Release v0.2.8

Changes

• Persistent P2P Node Identity & Seed Stability: Stored a persistent 32-byte cryptographic node seed in SQLite (app_config.db) for Hyperswarm initialization, ensuring stable peer identities across restarts and eliminating DHT routing churn.
• Atomic SQLite Online Backups & WAL Checkpointing: Integrated SQLite's native db.backup() API for .onipkg exports to prevent database corruption during live writes, complemented by periodic passive WAL flushes every 10 minutes.
• Asynchronous Video Thumbnail Generation & Chat Previews: Added non-blocking FFmpeg WebP thumbnail extraction for uploaded videos, paired with rich chat media cards featuring format badges, play controls, and inline download progress.
• Virtualized PDF Viewer with Text Selection Layer: Integrated @tanstack/react-virtual in PdfViewer to render only in-viewport document pages with render task cancellation, alongside a PDF.js TextLayer for native text selection and copying.
• Keyboard Navigation for Mentions & Commands Popovers: Implemented full keyboard arrow, Enter, and Tab navigation across @mentions and /commands popovers with automatic scroll-into-view tracking.
• Precision Floating Formatting Toolbar: Rewrote selection measurement in useChatComposer using range.getClientRects(), anchoring the floating markdown bar directly above highlighted text with viewport boundary clamping and scroll tracking.
• Zustand Streamer Mode Store & Voice Server State Sync: Migrated streamer mode state to an atomic persistent Zustand store (useStreamerModeStore) and dynamically synced active voice server metadata on server update events.
• CSS Bundle Diet & Dependency Stripping: Removed unused dependencies (daisyui, react-resizable-panels, tailwindcss-animate), cutting the main production stylesheet size from 264 kB to 168 kB (36% reduction).
• Server Rail Visual Polish & Brand Asset Refresh: Standardized server icon hover and active states in ServerRail, eliminating outline artifacts and introducing high-resolution application branding assets.
• Component ClassName Normalization: Standardized conditional Tailwind class merging with cn() across UI primitives, including UserListItem, Isla, FlameBadge, and ColorPicker.

Release v0.2.7

Changes

• Server AFK Voice Channels & Inactivity Engine: Introduced automated AFK voice tracking (useVoiceAfkTracker) that monitors mic volume and typing activity, seamlessly relocating idle users to a designated AFK channel after a configurable timeout (1m to 1h) with strict mute enforcement.
• Drag-and-Drop Voice Member Moderation: Added native drag-and-drop moderation in ChannelsSidebar, allowing administrators and members with the new move_members permission to move voice participants between channels with real-time visual drop targeting.
• P2P Voice Move Authorization Protocol: Implemented secure P2P packet exchange (voice-move-member) with dual verification of administrator privileges against server metadata before executing remote voice channel relocations.
• Multi-Audio Track Probing & P2P Cinema Synchronization: Enhanced TorrentService to probe and map all audio streams in video torrents, enabling on-the-fly audio stream selection and real-time synchronized audio and subtitle track switching across watch party peers.
• Virtual Feed Scroll Stabilization & Bottom Pinning: Overhauled useChatScroll with direct @tanstack/react-virtual synchronization, programmatic scroll guards, and multi-pass layout settling to eliminate scroll jumps during late-mounting embeds and images.
• Server Channel & Category Management Redesign: Revamped ServerChannelsTab with dedicated quick-add buttons for text, voice, forum, and AFK channels, real-time channel search filtering, collapsible categories with member count badges, and reordered uncategorized channel placement.
• Unicode Grapheme Boundary Protection: Integrated safeSliceUnicode with Intl.Segmenter across room and server stores, eliminating corrupted multi-byte characters, emoji clusters, and mathematical scripts during name normalization and truncation.
• Extended System Typography Fallbacks: Expanded root font cascades in stylesheet tokens to include Segoe UI Historic, Cambria Math, and Apple Symbols for uniform cross-platform symbol and mathematical script rendering.
• Contextual Input Placeholders & Chat Usability: Added dynamic channel-scoped input placeholders (#{{channel}}) and updated the jump-to-present floating button with high-contrast theming and responsive text labels.
• Internationalization & Voice State Localization: Fully translated AFK warnings, remote move notifications, channel management controls, and role permissions across English, Spanish, and Portuguese locales.

