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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.
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Phokus v0.1.1
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.
This is a quality-of-life release on top of 0.1.0: a new in-app folder picker, themes, smoother scrolling on large libraries, and a batch of fixes. If you're updating from 0.1.0, the built-in updater will fetch this for you.
Install / update
- Updating from 0.1.0: the in-app updater will offer 0.1.1 on launch — one click downloads, installs, and relaunches.
- Fresh install: download
Phokus_0.1.1_x64-setup.exebelow 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 speed can use the
Phokus_0.1.1_x64-cuda-setup.exe variant instead (larger download; bundles the
CUDA runtime DLLs).
Highlights
Added
- Custom multi-folder picker — navigate and stage folders from multiple locations and add them in one go, replacing the native OS dialog.
- Themes — Phokus, Subtle Light, and Conventional Dark chrome, with an inline theme picker in first-run onboarding.
- Timeline scrubber — a year/month rail to jump anywhere in the library.
- Folder reordering in the sidebar (drag-and-drop or keyboard), persisted, plus A–Z / Z–A / Custom sort for the Libraries list.
- Video playback settings — autoplay-in-lightbox and start-muted toggles.
- Rebuild semantic index maintenance action — fixes "dimension mismatch" search errors after switching CLIP models.
- Locate and filter images with failed AI-tagging jobs.
Changed
- Gallery grid and Duplicate Finder list are now row-virtualised — large libraries and large result sets (5,000+ pairs) scroll without lag.
- Settings now open on General by default.
Fixed
- AVIF thumbnails now generate correctly (routed through bundled FFmpeg); previously-failed AVIF jobs are requeued on startup.
- Video embedding jobs no longer churn through failed states before their thumbnail exists; previously-failed ones are requeued.
- Timeline scrolling is smooth on large libraries (per-row virtualisation); background batches no longer re-sort the whole loaded set.
- Numerous Subtle Light theme readability/parity fixes.
See the changelog for the full list.
Checksums
SHA-256 (Phokus_0.1.1_x64-setup.exe) = <fill in>
SHA-256 (Phokus_0.1.1_x64-cuda-setup.exe) = <fill in>