siftlode/frontend/src/lib/releaseNotes.ts

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// User-facing release notes. One entry per released version, newest first. The end-of-line
// `sha` is the repo commit the release was cut from (our stand-in for an issue/ticket ref);
// it's attached when the version is tagged. `chores` are internal and hidden from the public
// Release Notes dialog by default.
export interface ReleaseEntry {
version: string;
date: string; // ISO date (YYYY-MM-DD)
sha?: string; // short commit the release was tagged from
summary?: string;
features?: string[];
fixes?: string[];
chores?: string[];
}
export const RELEASE_NOTES: ReleaseEntry[] = [
{
version: "0.9.0",
date: "2026-06-18",
summary: "A notifications inbox, and automatic clean-up of videos that can no longer be played.",
features: [
"New Notifications module in the left sidebar, with an unread badge: a durable place that collects updates about your library and the system, alongside the existing pop-up bell. Mark items read, dismiss them, or clear everything.",
"Automatic library maintenance: a background job spots videos that can no longer be played anywhere — deleted, made private, or premieres that never went live — hides them from your feed right away, and removes them after a grace period. Genuine 24/7 livestreams are left alone.",
"If a video you'd saved or added to a playlist gets removed this way, you get a single summary notification listing them — never one message per video.",
"Admin Scheduler: run any background job on demand with a “Run now” button (or “Start all now”), watch a live progress bar while long jobs run, and get an inbox notification with the result when a job you started finishes.",
],
},
{
version: "0.8.0",
date: "2026-06-18",
summary: "Richer channel columns, a proper tag workflow, video reset, and clearer errors.",
features: [
"Channel manager: new sortable columns — last upload, total length, and a Normal/Shorts/Live breakdown — with subscriber counts shown compactly (e.g. 919K). Columns size to their content.",
"Tags, reworked: each channel row now shows only the tags you've attached, with a “+” to add or remove them per channel. A tag manager (open it from the Channel manager or the feed sidebar) lets you add, rename and delete tags — deleting only asks to confirm when a tag is actually in use.",
"Filter the feed by a tag: click a tag on a channel, and a new “Your tags” widget in the feed sidebar shows that filter so you can see and clear it. In the tag manager, hovering a tag's channel count lists those channels, each a link that jumps to it in the Channel manager.",
"Video cards get a reset action that returns a video to pristine — clearing watch progress and status, as if you'd never opened it.",
],
fixes: [
"When the server can't complete an action (for example a duplicate tag name), you now get a clear pop-up explaining why, instead of a cryptic failure.",
"Pressing Esc with a dialog stacked over another now closes only the top one, leaving your work underneath open.",
],
},
{
version: "0.7.0",
date: "2026-06-17",
summary: "A redesigned, sortable Channel manager — plus a reorganized sidebar and several fixes.",
features: [
"Channel manager is now a sortable, filterable table: sort by any column, filter channels by name or tag straight from the headers, choose how many rows per page (or show them all), and jump to any page. Your sorting, filters and page are remembered across reloads.",
"Channel rows: open a channel on YouTube (middle-click the name or the ↗ icon), a single “fully synced” badge once a channel is fully caught up, and instant tag toggling. Admins can reset a channel to re-fetch it from scratch.",
"Reorganized left sidebar: your content (Feed, Channels, Playlists) and the admin tools (Stats, Scheduler) are now grouped, and the language, About and notifications controls moved into the sidebar. Pop-up notifications now appear bottom-left, by the bell.",
"Playlists: the “new playlist” box moved to the top of the list.",
],
fixes: [
"Marking a video watched at the end of playback now sticks — it leaves the Unwatched feed and stays gone after a refresh.",
"Settings now remembers which tab you were on after a reload.",
"The usage chart's daily bars are always visible now, not just on hover.",
],
},
{
version: "0.6.0",
date: "2026-06-16",
summary: "Admins get a live Background Scheduler dashboard.",
features: [
"New admin Scheduler page: a live, self-refreshing view of the background jobs — what's running, each job's last result and a countdown to its next run — plus the work still queued and the shared API quota. Each job has a tooltip explaining what it does, and its run frequency is editable inline.",
],
},
{
version: "0.5.1",
date: "2026-06-16",
summary: "A clearer message when a video can't play in the in-app player.",
fixes: [
"When a video can't be played here — some music tracks and other videos have embedding disabled by their owner — the player now shows a clear note and an “Open on YouTube” button instead of a blank error screen.",
],
},
{
version: "0.5.0",
date: "2026-06-16",
summary: "Clearer live videos — and they now settle into normal videos once they end.",
features: [
"Live and premiere videos now show a LIVE / upcoming badge where the duration usually sits, so a missing runtime is obviously by design, not a gap.",
],
fixes: [
"When a live stream ends, it now updates by itself into a normal video with its real length, instead of staying stuck as “live” with no duration.",
],
chores: [
"Shared demo-account mode: a curated whitelist can preview the app (shared library, playlists, hiding) without signing in; admin whitelist + state reset in Settings.",
],
},
{
version: "0.4.1",
date: "2026-06-16",
summary: "Feed controls above the videos, and clearer view counts and dates.",
features: [
"The view filter (Unwatched / In progress / All / …) and the content type (Normal / Shorts / Live) are now quick chips right above the videos.",
