Support & updates

Changelog

Follow user-facing improvements and important fixes in Broadcast Cutter.

Updated 7/31/2026

July 2026

Added

  • Launched the user documentation center with a quick start, feature guide, FAQ, and changelog.
  • Added complete English and Simplified Chinese documentation with page-to-page language switching.

Improved

  • Documentation now shares the website’s Astro build and deployment pipeline.
  • Documentation pages reuse the website navigation, footer, and visual design.

July 28, 2026

Added

  • Alibaba Cloud CDN is fully active for the website: downloads, HTTPS, HTTP/2, Referer protection, and cache policies are all in place.
  • Public security filing completed.

Improved

  • Verified Mac DMG downloads are served through CDN with proper 206 Range responses.
  • Electron auto-update metadata cache set to 60 seconds; installer and blockmap files use long-term cache.

July 3, 2026

Added

  • Desktop license settings now show device info and support license deactivation.
  • CDP debugging: ELECTRON_CDP=true pnpm dev opens port 9222 for automated testing with the agent-browser CLI.

Fixed

  • Fixed a license reuse bug that allowed only one license per email address.
  • Removed the licenses_owner_email_key unique constraint so one email can own multiple licenses.
  • Added foreign-key indexes on orders.license_id and cache.license_id for better query performance.
  • Fixed 6 missing i18n keys and a duplicate status.unknown label.

Q2 2026

Added

  • Launched the paid website and licensing system with WeChat Pay, license issuance, and desktop validation.
  • Electron delta auto-updater (OTA) using Cloudflare R2 + D1.
  • GitHub Actions pipeline: quality gate, CI build, and canary release channel.
  • AI rough cut and golden-quote auto-extraction workflow.
  • Custom filler-word library.

Improved

  • Dark mode and the Geist design system landed.
  • Chinese and English UI across core modules.
  • Unified component library on shadcn/ui + Radix UI.

About release notes

After public product releases begin, this page will record new features, behavior changes, compatibility notes, and resolved issues by version. Development and operations notes will remain in the repository’s root docs/ directory.