Security / robustness / a11y polish on top of the color-search + tooltips work:
- URL opening: route through validated backend commands (open_map_location
with lat/lon bounds-checking, open_changelog_url with a fixed URL) instead
of the frontend opener:allow-open-url capability, which is now removed.
- EXIF GPS parsing: validate coordinate ranges and require the correct
N/S/E/W hemisphere ref byte, then clamp.
- Guard double-submit on album create / add-to-album (Lightbox, BulkActionBar,
Sidebar) and discard stale autocomplete responses in the bulk tag editor.
- Gallery tile: stop nesting <button>s — non-interactive tile div with an
overlay button for open/toggle; checkbox and Similar promoted with z-index
+ focus rings.
- Accessibility: keyboard handlers, focus-visible rings, and aria on album
rows, tag-manage actions, and tile controls; Tooltip uses a block <div>
wrapper in block mode and aria-hidden when hidden.
- Show the destination URL in a tooltip on the "Full changelog" link so the
user can see where it goes before clicking.
- Toolbar "All" filter also clears the color filter; color-filtered views no
longer get unfiltered newly-indexed images injected.
- Sidebar reorder: bail if the album set changed mid-drag.
- Tooling: add cargo fmt scripts; alphabetize package.json scripts.
Add dominant-color palette extraction, storage, filtering, and startup backfill so the gallery and Timeline can be filtered from the toolbar color picker.
Introduce a reusable tooltip component and migrate the color filter, update indicator, and gallery filename hover affordances to it.
Similar search scoping:
- Add current_album as a similar-scope option and remember the source album when similar or region searches are launched from an album.
- Route gallery and lightbox similar actions through scope-aware store helpers so Album/Folder/All choices are applied consistently.
- Keep pagination and scope toggles working for both whole-image and region-search result sets.
Backend filtering:
- Extend find_similar_images and find_similar_by_region params with album_id, giving album scope precedence over folder scope.
- Add album_membership filtering for HNSW whole-image search and brute-force crop embedding search.
EXIF info panel:
- New on-demand get_image_exif command (kamadak-exif) returning camera/lens/
aperture/shutter/ISO/focal-length and decimal GPS; read from the file when the
lightbox opens (no DB schema change, works on already-indexed images).
- Lightbox shows a Camera panel; GPS opens the location in the browser via
OpenStreetMap (adds opener:allow-open-url capability).
Tag management:
- Backend rename_tag (rename, or merge when the target exists) and delete_tag
(library-wide), both clearing the tag-cloud cache; store actions invalidate
tag caches, refresh Explore, and re-point/refresh an active tag-search.
- Explore -> Tag Cloud gains a Manage mode: a flat list with per-tag rename/
merge/delete.
Albums:
- Drag-to-reorder in the sidebar via framer-motion Reorder with a hover handle;
order persists through the existing reorder_albums command.
Reads live store order on drag end and robustly derives GPS hemisphere from raw
EXIF ref bytes (review follow-ups). CHANGELOG updated.
Albums (manual collections):
- New albums/album_images tables with FK cascades; DB functions and Tauri
commands for create/rename/delete/delete-many/reorder/list, add/remove
images, and paginated get_album_images.
- Distinct sidebar "ALBUMS" section with cover thumbnails, create/rename/
delete, and a Manage multi-select mode for bulk album deletion.
- Album view reuses the gallery grid (activeView "album" + selectedAlbumId);
spans folders; add from the bulk bar or the lightbox, remove from within.
Gallery multi-select + bulk actions:
- gallerySelectedIds selection model with a top-left corner checkbox that
reveals on corner hover; click-to-toggle in selection mode, double-click
to open.
- Floating BulkActionBar: tag (inline autocomplete popover), rating,
favorite, add-to-album, and a delete with an explicit "from disk"
confirmation. Batch commands bulk_update_details/bulk_add_tags/
bulk_remove_tag.
Also:
- Duplicate Finder delete now requires confirmation with clear "from disk"
wording (was single-click fire-and-forget).
- CPU/CUDA build-variant badge in Settings (get_build_variant).
- Rating/favorite no longer re-sorts derived collections (similar/region/
semantic/tag/album results); single and bulk paths replace in place there.
- Album-aware indexed-images/media-updated handlers so thumbnails paint and
newly-indexed files don't leak into an album view.
- CHANGELOG updated.
Post-0.1.1 polish queued for the next release (0.1.2):
- What's New: post-update toast that opens an in-app, offline release-notes
screen (collapsible Added/Changed/Fixed sections) sourced from the bundled
CHANGELOG.md, reopenable from Settings -> Updates. Backed by a
last_seen_version settings file that tells upgrades from fresh installs.
