v1.1.0-alpha.2

What's changed

• Workspace Search: Find Projects and Tasks across Projects, Backlog, Completed, Archive and Bin using titles, descriptions, Categories and Participants. Open a result in its owning view. #172
• Due today → Planned: Choosing today's due date in the Task inspector adds an active, incomplete Task to Planned. Changing or clearing the date in that inspector undoes its automatic placement; existing Today membership and explicit Today actions take precedence. #171
• Clearer Project lists: Expanded Projects show incomplete Tasks before completed Tasks, preserving manual order within each group. #170
• Fixes to inspector save/retry handling and keyboard focus during background refreshes.

Workspace compatibility

This release uses workspace schema 20. Opening an older supported workspace upgrades it after creating and validating an encrypted pre-migration recovery point. The upgraded workspace cannot be opened by alpha.1 or older releases. Keep the pre-migration recovery point if you need to return to an older release.

Verification and limitations

Release commit: 6adb8d904d35bbb3613a41a11c229217d745dc18.

The canonical exact-commit verification gate passed locally on macOS Arm64: 1,875 tests passed, zero failed and zero skipped. It also passed locked restore, dependency vulnerability and deprecation audits, formatting, a warning-free deterministic Release build, native desktop smoke and both negative controls. The hosted Build and tagged package matrices passed on Windows x64, Linux x64, macOS Intel and macOS Arm64, including encrypted-store recovery and packaged desktop/MCP adapter smoke checks.

The merged changes received maintainer review in the native sample workspace, including Search in Light and Dark at the minimum window size, due-date placement and Project task ordering. These checks were performed during feature review; no additional manual device or screen-reader testing was performed for this release. Automated interaction and native smoke checks do not cover every physical-device or assistive-technology combination.

Portable packages and macOS first run

These are self-contained portable archives, without installers or platform-trusted publisher signing. Windows may show its normal first-run warning.

The macOS executables have an ad hoc signature, but they are not signed with an Apple Developer ID or notarised. Only continue if you downloaded them from the official dot-orbit GitHub release. After extracting an archive, run ./dot-orbit from Terminal. If macOS blocks it, open System Settings → Privacy & Security, choose Open Anyway for the blocked item, then confirm Open. The optional dot-orbit-mcp adapter is a separate executable and may need the same one-time approval. Do not disable Gatekeeper globally. See the dot-orbit first-run guide and Apple's guidance.

Full changelog: v1.1.0-alpha.1...v1.1.0-alpha.2

v1.1.0-alpha.1

macOS first run

The macOS executables have an ad hoc signature, but they are not signed with an Apple Developer ID or notarised. Only continue if you downloaded them from the official dot-orbit GitHub release. After extracting an archive, run ./dot-orbit from Terminal. If macOS blocks it, open System Settings → Privacy & Security, choose Open Anyway for the blocked item, then confirm Open. The optional dot-orbit-mcp adapter is a separate executable and may need the same one-time approval. Do not disable Gatekeeper globally. See the dot-orbit first-run guide and Apple's current guidance.

Manual verification

Physical-device and assistive-technology checks are best-effort. Before publishing this draft, record the manual checks completed, known issues, and untested combinations here.

What's Changed

• Allow reviewed v2 proposals to change Today placement by @nullabletype in #165
• Add recurring Tasks with automatic saving and safe catch-up by @nullabletype in #167

Full Changelog: v1.0.0...v1.1.0-alpha.1

v1.0.0

macOS first run

The macOS executables have an ad hoc signature, but they are not signed with an Apple Developer ID or notarised. Only continue if you downloaded them from the official dot-orbit GitHub release. After extracting an archive, run ./dot-orbit from Terminal. If macOS blocks it, open System Settings → Privacy & Security, choose Open Anyway for the blocked item, then confirm Open. The optional dot-orbit-mcp adapter is a separate executable and may need the same one-time approval. Do not disable Gatekeeper globally. See the dot-orbit first-run guide and Apple's current guidance.

Manual verification

The maintainer uses the current application daily and considers its functionality ready for 1.0. The exact release commit passed the local canonical gate and the hosted Build and package matrices on Ubuntu 24.04, Windows Server 2025, macOS 26 Apple silicon, and macOS 26 Intel. The expected Windows first-run warning is documented and accepted for this unsigned portable release.

