Release v0.9.0

Important

• This update may require deleting the events section in state.json.
• See below for updating the eventLookaheadDays config option

New Features

• Support for adding events to Google Calendar
• Make message size limit configurable
• Improve monitoring tool, and convert it to AutoHotkey2

Changes

• Move eventLookaheadDays config option to elternportal section

Fixes

• Send messages from threads in chronological order
• Speculative fix for handling multiple attachments in threads
• Handle inquiries with empty text
• Improve handling of transient IMAP errors

Release v0.8.0

Improvements:

• Don't send substitution plan updates when the current day drops out at midnight

New features:

• Added status monitoring

Release v0.7.1

Improvements:

• Support Raspberry Pi
• Support multiple email recipients
• Add tag config option to identify schools
• Use system timezone in log file
• Allow editing most config options while running
• Support graceful shutdown via SIGTERM

Improvements specific to Eltern-Portal:

• Remove duplicate lines in substitution plan
• Support archived items in Schwarzes Brett
• Speed up reading of threads with teachers

Fixes:

• Decoding of %-encoded teacher names in Eltern-Portal

Release v0.7.0

New feature:

• Add support for schulmanager-online.de (Elternbriefe only)

NOTE: The layout of the state.json file has changed. Given that we haven't hit the million users mark yet, suffice it to say: Please put everything under a new ep key, otherwise you will get another email for everything. You can also just use the --once --mute flags (after making sure there are no actual updates right now).

Release v0.6.1

Changes:

• Fix API deprecation warning for newer Puppeteer versions

Release v0.6.0

New feature:

• Add simple From: verification to prevent accidental impersonation when sending messages to teachers via IMAP

Release v0.5.0

New features:

• Notify about removed upcoming events
• Send error messages to user by email

Improvements:

• Improve stability when IMAP/SMTP servers fail
• Improve log flushing on fatal error

Release v0.4.0

New features:

• Add support for attachments in threads

Improvements:

• Automatically reconnect to IMAP server when connection is down, e.g. after an OS suspend/resume cycle
• Skip older threads to speed up crawling
• Fix failure when trying to send messages to teachers with empty subject or body
• Improve teacher name extraction
• Don't use CSS to hide new event indicator *

Release v0.3.0

• Update for minor eltern-portal.org layout change that broke parsing
• Add support for events
• Also send substitution plan to kid
• Exit on invalid config, instead of retrying indefinitely
• Small logging improvements

Release v0.2.0

• On error in main loop, retry with exponential backoff
• Emails to teachers are automatically split up to work around the 512 character limit
• Support notice board (Schwarzes Brett)