chore(release): 0.83.0 — the Home surface

frontend/src/lib/releaseNotes.ts

@@ -14,6 +14,26 @@ export interface ReleaseEntry {
 }
 
 export const RELEASE_NOTES: ReleaseEntry[] = [
+  {
+    version: "0.83.0",
+    date: "2026-09-09",
+    summary:
+      "Siftlode now opens on a page that answers one question: what should I watch right now. You say how much time you have \u2014 ten minutes, half an hour, a whole evening \u2014 and it gives you one suggestion, from YouTube or from Plex, with a button that picks up where you left off. Under it sits a shelf of the things you always come back to, which you fill yourself.",
+    features: [
+      "A new Home page, and it is where Siftlode starts. It asks how much time you have \u2014 10 minutes, 30 minutes, an evening, or it does not matter \u2014 and answers with ONE suggestion rather than a wall of thumbnails. The question is on top, the answer directly under it. If you would rather land on the feed as before, Settings \u2192 Appearance \u2192 Startup turns it off.",
+      "The time you have picks the source, not just the length. Ten minutes gets you a short video; an evening is allowed to offer a film. It matches on the time you have LEFT in something, so a series episode you are four minutes from finishing counts as a four-minute answer.",
+      "The suggestion is one of three things, and it says which: something you left half-finished, something off your comfort shelf, or a surprise. Continue takes you back to the second you stopped. Something else rerolls it \u2014 there is no separate surprise-me page, the reroll is it.",
+      "A comfort shelf you fill yourself, for the media you put on without thinking. It takes a whole channel, a whole show, a film, a single video or a playlist \u2014 because comfort viewing is put on TheVR, not play this one episode. One click resolves it: a show gives you the next unwatched episode, a channel its newest unwatched video. The shelf can be reordered into the order you want.",
+      "Pin from wherever you are: the same \u22ef menu \u2014 or a right-click \u2014 on a feed video, a channel row, a playlist, a Plex poster or a Plex row now carries a Comfort shelf entry. Feed video cards answer a right-click for the first time.",
+      "Continue watching, on both sides at once. The rail merges what you left half-watched on YouTube with what you left half-watched on Plex, most recently touched first \u2014 the YouTube half of that did not exist before.",
+      "Shift+W jumps to Home from anywhere, including out of a player, and it is in the keyboard sheet. The jump-to box (Ctrl+K) gained a Surprise me row, and typing what should I watch finds Home itself.",
+    ],
+    chores: [
+      "E24, four sprints. S1 built a discover read-model as its own backend package \u2014 the unified card shape maps the EXISTING Plex and feed serializers rather than adding a base serializer, the rails reuse the feed query layer and the Plex rollup, and the tiered hero rule is one shared function that returns the tier it chose, so the UI prints an honest kicker instead of guessing. The shelf is a typed comfort_pins table with a one-of check constraint and a real foreign key per kind, not a polymorphic string reference: a deleted Plex item must not leave a dead pin on the shelf. S2 built the page on the existing carousel and the two existing card components rather than a third. S3 wired pinning through the context-menu input path E10 shipped, which absorbed that epic's parked video-card item. S4 added the ways in.",
+      "The closing review ran four rounds, 46 \u2192 23 \u2192 19 \u2192 15 \u2192 14, each round reviewing the previous round's own fix diff, with three adversarial verifiers per finding in rounds one to three. Four of round one's findings died at 2-of-3 and are recorded so they are not raised again. What the eight-lane gate could not have caught: the resume rail built its own query and dropped the per-user channel blocklist, so a video from a channel you had just banned could become the landing page's suggestion; the shelf numbered a new pin by row COUNT while nothing renumbers, so after any non-tail unpin a pin landed mid-shelf and could collide; the Home tile and the show page disagreed about which episode comes next, one taking the first in-progress episode and the other the last; and Shift+W was dead whenever anything was open, because the page change unmounted the player and its cleanup reclaimed the history entry the navigation had just pushed. Rounds three and four stopped finding defects in the epic and started finding them in the review's own fix commits \u2014 a test named after a branch it never reached, comments claiming more than the code does \u2014 which is the signal to stop.",
+      "Two process notes worth keeping. A commit in this epic fixed a bug that does not exist: its message and two comments claimed a sort key raises when two rows both lack a timestamp, which tuple comparison never reaches \u2014 three verifiers executed it independently, and the rationale is now corrected in place rather than quietly deleted. And three of the regression tests written during the fix rounds could not go red for the defect they named until they were rewritten, which is why every test added in a fix round on this epic was mutation-checked.",
+    ],
+  },
   {
     version: "0.82.0",
     date: "2026-09-06",