0.9.9

[0.9.9] - 2026-07-16

Added

• Theme-defined collections for lightweight CMS content types such as News, Projects, and Services, including optional per-item pages, SEO output, sitemap inclusion, collection item menu links, depth-aware export links, and in-editor item management
• New Arch collection widgets: News Grid, Projects Grid, and Services Grid
• New Arch Audio Player widget with MP3 playlist support
• New Arch Table widget for rate sheets, tuition tables, size charts, and spec lists
• New Bedrock preset (general contractor / construction) with full template content, menus, and starter media
• Core Contact Form widget with a forms manifest written into exports (submissions are handled by Widgetizer Hosting; other static hosts need their own handler)
• Docker support for self-hosting the web app (Dockerfile + docker-compose.yml)
• Desktop app: automatic port selection at launch, and the window no longer auto-maximizes
• Copy and paste for widgets within a page or across pages, including right-click context menu support and keyboard delete
• Sticky action bars for long page, collection, and project forms
• Rich-text links can now target any Media Library file, including images, with an All / Images / Audio / Files type filter in the media picker
• Grouped, sorted link picker for pages and collection items
• Taller widget inserter with smarter positioning, keyboard scrolling, and per-widget preview images (Arch ships previews for its full widget set)
• Denser page-editor settings sidebar
• "+ New page" quick action in the editor topbar
• Menu item labels autofill from the target page and follow page changes
• Canonical URLs derive from the project site URL when not set per page
• Set active project from the projects list, with improved preset selection during project creation
• Theme font picker language filter, with the current font scrolled into view
• Vertically resizable Custom CSS / JS editor in Theme Settings
• Export history now shows the total size of each export
• Arch presets can seed starter media into new projects
• Internal rich-text links now follow page and collection-item renames and clear automatically when the target is deleted
• MP3 and audio uploads are supported
• Gallery images can carry per-image captions
• New theme setting types: date, gallery, and table
• Opt-in rich-text images and headings for theme authors, with automatic media resolution
• Theme-author filters and helpers for collections and rich text: collection, rte_blank, and rte_text
• Mastodon icon in the Arch icon set
• Dev-mode export HTML validation with an export issues report

Changed

• Backend and editor code reorganized into modular npm packages behind adapter contracts for future hosted deployments
• Theme update indicators and banners improved, including clearer global update messaging and opt-in project update behavior
• Project creation avoids copying excluded theme directories for faster setup
• Local content saves now use temp-file-and-rename writes to avoid half-written files
• Card and collection grid widgets now scale image sizes, padding, and corner radius by column count
• Image Callout widget gained the Content color scheme
• Exports copy only the widget assets pages actually use
• Images embedded in rich text now count toward media usage tracking
• Theme uploads validate collection-type schemas before install
• The editor detects when the active project changes elsewhere and blocks editing with a notice
• LiquidJS updated to 10.26+

Fixed

• Windows export junk-file filtering now handles Windows paths correctly
• YouTube settings no longer trigger a re-save loop
• Header dropdown readability under highlight color schemes
• Collection-item save button no longer remains disabled after re-editing
• Buttons default to type="button" to avoid accidental form submits
• Rich-text link UI no longer crashes under React StrictMode
• Non-Latin text in form field keys, export filenames, and doc anchors is transliterated to ASCII (e.g. Greek, Cyrillic) instead of being dropped
• Media picker file tooltips no longer clip on the first row of results
• Media Library filename column always shows the filename instead of the image title
• Theme card action popovers no longer clip, and long "in use" labels no longer overflow
• A failed project load no longer bounces the editor to the project picker
• Media "Used in" labels show collection item titles
• Media usage refresh rescans correctly
• Icon grid and color picker render correctly in the narrow settings sidebar

Security

• Media uploads are size-capped at the upload stream
• Per-page widget count, menu-item tree depth, and menu-item count are bounded
• Image setting paths are allowlisted to block image-based XSS
• URL sanitization hardened across links, menus, and theme output
• Theme-authored SVG icons are sanitized before injection
• og:image is always emitted as an absolute URL
• Desktop preview windows are restricted to safe internal paths, and the editor-preview bridge accepts messages only from the resolved peer origin
• Additional Liquid rendering isolation hardening for hosted deployments

