v1.1.0

Added

• Issue IDs in description, acceptance criteria, design, notes, and comments
  now link to their bead. Command-click links while editing; hovering an editor
  link shows the same bead preview used elsewhere in the app.
• The app menu now includes Project Settings beneath Settings when a project is open.
• Dependency counters now open relationship previews that explain each direction
  and link directly to the active blocker or blocked beads.
• Label counters now open a compact preview of the bead's labels.
• Project Storage settings can disable automatic snapshot exports for external
  Beads changes while keeping direct snapshot-file refreshes enabled.
• Beads blocked by a decision gate now show a banner in the detail view with
  inline Approve and Reject actions, so resolving the gate no longer requires
  opening it first.

Changed

• Bead list display controls now live in the issue-list View Options menu and
  are remembered per project, while stale cut-off moved to Project Settings >
  Workflow.
• Comment bodies now load only when Activity is visible, keeping project loads
  lighter on trackers with long comment histories.
• Dependency icons and Relations headings now share the same Blocked by and
  Blocking symbols, and their counts include only the active relationships shown
  in the detail pane.
• Blocking relationships now use clear stop and raised-hand symbols instead of
  directional arrows. Child progress uses a nested-list symbol, and timer gates
  show a clock-badged blocked symbol where supported. Resolved timer gates drop
  the blocked styling and show a neutral timer symbol.
• External embedded-Dolt changes now trigger a coalesced background snapshot
  export and reload instead of waiting for the periodic JSONL export.
• Automatic snapshot refresh now catches changes made while Beadazzle was closed
  and keeps routine background catch-up from flashing a stale warning.
• Opening and refreshing large projects is faster: issue timestamps parse in a
  single pass, filter counts share the search scan with the visible list, and
  edits reuse the existing search index instead of rebuilding it.
• Sorting by title, status, or type is faster on large trackers, using a
  Finder-like natural order (case-insensitive, numeric-aware).
• New Bead, Open Beads Project, Refresh, and Find menu commands now target the
  focused window and disable when they don't apply, instead of broadcasting to
  every window.

Fixed

• Adding a comment no longer risks crashing the app when bd rejects the
  bead before reading the comment body.

• A stalled bd write now times out with an error after two minutes instead of
  silently blocking every subsequent edit behind it.

• bd commands run from Finder/Dock launches now see the same search path used
  to locate bd itself, so helpers like git or dolt resolve in embedded projects.

• Checking for external changes no longer freezes the UI briefly when bd is
  holding a database lock mid-write.

• Local builds without Sparkle signing keys no longer show update controls that
  can offer the current release as if it were newer than the running build.

• Auto-update setup docs now point to the public-release GitHub environment.

• Deleting from a bead's context menu now uses the same confirmation as bulk
  deletion.

• Existing stale cut-off and bead-list display preferences carry forward when
  they are first migrated to per-project settings.

• Failed snapshot exports now leave the existing data visible with a stale
  warning, and malformed JSONL snapshots identify the failing line instead of
  silently hiding records.

• Interactive metadata previews can be pinned without closing when they were
  already opened by hovering, and relationship previews no longer focus their
  header by default.