AVE 1.0.20

AVE 1.0.20 Release Notes

Status: Released.

Highlights

• Added direct canvas handles for resizing a selected graphic, including centered resizing and safe-area snapping behavior.
• Added timeline snapping for clip moves and trims, with Option available as a live temporary bypass during the gesture.
• Improved shared color controls with validated hex entry and screen eyedropper support across graphics, captions, and chroma key.
• Let available desktop updates start downloading directly from the status bar with clearer progress presentation.
• Made interrupted media-import recovery resilient to macOS volume remounts while preserving changed replacement files.

Release Scope

• Base range: 4842a56..8a61a4a.
• No Local AI runtime, starter model, or pinned Sparkle helper changes.
• This remains a complete AVE package distributed through the existing signed Sparkle feed.

Verification

Release verification includes:

• Resizing whole graphics from canvas corners and edges, including modifier behavior and safe-area snapping.
• Moving and trimming timeline clips with snapping enabled, temporarily bypassing it with Option both before and during a gesture.
• Editing graphics, caption, and chroma-key colors through the shared picker and screen eyedropper.
• Downloading and installing the update from the previously published full AVE build.
• Recovering an interrupted media import after a simulated filesystem device-identity change while preserving changed files.
• Full renderer and render-worker builds, typecheck, AI prompt checks, regression suite, dependency audits, package audit, signing, notarization, stapling, DMG integrity, and Sparkle signature verification.

Known Constraints

• Screen color picking depends on macOS and Electron exposing the EyeDropper API.
• The complete download remains large because it includes AVE's Local AI runtime and starter models.

AVE 1.0.19

AVE 1.0.19 Release Notes

Status: Released.

Highlights

• Fixed manual media imports that could remain active indefinitely and prevent the project from saving.
• Kept reusable analysis lookup inside the existing project write transaction so importing previously analyzed footage no longer deadlocks project persistence.
• Added an explicit Remove action for missing exports while preserving Copy Path for recovery and inspection.
• Improved missing-state tags and made Projects, Exports, and Assets search fields compact until focused or populated.

Release Scope

• Base range: e5c6a47..5b81357.
• No Local AI runtime, starter model, updater, or package-content changes.
• This remains a complete AVE package distributed through the existing signed Sparkle feed.

Verification

Release verification includes:

• Importing new media into a saved project and confirming the import completes and the project saves.
• Reopening the project and confirming imported media persists.
• Removing missing export-history records without deleting any available rendered file.
• Targeted analysis-reuse, project-write coordination, and desktop import tests.
• Full renderer build, typecheck, AI prompt checks, regression suite, package audit, signing, notarization, stapling, DMG integrity, and Sparkle signature verification.

Known Constraints

• Removing a missing export clears only its history record; it does not recreate the missing rendered file.
• The complete download remains large because it includes AVE's Local AI runtime and starter models.

AVE 1.0.18

AVE 1.0.18 Release Notes

Status: Released.

Highlights

• Added secure local AVE MCP connections for Codex CLI and Claude Code.
• Connected assistants can inspect projects, assets, analysis evidence, selections, and timelines; review rendered timeline frames; create projects; import local media; prepare and apply edits; track jobs; and export videos.
• Added one-time guided connection setup. After the initial assistant restart, AVE detects future sessions automatically and can launch on the first AVE request.
• Added per-assistant edit-planning controls so either AVE or the connected assistant can prepare the edit plan.
• New connection profiles receive all eight AVE access permissions, with granular controls under Manage settings. Approve for me remains off by default.
• Added in-AVE project, media, edit-plan, and export approvals, plus visible job progress, cancellation, stale-state protection, and rollback-safe timeline application.
• Redesigned Home around project-aware prompts and focused next actions, with improved project, asset, export, and media-preview controls.
• Improved local model naming and recovery of older generated-media jobs.
• Fixed native export color correction so brightness, contrast, saturation, temperature, and tint more closely match AVE's preview, including rendered transition segments.

Verification

Release verification includes:

• Codex and Claude Code connection, restart, persistence, disconnect, and reconnect behavior.
• AVE closed-to-running launch from a connected assistant.
• Both connected-assistant and AVE planning modes.
• Default 8/8 access with Approve for me disabled.
• Project creation, media import, project inspection, timeline planning, precise edits, rendered-frame review, job cancellation, and export.
• Home project creation, quick actions, and media previews.
• Native preview/export color parity.
• Full signing, notarization, stapling, package audit, DMG integrity, and Sparkle signature verification.
• Update from public AVE 1.0.17 build 19 while preserving projects, settings, accounts, models, and linked folders.

Known Constraints

• Guided MCP setup currently supports local Codex CLI and Claude Code on the same Mac.
• Claude Desktop, ChatGPT's remote MCP model, hosted agents, public MCP hosting, and tunnelling are not supported.
• The assistant must be restarted once after initial connection or connection replacement.
• All eight access permissions do not disable approval. Project, media, edit, and export changes still require approval unless Approve for me is explicitly enabled.
• AVE Plans requires a configured AVE planning assistant. Codex Plans or Claude Code Plans works without one.
• Local media paths are passed to AVE, but media bytes do not travel through MCP.
• The complete DMG is approximately 1.23 GB because it includes AVE's Local AI runtime and starter models.

AVE 1.0.17

AVE 1.0.17 Release Notes

Status: Released.

Highlights

• Replaced large in-app macOS updates with a pinned, signed Sparkle updater.
• Added AVE 1.0.17 build 18 as a compact compatibility bridge for existing AVE 1.0.15 and 1.0.16 installations.
• Added AVE 1.0.17 build 19 as the complete package with the Local AI engine, Local Vision Lite, and Fast Captions.
• Added explicit progress, disk-space checks, retry guidance, and manual-download recovery while the complete package is installed.
• Preserved projects, settings, accounts, downloaded models, and linked model folders across both update steps.
• Restricted build 19 to build 18 or newer so existing users cannot bypass the compatibility bridge.

Release Contract

• Existing AVE 1.0.15 and 1.0.16 users receive build 18 from the existing release feed, then build 19 from the Sparkle feed.
• New users install the complete build 19 DMG directly.
• Build 18 excludes the bundled Local AI payload and remains below the legacy updater's practical artifact limit.
• Build 19 is distributed from the dedicated Sparkle release repository.

Verification

• Public signed AVE 1.0.15 and signed AVE 1.0.16 both installed build 18 through the legacy updater.
• The signed build 18 helper installed build 19 through a cryptographically signed isolated Sparkle feed.
• Interrupted build 19 downloads left build 18 usable and succeeded on retry.
• Project and settings fixtures remained byte-for-byte unchanged across update replacement.
• Build 17 was rejected by the build 19 minimum-update gate, build 18 was offered build 19, and build 19 reported no newer update.
• Both app bundles and DMGs passed codesign, Gatekeeper, stapling, package audit, and disk-image verification.

Known Constraints

• The complete update is a one-time large download because it includes the Local AI engine and starter analysis models.
• AVE 1.0.15 and 1.0.16 must receive build 18 before build 19 becomes available.