v4.5.0

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✨ Daylight Calendar Card v4.5.0

📖 Documentation is now available at https://docs.daylightcalendar.com

🆕 New Features

• Past Event Matching for Event Styles (event_styles)

  • Added past matcher support for targeting past events.
  • Supports safe visual effects including opacity and CSS filter styling.

• Shortened Event Time Labels (shorten_event_times)

  • Option to display more compact event times for improved readability in dense calendars.

• Event Icons (event_styles)

  • Add custom icons to events through event_styles.
  • Icons are rendered consistently across supported calendar views.

• Today Styling Shortcuts

  • today_background_color
  • today_style

  Added convenient options for quickly customizing the appearance of the current day without creating full day_styles rules.

• Virtual Calendar Editor Support (virtual_calendars)

  • Virtual calendars can now be configured directly through the visual editor.

• Danish Localization (language)

  • Added Danish (da-DK) language support.

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⚠️ Fixes / Behavior Changes

• Sections View Layout Improvements

  • Improved grid height handling and compact sizing behavior when used inside Home Assistant Sections layouts.

• Event Modal Layering Fix

  • Fixed cases where the event modal could appear above the Home Assistant header.

• Configuration & Validation Improvements

  • Refactored configuration normalization into a schema-driven system.
  • Improved handling and validation of enums, CSS lengths, and font sizes.
  • Expanded automated test coverage for YAML-facing configuration options.

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📖 Documentation

• New Documentation Site

  • Documentation is now available at https://docs.daylightcalendar.com/
  • Reorganized and expanded documentation covering views, configuration options, advanced styling, troubleshooting, and FAQs.
  • Added dedicated documentation pages for features such as event_styles, day_styles, day_badges, virtual calendars, and combined calendars.

• Troubleshooting Improvements

  • Expanded troubleshooting guidance and common issue resolution steps.
  • Updated repository documentation to point to the new documentation site.

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🛠️ Project Maintenance

• Added broader automated coverage for user-facing YAML configuration options.
• Continued internal cleanup and normalization refactoring to improve long-term maintainability and reliability.

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🔗 Full Changelog

v4.4.0...v4.5.0

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This discussion was created from the release v4.5.0.