Ferail 0.2.2 — first Windows download

The first Ferail release with a Windows download.

Download

Ferail-0.2.2-win-x64.zip — unzip anywhere and run Ferail.exe. No installer, no admin rights. The ferail command-line tool is in cli\.

⚠️ This build is not code-signed

Windows will show "Windows protected your PC". That is SmartScreen reporting the file carries no Authenticode signature — it is not a malware detection. Click More info → Run anyway.

Verify the download instead:

Get-FileHash .\Ferail-0.2.2-win-x64.zip -Algorithm SHA256

9993AF0EF53DE617C255BF9EBBA7FF53DFB3EDDC80866FF5D969715A78F30E6B

If it matches, the file is exactly what was built here. If it doesn't, delete it. (A checksum catches a corrupted or tampered download, but unlike a signature it can't prove who built the file.)

macOS and Linux remain source builds for now.

What's in it

• Windows builds work again. A single IMFMediaEngine::SetMuted call written from a Mac on 2026-07-14 could not compile, and took the whole Windows app down with it. It sat broken for two weeks because nothing in CI ever built Windows. Fixed — the app now builds, runs, passes its tests, and screenshots on Windows.
• Windows packaging — portable ZIP with the licence notices, plus an installer with a Start Menu entry and uninstaller when Inno Setup is available.
• Fixed: the viewer's "Stay on Top" did nothing on Windows. The toggle never reached the OS.
• Fixed: a fresh git clone could not build on any platform — the workspace manifest referenced checkouts that only existed on one machine.
• The shipped binary carries no GPL-3.0 code. A non-optional gpui → sum_tree → ztracing edge pulled GPL-3.0-or-later crates into every build, which is incompatible with distributing a binary under MIT/Apache-2.0. Ferail now vendors that one Apache-2.0 crate with the edge removed.

No user-visible macOS changes.

Full detail in CHANGELOG.md.