CivicCast v1.0.0-rc14 — Public beta

CivicCast v1.0.0-rc14 — Windows repair public beta

This prerelease supersedes the withdrawn rc13 build for Windows beta evaluation.

What changed

• Serializes Windows feature servicing and WSL/Ubuntu bootstrap so repeated clicks or relaunches cannot start competing elevated setup chains.
• Preserves reboot/resume state and shows the active phase, step count, elapsed time, and a live heartbeat during long setup operations.
• Repairs same-version runtime replacement, retry/recovery behavior, stale installer registration, and uninstall cleanup.
• Repairs first-admin setup, backup/restore rehearsal, exact-selected-sample private rehearsal, private packaging, explicit Portal approval, resident playback, and authenticated support-bundle download.
• Updates the README, Windows guide, user manual, technical/architecture material, landing pages, LPM handoff, and discussion seed copy for rc14.

Installation requirements

• Windows 11 x64
• Administrator access
• Internet access during initial Windows/Ubuntu provisioning
• At least 5 GB free disk space for installation, plus separate capacity for media, recordings, backups, and optional caption models
• One or more restarts may be required while Windows enables WSL and Virtual Machine Platform

Beta boundary

Use only civiccast-1.0.0-rc14-windows-setup.exe attached to this release, and verify it against its sidecar and release manifest. rc13 and earlier candidates are withdrawn from new installation.

By owner direction, rc14 was published before the exact public installer completed its post-publication clean-Windows walkthrough. That exact downloaded installer subsequently completed clean install, first setup, database recovery drill, private rehearsal, private packaging, explicit Portal approval, resident playback, support-bundle redaction audit, relaunch, uninstall, and clean reinstall. The walkthrough found installer progress/status defects that are being fixed forward in rc15; rc14 assets remain immutable.

Stock rc14 proves the recorded-media path: create or upload a sample, privately rehearse that exact sample, package it privately, approve the Portal surface, and verify resident playback. Live ingest remains fail-closed unless an integrator supplies and separately proves the required server-side media probe. Hardware, headend delivery, external providers, app stores, and unattended station operation require separate field acceptance.

Download ready

• Download civiccast-1.0.0-rc14-windows-setup.exe
• Size: 243,665,424 bytes
• SHA-256: d624f965cc82b9b93e3aa493463aba921dd476a4c695193d1c7d078584d8b5d7
• Authenticode: Valid
• Signer: CN=Scott Converse, O=Scott Converse, L=Longmont, S=co, C=US
• Sigstore: independently verified against the refs/tags/v1.0.0-rc14 release workflow identity

The public asset set contains 28 uploaded release assets and passes the public-beta consistency gate. The exact public installer completed its bounded clean-Windows acceptance path. rc15 is the forward-fix candidate for the progress/status defects found during that run.