ZenNotes v2.51.1

ZenNotes 2.51.1: the desktop command runs Go CLI v0.2.0

Released on September 16, 2026 as v2.51.1, at c4b710da. The release branch v2.51.1 was fast-forwarded into main through PR #799. A follow-up to 2.51.0 released the same day.

✨ Features

• The bundled zn command is the Go CLI. 2.51.0 shipped the machinery with an empty pin. This version pins ZenNotes/tui v0.2.0: the packaged app stages the checksum-verified binary at build time, the installed zn runs it, and zn tui opens the terminal app from the same installation. Existing desktop-managed shortcuts pick it up when the app opens; commands keep their names. ZENNOTES_CLI_ENGINE=legacy keeps the previous Node engine during the transition. Windows keeps the Node CLI for now.

🧰 For contributors

• Pin: 9448fab7 (apps/desktop/terminal-release.json, protocol 1, commit 909e66c3, four targets by URL and SHA-256). Version bump: bc2b2621. Homebrew mirror for 2.51.0: 53c7e107. In-app manual update (server home, creation metadata, pacman polkit prompt, Ctrl+V block edits): c4b710da.

Verification

• Terminal tooling tests with the pin; the artifact importer staged all four targets from the published archives (digests match, integration probe protocol 1 / 0.2.0); the compatibility probe against the published darwin-arm64 binary matched 20 of 20 commands in both vault layouts.
• On the v2.51.1 branch: typecheck; test:run app-core 2371 and desktop 849; terminal tooling 12; npm run build 7 of 7; npm run pack staged the Go CLI inside the app (Contents/Resources/terminal/zn v0.2.0, Developer ID signed, integration probe protocol 1); the packaged app over CDP with both stores isolated passed the desktop smoke with zero renderer and main-process errors.

Distribution channels

• Release workflow: 35153978717; Linux arm64 and x64 first, then Windows, then macOS with Developer ID signing and notarization.
• AUR: 6953800 in the separate zennotes-bin clone (zennotes-bin 2.51.1-1), mirrored on desktop main as 8818ecfe. Downloaded tarball SHA-256 cfe1d537ccea09dac4cc5d486b1cf7886b4e87b03d9c53d0735864f20c572f65 matched GitHub's asset digest.
• Nix: nix-update.yml run 35155168731 opened bot PR #800, lifted exactly onto main as d0f24068 and closed; nix-build.yml 35155331928 passed on main first try.
• nixpkgs: PR #561418 restacked onto current master as zennotes-desktop: 2.45.0 -> 2.51.1 (fork commit 97a6b71c, body in nixpkgs-pr-body.md).
• Homebrew: c82dde6 in the tap (zennotes 2.51.1), mirrored on desktop main as d414f7d1. The cask pins both DMG digests from the GitHub API (arm64 ``, x64 3e7a29458b0e5461bea48dbc3718449549616c209821d592f6b4b1881dd71af3).
• Website: the 2.51 docs update (server home, Compose flow, creation metadata, pacman prompt, Vim block edits) merged as website PR #27 (42bfd93); the 2.51.1 releases entry followed as f28b379; both live.
• Docker and the server: unchanged by this release (znserver 2.51.0 already embeds the 2.51.0 web build, which this version does not alter).
• npm run verify:channels -- 2.51.1 passed: Homebrew tap, AUR, Nix, and all seven website download redirects serve 2.51.1.

Release validation

• Release PR #799's CI passed on macOS, Ubuntu, Ubuntu arm64 and Windows plus CodeQL, the Arch package check and the production dependency audit before the fast-forward. The release workflow passed every platform job (25 assets). nix-build.yml 35155331928 rebuilt the desktop Nix package from the lifted hashes on main.
• Known timing gap, unchanged by this release: the release page exists before the macOS job finishes, so a Mac update check inside that window reports a missing latest-mac.yml until the DMGs land. A draft-until-complete release flow is the planned fix for the next cycle.