Latest

v0.12.0September 1, 2026

Big-library performance: instant edits, snappy list scrolling, and semantic search that no longer ships your whole library per query

Improved

• Saving your library no longer freezes the app. Every edit used to write the entire library file synchronously — at thousands of assets that meant a visible hitch on every favorite-toggle. Saves are now background writes of a compact format (roughly 40% smaller on disk too).
• Semantic search is much lighter: the app used to send the searchable text of every asset from the window to the engine on each search. Now it sends only the list of what's in view and the engine reads the library itself. Same results, a fraction of the work per keystroke.
• List view now skips rendering rows that are off-screen (the grid already did this) and re-renders only the rows whose selection actually changed — scrolling and selecting in large libraries is dramatically smoother in both views.
• Background AI passes (OCR and content tagging) no longer re-read the whole library once per image — at large library sizes that was quadratic file churn for zero benefit.

Windows · v0.12.0

v0.11.0September 1, 2026

Security hardening throughout, and a much smaller app — 208 dead files and 10 unused libraries removed

Improved

• File access is now contained. The app's internal file server and every file-related command only accept paths that belong to your library — the managed assets folder plus the exact locations of linked files. Previously a compromised page inside the app could in principle have read any file on the machine.
• The screenshot selection overlay now runs fully sandboxed with no system access — it can do exactly two things: report the selected rectangle, or cancel.
• Embedded bookmark previews are locked down: web content in them gets no special privileges and only http/https pages can load. All web-permission requests (camera, location, notifications) are denied automatically.
• URL fetches (bookmarks, thumbnails) refuse anything that isn't http/https — including a subtle case where a malicious page could point its preview image at a local file on your disk.
• Selecting a huge folder to import no longer freezes the app — the folder scan has depth and count limits and skips symlinks.
• Importing a batch where one file is locked or unreadable now skips just that file instead of failing the whole batch.

Removed

• 208 leftover template files and 10 unused libraries (including an entire unused canvas engine) that were being bundled into every install. The installer and the app's disk footprint shrink accordingly, with zero feature changes.

Windows · v0.11.0

v0.10.1September 1, 2026

Trust patch: five data-integrity fixes, no more analytics in the app, honest Settings, Copy in list view

Fixed

• Imports no longer race the auto-save. Seven import paths (file import, URL bookmark, text snippet, drag-drop, clipboard import, screenshot save, and their background OCR follow-ups) wrote the library outside the serialization lock added in v0.9.7 — an import landing at the same moment as a regular edit could silently revert one of them. All writes now go through the lock. URL bookmark import had the widest window (it fetched metadata for seconds between reading and writing the library).
• Deleting a folder can no longer wipe your folder list. A state-timing bug meant the folder deletion could persist an empty folders array under load. Same fix pattern as tag deletion, which was already safe.
• Edits made in the last quarter-second before closing the app are no longer lost — the pending auto-save is now flushed on close instead of discarded.
• Semantic-search cache no longer resets if you quit without searching. Launching the app and quitting without using search used to overwrite the accumulated embeddings cache with an empty file, forcing a slow re-index on the next search.
• Screenshot capture no longer leaks event listeners on every capture, and closing the selection overlay by force (Alt+F4) now restores the main window instead of leaving it hidden.

Removed

• The desktop app no longer loads any analytics scripts. Google Analytics and a visit-counter script were being injected into every page of the shared web build — including the app itself — contradicting the offline promise. They now load only on the refchi.com website. The app makes zero analytics requests.
• Settings controls that did nothing: Empty Trash, Reset Tags, Reset Folders, and the duplicate-handling dropdown were rendered but not wired to any behavior. Removed until they actually work. The language menu now lists only English and Turkish — the five other languages it offered were never loaded.

New

• Copy is now available in list view's right-click menu — it was grid-only before.

Windows · v0.10.1

v0.10.0May 13, 2026

Screenshots auto-copy to clipboard, ready to paste anywhere. Inspector panel gets a Copy button next to Favorite and Trash.

