Nova DSO Tracker v6.5.0 released

Release Date: 2026-09-11

New Features

Gallery tab – a new dashboard tab shows a showcase card grid of session and project photos, styled to match the Inspiration tab’s tile pattern. Project tiles show their rig(s) and most-recent session date; all tiles (project or session) are merged and sorted by date. Tiles are clickable, navigating to the specific journal session or project.
Multi-project session indicator – the journal dashboard’s Project column now shows a “+N” badge for sessions linked to more than one project. Clicking it opens a panel listing the other linked project names.
Altitude badge tooltips – the dashboard’s Altitude Current and Altitude 11PM columns now show a tooltip explaining why a badge is colored the way it is (obstructed, below skyglow floor, or visible).
Object image lightbox – click-to-preview lightbox for object thumbnails, with the Manage My Objects Inspiration Content block reworked into a two-column layout (thumbnail alongside URL/Upload and Credit fields).
Widened the Inspiration object-detail modal (800px -> 960px) and gave the image column more room, for a better view of object photos.

Automatic thumbnails – session and project image uploads now generate a 480px thumbnail alongside the original. Existing images without one get a thumbnail generated automatically the first time they’re viewed in the Gallery tab (self-healing, no backfill needed).
Heatmap resilience – a failed heatmap chunk is now retried once before giving up, and the plot renders with the successful chunks plus a dismissible partial-data notice instead of failing outright.
Ask Nova diagnostics – raised the max_tokens ceiling across all three AI endpoints (notes, session summary, best objects) so reasoning-capable models don’t exhaust their budget on hidden reasoning, and added logging for empty/truncated responses and status-check failures.
Notes/Description editors start at a shorter height, and the Short Description field auto-grows instead of using a manual resize handle.
Docker images now carry an org.opencontainers.image.version label with the release tag.

Project detail and report pages now include sessions linked via the multi-project relationship, not just a session’s primary project. Heads up: project-level integration totals are no longer mutually exclusive – a session linked to two projects contributes its full time to both, so summing totals across projects can double-count.
Fixed dashboard showcase totals pulling in another user’s sessions when they shared a project via session_projects.
Fixed a project’s target AstroObject losing its “Pinned” flag when a different project sharing the same target still referenced it.
Fixed orphaned session_projects rows causing a UNIQUE constraint error when re-importing a journal after wiping existing data.
Fixed off-by-one date windows in the analytics dashboard (30-day active-usage stat, 90-day feature usage, 90-day daily views chart) and the telemetry payload, which counted N+1 days instead of N.
deprovision_user now rejects requests when PROVISIONING_API_KEY is unset, matching the existing provision_user check.
Fixed Short Description auto-resize silently failing when the Objects config tab is hidden on first load.
Gallery tile clicks now resolve to the specific project via its ID rather than matching by target name alone, fixing navigation when multiple projects share a target.

Cleared all fuzzy-flagged and copy-paste-mistranslated strings across German, Spanish, French, Chinese, and Japanese locales – well over 400 entries corrected in total, including shared clusters that had all borrowed one unrelated translation, inverted-meaning strings, and mistranslated astrophotography terminology.
Translated the new Gallery tab label and empty-state copy across all locales.

Tokenized gallery and inspiration tile hover shadows into --shadow-tile-hover-lg/sm for reuse.
Removed dead notes-modal markup and handler left over from before notes moved to inline Trix editors.