0.3.2-alpha.1

[0.3.2-alpha.1] - 2026-07-19

Additions

• Added a persistent mention-sound volume control with an in-settings preview
  button, and replaced chat-setting checkboxes with clearer toggle switches.
• Added a large centered play control whenever Native playback is paused.
• Added a Twitch-style floating mini player while browsing, with draggable and
  resizable bounds, pause, mute, close, and click-to-restore controls.
• Added hover-intent stream pre-resolution so followed and browse cards can
  begin preparing Native playback before the channel is clicked.

Improvements

• Reworked embedded Native channel and quality switching to reuse the healthy
  mpv process, D3D/OpenGL bridge, and shared-texture pool through mpv's
  loadfile replace path instead of starting an entirely new player.
• Made stream switches stop outgoing playback immediately, discard stale
  in-flight frames, suppress intentional end-of-file events, and report
  whether the active transition is changing channel or quality.
• Overlapped fresh mpv/addon initialization with Streamlink URL resolution,
  cached resolved URLs for 60 seconds with in-flight deduplication and bounded
  concurrency, and skipped unnecessary FFmpeg container probing for HLS.
• Unified side chat and Native overlay chat behind one feed engine for message
  batching, scroll pause/resume, bottom anchoring, history trimming, and
  deleted-message reveal state.
• Rendered the embedded player at the mini player's actual pixel dimensions
  and preserved a seamless video transition when moving between full and
  floating layouts.
• Cached chat-user profile lookups for 60 seconds with in-flight deduplication,
  bounded third-party subscription-age requests to five seconds, and memoized
  retained user-card messages.
• Debounced preference persistence so rapidly adjusted chat and overlay
  controls no longer issue a settings write for every intermediate value.
• Hardened Electron's trust boundaries by isolating the official Twitch player
  cross-origin, locking privileged renderer navigation, validating every IPC
  sender, and narrowing the legacy controls window's preload capabilities.
• Kept authenticated/source-quality Streamlink playback while moving the
  website token from visible process arguments to a private stdin handoff.
• Moved the application renderer into an ephemeral storage partition while
  retaining encrypted playback credentials and synchronizing only the
  in-memory Twitch cookie required by the official player.
• Hardened release automation with exact dependency versions, immutable
  GitHub Action commits, read-only build permissions, non-replaceable release
  assets, automated dependency update proposals, and signing-ready Windows
  configuration.
• Made reply threads compact and content-sized above the chat composer instead
  of occupying a tall fixed panel.
• Refined overlay chat so its border, composer, tools, and scrollbar stay out
  of the way until needed, while the paused-chat indicator remains available.
• Made overlay chat resize smoothly above its revealed composer and keep live
  messages pinned to the newest entry without moving readers who scrolled up.
• Kept profile cards inside the visible application area as asynchronous
  profile data changes their size or the window is resized.

Fixes

• Fixed rapid Native stream switches allowing a cancelled older startup or
  stale end-of-file event to clear the new stream, reset its state, or trigger
  the legacy window-player fallback.
• Fixed reselecting the channel already playing from rebuilding its metadata,
  chat, and player; it now simply restores the existing player surface.
• Fixed closing playback briefly flashing a loading state by unmounting the
  player page before tearing down its main-process session.
• Fixed paused or history-trimmed chat drifting while new messages arrive by
  sharing the same anchored feed logic between side and overlay layouts.
• Fixed profile-card data loading or application resizing moving the card
  partly outside the visible window.
• Fixed overlay-opacity changes racing between synchronized renderer state and
  rapidly cycling through stale percentages.
• Fixed overlay scrollbars remaining visible while inactive and extending
  behind the chat composer.
• Fixed resuming Native playback from a paused stream causing frame skips or
  failing to return to the live edge.
• Reduced delays when opening chat-user profiles and other external links in
  the system browser.