New

• Screenshots are placed on the OS clipboard the moment you select the region — paste straight into Photoshop, Slack, a chat, or another window without finishing the annotation editor. If you do annotate and Save, the annotated version replaces the raw one on the clipboard.
• Inspector panel ('right rail') now has a Copy icon button between Favorite and Trash. Same behavior as the right-click Copy and the Ctrl+C shortcut: image bitmap for raster assets, text for snippets, file path otherwise. Web build hides the button since IPC isn't available outside Electron.

Windows · v0.10.0

v0.9.9April 17, 2026

Better CLIP accuracy, blur marquee preview, Ctrl+C copy, clipboard text import, no surprise browser opens

Fixed

• Double-clicking a bookmark card no longer opens the URL in your system browser — it opens the preview modal (which has explicit 'Open in browser' and 'Embed' buttons). No more surprise navigation away from the app.
• CLIP content tagging accuracy: woman images no longer get tagged 'dog', and dog images now reliably surface for 'dog' queries. Threshold raised from 0.05 to 0.15 + a 40% relative floor against the top match so only confident labels get through. Also require the top score to clear the absolute floor before emitting anything — prevents tag noise on ambiguous images.
• Labels now expand to multiple tags: 'a photo of a dog' emits ['dog', 'animal'] instead of just one simplified label. So querying 'dog' finds dogs and querying 'animal' finds all animals — previously a specific label could get beaten by a generic one and the specific tag was lost.
• Content-tags schema version bumped to v2. Existing assets tagged under v0.9.5's (buggier) logic will be re-classified automatically on next launch so mis-tags like 'dog on a woman photo' get fixed.

New

• Screenshot editor's blur / rectangle / arrow tools now show a live dashed marquee while you drag — you can see the selection area BEFORE releasing, matching how every other screenshot tool works.
• Ctrl/Cmd+C copies selected assets to the OS clipboard: image files go as raster (paste directly into Photoshop, Slack, etc.), text snippets go as text, other files copy their path. Multi-select with all images copies the first one's image data.
• Right-click menu on any asset now has a 'Copy' option with Ctrl+C shortcut label.
• Clipboard history's text entries now have an Import (+) button that saves the text as a library snippet, same pattern as the existing image Import button.

Windows · v0.9.9

v0.9.8April 17, 2026

Design audit cleanup: unified logotype, less glass, less shadow, wrapping toolbar, bigger hit targets, IconButton primitive

Fixed

• Logotype font was inconsistent — title bar used Agbalumo, loading screen used Fraunces. Now Agbalumo everywhere for the 'refchi' wordmark. Design doc updated to document the canonical logotype.
• Grid toolbar overflowed at 900px minimum window width when both side panels were open — density and layout controls were clipped. Added flex-wrap so chips fall to a second row when needed.
• Type filter's close (×) button was a 14px hit target (WCAG 2.5.5 AA requires 24×24). Increased padding to meet the spec without growing the visible icon.
• Color palette swatches in the preview modal were 20×20 px. Increased to 28×28 for more comfortable clicking while staying visually restrained.
• Favicon load error in preview modal bookmarks was mutating DOM directly in onError — now tracked via state for consistency with the rest of the error-handling surface.
• Preview modal bottom bar's left column could overflow onto the center color palette when the asset had a long category label. Added min-w-0 + truncate so the palette stays centered.

Improved

• Removed 8 decorative drop-shadows from file icons that sat on solid backgrounds — no information value, just noise. Design doc principle is 'low visual noise, no decorative clutter'.
• Removed 4 backdrop-blur uses that violated the design doc's 'no glass' principle (inspector preview button, drop-zone indicator, screenshot area selector tooltip, note cover button). The preview modal's full-screen scrim stays because it's a legitimate darken pattern.
• Removed the shadow-xl on the clipboard panel — the design doc says panels should feel 'anchored, not floaty'. Now border-only, matching the inspector panel.
• Asset and bookmark cards now use `ring-1 ring-inset` for their always-present 1px outline instead of a hacky `box-shadow: 0 0 0 1px` — same effect, readable intent.
• New IconButton primitive at @/components/base/buttons/icon-button with three variants (chrome / action / inline) and three sizes (xs / sm / md). Sidebar quick-capture row migrated to use it. Other icon-button sites can migrate incrementally.

