Release Notes v1.1.0

Castwright v1.1.0

Released 2026-05-17. View on GitHub.

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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.

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✨ Headline features

🌗 Dark mode (new)

• 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).

🔌 TTS sidecar starts with the server (new)

• 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).

🖼️ Cover artwork framing (new)

• 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).

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🎙️ Voice & continuity

• 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).

🩺 Resilience

• 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).

🎧 Fixes

• 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.

🏗️ Under the hood

• 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