Changelog
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v26.7.2300Latest
Friends Galaxy, a focused YouTube study feed, and calmer reading from Medium and Substack
Features
- Explore Friends as a theme-aware, GPU-accelerated galaxy with provider constellations, stable labels, and mouse, trackpad, touch, and keyboard navigation.
- Connect YouTube through your signed-in session to capture followed channels and recent long-form subscriptions, keep Shorts out of the study feed, watch in Focus Mode, or hand selected videos to a private YouTube playlist for Premium downloads.
- Add Medium and Substack as beta sources for signed-in essays, subscriptions, visible relationships, and activity.
Fixes
- Sidebar controls are vertically centered with full-height hit areas, and expand or collapse no longer rebounds as synchronized state arrives.
- Zoom, density, sidebar state and width, Friends layout, feed views, sorting, filters, and reader layout now stay local to each device instead of syncing through Automerge.
- Factory reset fences active capture work, removes selected local sessions and sync state, and stops safely when cleanup fails.
- Freed Desktop warns when a second desktop client may duplicate RSS and authenticated provider requests.
- YouTube sign-in, capture, progress, cancellation, and hidden session cleanup are bounded and recover safely.
- Automerge worker startup retries once after a clean reset, and unchanged cloud documents no longer echo through idle reuploads.
- Facebook groups you have left stay removed, and Medium and Substack beta labels remain readable through 150% zoom.
- Private security reports redact diagnostics and harden fetched content before submission.
Follow-ups
- Medium and Substack remain beta while capture coverage broadens.
- RSS subscriptions and successful refresh timestamps sync. Retry state and reader cache stay local, and the PWA does not poll feeds.
- Multiple desktop clients are warned about duplicate request surface, but requests are not centrally deduplicated yet.
- Factory reset preserves safety ledgers, media files, AI models, legal acceptance, and install identity.
- Freed does not download or cache YouTube video or audio. Offline downloads remain in YouTube Premium through the private playlist.
v26.7.1501-devDev Latest
Friends is now a theme-aware personal galaxy with native touch and trackpad navigation, tight identity constellations, and cosmic provider nebulae.
Features
- Explore Friends as a hardware-accelerated 3D galaxy where relationship importance controls depth, identities form tight constellations, and every starfield follows the active Freed theme
- Pan, zoom, and focus the galaxy with a mouse, trackpad, or midpoint-preserving iPhone pinch gestures while billboard labels stay visible and close to their stars
- Use the new Medium and Substack beta sources in Freed Desktop to capture essays, visible relationships, subscriptions, and activity through your signed-in sessions
Fixes
- Friends selection now settles on the current person or account without stale atlas updates, while provider regions form spiral nebulae and identity links stay focused on the active constellation
- Facebook groups confirmed as left now stay removed from the source list
- Medium and Substack beta labels remain readable through 150% interface zoom, with their source menus still keyboard accessible
- YouTube followed-channel and subscription capture now reports bounded progress, cancels stale work, and closes hidden capture sessions when finished
- Security reports can now be submitted privately with redacted diagnostics and hardened fetched-content handling
Builds:v26.7.1501-devDev
YouTube now gets out of the way as soon as sign-in succeeds while your first subscription sync continues quietly.
Fixes
- The YouTube login window now hides as soon as authentication is confirmed while the first subscription sync continues in the background
- Later YouTube syncs and Freed Offline playlist actions reuse the authenticated session without showing the provider window
Builds:v26.7.1200-devDev
YouTube joins Freed with a focused study feed, exact-video playback, and a private playlist for YouTube Premium downloads. This build also refines display scaling and command search stability.
Features
- Connect YouTube in Freed Desktop through your signed-in website session to capture followed channels and recent long-form Subscriptions videos
- Keep Shorts and Reels out of the captured study feed, watch a selected video in Focus Mode, or open that same video directly in YouTube
- Create or reuse a private Freed Offline playlist from selected saved videos, then open it in YouTube so Premium subscribers can download it on their device
Fixes
- Display scaling now uses a practical 75% to 200% range and keeps the sidebar, toolbar, and quick settings stable while the scale changes
- Command search clears delayed blur work when it is refocused or closed, preventing stale updates after navigation
Follow-ups
- Large offline audio and video packages remain future work; this build hands offline downloads to YouTube Premium through the private playlist
Builds:v26.7.1000-devDev
The desktop cloud-sync upload loop is broken for good (stability P1-01): an idle machine with cloud sync connected no longer re-uploads the same unchanged document over and over. This build also lands the Wave-2 stability toolchain and interface zoom controls.
Features
- Desktop cloud sync no longer loops on idle: a mutation filter and document-heads guard stop the upload to merge-back to re-upload echo (stability P1-01)
- Interface zoom controls
- Stability observability toolchain: alarms, soak verdicts, canary regressions, and red CI fold into ranked task files (W2-02), backed by per-release canary summaries, an offline watchdog-decision replay, and a metric-driven release bisector (W2-03)
Follow-ups
- P1-01 is the first cloud-loop damper; the PWA-side and GDrive self-write dampers follow, one per soak cycle
Builds:v26.7.900-devDev