v7.4.0 — AI Blog Summaries, React Header, and Smarter Uploads – Astro Portfolio Update (PR #102)

The v7.4.0 release brings powerful enhancements to the Astro Portfolio Blog, focusing on AI integration, improved UI performance, and more control with feature flags.

🔍 New Features

• AI-Powered Summary Cards
  Each blog post can now display a sleek, animated AI-generated summary card, offering readers a quick overview. These summaries come with:

  • Smart caching
  • Retry logic
  • Better error boundaries

• React-Based Animated Header
  The main site header has been reworked using React, allowing smoother animations and dynamic navigation powered by feature flags.

🚀 Improvements

• Upload & Summary API Enhancements
  Improved rate limiting, input validation, and error handling across APIs. Upload and summary features are now fully gated using feature flags.

• Metadata-Driven Caching
  Caching now includes metadata headers, improving performance and summary delivery consistency.

• Upgraded AI Summarization Model
  Summaries are now generated using a more refined prompt and upgraded model, delivering better content insights.

• Feature Flag Integration
  Fine-grained control over AI and upload-related features through togglable flags.

• Detailed UI Feedback
  Added animated states for retries, loading, and errors within the summary card component.

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Resolved multiple import path issues across components and pages.
• Fixed broken component references in blog posts and project pages.

🧹 Chores

• Standardized file and directory naming conventions across the entire project.
• Disabled Umami Analytics script for performance and privacy improvements.

🛠 Refactor

• Migrated the old Astro-based header to a React implementation.
• Updated layout and feature components to match the new structure and naming standards.

🔗 Pull Request: #102

Stay tuned for the next release as we continue to blend AI capabilities, performance enhancements, and a modernized UI for a smoother developer experience.