Changelog — SlideStage

All notable changes to the SlideStage Lite app and its @slidestage/* packages live here. Per-package CHANGELOG.md files reference the relevant sections of this file.

This project follows Semantic Versioning. Until 1.0 the public API of every @slidestage/* package may evolve between 0.x minor releases; we will call out breaking changes explicitly.

0.3.0 — 2026-05-28

Markdown lands in the presenter view, slide-internal Markdown gains GFM table support, and the reveal.js / impress.js → .stage converter is now native end-to-end. Existing 0.2.x desktop users will pick this up through the in-app updater on next launch — same minisign keypair, no reinstall.

Highlights — Presenter view

Speaker notes render Markdown. Code blocks, links, lists, headings, emphasis, blockquotes, and GFM tables all render in the presenter window's notes panel. The same renderMarkdown also powers in-slide Markdown viewers, so deck authors can drop GFM table syntax anywhere instead of falling back to handwritten HTML.

Highlights — Converter

Native reveal.js / impress.js splitter. pnpm convert and the in-app Web Converter route .html, zip, and folder inputs through a native splitter instead of string-slicing scripts. New e2e suites cover round-trip, folder ingest, oversized decks, tricky assets, relaxed manifests, and the trust prompt.
reveal-basic template ships its bundled reveal.js. A .gitignore rule was silently eating packages/spec/templates/reveal-basic/dist/reveal.js, so converted decks fell through to a missing-script error. The bundle is now tracked and ships with the template.

Highlights — Architecture

**@slidestage/spec and @slidestage/brand extracted as standalone workspace packages on npm.** Spec owns the .stage schema, manifest validation, path safety, trust capability, and fixtures. Brand owns marks, wordmarks, the product registry, and the ecosystem README generator. SlideStagePack and SlideStagePro consume both via @slidestage/<pkg>@<semver> — no source-level coupling.
GitHub Releases is reserved for the desktop app. Per-package @slidestage/<pkg>@<version> Releases no longer auto-create on npm publish (createGithubReleases: false on the changesets action). npm publishing itself is unchanged; the @slidestage scope on npmjs.com is still the SoT for package consumers.

Downloads

Platform	File
macOS Apple Silicon	`SlideStageLite-0.3.0-macOS-AppleSilicon.dmg`
macOS Intel	`SlideStageLite-0.3.0-macOS-Intel.dmg`
Windows x64	`SlideStageLite-0.3.0-Windows-x64-setup.exe`

Existing 0.2.x desktop users will see the in-app update banner on next launch and can install in place. Fresh installs should grab the DMG / NSIS installer above.

0.2.1 — 2026-05-24

Windows desktop bundle reaches feature parity with macOS: NSIS installer, in-app auto-updater (sharing the macOS minisign keypair and the same latest.json manifest), and a Help → Check for Updates… / `Help → About SlideStage Lite` menu surface. This release also introduces the macOS application-menu Check for Updates… item; both platforms now drive the manual update flow through the same runManualUpdateCheck entry point.

Highlights — Windows

NSIS installer. Track 2 (MVP) ships an unsigned currentUser-mode NSIS .exe bundle (SlideStageLite-<version>-Windows-x64-setup.exe). No UAC prompt on install or update, Start Menu shortcut by default, WebView2 fetched on-demand via the download bootstrapper (~6 MB installer; Windows 11 already has WebView2 pre-installed; Windows 10 1809+ pulls the runtime on first launch). Code signing is intentionally deferred — Defender SmartScreen "Unrecognized app" guidance lives in the README and docs/WINDOWS_DISTRIBUTION.md along with the Azure Trusted Signing / SignPath upgrade hooks.
Auto-updater is the same plumbing as macOS. The Windows build reuses the existing tauri-plugin-updater flow with the same minisign public key baked into tauri.conf.json > plugins.updater.pubkey, the same latest.json manifest, and the same dual endpoints (releases/latest/download/latest.json + updates.slidestage.dev fallback). scripts/build-update-manifest.mjs learned a --merge-existing flag that lets the Windows pipeline merge a windows-x86_64 block into an already-published latest.json without evicting darwin-* entries — required because the macOS DMG is built locally while the Windows installer is built on a GitHub Actions windows-latest runner.
Help → Check for Updates… mirrors the macOS app-menu trigger. Same Rust event (menu:check-update), same runManualUpdateCheck flow on the front-end, same locale-aware plugin-dialog modals. set_check_update_menu_state learned to recurse one level into submenus so the toggle works whether the item lives at the top of the App menu (macOS) or nested under Help (Windows).
Help → About SlideStage Lite uses Tauri's PredefinedMenuItem::about with an AboutMetadata populated from Cargo.toml. Windows pops the native About dialog with name, version, copyright, and the slidestage.dev website link — equivalent information to macOS' About SlideStage Lite Sparkle entry.
.stage file association + stage:// deep-links. NSIS auto- registers the file extension at install time; the Rust setup also calls DeepLinkExt::register_all() at runtime as a defensive fallback (writes under HKCU, no admin rights) to dodge Tauri's historic NSIS deep-link registration regressions (#10095). single-instance is wired with the deep-link feature so an open app handles stage:// URLs without spawning a second process.

