Alpha 0.0.96 · App190 · Driver193 — signed and notarized engineering prerelease

Alpha 0.0.96 is a full Apple silicon engineering prerelease: App Build 190 with its matching Driver193 and the normal 66-command CLI/MCP client. It is Developer ID signed, accepted by Apple notarization, and stapled. Use normal macOS approval; no SIP change is required. Offline playback and archive tools need no driver activation.

This release consolidates the IEC metadata implementation, epoch-aware mixed NTSC/PAL archives and byte-exact segmented exports, receive ownership and storage safeguards, portable signing tools, and the preview inspector improvements found during earlier M1 testing. The full app and fresh driver were built together from public source commit 6d23033. Signing and source correspondence do not assert independently reproducible binaries or general hardware certification.

Validation includes 527 Swift Testing cases and 14 XCTest cases, native offline playback/continuity/scrubbing, a complete 11,811-frame mixed-format archive check, receive/storage harnesses, signing negative tests, and independent package verification. A paced 360-frame offline workspace replay recorded zero skips, resets, late submissions, or failed submissions. These are software/offline results.

Earlier M1 MacBook Air observations used different builds: App188/Driver192 captured 452 complete NTSC DV frames with SIP enabled; developer-mode state remained unknown. Preview stutter was reported while saved playback appeared smooth. App189 preview changes passed a bounded paced offline replay and inspector interactions, but physical live-preview retesting remains outstanding. An App189 Open DV chooser visibility observation over Screen Sharing remains unresolved; the MacBook Air is currently unavailable. Neither result qualifies this new package on the M1.

PAL acquisition, HDV workflows, broad deck/controller compatibility, full-tape endurance, and live extension unload remain unqualified. VAUX 0x61 interpretation remains unresolved; raw evidence is preserved. The approved release PCI match is 0x590111C1. Preserve the previous app and completed captures before changing installations. Read the tagged installation and limitations documents before hardware use.

Installation: https://github.com/rewinddv/rewindDV/blob/alpha-0.0.96/INSTALL.md
Known limitations: https://github.com/rewinddv/rewindDV/blob/alpha-0.0.96/KNOWN-LIMITATIONS.md
Source and build instructions: https://github.com/rewinddv/rewindDV/tree/alpha-0.0.96

The four assets are the ZIP, its SHA-256 checksum, an exact file manifest, and sanitized source/signing/notarization provenance. Alpha 0.0.94 remains available unchanged as the historical offline-only package.