v1.4.0

v1.4.0 – Changelog

Environmental & Configuration Updates

• Introduce advanced Redis setup (queue, cache, session) and switch to the predis client in .env.example by @theihasan
• Add failover mailer configuration and environment vars for BREVO, ZEPTO and RESEND email providers by @theihasan

Documentation Improvements

• Expand README.md with an “Email Communications” section detailing registration, password resets, and weekly job alerts by @theihasan

Caching Layer

• Add JobFilterCache class to cache job categories, publishers, and countries (with keys invalidation) by @theihasan

Console Commands & Events

• Add TestWelcomeNotification artisan command to send a test welcome email to any user by @theihasan
• Introduce SendWelcomeEmail event listener that logs and dispatches the real welcome notification after user registration by @theihasan

AI & Exception Handling

• Add OpenAPICreditExceedException to better handle and report when AI‐service credits are exhausted by @theihasan
• Enhance the Livewire GenerateCoverLetter component to support “regenerate with feedback” flows and more robust error messages by @theihasan

Job Dispatching & Processing

• Delay each GetJobData dispatch by 5 seconds in DispatchJobCategories and improve exception logging for chunked dispatching by @theihasan
• Update GetJobData job to import Carbon and record the API rate‐limit reset timestamp in the database by @theihasan

User Notifications

• Refactor NotifyUserAboutNewJobs job to:

  • Send country‐specific digests based on each user’s country code
  • Use the Laravel Notification facade for cleaner dispatching
    by @theihasan

Logging & Error Handling

• Improve error‐message formatting in StoreJobs job to consistently log array- or string-based exceptions by @theihasan
• Add UpdateUserCountryFromCloudflare job to record the CF-IPCountry header into each user’s country field by @theihasan

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