Highlights — macOS

Native menu entry. The macOS app menu now includes a Check for Updates… item, slotted between About SlideStage Lite and Services per the Safari / Xcode / Sparkle convention. Click it to force an immediate manifest probe regardless of whether a deck is open — the silent boot probe + UpdateBanner continues to handle the passive "new release available" surface on the landing page.
Native dialog feedback. Manual checks surface their result through @tauri-apps/plugin-dialog: an info dialog announces "You're up to date" with the running version, a confirm dialog (Install Now / Later) offers to install the new release, and error states report the failure reason without dismissing the menu trigger for next launch.
Visual feedback on the menu itself. The menu item swaps to Checking for Updates… and goes disabled while the manifest probe is running, and stays disabled through the install pass so a second click cannot accidentally re-fire the flow. The Rust side exposes a set_check_update_menu_state command that the front-end uses to drive the toggle from a try/finally.
Locale-aware copy. All dialog text follows the app locale (zh-CN + en); the menu item text is hard-coded English to match macOS convention.
Boundary preserved. Edit / View / Window / Help submenus on macOS are untouched — only the App submenu is rebuilt — so user expectations for standard macOS shortcuts (Cmd-W, Cmd-M, etc.) stay intact.

`@slidestage/lite-preset`

New: desktop/manualUpdateCheck — exports runManualUpdateCheck(labels), the imperative entry point the LiteApp shell wires to the menu:check-update Tauri event. Pure TypeScript, no React dependency, all i18n strings supplied by the caller. Works identically on macOS and Windows.
New peer dependency (optional): @tauri-apps/plugin-dialog alongside the existing plugin-updater / plugin-process. Marked optional so the web bundle never installs it.
i18n: new keys under menu.checkUpdate.* (zh-CN + en) covering the up-to-date / available / error / install-error dialog variants and the Install / Later confirm-button labels.

Desktop

src-tauri/src/lib.rs: cross-platform menu setup in setup().
- macOS: takes Menu::default(app), drops item[0] (the OS-generated App submenu) and inserts a hand-built submenu that mirrors the standard layout plus the new Check for Updates… item.
- Windows: attaches a window menu bar with a Help submenu containing Check for Updates…, a separator, and About SlideStage Lite (native dialog via PredefinedMenuItem::about).
- Both platforms: on_menu_event forwards check_updates clicks as the menu:check-update Tauri event.
- set_check_update_menu_state(checking: bool) toggles the menu item text / enabled state. Recurses one level into submenus so it works on Windows where the item is nested under Help.
- Windows / Linux setup also calls DeepLinkExt::register_all() as a runtime fallback for the stage:// scheme registration.
src-tauri/tauri.conf.json: bundle.windows.nsis switched to the Tauri 2.x schema (installMode: "currentUser", `languages: [English, SimpChinese], etc.) and createUpdaterArtifacts: true` so the bundler emits .nsis.zip + .sig for the updater pipeline.
src-tauri/capabilities/default.json: dialog:allow-open upgraded to dialog:default so the front-end can call confirm and message in addition to the file picker. updater:default / process:default / process:allow-restart were already in place from 0.2.0.

Release pipeline

New: scripts/release-windows.mjs — orchestrates the Windows bundle on a Windows host (refuses to run on non-win32). Same --dry-run / --skip-updater / --upload flags as release-macos.mjs. Invokes `build-update-manifest.mjs --merge-existing so the Windows windows-x86_64` block joins the existing macOS blocks without overwriting them.
New: .github/workflows/release-windows.yml — runs on tag push (v*.*.*) and workflow_dispatch. Uses the same TAURI_SIGNING_PRIVATE_KEY{,_PASSWORD} repository secrets the macOS release machine consumes locally, runs `pnpm fixtures && pnpm typecheck && pnpm test:unit` as a sanity gate before the bundler (catches Windows-only regressions before release), then attaches artifacts to the matching GitHub Release via `gh release upload --clobber`.
scripts/build-update-manifest.mjs: new --merge-existing flag, Windows + Linux Rust triple → platform-key mappings, hyphenated artifact rename (SlideStageLite-<v>-Windows-x64-setup.exe).
scripts/desktop-smoke.mjs: new Windows code path using tasklist / taskkill, with a 60 MB binary size cap (Tauri + WebView2 host is larger than the 25 MB macOS cap).

