Implements pure CSS card stack animations for BookDate recommendations, including smooth exit and advance transitions. Adds local caching of library cover thumbnails during scans, updates database schema and API to serve cached covers, and enhances BookDate to support 'favorites' scope with a book picker modal. Updates admin settings validation logic for Prowlarr, improves indexer state management, and documents new features and backend changes.
Implements admin approval workflow for user requests with global and per-user auto-approve controls. Adds new request statuses ('awaiting_approval', 'denied'), related API endpoints, and UI for pending approvals. Introduces configurable audiobook organization path template with validation and preview in settings, updates database schema and migrations for new fields.
Introduced a Vitest-based backend unit testing framework with supporting scripts, helpers, and GitHub Actions integration. Refactored the admin settings page to a modular architecture, splitting monolithic logic into feature-specific tabs and hooks for improved maintainability and testability. Updated documentation to reflect the new testing setup and settings architecture, and added new dependencies for testing utilities.
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