🚀 Release: v5.2.0

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🚀 New Release: v5.2.0

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Chore dependencies and recurrence_done_mode both turn out to have been broken in the frontend — this release makes them work — and Approve All goes from ~7s of apparent silence to a fifth of a second with a proper busy state.

Fixed

• Approve All no longer looks like it did nothing. Bulk approval reused the single-approval path per chore, so it ran a full coordinator rebuild — plus a state write for every TaskMate entity — once per completion. Approving 60 pending chores took 7.40s, with nothing pushed to the frontend until the very end, so the panel and the Approvals card sat completely unchanged for that whole window. It now refreshes once for the batch: the same 60 approvals take 0.21s. (#797, fixes #794)
• Approve All now shows a busy state — the button is disabled and shows a spinner with "Approving…", on both the admin panel and the Approvals card. A second tap is ignored, so the same sweep cannot be queued twice. Honours prefers-reduced-motion. (#801, fixes #799)
• Chore dependencies work again — they were unusable from the frontend. The admin panel built its chore-save payload without depends_on, so a dependency never persisted, and could never be cleared once set. Separately the child card had no dependency check at all, so a blocked chore always rendered as available. Thanks to @flyingtech for a report that pinpointed both causes. (#802, fixes #793)
• recurrence_done_mode was dead code. The child card read two availability fields that nothing ever assigned, so dim never dimmed, the recurrence label was unreachable, and hide never hid — show was the only behaviour you could get, whatever you set. (#804, fixes #803)
• recurrence_done_mode: show no longer leaves a dead-tappable chore. Completing a recurring chore inside its window is a no-op server-side, so the row invited a tap and silently swallowed it. It is now non-tappable under both dim and show, matching dependency_mode. (#806, fixes #805)
• The Approvals card can see previous-day approvals and mandatory misses again. The attribute resolver referenced sensor.pending_approvals; the real entity is sensor.taskmate_pending_approvals, so that sensor was never merged and the card silently fell back to today-only data. That stranded any approval left pending overnight and hid the missed-mandatory review block entirely — 185 invisible mandatory misses on the test instance. (#800, fixes #798)
• Scheduled notification triggers are now cancelled when the integration unloads. (#792)

Added

• Picture mode can show point values instead of stars. The star row rounds and clamps to 1–5, so a 7-point and an 8-point chore both drew four stars — disagreeing with the totals shown everywhere else. Set pre_reader_points: true for the exact value, drawn with your family's points icon. Off by default, so existing picture-mode dashboards keep their stars. (#796, closes #795)

  type: custom:taskmate-child-card
  entity: sensor.taskmate_overview
  child_id: <child_id>
  pre_reader: true
  pre_reader_points: true    # +7 instead of ★★★★

• dependency_mode on the child card controls how a chore waiting on another appears. Find it in the card editor under Chores Waiting On Another. (#802)

  Value	Behaviour
  hide (default)	Not shown until it unlocks — matches the backend, which reports it unavailable
  dim	Greyed out and not tappable, with a "Do X first" note naming the prerequisite
  show	Normal opacity, still not tappable

  dependency_mode: dim

Changed

• recurrence_done_mode: show is now described as "show normally (still not tappable)" in all 8 locales — the old wording promised behaviour that never worked.
• Every new string ships translated into de, en, en-GB, fr, nb, nn, pt and pt-BR.
• Large internal cleanup: dead constants, unused card parameters, duplicated helpers and the built-in template chores consolidated. No behaviour change. (#792)

Upgrading

No action needed — nothing here changes existing configuration. Both new options default to today's behaviour (pre_reader_points: false, dependency_mode: hide).

If you had set up chore dependencies before and concluded they did nothing, they were genuinely not being saved — set them again in Admin Panel → Chores → Edit chore → Depends on.

Full changelog: v5.1.1...v5.2.0

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Upgrading

Update via HACS or by downloading the latest release and copying to /config/custom_components/taskmate/.

After updating, restart Home Assistant. Lovelace resources will update automatically on restart.

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