v1.1.0

The first minor since 1.0: a category can be wider than one column. DASHBOARD_RELEASE and NEXTDASH_WHATS_NEW_DATA_VERSION are bumped, so the modal reopens once.

Categories across columns

• new — Category.Spread (spread in bookmarks-{page}.json) marks a category as allowed to run across grid columns; uncategorized and the smart collections keep theirs in settings.categorySpreads[pageId][categoryId], the shape categorySortModes already uses. dashboard-category-span.js owns both, so no caller has to know which applies.
• new — the width itself is derived, never stored: spanForCount is min(ceil(count / categoryItemLimit), effectiveColumns, 12). It was a number the user picked in the first draft; it became a switch because the number is implied by two settings that already exist, and a stored number goes stale the moment a bookmark is added.
• new — applyCategoryItemLimit multiplies the limit by the span, so a spread category shows its limit once per column and stays the height of its neighbours. refreshAllCategorySpans runs from finishIncrementalRefresh, which is what makes an added bookmark bring the next column with it rather than waiting for a reload; settleSpanChange follows that through to the "+ N more" cut and, in packed mode, to a full re-render.
• new — the two settings rule out each other's extreme: spreadUnavailableReason returns unlimited-items when categoryItemLimit is 0, and the config select disables Unlimited while anySpreadCategory holds. Both say why where they are asked for.
• new — routes: DashboardCategoryMenu (entry flips to Back to one column, no aria-checked beside a label that already flips), Shift+W in keyboard-navigation.js, :width on|off|all, a data-cat-spread button per row in the categories editor, and Appearance → Layout → Categories across columns for the defaults and the reset.
• new — .category--wide spans with grid-column: span var(--category-span) and repeats the row's track pattern once per column, so subgrid alignment survives. The inner column gap is the grid gap plus 2 × --category-inline-pad: a run of categories pads every column on both sides, a single wide box only its outer edges, and without that the inner columns sat 16px left of the grid. syncWideColumnTracks pins the shortcut and lead tracks, which are intrinsic and were sized per repeat by whichever rows happened to land in them.
• new — a rule under the header spanning the block, and a ↔N badge in the header, both dropped while the category is collapsed or one column wide.

Packed columns

• new — packed keeps its round-robin flex columns while nothing spreads, and switches to a grid (packed-masonry) the moment something does: --masonry-span rows per category from dashboard-packed-masonry.js, grid-auto-flow: row dense, a ResizeObserver per category. Bands were tried first and left a hole the height of the tallest column beside the wide block.
• fix — syncCategoriesFromDom read the columns in document order while the render filled them round-robin. Those are not each other's inverse, so every category drag rewrote the order into one that redistributed differently and scrambled the page. readCategoryElementsInOrder is the single inverse now, keyed on what is in the DOM, and getExistingCategories delegates to it.
• fix — syncDashboardGridLayout rebuilds className wholesale and dropped packed-masonry, so any settings refresh — including the one behind a window resize — left the categories as bare flex children of a row with no columns in it.

Config

• fix — the location memory was written only on the exits config knows about; the header's health, inbox and page buttons switch view around it. restoreConfigHash now saves on every move inside config and setActiveView stamps it on the way out. The TTL is 5 minutes (DashboardConfig and DashboardConfigLoader both), counted from leaving rather than from the last click inside.
• new — type: 'action' panel controls with bindPanelActions, used for Turn spreading off everywhere; NEW_THIS_RELEASE is the one place naming where the twinkle points, drawn on the section, the sub-tab and the panel.
• new — #category-context-menu sizes to its content (width: max-content, capped at 24rem). The shared .move-popover cap is for the move/tag/delete pickers; at 16rem the widest row here needed 274px and got 237, so the Shift+W chip was trimmed away — and the French label is half again as long.

Config → Bookmarks

• new — the section gets the sub-tab strip five others already have: List and Settings. The nine settings sat after the list — fifty rows down by default and up to five hundred as the infinite scroll loads more, which also rules out jumping to the bottom of a list whose bottom moves as you approach it. Registered in SUB_TABS, SUB_TAB_STATE, SUB_TAB_ATTR and SUB_TAB_SECTION, so the deep link, the remembered location and the arrow-key walk come for free; handleOverviewGo accepts bmTab.

Views

• new — Health, Inbox and Config → Bookmarks draw one card from feed-row.css instead of three copies. The rule was written out in health-view.css, dashboard-inbox.css and config-view.css and the copies had drifted into being byte-identical — one design, three places to change it, and no way to tell whether a difference was meant. What genuinely differs is a modifier: feed-row--with-select for Health's checkbox column, and the coloured left edge each view uses for its own state, including modern layout's inset redraw of it. Classic layout also gains the row focus ring only modern had.
• new — the shape the three views disagreed on is settled: Inbox rounded its filter pills and buttons where Health squared them off; rounded won. Config → Bookmarks reads as a view rather than a settings panel — a header with a count, the search box sized like Health's, and tiles matching Health's without the stripe.

Discoverability

• new — spread-notice.js (a NoticeCard) and spread-tutorial.js, a four-step AppModal walkthrough in the shape of the inbox and health tours, reachable afterwards from Help → Pages & categories.
• fix — NoticeCard bound an action with querySelector, and a card naming its × through dismissName puts that attribute on the × as well. The × comes first, so it took the handler and the button sharing its name got none: the side rail's No thanks had been dead since the cards were unified.

Docs

• MANUAL.md — the spreading section with the columns-per-bookmark-count table, and the config-memory paragraphs at five minutes. Config → Bookmarks is described with its two sub-tabs.
• README.md — the feature bullet, Shift+W, :width on|off, and the five-minute memory.
• CHANGELOG.md, static/data/whats-new/v1.1.0.json, index.json, whats-new-stub.js, tests/whats-new-hidden-release.spec.js, the four locale files, and go generate ./... for asset_hashes_gen.go.