Docs

docs/WINDOWS_DISTRIBUTION.md — full Windows distribution playbook, including the Track 2 (NSIS unsigned MVP) defaults, the rationale for each decision, and the Azure Trusted Signing / SignPath / MSIX-via-Store upgrade paths.
docs/AUTO_UPDATER.md extended to cover the macOS + Windows dual-runner flow and the --merge-existing manifest contract.
README.md / README_cn.md — added Windows download / SmartScreen guidance to the "Desktop App" section.
.env.example — documented the shared TAURI_SIGNING_PRIVATE_KEY contract for Windows GHA secrets.

Release pipeline hardening (during first publish)

Five latent bugs surfaced while shipping the first cross-platform release. They are fully written up in .memory/desktop-tauri.md under "Release Retrospective — v0.2.1"; the short version:

936a0ff — latest.json cross-platform merge: mac dual-arch was overwriting its own block; the Windows GHA runner was overwriting the mac block. macOS now passes --merge-existing; Windows seeds dist-desktop/latest.json from the release before merging.
e69ee83 — release-windows.yml Node 20 → 22 (pnpm 11 requires node:sqlite from Node 22.5).
0bb7cee — release-*.mjs key validation recognizes the base64 envelope (dW50cnVzdGVkIGNvbW1lbnQ6…) so GHA secrets containing raw keyfile contents aren't mis-classified as missing paths.
41986fc — RunEvent::Opened cfg-gated to macOS (the variant doesn't exist in Tauri's enum on Windows/Linux; the closure was rejecting the entire crate at compile time).
0af4e96 — adopt Tauri 2.x Windows updater format: bundler now ships -setup.exe + -setup.exe.sig (the .nsis.zip wrapper from 1.x is gone). Both release-windows.mjs and build-update-manifest.mjs updated to match.

Known follow-up for v0.2.2: extend the upload regex in release-windows.mjs to include *.exe.sig (currently the signature is only inline-embedded in latest.json, not uploaded as a separate asset). The updater works correctly without it; manual minisign -V verification of the installer does not.

0.2.0 — 2026-05-22

Native in-app auto-updater on the desktop.

Highlights

Tauri 2 native auto-updater. The desktop build now uses @tauri-apps/plugin-updater to fetch a static latest.json manifest, verify the bundled .app.tar.gz.sig against a minisign public key baked into tauri.conf.json, download the new build, install it, and relaunch — all inside the running app. No more "click the link, drag the DMG to Applications" two-step.
Dual endpoints. Tauri tries the GitHub Releases manifest first (releases/latest/download/latest.json) and falls back to a mirror at updates.slidestage.dev/latest.json if GitHub is unreachable. Both URLs return the same signed manifest.
Per-version dismissal. The banner remembers the version the user dismissed and stays quiet until a strictly newer release appears.
Five-state UI. The new banner walks the user through available → downloading → installing → restarting, with a fifth error state that supports retry. Progress is byte-accurate when the server returns Content-Length; a striped indeterminate bar covers the case when it doesn't.
Release pipeline upgrades. pnpm release:macos now also emits <app>.app.tar.gz + .sig, runs scripts/build-update-manifest.mjs to write dist-desktop/latest.json, and accepts a new --upload flag that attaches every artifact to the matching GitHub Release via gh release upload --clobber.
Web build is untouched. All @tauri-apps/plugin-updater and @tauri-apps/plugin-process imports are dynamic and gated by isTauri(), so the Vite bundle never ships the updater code to browser users — the chunks split out to ~1.4 KB of lazy-loaded JS that web users will never download.

Breaking changes

packages/lite-preset/src/desktop/updateCheck.ts public API changed: checkForUpdate(opts) now takes no arguments and returns { version, currentVersion, notes, publishedAt } instead of { tag, version, releaseUrl, publishedAt, notes }. New installUpdate(onProgress) API replaces "open the release page in the browser". The semver helpers (compareSemver, fetchLatestRelease) are gone — Tauri's plugin owns the comparison and the network call.
update.cta i18n key replaced by update.cta.install (and update.cta.retry); new keys update.progress.body, update.progress.detail, update.progress.detailUnknown, update.installing, update.restarting, update.error.
bundle.createUpdaterArtifacts is true by default. Pass pnpm release:macos --skip-updater for the legacy DMG-only flow.

