REDBEAM 0.2.1 — what the live test found, fixed

Construction quantity takeoff from PDF drawings, on a Windows 11 Fluent shell.

Which file

You have	Download
A normal Windows PC or laptop	REDBEAM_0.2.1_x64-setup.exe
A Snapdragon / ARM device	REDBEAM_0.2.1_arm64-setup.exe
Group-policy deployment	the matching .msi

Both installers are unsigned, so Windows SmartScreen will say "Windows
protected your PC" on first run. Click More info → Run anyway. They install
per-user to %LOCALAPPDATA%\REDBEAM, need no administrator rights, and upgrade
0.1.0 or 0.2.0 in place.

The architecture in each filename is real, checked against the PE header of the
application binary: 0xAA64 for arm64 and 0x8664 for x64.

What changed since 0.2.0

Everything the live test of the installed 0.2.0 build on a 693-document set
turned up (docs/AUDIT-2026-09-04.md, "Live test"):

• Opening a folder inside a project no longer creates a second database in
  it. The automation bridge's open now goes through the same project
  resolution as the picker.
• The command palette keeps focus through a step chain, and Escape
  cancels it outright; Backspace on an empty field is the way back a step.
• "This sheet has no scale" waits for a sheet instead of showing on the
  start of every project.
• Indexing shows its progress: a determinate ring behind the collapsed
  Search tab, the count and a foot bar on the expanded tab, and a bar with the
  numbers in the Search pane's footer. No spinner over the expanded tab.
• A round's scope rows and totals are right after a reopen with no sheet
  visited: the project's markups load as soon as the store opens.
• Switching or closing a project releases its database once the last
  window on it has let go, so its files can be moved or removed while the app
  runs.

The full list is in CHANGELOG.md.

Known gaps

• One item from the live test is still unproven in the installed build:
  whether the webview delivers Escape to the palette at all. It is one
  keypress to check in this build.
• The page-scale flyout is still two flyouts (the picker and the region
  list); the mockup's single flyout is open as register entry C4.
• Accuracy against a human estimator's takeoff has not been measured.
• No update endpoint is configured. The updater says so rather than claiming
  this copy is current.