docs(release): add 1.2.5 "Accolade Watch" release notes

Follows the same pattern as docs/release-1.2.4/:

  * CHANGELOG_FULL.md — short-hash + subject for every non-merge commit
    since v1.2.4 (216 commits)
  * TAG_DETAILS.md — narrative changelog grouped by Accolades, Release
    Watch, Labels, Visual identity, Desktop integration, Streaming /
    audio / player, Updater, UI polish, Internal architecture, Packaging

qbzd work is noted but flagged as scaffolding (hidden from the release
narrative per the plan to ship it separately).

cc

docs/release-1.2.5/CHANGELOG_FULL.md

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+be63d6b3d chore(flatpak): point metainfo screenshots at the 1.2.5 commit
+5f759514d chore(flatpak): refresh screenshots for 1.2.5
+824b577dc fix(genre-filter): popup uses CSS max-height for smart positioning
+604924064 chore(release): bump version to 1.2.5 "Accolade Watch"
+372357497 fix(sidebar,about): smart positioning for playlist menus + platform label
+7d1e5604d refactor(appearance): keep only the rounded corners on match-chrome
+4c5019dff fix(appearance): prioritize visible edge over drop shadow
+74d4d98e4 fix(appearance): draw the external drop shadow around rounded window
+823e1c313 fix(appearance): smoother rounded corners under WebKitGTK
+57e63e3ef feat(appearance): phase 2 of match-system-window-chrome (transparent)
+8502c2fdb feat(appearance): match system window chrome (phase 1) + ribbon cleanup
+62d167467 chore(release): hide qbzd from UI and CI until it ships
+6a5cfc723 feat(titlebar): auto-detect KDE Plasma/Klassy theme for window controls
+1cb8d2c30 feat(branding): refresh app icon, tray theming, and login branding
+b227355af fix(nix): export LD_LIBRARY_PATH for libappindicator in devShell
+c63c3ab16 chore(audio-watch): drop deprecated DeviceTrait::name fallback
+887126237 chore(deps): bump rand to silence dependabot advisories
+551c98659 fix(nix): export LIBCLANG_PATH in devShell for mupdf-sys bindgen
+f7e51b980 fix(audio-watch): stop pre-flight device toast — stored name format never matched cpal enum
+6094876aa fix(player): pass durationSecs on session-restore first play so seekbar advances
+77d54f99d fix(qconnect): always persist local session to preserve track-level restore (#304)
+b62a4b01f feat(audio): notify user when selected output device goes missing (issue #307)
+7425d34e2 chore(assets): add laurel wreath SVG used by AwardView placeholder
+d8fc85a07 fix(artist): dedup releases by id in convertPageArtist initial load
+e6ed62657 fix(artist): replace gold QualityBadge with plain text to match AlbumView
+d719fb679 feat(award): swap trophy icon for white laurel wreath on gold gradient
+47963c0a4 fix(award+home): reload AwardView on awardId change; drop ribbon from Essential Discography
+7c2f2941f feat(award): gold press ribbon + Other awards carousel on AwardView
+c4c4bdf24 fix(album-awards): accept LegacyAwardDto's awardId/awardedAt field names
+776e7846c fix(award-catalog): exhaustive /award/explore pagination with diagnostic logs
+d75a8505b debug(album): log full /album/get payload; catalog can harvest award ids from album responses
+b7f45b2d9 refactor(award-catalog): remove hardcoded editorial seed, rely on /award/explore
+2dc9c143d feat(award-catalog): seed editorial Qobuz awards across locales + diacritic-insensitive lookup
+6a5f9d090 feat(award): add See all link and dedicated AwardAlbumsView
+854eaaa0a feat(award): resolve award id by name via /award/explore when /album/get omits it
+946083822 fix(album-sidebar): keep award card always clickable; toast if id missing
+037e18423 fix(award): normalize award.id as string end-to-end so /award/* calls stop sending 'null'
+a27317471 feat(award): use /award/getAlbums for the grid + follow award as entity
+e52e3e1fd fix(award): loosen AwardPageData and AwardMagazine for inconsistent Qobuz shapes
