Cortex v0.1.3 — Submission Readiness Fixes

Cortex 0.1.3 — Build Week Preview

Cortex v0.1.3 improves submission readiness and interface consistency:

• improved guided-tutorial recovery and case-insensitive folder recognition on macOS;
• made restored Search state and Settings review progression deterministic;
• kept tutorial highlights aligned through scrolling, resizing and dock transitions;
• fixed invalid or unavailable updater progress values;
• improved Activity import-details layout for large result sets;
• improved update and vault-dialog button contrast and sizing;
• refined the empty-vault layout and tutorial completion control;
• simplified build-identifier presentation while preserving full provenance.

This Build Week Preview is an Apple Silicon build. It is ad-hoc signed and is not notarized. A stable Developer ID signature remains required to eliminate macOS Keychain re-authorization caused by changing ad-hoc code identity across updates.

Cortex v0.1.2 — Final Build Week Reliability Patch

Cortex 0.1.2 — Build Week Preview

Cortex v0.1.2 improves post-update reliability and local import workflows:

• reduced duplicate Keychain access during session restoration after an update;
• improved automatic update scheduling, reconnection checks and visible update notifications;
• added clearer creation, initialisation and switching for local Cortex vaults;
• improved support for valid Unicode filenames during file and folder import;
• redesigned import summaries with close and structured detail controls;
• preserved skipped and failed import details in Activity;
• added guidance for saving browser downloads directly into the active Cortex vault.

This Build Week Preview is an Apple Silicon build. It is ad-hoc signed and is not notarized. A stable Developer ID signature is still required to eliminate macOS Keychain re-authorization caused by changing ad-hoc code identity across updates.

Cortex v0.1.1 — External QA Fixes

Cortex 0.1.1 — Build Week Preview

Cortex v0.1.1 improves first-use reliability following external clean-room testing:

• fixed guided-tutorial folder progression using durable vault state;
• added safe, restart-tolerant cleanup for verified tutorial fixtures;
• fixed active-vault switching and watcher handoff;
• fixed multi-file import with clear per-file outcomes;
• fixed recursive folder import with safe partial-failure reporting;
• improved PDF preview compatibility for imported searchable PDFs;
• clarified how to return to Cortex after browser-based account creation;
• added concise directional guidance to later tutorial steps.

This Build Week Preview is an Apple Silicon build. It is ad-hoc signed and is not notarized.

Cortex v0.1.0 — Build Week Preview

Cortex 0.1.0 — Build Week Preview

Cortex 0.1.0 is the first external QA preview of the local-first Cortex desktop application for Apple Silicon Macs.

Included in this preview

• A private, user-selected local vault with automatic incremental indexing.
• Search, Library, previews, and Activity for TXT, Markdown, PDF, DOCX, PPTX, and XLSX files.
• Secure Zarova session persistence in macOS Keychain.
• Guided onboarding, tutorial replay, and light, dark, and system appearance modes.
• Signed updater verification with clear online, offline, no-update, download, install, and relaunch states.

Distribution status

This Build Week Preview is for external QA only. The current build is ad-hoc signed and is not notarised. It is not yet an unrestricted public-distribution build.

No OCR, semantic retrieval, Neural Map rendering, or in-app AI inference is included in this version.