1.0.0-alpha.3

Open Merchant 1.0.0-alpha.3

New: the shell grows up — a real application menu, and update notices that live inside the app.

• Custom application menu — a purpose-built menu replaces Electron's default, matched to the app's structure and actions.
• In-app update banner — update notices now appear as a dismissible banner inside the app instead of a native dialog, carried over the same validated local IPC contract as everything else.
• The README now shows the product working — the real evidence → competitors → economics → report loop, recorded as a scripted, deterministic GIF with no AI keys and no network.
• Release CI signature checks — the release workflow verifies artifact signatures before publishing.

Also in the alpha line: four AI providers (Anthropic, OpenAI, Google Gemini, and keyless local endpoints — Ollama / LM Studio), the six-step onboarding walkthrough, side-by-side report diffs with provenance search, delta auto-updates from this Releases feed, and Electron 39.8.10 with a fully clean security baseline.

A note for our users: we are an independent developer team, so our installers are not yet registered in Microsoft's or Apple's developer registries — your operating system may flag the installer as "unrecognized" on first launch. The warnings come from the missing certificate, not the software. On Windows choose More info → Run anyway; on macOS use System Settings → Privacy & Security → Open Anyway (or right-click → Open); on Linux just chmod +x the AppImage and run. A CA-issued certificate on the roadmap removes these warnings later — no action needed on your side when it lands.

Local-first as always: your project folders stay on your machine; the update check is a passive read of this page.

Platform	File
Windows	Open-Merchant-Setup-1.0.0-alpha.3.exe
macOS (Apple silicon)	Open-Merchant-1.0.0-alpha.3-arm64.dmg
Linux	Open-Merchant-1.0.0-alpha.3.AppImage

Installed copies update themselves automatically (delta downloads via the blockmaps + latest*.yml feeds).

Open Merchant 1.0.0-alpha.2

Open Merchant 1.0.0-alpha.2

New: the Artifacts tab now answers "what changed since last time."

• Side-by-side diff of your latest generated report against the previous generation — removed and added lines highlighted, columns kept in lockstep.
• Filtered provenance search across the run journal: agent, provider, model, or free text.
• Run history for every report generation, exposed through the same validated local IPC contract as everything else.

Also in the alpha line: four AI providers (Anthropic, OpenAI, Google Gemini, and keyless local endpoints — Ollama / LM Studio), a six-step onboarding walkthrough, the Merchant's Ledger UI quality pass, delta auto-updates from this Releases feed, and Electron 39.8.10 with a fully clean security baseline.

Local-first as always: your project folders stay on your machine; the update check is a passive read of this page. Windows builds are developer-signed during the alpha; a CA certificate replaces that before V1.0.0 stable.

Platform	File
Windows	Open-Merchant-Setup-1.0.0-alpha.2.exe
macOS (Apple silicon)	Open-Merchant-1.0.0-alpha.2-arm64.dmg
Linux	Open-Merchant-1.0.0-alpha.2.AppImage

Installed copies update themselves automatically (delta downloads via the blockmaps + latest*.yml feeds).

1.0.0-alpha.1

docs: refresh changelog, roadmap counts, and repo agent guide

- CHANGELOG: clear stale V0-era bullets from Unreleased\n- ROADMAP: verification counts current (112 tests + e2e); signed-installers status reflects the first tag run\n- CLAUDE.md: release/tag process, signing, local update testing, e2e command

Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>