v4.8.0

[lukevella]

What's Changed

This release brings notification controls, UI improvements, and several bug fixes.

✨ New Features

• 🔔 Notification settings — Configure global notification preferences (new responses, new comments) from your account settings. (✨ Add notification settings #2254)
• 🔕 Per-poll notification muting — Mute notifications for individual polls using the bell icon in the poll admin view, replacing the previous watcher-based system. (✨ Add per-poll notification muting (#RAL-1065) #2268)
• 🎉 Success dialog after poll creation — After creating a poll, you'll see a shareable invite link with copy-to-clipboard before being taken to the poll page. (✨ Add success dialog when creating a poll #2281)
• 👤 User avatars in participant list — Profile pictures now display alongside participants in poll views for better visual recognition. (✨ Use user avatar when available for participant #2284)
• 🌍 Improved time zone selector — Replaced the modal-based selector with an inline searchable combobox showing city names and UTC offsets. (✨ Improved time zone selector #2261)
• 🚨 Improved error page — Errors now show a user-friendly page with localized messaging and quick navigation links (home, create poll, support, GitHub). (✨ Improved error page #2220)
• 📧 SMTP_TLS_SERVERNAME env var — Allows explicit SNI configuration for SMTP servers hosting multiple certificates. (✨ Add SMTP_TLS_SERVERNAME env var for explicit SNI configuration #2298)

🐛 Bug Fixes

• 📅 Poll description missing from scheduled events — Poll descriptions are now correctly passed through when booking a poll as a calendar event. (🐛 Pass poll description to scheduled event #2202)
• 💥 Crash on deleted poll — Accessing a poll that no longer exists now shows a proper 404 page instead of crashing. (🐛 Fix crash when accessing poll that doesn’t exist anymore #2218)
• 🔑 Password reset redirect — Authenticated users are no longer incorrectly redirected away from the password reset screen. (🐛 Avoid redirecting user away from password reset screen #2245)
• 🗑️ Soft-deleted participants in finalize query — Removed participants are now excluded from event creation and notification flows. (🐛 Exclude soft-deleted participants from finalize query #2277)
• 🗓️ Date grouping across years — Dates from different years (e.g. Apr 2026 vs Apr 2027) are now grouped correctly. (🐛 Fix date grouping #2279)
• 🏠 Crash when user has no spaces — Fixed an edge case where the app crashed for users with no spaces. (🐛 Fix crash when user has no spaces #2286)
• 🕐 Timezone change broken for guests — Unauthenticated users can now change their timezone correctly. (🐛 Fix user can’t change timezone when not logged in #2289)

Full Changelog: v4.7.4...v4.8.0

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