Windows · v0.9.8

v0.9.7April 17, 2026

Data-integrity hardening: library mutex, single-instance lock, per-asset OCR saves, plus a11y and perf polish

Fixed

• Data loss on long OCR backfills — used to load the library once at backfill start, run OCR on every untagged image (potentially hours), then save the stale snapshot at the end. Any edits the user made during the window (deletions, tag changes, folder moves, notes) were silently reverted. Now re-reads the library before each asset, saves in batches of 4 through a single mutation lock.
• Double-launch corruption — if you double-clicked the shortcut or ran dev + packaged side-by-side, both processes would race on library.json and overwrite each other. Added a single-instance lock at app boot; the second launch focuses the existing window instead.
• Color palette backfill same clobber pattern as OCR — now uses the same mutex so concurrent user edits survive.
• Content-tags backfill could run twice concurrently (startup + import-triggered). Added a guard so only one runs at a time.
• bridge.aiOcr IPC rejections were uncaught in the renderer — a thrown main-process error resulted in a silent failure with no toast. Wrapped in try/catch.
• Sidebar used aria-hidden when collapsed, which the ARIA spec forbids for ancestors of focusable content. Switched to the inert attribute, which both hides from screen readers AND removes descendants from the tab order.
• Empty grid now distinguishes 'no assets yet' from 'no results for your search' — typing a query that matches nothing shows the query you searched and a Clear button instead of misleading 'Import files' CTAs.
• Font preview glyphs are no longer read aloud by screen readers (their visual-only purpose was producing gibberish in dingbat/symbol fonts). The whole sample is now labeled 'Font sample for <filename>' with aria-hidden on the glyph blocks.
• FontFace cleanup now removes the exact font instance the component added rather than searching by family name, so rapid arrow-key navigation through font assets can't accumulate orphan entries in document.fonts.
• CLIP content-tagging engine errors now surface as toasts (previously silent).

Improved

• Text search tag matching was O(assets × tags × tags) — a find() lookup inside a some() inside a filter(). For 10k assets × 5 tags × 200 tags that's 10M iterations per keystroke. Precompute a tagId→name map once per search; now 50k Map hits.
• Semantic search corpus building had the same pattern. Precompute a tag map once per query rather than per-asset.

Windows · v0.9.7

v0.9.6April 17, 2026

Sidebar quick-capture row, Notion-style panel toggles in the title bar, S-Folders rename

Improved

• The three quick-capture buttons (text snippet, clipboard, screenshot) moved from a cramped row next to Import to a dedicated 3-column row beneath it — each button is now full-width within its cell, framed, and visually a peer of Import rather than a satellite
• Sidebar and inspector toggle buttons are now Notion/Claude-style icon buttons in the title bar (LayoutLeft / LayoutRight) — replaces the long thin edge bars that used to sit between panels, which were undiscoverable and visually noisy
• Smart Folders renamed to S-Folders throughout the UI — cleaner in the sidebar and matches the app's compact section-header convention

Windows · v0.9.6

v0.9.5April 17, 2026

CLIP content tagging: semantic search understands what's IN your images; fixed sidebar + toggle

New

• Images are now tagged by their actual content using CLIP zero-shot classification — searches like 'person', 'man', 'landscape', 'dog', 'food' now find matching images even when the filename has no such word. Previously the classifier was pure geometry (aspect ratio, colors, edges) and could only match 'photo', 'portrait', 'landscape' (the orientation).
• ~55 content labels across people, places, animals, objects, design & digital, art & illustration, text — tags appear as asset.contentTags and feed into the semantic search corpus automatically
• Sidebar gained a collapse/expand toggle button on its right edge — click the chevron to slide the sidebar in or out. Preference persists across app restarts.

Improved

• Sidebar is now fixed at 224 px wide — no longer user-resizable. The app's typography and spacing is tuned for this width; drag-resize meant labels would overflow or space would be wasted depending on where you stopped.
• Turkish 'Import' button now reads 'Ekle' instead of the overly-literal 'İçe Aktar'.

