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qrate v0.4.0-alpha.1

This release is mostly about the built-in agent: the terminal now reads and performs like a real
terminal, sessions start without a freeze, and agents talk to a running qrate over a bounded
protocol.

What is new

The agent terminal

  • The terminal uses a real monospace face that is actually installed on your machine, so columns
    finally line up. Previously it asked the system for a font that does not exist and quietly got the
    proportional UI face instead.
  • You can choose the terminal font and size yourself under Settings ▸ Agent.
  • Cell backgrounds and the cursor block now sit exactly under their glyphs. They used to drift
    further apart with every column across the line.

Agent sessions

  • Starting a session no longer freezes qrate for about three seconds.
  • Starting a new session clears the conversation in place instead of shutting the agent down and
    cold-starting a replacement.
  • Session actions moved into a + button beside the Log/Terminal switcher: click to start a new
    session, right-click for Stop and Restart. The toolbar row now shows only the session status,
    and a resumed session no longer announces itself when there is nothing to report.
  • Agents connecting to a running qrate now use a bounded harness protocol, and the bundled agent
    runtime is checked on Windows, macOS, and Linux with every build.

Elsewhere

  • The update notice moved to the title bar, and both it and the About window now open the download
    page rather than starting a file download straight away — so you see what an unsigned build does
    on first launch before you commit to one.
  • qrate's diagnostic log no longer buries a bug report under one accessibility message per frame.
    In a recent session those were 633 of 787 lines.

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-0.4.0-alpha.1-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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