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qrate v0.3.0-alpha.2

The agent now lives inside qrate, alongside a round of editing fixes and performance work across
the grid, previews, and background services.

What is new

The built-in agent

  • qrate now bundles the Pi runtime on Windows, macOS, and Linux, so the Agent panel works without a
    separate Pi installation.
  • The terminal renders styled output, including text attributes and per-cell background colours.
  • First-run feedback is clearer, and crash diagnostics remain visible when Pi exits unexpectedly.
  • The terminal and agent bridge poll less often while idle, reducing background work when no agent
    session is running.

Editing and keyboard behaviour

  • Escape now cancels an in-progress cell or column-name edit instead of committing the typed value.
  • Escape propagates correctly when the find bar or Details panel has nothing to dismiss.
  • A file opened from the gallery now closes correctly with Escape, including when its find panel is
    open.

Grid and preview performance

  • Grid cells no longer allocate a fresh element identifier on every frame.
  • Gallery scrolling avoids repeated filesystem checks for ordinary images and reuses the preview
    cache directory instead of recreating it on every access.
  • JPEG previews avoid an unnecessary full-size pixel-buffer copy.

Diagnostics

  • Routine GPUI focus-node messages no longer clutter qrate's diagnostic log.

Downloads

  • Windows: *-setup.exe (installer, asks for per-user or all-users) or
    *-x86_64.zip (portable). Deploying to managed machines? See Enterprise below.
  • macOS: *-universal.dmg (Intel + Apple Silicon)
  • Linux: *-x86_64-linux.tar.gz (Wayland + X11; needs a Vulkan driver)

Verify your download against SHA256SUMS.txt.

Enterprise (Windows)

*-x86_64.msi installs per-machine and is built for Group Policy Software
Installation, SCCM, and Intune — or a plain silent push:

msiexec /i qrate-0.3.0-alpha.2-x86_64.msi /quiet /norestart

Upgrades in place on top of any earlier MSI install; downgrading is blocked.

File previews

PDF previews work out of the box everywhere — PDFium ships in every download.

Video previews and JPEG 2000/AVIF/HEIC need ffmpeg. It is bundled on Windows;
on macOS and Linux install it and qrate will find it on your PATH:

brew install ffmpeg          # macOS
sudo apt install ffmpeg      # Debian/Ubuntu

Without it those files fall back to a file-type icon; nothing else is affected.

Note

These builds are unsigned.

  • Windows: SmartScreen may warn "unknown publisher" — click More info → Run anyway.
  • macOS: right-click the app → Open the first time, or run
    xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine "/Applications/qrate.app".
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