook. Rolls into the auto-calculated Total Time below.
• Total Time Manual Override. Optional field in the recipe
  editor. Leave blank and the app auto-calculates from prep + cook
  • rest; set a value and it wins. Placeholder shows the auto-calc
    live so you see the fallback before overriding.
• Clear Link on the Category Picker. A small Clear link appears
  in the pantry item's Category label when a category is set,
  wiping the selection in one tap.
• New Preserves Recipe Category. Jams, pickles, curds,
  chutneys, ferments, canning recipes, none of which fit cleanly
  under Sauce, Bread, or Dessert. Added to the default seeded
  chapter list with a berry / pomegranate color that reads clearly
  distinct from Bread. Existing accounts keep their category list
  untouched; only fresh installs get the new default automatically
  (add it in Settings → Recipe Categories if you want it on an
  existing account).
• Animated Variant Expand and Collapse. Chevron rotates
  smoothly on the parent card, variant cards drop in from above
  with a spring easing on expand, slide back up on collapse.
  Honors OS-level reduce-motion preferences.
• Import Cookbook. A single multi-recipe PDF (a whole cookbook,
  a printed booklet, a folder of scanned recipe pages) can now
  import as multiple recipes in one pass. The AI parser splits the
  file into individual recipes, previews each, you pick which to
  save. (Issue #2 phase 3)
• Bulk File Import. Pick a folder or a ZIP archive of recipe
  files and import everything in one go. Per-file preview and
  dedup before commit. (Issue #2 phase 2)
• Hybrid File Import. PDF, RTF, TXT, and Markdown files import
  through a heuristic parser first (fast, no AI cost); the AI
  parser catches anything the heuristic can't structure. Both
  paths land in the same preview + edit flow.
• Batch URL Import. Paste a list of recipe URLs and import them
  all in one pass. Scanned PDFs and image-only pages route through
  an AI vision fallback so they parse instead of failing silently.
• Use Camera Shortcut in File Import. Snap a photo of a
  handwritten recipe card or a printed page directly from the
  import dialog, alongside the file picker.
• Swedish Translation. Contributed by @olsson82 via PR #3.
  Switch in Settings → Regional & Units → Language. Coverage is
  what @olsson82 translated at PR time: primarily the auth flows
  (Login, Register, Reset Password, Accept Invite, Profile),
  User Management, sidebar labels, and a couple of common UI
  components. The rest of the app went through an i18n
  instrumentation pass this release so a much larger set of
  strings (bottom nav, main-route titles, empty states, Settings
  section headers, Recipe view labels, Recipe editor fields,
  Pantry item sheet, Trace welcome) is now extractable and
  registered under English keys. Those newly-extracted keys
  fall through to English for Swedish users until a Swedish
  speaker translates them in a follow-up PR — we didn't want
  to put in-house wording into @olsson82's file. A pull request
  filling in the remaining sv.json entries is warmly welcome.
• Language Picker. Regional & Units gains a Language dropdown
  populated from the registered locale list, so Swedish (and any
  future translation) is actually reachable from the UI. The
  translation existed in PR #3, but the picker to select it was
  never wired.