Fixed

• CLIP model (~90 MB, Xenova/clip-vit-base-patch32) downloads once on first run and is cached under userData/models. Subsequent runs are instant. Content tagging runs in the background after all other startup tasks so the app stays responsive.

Windows · v0.9.5

v0.9.4April 17, 2026

Semantic search: absolute floor + relative top-score filter for confident results only

Improved

• Semantic search is now gated by both an absolute score floor (0.22, up from 0.12) and a relative filter that requires each result to score at least 70% of the top match — so when the model finds something obviously strong you get that match plus close neighbors, and when it finds nothing confident you fall through to text search instead of seeing a long tail of weakly-related items
• Weak queries that would previously surface 30+ loosely-similar results now correctly fall back to text search, because their top score is already below the absolute floor

Windows · v0.9.4

v0.9.3April 17, 2026

Balanced semantic search, color palette backfill, centered preview palette, clear-search button

Improved

• Semantic search threshold tuned to 0.12 — the middle ground between v0.9.2's 0.08 (too loose, noisy long tail) and v0.9.0's 0.15 (too strict, missed filename-only matches)
• Preview modal's color palette is now centered under the image, not right-aligned — visually anchored to the preview
• Preview modal's title, dimensions, size, and asset counter render white with a drop-shadow over the blurred backdrop, instead of muted tokens that disappeared against the glass
• Search bar gained a clear (×) button that appears as soon as you type — the searching/semantic pill tucks to its left so both stay visible during search

Fixed

• Images drag-and-dropped from the web now get color palettes — nativeImage occasionally returned empty on just-written files (kernel write-buffer race on Windows); added a readFileSync → createFromBuffer fallback that rescues those cases
• Added a color-palette backfill pass on startup that re-extracts palettes for any image asset with empty colors, catches historical imports and web-drop edge cases the initial extraction missed

Windows · v0.9.3

v0.9.2April 17, 2026

Semantic search + OCR now actually visible, screenshot editor clicks work, bundled offline OCR

Fixed

• Screenshot editor's header buttons, color swatches, and tool buttons (blur, draw, arrow, rect, text) were unclickable on Windows — the frameless title bar's `-webkit-app-region: drag` was bleeding through the editor overlay, so clicks went to the OS window-drag instead of the buttons. Added `app-no-drag-region` to the editor root.
• Semantic search silently showed an empty grid when the model returned zero matches above threshold — now falls back to text search so users always see something relevant. Previously an empty ranked list engaged "semantic mode" and filtered everything out with no text-search fallback.
• OCR now works offline on first run — bundled the English language data (2.9 MB) as extra resources and set Tesseract's `langPath` to the local copy. Previously first-run OCR silently fetched from cdn.jsdelivr.net and failed on any firewall / offline / corporate network.
• OCR button now appears for all image extensions Tesseract can decode (jpg/jpeg/png/bmp/tiff/webp/gif/pbm/pgm/ppm/pnm), not just assets whose library type happens to be `image` or `gif` — previously an imported PNG classified as anything else silently had no button.

Improved

• Semantic search now triggers on any 3+ character query instead of requiring 2 words — single-word queries like "logo" or "minimalist" now go through the model.
• Semantic score threshold lowered from 0.15 to 0.08 so legitimate matches from short-corpus assets (filename + tags only, no notes) still rank.
• Search bar now shows a "Searching…" spinner pill while the model loads or while embeddings are in flight — first-run model download (~22 MB from Hugging Face) no longer looks like the app is hanging.
• Renderer now subscribes to AI engine status changes from the main process and surfaces load failures as toasts — if the semantic model or OCR engine fails to initialize, you see it immediately instead of silently getting empty results.

