Releases

Added

• Add inline icon picker for Markdown editing
• Update bundled Phormat and Phoundry UI dependencies for the release
• Align in-app Help with outcome-oriented documentation
• Add Help sidebar icons and per-page AI disclosure
• Add relation target reorder in a shared picker panel
• Add Show All for File Metadata and stack it above Preview
• Add Tags module for browsing files by tag
• Open internal files in universal Page tabs
• Preview option reorder by moving rows while dragging
• Add Page options menu to the fullscreen Page toolbar
• Add Compact properties option for Page layouts
• Show cloud sync folders in Locations
• Move image editing into a side panel with zoom controls
• Narrow wiki link suggestions to visible vial roots and top-level files
• Accelerate Vial properties and wikilinks
• Add host-owned preview toolbars
• Embed code and spreadsheets in Pages
• Keep large thumbnail views responsive
• Add categories to the Phials icon picker
• Restore pinned Explorer tab locations
• Pin files to Navigator Favorites
• Customize file-explorer context menus
• Remove Title Bar customization
• Add local panel tab splits
• Keep large Details views responsive
• Add modular center tab groups
• Embed files and folders in Markdown
• Add File and Note tabs to Vial Pages
• Store Vial data in Phials Home
• Add Rollup properties to Vials
• Compose curated Metadata inside Preview
• Add compact Details rows and thumbnail gating
• Add preview mode to vial Pages
• Unify Title Bar and Path Bar customization
• Edit property identity from property menus
• Add unified Pages for Vial files
• Show cards in calendar month and week
• Autosave Markdown files and notes
• Add New menu to folder context actions
• Expand explorer view controls
• Add text thumbnails to file previews
• Add card previews and inline editing to grid view
• Add inline property option editing
• Add saved-view identity and inline view configuration
• Support wrapped and reorderable Details columns
• Edit vial identity from view configuration
• Unify explorer view configuration
• Place arrange controls below saved views
• Add property type menus and relation targets
• added window transparency
• Open Settings in a dedicated Tauri window

Changed

• Simplify markdown Editor/Raw toolbar to a mode toggle
• Overlay the Details Page button without shifting the name
• Align Tags and Workspaces with navigator disclosure groups
• Clarify module panel footer and tab divider borders
• Rename Vial to Workspace Folder in app chrome
• Rename Workspaces to Layouts
• Show tag option chips with icon and color in Tags
• Smooth file drag hover by limiting drop-target hit-tests
• Speed up selection checks in large file views
• Debounce last-selected path session writes during keyboard navigation
• Fix image edit Cancel icon and drop duplicate dirty chip
• Move image tool selection into an in-surface row
• Move image edit tools back to the top toolbar
• Restyle calendar nav Today and date-source controls as ghost
• Pin weekday labels and drop day-header borders in month calendar
• Open icon picker on Phoundry Mono by default
• Refine filter and sort configuration
• Match code editor colors to the active theme
• Suspend compact Page properties during Show All
• Hide duplicate unsaved indicator on spreadsheet toolbar
• Remove the overflow menu from embedded file toolbars
• Let embedded Markdown files grow with their content
• Remove Tree View from Explorer
• Separate center tab controls
• Improve preview and Details responsiveness
• Improve Explorer responsiveness
• Align Details file name cells
• Keep Details file rows icon-only
• Add tooltips to center tab actions
• Refine grid card editing controls
• Refine Explorer configuration surfaces
• Refine Page content controls
• Refine Navigator favorite folders
• Soften tinted interface surfaces
• Animate Page File and Note switching
• Refine Vial and application surfaces
• prevent row selection when clicking editable cell
• Refine pane and editor surfaces
• Refine Vial property editors and surfaces
• Align Column View chrome
• Refine explorer view configuration controls
• Refine thumbnail media presentation
• Refine explorer menu presentation
• Match file manager labels to each platform
• Improve icon picker color previews
• Place search controls below saved views
• Move explorer controls beside saved views
• Overlay view configuration panel
• Move icon color into the icon picker
• Refine the new tab split control
• Remove vial name from saved views toolbar
• Add separators between split side-panel groups
• Clarify file kind and format labels
• Refresh Phials iconography
• Move licensing badges into the left panel footer
• Reduce flash while auxiliary windows load
• Add mono and colored icons and refresh glyphs

