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Every release of Flashlights, newest first.

Each release publishes the image ghcr.io/mariatta/flashlights:X.Y.Z (and X.Y.Z-full, amd64 only, with the local transcription engine) and a GitHub release with the entry below. Until 1.0, read every entry before upgrading; from 1.0, a change to the public API for community apps is marked Breaking. This page mirrors CHANGELOG.md in the repository.

0.1.0 (2026-10-21)

The first release of Flashlights, derived from the PyLadiesCon portal.

  • Identity is configuration. The name, colours, logo, favicon, share image and links come from environment variables, so one image serves any community. The design system (tokens, self-hosted fonts and icons) restyles every page.
  • One instance per community, an edition per event. Editions are one event a year or a series of dates, with venues and rooms, a format (in person, online or hybrid), recordings and community chat as settings, and the next edition planned while the current one runs.
  • Permissions through teams. Each team grants permissions from a catalogue, with presets such as Organizers, Program, Sponsorship and Proposal reviewers; the settings organisers need left the Django admin.
  • Speakers. Invitations, profiles, sessions, two-sided checklists with reminders, the schedule, video and file uploads, and a public program widget and API.
  • Attendee records from Pretix or a CSV export, for the stats.
  • Handles per person: social links and pronouns belong to the account, and every form reads from them.
  • Runs on any host. The boot contract (web, worker, release) and the environment reference cover Heroku and compatibles, Azure, Cabotage and a plain server; switches turn off volunteering, sponsorship and the public stats.
  • Community apps add a Django app to the image with EXTRA_APPS, and may replace a core template or static file.
  • Documentation per release. Each release publishes its own version of the docs at https://docs.flashlights.app/X.Y.Z/, and latest/ follows the newest release.
  • Nothing loads from anywhere else. Every script, stylesheet, font and chart is served by the instance itself, with Dependabot watching the vendored libraries. Sentry receives personal data only with SENTRY_SEND_DEFAULT_PII on.
  • Free software under the GNU AGPL version 3, with a permission to run a modified copy for your own organisation’s events.