Pasta-Devs/Marinara-Engine v2.3.0

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Added

• Added a one-time, version-aware What's New? window for fresh installs and updates. It waits until first-run onboarding is complete, introduces each release's main features with Professor Mari, links directly to that version's GitHub release, and remembers the exact version shown so it does not reappear until the next update. The v2.3.0 announcement spotlights downloadable Agents, Hierarchical Maps, and Tactical Combat Mode with a compact, responsive battlefield preview.
• Added an editable Noodle Prompt at the top of Noodle Settings, with a full-screen editor and one-click default restoration. The canonical default now contains the complete adult-platform, persona-authorship, interaction, and JSON instructions, while the separate timeline voice text is appended last. Its Edit prompt action now follows the standard Noodle Settings button treatment, with centered content and a clearly visible Noodle-blue pencil icon on desktop and mobile.
• Added a Combat Preference to Game mode, chosen in the setup wizard and changeable later from the Chat Settings Combat Style section: keep the classic narrative combat, or switch to a new tactical battle style inspired by grid-based tactics RPGs. Tactical encounters play out on a terrain-painted battlefield with scene-matched backdrops, unit classes, party formations, per-unit movement and attack ranges, counters, critical hits, misses, and a full enemy phase driven by a deterministic seeded engine at four difficulty levels. Battles feature animated movement, floating damage popups, a draggable unit inspector and action menu, staged moves shown as translucent previews until confirmed, defeated units leaving the battlefield, restartable encounters, and a mobile-friendly layout.
• Added a responsive full-page Agents → Download Agents library for installing, reading about, updating, and uninstalling official capability packages, with installed/uninstalled groupings ordered as Writer, Tracker, and Misc Agents, plus creator artwork with an Agents-star fallback. Card Evolution is classified as a Writer Agent and Hierarchical Maps as a Tracker Agent. On desktop, full-page libraries and resource editors open beside their originating sidebar; mobile keeps the focused full-screen flow. Fresh installs now contain no optional agents, while existing installations migrate their agents and chat feature selections without losing settings, runtime data, or history.
• Added Install All and Uninstall All controls beneath Download Agents search. Bulk package changes run through a safe sequential queue with visible progress, partial-failure reporting, immediate catalog refresh, and confirmation before removing every installed agent.
• Published first-party downloadable agents in the new Pasta-Devs/Marinara-Agents repository as individually verified packages. Its README now lists every Writer, Tracker, and Misc package, while repository contribution rules, issue and PR templates, catalog validation, protected review flow, and automatic CodeRabbit review keep future package work complete and reviewable. Conversation mode's About Me profile and update_about_me tool remain built into the Engine and are not downloadable agents.
• Moved Hierarchical Maps, Conversation audio/video calls, UNO, Chess, Poker, 8-Ball Pool, Tic-Tac-Toe, and Rock-Paper-Scissors into optional packages with package-owned server runtimes and responsive client surfaces. Maps can be enabled as an agent in Roleplay and during or after Game creation.
• Added a default-on Noodle setting that can exclude Professor Mari from account discovery and future generated activity without deleting existing timeline history (#3598).
• Added Open Full Library to Personas, with the same responsive card grid, search, sorting, preview pane, paging, scroll restoration, and editor return flow as the Character Library.
• Added separate opt-in browser and Android generation-completion notifications for manually started Conversation, Roleplay, Visual Novel, and Game replies that finish while Marinara is unfocused, without changing autonomous-message background notification preferences (#3588).

Changed

• Categorized Marinara Engine's attributed OpenRouter traffic as Roleplay and Game, improving its visibility in OpenRouter's relevant app-ranking filters while preserving the GitHub repository as the canonical app referer.
• Renamed Bot Browser to Card Browser throughout the interface, documentation, onboarding tutorial, and Professor Mari guidance, and renamed Browse Online to Download Cards.
• Updated the Character and Persona full libraries to use the chroma text color selected in Settings for headings, counts, descriptions, metadata, tags, previews, and empty states instead of legacy fixed-color text.
• Reworked Character and Persona sprite transparency around a native-alpha-first pipeline. Providers that cannot return transparent PNGs now receive a subject-aware saturated chroma matte, followed by border-connected soft matting and color despill; the optional neural remover is reserved for genuinely complex backgrounds, while saved legacy white-background sprites remain cleanable with restore points.
• Made Local Whisper a Conversation Calls-owned download. Connections now shows Local Speech Model controls only while the Conversation Calls package is installed, and uninstalling Conversation Calls removes every downloaded Whisper model and its saved selection to reclaim disk space. Reinstalling Calls makes the models available to download again.
• Removed the retired database compatibility stack, including its runtime backend switch, startup migrations, one-time importer and repair readers, old migration scripts, database-file backup handling, and external ORM/runtime dependencies. Storage schemas and query expressions are now file-native throughout the Engine.
• Made file-native primary and natural-key constraints enforceable during atomic inserts and updates, preventing concurrent custom-media names, Noodle toggles, and lorebook links from persisting ambiguous duplicates.
• Reduced the base Engine by removing more than 25,000 lines of optional agent, map, call, and table-game implementation code. The base now exposes small validated capability registries and compatibility bridges while downloaded packages supply feature code on demand.
• Added a canonical 29-package catalog summary to both Professor Mari prompt paths and completed the public agent reference, README, and developer documentation so Mari can compare and recommend every Writer, Tracker, Misc, Maps, Calls, and Conversation-game package without confusing catalog availability with installation state.
• Consolidated Conversation command controls and renamed selfie configuration as Illustrator Settings inside Chat Settings → Agents. Agent sections, settings, and package-owned command toggles now appear only for agents that are actually installed, while an empty setup-wizard Agents step links directly to the Agents tab and its Download Agents action.
• Updated Professor Mari, onboarding, and agent documentation to explain the downloadable-agent workflow, package restarts, offline behavior, and backward-compatible migration.
• Began the v2.3.0 development cycle and synchronized version metadata across packages, the PWA manifest, Windows installer sources, Android APK metadata, and shared update checks.
• Android versionName is 2.3.0 with versionCode 34.

