5.19.0

🚀 Highlights

✨ Major Changes

Setup Wizard Improvements

• Security: Hardened setup process to prevent re-running after installation and improved input validation.
• UI/UX: Improved setup wizard with clearer field validation and inline help.
• Inline help and validation for Root Path, Base URL, and database fields.
• HTML5 and Bootstrap validation for a more user-friendly experience.
• All setup fields are validated and sanitized on both frontend and backend to prevent code injection and misconfiguration.

Email Debug System Refactor

• Debug email route now uses the same code as production emails.

🙏 Thanks

Thanks to all contributors and users for feedback and bug reports!

What's Changed

🪲 Bugs

• 5.19 UI bugs by @DawoudIO in #7367
• Fix API Authentication Bypass by @DawoudIO in #7376
• Bug: Login / Password UI fixes by @DawoudIO in #7380
• Fix SMTP test connection to include security settings (TLS/SSL) by @Copilot in #7375

💬 Localization

• 5.19.0 POEditor Update - 2025-09-10 by @github-actions[bot] in #7368
• 5.19.0 POEditor Update - 2025-09-20 by @github-actions[bot] in #7373

Inner Beauty

• Starting 5.19 by @DawoudIO in #7360
• No longer building tar and demo files by @DawoudIO in #7362
• Better use of npm prettier by @DawoudIO in #7363
• Build: SASS build cleanup by @DawoudIO in #7364
• Removed grunt-contrib-clean by @DawoudIO in #7365
• Potential fix for code scanning alert no. 126: Workflow does not contain permissions by @DawoudIO in #7379

Other Changes

• [Snyk] Upgrade react-datepicker from 8.4.0 to 8.7.0 by @DawoudIO in #7371
• [Snyk] Upgrade fullcalendar from 6.1.18 to 6.1.19 by @DawoudIO in #7369
• Apply fixes from StyleCI by @DawoudIO in #7377
• Security: Setup input filer and setup instrction updates by @DawoudIO in #7378
• Apply fixes from StyleCI by @DawoudIO in #7382

New Contributors

• @Copilot made their first contribution in #7375

Full Changelog: 5.18.0...5.19.0