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Dashy

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Velocity6.3

Self-hosted dashboard for organizing services

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The self-hosted dashboard finally let you drag things around instead of editing YAML.

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◆Current state
Dashy tags a release per merged pull request, so the version number climbs several times a week while most tags carry a single dependabot bump or a translation file. The substance sits in 4.5.0, which added drag-and-drop editing of sections, items and widgets, rebuilt the GitHub stats widget on GitHub's own API with optional token authentication, and expanded number formatting in the custom-api widget. Point releases since have been an OIDC post-logout redirect, item sorting options, and an out-of-memory crash fix.
◆Where it's heading
The direction is away from configuration-as-a-file toward direct manipulation, which is the friction that has always separated Dashy from simpler homepage dashboards. The supporting work lines up with it: sorting controls, better handling of long titles, richer widget formatting. The auth-adjacent changes — OIDC logout redirect, logout destination — suggest people are running Dashy behind an identity provider for more than one user.
◆Prediction
With drag-and-drop editing shipped, the follow-on is most likely persistence and permissions questions around who can edit a shared dashboard, though these notes do not state that. Expect the per-PR release cadence to continue producing mostly dependency tags.

◆Recent moves

  1. 1d ago

    Missing German translations added

    A single community pull request filling in German translation strings. Tagged as its own release because Dashy cuts a version per merge.

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  2. 3d ago

    Out-of-memory crash from unclosed secureConnect listeners fixed

    Fixes a leak where secureConnect listeners were never closed, eventually taking the process down. Worth flagging above the usual point-release noise because it is the kind of failure that makes a self-hosted dashboard unreliable over long uptimes.

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  3. 4d ago

    Dependency bumps in the minor-and-patch group

    An automated dependabot release covering two package updates. Representative of the majority of Dashy tags.

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  4. 6d ago

    OIDC post-logout redirect URI support

    Adds a post-logout redirect URI for OIDC, closing two open issues. Small, but part of the thread suggesting Dashy is increasingly deployed behind an identity provider for shared use rather than as a single-user homepage.

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  5. 8d ago

    Items can be sorted by provider and by item ID

    Two new sort orders contributed by the community, arriving the day after the drag-and-drop release. Consistent with the shift toward arranging a dashboard from the interface rather than the config file.

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  6. 9d ago

    4.5.0 adds drag-and-drop editing of sections, items and widgets

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    The release the surrounding point versions orbit: sections, items and widgets can be dragged into place directly. Everything since — sort orders, logout redirects, long-title handling — reads as filling in the editing experience this opened up.

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