"Cleaner ordering: pick what to sort by, then flip ascending/descending with one arrow (and 'Most viewed' is now 'Popular').",
"Video cards and the player show the exact upload date next to '… ago', and the full view count on hover.",
],
},
{
version: "0.4.0",
date: "2026-06-16",
summary: "A clearer left-hand navigation, a glassier look, and account switching.",
features: [
"New left navigation sidebar: Feed, Channels, Playlists and Stats are now always visible (no longer tucked under your avatar), and the rail collapses to icons when you want more room.",
"Switch accounts without signing in again: the account menu lists everyone signed in on this browser — pick one to switch instantly, or “Add another account”. Signing out drops you to the next account if you have one.",
"Settings is now its own page that opens right where you are, instead of a panel sliding in from the far side.",
"The browser/back button now steps back through the app (Feed, Channels, …) instead of leaving the app.",
"A frosted-glass refresh across the navigation, header and dialogs.",
],
},
{
version: "0.3.0",
date: "2026-06-16",
summary:
"Playlists — build your own, mirror your YouTube ones, and sync edits back to YouTube.",
features: [
"Local playlists: create named, ordered playlists, reorder by drag, and add videos straight from the feed or the player. Play a whole playlist with auto-advance and prev/next.",
"Watch later is now a built-in playlist — the bookmark button adds to it, and you can play and manage it like any other list.",
"Your YouTube playlists are mirrored in automatically and kept fresh, shown with a YouTube badge and an “open on YouTube” link.",
"Two-way YouTube sync: export a local playlist to YouTube, or push your edits (add, remove, reorder, rename) back to a linked playlist. Every push shows an estimate and a confirm first, because YouTube playlist writes are quota-heavy.",
"Edit mirrored playlists freely — your unsynced changes are protected from the automatic refresh, an “Unsynced” marker shows when you have pending edits, and “Reset to YouTube” discards them to reload the original.",
"Sort a playlist by title, duration or channel (ascending/descending) and optionally group by channel — with full undo/redo (buttons and Ctrl/Cmd+Z / Ctrl+Y).",
"The playlist list can be ordered by name, item count or total length (and float your unsynced lists to the top); it shows each lists total length and remembers your selection.",
],
},
{
version: "0.2.0",
date: "2026-06-15",
summary:
"Browse beyond your own subscriptions, and a much smarter filter sidebar.",
features: [
"Shared library: a new Mine / Library switch in the header lets you browse every channel the community has added — not just your own subscriptions — and even works without granting YouTube access. Your watch, save and hide state always stays private to you.",
"Smarter filter chips: topic and language chips now show live counts for your current view and hide the ones that no longer match anything, so narrowing down is quicker. Chips are ordered by size, and topics have a clear Any / All match toggle (All = channels that have all the selected topics).",
"“Surprise me” ordering now has a reshuffle button to reroll the order, and the topic/language chips show how many channels fall under each.",
"Share a view: copy a link that reproduces your current filters. Filters are otherwise no longer kept in the address bar.",
],
fixes: [
"The channel manager now tells apart a full-history backfill you requested from one another member already queued, and the header shows “fetching history” while the back-catalogue is still downloading instead of claiming everything is synced.",
],
},
{
version: "0.1.0",
date: "2026-06-15",
// sha filled in when v0.1.0 is tagged at release time.
summary:
"First release: a self-hosted, multi-user reader for your own YouTube subscriptions — " +
"fast local-first feed with rich filtering, in-app playback with resume, and channel management.",
features: [
"Multi-user feed of your own YouTube subscriptions: invite-only Google sign-in, per-user watch/save/hide state, encrypted token storage.",
"Ingest: subscription import, free RSS new-video detection, recent-first and full-history backfill, metadata enrichment (duration, views, category, Shorts & livestream classification), a shared daily API-quota guard, and a background scheduler.",
"Automatic tagging: system tags for channel language and topic (your own tags are never overwritten).",
"Reader UI: grid/list feed scoped to your subscriptions; faceted tag filters, content-type toggles (Normal / Shorts / Live), date range, search and sort; four colour schemes (dark/light) with adjustable text size.",
"In-app player: a modal YouTube player that resumes where you left off, auto-marks watched near the end, and turns description timestamps and links into clickable seeks.",
"Watch progress: a resume progress bar on video cards, Continue / Restart buttons, and an “In progress” feed filter — your position is saved server-side, so it follows you across devices.",
"Channel manager: per-channel priority, hide, personal tags, sync badges, and per-channel full-history opt-in.",
"Header status: your video count vs. the whole catalogue, sync progress, and (for admins) a pause control; onboarding wizard; notification centre; admin usage & quota stats.",
"Multilingual interface — switch between English, Hungarian and German; your choice is saved to your account and the default is guessed from your Google locale.",
"About dialog and this Release Notes view, with a heads-up banner when a new version ships.",
],
fixes: [
"Backfill no longer skips the band of videos sitting on the 365-day boundary page.",
"A channel whose full catalogue is already stored is no longer stuck showing “needs full history”.",
],
chores: [
"Public-readiness repo hygiene: internal planning/infra details removed, build stamped with version/commit.",
],
},
];
export const CURRENT_VERSION = RELEASE_NOTES[0]?.version ?? "dev";