Changelog

🏷️ @userid mentions are clickable

• Messages that tag someone with @userid (not only <@userid>) now render as clickable mention pills, same as the picker.
• Outgoing @userid / bare UUIDs still encode to structured mentions so notifications and highlight work consistently.

🎨 New GGBRO logo everywhere

• Website favicon / logos, desktop window + tray + installer icons, and Android launcher / splash icons refreshed from the new mark.
• Cache-busted public assets (?v=5) so browsers pick up the new files immediately.
• Android APK 1.0.5 (versionCode 105) with matching launcher icon — reinstall/update from the homepage download.
• Installer: ggbro Setup 2.8.175.exe — auto-update, then unpin/re-pin the taskbar shortcut if Windows still caches the old icon.

🧩 Plugins — collapsible Controls

• Settings → Plugins → Enable / Disable: each pack’s Controls section starts collapsed — click to expand.
• Installer: ggbro Setup 2.8.174.exe.

🧩 Plugins — false “no panel” errors

• Official Apps (Discord Theme, PDF Studio, Spotify, Youtube…) no longer show a red “Connected but no panel registered” runtime error — those packs use the Apps window, not a Settings panel.
• Installer: ggbro Setup 2.8.173.exe.

🛠️ Discord scroll gutter + default folder bar

• Discord Theme: channel / member scrollbars keep a fixed thin gutter — the thumb only fades in on hover/scroll, so channel rows no longer jump sideways when the bar appears.
• Default theme: opening a server folder no longer grows the top server bar (removed extra vertical padding; bar height locked), so the channel header stays put.
• Installer: ggbro Setup 2.8.172.exe.

📜 Discord Theme — channel & member scrollbars

• Channel list and member list scrollbars are fully hidden until you hover the panel or scroll — selecting a channel no longer keeps the bar stuck on.
• When shown they are thin (5px), not the thick Discord chat-style bars.
• Text-channel (middle) scrollbar left unchanged.
• Installer: ggbro Setup 2.8.171.exe.

🧩 Plugins Settings — simpler tabs, less noise

• Tabs: Install · Enable / Disable · Guide — install and manage are split so the page stays simple.
• No more Controls walls for PDF Studio, Youtube Downloader / Search, Discord Theme, or Spotify — open those from Apps instead.
• Quick-action buttons and “Plugin docs” links wrap with proper spacing (no overlapping).
• Startup: plugin “ready” toasts are quiet while packs load, so launching the app no longer floods info notifications.
• Installer: ggbro Setup 2.8.170.exe.

📜 Discord Theme — sidebar scrollbars

• Channel list and member list scrollbars are thin and auto-hide (show on hover or while scrolling), without changing sidebar width.
• Chat (middle) scrollbar styling left as-is.
• Installer: ggbro Setup 2.8.169.exe.

🧩 Plugin host — Web Workers (handshake fix)

• Fix: custom packs no longer run in sandboxed srcdoc iframes (Electron CSP caused permanent “handshake timed out” / empty Controls).
• Packs now run in a dedicated Web Worker + MessageChannel — same ggbro.* API, no DOM access, reliable Controls / Apps panels.
• Installer: ggbro Setup 2.8.168.exe.

🎛️ Default theme user bar cleanup

• Without Discord Theme, mute / deafen / settings / more were stacking in a vertical blob and floating in the middle of the sidebar footer.
• Default user strip is now a full-width row: avatar + status on the left, controls in a horizontal cluster on the right.
• Installer: ggbro Setup 2.8.167.exe.

🔧 Custom plugin Controls — CSP iframe fix

• Root cause: the desktop renderer CSP frame-src blocked sandboxed srcdoc plugin iframes (about:srcdoc), so author packs never ran and Controls stayed empty. Official HostApps were unaffected (React, not iframe packs).
• Pack code now runs with ggbro bound via new Function after MessageChannel connect.
• Docs: dedicated install folder, register panel before storage, clearer empty-Controls troubleshooting.
• Installer: ggbro Setup 2.8.166.exe.

