Castwright 1.1.0

Polish, resilience, and the v1 ergonomics gaps. Dark mode, an auto-starting
sidecar, cover framing, sticky analysis, and state.json resilience.

✨ Headline features

Light / Dark / System toggle in the top bar with an account-managed first-visit
default; a [data-theme="dark"] token-override block reflects every shipped
surface without per-component dark-class plumbing (plan 42).

Per-user autoStartSidecar; start-app.bat brings up frontend + server +
sidecar in one shot, Node owning the child-process lifecycle (port-9000 probe →
spawn → .run/tts.pid → tree-kill on SIGINT / SIGTERM) (plan 43).

A three-tab CoverPicker (Search / Upload / Frame) — drag-pan + zoom keeps the
meaningful part of portrait covers inside square / landscape frames; framing is
metadata-only (applied at render time via object-position + transform,
no re-encode); local-disk upload covers self-pub + non-English titles (plan 40).

Manual continuity link to a prior series book on the Profile Drawer's "Merge
into" dropdown — closes the nameScore < 0.34 floor gap where the matcher
dropped a legitimate match (e.g. "Dexter Alvin Diznee" vs "Dex") and the
duplicate was unreachable (plan 09).

Sticky analysis across navigation — re-running a failed sentence subset
survives leaving the analysing view; cold-boot rehydrate scans every book's
analysis-state on boot, with "Paused — resume?" / "Halted — review?" card badges
(plan 32).
Auto-retry transient TTS failures — per-group bounded retry absorbs sidecar
503s / connection-refused without wedging the queue.
Rotating state.json backups + torn-read recovery — the single most
valuable file keeps a rolling history; a torn write falls back to the most recent
intact backup. Redux-persist on ui + manuscript restores the last stage / chapter
on refresh (plan 27).

Reassigning a sentence on chapter 2+ reassigned the same-id sentence in
chapter 1 — the reducer keyed only by id. Now all three manuscript-slice
reducers key by (chapterId, id), so reassignments land on the clicked sentence
(plan 12a).
Cold-boot rehydrating a book with a live local analysis auto-fired generation
— the analyzer and TTS fought over a single GPU and both halted. Now the
implicit-reconcile seam is gated like explicit TTS-start callsites (plan 32).
Confirm / Ready could land with empty cast.characters after a Phase 0
cache resume (manuscript hydrated faster than cast). Now the views re-fetch when
cast is empty.

state.json schema seam — a schema field with a v1 → vN migration seam,
stamping schema: 1 now for clean room later (plan 27).
Five new Playwright specs (golden path, listen playback, per-stage Redux +
refresh, cover framing, manual-continuity link) with light + dark visual
baselines; sidecar pytest pins thread-pool saturation for /synthesize.
Release-notes conventions documented in CONTRIBUTING.md; a real README.md
landing page with install / run / verify.

Full changelog: v1.0.0...v1.1.0