+8730c891c feat(award): dedicated AwardView with header matching Label/Album conventions
+ee2f413ec fix(album): use dedicated tolerant AlbumAward struct instead of mutating PageArtistAward
+fe3213ece feat(award): backend V2 commands for /award/page and /award/getAlbums
+f0b4499da fix(album): accept awarded_at as integer or string on PageArtistAward
+7bf997284 feat(album-view): right sidebar with label and full awards stack
+ef9cab64b feat(ribbons): extend album ribbon to press accolades (last award wins)
+ebeb86d03 feat(release-watch): dedicated tabbed view mirroring Qobuz mobile
+060395885 fix(release-watch): backfill album.artist from artists[0] on getNewReleases
+de056abd8 fix(home): move album ribbon to bottom-left and let overlay cover it on hover
+b738c2750 fix(home): plumb album awards through backend + invalidate stale home cache
+89c9ee102 feat(home): add editorial ribbons for Qobuzissime and Album of the Week
+dcea5fe6b fix(labels): drop label-card background hover so follow-btn hover is visible
+8ca2accb9 fix(labels): replace pill with 6px rounded rectangle for label follow btn
+d98c89387 fix(foryou): wait for topArtists/recentAlbums before loading dependent rails
+8b0bd820d feat(labels): replace heart overlay with pill Follow button below card
+79e0f93b8 fix(home): persist Release Watch in home cache so it renders on revisits
+ebe999c43 feat(favorites): add Labels tab to Favorites view
+50f5fd777 feat(labels): add follow heart overlay to more-labels cards in LabelView
+a9a9ba505 feat(labels): follow / unfollow labels (mirrors Follow Artist)
+40ba41448 feat(discover): move Release Watch to below Your Mixes + add home.releaseWatch i18n key
+37c64d252 fix(api): project /favorite/getNewReleases envelope to SearchResultsPage
+ce375008a fix(api): Release Watch lives at /favorite/getNewReleases?type=artists
+541c3613c chore(api): promote release-watch API logs to info for diagnosability
+b0e724d42 fix(api): call /albums/releaseWatch as REST, not signed RPC
+60e0861e1 refactor(discover): read Release Watch from /discover/index response
+9945e93e0 fix(api): tolerate unknown release watch response shape
+ea216adf0 feat(discover): add Release Watch section to Home and For You
+808b9db0d fix(offline): real offline mode — snapshot streaming, block network, diag logs (#279)
+722696df3 fix(window): clamp persisted size to fit the largest available monitor
+10bc0eb66 feat(tray): use ksni on Linux for working left-click toggle (#310)
+247a565ac fix(ui): remove silk animations in ForYouTab mix cards
+40f1aa344 fix(ui): remove silk animations from Your Mixes covers
+0898340aa fix(ui): keep QconnectBadge compact at full bar height
+014af6fbf fix(build): stop infinite tauri dev rebuild loop on auto-updater.json
+568dc31df fix(ui): collapse right-section to hamburger at narrow widths (#303)
+160dc7a52 feat(ui): compact variants for QualityBadge and QconnectBadge
+cc21a82d6 fix(ui): refresh audio output badges when playback starts
+33761c646 feat(ui): surface BitPerfectMode in QualityBadge (#288)
+8311cef82 feat(player): expose BitPerfectMode in PlaybackEvent (#288)
+9c2896060 fix(audio): clearer error when CPAL cannot open an enumerated device (#288)
+cba5b76bb fix(audio): fallback to plughw instead of CPAL when DAC rate unsupported (#288)
+d7c811995 fix(audio): downgrade track quality when DAC rate unsupported (#288)
+4bb79fdd7 ci(updater): pass --no-default-features in sandboxed builds
+031da1792 feat(updater): gate auto-updater behind Cargo feature `updater`
+1777760ae chore(updater): set real minisign public key
+347a8c101 feat(updater): wire auto-update handlers in app and settings
+137204099 feat(updater): extend update modals with auto-update option
+10b5d9585 feat(updater): add performAutoUpdate and eligibility to store/service
