## v4.3.0: the bug-hunt harvest (2026-10-09)

v4.3.0: the bug-hunt harvest (2026-10-09)

Six fixes from Brandon's seeded-bench bug hunt against the running app, plus the NetNewsWire read-filter parity the hunt surfaced. 290 tests; clippy -D warnings clean.

• Fixed: sidebar titles truncated far too early, from five stacked causes: a recycled row's stale feed stamp let a late favicon paint into a group header's invisible icon slot and ate its width; the homogeneous icon stack paid hidden-page widths; avatars' natural size followed the favicon's intrinsic pixels instead of the 24px slot; the desktop GTK theme rendered tree-expander indent icons at 16px instead of 8px (now owned in the app stylesheet); and section headers were allowed to ellipsize at all. Headers never truncate now, rows carry full-name tooltips, and the sidebar header bar no longer renders the ellipsized window title.
• Changed: timeline titles always render complete, wrapping onto as many lines as they need. No ellipsis, no width caps.
• Changed: selected rows use Conservatory's lifted-selection idiom: raised surface with a 2px accent edge on the leading side, replacing the solid dragonRed wash that read as permanent garish chrome.
• Fixed: Preferences rendered four empty group husks when the GSettings schema couldn't resolve, silently and with no log output. settings() now falls back to resolving the schema explicitly from the source tree's gschemas.compiled (the GSETTINGS_SCHEMA_DIR env path fails silently under env overrides and init-order surprises, which is also what disabled refresh-on-startup in test launches), the failure paths warn, and the no-schema dialog is one honest explanation instead of husks.
• Added: first-run timeline population. Startup lands on the first feed instead of the always-empty "Smart Feeds" header, a first sync auto-populates the timeline, and a selected-but-empty feed now says "No articles yet, hit Sync Now" instead of the misleading "Select a feed" advice.
• Added: the "Show read articles" toggle in the timeline sort menu (NNW readFilter parity, the timeline-show-read GSetting, default on). Off hides read articles from feed and folder timelines via new read-filtered fetch paths (a statuses-PK correlated subquery; missing status rows count as unread, per NNW). Mark-read operations still fetch everything regardless; the smart feeds keep their own semantics.