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+# Phokus v0.2.0
+
+> Draft for the GitHub Release body. Fill in the checksums and trim as needed.
+
+**Phokus is a local-first desktop media library for Windows** — point it at
+your image and video folders and it builds a fast, searchable gallery with
+thumbnails, semantic search, visual discovery, AI tagging, and duplicate
+cleanup. Everything is processed on your machine; nothing is uploaded.
+
+0.2.0 is the biggest update since launch: albums, gallery multi-select with
+bulk actions, colour search, a second AI tagging model (JoyTag), a full tag
+manager, camera EXIF details in the lightbox, a slideshow mode, and a large
+batch of performance and theme fixes. Updating from 0.1.x? The built-in
+updater will fetch this for you — and afterwards, a new in-app "What's New"
+tour shows you around.
+
+## Install / update
+
+- **Updating from 0.1.x:** the in-app updater will offer 0.2.0 on launch — one
+  click downloads, installs, and relaunches.
+- **Fresh install:** download `Phokus_0.2.0_x64-setup.exe` below and run it.
+  **Windows SmartScreen will warn** that the publisher is unrecognized — this
+  build is **not code-signed**. Click **More info → Run anyway**.
+- Requires **Windows 10/11**. WebView2 is fetched automatically if missing.
+
+NVIDIA users wanting GPU embedding/tagging speed can use the
+`Phokus_0.2.0_x64-cuda-setup.exe` variant instead (larger download; bundles the
+CUDA runtime DLLs). Settings → Updates now shows which build you are running.
+
+## Highlights
+
+### Added
+- **Albums** — cross-folder collections without moving files: their own
+  sidebar section with cover thumbnails, create/rename/reorder/manage, and
+  album-aware similar-image search.
+- **Gallery multi-select** — hover a thumbnail's corner to start selecting,
+  then bulk tag, rate, favorite, add to an album, or delete from a floating
+  action bar. Works in similar-image, region, and album views too.
+- **Colour search** — filter the Gallery, Timeline, or tag results by dominant
+  colour via toolbar swatches or a custom picker.
+- **Choose your tagging model** — pick between the anime-focused WD tagger and
+  **JoyTag** (better for photo libraries), each with its own confidence
+  threshold, plus a **Reset AI tags** action that never touches manual tags.
+- **Tag manager** — rename, merge, and delete tags across the library, with
+  live search and sorting; Explore's Tag Cloud also shows **related tags** on
+  hover.
+- **Camera info in the lightbox** — EXIF camera, lens, aperture, shutter
+  speed, ISO, focal length, and a map link for geotagged photos.
+- **Slideshow mode**, **What's New tour after updates**, **quick theme switch**
+  from the title bar, an editable path bar in the folder picker, persistent
+  per-folder worker pauses, and add-to-album from the right-click menu.
+
+### Changed
+- **Settings reorganised** into General, Media, Updates & Setup, Storage, and
+  AI Workspace pages.
+- **Menus unified** — all context menus and dropdowns share one style, stay on
+  screen, close on Escape, and support submenus.
+- **Faster Explore** — quicker cluster revisits, much faster first-time
+  clustering on large libraries, and a calmer Tag Cloud during active tagging.
+- **Faster CPU tagging** (multi-core with headroom) and smoother GPU tagging.
+- **Safer deletion** — deleting media now asks for confirmation and says
+  clearly that files are removed from disk.
+- Better narrow-window layouts, a real update download progress bar, and a
+  two-column lightbox info panel.
+
+### Fixed
+- **No more self-indexing loops** — Phokus now skips its own thumbnail cache
+  when you add a broad folder like your user profile.
+- **Ratings keep your search order** — rating an image mid-search no longer
+  reshuffles similar-image, region, semantic, tag, or album results.
+- **AI tagging stays responsive** — big GPU tagging jobs no longer freeze the
+  UI, and noisy low-signal tags are filtered (older ones cleaned up on
+  startup).
+- First launch now fits smaller screens, Explore no longer flashes the
+  previous folder, and a long list of Subtle Light readability fixes.
+
+See the [changelog](https://github.com/JezzWTF/phokus/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md)
+for the full list.
+
+## Checksums
+
+```
+SHA-256 (Phokus_0.2.0_x64-setup.exe)      = TBD
+SHA-256 (Phokus_0.2.0_x64-cuda-setup.exe) = TBD
+```