What's New in Homechart: v2025.05

[Homechart - Announce]

Hello, here's a summary of what's new in Homechart for May, 2025:

Deprecations

• Homechart’s current API response format is being deprecated. See https://web.homechart.app/api/docs for more details on the new format–it’s meant to streamline responses and provide more detailed error messages. To receive requests with the new format, add the HTTP header Homechart-Response: new.
• These Homechart API HTTP Headers are being deprecated:
  • X-Homechart-Debug (use Homechart-Debug)
  • X-Homechart-Hash (use Homechart-Hash)
  • X-Homechart-Key (use Authorization: Bearer)
  • X-Homechart-SelfHostedIDs (use Homechart-SelfHostedIDs)
  • X-Homechart-Token (use Authorization: Bearer)
  • X-Homechart-Updated (use Homechart-Updated )
  • app_sessionExpirationDefaultSeconds is now app_sessionExpirationDefault and accepts a duration such as 1h.
  • app_sessionExpirationRememberSeconds is now app_sessionExpirationRemember and accepts a duration such as 90d.
  • app_sseTimeoutMinutes is now app_sseTimeout and accepts a duration such as 10m.

Features

• Bookmark Label Permissions
  Household members can now grant View/Edit/None access to Bookmarks via Labels. See Permissions for more information.
• Budget Label Permissions
  Household members can now grant View/Edit/None access to Budgets > Accounts, Categories, and Payees via Labels. This can be used to allow your children access to their Savings or Checking account and associated Categories only. See Permissions for more information.
• Cook > Recipe Label Permissions
  Household members can now grant View/Edit/None access to Cook > Recipes via Labels. See Permissions for more information.
• Inventory Label Permissions
  Household members can now grant View/Edit/None access to Inventory > Collections and Items via Labels. This can be used to grant granular access to specific parts of your Inventory. See Permissions for more information.
• Notes Label Permissions
  Household members can now grant View/Edit/None access to Notes > Pages via Labels. See Permissions for more information.
• Plan > Projects Label Permissions
  Household members can now grant View/Edit/None access to Plan > Projects via Labels. Members can add, remove, and edit Plan > Tasks for Projects they have access to. See Permissions for more information.
• Shop > List Label Permissions
  Household members can now grant View/Edit/None access to Shop > Lists via Labels. Members can add, remove, and edit Shop > Items for Lists they have access to. See Permissions for more information.

Enhancements

• Household members that are participants of a Calendar > Event will now see the event without needing Calendar view or edit permissions.
• Household members that are recipients of a Reward > Card will now see the card without needing Reward view or edit permissions.
• Household members that are are added to Secrets > Vaults will now see the Vault and Secrets > Values without needing Secrets view or edit permissions.
• Increased Self-Hosted key expirations to 14 days.
• Updated swagger documentation to be more useful for API users/developers.

Fixes

• Fixed Calendar > iCalendar not updating Calendar > Events color.

Removals

• Removed newsletter functionality from Homechart, newsletters are now hosted on Google Groups.

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