Kvieta Alpha 4.2

Kvieta Alpha 4.2

Alpha 4.2 improves setup, onboarding and everyday navigation. It is an unsigned
Windows x64 community prerelease, not a final production release.

Highlights

• Setup starts at 960×620 and can shrink to 800×500. Smaller work areas reduce
  the initial size further. Native resize borders, narrower spacing and vertical
  scrolling keep long steps accessible. The close control now fits its icon.
• Language selection uses TR/EN badges instead of flags. Recovery codes are
  presented as readable tiles while copy, file export and acknowledgement remain.
• The first Control Center launch opens a guided tour that highlights controls
  and navigates through pages appropriate to the selected mode. Back/Next, Esc,
  and the top-right skip button are supported; ? and F1 reopen it.
• Today emphasizes remaining time, measured usage and the next plan. Rule-count
  and blocked-app-count tiles are removed from this overview.
• Applications contains most-used apps and all of today's measured usage grouped
  by application name into browsers, communication, productivity, entertainment
  and other applications. Insights mode can view usage without rule editing.
• Settings is grouped into appearance/general, protection, privacy and maintenance.
  Rhythm details have a prominent expandable header. Cards reflow in narrow
  windows, and persistent 100–150% zoom includes the sidebar and header.

Behavior and recovery fixes

• Setup and the application share a time picker with hour/minute selection and
  direct keyboard input. Invalid plan times remain subject to validation.
• Application selection accepts multiple EXEs and performs identity capture away
  from the UI thread; rule changes still require Save.
• Phone enrollment no longer shows the recovery-code replacement warning.
  That warning remains attached to actual code replacement. The post-install
  enrollment offer is recorded as shown even when cancelled, and waits for the
  guided tour to finish. Manual enrollment remains available in Settings.
• Flexible Personal mode avoids unnecessary relaxation delays and extra-time
  requests. Delays when relaxing an existing stronger policy remain intact.
• Device controls use an available theme brush; session thoughts rotate locally.

Installation and migration

Use Kvieta-Setup-Alpha-4.2.exe for guided setup. Numeric MSI version 4.2.0
supersedes published Alpha 4 (1.0.0) and local Alpha 4.1 builds (4.1.x). The
existing update path is intended to preserve settings, history, recovery material
and protected policy. Phone pairing itself does not invalidate recovery codes.
No account or hosted service is introduced by this release.

Validation and known limitations

Local validation includes formatting, Debug/Release builds and smoke tests,
public-build bypass checks, package metadata and source-manifest checks. WPF
renders cover compact setup and main-window layouts, including 840×540 at 150%
zoom with synthetic usage. Regression checks cover guided navigation/skip,
responsive layout, typed times and durable first-run preferences.

The package is not Authenticode-signed; Windows SmartScreen may show an unknown
publisher warning. Verify the attached SHA-256 files before installation.
Application categories are inferred from names and may fall under Other.
Live phone enrollment and the complete Windows/VM upgrade, multi-monitor, DPI,
sleep and protection lifecycle matrix still require field validation. Offscreen
render checks do not replace that testing. See the repository's security and
release-readiness documentation for the remaining alpha limitations.

Attached: Setup EXE, standalone MSI, their SHA-256 files and release-manifest.json.