0.1.1_STABLE5 - Ultimate AST Parsing Control

CHANGELOG

[0.1.1_STABLE5] — 2026-07-01

✨ Ultimate AST Parsing Control & Complete Localization

• Remark AST Explicit Links Enforcement (remarkExplicitLinksOnly): Implemented a custom remark AST plugin that actively traverses the syntax tree and intercepts linkReference nodes ([text]) before HTML/hast conversion, transforming them into pure plain text nodes ([text]). This permanently guarantees that only explicit inline links ([text](url)) are rendered as clickable HTML anchor tags (<a>), resolving a major underlying limitation of standard Markdown parsers.
• Complete History Controls Localization: Symmetrically added full translations for Annulla (Undo), Ripeti (Redo), and Annulla tutto (Reset all) across all 6 supported language JSON files (it, en-GB, en-US, es, fr, de).
• Comprehensive README Optimization: Verified and reinforced across all 6 language README files that the tagline and features explicitly designate the application as a Cross-Platform Markdown Reader & Advanced Editor.
• Always-Visible Read/Edit Toggle: Removed the conditional check on the header toggle switch so that READ (toggle) EDIT is always visible. Switching to Edit mode from the welcome screen instantly initializes a clean Untitled.md editing workspace.
• Reference Link vs Explicit Link Precision: Configured react-markdown AST component overrides (node.type === 'linkReference') to ensure that shortcut text enclosed in square brackets (e.g., [TEXT]) is rendered cleanly as plain text, while explicit inline links (e.g., [TEXT](URL)) are properly rendered as clickable anchor tags (<a>).
• Raw HTML Rendering: Integrated rehype-raw into the parser pipeline to correctly decode and render raw HTML elements, such as aligned wrapper divs (<div align="center">) and embedded badge images commonly found at the top of professional README files.
• Version Updates: Updated all version references to 0.1.1_STABLE5.

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[0.1.1_RC4] — 2026-07-01

✨ Masterclass UI Diagnostics & Advanced History Controls

• Render Images Sliding Toggle: Replaced the standalone image toggle button in the header with a fully interactive sliding switch (NO-IMG [Toggle] IMG), perfectly matching the visual language of the Read/Edit toggle.
• Smart Diagnostic Dashboard Notice: Implemented an intelligent status badge (#changelog-status-badge) in dashboard/index.html that dynamically informs the user whether the changelog was loaded live from GitHub (🟢 Live da GitHub), served from browser cache (🟡 Caricato da Cache), or displayed via built-in fallback (🟠 Codice Integrato - Offline).
• Download Reliability Statement: Added an explicit disclaimer in the dashboard download section guaranteeing that all asset links strictly point to the latest verified stable release (0.0.7_STABLE).
• Advanced Editing History (Undo/Redo/Reset): In Edit mode, added fully responsive action buttons in the editor tab bar for ↩️ Annulla (Ctrl+Z), ↪️ Ripeti (Ctrl+Y), and 🔄 Annulla tutto, powered by dedicated undo/redo history state stacks in React.
• Keyboard Shortcuts Expansion: Updated the keyboard shortcuts overview in the app sidebar and all 6 language READMEs to include Save (Ctrl+S), Find (Ctrl+F), Undo (Ctrl+Z), and Redo (Ctrl+Y).
• Global Version Alignment: Cleaned up all leftover version strings across READMEs and manifests to 0.1.1_STABLE5.

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[0.1.1_RC3] — 2026-07-01

✨ UX, Clean Reading & Rendering Perfection

• Image Rendering Toggle: Added a dedicated button in the header (IconImage) to toggle the rendering of images on/off (active by default). When disabled, images are replaced with a clean, space-saving plain text badge (🖼️ [Image: alt]), perfect for reading heavy or cluttered Markdown documents.
• Sidebar Closed by Default: Changed the initial state of the recent files sidebar to be closed by default (sidebarOpen = false), offering an immediate distraction-free reading space upon startup.
• Bilingual Documentation Shortcuts: Added a beautiful 📚 Documentation (README) section directly within the About dialog, providing instant links to open the project's official README on GitHub in any of the 6 supported languages (it, en-GB, en-US, es, fr, de).
• Version Updates: Updated all version references to 0.1.1_RC3.