+46f8693f1 feat(updater): add UpdateProgressModal with i18n
+f664ce327 i18n(updater): add autoUpdate keys and download actions
+a98d6d21b chore(deps): add @tauri-apps/plugin-updater and plugin-process
+2f5a6aadd ci(updater): sign artifacts and consolidate updater manifest
+96cfb9395 feat(updater): add tauri-plugin-updater backend integration
+6c66961ca chore(deps-dev): bump @sveltejs/kit from 2.57.0 to 2.57.1
+64a42fd15 fix(qbzd): use SetState.next_track for auto-advance + periodic state reports
+4112cc77b fix(qbzd): materialize QConnect remote queue for auto-advance
+518219793 fix(qbzd): prevent playback restart from server state echo
+fc83ad6cc chore(qbzd): bump version to 0.1.7
+3df007fe9 fix(qbzd): download and play track on QConnect renderer SetState
+79a86278f fix(qbzd): complete device_info with device_uuid + capabilities
+ffa59b339 fix(qbzd): rewrite QConnect to exact desktop pattern
+bea94871e fix(qbzd): immediate renderer join in bootstrap, don't wait for SESSION_STATE
+186e79d22 fix(qbzd): QConnect renderer join via SessionManagementEvent sink
+fb10b46ac fix(qbzd): early return on remote play, zero local side effects
+82ea7517c chore(qbzd): own version 0.1.6, decoupled from workspace
+c2e8285df fix(qbzd): prevent orchestrator race on play-track + QConnect debug logging
+ca4480239 feat(qbzd): guard all stores/services for remote mode override
+b49fce766 feat(qbzd): guard all stores/services for remote mode override
+98286c612 fix(qbzd): skip QConnect handoff when controlling daemon via HTTP
+39142aad3 feat(qbzd): proper playback orchestrator with gapless + repeat modes
+30bc325f6 feat(qbzd): auto-advance queue + play-album endpoint
+3a01330b0 fix(ui): banner layout uses CSS variable, fix i18n key, responsive height
+72254ac44 fix(qbzd): remove token requirement from remote API client
+6cf396aa8 fix(qbzd): QConnect bootstrap clears pending between commands
+e9fe6b624 fix(qbzd): QConnect form-encoded createToken + mDNS hostname + response parsing
+457c62831 feat(qbzd): implement play-track endpoint (download + play)
+ca9ef961c fix(qbzd): full QConnect protocol + createToken Content-Length fix
+264302fd8 feat(qbzd): implement all wizard sections (cache, integrations, qconnect)
+c63799309 fix(ci): use native ARM64 runner instead of QEMU for aarch64 build
+7a9f8407a fix(qbzd): file-based token fallback when keyring unavailable
+fd1a4fade fix(qbzd): route ALL playback and queue calls through commandRouter
+e4b6024ad fix(ui): remote indicator sits above player bar, not inside it
+a9282e209 feat(qbzd): manual daemon connect + persistence + headless login
+c21e87e1c fix(qbzd): headless-compatible login with LAN IP detection
+aaa183ce3 feat(ui): add Select All checkbox to multi-select mode in all track views
+280252791 chore(deps): update jsdom 29.0.2, notify-rust 4.14.0
+dd322a180 fix(ci): use QEMU native build for aarch64 instead of cross-compile
+1cba3ec18 fix(ci): force all apt sources to amd64, arm64 from ports only
+22a34b4f3 fix(ci): target glibc 2.35 instead of 2.31
+7a522623c fix(ci): add libdbus-1-dev, fix arm64 apt sources, add strip
+c3ce3c666 fix(ci): drop openssl dependency, use rustls-only for all crates
+d042d2162 fix(ci): add libssl-dev + pkg-config to qbzd build
+8cee1c60b ci(qbzd): fix workflow paths, add cache, track Cargo.lock
+586d27bf4 feat(qbzd): integrate daemon discovery into CastPicker
+eade14334 feat(qbzd): TUI setup wizard with ratatui (Phase 1.5)
+632b13495 feat(qbzd): full metadata scan using MetadataExtractor
+90769c053 ci: add qbzd build workflow (x86_64 + aarch64, glibc 2.31)
+e5539132d feat(qbzd): QConnect headless integration
+b3e5be39e feat(qbzd): MPRIS metadata from CoreEvent::TrackStarted
+a5efd6ae1 feat(qbzd): setup subcommand placeholder + config save helper
+e0301b6a2 feat(qbzd): MPRIS playback updates + status subcommand
