The banner still advertised the calendar, recurring cards and guest roles —
features from 2.3 — to everyone who ran an instance. It now carries nine
features up to 2.5.0, and the ten strings behind them sit in their
alphabetical place rather than in the middle of the two-factor block, where
the first three had ended up.
Who sees what now depends on the role. An admin can put a trial on their own
server today and a board user cannot, so admins get the trial line and land
on planka.app/trial while everyone else gets the overview on /pro. The
landing path is also what tells the two groups apart in the referral figures,
since nothing is measured in the app.
A full pass through nine features takes over two minutes, longer than most
visits, and the rotation restarted at the first entry on every load. The tail
of the list would have advertised nothing. The list now starts at an offset
picked per visit, which spreads the features over the visitors instead of over
the length of a session — the headline still opens every session, only the
feature that follows it varies.
The headline falls back per language. `proTrialSelfHosted` is new and exists
in two locales; `discoverPlankaPro` exists in all of them. Where the sharper
line is untranslated the softer one is used rather than a line of English, on
the one string that opens every session and fills every second slot. The link
still goes to the trial, and as translations land the check flips on its own.
The thirty-day dismissal is untouched, deliberately: any version-aware
dismissal would resurface the banner for every user at once on rollout,
because the entries already in local storage carry no version.
The release notes rendered in the about modal only existed as an asset
inside the client, where nothing outside a build would look for them. The
file moves to CHANGELOG.md at the root and the about modal reads it from
there, so the client build and the Docker image copy in the same file the
repository keeps.
An unreleased section collects the orphaned reference fixes and the
pagination fixes.
Users can pick an inactivity timeout in their preferences. A warning
appears 30 seconds before, and activity or a logout is synchronised
across open tabs.
Editing a user now opens a modal with an information tab and an API
key tab instead of a chain of popups. The user name in the list opens
it, and the admin two-factor reset moves in as well.
The two-factor stylesheets were carried over from the Pro edition and
referenced CSS custom properties from its theme system, which this
edition does not define. They silently fell back to browser defaults.
Adds TOTP setup with QR code, login challenge, recovery codes and
trusted devices that let a browser skip the second factor for 30
days. Admins can reset another user's second factor by confirming
with their own password.
Adds a dismissible banner in the topbar that informs users about
PLANKA Pro features.
- Dismissible per-user (stored in localStorage)
- Reappears after 30 days
- Rotates between main message and 3 feature highlights
- Links to planka.app/pro (with ref parameter for anonymous source attribution)
Daniel Hiller