0.2

Beam68 0.2

Features

• Aminet Browser plugin with search, package details, paged readmes, confirmed
  downloads and archive-opening installation preparation.
• Preferences About window showing the Preferences build and the actual version
  of the running Beam68 launcher.
• Per-plugin preview controls, including enable/disable and direct numeric delay
  entry with validation and Cancel support.
• Outstanding-request diagnostics showing the plugin, request age and timeout state.
• Resettable responsiveness measurements and a report script for repeatable
  startup, typing and result-display checks.
• Installer QA package for separate installation, update and uninstall tests,
  with file checks, settings-preservation checks and a readable report.
• Release-script --output option for separate artifact directories, logs,
  manifests and publication receipts for each release.

Enhancements

• Earlier display of search results during indexing, with more frequent input checks.
• More responsive typing through coalesced input, immediate query feedback and
  less repeated matching work.
• Lower startup memory use through on-demand index string storage.
• Earlier duplicate-launch detection and deferred font-library loading.
• Deferred optional icon previews; native plugin requests avoid reply-file polling.
• Background plugin requests are bounded, manual requests retain capacity and
  queued previews are coalesced. Routine plugin-health saves wait for idle time.
• Startup timing includes library, configuration and metadata loading.
• Beam68Prefs can be found with ordinary preferences and settings searches.
• Novice installation uses automatic defaults and reuses the existing installation
  location. Novice uninstall removes programs while retaining saved settings.
• The Shell installer stops the resident before copying, starts the installed
  launcher and checks its reported version before showing the search window.
• System Commands is enabled by default. Aminet Browser is installed but disabled
  until enabled in Preferences; updates retain saved plugin choices.

Bugs

• Fixed stack corruption when Preferences returns from its private application stack.
• Fixed Novice mode being unavailable in the installer and QA uninstaller.
• Fixed the Installer QA menu's Quit action.
• Preserved portable settings, aliases, snippets, additional plugins and edited
  bundled themes during updates. Missing settings inherit existing user settings
  and plugin-local configuration.
• Corrected legacy installation-location handling and known startup links when
  updating older layouts.
• Detached obsolete plugin requests after query changes, window closure or plugin
  reloads, preventing replies for older queries from replacing current results.
• Improved recovery after plugin timeouts, crashes, malformed replies and preview
  failures, with elapsed-time deadlines and stricter reply validation.
• Preserved existing index entries and titles after low-memory failures.
• Made cache reloads transactional, with rollback after failed replacement and
  recovery from validated backups after interrupted saves.
• Retained unverified entries after incomplete rescans and remapped selections
  after completed scans.
• Refreshed changed game and bookmark titles during rescans.

0.1

Beam68 0.1

First public release of Beam68 for classic AmigaOS.

• Resident launcher and separate native Preferences application.
• Scoped application search, aliases, favorites, query history and drawer browsing.
• Thirteen bundled native plugins using public Protocol 1 selectable results.
• Four portable themes, English interface, German and Swedish catalogues.
• Plugin SDK and examples included in the source tree.

Requires AmigaOS 3.0+ and a 68000+ CPU; no FPU is required. AmigaOS 3.2 and a
68020 are recommended. Optional integrations require their host applications.
Physical minimum-memory/68000 certification, full clean-install coverage and
all third-party host combinations remain open. Build success and portable tests
are separate from native runtime verification.

The LHA contains the Amiga runtime. The plugin SDK ZIP contains the API,
examples, documentation and package validator. Both have individual SHA-256
files. Application source is available from the tagged Git repository.