🧩 Custom plugin Controls actually load

• Fix: pack plugin.js now runs via sandboxed indirect eval (iframe CSP allows unsafe-eval only there) after the MessageChannel is connected — classic script semantics for any valid pack.
• Removed the blank-srcdoc hard-reload that could steal the MessagePort and leave Controls stuck on “Waiting for panel…” forever; handshake retries with a fresh channel / one remount instead.
• Clearer Runtime errors when a pack connects but never calls registerPanel.
• Installer: ggbro Setup 2.8.165.exe.

🛠️ Custom plugins first — pack scripts actually run

• Removed the official Calculator sample from the catalog — authors install their own packs via Install Plugin (docs keep a build-your-own walkthrough).
• Fix: pack plugin.js is now embedded as a parser-inserted script (DOM-injected scripts were still unreliable under Electron CSP), so registerPanel Controls and Apps tiles populate for community packs.
• Installer: ggbro Setup 2.8.164.exe.

🧩 Third-party plugins — production-ready authoring

• Durable storage: plugin KV lives in userData/plugin-data/<id>/ so reinstall/update keeps history; Uninstall wipes that data too.
• Author DX: Settings cards show Runtime / warning lines; empty schemas fail loudly; Controls buttons auto-flush pending inputs (Calculator-safe); dirty drafts survive panel refresh.
• Security: panel link fields require ui.openUrl; proxied net.fetch re-checks the allowlist on every redirect hop.
• Starter: official Calculator sample pack (schema panel + Apps tile) — clone target for community plugins. Docs corrected for custom Apps tiles, MessageChannel auth, and storage paths.
• Installer: ggbro Setup 2.8.163.exe.

🔧 Plugin scripts actually run again

• Fix: pack plugin.js was blocked by iframe CSP (eval needs unsafe-eval; we only allowed unsafe-inline) — so custom panels like Calculator never registered.
• Host now injects pack code as an inline script (no eval) and stops killing MessageChannels on handshake retries.
• Installer: ggbro Setup 2.8.162.exe.

🧮 Custom plugins in Apps

• Enabled packs with ui.panel (e.g. community Calculator) now get an Apps tile and Open controls in Apps.
• Settings → Plugins reloads panel schemas more reliably; empty Controls show a Refresh hint.
• Installer: ggbro Setup 2.8.161.exe.

🧩 Plugins — docs + Settings controls

• Plugin docs rewritten: Apps grid vs Settings panels, step-by-step custom pack (Calculator), schema id / fieldId rules, packaging pitfalls.
• Settings → Plugins again shows Active plugin controls and per-pack Controls from registerPanel.
• Installer: ggbro Setup 2.8.160.exe.

📜 Changelog & Features cleanup

• Public changelog and features pages now focus on product history for members — internal ops notes were removed from those pages.
• Installer: ggbro Setup 2.8.159.exe.

🎮 Discord Theme — scrollbars, ⋯ menus, profile

• Scrollbars: Midnight thumb now uses Discord-visible gray (#4e5058) so bars aren’t invisible against dark panels.
• User strip: mute / deafen / settings / ⋯ (User Settings, Copy ID, Log Out) like Discord.
• ⋯ menus: message hover toolbar and channel header options; profile popout closer to Discord user cards.
• Installer: ggbro Setup 2.8.158.exe.

⬇️ Chat scroll — always land on latest

• Fix: opening channels / DMs / groups and sending messages no longer stops a few pixels short of the latest message (smooth scroll + late layout/badges/media).
• Shared sticky-bottom helper re-snaps while height settles; DMs/groups use a bottom sentinel; channel list sticky window extended.
• Installer: ggbro Setup 2.8.156.exe.

📁 Server folders — collapse on click

• Fix: clicking an open server folder now collapses it (open → close → open). Auto-expand only runs when you select a server inside a collapsed folder, so it no longer fights a manual collapse.
• Installer: ggbro Setup 2.8.155.exe.

🎵 Player — Share vs Copy

• Share copies the playlist link; Copy copies the currently playing song’s YouTube URL (they previously did the same thing).
• Installer: ggbro Setup 2.8.154.exe.

