nicholasraimbault/silvervine v2.3.0-rc.2

2.3.0-rc.2 - 2026-10-23

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Release Notes

First public 2.3 candidate, consolidating the pending updates instead of a 2.2.2 release.
The rc.1 publication was cancelled after review found that Windows repair could
remove the updater receipt. The immutable rc.1 tag is retained.
This is a prerelease: stable update checks exclude it unless users explicitly
choose preview. Real Windows playback and sleep/resume verification remain
required before 2.3 stable.

Added

• Windows x64 support: installed/portable browser discovery, explicit custom
  profiles, verified Windows CDM downloads, immutable profile-scoped publication
  and component registration, native tray/startup/wake integration, owner-only
  named-pipe IPC, and PE diagnostics. Based on paparei's Windows port, preserving
  the original commit authorship.
• silvervine tui: Overview, Browsers, Diagnostics, Updates, Logs, and Settings.
  Run browser actions, view/export diagnostics, search bounded local logs, edit
  preferences/custom browsers/hooks, and manage the user daemon.
• silvervine daemon enable|disable|restart for user-session lifecycle control.
• Explicit [updates] channel = "stable" | "preview" and one-time
  update self --channel overrides. Stable remains the default and auto_apply
  remains a separate opt-in, including for existing configurations.
• Windows release zip, PowerShell installer, updater/receipt support, and native
  build, lint, test, and release gates.

Fixed

• Keep Windows caches in a disposable subdirectory, separate from the installer
  receipt, so repair/uninstall cannot erase update eligibility.
• Windows self-updates make the mapped executable's filename replaceable,
  require a receipt matching that installation, restore the previous binary and
  receipt after failed or no-op installation, and restart
  the registered daemon after a manual update.
• Treat Windows lock contention as a skipped busy lock rather than an I/O failure.
• Preserve authenticated ZIP read/expansion failures as invalid bundle structure.

Security

• Update rustls to 0.23.46, rustls-webpki to 0.103.16, webpki-roots to 1.0.11,
  and zip to 9.0.5. Retain archive/signature/digest checks across the ZIP upgrade.
• Include Windows in dependency auditing. Three documented temporary exceptions
  cover D-Bus unmaintained-package notices only, pending tray/notification
  upstream migration; review by 2027-01-23. Vulnerability checks remain enforced.
• Reject case-alias duplicate ZIP outputs and Unicode Windows device-name aliases
  before extraction or authenticated payload selection.

Changed

• Integrate pending updates to sha2, serde_json, objc2, libc, thiserror, and the
  pinned install action.
• Shorten the README; add focused usage, Windows testing, and troubleshooting
  guides. Replace obsolete distribution/feature promises with a 2.3 release
  checklist and evidence-driven maintenance roadmap.
• Retain legacy Neon migration compatibility throughout 2.x and move its guidance
  outside the main installation flow. Archive the unsupported bridge experiment.

Install silvervine 2.3.0-rc.2

Install prebuilt binaries via shell script

curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -LsSf https://github.com/nicholasraimbault/silvervine/releases/download/v2.3.0-rc.2/silvervine-installer.sh | sh

Install prebuilt binaries via powershell script

powershell -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -c "irm https://github.com/nicholasraimbault/silvervine/releases/download/v2.3.0-rc.2/silvervine-installer.ps1 | iex"

Download silvervine 2.3.0-rc.2