Operational notes

Run pnpm updater:keygen once to produce the minisign keypair, paste the public key into tauri.conf.json > plugins.updater.pubkey, and set TAURI_SIGNING_PRIVATE_KEY + TAURI_SIGNING_PRIVATE_KEY_PASSWORD in .env.local. Losing either makes shipping updates the existing fleet accepts impossible — back the keypair up offline.
Full setup walkthrough lives in docs/AUTO_UPDATER.md; condensed reference in .memory/desktop-tauri.md.

0.1.1 — 2026-05-21

Desktop polish + Mac App Store prep.

Highlights

macOS app links are clickable again. Footer links (ICP / 公网安备 / slidestage.dev) now open in the user's default browser via tauri-plugin-opener instead of being swallowed by the WKWebView.
Official product name standardized. Display name is now "SlideStage Lite" (and Pro counterpart is "SlideStage Pro") — with a space, per branding decision. Bundle identifier, npm package names, repository name, and DMG filename remain unchanged so existing installs upgrade in place without losing locale, trust, or annotation state.
Self-distributed builds detect new versions. A passive update banner polls GitHub Releases on launch; when a newer tag is found, the user sees a one-click link to the release page. Dismissed versions are remembered per tag in localStorage.
Window-scoped keyboard shortcuts. The OS-level tauri-plugin-global-shortcut plugin was removed. Presentation keys now work via the existing window.addEventListener('keydown', …) layer, with focus reclaim triggered on iframe load, container pointerdown, and host-window refocus (Alt/Cmd-Tab back).
Mac App Store feasibility assessment (docs/MAC_APP_STORE_ASSESSMENT.md) documents the remaining sandbox / library-validation blockers and the planned remediation path. The global-shortcut blocker is now resolved, leaving App Sandbox + library validation as the remaining large items. MAS submission is deferred per current direction.

`@slidestage/lite-preset`

New: desktop/openExternal — opens URLs in the OS browser via tauri-plugin-opener (Tauri-only), with a withDesktopOpener(url) React helper that intercepts anchor clicks in host UI.
New: desktop/updateCheck — GitHub Releases poller with semver comparison (v prefix, pre-release skip, draft skip) and per-tag dismissal stored in localStorage.
New: app/UpdateBanner — passive banner shown in the deck-closed shell; calls openExternal to route to the release page.
Removed: desktop/globalShortcuts and the @tauri-apps/plugin-global-shortcut peer dependency. Window-scoped shortcuts handle the same surface (see @slidestage/ui notes below).
i18n: app.brand.name, viewer.notice.autoElevatedSize, trust.lead.before updated to "SlideStage Lite"; new `update.body / cta / dismiss` keys for the banner (zh-CN + en).
audienceWindow.title updated to "SlideStage Lite — Audience".

`@slidestage/ui`

DeckStage gains a third focus-reclaim trigger: when the host window regains focus (Alt/Cmd-Tab back, dismissing a system dialog), focus is pulled back into the deck container so presentation shortcuts are available immediately. Previously this was papered over by global shortcuts; with that plugin gone, the reclaim is needed to keep window-scoped shortcuts feeling responsive.

`@slidestage/core`

Cosmetic: converter/buildManifest sniffer description string uses the new product name.

Desktop

tauri.conf.json > productName is now "SlideStage Lite". The built bundle moves from target/.../bundle/macos/SlideStageLite.app to target/.../bundle/macos/SlideStage Lite.app. Release / smoke / signing scripts probe both paths so older artifacts on disk are still inspectable.
Removed tauri-plugin-global-shortcut from Cargo.toml, src-tauri/src/lib.rs, and capabilities/default.json.
DMG filename pattern is unchanged: SlideStageLite-<version>-macOS-AppleSilicon.dmg.
Bundle identifier unchanged: dev.slidestage.slidestagelite.

Documentation

README.md / README_cn.md rebranded.
docs/MAC_APP_STORE_ASSESSMENT.md published (feasibility-only, no code changes for MAS yet).
.memory/desktop-tauri.md records the naming policy and the window-scoped shortcut decision.

0.1.0

Initial public release. See the v0.1.0 GitHub Release for the introductory notes.