v0.3.0

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Milestone 0.3 Release Notes

This is version 0.3 of Griffon. This milestone focuses on stabilizing the daemon and turning the plugin architecture introduced in 0.2 into a fully manageable, user-facing extension system.

• Daemon Stability & Notifications: The daemon instability identified in 0.2 has been resolved. The daemon now handles notifications, and the GUI can reconnect to it without issue after a disconnect.
• Extension Management (GUI): Extensions (formerly "plugins") can now be enabled, disabled, added, and removed directly from the GUI — no more CLI-only workflow.
• Scanner Extension: The scanner library is finished and shipped as a proper extension file. New capabilities include scanning multiple files and paths in a single input, and automatically skipping safe/irrelevant paths (e.g. node_modules). The cleaner extension is unchanged from 0.2.
• Dashboard: The application's home page (dashboard) is complete.
• Activity Log: A new log view tracks every call made to each extension, sortable by priority.
• Settings Page: Reworked to support enabling/disabling extensions, adding/removing extensions, and configuring notification settings.
• UI & Naming Pass: General adjustments across the UI, including renaming "plugins" to "extensions" throughout the user-facing app.

Known Issues (Experimental)

This release is a development milestone and is not intended for production use.

• Extension Install/Remove Permissions: A rights/permissions issue in this build currently prevents adding or removing extensions from the GUI, even though the feature is implemented.

• Daemon Connectivity: Extensions can sometimes fail to connect to the daemon intermittently.

• User Group on Install: After installing Griffon, the current user may not be automatically added to the griffon group. If extensions fail to load, add yourself manually and re-log in (or reboot):

  sudo usermod -aG griffon $USER
  

Installation

Download the appropriate package for your distribution from the Assets section below:

For Debian / Ubuntu (.deb):

sudo apt install ./griffon-0.3.0.deb

For Fedora / RHEL (.rpm):

sudo dnf install ./griffon-0.3.0.rpm

(The complete source code at this stage of development is also available as a zip/tar.gz archive).

Full Changelog: https://github.com/GriffonAV/griffon/commits/v0.3.0

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