- Updater: the progress toast reappears when an update is started from the
title-bar indicator or Settings after the prompt was dismissed; Settings
gains a real download progress bar with a percentage.
- Light theme: fix the recurring subtle-light breakage — neutral surfaces rely
on the CSS-variable remap instead of light-theme:bg-white, and the green
action buttons drop the broken light-theme:hover:bg-emerald-200 for an
override-free emerald tint that auto-themes (updater, What's New, onboarding).
- Debug panel: What's New triggers.
Post-update UX for the next release (0.1.2):
- What's New: after a version change, greet the user with a toast that opens
an in-app release-notes screen (collapsible Added/Changed/Fixed sections)
sourced from the bundled CHANGELOG.md, reopenable from Settings -> Updates.
Backed by a last_seen_version settings file (get/set_last_seen_version
commands) that distinguishes upgrades from fresh installs.
- Updater: the download/install progress toast now reappears when an update is
started from the title-bar indicator or Settings after the prompt was
dismissed; Settings -> Updates gains a real progress bar with a percentage.
- Light theme: fix the recurring subtle-light breakage. Neutral surfaces now
rely on the CSS-variable remap instead of light-theme:bg-white (which forced
surfaces dark because --color-white is remapped dark); the green action
buttons drop the broken light-theme:hover:bg-emerald-200 (remapped dark,
unreadable on hover) for an override-free emerald-500 tint that auto-themes,
across the updater, What's New, and onboarding.
- Debug panel: add What's New triggers (toast / modal / reset).
Bump version to 0.1.1 (package.json, Cargo.toml, Cargo.lock), date the
changelog section (2026-06-23), and add the GitHub release-notes draft.
QoL release on top of 0.1.0: custom multi-folder picker, theme system,
timeline scrubber, folder reordering, gallery/duplicate-finder
virtualisation, video playback settings, rebuild-semantic-index action,
plus AVIF thumbnail, video-embedding, and Subtle Light theme fixes.
Route AVIF thumbnail generation through the bundled FFmpeg path instead of the Rust image decoder, avoiding unsupported-format failures without requiring system dav1d dependencies.
Requeue existing AVIF jobs that previously failed with unsupported-format errors and feed generated JPEG derivatives to embedding/tagging preprocessing while leaving lightbox display on the original AVIF file.
Derive default implementations for captioner and tagger option enums, simplify sorting and progress multiple checks, and remove redundant iterator conversions.
- Custom multi-folder picker replaces the native OS dialog: browse the
filesystem in-app, stage multiple folders at once, and add them in one
shot. Virtualised list handles large directory trees without jank.
- Duplicate Finder group list is now virtualised, keeping the UI
responsive even with hundreds of duplicate groups.
- Settings panel reordered: General is now the first (default) section.
- Lightbox video playback toggles (autoplay / auto-mute) added to
General settings, wired to the store with ARIA switch roles.
- "Rebuild Semantic Index" maintenance action added to Settings.
- Folder picker QoL fixes: chevron tooltip, Unix breadcrumb root label,
and partial-failure staging panel cleanup.
- Fix chevron tooltip: was "Open folder" in both branches; now shows
"No subfolders" when the entry has no children (consistent with the
existing opacity-45 visual cue on the same chevron icon)
- Fix Unix breadcrumb root label: was always "Home" even for non-home
paths like /mnt/data — now labelled "/" which is always accurate
- Fix partial-failure staging: on a mixed add result, successfully-added
entries are now removed from the staging panel so only genuinely failed
folders remain for the user to retry (index-pairing is safe because the
backend returns results in input order via a preserved .map())
Replace native add-folder dialogs with an in-app folder picker that supports collecting folders from multiple locations before adding them together.
Add backend directory listing and batch add commands with duplicate skipping, plus store actions and a themed picker UI with a dedicated folders-to-add panel.
Drops and recreates the sqlite-vec tables at the current model dimension, then
re-queues every image for embedding. Fixes "dimension mismatch" search errors
that occur when the vector table was built for a different model/dimension (e.g.
after experimenting with 768-dim models against this 512-dim build).
The rebuild runs under the embedding worker's DB write lock and resets the job
queue inside a single transaction, so it can't interleave with an in-flight
embedding batch (per code review).
Reorder the Settings sections so General is the top and default section instead
of AI Workspace. Add two persisted settings under a new "Video playback" group:
- Autoplay in lightbox (default on)
- Start muted (default off)
VideoPlayer reads these when a video opens — autoplaying only when enabled and
starting muted when enabled, otherwise falling back to the session's last-used
mute state. Settings apply to the next opened video, not the current one.
