13-07-2025

🚀 Major Architectural Refactor & Content Management Overhaul

This release introduces a significant architectural refactor of the application, aligning the data models and state management with recent backend updates. We have renamed core data models (Category -> Topic), overhauled the AuthenticationBloc for better consistency, and introduced dedicated UIs for managing content types.

These changes establish a more robust, maintainable, and consistent foundation for the application, while also enhancing content management capabilities.

✨ Key Features & Enhancements

Architectural & Core Model Updates

• Core Model Renaming: The Category data model has been renamed to Topic throughout the entire application, including repositories, BLoCs, and UI components. Similarly, AppConfig is now RemoteConfig to better reflect its purpose.
• Centralized App Configuration: Application status and update settings are now cohesively managed within the RemoteConfig model, providing a more streamlined approach to configuration.

Enhanced Content Management

• Dedicated Topic Management: The app now features dedicated pages and business logic (BLoCs) for creating and editing Topic entities, providing a structured UI for managing content categories.
• Richer Headline Data: The Headline model has been enhanced with new fields, including excerpt (which replaces the previous description field) and eventCountry.

🔧 State Management & Technical Refinements

• Refactored Authentication State: The AuthenticationBloc has been significantly refactored. Its numerous states have been consolidated into a single AuthenticationState class, managed by an AuthenticationStatus enum, which simplifies state transitions and improves code maintainability.
• Updated Role Management: The AppBloc has been updated to align with the new DashboardUserRole and AppUserRole enums from the backend, ensuring user permissions are handled correctly.
• Structured Logging: The logging package has been integrated across key BLoCs, replacing print statements with structured and more informative logging.
• Improved Data Querying: Data fetching operations now consistently use PaginationOptions and SortOption objects for clearer and more flexible API queries.
• Dependency Updates: Several internal ht-* package dependencies have been updated, and new packages like logging and uuid have been added to support new features.