- Added rate limiting to `reaction-users`, `search`, and `image-proxy` APIs to prevent abuse.
- Introduced SSRF protection in `image-proxy` to block requests to private IP ranges.
- Enhanced `link-preview` to use `linkedom` for HTML parsing and improved meta tag extraction.
- Refactored authentication checks in various pages to utilize middleware for cleaner code.
- Improved JWT key loading with error handling and security warnings for production.
- Updated `authFetch` utility to handle token refresh more efficiently with deduplication.
- Enhanced rate limiting utility to trust proxy headers from known sources.
- Numerous layout / design changes
- Introduced Lighting component
- Updated AppLayout to include Lighting in the child components.
- Added Lighting route to navigation with authentication requirement.