No dedicated assistive-technology pass or additional physical-device matrix was completed for this release. Windows 11 editions, macOS 14/15, Debian 13, and platform screen readers remain untested combinations. No known release-blocking issues were identified.

What's Changed

• Left-align the local MCP Settings description by @nullabletype in #150
• Open undated inspector calendars on today without selecting a date by @nullabletype in #151
• Keep local-MCP apply feedback in Review by @nullabletype in #152
• Add licensed named colour themes by @nullabletype in #154
• Publish product site through GitHub Pages by @nullabletype in #156
• Show when an application update is available by @nullabletype in #157
• Prepare 1.0 release documentation and policy by @nullabletype in #158
• Fix alpha support baseline drift by @nullabletype in #159
• Clarify 1.0 release verification and macOS first run by @nullabletype in #160
• Polish stable download site copy by @nullabletype in #161

Full Changelog: v0.1.0-alpha.9...v1.0.0

v0.1.0-alpha.9

What's Changed

• Add opt-in local MCP integration by @nullabletype in #134
• Support parallel issue work in isolated checkouts by @nullabletype in #135
• Remember main window size across launches by @nullabletype in #136
• Make Task identity pills navigate to their context by @nullabletype in #137
• Choose and remember workspace locations by @nullabletype in #138

Full Changelog: v0.1.0-alpha.8...v0.1.0-alpha.9

dot-orbit 0.1.0-alpha.8

What's Changed

• Move test projects to supported MTP v2 packages by @nullabletype in #107
• Define the agent-interchange v1 contract by @nullabletype in #108
• Polish completion and Settings UI consistency by @nullabletype in #110
• Establish workspace revisions and interchange v1 contracts by @nullabletype in #111
• Add reviewed AI planning interchange copy by @nullabletype in #112
• Validate v1 agent proposals and build authoritative previews by @nullabletype in #113
• Apply approved agent proposals atomically with recovery by @nullabletype in #114
• Fill row hover surfaces and align archived Project summaries by @nullabletype in #116
• Show exact reorder destinations with labelled placeholders by @nullabletype in #118
• Keep Orbit-specific evaluations and use the external Foundation toolkit by @nullabletype in #122
• Add human-reviewed AI proposal import and native review by @nullabletype in #123
• Add off-by-default AI features gate by @nullabletype in #126
• Prototype secure local MCP adapter boundary by @nullabletype in #127
• Update .NET security servicing for alpha.8 by @nullabletype in #129

Full Changelog: v0.1.0-alpha.6...v0.1.0-alpha.8

Runtime and verification

This alpha includes .NET SDK 10.0.402 / self-contained runtime 10.0.13, Microsoft.Data.Sqlite.Core 10.0.13, and the patched setup-node action. Built from e20c4f0c5ed270b861e1b8967457d24747aab576.

• Exact-commit repository verification on Linux x64, Windows x64, macOS x64 and macOS arm64: https://github.com/nullabletype/dot-orbit/actions/runs/39581513833
• All four version-stamped Release archives passed package integrity validation, encrypted recovery and native desktop smoke: https://github.com/nullabletype/dot-orbit/actions/runs/39581553794
• Release-time support audit and CodeQL: https://github.com/nullabletype/dot-orbit/actions/runs/39581574224
• The maintainer explicitly waived separate dated Windows 11, macOS 14/15, Debian 13 and release-level assistive-technology checks for this alpha only. Hosted CI does not establish these manual checks.
• The dated dependency review records retained pins and deferred SQLite3MC native hardening: https://github.com/nullabletype/dot-orbit/blob/e20c4f0c5ed270b861e1b8967457d24747aab576/docs/development/dependency-baseline.md#servicing-release-catalogue-review-2026-10-21

Alpha.7 remained unpublished and is superseded by this release.

dot-orbit 0.1.0-alpha.6

What's Changed

• Make mutation reads and archive indexing change-aware by @nullabletype in #104
• Duplicate Tasks and Projects as active work by @nullabletype in #103

Full Changelog: v0.1.0-alpha.5...v0.1.0-alpha.6

dot-orbit 0.1.0-alpha.5

Fifth public alpha of dot-orbit, built from e3f3824e4acdc165bee682230f6d311e84c1a8fe on main.