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[0.1.1_RC2] — 2026-07-01

✨ Advanced Editor Suite & Productivity Enhancements

• Markdown Formatting Toolbar (EditorToolbar): Added an interactive formatting toolbar in Edit mode with quick-insert buttons for Grassetto (**), Corsivo (*), Barrato (~~), Headings (H1-H3), Code Blocks (```), Inline Code, Links, Markdown Tables, Task Checklists (- [ ]), Blockquotes, and Horizontal Rules. Includes intelligent text-selection wrapping and auto-focusing.
• Real-Time Document Statistics (DocumentStats): Embedded a live statistics counter in the file info bar showing total words, characters, lines, and estimated reading time (~200 WPM).
• In-Document Search (SearchBar): Added a full-featured search bar accessible via Ctrl+F / Cmd+F or the new 🔍 Find toolbar button. Supports case-insensitive matching, match count badge ("X of Y"), previous/next navigation (Enter / Shift+Enter), and automatic scroll-to-highlight in Edit mode.
• Standalone HTML & PDF Export (ExportMenu): Added an export dropdown menu to the file info bar:
  • Standalone HTML: Exports the currently rendered Markdown into a self-contained .html file with embedded GitHub-dark/light CSS and typography styling for offline distribution.
  • Print / PDF: Direct integration with window.print() for clean PDF document generation.
• Bidirectional Synchronized Scrolling: Implemented smooth, feedback-loop-free synchronized scrolling between the Markdown editor textarea and the Live Preview pane.
• Symmetric i18n Expansion: Updated all 6 supported language locales (it, en-US, en-GB, es, fr, de) with full translations for toolbar actions, statistics, search interface, and export options.

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[0.1.0_BETA] — 2026-07-01

✨ Major Feature: Markdown Editor Mode

• Read / Edit Mode Sliding Toggle: Added an elegant, sliding toggle switch in the header (READ (toggle) EDIT) right next to the language selector to switch between viewing and editing modes instantly.
• Side-by-Side Editing & Live Preview: When Edit mode is active, the application displays a full-featured side-by-side view with a plain-text Markdown editor on the left and an instantly updated live preview on the right.
• Native Desktop & Browser Saving: Added a 💾 Save button to the file info bar (highlighted with an animated teal gradient when there are unsaved changes) and full Ctrl+S / Cmd+S keyboard shortcut support.
  • Tauri Desktop: Invokes a new Rust command save_file_content to save modifications directly back to the original file on disk.
  • Browser Demo: Seamlessly generates a clean blob download of the updated Markdown file.
• Translation Updates: Updated all 6 language locales (it, en-GB, en-US, es, fr, de) with full editing, saving, and shortcut terminology.

0.0.8_BETA4

CHANGELOG

[0.0.8_BETA4] — 2026-06-30

🚀 Windows 7 & Legacy OS Compatibility

• Windows 7 Support: Configured webviewInstallMode to embedBootstrapper in tauri.conf.json. This embeds the WebView2 bootstrapper directly within the NSIS installer, ensuring seamless installation on Windows 7 machines where TLS 1.2 or dynamic bootstrapper downloads might fail.
• Windows 7 Native Handling: In Tauri v2, core WebView2 compatibility with Windows 7 operates directly via the embedded bootstrapper without requiring legacy feature flags in Cargo.toml.
• Windows XP Statement: Note that Windows XP cannot be supported by Tauri v2 / WebView2. WebView2 is built on Microsoft Edge / Chromium, which permanently dropped support for Windows XP in 2016 (Chrome 49). Additionally, modern Rust toolchains require Windows 7 as the absolute minimum baseline.

📝 Documentation

• Updated all version references to 0.0.8_BETA4
• Updated arenaai.md with explicit details on Windows 7 compatibility configurations and legacy OS limitations.

0.0.7_STABLE

CHANGELOG

[0.0.7_STABLE] — 2026-06-27

🔧 Bug Fixes

• Fixed file association opening: When installing the program and associating supported extensions (.md, .txt, etc.), double-clicking a file in the operating system now correctly loads and displays the file contents within the application instead of just opening the welcome screen.
• Fixed native Drag & Drop: Dragging and dropping files from the OS file explorer into the desktop application now correctly opens the dropped files.
• Desktop File Associations: Configured native bundle file associations in tauri.conf.json and added %f parameter to Linux desktop entry in PKGBUILD.

📝 Documentation

• Updated all version references to 0.0.7_STABLE
• Created arenaai.md with comprehensive developer guidelines and architectural documentation.