Fixed

• Logged every Noodle timeline refresh model response in debug mode, including correction attempts, and persisted each raw attempt with its full rejection reason so malformed first responses remain auditable after a successful retry (#3655).
• Fixed Conversation About Me → AI Write sending literal card macros such as {{user}} to the model. The one-shot draft now resolves selected card fields, lorebook entries, recent chat context, and extra direction with the active Conversation persona and character before provider submission (#3646).
• Unified the online Card Browser with the Character, Persona, and Agent library shell: it now opens as Cards Library, introduces Browse character cards online, keeps the familiar back navigation and chroma-aware library background, and renders search failures in the selected chroma text color instead of legacy pink.
• Changed Uninvite everybody and its confirmation action from destructive red to Noodle blue, and made the disabled custom mouse-pointer preference persist immediately so Firefox, PWAs, and quickly closed sessions do not silently turn it back on.
• Fixed concluded Conversation scene summaries bypassing daily and weekly compaction because narrator history is represented as system-role prompt messages. Past scene summaries now fold into their normal day/week summaries and stay out of the verbatim recent-message tail, while current-day scene context and genuine system instructions remain intact (#3641).
• Replaced stale Spotify, YouTube, or Custom player controls with clear Download Music DJ Agent to configure guidance and a direct Download Agents action on desktop and mobile whenever the always-available Music Player toggle is enabled without Music DJ installed.
• Fixed Conversation selfie prompt generation ignoring the per-chat Prompt Model selection. Automatic character selfies and Gallery selfies now route their prompt-writing request through the selected text connection, including its provider, model, caching behavior, and local-sidecar support (#3638).
• Applied downloaded package artwork to matching installed agents in the Agents sidebar, while preserving user-uploaded pictures and the star fallback for missing or failed images.
• Restored the Characters sidebar header icon to the same pink-to-rose gradient used by the New Character action while keeping its topbar icon on the selected chroma accent.
• Calibrated Lorebook semantic similarity against an unrelated-text baseline so embedding models whose raw cosine scores cluster around 0.97 no longer inject unrelated entries at every usable threshold or suppress relevant entries near 1.0 (#3627).
• Replaced the nested presence animation used by expandable right-sidebar folders with an accessible grid transition, preventing Connections and Lorebooks folders from crashing the app shell with React hook-order errors (#3630).
• Recognized OpenRouter's positive-form No endpoints found that support image input rejection as a non-vision model response, allowing Noodle timeline refreshes to retry once with the existing text-only prompt (#3631).
• Moved the Game Assets manifest and rescan lifecycle out of Zustand into one React Query cache shared by Game surfaces and the Asset Browser, consolidated model/runtime and Whisper download SSE parsing, and made failed sidecar delete/unload actions propagate instead of silently succeeding (#3616).
• Fixed Game Journal tabs refusing to scroll on desktop and iOS by giving the embedded journal a bounded flex viewport, and made replaced/generated NPC portraits refresh immediately even when the server reuses the same image URL (#3624).
• Updated the Character Colors preview to render the active card's cropped avatar with an icon fallback, while keeping its sample narration free of formatting asterisks (#3622).
• Preserved the standard <START> example-dialogue separator through XML prompt sanitization, including cards whose importer had already encoded the marker, without allowing other XML-looking card text through unescaped (#3623).
• Removed every random-user instruction and profile placeholder from Noodle refresh prompts when Random Characters are disabled, while participant selection continues to exclude those accounts entirely (#3619).
• Consolidated Chub, CharacterTavern, and Wyvern Bot Browser JSON requests behind a shared HTTPS-only safeFetch boundary with explicit provider hosts, JSON content-type validation, redirect rejection, cancellation-aware timeouts, and bounded response sizes (#3617).
• Restored swipe-to-dismiss for mobile web toasts in both horizontal directions and upward, so touch users no longer need to target the small close control (#3625).
• Renamed the Connections Illustrator defaults category to Images, hid image/video generation settings and /illustrate or /selfie commands until Illustrator is installed, kept /help first in slash suggestions, and refreshed /help and /macros feedback with chroma-aware styling.
• Fixed Gallery generation controls appearing without an active Illustrator package. Illustrate, Selfie, Storyboard, Video, Animate, and Background actions now require Illustrator to be installed and enabled for that chat in every mode, while Roleplay Gallery replaces the separate Browse Images window with its asset search directly in the Gallery.
