What's New in Homechart: v2026.01

[Homechart - Announce]

Hello, here's a summary of what's new in Homechart for January, 2026:

Features

• CalDAV Server
  Homechart can now integrate with CalDAV clients as a CalDAV server. This allows you to view and edit your Homechart events from within your favorite Calendar apps, like Apple Calendar or Mozilla Thunderbird. See Guides > Calendars for more details.
• Multiple Calendars
  You can now create multiple Calendars in Homechart with their own Events. Calendars can also integrate with external calendars like Google Calendar, and have labels to provide granular access within your household. See Guides > Calendars for more details.

Enhancements

• Calendar > Events can now end recurrences using a count.
• Budget > Recurrences can now end recurrences using a count.
• Plan > Tasks can now end recurrences using a count.
• Shop > Items can now end recurrences using a count.
• Added a real icon picker to forms that support icons.
• Updated Go to 1.25.6
• Updated dependencies to latest versions.

Fixes

• Fixed Budget > Transactions not displaying consistently when switching between accounts.
• Fixed Calendar > Events adding start notifications when updating events.
• Fixed Plan > Task tagging display showing new task buttons.
• Fixed Plan > Task copy task button copying done status.
• Fixed API not indenting JSON responses and making it horrible to read for humans.
• Fixed iOS app complaining about old/unsupported versions.
• Fixed iOS app not working with Google Sign In.
• Fixed text boxes causing weird scrolling behavior on Firefox.

Removals

• Removed old HTTP API response format, the new HTTP API response format is now the default and no longer requires a homechart-response header. See the API docs for details.
• Removed support for these HTTP headers:
  • x-homechart-debug: Use homechart-debug
  • x-homechart-hash: Use homechart-hash
  • x-homechart-key: Use Authorization: Bearer token instead.
  • x-homechart-token: Use Authorization: Bearer token instead.
  • x-homechart-updated: Use homechart-updated
• Removed support for uppercase environment variables.

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