Windows · v0.9.2

v0.9.1April 16, 2026

Hotfix: startup crash (missing transitive deps) and bulletproof packaging

Fixed

• Startup crash 'Cannot find module regenerator-runtime/runtime' — tesseract.js's hoisted transitive deps were trapped inside app.asar while tesseract.js itself lived in app.asar.unpacked, so Node's require walk couldn't find them
• Generated the full transitive dependency closure of tesseract.js and @xenova/transformers and unpacked all 43 runtime deps (regenerator-runtime, node-fetch, bmp-js, @huggingface/jinja, color, semver, streamx, tar-fs, and more) so any require from the unpacked AI packages now resolves

Windows · v0.9.1

v0.9.0April 16, 2026

Stability & cleanup: file logger, diagnostics panel, structured IPC errors, shared utilities

New

• Persistent log file at userData/logs/refchi.log — every update check, AI engine status change, and unexpected error is recorded with timestamps; auto-rotates at 1 MB
• About panel now shows the library path and log file path with Reveal / Open buttons so support questions take one click instead of a scavenger hunt
• About panel footer shows platform, architecture, Electron and Node versions for bug reports

Improved

• Auto-updater now writes every step to the log file — download progress, available versions, errors — so 'update didn't work' can be diagnosed after the fact
• Auto-updater fallback timer now flips to a clear 'No response from update server' error instead of silently claiming you're up to date when the server is unreachable
• Auto-updater UI cancels its 12-second fallback as soon as a real status event arrives, so late responses can't flip a downloaded-and-ready state back to an error
• Saving library changes now surfaces the real reason if the disk is full or permissions are denied — previously the UI showed a generic 'could not save' toast with no detail
• Dropping an image URL that fails to download now tells you why (404, non-image content type, network blocked) instead of silently doing nothing
• URL metadata fetcher now returns a fetchFailed flag + reason when bookmark enrichment fails so the UI can distinguish 'site has no metadata' from 'fetch blocked'
• Embedding cache is now flushed on before-quit as well as window-all-closed, so forced OS shutdowns don't lose search history

Fixed

• Consolidated four inline copies of the local-file:// URL decoder (preview modal, image fallback, SVG fallback, text fallback) into a single shared helper — previously a bug fix in one site diverged from the others
• Consolidated three duplicate copies of VISUAL_TYPES / IMAGE_MIME_BY_EXT / MARKDOWN_EXTENSIONS — new file types now only need to be added in one place

Windows · v0.9.0

v0.8.14April 16, 2026

Semantic search + OCR fixed in packaged builds, font preview, code file preview, robust error handling

Fixed

• Semantic search now actually works in packaged builds — the installer was excluding the @xenova/transformers ESM entrypoint so the model never loaded; exclusion rules corrected
• OCR now works in packaged builds — tesseract.js is unpacked from the asar archive, worker and core paths are set explicitly so the engine loads on first run
• AI engines now surface real errors instead of failing silently — users see 'Semantic search unavailable — using text search' toasts and specific OCR reasons ('No text found', 'OCR engine unavailable', etc.)
• Link-mode assets whose source file was moved or deleted now show a clear 'File is missing' message in the preview modal instead of a blank area
• Video and audio files that the built-in Chromium player can't decode now show an 'Open in default app' fallback instead of a broken player

New

• Font files (.ttf, .otf, .woff, .woff2) now preview with a full glyph sample — 'Ag' at 72pt, the pangram at 40pt, full character set, and sample paragraphs — all rendered in the actual font via the FontFace API
• Source code and config files preview as syntax-friendly text — .ts, .tsx, .js, .py, .rs, .go, .sh, .sql, .html, .css, .env, .dockerfile, and 30+ more extensions now show their contents inline instead of a generic icon
• Archive files (.zip, .rar, .7z, etc.) show a clear 'Reveal in explorer' action so users can extract with their native tool of choice
• Text snippet assets (clipboard-imported text) now preview their stored content directly in the modal

Improved

• Semantic search results are now persisted across sessions — embeddings are cached to disk keyed by content hash, so subsequent searches return instantly instead of re-embedding the whole library on every launch
• Lowered semantic search score threshold from 0.25 to 0.15 so filename-only matches still rank
• File reads through IPC are now guarded with a 25 MB cap — a 500 MB log file or oversized SVG no longer freezes the window; oversized text files show a truncated preview with a clear notice
• OCR backfill aborts early if the engine itself fails to load, preventing 100 consecutive failed reads

