Handshake v0.9.5

⚡ Snappier board

The board filter and staleness-fade no longer fire a JavaScript animation spring on every card at once — they now use lightweight CSS transitions, and person/goal cards are memoized so toggling a tag or tie-strength filter doesn't re-render the whole board. Noticeably smoother, especially on Linux.

Handshake v0.9.4

🔍 Sharper on HiDPI Linux

The App scale slider now goes down to 50% (was 80%). On fractional-scaled Linux displays (e.g. Hyprland at 1.6), GTK3 — which Tauri is built on — can't scale fractionally, so the app renders blurry. Workaround: launch with GDK_SCALE=2 to render at a crisp integer 2x, then dial App scale down to bring it back to true size. Settings → Appearance → App scale.

Nothing else changed — a small quality-of-life release.

Handshake v0.9.3

Handshake now updates itself. 🎉

✨ In-app updates

On macOS, Windows, and Linux (AppImage), Handshake checks for new versions and offers to install them in place – a prompt appears, it downloads, and the app restarts into the new version. No more manual reinstalling. On .deb/.rpm you get a heads-up with a download link.

Heads up: this is the first self-updating release, so you install it manually just this once. Every version after this updates in place.

🎨 A deeper dark

The default dark theme is now a richer, deeper charcoal – matched to the website, so the rose accent and your cards stand out more.

🔤 Typographic polish

Small voice-and-punctuation cleanup across the interface.

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Handshake v0.9.2

Local-first network mapping — free, open source, macOS · Windows · Linux.

Fixes

• Vault creation — creating a new network into a fresh folder no longer fails with "no longer exists"; it seeds your owner card correctly now.
• Won't open a non-vault folder — opening an arbitrary folder as a vault is refused (checks for the owner card / minimal structure).

Changes

• App scale is now a slider (80–300%), replacing the fixed steps.
• "Fade inactive cards" defaults to off — calmer out of the box.

Plus the earlier 0.9.x work: [[backlinks]], the always-on board toolbar, and resizable slide-in side panels.

Download

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Unsigned: on first launch macOS (Gatekeeper) / Windows (SmartScreen) may warn — right-click → Open (macOS) or More info → Run anyway (Windows). On a Wayland compositor (Hyprland/sway), if the window comes up blank, launch with WEBKIT_DISABLE_DMABUF_RENDERER=1.

Handshake v0.9.1

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Handshake v0.9.0

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Handshake v0.8.7

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Handshake v0.8.6

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Handshake v0.8.5

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Handshake v0.8.4

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