Release v0.1.4

[0.1.4] - 2026-08-09

Added

• Scope user list to approver relationships via /reports/users

Fixed

• Fix custom-range mobile layout (employee row, then Von/Bis)
• Clean side-by-side mobile filter layout via display:contents
• Stop the period picker collapsing the employee select on mobile
• Keep employee and period pickers side by side on mobile
• Show the hours unit on the flextime balance tile
• Stop filter controls overlapping on mobile
• Group team report by role, fix flextime month-scope, fix mobile layout
• Show real event times and drop sqlx query noise from System Log
• Allow editing default days and expiry on a used category
• Repair five regressions from the 41dd1b8 hardening pass
• Repair five regressions from the 41dd1b8 hardening pass
• Stop a blank period from fanning out 2000 API requests
• Cap unbounded custom-range absence/holiday lookups
• Correct deploy scripts flag quoting and tier2 clear
• Resolve 30+ logic issues across backend and frontend

Release v0.1.3

[0.1.3] - 2026-08-07

⚠️ Breaking Changes

• Document postgres named-volume breaking change and migration

The postgres container now mounts a named volume
(zerf_postgres_db_data) at /data/db. Existing deployments must copy their
PostgreSQL data directory from the previous anonymous volume into
zerf_postgres_db_data before upgrading, or the database will start empty.
See docs/UPGRADING.md.

Added

• Render independent leave-account columns in the team report
• Queue outbound email delivery with retry and a circuit breaker
• Add manual "Back up now" trigger, fix Upload now placement
• Couple leave-account access to entitlement and tile visibility
• Include comment in the new absence request email
• Align dashboard card and assistant relevance
• Provisional manual sends, an exclusion list, and a status card
• Use auto-growing textarea for recipient addresses
• Auto-select absence categories, support multiple recipients
• Show single entry edits individually, full detail for weeks
• Email a monthly payroll report to the tax office
• Record week approvals as one audit event per week
• Deep-link from pending approvals and show entry comments
• Support recurring manual holidays
• Bundle backups into a single zip archive
• Larger desktop typography via rem root font-size
• Larger typography, centered page width cap, CSS modularization
• Remove the 14-hour per-day cap
• Central delivery facade and opt-in admin error alerts
• Add System Log page and paginate the Audit Log
• Require a valid share URL to enable backup upload
• Add null-safe name comparison and update sorting logic in TeamUsers
• Implement role-based avatar colors and sorting in user lists
• Group the combined timesheet PDF export by role
• Color avatars by role and group rosters by role
• Zero leave days on assistant role selection, restore on switch back
• Hide irrelevant fields for assistant role instead of disabling them
• Add Playwright e2e suite with backup/restore verification
• Self-load holidays for out-of-range years in request dialog
• Capture pg_tde keyring with each backup for physical recovery
• Replace wrapping settings tabs with mobile dropdown
• Send email notification on admin password reset
• Enable team lead assistant management by default
• Preserve time data when disabling time tracking, add missing i18n
• Restore lz4 compression on audit_log via migration 029
• Add 10-year hard-coded retention for audit_log
• Add user archiving and restore
• Allow team leads to create and manage assistant users
• Sort users alphabetically in all list views
• Wire base annual_leave_days through user create/update
• Per-employee category enable/disable
• Persistent backup scheduling, count-based retention, and admin system-error notifications
• Interval in days, run daily at 4am UTC
• Redesign monthly PDF export as per-employee queue
• Rename Nextcloud Upload tab to Nextcloud Backups
• Nextcloud upload for DB backups and monthly timesheet PDFs
• Add per-user submission auto-approval, make all auto-approvals silent
• Per-option info icons in the AbsenceCategoryDialog
• Make absence categories fully configurable
• Extend automatic break deduction to two configurable tiers
• Implement automatic break deduction
• Add optional hire date for accurate leave-entitlement proration
• Generate timesheet export PDFs in the backend

Changed

• Simplify SMTP sending with a guarded send wrapper and timeout
• Remove redundant leave-accounts card from Account page
• Shrink shipped images and keep build cache off the layer graph
• Simplify TeamReport component by removing leave account handling and updating test fixtures
• Update team report response type and simplify absence record handling in tests
• Update workday handling to support flexible scheduling and improve documentation
• Move upload button to shared actions bar
• Remove product name from email copy and harden restore selection
• Simplify payroll and backup copy
• Drop the "Sonstige Abwesenheit" catch-all category
• Unify Reports page into Employee/Team tabs with shared toolbar
• Centralize generated copy
• Use query_scalar for the category active check
• Remove system-error alert emails, keep in-app only
• Remove redundant upload failure notification logic and update documentation
• Move allow-team-lead-manage-assistants setting to Users page
• Reorganize FlextimeSection layout and improve responsive design
• Update development workflow guidelines in AGENTS.md
• Update archived users section to match merged Users page
• Unify 'member' terminology to 'user'
• Merge archived users into Users settings page
• Centralize post-auth data loading in one shared loader
• Remove UPGRADING.md
• Reflect current state (self-contained backup image, postgres caps)
• Correct data-at-rest encryption docs and add recovery/migration guidance
• Document postgres named-volume breaking change and migration
• Replace user deactivation with archiving
• Unify Admin and Team Settings into a single Settings menu item
• Sync user-guide table of contents and fix duplicate table row
• Fix several user-guide.md inaccuracies found during a full audit
• Collapse cost flags into cost_type enum; drop team_visible
• Remove jurisdiction references from break deduction comments
• Extract inline styles to CSS utility classes