Windows · v0.8.14

v0.8.13April 16, 2026

OBJ model preview, image preview resilience, media load fallbacks

New

• Wavefront .obj 3D models now preview with a full Three.js viewer — orbit controls, auto-centering, and a default material for untextured meshes
• .obj grid thumbnails render a live auto-rotating 3D preview instead of a generic 3D badge

Fixed

• Images that fail to load through the local-file:// protocol now fall back to an IPC blob URL — rescues PNG/JPG/WebP files that the custom protocol couldn't stream due to path encoding or MIME edge cases
• Failed image previews now show a clear 'Could not load image' message instead of a blank area

Windows · v0.8.13

v0.8.12April 14, 2026

Protocol hardening and dead-code cleanup

Fixed

• Local file protocol handler now strips query strings and fragments before decoding paths — prevents edge-case 404s on URLs with unexpected suffixes

Improved

• Removed unreachable GIF branch in preview modal — GIF files are already handled by the image renderer

Windows · v0.8.12

v0.8.11April 14, 2026

SVG preview: inline rendering for full fidelity across all SVG types

Fixed

• SVG files now render inline in the preview modal instead of as data URIs — eliminates blank previews caused by btoa encoding edge cases and works reliably for all SVG content including complex filters and gradients
• SVG preview now works even when filePath is not set — falls back to deriving the path from previewUrl, matching the same pattern used for text files

Windows · v0.8.11

v0.8.10April 14, 2026

Hotfix: restore image, PDF, audio, and video preview

Fixed

• Images, PDFs, audio, and video files no longer show a blank preview — the local-file:// protocol handler was broken by a scheme registration flag added in 0.8.9 that mangled Windows paths during URL normalization

Windows · v0.8.10

v0.8.9April 14, 2026

Preview fixes, embedded URL view, and sidebar rename bug fix

New

• URL assets now open in an embedded browser view inside the preview modal — a toolbar shows the URL with options to go back to the card view or open in the system browser

Fixed

• SVG files now preview reliably via data URI — bypasses local-file protocol issues on Windows
• Screenshot editor no longer shows a blank canvas when the image fails to load — it now dismisses cleanly
• Inline rename in the sidebar no longer double-saves when pressing Enter — the blur event is now correctly suppressed

Windows · v0.8.9

v0.8.8April 14, 2026

Full i18n pass, accessibility hardening, reduced-motion support

Improved

• Inspector panel is now fully translated — all labels, buttons, and status strings respect the active language
• Added 16 missing locale keys for AI Analysis, OCR controls, and preview actions (English and Turkish)
• Spinners now respect the system's 'Reduce motion' preference and stop animating when it is enabled
• All icon-only buttons in the title bar, inspector, bulk action bar, and sidebar context menu now have proper accessible labels
• Sidebar context menu (Rename / Delete) uses translated strings instead of hardcoded English
• Bulk action bar tag dropdown exposes correct ARIA roles (menu / menuitem) and expanded state
• Electron drag region moved from inline style objects to reusable CSS utility classes

Fixed

• mainWindow initialized to null instead of undefined to avoid potential early-access edge cases

Windows · v0.8.8

v0.8.7April 14, 2026

OCR and semantic search wired, AI hint banners, preview fixes, leaner exe

New

• OCR text extraction is now manually triggerable from the inspector — click 'Extract text' on any image to run on-device OCR via Tesseract.js
• Semantic search is now active — type a phrase in the search bar and AI ranks results by meaning, not just filename
• First-run AI hint banners explain semantic search and OCR once, then dismiss permanently
• SVG files now preview correctly in the preview modal on Windows (MIME type was misreported by the OS)
• TXT files now show a loading spinner while reading, then render the full text content
• Non-Lottie JSON files now display as raw text instead of showing a generic file icon

Improved

• Image preview in preview modal no longer overlaps the color palette row — max height capped to 80vh
• Inspector 'Extracted text' section increased to 4 lines of preview
• Exe size reduced ~10–35MB by excluding source maps, TypeScript type declarations, and unused @xenova/transformers source files from the build

