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Even death stars have an exhaust vent.

Unify themes across website and app, refreshed theme system and typography polish, and privacy policy callout border removed

Features

  • Unify themes across website and app
  • Refreshed theme system and typography polish
  • A shared theme system now keeps the website and app visually aligned

Fixes

  • Updater progress bar lag removed
  • Refine sharing QR layout and footer hover states
  • Reorder sidebar sources and fix the clipped QR heading
  • Desktop scrapers now run in sequence, which helps avoid renderer stalls
  • Paginate the changelog and polish roadmap motion

Contacts settings and sync, rotating desktop snapshots, and unify theming across website and app

Features

  • Finish Google Contacts settings and sync
  • Rotating desktop snapshots
  • Unify theming across website and app

Fixes

  • Desktop map and smoke assertions are now more stable
  • Handle empty release validation args
  • Support macOS bash in release publish
  • Mark items read when scrolled past
  • Make browser session copy more accurate
  • Silence background social scrapers
  • Redeploy website after release publish
  • Overhaul changelog release notes and cards
  • Backfill concise historical changelog notes

Follow-ups

  • Public-safe bug reporting
  • Browser-style navigation history
  • Move feeds into source accordion
  • Provider health diagnostics and source management

Provider health diagnostics and quieter background scrapers

Features

  • New provider health diagnostics make it easier to spot auth issues and source problems.

Fixes

  • Items now mark as read when you scroll past them.
  • Browser session copy is more accurate.
  • Background social scrapers stay quieter when they do not need attention.

Website changelog catches same-day releases

Fixes

  • freed.wtf now redeploys after a release publishes so the changelog includes the newly shipped build
  • Release notes and changelog cards now use cleaner reviewed summaries
  • Historical releases now keep concise daily rollups without losing major highlights
  • Freed Desktop update prompts now show a cleaner single-line release summary

Follow-ups

  • Sharper release messaging

Map view, refined consent gates, and signed macOS installs

Features

  • New map and Friends views
  • Signed macOS installs
  • Refined consent gates

Fixes

  • Optimized desktop feed webview media usage
  • Social scraper webviews are now recycled after each run
  • Settings toggles now stay shared across Freed Desktop and UI
  • Desktop startup and scraper window modes are now more stable
  • Scraper restore URL handling is now explicit
  • Desktop startup now recovers when the consent store fails
  • LinkedIn desktop integration is now complete

Follow-ups

  • Simplify legal consent surfaces
  • Finalize qr landing page experience