Ultra quality (People only):
- BiRefNet-matting ONNX (928MB) for true alpha matting with per-pixel
transparency on hair wisps and fine edges
- Custom rembg session class, zero new Python dependencies
- Model pre-downloaded in Docker build for immediate availability
Quality tier labels: Fast / HD / Max / Ultra (shorter, fits 4-col grid)
Remove Background:
- Two-phase flow: AI removes bg once, then effects adjust instantly
- Blur background effect with real-time CSS preview (portrait mode)
- Drop shadow effect with opacity control
- Gradient backgrounds with presets, custom colors, and angle
- Custom background image upload (including HEIC/HEIF)
- Solid color backgrounds moved from Python to Node.js/Sharp
- Effects-only API endpoint for instant re-renders without AI re-run
- HEIC/HEIF input support (decoded before passing to Python/rembg)
- Passport/ID photo checkbox defaults ON for People subject
- Before/after slider preserved when no effects active
- 15 comprehensive Playwright e2e tests
Color Tools:
- Consolidated 4 tools (brightness-contrast, saturation, color-channels,
color-effects) into single "Adjust Colors" tool
- Added exposure, temperature, tint, hue, sharpness controls
- SVG filter-based live preview for all adjustments
- Backward-compatible URL redirects from old tool paths
Other fixes:
- Favicon tool: download button instead of auto-download
- Batch processing: HEIC filename extension fix
- File store: processedFilename field for proper batch downloads
Replace the Python seam-carving library with caire (esimov/caire v1.5.0),
a Go-based content-aware resize engine that is faster and supports both
shrinking and enlarging via seam insertion.
- Add Go builder stage in Dockerfile to compile caire from source
- Rewrite seam-carving.ts to call caire via execFile (no Python sidecar)
- Remove content-aware-resize from PYTHON_SIDECAR_TOOLS (60s timeout)
- Add new options: blur radius, edge sensitivity, square mode, face detection
- Move content-aware toggle below standard resize in UI (subtler placement)
- Rename "Don't enlarge" to "Limit to original size" with hover tooltip
- Add smooth progress bar for medium-duration tools
- Delete seam_carve.py and remove seam-carving pip dependency
- Update integration tests and visual regression screenshots
- Remove all lite/full variant logic from frontend, API, shared constants,
docs, and tests (single unified Docker image only)
- Replace single QEMU multi-arch Docker build with per-architecture native
builds (amd64 + arm64) and manifest merge to fix disk space exhaustion
- Add disk cleanup step and per-platform build cache scopes
- Switch release trigger from push to workflow_dispatch
- Add GitHub issue templates and PR template
- Health endpoint returns "healthy" instead of "ok" for consistency
- MAX_USERS now configurable via env var (default 5)
- People API returns team names instead of UUIDs in register/list
- PUT user update accepts team names (name-first lookup, fallback to ID)
- Login rate limit follows global rate limit when RATE_LIMIT_PER_MIN > 1000
- Strip-metadata preserves original format encoding instead of always PNG
- Fix e2e tests: rotate/crop/border button selectors match actual UI
- Fix e2e tests: create Engineering/Design teams in people test setup
- Fix e2e tests: people UI uses select for team field, not text input
- Update visual regression baseline for tablet home page
Two issues caused intermittent step addition failures in the automation
pipeline:
1. RemoveBgControls had onChange in its useEffect deps. Since onChange is
a new function reference on every parent render, this created an
infinite re-render loop (effect -> setState -> render -> effect).
Fixed by using the onChangeRef pattern matching other settings
components.
2. All step mutation callbacks read from stepsRef.current and passed
values to setSteps. Concurrent callbacks (e.g. addStep + a settings
effect) would overwrite each other. Fixed by switching to functional
state updates (setSteps(prev => ...)) and removing stepsRef.
Also rewrites automate e2e tests to use manual step addition instead of
referencing templates that no longer exist in the UI.
Remove docs/superpowers/, .claude/ config, and PRD.md from version
control (kept locally via .gitignore). Update README, CHANGELOG,
VitePress docs, and .env.example to reflect recent features: Files
page, teams, admin settings, persistent storage, and various API
improvements.
Extract EXIF auto-orientation logic into a shared auto-orient module
used by both single-tool and batch routes. This ensures camera photos
display correctly after processing regardless of entry point.
Also expands e2e and integration tests significantly.
Consolidate all access to localhost:1349 — Vite dev server serves on 1349
and proxies API calls to an internal dev port (13490). Production API
defaults to 1349. Also includes strip-metadata improvements, UI component
updates, and compress operation fixes.
- Add user management endpoints (register, list, delete, change password)
- Add API key management (create, list, delete)
- Add settings persistence endpoints (get, put)
- Wire settings dialog to real backend (People, API Keys, System, Security)
- Fix login auth flow (window.location.href for full reload)
- Fix download URLs returning 401 (make public since UUIDs are unguessable)
- Fix border tool shadowColor validation (accept 6-8 hex digits)
- Fix remove-bg alpha matting fallback (retry without on failure)
- Fix AI tool silent fallbacks (report errors instead of no-ops)
- Add checkerboard background to before/after slider for transparency
- Add progress bars to all AI tool components
- Add Playwright E2E test suite (131 tests across 9 test files)
- Rewrite Dockerfile for production (tsx runtime, pre-baked AI models)
- Add .dockerignore for faster builds
- Add proper accessible labels to login form
Siddharth Kumar Sah