Changelog
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Desktop performance pass hardens Friends, feed search, and renderer recovery
Features
- Support Friends graph pinch zoom
Fixes
- Reader, feed, and header polish
- Read-on-scroll tracking now skips a per-row diagnostic event on the active scroll path
- Feed priority ordering now runs in the Automerge workers instead of the normal render path
- Saved toggles plus bulk read and archive actions now update through item patches instead of full document hydration
- Release validation now exercises sidebar resize through the real browser pointer path
- Sync and update reliability fixes
- Freed Desktop now compacts oversized synced article text before hydration and feed writes, cutting the WebKit memory load from large libraries
- Friends account-link suggestions use indexed candidate matching, cutting the 1,600 connection Friends mount benchmark from about 2.1 seconds to about 1.0 second locally
Follow-ups
- Reader, sidebar, and settings UX work
- Startup repair ships
- Performance guardrails land
- Scale Friends view rendering
- Protect desktop scroll performance
- Skip no-op startup hydration
- Patch hot feed state mutations
- Cache feed action scopes
- Throttle scrapers under memory pressure
- Derive map counts off the render path
- Continue installed dev-build soaks with Friends zoom and pan coverage
- Keep watching WebKit memory pressure during locked and hidden sessions
- Use measured budget misses to choose the next surface instead of intuition
Freed Desktop avoids unnecessary renderer recovery while background pages are hidden
Fixes
- Reader, feed, and header polish
- Freed Desktop is calmer during renderer memory spikes
- Social scraper extraction now does less layout work while feed pages are open
- Social memory preflights now ignore WebKit processes from earlier Freed Desktop launches
- Hidden renderer heartbeats now use hidden-window thresholds before diagnostics or recovery
- macOS window recovery now forces the main Freed Desktop window to order front when shown
- Release build and type-safety cleanup
- Social sync memory preflights now defer the shared scheduler instead of cycling through providers
- Startup recovery and Settings copy now distinguish high memory from critical memory
Follow-ups
- Reverse integrate v26.5.309 production release
- Local diagnostics now write bounded runtime bundles for memory pressure, stale heartbeats, and pre-recovery samples
- Reader, sidebar, and settings UX work
Freed Desktop reliability fixes
Fixes
- Native macOS window dragging now works from the FREED wordmark, nearby titlebar gap, passive toolbar title areas, and fullscreen reader titlebar.
- Toolbar controls stay clickable because buttons remain explicit no-drag targets while passive titlebar surfaces handle native dragging.
- Fix stale renderer recovery restarts.
- Recover stale renderers without blocking the macOS main thread while the old main window unregisters.
- Let the startup recovery screen scroll in shorter windows so recovery actions stay reachable.
- Pause heavy background work before high renderer memory can force repeated recovery.
- Retry deferred startup RSS polls instead of waiting for the next normal polling interval.
- Batch visible archive actions more aggressively.
- Restore Linux release compilation for renderer memory diagnostics.
A larger Freed Desktop update focused on relationship views, optional local intelligence, reliable capture, and calmer reading.
Features
- Friends graph tools now include ranked suggestions, relationship tiers, shared Friends or All content scoping, and search profile actions.
- Optional local AI model packs can be installed from settings to enrich semantic analysis without bundling model weights.
- Reading layouts now keep feeds, stories, sidebars, and cards steadier while media and view transitions load.
Fixes
- Startup recovery now waits for healthy renderer heartbeats, records diagnostics, and keeps background work from running into stalled windows.
- Social capture is more reliable across Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn, and X, with stronger story dedupe, comment hydration, OAuth, and memory-pressure handling.
- Sync and update flows are steadier across Google Drive, Dropbox, mobile pairing, updater channels, outbox persistence, and Automerge state patches.
- Provider health, source action menus, graph selection, and graph label checks have stronger Freed Desktop validation coverage.
- Cloud media vault setup, Google contacts sync, and local archive handling have clearer settings and safer storage paths.
- Read-on-scroll, reader hydration, saved signals, search, map markers, and command state now preserve context more consistently.
Follow-ups
- Release validation now covers the full primary platform matrix and slimmer Freed Desktop E2E gates.
- Website changelog and roadmap presentation will be refreshed from the production tag after the release workflow publishes.
- Reverse integration will merge this production release back into dev after updater verification.
Stabilize feed layout, search, and capture cleanup
Features
- Friends relationship tiers
- Refine sidebar rows and card density
- Search profile actions
Fixes
- Deduped duplicate Instagram story captures
- Desktop feed scroll layout is now more stable
- Freed Desktop startup recovery now waits for healthy renderer heartbeats before running high-risk jobs
- Added runtime-health diagnostics for blank renderer reports, including active background work, memory pressure, and recovery attempts
- Promote linked accounts without duplicate drafts
- Tightened collapsed feed filter menu headings, copy, spacing, and classification selection animation
- Floating menus now stay inside the viewport and scroll internally
Follow-ups
- Friends graph validation now checks structural graph signals instead of provider label text
- Friends graph validation now fits the graph before checking visual labels
- Friends graph validation now waits for provider labels before checking the visual state
- Friends graph and feed perf gates now allow normal CI timing variance
- Slim desktop e2e gates
- Added fixed-height desktop feed cards and story rows so media loading no longer changes scroll position
- Added compact, comfortable, and expansive feed card density controls with matching skeleton heights and bounded internal scrolling for floating menus