+f9d6e551e feat(qbzd): LAN CORS, headless MPRIS, security model
+892560dff feat(qbzd): LAN-only access restriction, no token auth
+aacdeabe0 feat(qbzd): login subcommand, library scan, service files (68 endpoints)
+42a8ff566 feat(qbzd): library management + integrations API (67 endpoints)
+b524d6231 feat(qbzd): API tiers 2-3 — discover, playlists, favorites, labels, system (55 endpoints)
+8c947c02b feat(qbzd): audio settings API + remote settings routing (Phase 5e)
+8fc611178 feat(qbzd): mDNS discovery + registration for LAN pairing
+8dac18526 feat(qbzd): remote mode indicator in NowPlayingBar
+e3c1e471c feat(qbzd): bifurcate playback and queue stores for remote mode
+0d94f2147 feat(qbzd): add remote playback target store and API services
+3b8555992 feat(qbzd): HTTP API tier 1 - playback, queue, search, catalog (Phase 4)
+ac1778726 feat(qbzd): unified event bus + SSE endpoint (Phase 3)
+6ee123c2a feat(qbzd): add session lifecycle port (Phase 2)
+e6bacb750 chore(deps): bump tauri-plugin-dialog from 2.6.0 to 2.7.0 in /src-tauri
+608f9508e chore(deps): bump rodio from 0.22.1 to 0.22.2 in /src-tauri
+80886b894 chore(deps): bump @tauri-apps/plugin-dialog from 2.6.0 to 2.7.0
+6d40aacfa chore(deps-dev): bump vite from 8.0.5 to 8.0.8
+b2527d829 chore(deps): bump tauri-plugin-deep-link in /src-tauri
+e2a4e8307 chore(deps-dev): bump @sveltejs/kit from 2.55.0 to 2.57.0
+2817ed6fb chore(deps-dev): bump svelte from 5.55.1 to 5.55.2
+2916dee42 feat(qbzd): wire QbzCore, Player, AudioCache, keyring (Phase 1)
+b0ed46766 feat(qbzd): scaffold headless daemon binary (Phase 0)
+242b27bb1 refactor: clean up commands_v2/mod.rs
+77f12075d refactor: extract commands_v2/diagnostics.rs
+8fa11a431 refactor: extract commands_v2/discovery.rs
+b0ae32896 refactor: extract commands_v2/image_cache.rs
+709c399e3 refactor: extract commands_v2/session.rs
+6f1a1c8a2 refactor: extract commands_v2/settings.rs
+93154690e refactor: extract commands_v2/auth.rs
+45ab6c34b refactor: extract commands_v2/catalog.rs
+5f4cc58d9 refactor: extract commands_v2/playlists.rs
+c746303f2 refactor: extract commands_v2/audio.rs
+98f17019d refactor: extract commands_v2/favorites.rs
+0303e40f3 refactor: extract commands_v2/search.rs
+6c6199a76 refactor: extract commands_v2/queue.rs
+02bae5b60 refactor: extract commands_v2/runtime.rs
+555139a6e refactor: extract commands_v2/playback.rs
+f4c874fda refactor: extract commands_v2/link_resolver.rs
+d667c3e13 refactor: extract commands_v2/integrations.rs
+82e1b337a refactor: extract commands_v2/helpers.rs
+d8dbcf7bd refactor: extract commands_v2/library.rs
+ccce56458 refactor: extract commands_v2/legacy_compat.rs
+6cc75d091 refactor: convert commands_v2.rs to module directory
+c56bd12e4 refactor(gapless): flatten local library check from 4 nested ifs
+94949a7f5 fix(qconnect): persist custom device name across restarts
+b6035cb3a perf(prefetch): increase cache depth to 5 tracks, 2 concurrent
+438cc1885 perf(cmaf): parallel segment downloads for prefetch cache
+5aa0df1cb feat(api): sign all remaining Qobuz API endpoints
+e62b160d5 feat(login): add cancel buttons and captcha hint to OAuth flows
+6efdca0ea feat(oauth): add cancel commands for both OAuth flows
+814bf8b96 fix(oauth): detect WebView window close to unblock login wait
+dbc97d6bd feat(search): add request signing to all search endpoints
+fb7c2a440 docs: add NixOS installation instructions, update snap note
+59b34132c fix(lyrics): use theme accent color for active line highlight
+42b429e86 fix(ui): enable multi-select drag in all views
+a7cdcd6f3 feat(ui): enable track drag & drop in artist and search views
+e71d634cd fix(ui): show artist and album in track drag ghost
+73b0da44a fix(ui): use compact drag ghost for track drag & drop
+ae8990f4a feat(ui): drag & drop tracks onto sidebar playlists