Documentation

• Theme-author docs expanded with a build-your-first-theme quickstart, Liquid filters reference, Collections authoring guide, and one-page theme contract
• New end-user guides for Collections and Forms
• Themes documentation now explains Arch, presets, and the Theme -> Preset -> Project -> Content model
• Corrected rich-text rendering guidance for global autoescaping

0.9.8

[0.9.8] - 2026-04-26

Added

• 29 new Arch theme presets, each shipping with full template content, menus, and curated screenshots: Brewline, Brightside, Clearpath, Codebase, Corkwell, Crumbly, Everafter, Framelight, Greenfield, Greystone, Hearthstone, Inkwell, Ironform, Keystoned, Ledgerworks, Little Oaks, Olympic, Pawlish, Petalry, Pipeworks, Pixelcraft, Saffron, Shearline, Sparkhaus, Stillpoint, Tailside, Torque, Uplink, and Velvet Touch (plus a refreshed default Arch preset)
• New Arch widgets: PDF Viewer and Class Schedule
• Embed widget gained background image and overlay settings
• Footer widget gained a Badges block and a richtext copyright field
• Per-widget top_spacing / bottom_spacing controls with intermediate spacing values across all widgets
• Two new color schemes: standard-accent and highlight-accent
• Heading alignment setting available across widgets
• Eyebrow uppercase setting
• Footer layout variations
• Active menu item styles in navigation
• Carousel arrows now reveal on hover
• File input setting type and updated documentation for it
• Project-specific theme locale resolution (presets can ship their own locale data)
• Markdown alternate output during site export when .md generation is enabled
• Site title is now included in project export metadata
• Update badge surfacing theme update availability
• Debug state panel (development environment) for inspecting frontend stores
• Test coverage expansion: API fetch, async request gating, project switch coordinator, upload request, widget store helpers, theme store, project/media/theme query managers, copy-name sort, upload feedback/validation, update status helpers, infrastructure, and media usage tests
• Image generation and optimization scripts, hero mosaic renderer, and a preset-sync workflow with its own test suite

Changed

• Responsive image delivery now treats the large variant as the public ceiling when available, while still falling back to the original when no large variant exists
• Image rendering and responsive image sizes overhauled across widgets; ImageInput component standardized for aspect ratio and styling
• Slideshow rendering improved
• Mobile menu and mobile menu button reworked
• Lightbox mobile rendering corrected
• Steps widget alignment on mobile fixed
• Timeline widget numbers now follow the theme shapes setting
• Scheduled Table widget can now disable highlighting of the current day
• Transparent header behavior improved
• Map widget polish and broader common-locale coverage
• Email setting now renders as an email link rather than a generic URL
• Color schemes refined and renamed for consistency
• Theme settings management unified into a central themeStore
• Date formatting unified through a shared useFormatDate() hook; default date/time format updated
• API response handling refactored and media usage tracking centralized
• Theme metadata source normalized
• Project-switch orchestration centralized with immediate state clearing and store resets
• Identifier generation and slug sanitization standardized via shared helpers
• Semver update-status logic moved into a shared utility
• Widget store split into testable pure helpers
• Form and list page patterns standardized via shared hooks (useGuardedFormPage, useConfirmationAction)
• Query caching and standardized async request protection rolled out across managers
• Project import flow and UI reworked
• Media selector drawer, media management UI, and media uploads improved
• Widget settings panel reorganized
• Widget drag-and-drop refined
• Custom CSS / JS fields in the editor improved (CodeInput overhaul)
• Themes and preview UI polished; preview button reworked; preview updates more reliable
• Toolbar buttons streamlined; toast position and styling improved
• Item duplication and sorting improved across Projects, Menus, and Pages
• Action sets streamlined for Projects, Menus, and Pages
• Favicon and list UI polish
• Project backup and site export terminology standardized
• Translations consolidated; locale files cleaned up; missing translation keys filled in
• Documentation refreshed across architecture, export, media, theming, preset format, preset generator/process, and editor docs
• Export documentation now reflects usage-aware media copying, thumb exclusion, and flattened widget asset behavior
• Arch theme documentation now covers the new standard-accent and highlight-accent color schemes
• Arch widget documentation now covers per-widget top_spacing / bottom_spacing controls and the shared spacing override classes
• Live demo URLs updated
• README, logos, and brand assets refreshed
• Electron build pipeline cleaned up (consolidated under electron/, dedicated builder config, prepare-mac-sharp script renamed)
• Dependencies upgraded

