Release notes

0.3.0-beta.1 · Windows desktop preview

5 September 2026 · Windows x64 · Portable ZIP

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Included

• A shared engine for desktop and CLI, with identical request rules and accounting.
• Simple TikFinity event input with reconnection and message-ID deduplication.
• Advanced Streamer.bot integration, preserving existing configuration behavior.
• Desktop authorization, connection status, rules, request controls and diagnostics.
• A refreshed desktop layout with persistent intake controls, activity tables and a separate read-only player queue.
• Encrypted desktop credentials, validated app communication and cross-interface instance exclusion.

Verified automatically

The desktop source build passed all seven CI jobs: Node 22/24 on Windows/Linux, the Streamer.bot C# contract harness, dependency audit, and real Electron checks plus Windows packaging.

Tests use controlled player/chat fixtures, real local sockets and Windows credential encryption. They do not establish successful live TikTok delivery or audible playback on every setup.

Preview limitations

• Portable Windows build is unsigned.
• Live-platform fixtures, fresh-machine onboarding and sustained streaming workloads still need acceptance testing.
• Request history is session-only and bounded.
• Per-user tracking is an approximate duration window, not exact queue ownership.
• Simple TikTok and YouTube replies remain in PearConnect.
• Attach-to-running-CLI, persistent history, approvals and queue cancel/remove/reorder controls are not included.

Upgrading

Close the old engine before starting the new one. Import existing .env files deliberately from desktop Connections. Configurations without a connection mode stay Advanced; desktop imports and launches start paused.

See installation and troubleshooting before enabling requests on a stream.

Website and documentation

The homepage and these guides are hosted on Cloudflare. The site provides a versioned Windows download, locally indexed documentation search, setup guides and current capability notes. Website updates do not update an installed PearConnect app automatically.