+7faa4e467 fix(audio): default alsa_plugin to Hw when switching to ALSA backend
+b5bb2bbe0 fix(player): lock volume slider in immersive player when ALSA Direct hw active
+acd283a1a feat(snap): restore mpris slot after snapcraft approval
+e2fd2a11b feat(snap): restore mpris slot after snapcraft approval
+20440c611 Revert "feat(snap): restore mpris slot after snapcraft approval"
+3c104ce22 feat(snap): restore mpris slot after snapcraft approval
+6624b7057 chore(snap): add exclusive audio note to description
+c8a3a648f chore(alsa): lower device enumeration logs to debug, add 5th retry
+426a4d0db fix(player): stop engine before dropping ALSA stream on format change
+17919ccca chore: bump flake.nix to 1.2.4
+c85fff490 Delay firstId variable declaration until needed
+14f7d4d7d Removed change to library playback caching behaviour not necessary for fix
+130a127c8 Get repeat mode from bridge instead of app_state to avoid using deprecated type and having to set repeat mode in two places
+4c786c86f Moved logic to repeat current track gapless from backend to frontent
+151351a2b Fail silently if track not found in local library
+3feaed5e4 Removed comment noise
+28bcfeba7 Fix loop one mode when using gapless playback
+f99dbe9fd Try local library for gapless playback if not in any cache

docs/release-1.2.5/TAG_DETAILS.md

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+# 1.2.5 — Accolade Watch
+
+The sprint that earns QBZ its ribbon. Dedicated Award view, Release Watch promoted to its own tab, Labels you can follow, and a long-overdue visual identity pass: new matte-vinyl logo across every surface, login chrome, and KDE Plasma / Klassy integration for the custom title bar. A self-update path finally lands for users outside Flathub and the Snap Store.
+
+---
+
+## Accolades (Awards + Press)
+
+  - **Dedicated Award page** — new `AwardView` with header matching the Label/Album conventions, gold press ribbon, and an "Other awards" carousel; wired to V2 commands for `/award/page` and `/award/getAlbums`
+  - **AwardAlbumsView** — See-all grid for every award, follow-award as a first-class entity
+  - **Award resolution by name** — when `/album/get` omits the award id, the backend now resolves it via `/award/explore`, normalises ids end-to-end as strings, and tolerates inconsistent Qobuz shapes on `AwardPageData` / `AwardMagazine`
+  - **Editorial seed** — `/award/explore` seeds across all locales with diacritic-insensitive lookup; hard-coded seed removed
+  - **Album-view right sidebar** — shows the full awards stack plus the album's label
+  - **Album ribbons extended to press accolades** — last award wins on the card; the dedicated sidebar still shows the full stack
+  - **Gold laurel wreath icon** — replaces the trophy on `AwardView`; new SVG asset
+  - **Home cleanup** — editorial ribbons added for Qobuzissime and Album of the Week on the home rails; Essential Discography keeps cards clean; ribbon moved to bottom-left so the action overlay covers it on hover
+  - **Editor's Picks tab cleanup** — redundant "Album of the Week" and "Qobuzissime" ribbons removed from cards that live inside their own eponymous sections
+
+---
+
+## Release Watch
+
+  - **Dedicated tabbed view** — mirrors the Qobuz mobile layout with its own entry in Discover; moved below Your Mixes in the home grid
+  - **Backend** — `/favorite/getNewReleases?type=artists` as REST (not signed RPC), projected onto `SearchResultsPage`, artist field backfilled from `artists[0]`
+  - **Persistence** — Release Watch now survives home-cache invalidations so it renders immediately on revisit
+
+---
+
+## Labels
+
+  - **Follow / unfollow labels** — mirrors Follow Artist; heart overlay on `LabelView`'s more-labels cards
+  - **Favorites → Labels tab** — new tab in the Favorites view