Fixed

• Mount PopoverOverlay for author Markdown editing
• Clear author window content under the title bar overlay
• Keep Path Bar custom items after reopening Settings
• Respect Show File Extensions on relation filename labels
• Keep overlay chrome on the host theme after Phormat styles
• Clear folder location highlight when a page tab is open
• Highlight configured filter and sort icons
• Use openExternal icon in markdown embeds
• Restore Save after editing CSV and other previews
• Restore image Edit, Reset zoom, and wheel zoom in Page File
• Speed up opening Page tabs
• Reuse existing Explorer tabs when opening folders from the Navigator
• Speed up embedded Markdown target loading
• Open Vials that have duplicate catalog path rows
• Avoid full Vial rescans on open, reconcile, and search seed
• Keep empty file notes
• Navigate thumbnails with arrow keys
• Prevent Markdown edits from reloading the app
• Show folder loading state before empty results
• Prevent duplicate image toolbars in Pages
• Show the restored window before Vial maintenance
• Defer offscreen folder embed loading
• Avoid redundant saved view updates
• Stop superseded Explorer navigation work
• Reduce unnecessary media metadata work
• Open relative Markdown embeds without index delay
• Improve embedded folder loading responsiveness
• Restore Details views grouped by property
• Stabilize embedded Explorer scrolling
• Enable window dragging from top center tabs
• Restore saved view strip menu actions
• Restore Details cell rendering and scrolling
• Restore Markdown preview routing
• Align Details cell controls
• Index untracked files during Vial reconciliation
• Keep column browsing anchored until double-click
• Edit the correct view and property identities
• Prevent accidental clicks after drag gestures
• Keep view configuration above Details headers
• Keep guided demo steps on the active pane
• Preserve markdown editor state across remounts
• Stabilize center module rendering

Added

• Show folder icons in path bar breadcrumbs
• Add richer grouping visuals across Grid, Details, and Gallery views, including colored group backgrounds, accents, sticky headers, and collapsible Gallery groups
• Add Help as a center tab with bundled user and developer documentation, breadcrumbs, and standard Help chrome
• Add contextual help discovery with Option/Alt hold, improved spot picking, and new help anchors for recent UI updates
• Add board card actions, option chips, drag-and-drop improvements, and per-saved-view option overrides
• Add navigator icon colors, vial reordering, and workspace customization
• Add Notion-style Vial property editors for Details view and thumbnail cards
• Add the developer content author window for contextual help, tutorials, and bundled docs
• Add prev/next file navigation on fullscreen preview toolbar
• Connect to network shares from Navigator Locations
• Add custom video transport controls, fit toggles, and stage click controls
• Add module tab options menu with Navigator section toggles
• Load plugin themes from CSS file pairs
• Add column and row border toggles in Details view
• Add toolbar item alternates, reset layouts on schema v2 upgrade, and split explorer controls between saved views and path bar commands
• Add Vial property configuration in the property configuration panel
• Show link badge on symlinks and junctions in file listings
• Expand Details calculation row options and grouped menus
• Update bundled Phormat and Phoundry UI dependencies for the release

Changed

• Redesign Learning as navigator-style rows with a detail modal
• Center and fill fullscreen image previews
• Add horizontal scroll shadow to frozen columns in details view
• Refine explorer, navigator, settings, saved views, path bar, tab bar, and preview chrome spacing
• Open Details column menus on header click and sort on Command-click
• Require a brief Alt hold before contextual help appears
• Add sunken surface background to terminal module
• Render Help docs in Phormat with full-width toolbar and updated sidebar chrome
• Improve contextual help highlights, popover placement, and expanded detail
• Remove right panel expand control
• Move filename header from Preview to Metadata inspector tab
• Show explorer subtoolbars and fullscreen previews inside sunken inset shells
• Place saved views bar beside property configuration panel
• Show panel module tabs as icon-only with always-visible active state
• Rename field visibility panel to property configuration
• Remove floating toolbar when multiple files are selected
• Move Select All below Archive in context menus and use list-checked icon
• Remove View and Properties from file-explorer context menu
• Center search loading empty state in file views