Fixed

• Lightbox mobile rendering issue
• Steps widget alignment issues on mobile
• Missing translation keys
• Minor linting issues
• Various smaller widget and editor fixes

0.9.7

Added

• 6 new widgets for the Arch theme: Action Bar, Contact Details, Checkerboard, Sliding Panels, Steps, and Testimonial Slider

Changed

• Arch theme translations were consolidated and aligned across all supported languages
• Theme and app locale files were refactored and cleaned up
• Minor theme/editor polish and release housekeeping for 0.9.7

Fixed

• Windows media handling for .webp uploads
• Windows media handling for .gif uploads
• Leftover locale inconsistencies and minor theme metadata issues

0.9.6

Arch: New Widgets

Team highlight
Numbered service list
Scrolling text
Video popup
Split content (with sticky content option)
Gallery widgets (new)
Key figures (redesigned)
20+ new presets

Editor & UX

Preview opens in same window (instead of new Electron window)
Typography selection system improvements
Color picker adjustments
Multi-level drag and drop in menu editor
Undo/redo in page editor
Desktop/mobile preview toggle
Transparent header per page/widget support
Icon modifiers system
Carousel layout for card-based widgets
Media component compact mode
Code input component improvements

Electron

Error boundary for crash recovery
Unresponsive window handling
Renderer crash recovery
Auto-updater with in-app update banner
Mac build improvements + notarization
Windows build + code signing
Fixed window close when app errors

Internationalization

i18n for core widgets
Theme localization support for widget schemas and global settings
Improved translations across all locales

Performance & Infrastructure

SQLite migration (breaking change from file-based storage)
Responsive images (srcset) across all widgets
Improved local caching (dev mode support)
Enqueue system for theme-level asset resolution
Media-by-ID operations improvements
User-scoped data for hosted mode

Fixes

Contact form widget settings and removal
Header/footer block rendering
Standalone preview navigation URL validation
Widget naming consistency
Partial theme updates during snapshot builds
Cleanup of deleted page references

0.9.3

[0.9.3] - 2026-02-14

Added

• Global widgets (header/footer) can now host blocks
• maxBlocks property to limit the number of blocks a widget can contain
• Theme presets system for quick theme configuration
• Responsive image support
• Media usage tracking in theme settings (e.g. favicon)
• Richtext UL and OL (list) support
• Comprehensive backend test suite (page CRUD, project, and tag tests)

Changed

• Electron server process refactored to use utilityProcess
• Tests reorganized into logical groups

Fixed

• ESLint generator function errors in core tag
• SEO tag now handles image paths correctly

Security

• Bumped qs and markdown-it dependencies

0.9.2

[0.9.2] - 2026-02-07

Added

• Helmet security middleware for HTTP headers
• HTML sanitization for widget content (DOMPurify + LiquidJS auto-escape)

Fixed

• Media usage now tracked correctly for SEO images (og_image) on page create/update
• Media library UI now refreshes after saving pages with SEO images

0.9.1

[0.9.1] - 2026-2-06

Added

• Theme deletion functionality
• Theme-defined image sizes
• Enable Markdown export for pages

Changed

• Refactor theme asset handling with Liquid tags

0.9.0

[0.9.0] - 2026-02-02

Changed

• Arch's widgets: Convert textareas to richtext setting type where appropriate.

Improved

• SelectionOverlay: Improved some selection logic.
• Arch theme: Feature list formatting with icons
• Arch theme: Comparison table widget

⚠️ Important Notice

Arch theme will receive breaking changes in upcoming releases before Widgetizer 1.0. Plan accordingly if you're using Arch in production. Theme updates logic is 95% there so I'll start pushing theme updates once the updates logic is complete and stable.