+  - **Label follow button** — pill replaced by a 6px rounded rectangle to match the rest of the UI; label-card background hover dropped so the follow button hover stays visible
+
+---
+
+## Visual identity
+
+  - **New matte-vinyl logo** (Flathub-compliant: square canvas, 74% footprint, no baked shadow/gloss) applied to every icon asset: Tauri standard sizes, Windows Store squares, Android icons and mipmaps, `static/`, README, tray
+  - **Monochrome symbolic variants** — `tray-light.png` (black glyph) and `tray-dark.png` (white glyph) shipped alongside `tray.png`; the Linux tray picks the matching variant at runtime by probing GNOME `color-scheme`, GTK `prefer-dark-theme`, and KDE `kdeglobals`
+  - **Login screen refresh** — logo resized to 175px with a subtle `--text-muted` drop-shadow using `color-mix()` for real alpha, plus QBZ and "Qobuz™ Player" branding under the mark; `app.tagline` rewritten in en/es
+  - **About dialog** — fixed a duplicated "License" label (the second row was meant to show the platform); codename updated to "Accolade Watch"
+  - **DAC Setup Wizard icon contrast** — button icon drops `invert(1)` so it reads on light accent themes (Catppuccin Lavender, Dracula…); the tooltip copy of the same icon now has `invert(1)` so it reads on the dark surface bg
+
+---
+
+## Desktop integration (Linux)
+
+  - **Window controls auto-detect** — new `desktop_theme` Rust module reads `kwinrc`, `kdeglobals`, and `klassyrc`; a runtime-derived "Klassy (auto-detect)" or "Plasma (auto-detect)" preset mirrors the system decoration colors and button shape when Plasma is detected, and stays hidden otherwise
+  - **Klassy button shapes** — `mapKlassyShapeToQbz()` maps Klassy's `IntegratedRoundedRectangle`, `FullHeightRectangle`, `FullHeightRoundedRectangle`, `Tab`, `Circle`, `Square` onto QBZ's `ButtonShape` set; adds a new `full-height-rounded` variant to cover Klassy's most common preset
+  - **Opt-in rounded window corners** — "Match system window chrome" toggle persists to `window_settings.db` and gates the Tauri window transparency decision at startup; on next launch the main window is rebuilt transparent and the detected corner radius (10 Klassy, 6 Breeze, 12 Adwaita, 8 fallback) is applied via `clip-path` + `border-radius` with GPU compositing for clean anti-aliasing on WebKitGTK
+  - **ksni tray on Linux** — replaces the libayatana-appindicator path so left-click actually toggles the window (issue #310)
+  - **Window size clamp** — persisted sizes that exceed the largest available monitor now clamp to fit instead of opening off-screen
+
+---
+
+## Streaming, audio, and player
+
+  - **Request signing expanded** — all remaining Qobuz API endpoints and every search endpoint now sign their requests; stronger compliance and fewer 403 edge cases
+  - **BitPerfectMode surfaced in QualityBadge** (#288) — mode now flows through `PlaybackEvent` and the badge updates on playback start
+  - **DAC rate unsupported fallback** (#288) — track quality is downgraded and the backend falls back to `plughw` instead of CPAL when the DAC can't handle a requested rate; clearer error when CPAL cannot open an enumerated device
+  - **Output device missing notification** (#307) — user gets a toast when the selected output device disappears
+  - **Audio output badges refresh** on playback start
+  - **ALSA Direct `hw` immersive volume lock** — volume slider is disabled in the immersive player when ALSA Direct hw is active (bit-perfect lock)
+  - **ALSA default plugin** — `alsa_plugin` defaults to `Hw` when switching to the ALSA backend
+  - **Gapless loop-one fix** — logic moved from backend to frontend; loop-one now works with gapless playback
+  - **Gapless local-library fallback** — tries local library if not in any cache; fails silently when track isn't found
+  - **ALSA engine shutdown** — engine stops before dropping the ALSA stream on format changes