🌙 Discord Theme — Midnight

• Midnight palette matching current Discord (near-black rail, dark channel/member panels, charcoal chat, blurple, mention wash).
• Fully plugin-scoped: visuals via data-ggbro-discord CSS only — no longer rewrites Appearance presets. Disable/uninstall restores normal GGBRO.
• Composer stays readable; user strip / member list / mentions polished while enabled.
• Installer: ggbro Setup 2.8.153.exe.

🔌 Plugins — composer stuck after enable

• Fix: enabling Discord Theme (or other plugins) from Settings could leave the message box unclickable/untypeable until restart — Electron hit-testing/focus after sandboxed iframe reload + Discord layout remount tearing down Settings mid-open.
• Stable desktop layout when toggling Discord Theme (no ServerSidebar/Settings remount); plugin iframes are non-focusable; Settings cleans up on unmount; composer interaction recovers after plugin reload.
• Installer: ggbro Setup 2.8.152.exe.

🎨 Discord Theme — composer text & polish

• Fix: typed message text was invisible under Discord Theme — the theme painted an opaque background on the textarea, covering the mention-highlight overlay (transparent text). Composer input stays transparent; the shell keeps the Discord input color.
• Improve: classic Discord palette (overrides midnight nudge), sharper corners, reply bar / icon / header / sidebar search polish, forced readable text & placeholder colors.
• Installer: ggbro Setup 2.8.151.exe.

📺 Playlist download thumbnails

• Fix: Downloads popup now updates the thumbnail for each playlist item as yt-dlp advances (names already updated; thumbs stayed stuck on the first cover).
• Installer: ggbro Setup 2.8.150.exe.

📋 Copy User ID reliability

• Fix: intermittent “Failed to copy user ID” — clipboard writes go through Electron’s main process (plus browser fallbacks), so focus glitches no longer fail the copy.
• Installer: ggbro Setup 2.8.149.exe.

📄 PDF Studio — text select & smaller install

• Select & copy page text — Hand tool (default) enables a real pdf.js text layer; Ctrl+C works. Select tool is for annotations only.
• Smaller update/install — stopped packing duplicate pdf.js / pdf-lib / native canvas / react-icons into app.asar (they are already bundled in the renderer).
• Still 100% on-device — no cloud PDF API.
• Installer: ggbro Setup 2.8.148.exe.

📄 PDF Studio — full toolkit

• Shapes — line, arrow, rectangle, ellipse (Shift constrains); stroke width & fill.
• Redact / whiteout — permanent black or white covers flattened on Save As.
• Image & signature — place images; draw/save a reusable signature pad.
• Panels — annotation list + properties editor; color presets; reading tones (day/night/sepia); grid; two-page spread; go-to-page.
• Organize+ — duplicate page, page numbers, whiteout margins, document title/author/subject.
• Drafts — annotations auto-restore per file; Space temporary hand tool; more shortcuts ([ ] pages, G grid, L/R/O shapes).
• Installer: ggbro Setup 2.8.147.exe.

📄 PDF Studio — write & shortcuts

• Type on the page — Text / Note tools place an inline editor (Enter to commit, Shift+Enter newline, Esc cancel); double-click to edit.
• Select tool — click to select, drag to move, font size for text/notes.
• Shortcuts — Ctrl+Z / Ctrl+Y undo-redo, Ctrl+C/X/V copy-cut-paste, Ctrl+S save, Ctrl+A select page annots, Delete, Ctrl+/- zoom; V/T/N/H/D/E tool keys.
• Installer: ggbro Setup 2.8.146.exe.

📄 PDF Studio actually loads

• Fix: “Loading PDF…” hang — pdf.js runs on the main thread via bundled WorkerMessageHandler (Electron-safe); library pinned to pdfjs-dist 4.10.
• Installer: ggbro Setup 2.8.145.exe.

📄 PDF chip menu stays on-screen

• PDF attachment options menu flips above the chip when near the composer and clamps inside the viewport (no more cut-off “Copy link”).
• Installer: ggbro Setup 2.8.144.exe.

