Changelog

All notable project milestones should be recorded here in user-facing language.

Unreleased

Improved Windows FFmpeg / FFprobe readiness flow so missing FFmpeg no longer blocks opening the desktop app.
Added explicit FFmpeg directory selection, app-private download, and same-directory system PATH detection.
Bundled aria2 for Windows FFmpeg downloads and documented deterministic native-dependency smoke coverage.
Added safeguards so provider refresh and diagnostics checks do not repeatedly trigger FFmpeg installation.

Documentation structure reorganized into dev-docs/ for internal project docs and help-docs/ for user help and GitHub Pages.
Root project README, contribution notes, security policy, code of conduct, roadmap, release docs, issue templates, PR template, and AI-assisted workflow notes added.
Generated API/reference docs added under dev-docs/api/ for Go, Python, desktop, and JSON schema references.
Restored no-key Bing/Google web translation in the packaged desktop app through an ASAR-outside JS helper, without reintroducing the old Python translators/js2py dependency chain.
Documented the CI-equivalent local validation workflow and the feature-branch-to-fast-forward release practice.

Added Electron productization and release readiness work for Windows x64 and macOS arm64 preview packaging.
Added electron-builder packaging with Windows installer and portable zip targets.
Bundled the Go daemon, native whisper.cpp runtime, and app-private Python runtime outside ASAR for packaged Windows builds.
Added packaged daemon smoke coverage for ready JSON, health, auth baseline, repair, SSE disconnect, and events_lost.
Added release smoke records for local Faster Whisper ASR, whisper.cpp ASR, local NLLB translation, bilingual subtitles, burn-in, Unicode/space paths, and GPU long-task cancellation.
Added first-start default model installation smoke from a clean model store.
Added provider API key save/replace/delete coverage and redaction checks.
Added generated third-party license inventory under desktop-tests/licenses/.
Captured Round 13 screenshot baseline under desktop-tests/pics/round13/.

Known release state:

Windows artifacts are unsigned release-candidate builds.
macOS arm64 dmg is an ad-hoc signed, unnotarized preview build.
Windows packaged Bing/Google web translation smoke has passed for a public short SRT; macOS arm64 web translation smoke still needs to be rerun on the macOS release machine. Real OpenAI external provider smoke is deferred; local loopback OpenAI-compatible smoke has passed.