+  - **Real offline mode** (#279) — snapshot streaming, network blocked, diagnostic logs
+  - **Player fixes** — `durationSecs` passed on session-restore first play so the seekbar advances (previously stuck); qconnect always persists local session to preserve track-level restore (#304)
+
+---
+
+## Updater (opt-in, non-store builds)
+
+  - **tauri-plugin-updater integrated** — backend + frontend; `UpdateProgressModal` added with i18n; wired into app bootstrap and Settings
+  - **Gated behind Cargo feature `updater`** — sandboxed builds (Flathub, Snap) pass `--no-default-features` so the updater stays disabled for store-managed installs
+  - **Signed manifest** — minisign public key baked in; CI signs artifacts and consolidates the update manifest; updater manifest path no longer triggers an infinite `tauri dev` rebuild loop
+
+---
+
+## UI fixes and polish
+
+  - **Smart positioning for sidebar menus** — the per-playlist right-click menu now flips above the cursor when it would fall below the window; the Sort submenu inside the general playlists menu uses `use:portal` to escape clipping by `.dropdown-menu`
+  - **Genre filter popup** — collision check reads the CSS `max-height` (530/630 width, 500/700 height) instead of the measured rect so the popup flips above the trigger or clamps to the viewport when content grows asynchronously
+  - **Right-section collapse** (#303) — hamburger at narrow widths instead of overflow
+  - **QualityBadge / QconnectBadge compact variants** — keeps them at full bar height without overflow
+  - **Silk animations removed** from ForYouTab mix cards and Your Mixes covers (performance)
+  - **Multi-select drag** enabled in all views; track drag & drop extended to artist and search views and onto sidebar playlists; compact drag ghost with artist + album
+  - **Lyrics active line** uses theme accent color
+  - **For-You load order** — waits for `topArtists`/`recentAlbums` before loading dependent rails
+  - **Remote-mode indicator** sits above the player bar, not inside it
+  - **Banner layout** uses a CSS variable; i18n key fixed; responsive height
+  - **Favorites Select All** — new checkbox in multi-select mode across track views
+
+---
+
+## Internal architecture
+
+  - **`commands_v2` refactor** — former single-file module is now a module directory (`auth`, `audio`, `catalog`, `diagnostics`, `discovery`, `favorites`, `helpers`, `image_cache`, `integrations`, `legacy_compat`, `library`, `link_resolver`, `playback`, `playlists`, `queue`, `runtime`, `search`, `session`, `settings`) — easier to navigate, smaller files
+  - **Gapless check flattened** — reduced from 4 nested `if`s to a flat control flow in the local-library path
+  - **Custom device name** persists across restarts for QConnect
+  - **Prefetch perf** — cache depth increased to 5 tracks with 2 concurrent CMAF segment downloads in parallel
+  - **qbzd scaffolding** — not yet exposed to users; the CI workflow is paused (`push.tags` trigger commented out) and the CastPicker's "QBZ Daemon" tab is gated behind a feature flag that currently resolves to `false`. Re-enable when qbzd ships
+  - **Nix devShell** — exports `LD_LIBRARY_PATH` for libappindicator and `LIBCLANG_PATH` for mupdf-sys bindgen
+  - **Dependency bumps** — tauri-plugin-dialog 2.7.0, tauri-plugin-deep-link, rodio 0.22.2, vite 8.0.8, svelte 5.55.2, sveltejs/kit 2.57.1, rand, jsdom 29.0.2, notify-rust 4.14.0
+
+---
+
+## Packaging
+
+  - **Snap** — MPRIS slot restored after snapcraft approval; exclusive-audio note added to the description
+  - **CI ARM64** — native ARM runner replaces QEMU for the aarch64 build; targets glibc 2.35; dropped OpenSSL in favour of rustls across all crates
+
+---
+
+Full changelog: https://github.com/vicrodh/qbz/compare/v1.2.4...v1.2.5