📄 PDF Studio — load fix & window chrome

• Fix: PDFs no longer stick on “Loading PDF…” — Electron-safe pdf.js fake worker + worker-src CSP.
• Studio window: drag, resize (corner), minimize (tray chip), full screen (F11 / button), Esc to exit/close.
• Installer: ggbro Setup 2.8.143.exe.

📄 PDF Studio plugin

• New official plugin PDF Studio — Apps tile + Settings panel; enable from catalog.
• Viewer — zoom/fit, continuous or single page, thumbnails, outline, text search, rotate view, print.
• Annotate — highlight, underline, strike, draw, text, sticky notes, stamps; undo/redo; flatten on Save As.
• Organize — rotate, reorder, delete, extract, insert blank, merge PDFs, split by page ranges.
• Compress — Screen / eBook / Print / Custom presets (client-side raster compress).
• Watermark (text or image), password-protect export, AcroForm field fill, export page as PNG/JPEG.
• Chat PDF attachments (channel, DM, group): click for Open with PDF Studio / Download / Copy link.
• Host event: ggbro:pdf-studio-open / openPdfStudio().
• Fix: catalog Install & Enable works — pdf-studio added to the official pack download allowlist (was HTTP 404).
• Installer: ggbro Setup 2.8.142.exe.

📁 Server folders like Discord

• Hold a server over another briefly to create a folder (dwell), with a clear nest highlight.
• Collapsed folders show the 2×2 icon mosaic; open folders use a colored tile and a tinted group around members.
• Folder settings: rename, Discord-style color picker, mark as read, custom icon, close folder.
• Auto-expands the folder when you select a server inside it; white insertion lines for reorder.
• Drop onto a folder to add; drag a server out to the rail to remove; empty folders dissolve.

📄 Features & docs (2.8.136–2.8.141)

• Features page updated for the full recent set:
• Youtube Search — paged results with thumbs/duration; Search in Player & Downloader; official plugin.
• Youtube Downloader — preview, quality, pause/resume/cancel (force-stop on Windows), title filenames.
• Server folders — Discord-style create / nest / color / expand on the rail.
• Manage Group — wide tabbed panel (Overview, Members, Invite, Notifications, Calls, Danger Zone).
• GIF avatars — play on hover or when selected (users + server icons).
• DM spacing — roomier message gutters and larger DM list avatars.
• Downloads popup — square icon for app updates (no more stretched logo).
• Discord Theme — left rail + blurple chrome; works with server folders.

📦 Desktop update

• Installer: ggbro Setup 2.8.141.exe.

👥 Manage Group redesign

• Wider settings-style panel with sidebar tabs: Overview, Members, Invite, Notifications, Calls, and Danger Zone.
• Overview shows stats, owner, capacity, created date, and Copy Group ID.
• Searchable member list; mute group notifications (1h / 8h / 24h / until unmuted) on this device.
• Start voice or video call from Manage Group.

📦 Desktop update

• Installer: ggbro Setup 2.8.140.exe.

💬 DM avatar spacing

• More gutter space in private messages (and group DMs) so avatars aren’t cramped under the message column.
• Slightly larger avatars in the DM sidebar list.

✨ GIF avatars play on hover / select

• Animated GIF user avatars and server icons stay on the first frame until you hover them — or when that server / DM is selected.

📦 Desktop update

• Installer: ggbro Setup 2.8.139.exe.

📁 Discord-style server folders

• Drag servers with an insertion line showing where they’ll land (before / after).
• Drop a server onto another to create a folder; drop onto a folder to add; drag out to the rail to remove.
• Collapsed folders show a 2×2 mosaic of the first four icons (or a custom icon).
• Right-click a folder to rename, change / remove icon, expand/collapse, or ungroup.

📦 Desktop update

• Installer: ggbro Setup 2.8.138.exe.

⬇️ Downloads popup icon

• Fixed the stretched / clipped green update icon — app updates now use a square icon slot instead of the YouTube thumbnail size.

