v0.5.0

Released: April 2, 2026

Features

• Server-Sent Events: Added deployment SSE support and improved content SSE functionality.
• Content Thumbnails: New API endpoint for retrieving content thumbnails.
• User Avatars: Added support for user avatars with Gravatar/Libravatar integration, custom upload, and OIDC picture sync.
• Public Profiles: Enhanced explore page cards and added public user profile pages.
• Environment Variables: Content environment variables are now passed to the restore process.

Improvements

• Profile Layout: Improved user profile page layout and design.
• Sidebar: Reduced expanded sidebar width for better space utilization.
• Log Panels: Standardized panel width for tasks and application logs.

Fixes

• Quarto Support: Ricochet no longer relies on Quarto existing on PATH.
• Python Environments: Python path discovery is now not limited to only UV managed python installations.
• Deployments: All running instances are now terminated when environment variables are added or deleted.
• Kubernetes: Fixed a bug where Kubernetes deployments were not properly deleted.
• Error Handling: Return proper 400 error code when deployment is missing packages file, plus added .python-version file checking.