Dependencies

• Refresh Cargo.lock via cargo update

Fixed

• Retry queue-entry deletes after confirmed email delivery
• Grant assistant category access before setting leave-account entitlement
• Wait for the category list to load before clicking Add
• Default new categories to the end of the sort order
• Update leave-account card selector after tile redesign
• Build docker images sequentially to avoid CI build races
• Use numeric --chmod for static asset COPY
• Compute automatic break deduction against the day's total, not per block
• Keep "Back up now" responsive during failure backoff
• Translate absence category, align hours table, drop absence total
• Add padding and fix alignment on leave account cards
• Add missing translations for team report vacation columns
• Pre-pull postgres image with retry for integration tests
• Enhance TeamReport table with wrapping-optimized headers and add corresponding test
• Restore the custom date and time pickers on touch devices
• Stop Safari collapsing the dialog body to its padding
• Use native mobile time input fallback
• Remove unused payroll report notice from AdminPayrollReport
• Make payroll send status non-blocking
• Harden dialog interaction handling
• Complete entry dialog edge-case hardening
• Harden entry dialog rendering and fallback behavior
• Harden time entry dialog browser compatibility
• Tile must require approval even when hours aren't reported
• Show hours with two decimal places
• Correct the dashboard card's sent state and colour split
• Prevent approval queue card headers from overflowing on mobile
• Match the established 'selected day' phrasing in the Send now hint
• Clarify the Send now hint now that it doesn't skip the scheduled delivery
• A manual send no longer replaces the scheduled delivery
• Only mark categories unpaid explicitly, not by cost_type
• Validate backup selection explicitly
• Fix label overflow and upload actions layout
• Land team leads on the leftmost tab, sort team users list
• Fix payroll report category list translation and layout
• Require full approval and pre-start correctness on the Nextcloud export too
• Correct the flextime claim for no-cost absence days
• Describe absence cost types from the employee's perspective
• Restore shared input style and equal widths for flextime date pickers
• Guard category-picker save against races and dropped edits
• Remove sick-like qualifier from auto-approve label
• Correct German case agreement in no-cost help text
• Fix light-theme color-scheme so inputs stay light when OS is dark
• Clarify no-cost absence category label and help text
• Fix date picker input theme and flextime section overflow
• Wrap dialog footer buttons onto multiple rows
• Count pending weeks, not time-entry rows, in approval reminders
• Make metadata cp best-effort in direct dump.enc path
• Fix three logic errors in restore.sh
• Preserve line breaks in notification body text
• Remove redundant table-wrap on approval queue cards
• Remove PasswordCredential API calls interfering with password managers
• Translate error notification and report-upload alert text
• Make absence dates weekend/holiday-safe, fix renamed audit-log selector
• Require review for start-date reexports
• Preserve timesheet export integrity
• Remove orphaned test and unused import after notification removal
• Improve handling of unexportable timesheet entries and enhance notification details
• Update user-roster selector after settings card was added above list
• Update assistant-setting test to use Users page
• Resolve rejected entry lifecycle traps
• Harden timesheet PDF export requeue
• Hold report export for pending absences
• Tighten export readiness checks
• Close export and workflow edge cases
• Four correctness defects in PDF, archive, weekly-status, and absence behavior
• Harden reopen and reminder workflows
• Remove -i from docker exec where no host stdin is needed
• Correct backfill logic and add unit tests
• Resolve 7 audit findings across submission, export, and reopen workflows
• Correct phantom-year guard and update tests for pessimistic sourcing
• Correct vacation/absence logic holes and backup/restore defects
• Adjust bell position and sidebar width for improved layout
• Scope team settings to assigned approvers
• Enable allow_team_lead_manage_assistants before team lead tests
• Harden backup restore flow
• Restore PDF total break-adjustment and add archiving cancellation_pending test
• Close archived-user leaks in reopen requests and approval reminders, unblock absence cancellation
• Resolve remaining timesheet workflow issues
• Resolve audit findings in absence calendar, archiving, holiday idempotency, and rep...

