v4.13.0

[lukevella]

Features

• Custom branding from the control panel: upload your logo and wordmark (SVG supported) through a new branding page. Settings are stored in the database, with existing env vars as fallback. White-labeling docs updated to match. (✨ Store branding settings in the database with env var fallback #2916, ✨ Make the control panel branding page editable #2918, ✨ Logo upload through the branding page #2946, ✨ Accept SVG uploads for the wordmark logos #2951)
• Configurable footer links: instance admins can add custom links (imprint, privacy policy, etc.) that appear on auth, poll and invite pages. (✨ Add configurable footer links for self-hosted instances #3030)
• Mobile voting redesign: new voting footer with explicit "no" responses, redesigned vote icons, and comments moved into a sheet opened from a floating trigger. (✨ Redesign the mobile poll voting experience #2903, ✨ Unify the voting footer and make all-no responses explicit #2893, ✨ Move poll comments into a sheet opened from a floating trigger #2879)
• Calendar and ICS download on the events page: add scheduled events to your calendar or download an ICS file. (✨ Add calendar and ICS download to the events page #3024)
• Channel-aware update check: the version check now respects release channels and shows a notice when a new major version is available. (✨ Make the update check channel-aware and add the new-major notice #2983)
• Members page redesign: members moved from settings into the main navigation with a new list design. (Move members from settings to the main navigation #2923, Redesign the members page to match the polls page #2929)

Fixes

• Reject localhost, IP addresses and dotless hostnames as the cookie domain, preventing a class of login loops on misconfigured instances. (🐛 Reject localhost, dotless hostnames and IPs as the cookie domain #2941)
• Restored 6 missing time zones and updated the time zone picker to show modern city names. (🐛 Restore 6 missing time zones and show modern city names #3035)
• Public calendar feeds no longer include stale, deleted or cancelled events. (🐛 Fix stale, deleted and cancelled events on the public calendar routes (RAL-1561) #3027)
• Changing your email no longer fails silently when the address is already in use. (🐛 Fix email change silently failing when the address is already in use #2970)
• Fixed a double scrollbar on the invite page. (🐛 Fix double scrollbar on the invite page #2973)
• Clearer error logging when a license key can't be validated due to a network failure. (🔊 Distinguish network failures when validating a license key #2885)

Other

• Upgraded Next.js to 16.3. (⬆️ Upgrade Next.js to 16.3.0 #2855)
• Standardized UI copy on sentence case and "time zone" (two words); sheets restyled as floating panels. (💄 Standardise UI copy on sentence case #2881, 💄 Standardise on "time zone" (two words) in UI copy #2890, 💄 Restyle sheets as floating rounded popover panels #2919)
• Updated translations from Crowdin.
• This release includes new database migrations, applied automatically on startup as usual.

Full changelog: v4.12.3...v4.13.0

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This discussion was created from the release v4.13.0.