CookTrace v1.0.0-rc.2: Pantry Variants, Expiration Digest, Recipe Rest Time

[thebigjoe1]

Second release candidate. Pantry gains a variant model and expiration tracking. Recipes gain rest time and a manual total-time override. Times render as hours and minutes across the app. Plus a round of Android polish and a Swedish translation from a community contributor.

Added

• Pantry Variants. A pantry row can now carry brand-specific rows underneath it. Recipes link to the parent (Whole Milk); each variant (Greenwise, Publix) has its own barcode, photo, stock, and expiration date. Delete of a parent with variants asks whether to keep the variants as standalone items (default, safer) or remove them together.
• Recipe Nutrition Source on the Parent. A generic pantry item can either use its own nutrition numbers (default) or pull from one of its variants, so recipe math reflects the label of the product you actually cook with.
• Pantry Expiration Dates. Every pantry row gains an Expires On field. Amber pill on cards for anything expiring within two weeks, red for past. Expiring Soon filter chip surfaces the whole set in one tap. Variant expiries surface as chips inside the parent sheet's Variants list.
• Expiration Digest Notification. Once-a-day roll-up covering everything expiring within a chosen window (1 / 3 / 5 / 7 / 14 days), delivered at a chosen time. Push through Apprise, Gotify, or ntfy plus the local device channel. Past-expiry items always included. Settings → Notifications → Reminders → Expiration Digest.
• Rest Time Field on Recipes. Any hands-off period, bread rise, meat rest, dough chill, marinate, soak, ferment. Left blank stays hidden on the recipe view; set adds a Rest meta pill next to Prep and Cook. Rolls into the auto-calculated Total Time.
• Total Time Manual Override. Optional field in the recipe editor. Leave blank and the app auto-calculates from prep + cook + rest; set a value and it wins. Placeholder shows the auto-calc live.
• New Preserves Recipe Category. Jams, pickles, curds, chutneys, ferments, canning recipes.
• Swedish translation. Contributed by @olsson82 covering the strings that were wrapped at PR time.

Changed

• Recipe Times Render as Hours and Minutes. 1h 15m instead of 75 min on list cards, RecipeView, cookbook, public share, and the recipe-card image. Importers capture rest time when the source names a hands-off period distinctly.
• Animated Page Banner Styles. Retired the illustrated SVG headers, replaced with four animated gradient styles: Shimmer, Drift, Pulse, Aurora. Settings → Appearance → Banner Style lets you switch. All four honour Reduce Motion.
• Autofill Ingredient Notes on Recipe Save. If an ingredient name matches a pantry row, the note field pre-fills with the pantry item's brand + variant so scaling reads clean.
• Provider Read-Only Signals in Settings. Env-locked SMTP, AI, and OIDC providers now show a lock icon and disabled fields with a hint explaining the config is coming from environment variables.
• Sticky Recipe Header Fix. The recipe view's sticky header no longer wobbles when scrolling past long ingredient lists.

Fixed

• Category picker gets a Clear link when a category is set, wiping the selection in one tap.
• Combobox no longer caps suggestions at 200, full pantry / catalog visible when browsing.
• Last Cooked date no longer concatenates with a full timestamp.
• Mealie ZIP importer extracts cook-event photos for full live-API parity.

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Signed APK on the release page. Docker image is multi-arch (amd64 + arm64):

docker compose pull && docker compose up -d