Release v0.1.2

[0.1.2] - 2026-06-07

Changed

• Rename README title to Zerf Time & Absence Management
• Simplify security section in README, move details to docs/security.md
• Replace marketing language with factual descriptions
• Trim sales language from Why Zerf section
• Add security section and trim sales copy from README
• Rewrite README overview, features, and quick setup sections
• Add table of contents to user guide

Fixed

• Tag release images with full vX.Y.Z version to match git tags
• Suppress ghost danger active hint
• Improve dashboard approval interactions
• Freeze appTodayDate in Reports tests to avoid date-sensitive failures
• Anchor sed patterns with ^ and $ to prevent partial variable name matches
• Move Abmelden button to far right in mobile menu header
• Show Abmelden label on logout button in mobile menu header
• Move sign out button to profile row in mobile menu
• Clip more sheet animation to overlay bounds so nav bar stays visible
• Mobile more sheet no longer covers bottom nav bar
• Always pull registry image when ZERF_VERSION is not dev

Release v0.1.1

[0.1.1] - 2026-05-29

Added

• Add ZERF_VERSION=dev mode for local builds
• Add version and git hash OCI labels to Docker image

Changed

• Accept version arg in start scripts, replace debug compose with DEBUG env var
• Replace debug script and compose overlay with DEBUG env var

Fixed

• Sync Cargo.lock with Cargo.toml after release version injection
• Remove redundant focus outline rules on checkbox
• Suppress tap highlight and text-selection flash on checkbox labels
• Show ZERF prefix in setup screen heading
• Custom checkbox rendering without browser color or focus ring
• Sync package-lock.json with package.json after release version injection
• Sync Cargo.lock with Cargo.toml after release version injection
• Use standard browser checkbox appearance instead of accent color