• Unified Chat Settings → Agents and Conversation command toggles with the same accessible chroma-aware control styling used by the rest of Chat Settings, restored spacing between installed Conversation Calls settings and schedule-generation preferences, and changed Game setup's selected SFW/NSFW rating from green/red status colors to the selected accent color.
• Fixed installed Conversation feature packages still behaving like per-chat pipeline agents. The six table games now appear in the Commands controls without separate Add Agent entries, Conversation Calls settings render directly below Illustrator settings using the native chroma controls and expand only after calls are enabled for that chat, and installed games/calls expose their surfaces and command runtimes without requiring legacy activeAgentIds metadata.
• Fixed downloaded Maps and Conversation Calls packages failing against file-native storage with Unsupported table: chats, Unsupported table: conversation_call_sessions, or an undefined schema name. Capability-owned file-table and column objects now resolve safely through the Engine's registered schema names instead of requiring identical JavaScript object instances, while incompatible installed package versions are quarantined before their hooks can crash generation (#3647).
• Updated Persona Status Bars’ Add button to follow the selected chroma accent instead of using hard-coded green styling.
• Fixed Conversation Chat Settings hiding the Selfies command after Illustrator was installed. Package-owned commands now appear alongside their separate agent settings as soon as the matching agent is available.
• Kept Chat Settings → Agents available in Conversation, Roleplay, and Game when no optional agents are installed. Built-in Conversation commands remain configurable without downloads, and the Conversation setup wizard now shows those commands plus only the extra commands owned by installed agents. Empty Roleplay and Game sections link directly to Download Agents, while the chat setup wizard removes its redundant decorative Agents icon from the empty state.
• Made Game setup respect installed agent ownership: Hierarchical Maps, Music DJ, Lorebook Keeper, and Illustrator controls now appear only when their packages are installed, with Visual Generation renamed to Illustrator. Empty Game and Conversation setup states link directly to Download Agents, and the Game connection guidance now follows the selected chroma accent instead of hard-coded yellow styling.
• Removed the inert All agents back control from the desktop Download Agents detail view while preserving its working list navigation on mobile.
• Fixed uninstalling a downloadable agent leaving its card in the already-open Agents sidebar until the panel was closed and reopened. Capability registry updates now land before React publishes the refreshed package state, so installed-agent lists and empty states update immediately.
• Fixed left and right sidebars disappearing before the desktop shell caught up, which briefly left an empty column beside the chat. Their reserved width now collapses in sync with the visible panel slide, including the full-width mobile chat sidebar. Lorebook entry filter chips now use consistent inset-safe borders so character, tag, generation, and additional-source choices are no longer clipped by their scrolling containers.
• Fixed Group Conversation replies ignoring the documented inherited-speaker format in Bubble display. Each generated line now receives its own bubble while unprefixed consecutive lines retain the preceding character's identity (#3609).
• Fixed recurring Roleplay characters losing tracker stats, custom fields, or their character-card avatar after being absent for several scenes. Character Tracker now receives card RPG configuration and bounded historical continuity, restores omitted prior values, and enforces card identity and artwork in normal and retry runs (#3606).
• Fixed graceful shutdown completing before a file-native storage flush could drain newer writes queued during its active disk write, and made persistent close-time I/O failures reject shutdown instead of silently reporting success (#3602).
• Fixed the Agent Editor custom-music folder picker omitting saved remote-admin and CSRF credentials by routing its privileged request through the shared API client (#3603).
• Fixed dense Connections editor text flickering or shifting in Chromium browsers at the accent pulse's 500 ms update cadence. Editor reading surfaces now retain the selected base accent while headers and explicit accent chrome continue to pulse (#3599).
• Fixed recalled-memory truncation splitting supplementary Unicode characters such as emoji or Lydian text into invalid UTF-16 surrogate halves, which caused strict provider JSON parsers to reject otherwise valid Conversation generations (#3596).
• Fixed selected background-library images immediately disappearing in Roleplay mode because the renderer probed the GET-only image route with an unsupported HEAD request (#3592).
• Fixed Noodle profile text edits resetting character avatars from their configured crop to the full source image. Unchanged avatars now preserve their crop, and previously lost crops recover from the matching character card on the next profile save.
• Fixed a blank TZ= forcing server-side schedules and date-sensitive Conversation context into the synthetic Etc/Unknown UTC timezone. Blank values now inherit the host timezone, Noodle warns when timezone detection is unresolved, and chats remember the browser timezone for autonomous scheduling, temporal awareness, daily memories, and tool macros (#3590).