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This release focuses on performance and cache reliability. Page navigation and API polling are now significantly faster thanks to a write-through process cache that eliminates redundant database queries on every request. Several longstanding cache-consistency bugs have been fixed – horizon masks, heatmap files, and outlook caches now stay in sync across workers, routes, and multi-user sessions. Performance Navigation Speed-up Object lists and location

New Features PHD2 Calibration Star Recommender Per-filter Exposure Summary Bug Fixes & Data Integrity UX & Visual Polish Analytics Documentation Dependencies

This release adds a PHD2 calibration star recommender to the graph view and hardens the journal rich-text editor against content loss and XSS. It also brings analytics to single-user deployments, polishes several graph-view interactions, and cleans up dead code across the codebase. Security What’s New PHD2 Calibration Star Recommender A new widget on the Chart tab recommends the

Blueprint Migration Complete The multi-release refactor of the monolithic nova/__init__.py is now complete. All routes have been migrated into dedicated blueprint modules, and supporting infrastructure has been extracted into focused packages: Module What moved nova/blueprints/api.py All /api/* routes, weather chain, telemetry_ping, help docs nova/blueprints/tools.py Equipment CRUD, import/export, journal photos, YAML portability nova/blueprints/admin.py 5 admin user-management routes (new dedicated admin_bp) nova/migration.py 18 YAML

Ask Nova — AI-Powered Target Selection The headline feature in 5.4.0 is Ask Nova, an AI assistant that analyzes your object list and ranks the best targets for tonight based on real-time sky conditions, your location, equipment, and moon phase. How it works AI features in the Journal Supported AI providers Provider Models Notes Anthropic claude-sonnet-4-20250514, claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 good quality rankings

This release brings multi-language support to Nova DSO Tracker, making the application available in 6 languages with full UI and help documentation translations. It also introduces a web-based user management panel for multi-user deployments. New Features Multi-Language Support Nova DSO Tracker is now available in 6 languages: A language selector dropdown in the header lets

This release brings enhanced PDF reports with log file analysis, a new theme preference system, and a comprehensive visual design refresh – what we’re calling the “Facelift.” New Features Log File Analysis in Reports Session and project PDF reports now include charts and analysis from imported log files (ASIAIR, PHD2). When you’ve imported log data for a session, the generated report will automatically include

This is a major release featuring a complete architecture refactor and a comprehensive design system overhaul. Because of the scale of these changes, your feedback is especially valuable — if you encounter any issues, please report them so they can be addressed quickly. Architecture Refactor The codebase has been reorganized from a monolithic structure into a modular package: The entry