Introduces a full notification system with support for Discord and Pushover backends, event triggers, and message formatting. Adds backend services, processors, and API endpoints for managing notifications, as well as a new Notifications tab in the admin settings UI. Updates documentation, database schema, and tests to cover notification features and approval workflow improvements. Also changes project license from MIT to AGPL v3.
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.