Vorynth v1.5.0 — Knowledge Paths

Vorynth tells its own story now — the name origin, the build system, and every supported platform are documented end-to-end. CI pipelines for HarmonyOS, FreeBSD, and Windows have been hardened, and the favicon finally carries the actual Vorynth logo.

What's new

• Name origin — "Why Vorynth?" section on the landing page and README explaining the Vor (vision/voyage) + Yn (intelligence network) + Th (thought/depth) construction.
• HarmonyOS setup guide — completely rewritten with real SDK URLs, toolchain table, DevEco Studio steps, and honest limitations.
• Built with ZCode — a personal note crediting the tools (GLM 5.2, DeepSeek V4 Flash, ChatGPT) used during development, explicitly framed as experience rather than promotion.

Improvements

• CI no longer runs on doc-only changes — saves runner time when only README, docs, or AGENTS.md are updated.
• Favicon regenerated from the actual Vorynth logo (not a generic brain) at 4 resolutions in a single .ico.
• Version sync — a new pnpm version:sync script reads the version from a single source (root package.json) and updates all 5 version files; CI validates they stay in sync.
• Release artifacts — HarmonyOS raw bundle and FreeBSD tarball are now attached to the GitHub release draft alongside the desktop installers, so every supported platform is represented in a single release.

Fixes

• HarmonyOS CI — fixed glib-sys cross-compilation failure by making Tauri and desktop-only Rust dependencies conditional (cfg(not(target_env = "ohos"))). The native bridge library (lib.rs) always had zero Tauri usage, but Cargo resolved Tauri unconditionally for all targets, pulling in gtk/glib/webkit2gtk which don't exist in the OHOS NDK.
• FreeBSD CI — replaced cargo install tauri-cli (which fails on FreeBSD because its dependency cargo-mobile2 hard-rejects unsupported hosts with compile_error!) with plain cargo build + manual sidecar staging. The frontend is embedded at compile time via tauri::generate_context!(), and the sidecar ships as a directory next to the binary.
• Windows CI — spawn() with shell: true caused ncc to hang on Node 24 on Windows (cmd.exe file association issues). Fixed by invoking ncc directly through process.execPath, bypassing cmd.exe entirely.
• Engine port drift — the default fallback port now matches between frontend (34117) and engine, so pnpm dev works without manual env config.
• YAML syntax — invalid indentation in package.yml matrix block fixed.

Known issues

• HarmonyOS CI requires downloading a ~2.3 GiB SDK on cache miss. The NDK setup will be streamlined in a follow-up release.
• FreeBSD build is experimental: WebKit on FreeBSD is still maturing. The Linux x86_64 binary (runs via the FreeBSD Linux ABI compatibility layer) is the recommended fallback.

Full changelog

See changelog-data.ts for the complete release history.