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What changed, and when.

Everything below is work that actually landed, dated by the day it did — the notes are written by hand, not generated from commit messages.

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0.2.2

Frontmatter and forms

  • The left column's HTML tab is now Output: it shows the page's HTML and its frontmatter, and you can add your own frontmatter code, for example to load data for a Custom loop.
  • A form can now send to several email addresses and webhooks.
  • Fixed: the GitHub sign-in sometimes showed no code, or said "Connected" when it had failed.
  • Several bug fixes.
0.2.1

Windows fixes

  • New projects check for Git and Node.js and offer to install what is missing.
  • Fixed: on Windows, new projects could be created without their packages or their git repository, and the preview and build check did not start.
  • Several bug fixes.
0.2.0

Windows fix

  • Fixed: the Windows app could hang on its startup screen.
0.1.9

Content Hub fine-tuning: collections, images and publishing

  • Collections are easier to build: entry pages in a folder (/journal/my-post), entry and archive settings up front, a Fields button to place fields, and previews with real entries.
  • Images get alt text, resolution and a focal point everywhere, and images in loops ship at the size you set.
  • Loops can show your site's own Astro content collections, such as a Markdown blog.
  • Publishing is clearer: choose which files to commit, and errors say what to do.
  • Pasted tracking codes like Google Analytics now work as pasted.
  • Several bug fixes.
0.1.8

Content Hub: long texts, entry pages and archives

  • Long text fields are real rich text: write in place or open a large editor, and insert images, videos, YouTube, tables, embeds, code blocks and your own components.
  • Image and gallery fields have alt text, a focal point and a resolution, and pictures are resized for the site automatically.
  • Public collections get a page for every entry, built from one design you edit on the canvas. Archives are ordinary pages you can design.
  • Links suggest your pages and entries as you type and follow them when a page or entry is renamed.
  • Undo now also covers deleting entries, pages, collections, components and media, and an AI agent's changes can be undone as one step.
  • The dot in the top bar now checks whether your site actually builds and takes you to the error.
  • A project that was not created on this computer asks before running its own scripts in the builder.
  • Loops that match no content show nothing, and wide content tables scroll sideways.
  • Several security and bug fixes.
  • Good to know: changing your account email now asks for a code from your current address as well as the new one.
0.1.7

Parts that stay styled, HTML editing and live agent builds

  • Carousels, forms, popups and consent panels are styled by the design system and can be restyled with a single class.
  • Menus, carousels and popups keep their look even with the design system switched off.
  • Each menu and dropdown can have its own style: flyout, accordion, mega menu or full width, with several mobile menu styles to choose from.
  • The whole page can be edited in the HTML panel.
  • Watch an AI agent build: new sections appear on the canvas as they are written.
  • A page can no longer be overwritten by an older copy from another window or agent.
  • Image fields in the Content Hub pick from the media library.
  • Nested loops show real content on the canvas.
  • Good to know: header patterns are hidden for now while the pattern library is finished. Texture variables were renamed (for example --texture-opacity is now --texture-noise-opacity), so update any overrides you wrote by hand.
0.1.6

Navigation headers, bring your own design system, and forms on PHP hosting

  • Seven ready-made headers with a complete navigation.
  • A new Navigation screen in the design system for the menu's look and the mobile breakpoint.
  • Import and export your design settings, or use your own framework CSS instead.
  • Empty fields in the Style panel show the design system's value, and the variable picker suggests tokens that fit.
  • Forms work on PHP hosting and share one mail setup for the whole site.
  • A refreshed logo and a new sign-in code screen.
0.1.5

Scroll-linked motion, flexible templates and a cleaner Style panel

  • Animations can follow the scrollbar, and reveals gained 3D turns, exit animations and looping ambient motion.
  • A cleaner Style panel: borders and shadows open in a card, grid columns are a number you step, and grid children can span columns and rows.
  • Headings show their text style right away, and any element can use a style from the type scale.
  • Templates can hold a breadcrumb bar, a sidebar or a container around the page content.
  • A new Assets tab for templates, components, stylesheets and snippets, with folders.
  • Variables show what the design system's tokens resolve to and can be sorted into folders.
  • History shows exactly what changed in each save.
  • Merging branches no longer leaves conflict markers in your project.
  • Images get responsive sizes automatically.
  • The desktop app opens without a white flash and reuses its window when you switch projects.
  • Smaller fixes, including submenus covering their parent menu and device previews at the wrong height.
0.1.4

Addons, a modular design system and video embeds

  • Addons: Forms, Pop-ups, Consent and Carousel moved to a new Addons screen, joined by a Database and Social media feeds.
  • The design system is split into modules you can switch on and off without losing their values.
  • Typography has tabs for headings, text and fonts, with more settings for each.
  • Upload your own font files.
  • Set one corner radius for every image and video.
  • Paste a YouTube or Vimeo link into a video to embed it, with switches for autoplay, loop and more, and an optional lightbox.
  • Line breaks and soft hyphens can go straight into a heading.
  • Loops and conditions are elements in the layer tree, and any layer can be hidden.
  • Fonts show correctly on the canvas in the desktop app again.
  • Share images now work on social networks when entered as a relative path.
  • Smaller fixes, including undo per page or component and dragging media into collections.
0.1.3

Bug fixes

  • Checking for updates works on Windows again.
  • Several bug fixes.
0.1.2

Bug fixes

  • The GitHub CLI is detected on Windows again.
  • Several bug fixes.
0.1.1

Cookie consent

  • A cookie banner and preferences panel you style like any popup, with your own categories.
  • Trackers and embeds wait until the visitor has agreed.
  • Support for GDPR, US state privacy laws or both, in several languages.
  • A scan that finds the trackers and embeds on your site.
  • Several bug fixes.
0.1.0

The first public build

  • sitereal writes real .astro files into your own folder, and the site still builds without the app.
  • Install with one line on macOS, Windows and Linux, and sign in with a code sent to your email.
  • A modular design system you can switch on piece by piece.
  • Navigation, popups, forms and carousels built from real elements.
  • A library of ready-made sections that land on the canvas as ordinary elements.
pre-release

Before 0.1

  • The builder took shape: the canvas at every breakpoint, the layer tree, the Style panel, components, templates, loops and conditions.
  • The design system, effects, overlays, one color control everywhere, and class names generated from an element's name.
  • Everything a project knows moved into one file at its root, site.sitereal.

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