0.8.2 — 2026-05-21

Release Notes

Windows hotfix over v0.8.1 — actually fixes the silent a (add host)
data loss. The v0.8.1 changelog blamed PathBuf normalization
(NFC/NFD on non-ASCII home directories) and unified the cached path
on both sides of the filter; that change was internally correct but
did not fix the bug. The real cause was one layer deeper, in
with_locked_write. No behavior change on macOS / Linux.

Fixed

• Manage-mode a (add host) on Windows actually persists the new
  host to sshc.conf now. crate::storage::with_locked_write
  acquired an exclusive LockFileEx on its first handle and then —
  before handing the buffer to the mutator — opened a second
  File::open(path) to read the existing content. Windows file
  locking is mandatory, so the second open inside the locked range
  returned ERROR_LOCK_VIOLATION (os error 33) and the writer
  bailed out with StorageError::ReadFailed before any bytes were
  written. The error did surface as a status_message from
  apply_form, but the modal-close redraw overwrote it almost
  immediately and the user only saw an empty file.

  Unix flock is advisory and silently permitted the second open,
  which is why every pre-v0.8.2 release looked fine on macOS / Linux
  while consistently failing on Windows from v0.7 onward.

  Fix: read the existing content from the already-locked handle via
  seek(SeekFrom::Start(0)) + read_to_string instead of opening a
  second handle. One handle, one lock, no violation. Added a
  cross-platform regression test
  (app::tests::test_apply_form_add_host_writes_through_locked_writer)
  that drives apply_form end-to-end against a temp path so the
  same class of regression can't slip back in silently.

Note on v0.8.1

The v0.8.1 patch (path-cache unification in persist_sshc_conf) is
still in place and still correct as defense-in-depth — it just
wasn't the root cause. If you upgraded to v0.8.1 expecting the a
fix to land and saw the same empty-file behavior, v0.8.2 is the
release you actually want.

Install sshc 0.8.2

Install prebuilt binaries via shell script

curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -LsSf https://github.com/hang-in/sshc/releases/download/v0.8.2/sshc-installer.sh | sh

Install prebuilt binaries via powershell script

powershell -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -c "irm https://github.com/hang-in/sshc/releases/download/v0.8.2/sshc-installer.ps1 | iex"

Install prebuilt binaries via Homebrew

brew install hang-in/tap/sshc

Download sshc 0.8.2

File	Platform	Checksum
sshc-aarch64-apple-darwin.tar.xz	Apple Silicon macOS	checksum
sshc-x86_64-apple-darwin.tar.xz	Intel macOS	checksum
sshc-x86_64-pc-windows-msvc.zip	x64 Windows	checksum
sshc-aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu.tar.xz	ARM64 Linux	checksum
sshc-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu.tar.xz	x64 Linux	checksum