Release Date: 2026-06-21 New Features Bug Fixes Security Internal

Release Date: 2026-06-03 New Features Improvements Bug Fixes Internal

Bug Fixes

New Features Improvements Bug Fixes Internal

New Features Improvements Bug Fixes Documentation Technical

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