Two defects found while preparing v0.9.2, both of which had been shipping for months without anything to notice them by. **Every release note was the same 1,050 bytes.** All 35 releases from v0.0.1 to v0.9.1 published identical generic install instructions whose "What's New" section read "See CHANGELOG.md" -- a link that does not resolve from a release page. A reader learned nothing about what changed in any release the project has ever made. The body now comes from the `## <version>` section of CHANGELOG.md, and a missing section fails the release: notes that say nothing are worse than a build that waits for a maintainer to write two sentences. The 35 published bodies have been backfilled from the changelog via the tea CLI. This also corrects something introduced two commits ago. That change generated the body from `bun run release:notes`, which CLAUDE.md is explicit about -- its output is "a reviewed draft, not a final changelog". Publishing it unreviewed proved the point immediately: the v0.9.1..HEAD range contains a repo-wide prettier sweep, so every file in src/ counted as changed, their TRACES resolved to nearly the whole matrix, and the draft claimed the release had added the entire application. The script now skips cosmetic commits (chore(format), chore(deps), style) and reports how many rather than silently returning a smaller set, but it stays a local drafting tool. **Every release from v0.1.0 to v0.8.2 shipped every Windows installer ever built.** src-tauri/target/*/release/bundle/ is not versioned, cargo never cleans it, and the runner reuses the target directory -- so the copy step's bundle/**/*-setup.exe glob collected the lot. v0.8.2 carried sixteen installers, thirteen of them stale; v0.5.0 offered users a download list going back to 0.1.0. Eight months, and nothing to notice it by: the upload loop reported success, the files were real, and the page looked busy rather than wrong. It stopped only because an unrelated cargo cache change wiped the runner's target dir, so it was dormant, not fixed. Both desktop builds now remove the bundle directory before building, so a stale file cannot exist to be copied. Filtering the copy by version would have hidden it instead. The Linux job gets the same treatment: it was never hit only because Linux packaging is newer, and the glob is identical. scripts/check-release-artifacts.sh is the backstop for whatever reintroduces one by a route nobody predicted. It runs before the SBOM, the checksums and the upload -- all of which describe the file set, so a stale artifact has to be caught before it is hashed and published as part of the release. Verified against a reconstruction of the real v0.8.2 accumulation. DR-219, DR-220, UT-210.

JellyTau
A cross-platform Jellyfin client built with Tauri, SvelteKit, and TypeScript.
Business logic lives in a Rust backend; a UI-rich Svelte frontend handles presentation and talks to it over Tauri's IPC. Targets Linux (libmpv) and Android (ExoPlayer).
Getting Started
This project uses bun as its package manager.
# Activate the Rust environment (fish shell)
source "$HOME/.cargo/env.fish"
# Install dependencies
bun install
# Run in development
bun run tauri dev
# Type-check the frontend
bun run check
# Build for Linux
bun run tauri build
# Build for Android
bun run tauri android build
For the full set of build, test, and Android helper scripts, see scripts/README.md.
Documentation
| Topic | Location |
|---|---|
| Architecture overview & subsystem docs | docs/architecture/ |
| Requirements, traceability & technical debt | docs/requirements.md |
| Build & release process | docs/build/build-release.md |
| Docker builds | docs/build/docker.md |
| Traceability tooling & CI | docs/traceability.md, docs/traceability-ci.md |
| Release checklist | docs/release-checklist.md |
| UX flows | docs/ux-flows.md |
| CI operations (builder image, secrets, runner) | docs/build/ci-operations.md |
Contributing
CONTRIBUTING.md covers the setup, the gates a change has to pass, and the two rules that catch people out (bug fixes start with a failing test; Jellyfin's taxonomy stays in Rust). Please also read the Code of Conduct.
Found a security problem? Do not open an issue — see SECURITY.md.
Verifying a download
Every release publishes SHA256SUMS covering all of its artifacts, plus an SBOM
of what went into the build:
sha256sum -c SHA256SUMS
Desktop builds update themselves from Settings → Updates, verifying each payload against JellyTau's signing key before installing. Android installs are handled by the system installer, so the app links to the releases page instead.
Recommended IDE Setup
VS Code + Svelte + Tauri + rust-analyzer.
License
MIT