v0.54.0
Spacewave 0.54.0 makes the first browser load dramatically faster: the core startup download is about 90% smaller, with SQL Database tools loaded only when you open them. It also adds honest startup download progress, a branded loading screen, richer Create Object choices, blog subscriptions, and broad reliability fixes for browser updates, Quickstarts, Drive, desktop startup, and peer-to-peer connections.
Features
- Create Object now shows icons and one-line descriptions, includes registered Chat Channel, Documentation, Blog, Forge Dashboard, and V86 VM choices, and reliably refreshes the available choices when the palette opens.
- The Spacewave blog now lets readers subscribe for development updates and release announcements directly from the end of a post.
- Command Line can now open in a Spacewave tab, with help, command history, interrupt, and live watch support.
- SQL Database saved queries now restore their parameters, including binary values, and supported table views can update rows safely within the active view.
- System Status now includes a Network panel showing live connection and transport state.
Fixes
- Fixed browser startup paths that could stop at a completed download, wedge after a reload, or fail to continue when a replacement browser tab was already ready.
- Fixed browser updates and reloads that could reuse stale app downloads, reducing stuck loading screens and stale views after a new release.
- Fixed desktop startup failures that could leave the app unable to connect to its window or repeatedly retry a valid app screen.
- Fixed the Home tab after Drive Quickstart so it opens the session instead of showing a blank grey pane.
- Fixed Drive drag-and-drop so files can be moved onto folders, root and parent breadcrumbs, and Up controls without the drop silently disappearing.
- Fixed Notebook, Docs, and Blog Quickstarts so their app content can load on demand and open the seeded object; Forge Dashboard and V86 VM startup paths also recover more reliably.
- Fixed WebRTC connection teardown so pending channels close cleanly when the browser connection disappears instead of leaving stalled peer-to-peer work behind.
- Fixed browser-based numeric operations for 32-bit multiplication and string minimum/maximum comparisons, preventing incorrect results in affected apps.
Improvements
- The browser's core startup download is about 90% smaller because SQL Database tools are no longer part of every first load; shared app code is also cached more effectively across reloads and updates.
- Browser startup now appears immediately with Spacewave branding, clear phases, live byte counts, per-download progress, and Retry or Back actions when startup fails.
- Drive uploads now show start and completion feedback near the upload indicator, and first-run guidance presents one callout at a time without hiding upload progress.
- Git Spaces bring in large repositories more efficiently, reducing storage overhead during clone and import operations.
- Docs now adapt more cleanly to narrow windows and smaller screens.
- Desktop development builds start faster by skipping browser-only startup work that the desktop app does not need.
Security
- Updated cryptographic dependencies to address reported security issues.