Changelog
Even death stars have an exhaust vent.
Dense surfaces and mobile validation repairs plus feed pressure relief
Features
- Mobile PWA polish balances the toolbar, tightens the menu and settings surfaces, moves support into a dedicated modal, and fixes reader spacing and fixed action menus
- Friends and Map views scale better with dense data through lighter graph avatars, stable marker data while moving, faster map count preparation, and new performance budgets
- Google Drive sync is more resilient with safer cloud clients, upload retries, and better progress handling for larger local documents
Fixes
- Dense Map views now skip avatar image layers for large marker sets and hide grid and edge overlays while the map is moving, adding headroom for 1,600-author views
- Freed Desktop rebuilds compacted feed documents to cut WebKit memory pressure
- Release validation now keeps Friends graph resize, compact-card, pinch, and position checks stable across CI timing differences
- Freed Desktop trims Friends graph allocations and keeps dense Map rendering fast
- Freed Desktop trims oversized WebKit caches before social scrapes
- Sync and update reliability fixes
- Reader, feed, and header polish
- Test coverage and performance hardening
- Release build and type-safety cleanup
Follow-ups
- Freed Desktop keeps Friends release validation stable across virtualized sidebar remounts
- Freed Desktop keeps reader transitions cheaper and Friends performance gates focused on visible rendering work
- More accurate memory pressure and smoother large views
- Freed Desktop keeps large social views responsive
- Freed Desktop keeps WebKit memory maintenance ahead of scrapes
- Freed Desktop improves dense Map rendering and keeps Google sync on native requests
- Freed Desktop keeps display preference changes on the fast path and stabilizes Friends graph release checks
- Reader, sidebar, and settings UX work
- Release workflow and build-system work
- Testing, diagnostics, and developer tooling
- Sync, cloud, and pairing infrastructure
- Capture, login, and scraping platform work
- Content and documentation 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.
Pixi WebGL Friends graph with linked people, channels, and feeds, desktop details rail controls and a mobile Details mode for the Friends workspace, and sync UI package exports before production release
Features
- Pixi WebGL Friends graph with linked people, channels, and feeds
- Desktop details rail controls and a mobile Details mode for the Friends workspace
Fixes
- Smoother pan and pinch behavior with cleaner four-edge vignette feathering in the Friends graph
- Browser preview no longer crashes on native-only snapshot, LinkedIn, and capture paths
- Crash report exports now label and gate public-safe versus private bundles correctly
Follow-ups
- Promote dev into main for production release and stop release workflow deploying website
- This build ships the new Friends graph workspace and hardens desktop preview, diagnostics, and graph performance
Map timeline playback, cleaner identity migration, and smoother install and update flows
Features
- Filter maps with a shared timeline scrubber
- Replay historical posts and future plans from one map timeline
- Manage friends and map identities through the new person and account graph
Fixes
- Migrates older friend data into the new person and account graph during startup so existing identities keep loading cleanly after the update
- Dedupes Facebook and Instagram cross-posts
- Keeps the install prompt and update channel labeling clearer across the app
- Tightens reader, feed, header, sync, and release reliability
Follow-ups
- Adds a tri-state source sidebar for faster filtering
- Brings the Friends lens into the feed toolbar
- Polishes settings jumps and hardens helper workflow stability
Builds:v26.4.2100