0.0.6_STABLE

CHANGELOG

[0.0.6_STABLE] — 2025-06-23

✨ New Features

• Added 32-bit (x86) release workflows for Windows and Linux:
  • release-windows-x86.yml — builds i686-pc-windows-msvc target (installer + portable .exe)
  • release-linux-x86.yml — builds i686-unknown-linux-gnu target (.deb, .AppImage, Arch .pkg.tar.zst)

📝 Documentation

• Updated all version references to 0.0.6_STABLE
• Dashboard changelog updated with new release entry
• Added translation accuracy notice to all READMEs and dashboard: translations other than Italian may not be 100% accurate

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0.0.5_STABLE

CHANGELOG

[0.0.5_STABLE] — 2025-06-23

✨ New Features

• Added project dashboard page — a beautiful, dark/light-mode landing page for the project deployed to GitHub Pages at piboh.github.io/multimdreader/dashboard/, featuring:
  • Hero section with gradient branding and download links
  • About section with feature cards
  • Download section per platform (Windows, macOS, Linux)
  • Supported languages showcase
  • Changelog preview
  • Keyboard shortcuts reference
  • Repository structure diagram
  • Sticky navigation with theme toggle
• Created deploy-pages-dashboard.yml workflow — deploys the dashboard/ folder to GitHub Pages on changes

🔧 Refactoring

• Renamed deploy-pages.yml → deploy-pages-demo.yml — deploys the live web app demo to GitHub Pages
• Separated dashboard deployment from demo deployment into independent workflows with separate concurrency groups

📝 Documentation

• Updated all 6 READMEs with new badge for deploy-pages-dashboard.yml
• Updated CI/CD section in all READMEs to document both Pages workflows
• Updated all version references to 0.0.5_STABLE

0.0.4_BETA

CHANGELOG

[0.0.4_BETA] — 2025-06-23

🐛 Bug Fixes — CI/CD (Critical)

• Fixed release.yml failing on all platforms — @tauri-apps/cli was missing from package.json devDependencies, causing tauri build to fail on Windows, macOS, and Linux (#28052770409)
• Fixed all release workflows still failing — tauri-action@v0 was silently failing; replaced with direct npx tauri build for full control and visible error output (#28054215281, #28054228335, #28054238180)
• Fixed Rust compilation error cannot find crate multimdreader_lib — main.rs referenced multimdreader_lib::run() but the crate is named multimdreader; changed to multimdreader::run() (#28055357691, #28055369781, #28055379901)
• Fixed Rust compilation failures — removed unused Tauri plugins (tauri-plugin-dialog, tauri-plugin-fs) from Cargo.toml and lib.rs that were causing crate version incompatibilities
• Fixed vite-plugin-singlefile conflict with Tauri — removed singlefile plugin (useful for standalone HTML but causes issues with Tauri's asset embedding); Tauri now receives proper separate JS/CSS bundles
• Fixed Node.js 20 deprecation — upgraded all workflows to Node.js 22 (Node 20 is deprecated on GitHub Actions runners as of September 2025)
• Fixed npm ci failures — replaced with npm install and added package-lock.json to .gitignore so CI generates fresh lock files
• Fixed Linux build environment — changed ubuntu-latest to ubuntu-22.04 as recommended by Tauri v2 docs for webkit2gtk compatibility
• Fixed macOS matrix fail-fast — added fail-fast: false so Intel failure doesn't cancel Apple Silicon build (and vice versa)
• Fixed Arch Linux package build — replaced broken container: approach with addnab/docker-run-action@v3 for reliable Arch container builds
• Fixed release permissions — added permissions: contents: write to all release workflows so they can create GitHub releases
• Added libssl-dev to Linux system dependencies for complete Tauri build requirements

🔧 Refactoring — CI/CD

• Split release.yml into 3 per-OS workflows for independent builds and clearer failure isolation:
  • release-windows.yml — Windows x64 (installer + portable)
  • release-macos.yml — macOS Intel (x64) + Apple Silicon (aarch64)
  • release-linux.yml — Linux Debian (.deb), AppImage, and Arch (.pkg.tar.zst)
• Replaced tauri-apps/tauri-action@v0 with direct build commands — each workflow now runs npx tauri build directly with softprops/action-gh-release@v2 for release creation, giving full control over build steps and clear error output
• Added explicit frontend build step before Tauri build for better error isolation
• Added cargo fetch step to pre-download Rust dependencies for clearer failure diagnostics
• Added build output listing step to help debug artifact location issues

🔧 Refactoring — Tauri Backend

• Simplified lib.rs — removed unused Tauri commands (get_app_version, get_app_name) and plugins, now just creates a window with the frontend
• Simplified Cargo.toml — removed tauri-plugin-dialog, tauri-plugin-fs dependencies; removed "devtools" feature from Tauri
• Simplified capabilities/default.json — only core:default permission needed

