Bowerbird 0.1.1

Tighter quote checks, safer handling of notebook files and links, a macOS build, a release-signed Android app and a new icon.

Changes

• Quote checks: a quote is looked up only in the source its citation names. A quote shortened with an ellipsis counts only when each piece has at least 10 characters and the pieces sit within 300 characters of each other.
• Notebooks: a notebook whose notebook.toml names a file outside the notebook folder does not open.
• Links: when the server listens on a network address, links added through the app may only point at the public internet. A page fetched from a link stops at 200 MB, a picture at 4 MB.
• Search: a question that shares no keyword with the sources still gets the passages closest in meaning, and search by meaning is faster in large notebooks.
• macOS: a build for Apple Silicon, macOS 13.4 or later.
• Licenses: each build carries the licenses of the software and models it uses, in THIRD_PARTY_NOTICES.md and licenses/.
• Icon: a new app icon.
• Dependencies: Svelte 5.57.3, prosemirror-view 1.42.8 and prosemirror-markdown 1.13.9 (#2); taiki-e/install-action 2.88.0 (#1).

Downloads

Platform	File
Linux	.deb or .AppImage
macOS 13.4 or later (Apple Silicon)	Bowerbird_0.1.1_aarch64.dmg
Windows	bowerbird-windows-x64.zip (portable, unzip and run Bowerbird.exe)
Android	app-universal-release.apk (64-bit ARM)

Updating on Android: uninstall 0.1.0 first. 0.1.0 was signed with a temporary key, and Android updates an app only from an APK signed with the same key. Uninstalling deletes the notebooks, settings and models kept in the app.

First launch on macOS: the app is signed ad hoc, not notarized, so macOS blocks it. Allow it under System Settings, Privacy & Security, Open Anyway.

Known limits

• OCR reads Latin script only; Cyrillic and other scripts aren't read yet.
• The macOS app isn't notarized and the Windows build is unsigned, so both warn on first launch.
• There is no iOS build.

Full Changelog: v0.1.0...v0.1.1