Windows · v0.8.7

v0.8.6April 14, 2026

UI quality pass — performance, accessibility, and full i18n coverage

Improved

• Notes panel collapse animation now uses width transition instead of grid-template-columns — no more layout thrashing
• All color swatch hover states replaced with ring/opacity feedback — no more hitbox mismatch from CSS transforms
• Bookmark fallback card replaced gradient with neutral background and Globe icon
• Preview modal color chips enlarged and use opacity hover instead of scale-150
• Model thumbnail placeholder now uses flat background instead of gradient
• Toast slide-in animation respects prefers-reduced-motion
• Notes panel collapse animation respects prefers-reduced-motion
• Density +/- buttons now show cursor-not-allowed when disabled

Fixed

• Inspector preview images now load lazily — no unnecessary network/disk reads when scrolling
• Status bar refreshing dots use correct fg-tertiary token instead of bg-current
• i18n default context now resolves against bundled English — translation keys never leak as raw strings outside a provider

New

• Full i18n coverage: toolbar type/sort labels, status bar, grid toolbar, import modal, toast messages, and inspector all use translation keys
• Turkish translations updated with all new keys

Windows · v0.8.6

v0.8.5April 14, 2026

Turkish i18n, settings panel fixes, dark mode contrast, dropdown flash fix

New

• Turkish translation — full UI localization via Settings → General → Interface language
• i18n infrastructure — reusable translation script supports any language via DeepSeek API (`node scripts/translate.js <lang_code> <lang_name>`)
• Export Library (JSON) and Import Library (JSON) buttons in Settings → Advanced are now fully functional
• Clear Thumbnail Cache button in Settings → Advanced now calls the Electron session cache clear

Fixed

• Advanced panel toggles (Hardware acceleration, Lazy load thumbnails, Show debug console) now save to preferences instead of being hardcoded
• Dark theme contrast in Appearance panel — unselected theme and tint buttons now use stronger text and background tokens
• Light theme dropdown flash — added `color-scheme: light/dark` CSS to `.light-mode`/`.dark-mode` so native OS controls render in the correct theme without flashing
• Drop zone now imports partial batches gracefully — if one file in a multi-file drop fails to read, the rest still import instead of aborting the whole batch
• Smart Folders section in sidebar now shows the correct label instead of 'S-FOLDERS'

Windows · v0.8.5

v0.8.4April 14, 2026

Text snippets, trash permanent delete, accessibility and performance improvements

New

• Save text snippets directly as library assets — use the text button in the sidebar or empty state, paste from clipboard or type, saved under a Text Snippets tag

Fixed

• Items already in trash now permanently delete when you choose Delete — previously the trash dialog appeared and did nothing
• Context menu in the trash view now shows 'Delete permanently' instead of 'Move to trash'
• Preview modal and Clipboard panel now correctly trap keyboard focus — Tab no longer leaks into background content
• Toolbar filter, sort, and color dropdowns now have correct ARIA roles (menu/menuitemradio) — screen readers no longer see invalid listbox/option on button elements
• Asset filePath field typed as optional — URL assets and text snippets no longer carry a misleading required-but-empty field

Improved

• Asset grid re-renders dramatically reduced — selecting one card no longer triggers re-renders for all other cards
• Drop zone now surfaces an error notification if a file import fails instead of silently doing nothing
• Bulk action bar disables all buttons during in-progress operations to prevent double-submits
• Notes save now flashes a brief 'Saved' confirmation in the inspector
• Memoized additional components: SidebarItem, FolderTreeItem, NotesView, AssetList, ColumnHeader

Windows · v0.8.4

v0.8.3April 13, 2026

Fix selection ring and card footer color

Fixed

• Selection ring now renders correctly on all four sides — restored z-20 absolute ring div; inset box-shadow was being buried under card content
• Card footer is now visibly lighter than the canvas background in both light and dark modes