Changed

• Animated Page Banners. The illustrated SVG headers on
  Recipes, Pantry, Diary, Shopping, and Settings are retired in
  favor of four animated background styles picked in Settings →
  Appearance: Shimmer (subtle sweep, default), Drift (slow
  horizontal float), Pulse (color breathe), and Aurora (Northern
  Lights sweep). All four honor the OS's reduce-motion preference.
• Import Menu Collapsed. URL and File imports used to be two
  separate top-level entries; they now sit under a single Import
  entry that expands to show both sub-options. Same functionality,
  cleaner surface.
• Password Rule Hints for Autofill. Password inputs on the
  wizard, register, reset, and profile screens now declare their
  requirements via the passwordrules attribute, so iOS and
  Chrome autofill generate a password that actually passes CookTrace's
  8-plus-mixed-plus-symbol check instead of one that gets rejected.
• Recipe Category Colors Tightened. Snack, Sauce, and the new
  Preserves each moved off crowded hue bands so the chip row scans
  cleanly at a glance. Snack shifted from yellow to teal (was too
  close to Breakfast's amber), Sauce shifted from violet to indigo
  (was too close to Appetizer's purple), and Preserves sits at
  berry / pomegranate rather than rust (was too close to Bread).
  Existing accounts keep their current colors; only fresh installs
  get the new palette.
• Recipe Times Show Hours and Minutes. Every recipe-time display
  now reads in hours and minutes instead of raw minutes. A 75-minute
  recipe shows as 1h 15m on list cards, detail view, cookbook
  cards, public share pages, the shareable card, and the
  file-import preview. The editor input still takes raw minutes.
• Smart Pantry Search Under Variants. Query the parent name and
  you get the parent card alone. Query only a variant's brand and
  you get that variant alone with a "Variant of Whole Milk"
  subtitle, no duplicate parent. Query both and the parent expands
  with the matching variant nested underneath.
• Expires On Uses the In-Sheet Calendar Picker. Matches every
  other date entry in the app instead of the browser's default
  mm/dd/yyyy widget.
• Tandoor Imports: waiting_time Maps to Rest. Tandoor's
  waiting_time is a hands-off signal by convention, so it lands in
  Rest Time instead of Cook Time. Working_time still maps to Prep.
  Cook stays null on Tandoor imports; the auto-calculated Total
  covers everything correctly.
• Native Pantry Updates Only Write Fields the Payload Carries.
  A stock toggle no longer rewrites brand, category, or FK columns
  as a side effect. Prevents unrelated data from getting nulled
  on partial edits.

Fixed

• Pantry Stock Toggle No Longer Crashes on Native. The
  top-right quick-toggle on any pantry card threw "NOT NULL
  constraint failed: pantry_items.name" because the partial update
  was writing every column with undefined placeholders. Only
  present fields get written now.
• Variant Relationships Survive Mobile Edits. Setting Greenwise
  as a variant of Whole Milk on the PWA now stays set on the phone
  through unrelated stock toggles, quantity bumps, and brand edits.
  Was silently reverting because the sync order was push-then-pull,
  so a stale local row propagated back to the server before the
  server's fresher state pulled down. Order is pull-then-push now,
  and the server preserves FK columns via COALESCE when the client
  sends NULL.
• [object Object] Category Pill on Mobile. The category pill
  on the pantry sheet was rendering the raw category object rather
  than its name on Android. Native queries now join the category
  the same way the PWA server does.
• Category Casing Mismatch Between PWA and Mobile. "Dairy &
  eggs" on Android vs "Dairy & Eggs" on the PWA. The pill now
  reads the live category row instead of falling into a hardcoded
  slug-to-label map with older casing.
• Dropdown Menus Close on Outside Scroll. Combobox dropdowns
  portaled to the body layer were blocking wheel and touchmove
  events from reaching the sheet underneath, so scrolling the page
  while a dropdown was open did nothing. Outside scroll now closes
  the dropdown and lets the scroll through.
• Confirm Dialogs Stack Correctly Over the Sheet. "Remove from
  pantry?" and similar confirms were rendering behind the item's
  own edit surface, making the buttons invisible.
• Native DB Init Survives Upgrades. A pantry index creation
  ran against an old schema on first launch after an APK upgrade
  and blocked the whole database from initializing. Moved the
  index into the migration that adds the column so it runs after
  the ALTER.
• Trace AI Provider Fields Are Read-Only After Save. Once an
  AI provider config is saved in Settings → Trace, the API key
  and Base URL fields lock so you can't accidentally overwrite
  them by tapping through the form. Editing requires an explicit
  Change toggle. (Issue #5)
• Animated Banner Sticky Pinning. The animated header was
  picking up an explicit position: sticky that broke pinning on
  Recipes, Pantry, Diary, Shopping, and Settings. The redundant
  declaration is dropped and the sticky wrapper handles the
  pinning cleanly.
• Recipe Editor Dropdowns Are Scrollable Again. Opening the
  Category, Tags, or Kitchen Gear picker in the recipe editor was
  capping the list at eight items, so anything past the eighth
  entry could only be reached by typing to filter. The cap is
  removed so the whole catalog is browseable via the popover's
  own scroll.

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