0.3.0-alpha.1

[0.3.0-alpha.1] - 2026-07-18

Additions

• Added an embedded Native playback backend that renders libmpv through
  Electron's shared D3D11 texture pipeline, keeping video and React controls,
  menus, chat, and overlays in one composited window.
• Added GPU-accelerated OpenGL rendering for embedded Native playback, with
  orientation correction, bounded frame transport, renderer recovery, and the
  existing external-window Native backend retained as a fallback.
• Bundled the Windows texture-player addon and its required libmpv runtime into
  packaged builds so the embedded backend is available after installation.
• Made Native playback and the embedded renderer the defaults for new
  installations while keeping the official Twitch Standard player available.
• Added clickable Twitch reply threads that show retained conversation context,
  badges, emotes, timestamps, and reply actions in side and overlay chat.
• Added timeout and permanent-ban handling with a persistent choice between
  revealable placeholders and dimmed moderated messages.
• Replaced native browser tooltips with a consistent app-wide React tooltip
  layer that works above the embedded player.
• Added Twitch stream tags to followed-live and category stream cards.
• Added an in-app changelog viewer beside update controls, with an automatic
  once-per-version What's New popup after an update.

Fixes

• Fixed Native overlays, quality menus, fullscreen chat, and keyboard shortcuts
  freezing or disappearing over video, and added M as the mute shortcut.
• Improved embedded-player startup so the player surface appears immediately
  while libmpv initializes, and restored controls after optimistic mounting.
• Hardened embedded playback against transient shared-texture import failures,
  stale frames, renderer-surface replacement, rapid channel switching, and
  resize-related white or black frames.
• Fixed the embedded video orientation and reduced CPU usage by replacing the
  software rendering path with the GPU-backed OpenGL bridge.
• Restored Native control visibility and five-second mouse-idle auto-hiding,
  including over fullscreen chat overlays and player menus.
• Fixed Standard fullscreen recovery so Escape and F11 cannot leave the app
  trapped in Chromium's HTML fullscreen state.
• Fixed missing Twitch badges by retrying multiple official CDN image sizes and
  hiding assets cleanly when every variant fails.
• Improved emote startup by loading 7TV, FrankerFaceZ, and BetterTTV
  independently, preserving provider priority, and lazily loading picker images
  below the visible rows.
• Fixed malformed Twitch emote-owner identifiers preventing otherwise valid
  badges and emotes from loading.
• Fixed small provider emotes being enlarged to the normal emote height.
• Fixed chat reply previews, deleted-message explanations, event-card hover
  styling, and Scroll to current positioning as the composer changes height.
• Fixed custom tooltips disappearing whenever live chat generated a scroll
  event; tooltips now remain attached to their hovered or focused controls.
• Fixed category pages failing when Twitch returns a null stream-tags field.
• Made Standard playback retry its initial play request and recover from
  Chromium blocking audible autoplay.
• Added a Twitch access refresh action so newly requested permissions, including
  user emotes, can be authorized without first deleting the existing session.
• Tightened the Twitch subscription drawer, removed overlapping website
  navigation, and constrained tall drawers to their internally scrollable
  content area.
• Applied the VioletWire icon to authentication, Twitch action, and detached
  control windows instead of Electron's default icon.
• Added loading and open states to the Subscribe button and delayed the
  subscription drawer reveal until Twitch's panel has rendered.
• Kept the Subscribe star unfilled while its drawer is merely open, reserving
  the filled state for a confirmed active subscription.