Stable release promoting the entire `beta` channel to `main`. Brings
~300 commits of features, fixes, and infrastructure improvements that
have been baked on the beta channel since v2.6.5.
## Major themes since v2.6.5
* Multi-administrator support with RBAC (super admin / admin / editor)
* Async upload pipeline (background worker pool for sharp/ffmpeg/EXIF/
watermark/webhooks; bytes-on-wire returns 202)
* Self-hosted webfonts (filesystem-driven scanner; replaces Google Fonts
CDN; GDPR-compliant)
* 8-token CI palette + force color mode (full theming across admin and
public site, with WCAG-safe contrast helpers)
* Native multi-arch Docker images (Apple Silicon + ARM64 Linux native)
* Native S3 storage backend (S3 + S3-compatible providers)
* Comprehensive video support (MP4/WebM/MOV upload, stream, play)
* Outbound webhooks for event/photo lifecycle (HMAC-signed)
* Gallery layout overhaul (decoupled header style, banner option,
theme-aware skeletons, lazy-loaded folder tree picker)
* Multilingual email templates (EN/DE/NL/PT/RU translations table)
* Bulk operations (delete with password gate, archive)
* Photo dimensions backfill (true masonry layout)
* Customer client access (review area before guest share)
* Image security (devtools detection, watermarking, right-click,
secure thumbnails)
## Notable bug fixes from beta
* `/auth/session` symmetry — three rounds of fixes (#350, #355, #363,
#398) for the admin-login redirect-loop family
* Email template renderer: handle {{#if}} conditionals, fix CSS leak in
plain-text fallback, gate publish-from-draft password placeholder,
gate external_url in public response
* Caller/template variable drift across gallery_created,
expiration_warning, archive_complete, gallery_expired
* Full-URL gallery_link in all email types (was path-only in 3 sites)
* ffmpeg/ffprobe via apk for Alpine compatibility (was glibc-bundled)
* Admin events search and counters not bounded to first 100 (#346)
## Conflict resolution notes
* `README.md` — kept main's leaner v2.6.5 rewrite (#281); added a
Contributors section adapted from PR #393.
* `DEPLOYMENT_GUIDE.md` — beta version (more recent, includes External
Media docs already backported to main).
* `CHANGELOG.md` — new 3.42.1 entry leads, beta's 3.x history follows,
main's 2.x entries appended below a divider so the historical chain
is preserved.
* `package.json` (backend + frontend) — beta's structure with version
bumped from `3.42.1-beta.0` → `3.42.1`.
* `package-lock.json` (backend + frontend) — regenerated via
`npm install --package-lock-only`.
* `.release-please-manifest.json` — bumped from `2.6.5` → `3.42.1` so
the next release-please run on main starts from the correct base.
## Pre-flight checks
* Frontend `tsc --noEmit` — clean
* Frontend `vite build` — clean (~3.5s, 2.6 MB main chunk; existing
warning about chunking, not new)
* Backend `npm test` — pre-existing failures in 6 integration suites
(DB-fixture-dependent, not regressions)
* Frontend `vitest` — pre-existing failures in
ThemeCustomizerEnhanced.test.tsx (missing QueryClientProvider after
PR #390 added useQuery; not a regression of this merge)
The pre-existing test failures are tracked as separate follow-ups and
do not block this release promotion.
Paul Nothaft
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