📦 Desktop update

• Installer: ggbro Setup 2.8.137.exe.

🔍 Youtube Search

• Search YouTube with title, thumbnail, channel, and duration, plus Load more paging.
• Search button in the Youtube Playlist player (play from results) and Youtube Downloader (fills the link for preview / download).
• New official plugin Youtube Search — Apps tile + Settings panel; other plugins can open search via ggbro:youtube-search-open.
• Desktop uses yt-dlp search; web/API falls back to Piped / YouTube Data API when configured.

📦 Desktop update

• Installer: ggbro Setup 2.8.136.exe.

⬇️ YouTube download pause / cancel

• Pause and cancel now force-stop yt-dlp and its child processes on Windows (taskkill /T /F) so downloads actually stop.
• UI no longer flips back to “Downloading” from leftover progress lines after pause/cancel.
• Resume continues with yt-dlp -c from the paused point.

📦 Desktop update

• Installer: ggbro Setup 2.8.135.exe.

🎨 Discord Theme polish

• Removed redundant rail buttons (Explore Discover, GGBRO Plus gift, Help) — use Apps / Settings instead.
• Fixed Inbox / notification panel when Discord Theme is on: opens to the right of the rail and stays on-screen (no longer drops off the bottom).

📦 Desktop update

• Installer: ggbro Setup 2.8.134.exe.

🎨 Discord Theme plugin

• New official plugin Discord Theme — moves the server list to the left like modern Discord.
• Blurple accents, denser chrome, channel sidebar / composer / button polish.
• Extra Discord-style rail buttons: Explore Discover, GGBRO Plus (gift), Download Apps, Help, Inbox (toggle in Apps → Discord).
• Install from Settings → Plugins catalog; enable to apply globally (Apps panel optional for extras).

📄 Features & docs

• Features page updated for Youtube Downloader (preview, quality, pause) and Discord Theme.
• Plugin catalog lists Discord Theme alongside Youtube Downloader and other official packs.

📦 Desktop update

• Installer: ggbro Setup 2.8.133.exe.

⬇️ Youtube Downloader polish

• Apps tile renamed from YT DL to Youtube Downloader.
• Preview before download: thumbnail, title, and length for videos; playlist lists every entry with thumbs.
• Saved files use the video title (not the video ID).
• Quality picker: video (Best / 1080p / 720p / 480p / 360p) or audio (Best / 192 / 128 kbps MP3).
• Pause / resume / cancel work for YouTube downloads (yt-dlp continues with -c).
• Downloads popup shows real progress (percent, size, speed) and video thumbnails.
• Pause / cancel also available while downloading a GGBRO app update.

📦 Desktop update

• Installer: ggbro Setup 2.8.132.exe.

⬇️ YouTube Downloader plugin

• New official plugin YouTube Downloader — Apps tile + Settings panel.
• Download a single video or an entire PL playlist (list IDs must start with PL).
• How to know if it’s a playlist? Look at the YouTube URL for list=PL…. list=RD… is a Mix and isn’t supported for bulk download.
• Uses the shared Downloads popup (multi-file queue, progress, cancel).
• Files save under your Downloads folder in GGBRO YouTube (yt-dlp; first run may download the engine).
• YouTube Playlist player: per-track download icon + Download all for PL lists.

📦 Desktop update

• Installer: ggbro Setup 2.8.131.exe.
• Install/enable the plugin from Settings → Plugins (catalog) or the developer examples pack.

🎮 Activity settings — hide specific apps

• New Settings → Activity tab: turn activity sharing on/off, see what’s currently detected, and search registered games/apps.
• Per-app exclusions — hide individual games, YouTube/Spotify, or browsers (Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Brave, Opera) so they never show as your status.
• Exclusions apply immediately on desktop and stay local to your device.

💬 Discord-like message & composer spacing

• Recalibrated Appearance density so message gaps match Discord (compact default; same-author lines stay tight).
• Removed stacked padding that made text channels look looser than DMs.
• Channels, DMs, and group chats now share the same message body metrics.

