v5.0.0 Discussion

[AlexGustafsson]

Features

• Rewritten from the ground up in TypeScript for increased type safety and maintainability
• Aligned the project structure to the official plugin template to help onboard developers accustomed to the standard
• Streamlined, unified and simplified logs
• Configuration is rewritten with improved checking
• Clarify user-facing logs regarding start, wake and shutdown commands. Refers to the wiki post available here: https://github.com/AlexGustafsson/homebridge-wol/wiki/Frequently-Asked-Questions

Fixes

• Fixed issue with AJSF not supporting null as a default value, strengthening the compatibility with config-ui-x
• Documentation improvements

Breaking changes

• ip has been renamed to host to more clearly tell that it supports hostnames such as my-computer.localdomain
• name is no longer mandatory and will default to My NetworkDevice
• log, logPinger and debugLog are deprecated. Instead use logLevel which is one of the following values. Defaults to Info
  • Debug
  • Info
  • Notice
  • Warning
  • Error
  • Critical
  • Alert
  • Emergency
  • None

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This discussion was created from the release v5.0.0.