v0.2.0

0.2.0 — 2026-04-26

A minor release that adds a notification channel for between-release news and lays the groundwork for Microsoft Store distribution.

Features

• In-app announcements channel. viewbus now fetches https://viewbus.app/announcements.json on launch and renders three severity tiers in the main window: an info toast for low-priority items, a top banner for warnings, and a modal for security notices. Each is dismissible and remembered per id, so seen notices don’t reappear. Designed to surface security advisories and deprecation warnings between releases without forcing a new install.
• MSIX package. Each tagged release now produces a viewbus_<version>_x64.msix alongside the NSIS installer. The MSIX is the package format Microsoft Store uses; it’s also installable directly via Windows for sideload (developer mode + signed) for environments that prefer MSIX over .exe.

Improvements

• Theme picker order. Built-in themes now appear as Dark → Light → Dracula instead of the previous alphabetical-by-id order. The “(Showcase)” suffix on Dracula is gone — it’s just “Dracula” now.
• Brand consistency. All user-facing strings now use viewbus lowercase, matching the wordmark. The ViewBus casing remains on internal identifiers (installer filename, Windows registry entries) where stability matters for installed users.
• License attribution shipped with the installer. A THIRD-PARTY-NOTICES.txt file listing every reciprocal-licensed dependency is now bundled with the binary, satisfying the attribution requirements of MPL-2.0 and other relevant licenses.