The duplicate view rendered every group and every thumbnail at once — a 5,000-pair
result mounted ~10K <img> elements, making scroll lag heavily (same class of bug
as the old per-month Timeline). Virtualize the group list so only on-screen cards
mount; heights are measured dynamically since each group wraps a variable number
of copies.
Removes subtle-light .settings-modal overrides that targeted classes no component
on main applies (dead rules), keeping the Settings modal flat and themed via the
global accent variables.
These subtle-light overrides target classes (settings-modal, settings-nav-active,
settings-model-card) that no component on main applies, so the rules never took
effect. They also pulled the Settings modal toward a card look we don't want. The
accent-text readability is now handled globally by the theme's accent variables,
so the modal themes correctly (flat) without this block.
Coloured text/icons (warnings, errors, status) used pastel accent shades tuned
for dark UIs and washed out on the light theme — e.g. "Update check failed" in
Settings was near-invisible. Darken those accent variables in the subtle-light
theme while resetting them to the bright originals inside .media-dark-surface,
so light chrome reads clearly and on-photo overlays keep their signal colours.
Pastel accent shades (amber/red/rose/emerald/sky/violet/blue -200..-400) are
tuned for dark UIs and washed out on the light chrome — e.g. "Update check
failed" in the Settings updates row was near-invisible. Darken those accent
variables in the subtle-light theme so coloured text/icons stay readable, and
reset them to Tailwind's bright defaults inside .media-dark-surface so on-photo
overlays (ratings, failed badges, the lightbox region tool) keep their signal
colours. Remapping the variable rather than the utility also covers opacity
variants like text-amber-300/90.
Post-release quality-of-life work for 0.1.1:
- Timeline: right-edge year/month scrubber, full-library load so the scrubber
spans everything, and per-row virtualization so dense months scroll smoothly.
- Gallery grid row-virtualization; folder reordering (drag + keyboard) with
persisted custom order and A-Z/Z-A/Custom sort.
- Theme system (Phokus, Subtle Light, Conventional Dark) with an onboarding
theme picker, plus subtle-light parity fixes for the lightbox panel, media
overlays, duplicate finder, and window controls.
- Failed AI-tagging locate/filter from the background worker prompt.
- Perf: background media-updated batches no longer re-sort the whole image set.
- Video embedding jobs no longer churn through false failures before their
thumbnail exists.
- Tooling: changelog helper + notes.
JS regex has no \z anchor — it matched a literal 'z', so appending to the last
section under [Unreleased] silently failed and duplicated the heading. Use
$(?![\s\S]) to anchor to true end-of-input.
Holding Up/Down on a folder's drag handle fired a reorder_folders DB write per
keystroke. Update the local order immediately for responsiveness, but debounce
the persist (400ms) with cleanup on unmount.
In subtle-light, the lightbox dragged its whole surface (including the metadata
panel) dark via media-dark-surface, while conventional-dark themed the panel
normally. Scope the dark surface to the media canvas and re-light the panel by
remapping --color-* variables on a .lightbox-panel wrapper (Tailwind v4 resolves
every colour utility through these vars, so this re-themes the subtree —
including accents — with no !important). Mark gallery/duplicate media tiles as
media-dark-surface so their on-image overlays stay light-on-dark, and theme the
window restore icon via var(--color-gray-950) instead of a hardcoded hex.
replaceExistingImages re-sorted the entire loaded image array on every
media-updated event. Harmless for the ~200-item gallery window, but in Timeline
(which loads the whole library) it was an O(n log n) pass many times per second
during background indexing — severe lag, occasional crashes. Thumbnail/metadata
fills don't change list position (Timeline re-buckets by taken_at separately), so
replace records in place and skip the sort; return the same array reference when
nothing matched to avoid a wasted re-render.
Each month was a single virtual item that rendered all of its tiles, so
scrolling into a busy month mounted thousands of ImageTiles at once. Flatten
months into a fixed-height row list (header rows + tile rows of `cols` images),
mirroring the Gallery grid, so only on-screen rows render and thumbnails stream
in as you scroll. Active-month tracking and scrubber jump-to-month are remapped
to the flat row model.
Add a failed-tag discovery flow for background worker failures.
Changes:
- Add a Failed Tags toolbar filter that appears when tag failures exist.
- Add Locate buttons for failed tag tasks in the background worker prompt.
- Route Locate to the affected folder and filter the gallery to images with tagger errors.
- Fetch and display failed tag filenames/errors in the expanded worker details.
- Add a backend query and gallery filter flag for images with failed AI tagging.
- Improve subtle-light contrast for failed worker chips, filenames, and Locate/Retry buttons.
- Also slightly increases the title bar update indicator pulse size for better visibility.
Make the onboarding tour theme-aware across the app themes, add the first-run theme picker, and keep fake media previews on the dark media surface. Update light-mode secondary controls in onboarding, settings, dropdowns, toolbar controls, and duplicate actions so they no longer render as dark buttons on subtle-light.
