Release v1.17.0

🎨 UI, UX & Aesthetics

• Universal Modal Portals: Implemented a robust architecture using React Portals to render all modals at the document root.
  • Resolves mobile accessibility issues where navigation menus appeared over modals.
  • Ensures the modal backdrop consistently dims the entire screen, including sticky headers and sidebars.
• Improved Sidebar & User Profiles:
  • Added support for User Avatars with a new upload system.
  • Enhanced Sidebar styling with integrated user profiles and better visual hierarchy.
  • Optimized Sidebar collapse/expand behavior for better navigation flow.
• Mobile First Responsiveness:
  • Stacked Action Buttons: Footer buttons in modals now intelligently stack on mobile for easier touch interaction.
  • Fluid Tabs: Settings tabs now support visible horizontal scrolling on small screens (e.g., iPhone SE).
  • Adaptive Padding: Dynamic modal padding to maximize usable content area on small devices.
• Live View Polish:
  • Prioritized motion activity indicators: Red alerts for motion/recordings now take visual precedence over other states.
  • Enhanced camera cards with vibrant status borders and cleaner typography.

⚙️ Settings & User Management

• Redesigned Settings Page: Re-organized settings into logical, collapsible groups (Account, Storage, Notifications, Optimization) for a cleaner management experience.
• User Accounts & Profiles:
  • New Profile Page (/profile) allowing users to manage their personal information and security.
  • Avatar System: Introduced Avatar.jsx component and backend endpoints for custom profile pictures.
• Optimization Controls: Exposed advanced engine tuning parameters (FPS throttling, resolution limits, and verbose logging) for fine-grained performance control.

🚀 Performance & Stability

• Background Media Processing: FFmpeg and ffprobe operations (thumbnail generation, stream probing) are now handled by FastAPI background tasks, preventing the API from blocking during heavy recording activity.
• Startup Reliability: Fixed backend crashes related to missing imports (os, json) and improved error handling for camera stream connectivity.
• Orphan Recording Recovery: Added a manual trigger in Settings to scan and recover recordings not indexed in the database.

🛡️ Security

• Strict SSRF Protection: Webhook URL validation now strictly blocks all private and reserved IPv4/IPv6 ranges (e.g., 10.x, 172.x, 192.x) to protect internal networks.
• Safe CORS Configuration: Standardized CORS middleware to use configurable environment-based origin allowlists instead of overly permissive wildcards.

🔧 Backend & Infrastructure

• Unified Versioning: Synchronized all service versions to v1.17.0 for consistent deployment tracking.
• Docker Hardening: Updated docker-compose.prod.yml with security environment variables and better volume management for avatars and media.
• Database Resilience: Improved migration logic for handling schema updates across different deployment environments.

Released on: 2026-02-11