Fixed

• Make details calculation row follow sticky columns and pin to bottom
• Prevent horizontal scroll transparent gap in details view
• Keep group headers visible when scrolling horizontally in details view
• Prevent duplicate key crash in virtualized grouped details view
• Sort empty rating groups last
• Improve slow double-click rename timing
• Show colored type icons for package.json and similar files
• Stack icon and color pickers above modal backdrops
• Keep vial icon color after navigation and reload
• Stop content author window freezing when saving help spots
• Reduce contextual help activation delay from 350ms to 250ms
• Prevent dev server 500 on Phormat CSS cold start
• Show hover highlight when picking contextual help spots
• Improve video player controls, fullscreen, and layout stability
• Hide Preview from new tab menu and show terminal sessions in center tab
• Open in-app Help doc links on the first click
• Load Help docs and resolve links without Node APIs in the client
• Clear stale grouping when activating saved views
• Reduce empty gaps when fast-scrolling the Details file list
• Use explicit optional defaults for Rolldown-safe Svelte output
• Close settings before opening What's New modal
• Stop repeated navigator link info lookups for regular paths
• Resolve svelte-check errors in production sources
• Persist calculation row settings on vial saved views

Added

• Add column calculation to details view. (Toggle in ... menu in status bar)
• Add Open Behavior settings page for per-extension primary open handlers
• Add custom labels and reworked path and title bar item settings
• Show release notes in What's New modal after updates
• Streamline community plugins settings and open plugin settings from installed cards
• Open parent commands as command bar subgroups

Changed

• Reorganize file settings into Visibility and Open Behavior pages
• Improved clarity for some icons
• Overhauled context menu settings page
• Reorganized plugin settings nav and sidebar rows
• Add breathing room around PDF thumbnails in Details view
• Improve terminal session tab strip layout
• Better active pane indication in split view

Fixed

• Fixed folder picker selection, layout, and plain Details view
• Fixed colored icons appearing gray sometimes

Added

• Render styled HTML metadata in explorer and preview
• Add Debug File command for JSON host data dump
• Add wiki-link autocomplete when editing markdown in vials
• Expand Details name column to fill available width

Changed

• Supply wiki link tooltip and icon from vial index
• Default PDF preview to fit-to-page instead of fit-to-width
• Match Open in submenu row height and app icon size
• Show vial icons on top-level rows and hide nested known vials in Vials list

Fixed

• Restore CodeEditor by deduping CodeMirror in Vite
• Stabilize wiki-link autocomplete in markdown editing
• Restore right-click menu on vials in the Vials list
• Prevent Vials list crash when a vial appears in multiple branches
• Apply field visibility defaults when switching view modes with a saved view active
• Show metadata columns automatically in dominant folders
• Use default column layout during broad-scope search

Added

• Split the preview sidebar into inspector module tabs
• Add spellcheck preference for markdown editor

Added

• Show spreadsheet cell previews in grid thumbnails
• Persist PDF thumbnails on disk and letterbox them in explorer tiles
• Add gift lifetime license schema and domain docs

Changed

• Put Select All below Archive in context menus
• Enlarge grid thumbnails and tighten tile spacing
• Show borders on open preview pane sections
• Refine gallery filmstrip tile spacing and divider borders
• Show colored chips on property group headers

Fixed

• Show inline volume slider in collapsed audio player and shrink controls
• Restore details view empty-space click and drop targets
• Make phials-mono icons inherit foreground color
• Enable field visibility button in View & arrange toolbar
• Always show generic vial icon on favorite Vial badge
• Restore markdown editor loading in preview

Fixed

• Dependency resolution issues in build pipeline.

Changed

• Internal build configuration and version bump.

Changed

• Replace GitHub CLI with REST API for self-hosted release uploads.

Added

• Initial Phials desktop release pipeline (macOS Apple Silicon, macOS Intel, Windows).