Upgrading from v0.8.x to v0.9.x: https://github.com/freedit-org/freedit/blob/main/UPGRADE.md#upgrading-from-v08x-to-v09x

Major Changes

• Migrate embedded DB backend from sled → fjall (transactional partitions).
• Add upgrade/migration helpers and documentation (UPGRAD.md, examples/).
• Add Ukrainian locale and many i18n improvements.
• Add optional login CAPTCHA flow and server-side captcha session handling.
• Improve image uploading and re-encoding (EXIF handling, WebP/JPEG workflows).
• Add custom footer HTML option in site config.
• Numerous dependency upgrades and CI/workflow updates.

Features

• Added Ukrainian locale support (@YGGverse)

Internationalization

• Completed all pending translations for Japanese (ja.toml)
• Completed all pending translations for French (fr.toml)
• Completed all pending translations for Simplified Chinese (zh_cn.toml)
• Added initial Ukrainian locale (uk.toml) (@YGGverse)
• Localized icon hover texts (@YGGverse)
• Localized various static strings throughout the application (@YGGverse)
• Fixed locale static strings (@YGGverse)
• Added Yes/No translations (@YGGverse)
• Added tags_separated_by localization string (@YGGverse)
• Added missed translation strings (@YGGverse)

Bug Fixes

• Fixed critical bug in database operations
• Fixed CI/CD pipeline issues
• Fixed form values issue (#382) (@YGGverse)
• Fixed static translation strings (@YGGverse)

Improvements

• Made code clippy-compliant
• Updated README documentation
• Improved description block display (only show when not empty) (@YGGverse)
• Minor translation corrections (@YGGverse)

Dependencies

• Bumped actions/download-artifact from 6 to 7
• Bumped actions/checkout from 5 to 6
• Bumped indexmap from 2.12.0 to 2.12.1
• Bumped tracing from 0.1.41 to 0.1.43
• Bumped tower-http from 0.6.6 to 0.6.7
• Bumped tracing-subscriber from 0.3.20 to 0.3.22
• Bumped http from 1.3.1 to 1.4.0
• General cargo update

Development

• Updated CodeQL workflow to trigger on version tags only
• Improved CI/CD configuration
• Code cleanup and refactoring

Commits

Total commits: 137
Contributors: @freedit-dev, @YGGverse, dependabot[bot]

Acknowledgments

• Thanks to @YGGverse for extensive localization work
• Thanks to @coderabbitai for code review assistance

Upgrading from v0.8.x to v0.9.x: https://github.com/freedit-org/freedit/blob/main/UPGRADE.md#upgrading-from-v08x-to-v09x

What's Changed

• Localization updates by @oooo-ps in #380
• Implement custom footer code option by @oooo-ps in #385
• implement captcha on auth pages by @oooo-ps in #384
• make js textarea resizable #386 by @oooo-ps in #387
• login captcha by @freedit-dev in #394
• Login captcha by @freedit-dev in #397
• translate: update French, Japanese, and Chinese localization strings by @freedit-dev in #398
• Change the underlying database from sled to fjall #304

Full Changelog: v0.9.0-alpha.1...v0.9.0-alpha.2

Upgrading from v0.7.x to v0.8.x: https://github.com/freedit-org/freedit/blob/main/UPGRADE.md#upgrading-from-v07x-to-v08x