v2.1.0

What's Changed

• Add Mistral as alt-text provider and optional backup provider by @cgillinger in #27
• Release 2.1.0 by @cgillinger in #28

Full Changelog: v2.0.0...v2.1.0

v2.0.0

What's Changed

• Polish bot: security hardening, session management, and reliability i… by @cgillinger in #1
• Rewrite README with badges, architecture diagram, and config reference by @cgillinger in #2
• Reduce poll interval to 1 min with conditional RSS fetching by @cgillinger in #3
• Move RSS feeds to external feeds.txt for easy configuration by @cgillinger in #4
• Fix race condition and add multiple duplicate-post safeguards by @cgillinger in #5
• Fix cross-feed duplicate posts by checking links globally by @cgillinger in #6
• feat: RSS-first embed cards with OG fallback by @cgillinger in #7
• fix: extract image from item.content HTML as fallback for feeds without media fields by @cgillinger in #8
• docs: update README for image extraction fallback and test suite by @cgillinger in #9
• docs: clarify project status in Contributing section by @cgillinger in #10
• Add optional AI alt-text for images via Gemini 2.5 Flash by @cgillinger in #11
• docs: mark alt-text feature as untested in README by @cgillinger in #12
• Refactor to pluggable provider architecture by @cgillinger in #13
• docs: drop sr-api from README's built-in provider listing by @cgillinger in #14
• Fix alt-text bugs and add OpenAI provider option by @cgillinger in #15
• Increase fetch timeout for alt-text API calls to 30s by @cgillinger in #16
• Add RichText facet detection for clickable links in posts by @cgillinger in #17
• Update README and package.json for production alt-text and SEO by @cgillinger in #18
• Update alt text prompt to name recognized public figures by @cgillinger in #19
• fix: make alt-text prompt cautious about person identification by @cgillinger in #20
• feat: parallel alt-text prefetch, retry queue, cache, and token savings by @cgillinger in #21
• feat: pass article title/description as context hint to alt-text prompt by @cgillinger in #22
• docs: clarify feeds.txt Docker build-time behaviour and comment syntax by @cgillinger in #23
• docs: add troubleshooting entry for commented-out feeds still posting by @cgillinger in #24
• v2.0.0: bug fixes, refactor, Node 22, GHCR image, versioning by @cgillinger in #25
• Switch default Gemini model to gemini-3.5-flash (2.5 Flash retires 2026-10-16) by @cgillinger in #26

New Contributors

• @cgillinger made their first contribution in #1

Full Changelog: https://github.com/cgillinger/Blueskybot/commits/v2.0.0