Changes

• Immediate Task actions now run through serialized background persistence, keeping encrypted writes off the UI thread while preserving ordering and failure recovery.
• Completed, reopened, archived, restored, binned, and reordered Tasks now apply targeted committed updates instead of reloading the whole workspace, reducing visible pauses and preserving current UI state.
• The unlocked workspace reuses bounded SQLite3MC connections across application work, with explicit recovery, rotation, and disposal boundaries.
• Ordinary commits no longer reopen and revalidate every retained recovery file; recovery deadlines are preserved and invalidated only when their source state changes.
• Added opt-in, privacy-safe Windows performance recording for diagnosing remaining pauses without capturing task content, database contents, secrets, or clipboard data.

Downloads

Choose Windows x64, Linux x64, macOS Intel (x64), or macOS Apple silicon (arm64). Extract the archive and run dot-orbit (dot-orbit.exe on Windows). Packages are self-contained; no separate .NET installation is required. Linux requires X11.

These are portable archives without installers, signing, notarisation, or .orb file-association registration.

Alpha verification and limitations

Release commit: e3f3824e4acdc165bee682230f6d311e84c1a8fe.

The canonical exact-commit repository gate passed on Ubuntu 24.04, Windows Server 2025, and macOS 26: Build verification. CodeQL security analysis also passed. A clean local exact-SHA run passed all 865 tests plus the native desktop smoke and both negative controls.

The tagged package workflow validated all four Release archives, checked the embedded 0.1.0-alpha.5 version, restored the portable encrypted recovery fixture, and ran the packaged desktop keyboard smoke journey before publication.

As with previous alphas, full supported-desktop verification and assistive-technology/screen-reader checks remain deferred. Hosted runner results do not establish verification on Windows 11, macOS 14/15, or Debian 13, and the local macOS 27 result is diagnostic only. The extended Windows retained-recovery benchmark also remains incomplete. This alpha does not claim that all pauses are resolved or that it satisfies the full supported-release acceptance gate.

Pull requests

• Add opt-in local performance recording for Windows diagnosis (#95)
• Avoid repeated recovery validation on ordinary commits (#97)
• Reuse encrypted workspace session connections (#100)
• Run immediate Task actions through background persistence (#101)
• Avoid full reloads for immediate Task actions (#102)

Full changelog

dot-orbit 0.1.0-alpha.4

Fourth public alpha of dot-orbit, built from b04d9ccd6a45ae31c5de3a710bd1ff89a42075c7 on main.

Changes

• Existing Task and Project field edits now update affected rows and groups incrementally instead of reloading every view, reducing refresh work and preserving selection and focus.
• Inspector autosaves run through a serialized background writer so encrypted persistence does not block the UI thread. Revision ordering, save status, failure recovery, and pending-save handling during navigation and close are retained.
• Added a repeatable synthetic performance harness and baseline report to guide further work. Remaining storage and broader refresh costs are still under investigation; this release does not claim all pauses are resolved.

Downloads

Choose Windows x64, Linux x64, macOS Intel (x64), or macOS Apple silicon (arm64). Extract the archive and run dot-orbit (dot-orbit.exe on Windows). Packages are self-contained; no separate .NET installation is required. Linux requires X11.

These are portable archives without installers, signing, notarisation, or .orb file-association registration.

Alpha verification and limitations

Release commit: b04d9ccd6a45ae31c5de3a710bd1ff89a42075c7.

The canonical exact-commit repository gate passed on Ubuntu 24.04, Windows Server 2025, and macOS 26: Build verification. CodeQL security analysis also passed.

The tagged package workflow validates all four Release archives, checks the embedded version, restores the portable encrypted recovery fixture, and runs the packaged desktop keyboard smoke journey. Publication follows successful completion of that workflow.

