RELEASE 2025-12-05 (#2145)

## Description
Short description of the pull request

## Motivation
Background on use case, changes needed

## Fixes:
Please provide a list of the fixes implemented in this PR

* Items added

## Changes:
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* changes made

## Tests included
- [ ] Included for each change/fix?
- [ ] Passing? (Merge will not be approved unless this is checked)

## Documentation
- [ ] swagger documentation updated \[required\]
- [ ] official documentation updated \[nice-to-have\]

### official documentation info
If you have updated the official documentation, please provide PR # and
URL of the pages where the updates are included

## Backend version
- [ ] Does it require a specific version of the backend
- which version of the backend is required:

Author: Junjiequan

.eslintrc.json

@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
 {
   "root": true,
-  "ignorePatterns": ["projects/**/*"],
+  "ignorePatterns": [
+    "projects/**/*",
+    "src/app/shared/sdk/models/ingestor/**"], // Ignore autogenerated files
   "parserOptions": {
     "ecmaVersion": 2020,
     "sourceType": "module",
@@ -83,7 +85,9 @@
         "@angular-eslint/prefer-standalone": "warn",
         "@ngrx/on-function-explicit-return-type": "warn",
         "@ngrx/no-store-subscription": "warn",
-        "@angular-eslint/no-output-native": "warn"
+        "@angular-eslint/no-output-native": "warn",
+	"@angular-eslint/prefer-standalone": "off"
+
       }
     }
   ]

.github/dependabot.yml

@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ updates:
       angular:
         patterns:
           - "@angular*"
+          - "ngx-cookie-service"
         update-types:
           - "minor"
           - "patch"

.github/mkdocs/mkdocs.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+INHERIT: mkdocs-default.yml
+# nav:
+#   - index.md
+#   - Example.md
+#   - About: about/index.md

.github/workflows/dependabot-auto-merge.yml

@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ jobs:
           github-token: "${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}"
 
       - name: Checkout repository
-        uses: actions/checkout@v5
+        uses: actions/checkout@v6
 
       ## NOTE: This step is only required if the repository has been configured to Require approval
       ## Checks if update-type is patch or minor, then approve if the PR status is not approved yet.

.github/workflows/deploy.yml

@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ jobs:
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     steps:
       - name: Checkout
-        uses: actions/checkout@v5
+        uses: actions/checkout@v6
 
       - name: Set up Docker Buildx
         uses: docker/setup-buildx-action@v3

.github/workflows/publish-docs.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+name: Deploy docs
+
+on:  # yamllint disable-line rule:truthy
+  push:
+    branches:
+      - master
+    tags:
+      - v*
+  pull_request:
+    branches:
+      - master
+
+jobs:
+  build:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+      - uses: SciCatProject/docs-template/.github/actions/[email protected]
+        with:
+          GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
+          push: ${{ github.event_name == 'push' && 'true' || '' }}
+          # if this file does not need to exist locally, the one in the action is used
+          # https://github.com/SciCatProject/docs-template/blob/v0.1.0/.github/actions/mkdocs-pages/mkdocs-nested.yml
+          docs_config: .github/mkdocs/mkdocs-nested.yml

.github/workflows/release-push.yml

@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ jobs:
       packages: write
 
     steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v5
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v6
 
       - name: Set up Node.js
         uses: actions/setup-node@v6

.github/workflows/test.yml

@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ jobs:
 
     steps:
       - name: Check out Git repository
-        uses: actions/checkout@v5
+        uses: actions/checkout@v6
 
       - name: Set up Node.js
         uses: actions/setup-node@v6
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ jobs:
 
     steps:
       - name: Check out Git repository
-        uses: actions/checkout@v5
+        uses: actions/checkout@v6
 
       - name: Set up Node.js
         uses: actions/setup-node@v6
@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ jobs:
     needs: [install-and-cache]
     steps:
       - name: Check out
-        uses: actions/checkout@v5
+        uses: actions/checkout@v6
 
       - name: Set up Node.js
         uses: actions/setup-node@v6
@@ -99,7 +99,7 @@ jobs:
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     steps:
       - name: Checkout code
-        uses: actions/checkout@v5
+        uses: actions/checkout@v6
 
       - name: Set up Node.js
         uses: actions/setup-node@v6
@@ -131,6 +131,7 @@ jobs:
           config-file: cypress.config.ts
           browser: chrome
           install-command: npm install --omit peer
+
       - name: docker logs
         if: ${{ failure() }}
         run: |

.vscode/launch.json

@@ -2,11 +2,13 @@
     "version": "0.2.0",
     "configurations": [
       {
-        "name": "ng serve",
+        "name": "Debug SciCat frontend in Chrome",
         "type": "chrome",
         "request": "launch",
-        "url": "http://localhost:4200/#",
-        "webRoot": "${workspaceFolder}"
+        "url": "http://localhost:4200",
+        "webRoot": "${workspaceFolder}",
+        "sourceMaps": true,
+        "trace": true
       },
       {
         "name": "ng test",

CI/e2e/.env.backend.e2e

@@ -45,3 +45,7 @@ ES_MAX_RESULT=210000
 ES_FIELDS_LIMIT=400000
 ES_INDEX="dataset"
 ES_REFRESH="wait_for"
+
+FRONTEND_CONFIG_FILE="./dist/config/frontend.config.json"
+FRONTEND_THEME_FILE="./dist/config/frontend.theme.json"
+