What's New in Homechart: v2025.05

Release notes for Homechart v2025.05.
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Deprecations

  • Homechart’s current API response format is being deprecated. See https://web.homechart.app/api/docs for more details on the new format–it’s meant to streamline responses and provide more detailed error messages. To receive requests with the new format, add the HTTP header Homechart-Response: new.
  • These Homechart API HTTP Headers are being deprecated:
    • X-Homechart-Debug (use Homechart-Debug)
    • X-Homechart-Hash (use Homechart-Hash)
    • X-Homechart-Key (use Authorization: Bearer)
    • X-Homechart-SelfHostedIDs (use Homechart-SelfHostedIDs)
    • X-Homechart-Token (use Authorization: Bearer)
    • X-Homechart-Updated (use Homechart-Updated )
  • app_sessionExpirationDefaultSeconds is now app_sessionExpirationDefault and accepts a duration such as 1h.
  • app_sessionExpirationRememberSeconds is now app_sessionExpirationRemember and accepts a duration such as 90d.
  • app_sseTimeoutMinutes is now app_sseTimeout and accepts a duration such as 10m.

Features

Bookmark Label Permissions

Household members can now grant View/Edit/None access to Bookmarks via Labels. See Permissions for more information.

Budget Label Permissions

Household members can now grant View/Edit/None access to Budgets > Accounts, Categories, and Payees via Labels. This can be used to allow your children access to their Savings or Checking account and associated Categories only. See Permissions for more information.

Cook > Recipe Label Permissions

Household members can now grant View/Edit/None access to Cook > Recipes via Labels. See Permissions for more information.

Inventory Label Permissions

Household members can now grant View/Edit/None access to Inventory > Collections and Items via Labels. This can be used to grant granular access to specific parts of your Inventory. See Permissions for more information.

Notes Label Permissions

Household members can now grant View/Edit/None access to Notes > Pages via Labels. See Permissions for more information.

Plan > Projects Label Permissions

Household members can now grant View/Edit/None access to Plan > Projects via Labels. Members can add, remove, and edit Plan > Tasks for Projects they have access to. See Permissions for more information.

Shop > List Label Permissions

Household members can now grant View/Edit/None access to Shop > Lists via Labels. Members can add, remove, and edit Shop > Items for Lists they have access to. See Permissions for more information.

Enhancements

  • Household members that are participants of a Calendar > Event will now see the event without needing Calendar view or edit permissions.
  • Household members that are recipients of a Reward > Card will now see the card without needing Reward view or edit permissions.
  • Household members that are are added to Secrets > Vaults will now see the Vault and Secrets > Values without needing Secrets view or edit permissions.
  • Increased Self-Hosted key expirations to 14 days.
  • Updated swagger documentation to be more useful for API users/developers.

Fixes

  • Fixed Calendar > iCalendar not updating Calendar > Events color.

Removals

  • Removed newsletter functionality from Homechart, newsletters are now hosted on Google Groups.