Release v0.1.0

[0.1.0] - 2026-05-28

Added

• Refresh current user data on dialog close if edited user matches current user
• Keep Dashboard & Reports menu items + reset start_date on re-enable
• Add deterministic test-data seeder
• Encrypt data at rest with pg_tde and AES-encrypted backups
• Add eslint-plugin-svelte and fix all lint errors
• Role-based title and earliest-month nav bound
• Unify start-date lower bounds across all report tiles
• Enforce earliest-start-date as global lower bound
• Structured detail fields instead of raw JSON
• Lock year input and disable future navigation
• Show weekday in flextime tooltip (Mo., 25.05.)
• Group time entries by week, add subject user, responsive layout
• Show ISO calendar week number and full Mon-Sun range everywhere
• Surface current week status on submission tiles
• Add submission reminders for admins and toggle functionality
• Calendar team heading, weekend column hiding, and audit log mobile fix
• Add reason field to reopen requests for better context
• Enhance user email handling and notifications with full names
• Remove per-entry change-request workflow; lock submitted weeks atomically
• Swap submit-week button with request-edit when no drafts remain
• Maximise hue distance among priority calendar colors
• Rearrange calendar navigation for improved usability and aesthetics
• Refactor routing to use dynamic imports for improved performance and maintainability
• Enhance calendar view to include time entries for team leads and improve user visibility
• Add functionality to check for pending submitted entries and improve absence visibility in calendar
• Enhance absence chart to include weekend representation and improve labels
• Add selected days calculation and display in absence dialog
• Enhance user role management and validation for assistants
• Update favicon and add AppLogo component for consistent branding
• Enhance reopen request handling with advisory locks and improved approval logic
• Update TestApp to support optional Postgres container for testing
• Add test for non-admin lead batch rejection of own submitted time entry
• Implement batch approval and rejection for time entries; update user guide and tests
• Add batch rejection notification for timesheets with consolidated user notifications
• Enhance role management and approval logic; normalize role handling across user and submission reminder workflows
• Add assistant role with specific constraints and update user guide. language-specific decimal separator.
• Send in-app notifications for self-approval/rejection by admin
• Implement flextime reduction category and update time entry logic
• Implement per-user configurable workdays_per_week
• Implement carryover expiry logic for vacation days and update integration tests
• Strikethrough cancelled absences in absence history
• Unify dashboard approval tiles with typed labels and diffs
• Implement change request approvals section with user interaction for approving and rejecting requests; enhance UI for better visibility of pending requests
• Enhance user guide with detailed onboarding steps and role-based workflows; improve absence request notifications and submission status checks
• Enhance absence management with effective workday validation and improve UI components for reporting and time tracking
• Update report tests to include current day in hours and categories
• Update date handling to include today in reports and calculations
• Add flextime opening and closing balance to reports, update date handling
• Add user deletion, show time in notifications, FK cascade fixes
• Append app URL to outgoing notification emails
• Update terminology for submission reminders to general reminders
• Implement absence cancellation workflow and approval reminders
• Add overtime reporting endpoint and update API router
• Add cancellation pending status for absences
• Implement mobile title bar and navigation slider for improved user experience
• Implement multi-approver support for users and update related UI components
• Add translations for login screen notifications and monthly reminders
• Add automated submission reminders and favicon support
• Update leave days handling and improve UI consistency across reports and user management
• Implement pending vacation day overrides for new users
• Implement per-IP rate limiting and connection timeouts for enhanced security
• Update date handling to use UTC and improve concurrency controls
• Implement region loading and error handling in AdminSettings; add tests for region selection functionality
• Implement password reset functionality with email notifications
• Update Reports layout to include help tooltip for overtime balance and adjust styling; remove dark/light mode toggle button
• Add help tooltips for overtime in Reports and update translations; style rejected entries with strikethrough
• Add TrendingUp icon and update translations for "Today" in English and German; adjust absence date range in Reports
• Improve mobile keyboard handling and enhance login/setup flows with email pre-fill
• Enhance credential storage for password manager and update input field names
• Skip processing of rejected entries in build_range function
• Update SQL query in categories function to exclude rejected entries
• Enhance absence and change request handling with year validation and notifications
• Implement submission reminders with configurable deadline and user notifications
• Restrict non-admin user actions in absence and change request approvals, and enhance user access checks
• Update CSV export to use translated category labels
• Enhance user management by enforcing unique email and name constraints, and improve error handling in user creation and updates
• Enhance non-admin user approval process by assigning orphaned users to the oldest active admin
• Implement SMTP settings management and connection testing
• Implement initial setup process for admin account creation with validation
• Enhance admin setup process by adding first and last name fields and validation
• Update admin settings endpoint to return detailed SMTP configuration
• Implement SMTP settings management in admin panel and frontend
• Add range report endpoint and enhance CSV export functionality
• Add leave overrides management for users
• Add overtime start balance to user model and update related functionalities
• Enforce user start date for time entries and absences
• Enhance localization and error handling in i18n
• Enforce reason requirement for time entry rejection
• Enhance backup functionality with validation for interval and retention settings
• Update approval processes with transaction handling and improve backup service configuration
• Implement SPA routing and static file serving in the API
• Implement absence checks and advisory locks for time entries and absence creation
• Enhance change request handling and user experience with new validations and translations
• Seed country and region settings in test database for holiday API
• Enhance time entry management and user settings
• Enhance login navigation and error handling; add overtime balance feature in reports; update team settings for user roles; improve time entry loading and submission; refactor theme store management
• Add local and public Docker Compose configurations with debug support
• Add Info icon to Icons.svelte and integrate notification service
• Enhance admin settings with default user settings and improve UI layout
• Add Docker Compose configuration for PostgreSQL and Caddy services
• Add start_local.sh and start_public.sh scripts for Docker Compose setup
• Add mobile bottom navigation bar and pull-to-refresh
• Enhance time entry management with upsert and remove functions; update dialog close handling
• Enhance date and time validation in dialogs; update translations for error messages
• Implement week reopen requests with auto-approval and notifications; add flextime reporting and chart
• Enhance API and date formatting functions; update CI configuration and ignore files
• Implement theme toggle functionality with dark/light mode support; add corresponding styles and translations
• Enhance absence management with normalization and validation; update integration tests
• Implement date parsing and workday counting functions; add tests for new functionality
• Add auto-merge approval for Dependabot PRs with patch and minor updates

Changed

• Split Dashboard into sub-components; fix clippy borrows; add TEST_REFERENCE_DATE docs
• Correct bottom crop to 2630px (restore 40px, remove Chrome bar cleanly)
• Fix bottom crop on all screenshots (remove Chrome address bar)
• Replace screenshots with new crop (−113px top, −257px bottom)
• Unify duplicated core logic across services and domain modules
• Increase tour.gif frame delay to 7 seconds
• Refresh screenshot tour with up-to-date English captures
• Add screenshot tour to README
• List supported UI languages in README
• Update AGENTS.md for 3-layer architecture and parallel test setup
• Clean up post-architecture-refactor and parallelise integration tests
• Add static and dynamic badges to README
• Complete Dialog.svelte migration for all remaining dialogs
• Extract reusable Dialog.svelte component and eliminate boilerplate
• Confine all sqlx usage to the repository layer
• Reposition notification button in layout for improved UI consistency
• Make /time-entries/all a strict team-only endpoint for non-admin leads
• Remove legacy change request translations from i18n
• Unify reopen terminology to edit request / Bearbeitungsanfrage
• Replace unwrap() with ok() in JSON serialization for safer error handling
• Update absence and report tests for clarity and accuracy
• Enhance user visibility logic and improve carryover date handling
• Update README and improve absence validation logic
• Simplify run_loop function signature in approval reminders
• Improve week handling and entry management
• Consolidate annual leave management into a sin...