⌨️ Composer paste & line breaks

• Fixed oversized gaps and “ghost” text when pasting multi-line messages into the composer.
• Copy/paste keeps real single newlines (no blank line between every line).
• DM composer layout matched to server channels so line height and width behave the same.
• Mention highlight overlay stays scrolled with the textarea (no doubled selection layer).

📦 Desktop update

• Installer: ggbro Setup 2.8.130.exe.
• Builds 2.8.127–2.8.129 shipped the spacing/paste work and Activity tab; 2.8.130 finishes the DM-only composer fix.

🎮 Activity tab

• Added Settings → Activity with global activity toggle and per-app hide list.
• Browsers and YouTube/Spotify can be excluded independently from games.

📦 Desktop update

• Installer: ggbro Setup 2.8.128.exe.

💬 Chat spacing pass

• Density tokens and message-row padding aligned with Discord-like spacing.
• Composer line-height unified across channels; paste scroll/selection glitch addressed.

📦 Desktop update

• Installer: ggbro Setup 2.8.127.exe.

🧩 Plugin controls under each card

• Enabled plugins (e.g. Spotify) show their buttons directly under that plugin in Settings → Plugins.
• Clearer “turn the switch ON” guidance so controls are easier to find.

📦 Desktop update

• Installer: ggbro Setup 2.8.98.exe.

🎵 Spotify plugin + clearer plugin controls

• New ui.openUrl host API — plugins can open https:// or spotify: links via the OS.
• New official Spotify sample: Open Spotify app / Web buttons under Settings → Plugins.
• Plugin control panels are highlighted so buttons are easier to find.

📦 Desktop update

• Installer: ggbro Setup 2.8.97.exe.

🧩 Client-only plugin expansion

• New permissions: local storage, sounds, host-rendered Settings panels, display-only message decorate, and allowlisted HTTPS fetch (host-proxied; iframe CSP stays locked).
• Plugins still cannot see tokens, Electron APIs, or mutate server state.
• New sample pack: Client Lab on the plugin docs examples page.

📦 Desktop update

• Installer: ggbro Setup 2.8.96.exe.

🏅 Badge bot eligibility

• Per-badge option Bots can receive this badge controls whether bot accounts may get the badge (auto or manual) — not whether bots can issue grants.
• Unchecked (default): humans only. A Plus campaign will not award bots even if they have GGBRO Plus.

📦 Desktop update

• Installer: ggbro Setup 2.8.95.exe.

🏅 Limited-time auto badge campaigns

• Set an auto-grant until date on a badge so only people who qualify before then get it automatically — they keep it forever after.
• Close auto-grant snapshots everyone who currently matches and stops new automatic awards immediately.
• Per-badge toggles: staff can grant manually, and whether bots can receive the badge.

📦 Desktop update

• Installer: ggbro Setup 2.8.94.exe.

🏅 Badges in DMs & groups

• User badges now appear on DM and group message authors.
• Also shown next to the DM conversation name in the header and in the DM sidebar list.
• Group member lists (manage modal) include badges too.

📦 Desktop update

• Installer: ggbro Setup 2.8.93.exe.

🎨 Brand icon stuck on auto-update

• Splash, tray, and window icons now load from the updated app package (not the stale install-folder copies left behind by asar-only updates).
• Also refreshes resources/icon.png / icon.ico when writable.
• If a pinned taskbar shortcut still shows the old cyan/green GG, run ggbro Setup 2.8.92.exe once (or unpin + re-pin after update).

📦 Desktop update

• Installer: ggbro Setup 2.8.92.exe.

🏅 Discord-style user badges

• New badge system with icon upload, hover tooltips, and manual grant/revoke.
• Auto-rules for bots (built-in Slash Commands badge), GGBRO Plus, and staff — plus optional expiry on grants.
• Badges show beside the Plus checkmark on profiles, messages, and the member list.

📦 Desktop update

• Installer: ggbro Setup 2.8.91.exe.

🔔 Taskbar badge only for real alerts

• Taskbar overlay now matches the red sidebar badges: DMs + group DMs + @mentions only.
• No longer counts every channel with a gray unread dot (that was showing a fake 9+).