Release v0.2.6

Changes

• AudioWorklet Loopback AEC for Screen Share Audio: Integrated an adaptive digital loopback echo cancellation worklet (loopback-aec-worklet.js) that analyzes speaker reference audio and cancels self-echo from Windows desktop audio capture during screen shares.
• Off-Thread CAS Cryptographic Worker: Offloaded SHA-256 hash generation and disk persistence for buffers larger than 64 KB to a dedicated Node.js worker thread (casHasherWorker.cjs), keeping the Electron main process and UI completely responsive.
• Harmonized 8-Level Typography Scale & UI Primitives: Established an 8-level typographic scale (2xs to 3xl) in Tailwind and token styles, backed by accessible and polymorphic Heading and Text primitives across chat, modals, and settings.
• Unified Activity Invite Cards & Notification Sanitization: Consolidated arcade, cinema, and watch party embeds into ActivityInviteCard with required voice channel permission guards, while stripping raw payload markers in desktop and in-app notifications.
• Adaptive Opus Audio Engine & Verified LAN Routing: Introduced dynamic Opus audio bitrate scaling (128 kbps studio quality for 1-4 callers, 96 kbps hi-fi, and 64 kbps standard) coupled with socket-verified LAN detection preventing spoofed routes.
• Stream Stage Architecture & Seamless PiP Transitions: Unified inline, floating Picture-in-Picture, and fullscreen player lifecycles in StreamDisplay and RoomStreamStage, eliminating audio dropouts and video unmounting during view transitions.
• Automated Watch Party Metadata & Chat Sharing: Automatic resolution of video titles and thumbnails via OpenGraph and oEmbed upon playback, alongside one-click interactive invite broadcasting directly from the media bar.
• Startup Pipeline Acceleration & Pre-Warmed Splash: Parallelized profile and server hydration, deferred non-critical background services, mounted the main view behind the splash screen for instant display, and parallelized background room swarms.
• Onboarding & Onipkg Backup Restoration Polish: Overhauled ProfileSetup with responsive two-column layouts, automatic avatar extraction from .onipkg archives, granular category checkboxes, and updated i18n translations across English, Spanish, and Portuguese.
• GPU Acceleration Flags & Cross-Room File Seeding: Enabled Chromium zero-copy and GPU canvas rasterization switches, while extending local file resolution across all joined rooms and SQLite download registries.

Release v0.2.5

Changes

• Virtual Chat Rendering & Feed Virtualization: Integrated @tanstack/react-virtual for 60 FPS message feed scrolling, smooth jump-to-message transitions, and O(M) single-pass thread participant precomputations.
• Zustand State Architecture & Voice Isolation: Decoupled voice telemetry and speaking indicators into atomic Zustand selectors (useVoiceStore), eliminating whole-tree re-renders, while centralizing application state (useAppStore).
• Modular Room & P2P Packet Architecture: Decomposed monolithic RoomView and RoomManager packet routers into dedicated domain submodules (RoomHeader, RoomOverlays, RoomRightSidebar, and modular P2P packet handlers).
• Swarm P2P File Distribution & Streaming: Multi-source block downloading with dynamic seeder scheduling, automated local database seeding, file handle pooling, and executable permission safeguards.
• Unified Sandboxed Plugin Host: Consolidated iframe runtime into SandboxedPluginFrame with strict permission checking, isolated storage, and collaborative P2P sync.
• Asset Diet, WOFF2 Fonts & Bundling Optimization: Replaced the 10.5 MB TTF icon font with compressed WOFF2, removed external Google Fonts dependencies, added dynamic on-demand i18n locale loading, and optimized Vite vendor chunking.
• WebRTC Voice Engine & Audio Resource Cleanup: Plugged audio node leaks, ensured complete camera/screen track deallocation on disconnect, and guarded against duplicate remote stream attachments.
• Automated yt-dlp Multi-Platform Binary Tooling: Introduced automated per-platform binary provisioning (ensure-ytdlp.cjs), offloading binaries from the main asar package to reduce installer overhead.
• Security & Media Protocol Hardening: Enforced strict origin guards on hardware/media capture and blocked unauthorized access to local database and credential files via internal media protocols.
• Dead Code & Legacy Deprecation Cleanup: Purged obsolete components (WelcomeScreen, JoinModal, e2ee.js, CloudBackupTab), stripping over 2,500 lines of technical debt.

Release v0.2.4

Onicord v0.2.4

Changes

• Desktop & In-App Notification Author Sanitization: Enhanced notification author resolution across webhooks, addons, bots, and members, eliminating raw hashes and ambiguous placeholders while formatting clean contextual titles for channels, DMs, and threads.
• Robust In-App Changelog & Markdown Formatting: Added HTML-to-markdown normalization for update feeds, native link support in ChangelogModal, and prioritized GitHub Release notes fetching with seamless cache fallbacks.
• UI Zoom Scaling & Settings Reversion Safeguards: Standardized display scaling on the document root element to eliminate layout shifts, and added automatic reversion of zoom and language tweaks when exiting settings without saving.
• Voice Shortcut & Mute State Reactivity: Fixed stale hook references in global voice shortcut listeners to guarantee instant mute toggling, backed by channel speak-permission guards.
• Plugin Toast Internationalization: Extended the sandbox toast API to support localized titles, message keys, and dynamic translation parameters for third-party addons.

