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.
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Specs index
Feature specs for JellyTau. Start a new one from SPEC-TEMPLATE.md and run it past SPEC-REVIEW-CHECKLIST.md before accepting it.
What lives here
Only work that has not shipped. Once a spec is fully implemented its design is folded into the architecture docs — which are the maintained description of the build — and the spec file is deleted. Git history keeps the original, including its rejected alternatives and acceptance criteria; the architecture docs keep the reasoning that a future change still needs.
So: a file in this directory is a promise, not a description. If you want to know how something works, read docs/architecture/. If you want to know what is planned, read here.
Status vocabulary
| Status | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Proposed | Written, not accepted. Nothing built. |
| Accepted | Agreed as the design; implementation not started or not finished. |
| Partially implemented | Some parts shipped; the spec names what is left. |
| Design authority | No code of its own — it records a decision later specs act on. |
Next free requirement ids (always re-check requirements.md before allocating): UR-079, IR-033, DR-221. Three specs below suggested ids that have since been taken by other work; each carries a ⚠️ note at the top.
Partially implemented
| Spec | What landed | What is left |
|---|---|---|
| frontend-domain-model.md | Catalog surface: MediaKind, from_jellyfin isolated, ticks → ms |
primaryImageTag → imageId (~30 sites); player/session/reporting tick math; stream.type |
| libmpv2-migration.md | LICENSE |
The libmpv → libmpv2 crate swap |
| read-through-media-cache.md | DR-126…128, DR-133…138 — cache entries are download rows; local playback of downloads | DR-121/122/124/125 — the player quality selector and the read-through capture |
| scoped-search-boundary-implementation.md | Stage 1: SearchScope owned by Rust (DR-063…067) |
Stage 2: result-side grouping (GROUP_ITEM_TYPES still in searchScope.ts) |
Not started
| Spec | Blocked on / note |
|---|---|
| backend-owned-stream-selection.md | Rust owns direct-play-vs-transcode, transport and quality; players consume one StreamSelection. Phase 1 (delete the .m3u8 sniff) stands alone. Unblocks Linux native video. |
| build-provenance.md | build.rs is still bare. ⚠️ suggested id DR-093 is taken. |
| player-facade-enforcement.md | ~60 commands.player* sites still outside the facade; no lint rule. ⚠️ suggested id DR-095 is taken. |
| windows-native-audio-backend.md | Blocked on the libmpv2 swap. ⚠️ suggested id IR-030 is taken. |
| linux-native-video-spike.md | Spike run 2026-08-21: compositing works on Linux, X11 and Wayland. G1-G6 green bar the Tauri default_vbox() half of G1. Needs an implementation spec that answers adaptive bitrate. |
Design authority
| Spec | Role |
|---|---|
| playback-backend-unification.md | Why video cannot unify onto one native engine and audio can. The audio half has since shipped on Android; Windows has not. |
| scoped-search-boundary.md | The boundary design the check:boundary rule came from. Stage 1 built. |
| scoped-search.md | Superseded in part — its "frontend only, no Rust changes" decision is the leak the boundary spec reversed. UX still current. |
Where the shipped specs went
Sixteen specs were folded into the architecture docs and deleted (2026-08-21). Where to look for each:
| Shipped work | Now documented in |
|---|---|
| Account menu & global chrome | 02-svelte-frontend.md — App Shell and Chrome |
| Library mosaic | 02-svelte-frontend.md — Library Mosaic |
| Series current-episode navigation | 02-svelte-frontend.md — Series and Episode Navigation |
| Downloads as an offline library | 02-svelte-frontend.md — Downloaded Browse |
| Favourites browsing | 01-rust-backend.md — Favorites System |
| Streaming bitrate cap | 01-rust-backend.md — Streaming quality ladder |
| Locally-indexed search | 03-data-flow.md — Search Flow; 01-rust-backend.md — Background workers |
| Offline downloaded-only filter | 06-downloads-and-offline.md — Offline Catalog Visibility |
| Audio equalizer · Android audio settings parity | 05-platform-backends.md — Audio settings on ExoPlayer |
| Android native video spike | 05-platform-backends.md — Native Video Compositing |
| Video background audio | 05-platform-backends.md — Background Audio Handoff |
| Traceability gate repair | traceability-ci.md |
| Boundary tripwire hardening | scripts/check-frontend-boundary.sh (its header is the spec) |
| Playback docs corrections · req-coverage script removal | Nothing to document — both were corrections that have been applied |