Changelog

The 1.x line

Five releases, starting with the first stable build. Local Test has not been in beta since 1.0.0.

1. v1.6.1

   Current

   Puts an update status chip next to the version in the corner: "up to date", "checking", "1.7.0 ready" (click to install), or "check failed", with the time of the last check in its tooltip.

2. v1.6.0

   Adds a guided tour with spotlight highlighting that walks a first-timer through adding a real GitHub repo, deploying it, editing files, running an app, and deleting both so they finish with a clean slate; the Continue button stays hollow until each step is actually done, Skip jumps ahead, and exiting asks first. Also shows how long ago each project was last updated.

3. v1.5.1

   Styles the dropdowns, which were still rendering as raw system controls, the Font size and sort selects now match the app's inputs in every theme, chevron included.

4. v1.5.0

   Advanced launch behaviour: a project can start itself when Local Test opens (gated behind typing its exact name, with pasting blocked and the name re-checked in the main process), an "open at login" setting, and update checks that run on launch and hourly while the app is open, each one narrated by a dismissible banner, including the checks that find nothing.

5. v1.4.2

   Redraws the app icon as a pocket console with the play mark optically centred on its screen, replacing the window-chrome mark whose triangle leaned left and whose dots crowded the corner curve.

6. v1.4.1

   Credits graysonanderson.com throughout the app (Settings, the Help menu, the tutorial, the command palette, the README, and the package metadata) with a test that keeps the link reachable.

7. v1.4.0

   Organizing: colour-coded tags on every project with tag filtering, a running/stopped filter, six sort orders (my order, name, recently added, recently deployed, most requests, port), pinning, per-project notes, and a redrawn app icon with the play mark properly centred.

8. v1.3.0

   A retro-handheld pass over the look: two new pocket-console themes (Pocket Green and Berry Pocket), tactile shading on the controls, and short reduced-motion-aware animations throughout, plus a decked-out installer with pixel-art DMG artwork, drag-to-Applications layout, and Windows installer branding.

9. v1.2.1

   Hardening pass from an adversarial review: project search now honours the symlink jail, Windows editor and terminal launches can no longer be influenced by folder names, git runs with a repo's own config disabled, oversized files can no longer be saved back truncated, undo works after every editor action, per-project environment variables are actually saved, and every theme now meets WCAG AA contrast (with a new test that enforces it).

10. v1.2.0

    Editor and workspace polish: find and replace, insert an image from your computer, rename files, a keyboard-shortcut cheat sheet, a template-led first run, drag-to-reorder projects, per-request timings with live uptime, and activity export.

11. v1.1.0

    The creator update: a full Markdown editor with live preview, formatting toolbar, and auto-save that pairs with live reload; project text search; one-click git commit and push; five starter templates; per-project environment variables; menu-bar and tray controls with a real application menu; device-sized preview windows; Cursor/VS Code/Zed/Sublime detection plus Open terminal; deploy-all and stop-all; and Local Test now refuses to serve its own installation.

12. v1.0.0

    First stable

    First stable release: a tested self-updating system (download and in-place install on macOS, installer hand-off on Windows, quiet check on launch) with an in-app uninstaller, a Cmd/Ctrl+K command palette, drag-and-drop to add folders, Open in VS Code, a live Dock badge and smart port assignment, a symlink-aware security hardening pass, and refreshed docs.