nextDash 1.2.0 is already out! It is the keyboard release — typing on the dashboard now does only what you meant it to — and it is the release where three views stop claiming to know more than they do: the inbox was counting links it was not showing you, and a failed health check worked out exactly why it had failed and then threw that away. And this morning, 1.2.1 followed with a single fix in Health, which is covered at the end. Source and downloads: github.com/jordibrouwer/nextdash — release notes: CHANGELOG.md nextDash 1.2.0 — 16 August 2026 What you type arrives whole This is the fix that matters most, and it is worth explaining properly, because the old behaviour was subtly worse than it looked. Bookmark shortcuts fired the moment the typed text matched one exactly. Type github with a shortcut on git and the bookmark opened after three […]
Every release of nextDash up to now has carried a date instead of a version number: v2026.09.09, v2026.09.09.1, v2026.09.09.2, and so on, a new tag almost every day through a long stretch of active development. v1.0.0, released today, breaks that pattern on purpose. It’s the first release under semantic versioning, and it’s a deliberate milestone rather than an incremental one: after a long run of bug fixing and consolidation, the app finally feels finished and stable rather than in flux. From here, 1.x.0 releases carry new features and 1.0.x releases carry fixes — a distinction the date-based scheme never made. The comparison logic for the new numbering actually shipped a few point releases earlier, under v2026.09.09.3, so v1.0.0 is really the moment the switch was made official. What’s inside is almost entirely correctness work, and it follows one recurring shape: an operation that reported success for something it hadn’t actually […]
The dashboard header has quietly nagged at me for a while. The word “health” sat there as plain text, easy to miss, saying nothing about whether anything was actually wrong until you clicked it. In v2026.07.09 that text link becomes a small heartbeat icon, and it does something the word never could: it counts. When a bookmark goes offline or throws a warning, the icon carries a pill with the number, red for broken links and amber for warnings. When everything’s fine, it simply isn’t there. No noise, no empty badge waiting to be dismissed — just a signal that only shows up when it’s earned its place. It’s on by default now too, for new installs and for anyone whose settings never explicitly turned it off, though if you’d already switched it off yourself, that choice still sticks. The same icon treatment made its way onto the config page’s […]