Windows · v0.8.3

v0.8.2April 13, 2026

UI hardening: selection ring, card height, toggle hitbox, about logo

Fixed

• Selection ring no longer clips on the right edge of cards — moved to inset box-shadow which is immune to column layout clipping
• Portrait image thumbnails (PDFs, tall images) capped at 260px height — cards no longer grow excessively tall while images load
• Settings toggle rows now use a single button element — eliminates the misaligned hitbox from the old label+button nesting
• About page now shows the correct app icon instead of the placeholder layers icon

Windows · v0.8.2

v0.8.1April 13, 2026

Bug fix: asset selection and card height

Fixed

• Asset selection restored — clicking any card now correctly selects it and shows the selection ring
• Non-visual asset cards (PDFs, 3D files, documents) no longer grow excessively tall at high grid densities

Windows · v0.8.1

v0.8.0April 13, 2026

Accessibility hardening, bug fixes, and production polish

Improved

• All interactive elements are now native buttons — better keyboard navigation and screen reader support across the board
• Bookmark cards converted to native button elements with proper selection state
• Color filter clear button now fully keyboard-accessible
• Theme toggle on the website now announces its state to screen readers
• Inspector color palette: 'Copy all colors' button properly labelled for assistive technology
• Demo UI in landing page correctly marked as decorative for screen readers

Fixed

• Update checker no longer accumulates stale timeouts — checking for updates multiple times in a row no longer causes delayed UI glitches
• App version now sourced directly from package.json — version in settings, landing page, and release notes always stay in sync
• Sidebar empty states (no folders, no smart folders, no tags) now render consistently with the shared empty-state component

Windows · v0.8.0

v0.7.8April 13, 2026

New logo, Agbalumo logotype, accessibility pass, performance improvements

New

• New Refchi logo and favicon — custom 'r' mark replaces placeholder icon
• Agbalumo logotype in the title bar and all landing pages
• Dark mode logo variant — title bar icon adapts correctly in dark theme

Improved

• macOS title bar: increased left padding so traffic light buttons never overlap the logotype
• Asset card is now a native button — better keyboard navigation and screen reader support
• Sort direction is now field-aware: Name sorts A→Z by default, dates and size sort newest/largest first
• Section headers and empty-state text in sidebar bumped to higher contrast
• Asset card dimensions and tag labels now meet WCAG AA contrast at small sizes
• Status bar filter labels are now fully legible at all sizes
• Faster startup — heavy components now load on demand
• Smoother performance when browsing large libraries
• Smart collection rule editor no longer glitches when removing a rule mid-list

Fixed

• Smart collection name field correctly associated with its label for screen readers
• Preview and clipboard dialogs now correctly trap focus for screen readers
• Tag selector now works correctly with keyboard and screen readers
• Navigation and inspector panels now have proper accessibility landmark labels
• Inspector tag dropdown now closes when clicking outside
• Reveal in Explorer no longer silently fails if the path is unavailable

Windows · v0.7.8

v0.7.7April 12, 2026

System tray: minimize to tray, launch at startup, tray menu

New

• Minimize to system tray — app stays in tray when window is closed
• Tray right-click menu: Open, Check for Updates, Launch at Startup, Quit
• Launch at Startup toggle directly from tray menu

Windows · v0.7.7

v0.7.6April 12, 2026

macOS support, new app icon, sidebar polish

New

• macOS build — unsigned beta for testing, signed release coming soon
• New app icon — dark monogram on white rounded square

Improved

• Sidebar: Smart Folders now appears above Tags
• Default library starts with one folder and a clean set of starter tags
• macOS title bar: traffic lights properly positioned, custom controls hidden

Windows · v0.7.6

v0.7.5April 12, 2026

Canvas mode, notes with calendar, and AI semantic search

New

• Canvas editor — freeform board for spatially arranging assets
• Notes with rich text editing (headings, lists, tasks, code blocks, links)
• Note calendar view — browse notes by creation date
• Note bubble menu bar for inline text formatting
• Semantic search — find assets by meaning, not just filename

Improved

• Inspector panel sections are now collapsible
• Screenshot editor rewritten — cleaner toolbar and tool layout
• Various UI consistency improvements across the app

Windows · v0.7.5