Serene Bach v4.0.0-beta.22 has been released.

• Development: Introduced Biome linting for the admin JavaScript to help keep the code consistent.
• Fix: File-kind icons now appear in the admin file picker.

Download: Serene Bach v4.0.0-beta.22

Serene Bach v4.0.0-beta.21 has been released.

• Fix: Hardened the full-text search (FTS5) startup probe and Open Graph card regeneration.
• Fix: Preserved the correct parent-child relationship when importing from SB2 / SB3 even when the parent is category 0.
• Docs: Added a non-technical migration guide for moving from SB2.
• Development: Strengthened tests for configuration, character encoding, boundary conditions, and SB3 template compatibility, and tidied up the developer documentation and contribution conventions.

Download: Serene Bach v4.0.0-beta.21

Serene Bach v4.0.0-beta.20 has been released.

• Feature: Added the ability to preview template assets in a modal window from the editor.
• Improvement: Reduced the complexity of the image-upload code and added a gocyclo lint check to CI.
• Docs: Updated the admin navigation and related documentation to clarify where template imports live.

Download: Serene Bach v4.0.0-beta.20

Serene Bach v4.0.0-beta.19 has been released.

• Feature: Added a search UI to the default template.
• Templates: Applied the same update to the templates distributed on go.serenebach.net, adding search forms and per-entry SEO meta blocks to the default family and the monochrome template.
• Other: Bumped the GitHub Actions runners to the Node.js 24 runtimes.

Download: Serene Bach v4.0.0-beta.19

Serene Bach v4.0.0-beta.18 has been released.

• Feature: Added full-text entry search powered by the SQLite FTS5 trigram tokenizer.
• Feature: Implemented a selected_entry block and {selected_entry_list} tag in the template engine.
• Docs: Bundled the Noto Sans JP OFL license and documented third-party licenses.

Download: Serene Bach v4.0.0-beta.18

Serene Bach v4.0.0-beta.17 has been released.

• Refactor: Converted admin.js to ES modules and extracted core utilities, CSRF, modal, loading helpers, and per-page features into separate modules.
• Refactor: Extracted uploads, image-library, image-picker, Ace editor, and AI assist into dedicated modules.
• Feature: Added a shared modal for renaming image and library files.
• Feature: Added per-entry and per-page SEO metadata (excerpt, canonical URL, noindex option).
• Feature: Revealed admin form hints via (?) tooltips.
• Fix: Corrected library file-type icons and media preview display.

Download: Serene Bach v4.0.0-beta.17

Serene Bach v4.0.0-beta.16 has been released.

• Feature: Added a backup CLI subcommand for creating consistent ZIP snapshots.
• Feature: Added automatic generation of sitemap.xml and robots.txt.
• Docs: Restructured the help sidebar order and split design and links pages.
• Refactor: Extracted shared helpers in the admin JavaScript module to remove duplication.

Download: Serene Bach v4.0.0-beta.16

Serene Bach v4.0.0-beta.15 has been released.

• Feature: Template assets now accept JavaScript files and web fonts.
• Feature: The file library now supports audio, document, and movie files.

Download: Serene Bach v4.0.0-beta.15

Serene Bach v4.0.0-beta.14 has been released.

• Fix: Resolved shared state race conditions in analytics and the MCP OAuth proxy.
• Fix: Corrected bulk category counts to include published entries only in the sidebar.
• Fix: Attributed slug-based entry views to entries via EntryResolver.
• Refactor: Moved writeJSON to util.go for better code organisation.
• Refactor: Introduced parsePositiveID helper and applied it across handlers.
• Refactor: Added postFormValue helper and applied it across handlers.
• Refactor: Eliminated duplicate weblog loads on list pages.
• Performance: Switched to bulk tag lookup in writeEntries.
• Performance: Computed prev/next navigation from a sorted slice instead of database queries.
• Performance: Enabled bulk comments retrieval with a shared templateCache.
• Performance: Optimised the top viewed entries query in SQL.

Download: Serene Bach v4.0.0-beta.14

Serene Bach v4.0.0-beta.13 has been released.

• Security: Hardened the MCP OAuth proxy startup in production to prevent unsafe initialisation paths (SAST-001).
• Security: Capped multipart body parsing in CSRF middleware before authentication to limit pre-auth attack surface (SAST-002).
• Improvement: Laid the foundation for server-side pagination, search, and sorting across admin list views.
• Improvement: Applied server-side pagination, search, and sorting to the Entries list in the admin panel.
• Improvement: Rolled out pagination, search, and sorting to the Pages and Comments admin lists.
• Improvement: Added sortable column headers to the Tags, MCP Tokens, and Webhooks admin lists.

Download: Serene Bach v4.0.0-beta.13