Timeline:
- Add a right-edge scrubber (year labels + month dots) that jumps to any
period; runs in the same direction as the scrolled content
- Load the full filtered set in Timeline view so the scrubber spans the whole
library instead of just the first page
Gallery & UI:
- Virtualise the gallery grid
- Folder reordering in the sidebar (drag + persisted sort_order) and a themed
dropdown component
- Subtle Light theme contrast fixes for toggles, secondary buttons and the
update toast
Embedding workers now defer video jobs without a thumbnail at claim time and
requeue any previously-failed deferred jobs on startup, so videos no longer
churn through failed embeddings.
QoL polish across BackgroundTasks, DuplicateFinder, Lightbox and VideoPlayer.
Single-page marketing site built with React 19, Vite 7, and Tailwind v4.
Covers the full product story: local-first privacy, semantic search, explore/timeline,
curation, deduplication, and download. Screenshots transcoded to AVIF/WebP at build
(~5.3 MB masters → ~0.5 MB served). Self-hosted Inter and Space Grotesk variable fonts.
Mobile-first redesign with phone-optimised hero, swipeable feature cards, and touch-friendly
navigation. Includes the standalone Phokus aperture SVG asset.
CI: exclude website/ and docs/ from the Rust/Tauri check workflow.
Replace the stacked desktop layout with a phone-first product flow featuring an image-led hero, inline privacy proof, compact semantic search, swipeable feature cards with live pagination, expandable technical details, and touch-friendly navigation and calls to action. Add the standalone Phokus aperture SVG asset.
Self-host the Inter and Space Grotesk variable fonts, tighten the mobile layout, hide oversized edge marks on narrow screens, and add keyboard focus plus reduced-motion safeguards. Exclude website and documentation-only changes from the desktop CI workflow.
Single-page marketing site for phokus.jezz.wtf in the website/ pnpm workspace
(React 19 + Vite 7 + Tailwind v4). Sections: Hero, Local-first, Search, Explore
& timeline, Curate, Cleanup, Tech facts, Download. Product-first composition with
a recurring aperture motif (EdgeMark) bleeding off alternating edges.
Screenshots are transcoded to AVIF/WebP at build via vite-imagetools (sharp);
~5.3MB of masters -> ~0.5MB served. Commits only the 7 in-use captures.
The global *.json rule (added for transient ComfyUI workflow dumps) forced
git add -f on real configs and hid tauri.conf.json from tauri-action's
gitignore-aware globbing. Removed it and the negation workarounds; local-only
ignores (e.g. skills-lock.json) live in .git/info/exclude instead.
- tauri-action globs for tauri.conf.json honoring .gitignore; the global
*.json rule hid it (force-added but still ignore-matched), so detection
failed with 'Failed to resolve Tauri path' and it tried to re-init.
Negate it like the cuda overlay already is.
- rename uploadUpdaterJson -> includeUpdaterJson (valid v0.6.2 input).
Merge chore/release-prep into main for the first public release.
- Release pipeline: CI (fmt, clippy -D warnings, tsc) + tag-triggered
GitHub Actions building the NSIS installer as a draft release.
- Self-updater via GitHub Releases — launch check, Settings UI, update
toast, and a title-bar focal-point indicator that lights up when a new
version is ready.
- Production hardening: real CSP, scoped asset protocol, rotating file
logging, single-instance, window-state.
- Guided first-run onboarding with background FFmpeg provisioning and
resilient (curl-based, resumable) model/DLL downloads.
- Branding: Phokus aperture mark across the icon set + title bar, with a
reusable PhokusMark component.
- CUDA installer variant with bundled runtime DLLs (built locally).
- MIT license, bundle metadata, NSIS-only target, and docs (README
install/privacy, CHANGELOG, 0.1.0 release notes).
- new StepUpdates: explains the title-bar update indicator with a mini
app-window mockup, and introduces the aperture mark as the app's identity
- move the tour-closing copy off the AI features step onto this final step
- changelog: note the title-bar update indicator + one-click install, and the
new onboarding step
- light up the Phokus iris's focal point (pulsing amber) in the titlebar when
an update is pending; click goes straight to install, with a fast custom
tooltip (native title delay was too slow)
- PhokusMark gains an optional dotClassName to render the central focal point
- DemoPanel: inject every updater state (available/downloading/installing/
error/up-to-date), which is otherwise unreachable without a remote latest.json
- regenerate src-tauri/icons from the new branding/phokus-aperture.svg master
- add reusable PhokusMark component (inline SVG, inherits currentColor)
- use it for the titlebar app mark, retiring the placeholder
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