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Added

  • Accepting a RABBIT update now opens a progress window instead of leaving
    you watching a status line: it names the phase ("Downloading RABBIT…
    4.1 MB of 10.2 MB"), fills a progress bar as the bytes arrive, and keeps
    a running log of each step as it completes, so a screen reader can be
    walked back through what happened. The bar covers the download, the
    checksum verification and the install, and the window closes on its own
    when RABBIT relaunches into the new version. It has no Cancel button on
    purpose — once the file swap starts there is nothing to safely undo — and
    it can't be dismissed by mistake with Escape.

  • The "RABBIT update available" prompt now answers "what would I be
    updating to?" before you decide: alongside the question it shows the
    release notes for the update, in a read-only box you can read through
    and scroll like the package details pane. The notes cover every release
    published since the version you are running, not just the newest one, so
    skipping a couple of updates still tells the whole story. Update now is
    the default button, so Enter accepts from anywhere in the dialog and
    Escape declines. When the notes can't be fetched — no network, GitHub
    down — the prompt falls back to the short question it has always asked,
    since nothing about the notes should stand between you and an update.
    rabbit self-update check prints the same notes. Release notes are also
    stripped of their Markdown wherever they are shown, RABBIT's own and
    ReaPack's alike — headings, bold, inline code and links now read as the
    words they contain rather than as strings of asterisks, hashes and
    backticks spoken out loud. Underscores are left alone, since in these
    notes they are far more often part of a name you need to hear exactly
    (depends_on) than emphasis, and a link's address is dropped while the
    text you would have clicked is kept.

  • A French REAPER language pack joins the Spanish and German ones, so
    REAPER and the SWS extension speak French too. It is maintained by Lee
    Julien and Pierre-Marie Curt for ReaperAccessible, the French
    screen-reader community. RABBIT installs it as fr_CA.ReaperLangPack,
    the name that makes OSARA load its own French translation — the fr_CA
    one, which is all but complete where OSARA's fr_FR translation still
    leaves about a third of its messages in English. Unlike the other two
    packs, this one is published with a version number, which RABBIT reads
    from ReaperAccessible's ReaPack index and shows in the wizard.

Changed

  • A language pack you turn down stays turned down. RABBIT ticks the pack
    matching its own language for you, which is right for most people and was
    wrong for anyone who doesn't want it: unticking it lasted exactly one run,
    and the pack came back ticked on the next launch. That refusal is now
    remembered in the install receipt, so the pack stays listed and tickable
    but is not ticked for you again — including its updates, so a pack you
    installed and later stopped using stops re-offering itself every time the
    translators publish a fix. A pack that is merely installed and up to date
    is not a refusal: it sits unticked because there is nothing to do, and
    RABBIT reads that as silence rather than a decision. Tick it yourself and
    the refusal is forgotten, so a change of mind sticks too. The memory is
    per REAPER install, so you can say no on one and yes on another, and
    packages opt
    into this through a new remember_opt_out manifest flag — only the
    language packs set it, because they are the ones RABBIT turns on by
    guessing. Receipts stay readable by older RABBITs, which simply ignore the
    new field.

  • The wizard no longer grows a "Set REAPER's language to X" configuration
    step for every language it supports. There is one Set REAPER's
    language
    step, and which pack it activates comes from a REAPER
    language after installation
    dropdown listing the packs you ticked — one
    decision instead of a row per language, and two translated strings rather
    than two per language. On the command line the step id is now
    set-reaper-language (it was set-reaper-language-<language>), and
    --reaper-language <package> picks which pack to activate. An unknown
    package there is now rejected with the list of language packs rather than
    quietly leaving REAPER in English.

  • Set REAPER's language is now tied to the language packs you tick.
    With none ticked the step is greyed out rather than tickable — the
    "REAPER language after installation" dropdown lists exactly the packs you
    ticked, so an unticked list left the step pointing at nothing. Tick a
    pack and the step ticks itself, ready to be unticked if you want the
    files without the switch; untick the last pack and the step clears
    itself. A pack merely sitting on disk from an earlier run doesn't arm it:
    someone who keeps a German pack installed but runs REAPER in English
    chose English, and a run that installs nothing language-related must not
    switch the interface out from under them. rabbit setup follows the same
    rule for its defaults, while --config-step set-reaper-language still
    activates an already-installed pack for people who want exactly that.

  • RABBIT <command> --help now explains every flag. 47 of the 50 printed
    nothing but their own name, which made RABBIT's own advice — "run
    --help for anything not covered here" — worth very little.
    --accept-reapack-donation-notice was the sharp edge: ReaPack cannot be
    installed unattended without it, and neither the help nor the README said
    so, which simply reads as a broken install. The README also gains that
    example, a Spanish-variant one, and a short tour of the flags most likely
    to be wanted.

Fixed

  • On macOS and Linux, ticking a package on the row that already had focus
    (Space, or clicking its checkbox) left every control below the package
    list stale: the OSARA keymap note, the Spanish translation picker and the
    new REAPER-language dropdown only refreshed when the selection changed.
    Arrow onto a row and press Space and nothing below the list caught up.
    Windows was unaffected — it refreshes them on every toggle route.

  • On macOS and Linux, the Configuration group checkbox could be ticked
    but never unticked, and always drew as unchecked, as soon as one of its
    steps was already applied at the target — which is the normal case, since
    an existing ReaPack remote counts as applied. It counted already-applied
    steps as unticked members of the group, so "all ticked" was never true.

  • Installing a language pack no longer deletes the other ones. RABBIT
    treated language packs as mutually exclusive and removed the previously
    installed pack, which was simply wrong: REAPER keeps every pack in its
    LangPack folder and only activates one, so a multilingual user can
    install German and Spanish and switch between them in REAPER whenever
    they like. Packs now sit side by side; the only file RABBIT still
    replaces is the one it installed for that same pack, such as when you
    switch between the two Spanish translations.

  • A failed REAPER install no longer reports itself as a confusing language
    error. If REAPER can't be installed, the language pack that depends on it
    is correctly skipped — but the step that sets REAPER's language ran
    anyway and failed the whole run with "cannot set REAPER's language: no
    installed language-pack file is recorded for langpack-de", hiding the
    real problem. Configuration steps now look at what actually landed on
    disk rather than what was planned, so the genuine failure is what you
    see; and if a language pack is missing for any other reason, setting the
    language is skipped with an explanation instead of aborting the install.

  • macOS: the app bundle now declares Spanish, so VoiceOver reads RABBIT's
    Spanish interface with a Spanish voice instead of an English one. RABBIT
    gained its Spanish translation in 0.4.0, but the bundle still advertised
    only English, German, French and Italian — and macOS decides what language
    an app speaks from that declaration.