v0.2.0

v0.2.0 — 2026-07-14

🚀 Features

• In-app updater: Automatic update checks via GitHub Releases with platform-specific asset matching
• CI/CD: Complete cross-platform release pipeline producing .dmg (macOS), .deb (Linux), and NSIS installer (Windows)
• CI/CD: Frontend build once, share via artifact — saves ~60s per platform job
• CI/CD: Go module caching, frontend dependency caching, and tag-based stable release gating
• CI/CD: Inject app version into all platform metadata (Info.plist, nfpm, Windows manifest)
• VPN detection: Detects active VPN connections and shows a warning in the status bar
• Header animation: Mercury logo pulses with a green glow during active file transfers
• Status indicator: Moved before the Home/Settings tabs for better visibility
• Documentation: Full Docusaurus docs site with architecture diagrams, usage guides, and FAQ
• License: Relicensed from GPL v3 to MPL 2.0

🐛 Bug Fixes

• macOS app icon now shows the Mercury logo instead of the default Wails scaffold icon
• Removed stale Assets.car from .app bundle (was overriding icons.icns)
• Clipboard polling optimized to reduce memory footprint
• Single instance support added to prevent duplicate processes
• CSS draggable regions properly configured for frameless window

🔧 Refactors

• Release workflow rewritten with version injection, caching, and frontend artifact sharing
• Settings UI layout improved with restructured segments
• VPN detection logic improved with updated tests

📚 Documentation

• New Docusaurus site: architecture overview, installation guides, configuration reference, usage docs, FAQ
• README updated with accurate installer filenames and license info

⛓️‍💥 Commits

• feat: update Windows artifact preparation and upload steps in release workflow (156887a)
• feat: update Windows installer references to mercury-amd64-installer.exe in workflows and documentation (bb22e88)
• feat: add NSIS installation and update PATH in Windows build workflow (cc1f61c)
• feat: add NSIS installation step in release workflow for Windows builds (e450e77)
• fix: update versioning in Windows manifest for accurate assembly identity (4124787)
• feat: add frontend build upload and download steps in release workflow (e3322ff)
• @update/ adjusted the release (acb7dc3)
• feat: add GitHub Actions workflows for documentation deployment and enhance release artifact handling (fb38da0)
• feat: implement in-app updater with GitHub Releases support and enhance documentation for versioning and installation (1b885bb)
• @update/ Used AI to improve the speed of the file transfer as well (4adfe95)
• Add documentation for Mercury: architecture, contributing, FAQ, getting started, intro, security, and usage (167707c)
• feat: enhance header logo animation and update transfer status handling (01133bb)
• refactor: update release workflow for versioning and enhance settings UI layout (54fb2b5)
• refactor: improve VPN detection logic and update tests for accuracy (8df0c56)
• feat: enhance user experience with new hints and VPN detection in settings and status bar (a7d1f8e)
• @feature/ - implement VPN detection features - Updated nd optimized how clipboard polling works to keep memory foot print low (8ed9213)
• @update/ - enhance CI workflows and application logic with version injection and build proper installer and binaries and single instance support (958b2b8)
• refactor: update CSS variables for draggable regions in header and buttons (5cb6c3c)
• Update LICENSE (8bb2529)
• feat: update license information in README and replace GPL with MPL 2.0 (089955c)

Downloads

Platform	Install manually	Auto-update asset
macOS	mercury-macos-universal.dmg	mercury_darwin_universal.zip
Linux	mercury_linux_amd64.deb	mercury_linux_amd64
Windows	mercury-amd64-installer.exe	mercury_windows_amd64.exe

Checksums: SHA256SUMS. In-app updates use the auto-update assets via the Wails v3 updater (tray → Check for Updates…).