📦 Dependencies

• Added @tauri-apps/cli@^2 to devDependencies (was missing — root cause of original CI failure)
• Removed vite-plugin-singlefile — incompatible with Tauri's asset embedding
• Removed package-lock.json from repository — CI generates fresh lock file each time

📝 Documentation

• Updated all 6 READMEs with new per-OS workflow badges and revised CI/CD documentation section
• Updated package.json name from react-vite-tailwind to multimdreader
• Added testing notice to all 6 READMEs: only Windows releases have been tested by the author; macOS and Linux builds are provided as-is

0.0.3_ALPHA

Source code only. the release workflow didn't work now.

[0.0.3_ALPHA] — 2025-06-23

✨ New Features

• Code block copy button — hover over any fenced code block to copy its content to clipboard with visual feedback
• Remove individual recent files — hover X button on each recent file in the sidebar to remove it from history
• Keyboard shortcuts panel — reference panel shown in the sidebar footer
• Error notifications — visible inline banner for file read errors and unsupported file format attempts
• Close file button — button in the file info bar to close the current file
• GitHub Pages deployment — new deploy-pages.yml workflow with proper VITE_BASE support for subpath hosting
• Generated app icon — public/icon.png with blue-purple gradient "M" design
• Multilingual READMEs — 6 translated READMEs with cross-language navigation:
  • README.md (🇺🇸 English US)
  • README.en-GB.md (🇬🇧 English UK)
  • README.it.md (🇮🇹 Italiano)
  • README.es.md (🇪🇸 Español)
  • README.de.md (🇩🇪 Deutsch)
  • README.fr.md (🇫🇷 Français)
• shortcuts i18n keys — added to all 6 locale files for the keyboard shortcuts panel
• closeFile i18n key — added to all 6 locale files for the close file button

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed identical en-GB and en-US locales — they were byte-for-byte identical; now properly differentiated (e.g. "dialogue" vs "dialog", "colour" vs "color" where applicable)
• Fixed FileReader missing error handling — added onerror callback with user-visible error notification (previously, a failed read would silently do nothing)
• Fixed handleFileInput type — changed from generic React.ChangeEvent to React.ChangeEvent<HTMLInputElement> for type safety
• Fixed formatDate() ignoring i18n locale — now uses getLocaleForDateFormat() to map language codes to proper locale strings (e.g. it → it-IT, de → de-DE)
• Fixed hardcoded version in About dialog — replaced inline "0.0.2" with APP_VERSION constant
• Fixed i18n detector using default localStorage key — changed to multimdreader-language for namespace consistency
• Fixed drag & drop state getting stuck — improved handleDragLeave with bounding-rect boundary checking

🔧 Refactoring

• Extracted app constants — APP_VERSION, APP_AUTHOR, APP_WEBSITE, APP_REPO as module-level constants
• Extracted utility functions — formatFileSize(), formatDate(), getLocaleForDateFormat(), isSupportedFile() as standalone functions
• Created inline SVG icon components — 14 icon components replacing any previous approach
• Added CodeBlock component — dedicated component with copy-to-clipboard functionality
• Cleaned up src/utils/cn.ts — removed unused template utility file

📦 Dependencies

• Added @tailwindcss/typography — for prose markdown rendering classes
• Added i18next, i18next-browser-languagedetector, react-i18next — internationalization framework
• Added react-markdown, remark-gfm, rehype-highlight — Markdown rendering pipeline
• Added highlight.js — syntax highlighting engine with github-dark theme

📝 Documentation

• Added CHANGELOG.md (this file)
• Updated all version references from 0.0.2 to 0.0.3_ALPHA

0.0.2_ALPHA

Source code only. the release workflow didn't work now.

[0.0.2] — 2025-06-22

✨ Initial Public Release

• Markdown file reader with GitHub-style rendering
• Syntax highlighting for code blocks (100+ languages)
• 6 language support: Italiano, English (UK), English (US), Español, Deutsch, Français
• Dark / Light mode with system preference detection
• Recent files sidebar with persistent history
• Drag & drop support for opening files
• GFM support: Tables, task lists, strikethrough, autolinks
• Cross-platform: Windows (.exe), macOS (.dmg), Linux (.deb, .AppImage, .pkg.tar.zst)
• CI/CD: build.yml (web build), release.yml (desktop releases)
• Tauri v2 desktop app (Rust backend)