v24.9.12 - 📣Native Telegram, Mikrotik support, Discord server, Settings set via ENV variables 🧪

This release is packed with amazing features, improvements, and contributions from our fantastic community. A special shoutout to everyone who helped test, refine, and push the boundaries of what we’re building together. Your feedback and dedication make every release better, and I couldn’t do it without you. I hope you enjoy these updates! 🎉

🏘️ Community

• A special thanks to @corasaniti to help me deliver you a less buggy release by testing the dev branch 🙏✨
• A new discord server 🆕

⚙Settings

• Cleanup of list item manipulation buttons to improve the UI ✨
• Experimental docker-compose override support with ENV variables #687 🧪🆕

🔌Plugins

• A native Telegram publisher by @doctorixx 🙏 🆕
• The UNIFI plugin now auto-generates the network topology map and passes the device type 🆕
• A new MIKROTIK MTSCAN plugin by amazing @lookflying and @elraro🙏 🆕
• Improvements to the OMADA SDN plugin by @FlyingToto ✨
• SSL support for the MQTT plugin by @adebrouvier ✨
• Fix for MQTT device tracker adding quotes to payload and Protocol selection, which can be v3 or v5 by @ingoratsdorf 🙏 ✨

🖼 UI

• Polish, French, Russian, German, Spanish, Italian, Chinese, and Norwegian translation improvements by the community (@ozeliurs, @a74451, @GoldBull3t, @blomusti, @mapi68, @gallegonovato, @YoSafeguard, @ternium1, @GitSpoon, @serega404, @ptsa, @Atalanttore, @Ramonnote )🙏✨
• Cache expiration and first-load improvements ✨
• Notification about the app being updated to prompt browser cache refresh based on the VERSION setting 🆕
• Moved the remaining settings from Maintenance (e.g. displayed columns) into Settings -> Core -> UI Settings ✨

💠Core app updates

Internal changes affecting the whole app and usually significant to developers 👩‍💻👨‍💻

• Bare metal installation fixes #753 ✨
• Some icons and device types are auto-assigned vendor information when a device is discovered 🆕
• 4 More Helper Values that can be used to pass data from plugins to the Core app 🆕
• The HRS_TO_KEEP_NEWDEV setting wasn't applied correctly causing new devices to be always deleted #777 ✨

Other Info

🆕 - New features	✨ - Fixes & Improvements	⚠ - Possibly breaking changes	🧪 - Experimental/work in progress

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