Release v0.2.3

Onicord v0.2.3

Changes

• SQLite & Content-Addressed Storage (CAS) Database Architecture: Migrated core storage from flat JSON files to high-performance better-sqlite3 relational databases in WAL mode, coupled with a Content-Addressed Storage engine for SHA-256 media deduplication and automated legacy data migration.
• Interactive Server Moderation & Eviction Engine: Added native confirmation dialogs for kicking and banning members, real-time ban/kick propagation across peer swarms, instant unbanning, and graceful eviction modals replacing browser alert popups.
• Rich Server Invites & Direct TCP Connection Links: Full chat integration for server invites with live P2P metadata resolution (server icon, name, member count), one-click joining, and support for direct TCP deep links (onicord://direct:<IP>:<PORT>/<CODE>).
• Permission-Aware Unread Tracker & Server Read State: Isolated unread badge tracking enforcing role-based channel visibility (hasChannelAccess) and direct message recipient verification, alongside one-click "Mark as Read" actions for channels and servers.
• Message Grouping & Server-Scoped Identity Polish: Hardened message grouping logic preventing improper clustering between local users, remote peers, and webhooks, with full propagation of server-specific profiles across reply previews and reaction bars.
• P2P Media Streaming & Engine Optimization: Streamlined background torrent engine prioritization, enhanced on-the-fly FFmpeg audio/video remuxing and transcoding fallbacks, and updated bundled yt-dlp binary.

Release v0.2.2

Onicord v0.2.2

Changes

• Enhanced Auto-Updater & Native Changelog System: Integrated silent background downloads for packaged installer updates, automatic installation upon app quit, and a dedicated ChangelogModal with live markdown formatting accessible from the About tab for both current and incoming versions. Added automated update verification, hot-reloading in the sandbox, and update notifications for installed community addons.
• Public P2P Server Discovery & Community Exploration (Discover): Introduced a decentralized peer-to-peer discovery engine with zero central servers, allowing public communities to advertise across the DHT swarm with custom tags, categories, descriptions, and banners, complete with a "Knock to Join" approval and rate-limiting system.
• Dedicated Forum Channels & Thread Discussion System: Native forum channel architecture (type: "forum") with structured ForumPostCard layouts, interactive ForumTagsBar topic filtering, expandable post composer with title and #tag extraction, top-anchored descending scroll, and deep thread panel integration.
• Native Backup & Vault System (.onipkg / .onibackup): Comprehensive local archive vault engine enabling encrypted, category-granular export and restoration (profile, servers, chats, plugins, and stickers), automated scheduled vault backups with retention policies, and first-run restoration directly on the Profile Setup onboarding screen.
• Per-Server Profiles & Custom Identity: Full support for server-specific identities, allowing members to customize their nickname, avatar, banner color, status, and custom link per server without altering their global profile, synchronized in real time across peer swarms.
• Discord-Style Mosaic Media Gallery & Multi-File Uploads: Dynamic responsive image grids for multi-attachment messages (1-image, 2-column, 3-tile mosaic, and 4+ 2x2 grids with remaining counters), combined with multi-file composition staging and interactive lightbox carousel navigation.
• Contextual Skeleton Loading & Anti-Flicker Transitions: Staggered breathing wireframe animations (onicord-skeleton-breath) tailored for both text and forum channels, featuring smooth cross-fade exits that eliminate layout shifts during message hydration while respecting reduced-motion accessibility preferences.
• Automated Server Welcomes & Default Role Assignment: Configurable server welcome system dispatching localized greetings to designated channels upon peer arrival with dynamic translation of default templates, alongside automated assignment of base member roles.
• Granular Channel Communication & Read-Only Restrictions: Configurable channel-level speak/write permissions for text and forum channels, allowing administrators to establish read-only announcement channels and restrict messaging by role, backed by real-time audit log tracking.
• Background Auto-Download of Shared Media & Custom Download Directory: Optional background downloading of shared media attachments with configurable file size limits (10 MB to 10 GB or unlimited), custom download directory selection, and local deduplication against existing files.
• Server Rail & Database Stability Polish: Active voice indicators with green glow on collapsed server folders, standardized z-index design tokens, serialized database write queues, and automatic recovery of corrupted or missing servers from room-meta archives.

