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Latch 0.16.3

2026-10-04

Hygiene unlock (#43). The cage comes off to be cleaned, the clock stops, and the log says so. No schema change, no migration.

• One tap out, one tap back in. While you're locked, a 🛁 card under the play buttons takes you out for hygiene, and 🔐 Locked back up brings you back. Both take a when, for the time it really happened. From a Shortcut or an NFC tag, use POST /api/v1/hygiene/open and /relock (owner token; the chat bot's scope does not include them). GET /api/v1/hygiene reports the state.
• Maintenance is scheduled. Emergency is always there. The game setup names the maintenance slots (Settings → Hygiene: 07:30, sat/sun 10:00), with a 30-minute window that can be started up to 60 minutes after the slot. At any other moment the same card is an 🚨 emergency window (20 min). It is never refused and never capped, and it is logged as what it was, not as a penalty. A slot the settings can't read is refused when you save.
• A hygiene window is not locked time. The clock stops, so you serve the minutes later. The window is also left out of total and longest lock, the weekly bars, daily.csv, the share and stamp figures, the badges built on them, and the cage's worn hours. The lock's cage bout closes when you go out and reopens when you relock. A finish logged inside the window is not caged.
• An overrun is said, not hidden. If the window runs out first, the clock starts again, because it never waits forever. The window stays open until you say you're locked back up, since the app doesn't know the cage is back on. The card turns amber and asks.
• A freeze somebody else set is left alone. Going out while already frozen leaves a marker and doesn't touch their freeze. Undoing the window's opener voids the window. A relock can't be undone, just as an unfreeze can't. The emergency key is untouched.