Releases

Phials version archive, release notes, and past download history.

v0.1.11

August 7, 2026

Added

  • Document two-way Relation authority and lifecycle decisions

Changed

  • Prepare legacy profiles silently and in place without deleting app caches or Workspace Folder data
  • Limit the explicit Developer reset to Phials Home
  • Tighten Date property editor spacing and refresh the Calendar property icon

Fixed

  • Close Windows app windows after autosave finalization without re-entering the close handler
  • Keep profile preparation failures from locking users out of the app
  • Avoid treating new installs as profiles that require reset

v0.1.10

August 6, 2026

Added

  • Add Calendar workspace property
  • Add Masonry file view
  • Edit identities from context submenus
  • Unify folder icons and labels across navigation chrome
  • Unify custom colors across Phials
  • Reset pre-baseline profiles safely
  • Unify property menus and editors
  • Add number display formatting
  • Open formula and rollup editors from results
  • Treat folders as Workspace members
  • Complete the Plugin SDK runtime contract
  • Add navigator to folder picker
  • Rearrange saved views in the toolbar
  • Edit Workspace properties from the context menu
  • Add stopwatch Time properties
  • Add Full width option for Page content
  • Offer full file menus in Navigator, Workspaces, and Tags
  • Move Search into a configuration panel like Sort & filter
  • Add Properties on hover with inset Grid property cards
  • Focus most recently used tab after closing
  • Add pin and open-parent actions to Page tab options
  • Collapse Page properties from the title row
  • Move sort and filter into a configuration panel
  • Add Formula properties with code and graph editors
  • Transfer large file bytes without JSON array overhead
  • Expand plugin SDK for Coding Projects
  • Add grouped Boards rows with two-axis drag
  • Add Display as formatting for dates
  • Add Bulk Rename for selected files
  • Add rich previews for Markdown links

Changed

  • Refine the Add Property menu
  • Simplify Navigator file context menus
  • Tighten explorer configuration and option panel spacing
  • Use bookmark icons for Favorites pin actions
  • Align property option panel padding
  • Tighten date property editor padding
  • Clarify explorer tooltips
  • Align view mode controls
  • Make Workspace Folder setup automatic
  • Overlay Time stopwatch controls on property cells
  • Use phoundry-mono stopwatch, formula, and small media icons for time properties
  • Preview date formats in Display as menus
  • Move Page header visibility into options
  • Refine Explorer controls and card chrome
  • Refine Sort and filter controls
  • Show Workspace names in the path bar
  • Default window transparency off on Windows
  • Align saved-views panel title icons with row icons
  • Round Details selection runs and colored group bottoms only
  • Use chevron for navigate-up icon
  • Default File metadata to compact properties
  • Refine details and grid view presentation
  • Improve thumbnail card previews
  • Clarify Explorer view control icons
  • Improve Page property drag reordering

Fixed

  • Keep SDK package versions independent
  • Enable Calendar editing in Details view
  • Hide File mode metadata with its header
  • Open Edit Workspace Folder for favorited Workspace Folders
  • Preserve tooltip attachment return type
  • Refresh Workspaces module when folder identity changes
  • Save Workspace Folder icon colors
  • Restore saved view name editing
  • Show Workspace Folder icons in Explorer tabs
  • Apply file search date filters
  • Correct field menu option editing
  • Keep Workspaces out of Trash
  • Restore Page property menu actions
  • Apply Display as to workspace date controls
  • Preserve saved view and board card drag previews
  • Right-align embedded configuration panels
  • Keep collapsed dock groups accessible
  • Publish Details calculation updates reliably
  • Format Time property calculations as durations
  • Keep large PDF previews responsive
  • Restore stopwatch when Time save fails
  • Keep Time values editable in details cells
  • Show Kind icon in filter property dropdowns
  • Seed new saved views from defaults with auto-visible columns
  • Stop Details column menus from opening with a lone divider
  • Keep selection-run rounding on empty-value Details groups
  • Clear selection when changing view mode or saved view
  • Keep Page tabs when opening files from embedded folders
  • Insert duplicated tabs beside the source unpinned
  • Open new tabs at home when default directory is unset
  • Focus existing Explorer tab when opening favorites
  • Release PDF.js documents after preview closes
  • Stop false file-note conflict on empty paragraph edits

v0.1.9

July 21, 2026

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

v0.1.8

July 1, 2026

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

v0.1.7

June 18, 2026

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

v0.1.6

June 15, 2026

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

v0.1.5

June 14, 2026

See CHANGELOG.md for release notes.

v0.1.4

June 12, 2026

See CHANGELOG.md for release notes.

v0.1.3

June 11, 2026

See CHANGELOG.md for release notes.

v0.1.2

June 10, 2026

See CHANGELOG.md for release notes.

v0.1.1

June 10, 2026

See CHANGELOG.md for release notes.

v0.1.0

June 3, 2026

Added

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