As with previous alphas, full supported-desktop verification and assistive-technology/screen-reader checks remain deferred. Hosted runner results do not establish verification on Windows 11, macOS 14/15, or Debian 13. Native icon appearance across desktop shells also remains subject to manual platform verification. This alpha does not claim to satisfy the full supported-release acceptance gate.

Pull requests

• Performance review and repeatable baseline (#91)
• Incremental projections after content edits (#93)
• Asynchronous inspector saves (#94)

Full changelog

dot-orbit 0.1.0-alpha.3

Third public alpha of dot-orbit, tagged from the latest main commit at release preparation: a120fadeae0b63048a9d370b4ac8298875789d2d.

There are no source changes since alpha.2: both tags point to this same commit. These packages are rebuilt with version 0.1.0-alpha.3.

Included features

• Choose persistent Category and Project colours from a sixteen-colour palette. Existing workspaces receive deterministic initial colours.
• Task rows now show joined Category and Project identity pills, with clearer Project lifecycle metadata across the application.
• Plaintext JSON export advances to version 3 and includes Project colour keys.
• Windows executables and application windows embed the dot-orbit logo. Linux running-window artwork depends on the window manager; macOS Finder/Dock artwork remains unchanged because the distribution is still a bare executable.
• Native icon provenance validation handles Windows checkout line endings.

Downloads

Choose Windows x64, Linux x64, macOS Intel (x64), or macOS Apple silicon (arm64). Extract the archive and run dot-orbit (dot-orbit.exe on Windows). Packages are self-contained; no separate .NET installation is required. Linux requires X11.

These are portable archives without installers, signing, notarisation, or .orb file-association registration.

Alpha verification and limitations

Release commit: a120fadeae0b63048a9d370b4ac8298875789d2d.

The canonical exact-commit repository gate passed on Ubuntu 24.04, Windows Server 2025, and macOS 26: Build verification. Security checks also passed.

The tagged package workflow validated all four Release archives, checked the embedded version, restored the portable encrypted recovery fixture, and ran the packaged desktop keyboard smoke journey.

As with alpha.1, full supported-desktop verification and assistive-technology/screen-reader checks remain deferred. Hosted runner results do not establish verification on Windows 11, macOS 14/15, or Debian 13. Native icon appearance across desktop shells also remains subject to manual platform verification. This alpha does not claim to satisfy the full supported-release acceptance gate.

Feature changes since alpha.1

• Category and Project colour identity (#84)
• Native application icons (#85)

Full changelog

dot-orbit 0.1.0-alpha.2

Second public alpha of dot-orbit, with Category and Project colour identity and native application icons.

What's changed

• Choose persistent Category and Project colours from a sixteen-colour palette. Existing workspaces receive deterministic initial colours.
• Task rows now show joined Category and Project identity pills, with clearer Project lifecycle metadata across the application.
• Plaintext JSON export advances to version 3 and includes Project colour keys.
• Windows executables and application windows embed the dot-orbit logo. Linux running-window artwork depends on the window manager; macOS Finder/Dock artwork remains unchanged because the distribution is still a bare executable.
• Native icon provenance validation handles Windows checkout line endings.

Downloads

Choose Windows x64, Linux x64, macOS Intel (x64), or macOS Apple silicon (arm64). Extract the archive and run dot-orbit (dot-orbit.exe on Windows). Packages are self-contained; no separate .NET installation is required. Linux requires X11.

These are portable archives without installers, signing, notarisation, or .orb file-association registration.

Alpha verification and limitations

Release commit: a120fadeae0b63048a9d370b4ac8298875789d2d.

The canonical exact-commit repository gate passed on Ubuntu 24.04, Windows Server 2025, and macOS 26: Build verification. Security checks also passed.

The tagged package workflow validated all four Release archives, checked the embedded version, restored the portable encrypted recovery fixture, and ran the packaged desktop keyboard smoke journey.

As with alpha.1, full supported-desktop verification and assistive-technology/screen-reader checks remain deferred. Hosted runner results do not establish verification on Windows 11, macOS 14/15, or Debian 13. Native icon appearance across desktop shells also remains subject to manual platform verification. This alpha does not claim to satisfy the full supported-release acceptance gate.

Changes since alpha.1

• Category and Project colour identity (#84)
• Native application icons (#85)

Full changelog