Release v0.2.1

Onicord v0.2.1

Changes

• Native P2P Media Streaming Engine: Integrated local HTTP chunking server for peer-to-peer torrent and magnet streams with native range-request buffering, automatic audio/video codec probing, and real-time transcoding fallbacks for browser-incompatible media formats.
• Agnostic Addon Stage Framework: Standardized plugin host lifecycle protocols, resume-time synchronization, and isolated per-addon stage progression storage, enabling seamless theater and Picture-in-Picture modes for third-party media and game addons.
• Chat Input & Text Caret Stability: Resolved text caret position jumps and selection offset loss during markdown formatting, emoji insertion, and text composition within the chat input area.
• Reply Formatting & Quote Sanitization: Cleaned up message reply previews by eliminating raw system placeholders, binary attachment flags, and formatting artifacts across quoted message bubbles and thread cards.
• Keybinding Collision Safeguards: Added strict input-focus guards to the global and local keybinding engines, preventing accidental triggers of Push-to-Talk, deafen, mute, or search shortcuts while typing in message fields or textareas.
• Continuous Animation Freezing: Full integration of the reduced-motion and continuous-animation accessibility toggles, freezing infinite CSS keyframe loops and pausing animated avatars, stickers, and brand icons to eliminate background CPU and GPU overhead.
• Interactive Chat Embed Theming: Aligned interactive addon card action buttons with the atomic dark-accent contrast standards, ensuring readability and visual consistency across all active themes.
• PiP Stage Layout Decoupling: Fixed chat room visibility being suppressed when an active video or game addon stage transitions into floating Picture-in-Picture mode.

Release v0.2.0

Onicord v0.2.0

Changes

• Synchronized P2P Watch Party: Watch synchronized YouTube and web videos directly in voice lounges with dual Theatre and GPU-accelerated PiP floating mini-player modes, drift compensation, subtitle selection, and contextual right-click chat integration.
• Streamer Mode & Broadcast Privacy: Automatic detection of active streaming software (OBS, Twitch Studio, Streamlabs) or manual toggle, with instant masking of room codes, invite links, and server keys, suppression of message popups, and a purple avatar streaming status.
• Autonomous Server Webhooks & Feed Ingress: Push alerts directly into channels with Discord-compatible JSON payloads via a built-in local HTTP ingress server, or configure autonomous RSS/Atom/JSON feed polling over the P2P swarm without cloud dependencies.
• Universal Settings Search & Flash Navigation: Instant real-time search across all application and server settings tabs with automated tab switching, smooth scrolling, and visual pulse highlight (flash navigation) on target preference cards.
• Standardized Floating Media Bar: Unified, distraction-free floating media controls shared across Watch Party, Screen Sharing, and Arcade stages with volume sliders, audio ducking, and theatre toggle adhering to the Catppuccin Mocha palette.
• Intelligent Media Audio Ducking: Integrated audio ducking for Watch Party video streams, automatically attenuating playback volume whenever a peer speaks in the voice lounge for crystal-clear conversations.
• Screen Share Full-Area Stage: Expanded video streaming display to occupy 100% full-area stage layout, matching the dimensions of the Arcade and Watch Party interfaces.
• Modular P2P Soundboard Addon: Official .onipkg Soundboard addon for the Plugin Island, enabling participants to drop custom audio clips (.mp3, .wav, .ogg), sync them in real time across peers, and play soundboard effects in voice calls.
• Multi-Language Localization Parity: Complete translations across Spanish (es), English (en), and Portuguese (pt) for all new settings, search, streamer mode, and watch party features.

Release v0.1.9

Onicord v0.1.9

Changes

• Interactive Toast Notifications: Toasts are now fully interactive with contextual click actions—clicking message notifications navigates straight to the active server/channel, while update alerts open Settings directly to the About tab.
• Dynamic Accent Glow & Sender Avatars: Info toasts dynamically inherit the user's selected theme accent color for borders and ambient glows, and message notifications display the sender's avatar or initial letter badge.
• Ultra-Fluid PiP Floating Windows: Dragging floating PiP windows (screen shares and addon stage games) is now hardware-accelerated with GPU transforms (translate3d) and requestAnimationFrame, eliminating stutter and mouse lag.
• Profile Popout Toggle & Exit Animations: Clicking a member's card now toggles the profile smoothly without re-opening glitches, featuring a fluid scale-out exit animation before unmounting.
• Centralized & Standardized Motion System: Unified animation tokens, natural bezier curves, and exit transitions across all modal dialogs, popovers, context menus, and select dropdowns.
• User Panel & Audio Control Ergonomics: Persistent mute and deafen toggles in the bottom user panel, allowing microphone and headphone adjustments before connecting to voice lounges.
• Chat & Navigation UI Polish: Added an animated floating "Jump to present" button when scrolling message history, smooth slide transitions for reply bars and pending attachments, and rotating category chevrons.
• Chat & Thread Reply System: Resolved duplicate reply rendering and enabled full quoted reply previews in the thread panel instead of inserting plain text mentions.