Changelog

Headings, bold text and lists in notification emails now display properly instead of showing # and * symbols.

News previews on the homepage no longer show symbols such as # and *.

Merging duplicate publications no longer fails when a researcher is linked to the same paper more than once.

Corrected the English names of academic titles, including Assistant Lecturer.

When automatic translation fails, the original text is kept instead of saving an error message.

Importing by DOI now works reliably and no longer creates a duplicate when the paper already exists without a DOI.

Edits to teaching experience are saved correctly, an empty end date no longer causes an error, and dates display properly.

Admin permissions no longer stop working when switching between Arabic and English.

The mobile menu now shows the same links in the same order as on desktop, including two-factor authentication, passkeys, change email, account deactivation, site settings and the admin dashboard.

Two different papers that shared a generic title but had no known publication year were incorrectly treated as the same paper, wrongly linking their authors as collaborators.

The right-click menu and mutual-papers popup now stay visible while the collaboration graph is in fullscreen mode.

Fixed Alpine and null-reference issues that could break the researcher preview graph on the edit page and the reset-password form on some sessions.

The collaborators section is hidden when there are none, and stray placeholder text no longer appears in the bio.

Signing in with two-factor authentication now lands you on the right page.

Frontend AJAX calls now surface meaningful errors instead of failing silently.

Auth cookies are now consistent across all routes and subpaths.

Sends the confirmation email for unconfirmed accounts during the forgot-password flow.

More robust Chrome driver setup, error handling, and stderr suppression in the Python pipeline.

Additional fixes for registration edge cases that surfaced after the previous release.

More consistent error handling and structured logging across controllers and services.

Multiple fixes to the registration error path and dependency cleanup.