v1.1.0

🚀 v1.1.0 Release Notes

This release introduces a redesigned visual and navigation experience, refactors the PDF translation pipeline to support a wider variety of academic paper layouts, and officially launches the Capabilities Registry.

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✨ Highlights & Improvements

• 🎨 Redesigned UI & Navigation:

  • Added a dedicated Home page with clear feature guidance and streamlined workflows.
  • Added a Capabilities page to transparently track the parsing engine's progress and verification status.

• 📑 Capabilities Registry (10 Core Metrics):

  • Formally established a roadmap tracking 10 essential layout parsing capabilities.
  • Successfully finalized and shipped the first two core milestones:
    • Column (Physical Column Restoration): Eliminates cross-column text interleaving in multi-column literature.
    • Geometry (Spatial Layout Constraints): Enforces precise spatial bounding to ensure translated text fits natural layout boundaries.

• ⚡ Optimized PDF Translation Pipeline:

  • Overhauled underlying parsing and structure assertion logic, significantly improving compatibility across various academic templates (IEEE, ACM, arXiv, etc.).
  • Enhanced translation completeness validation and export reliability to prevent silent truncation.

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📦 Installation & Upgrade

• New Install / In-place Upgrade: Download Minimalist-Translation-Setup.exe from the Assets below and run the installer.
• Windows Security Notice: The current build uses an unsigned release policy. If Windows SmartScreen prompts "Unknown Publisher", simply click "More info" → "Run anyway".

Minimalist Translation v1.0.0

Minimalist Translation v1.0.0

Minimalist Translation v1.0.0 is a Windows local-first, Source Available translation client. This release includes ordinary PDF translation, academic-paper PDF translation and unified user-managed OpenAI-compatible Provider settings.

Desktop Float Ball remains experimental and is not included in the v1.0.0 installer or stable support scope. The hosted Proxy is maintained separately and is not required by this client release.

Windows download verification

The v1.0.0 installer is intentionally unsigned. Windows may display “Unknown publisher” or a Microsoft Defender SmartScreen warning.

• Installer: Minimalist-Translation-Setup-1.0.0.exe
• Size: 132,594,735 bytes
• SHA-256: 172BB855628555C4CBA06682C4AF4EA23987027E2BC5781000DD64E20475B9CA
• Expected Authenticode status: NotSigned

Verify before running:

Get-FileHash -Algorithm SHA256 .\Minimalist-Translation-Setup-1.0.0.exe
Get-AuthenticodeSignature .\Minimalist-Translation-Setup-1.0.0.exe

Do not install the file if its SHA-256 differs. See CODE_SIGNING_POLICY.md for the complete policy.

Third-party licenses

• Archive: Minimalist-Translation-1.0.0-Third-Party-Licenses.zip
• SHA-256: A731996A644CBE549C66A707107836D1A61361EF50548E3C2F6A9CB432BBD89A

The archive is derived from the actual packaged ASAR and Electron runtime. It contains the binary component inventory, package evidence, Electron/Chromium notices and per-file checksums.

License

Minimalist Translation is distributed under the Minimalist Translation Source Available Non-Commercial License 1.0. It permits specified non-commercial uses and is not an OSI-approved open-source license. Commercial use requires prior written authorization. Third-party components remain governed by their own licenses.

Release status

The formal v1.0.0 tag and GitHub Release were published on 2026-08-28. A full-history audit found no real credential exposure, and the public repository uses a clean root history containing only the approved release scope. All v1.0.0 release gates are closed.

Minimalist Translation v0.1.0

初始测试版。

使用方式：

1. 下载安装包或 zip
2. 如果是 zip，请先解压
3. 双击程序启动
4. 启动后划词翻译
5. 悬浮窗支持单词查询、语法变色

注意：

• 当前为测试版
• Windows 可能会提示未知发布者，选择仍要运行即可