v0.3.0-alpha.16

norte speaks your language from the first minute. The first run now asks
which language to use — already set to your system's locale, each language
named in itself — and the rest of the setup follows your answer at once.
Changing the language later, from the settings or by hand, switches the
whole interface live in the terminal and in the window, no restart. Anyone
can add a language with one translated file in locales/; whatever it
does not translate stays in English. Spanish no longer leaks to English
readers in the package description, the launcher or two plugins' help, and
the window's notices and go-to box stop replaying their entrance on every
key.

Downloads — Linux

• norte_0.3.0-alpha.16_amd64.deb, norte-0.3.0-alpha.16-1.x86_64.rpm, norte_0.3.0-alpha.16_amd64.AppImage — the window (norte-gui) together with the daemon (norte) and the terminal client (ntc), in one package.
• norte-cli-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu.tar.xz (norte), norte-tui-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu.tar.xz (ntc) and their -installer.sh — without the window.

Downloads — Windows (preview)

• norte_0.3.0-alpha.16_x64-setup.exe — installer for the current user (no administrator): the window with norte and ntc beside it.
• norte-0.3.0-alpha.16-x86_64-pc-windows-msvc.zip — the same three binaries, portable.

The Windows build is still a preview and not signed, so SmartScreen will ask before running it. It was built from this tag on a clean GitHub Windows runner.

Requirements. The Linux builds were made on Ubuntu 22.04 and need glibc 2.34 or newer; the window also needs WebKitGTK 4.1. Each Linux artefact was installed and started in clean containers of the distributions in scripts/baseline/matrix.txt (ADR 0112). Windows needs Windows 10/11 x64 with WebView2 (present on Windows 11).

Checksums. SHA256SUMS covers the Linux files and SHA256SUMS-windows the Windows ones; each Linux archive also has its own .sha256. Nothing is signed yet.

[0.3.0-alpha.16] - 2026-10-16

Added

• The first run asks your language. It is now the wizard's first
  question, already set to your system's locale, with each language named
  in itself; the rest of the wizard follows your answer at once. If you
  quit the wizard after that first answer, the other choices keep their
  defaults and ntc --setup asks again.
• Changing the language no longer needs a restart. [ui] lang —
  from the settings, the wizard, a profile or by hand — switches the whole
  interface live, in the terminal and in the window. --lang and
  NORTE_LANG still fix it for one run, and the status bar says so if you
  change the setting meanwhile.
• More languages, one file each. Translate norte's en.ftl and save
  it as locales/<tag>.ftl in your config directory (locales/fr.ftl,
  locales/pt-BR.ftl): it appears in the wizard, the settings and
  --lang. Whatever it does not translate stays in English. Files that
  cannot load are named in the log.

Fixed

• English everywhere for English readers. The package description in
  software centres, the launcher's comment, the git-status and
  git-panel plugin help, and a configuration warning were in Spanish
  whatever your language; the window also told screen readers it was
  Spanish.

• The window's notice no longer pops up again on every cursor move.
  After opening a file with the desktop, "opening with the desktop
  application…" replayed its entrance on each arrow press while it lasted.

• The window's go-to box no longer flickers while you type. Every
  letter rebuilt the box and replayed its entrance; it now enters once,
  when it opens.

Changed

• The window's menu bar has a little more air above the panels.