📦 Desktop update

• Installer: ggbro Setup 2.8.90.exe.

🧩 Plugin install dialog fixed (Windows)

• Install now asks Plugin File vs Plugin Folder — Windows cannot filter .ggbro-plugin packs in a combined file+folder picker.
• File picker filters .ggbro-plugin, .zip, and .plugin; zip packs are also detected by file magic.

📦 Desktop update

• Installer: ggbro Setup 2.8.89.exe.

🔔 Taskbar unread badge

• Windows taskbar now shows a red unread count overlay (e.g. 3 or 9+) for DMs + channel messages.
• Muted servers are excluded. Window title also shows (N) ggbro.

🔗 Footer links

• Homepage & shared footers include Client Plugins, Developer Portal, API Reference, Python SDK, Webhook Builder, and Android App.

📦 Desktop update

• Installer: ggbro Setup 2.8.88.exe.

🎁 Free official plugin packs

• Downloadable .ggbro-plugin examples: Hello Sample, Pomodoro Focus, Theme Pulse, Session Coach, Startup Greeting.
• Browse & download from /developers/plugins#examples — install in Settings → Plugins.
• Settings Plugins tab links to Free examples.

📦 Desktop update

• Installer: ggbro Setup 2.8.87.exe.

🧩 Safe desktop plugin system

• Install local sandboxed plugins from User Settings → Plugins (folder, .zip, or .ggbro-plugin).
• Plugins run in an iframe sandbox with a narrow host API (toast, navigate, theme/app info) — no token, Electron, or filesystem access.
• Hardened install path (dialog-only), CSS allowlist, zip bomb/slip guards, rate limits, and 50 installed / 25 enabled caps.
• Docs + sample pack: /developers/plugins.

📦 Desktop update

• Installer: ggbro Setup 2.8.86.exe.

🎨 Desktop taskbar / tray icon forced to new logo

• Window, splash, tray, and installer now load the new GG BRO icon explicitly (not only the cached .exe resource).
• Installer: ggbro Setup 2.8.85.exe — update, then unpin/re-pin the taskbar shortcut if Windows still shows the old blue/green icon.

📱 Android login crash fixed (APK 1.0.2)

• Post-sign-in crash was caused by Capacitor Push/FCM registering without Firebase google-services.json.
• Push plugin removed from the shell until FCM is configured; mobile web hardened for Android WebView.
• Reinstall/update the APK from the homepage download.

🎨 New GG BRO logo everywhere

• Website favicon, desktop app icon/installer, and Android APK launcher icon updated to the new white/blue GG BRO mark.

📦 Desktop update

• Installer: ggbro Setup 2.8.84.exe.

📱 Dedicated mobile web + Android APK

• New Capacitor Android shell (live.ggbro.app) loads the full mobile web UI at /m — same features as desktop web.
• Homepage Download for Android (.apk) is live via /download/android.
• Android downloads use the Capacitor /m APK via /download/android (ggbro.apk).
• Push notification hooks register FCM tokens when Firebase google-services.json is configured.

✏️ Playlist rename works again

• Edit → rename field no longer resets while songs load (you can type freely).
• Explicit Save button next to the name (also Enter / Done).

📦 Desktop update

• Installer: ggbro Setup 2.8.83.exe.

🎮 Cash Climb Continue crash

• Missing GameMonetize materials (House 2&3.lmat, etc.) returned 404 and left undefined Laya nodes — Continue then crashed with reading 'destroyed'.
• Proxy stubs missing .lmat files, patches Laya destroy, and soft-reloads instead of the Chinese error alert.

🟢 Online stays Online while you're active

• Idle 0 (mouse moving) was treated as “no reading,” so Away could fire while you were using the app (especially in streams/games webviews).
• Desktop now counts input across all Electron windows/webviews; Away only after ~10 minutes with no activity.
• Any input while auto-Away immediately returns you to Online.

📦 Desktop update

• Installer: ggbro Setup 2.8.82.exe.

⭐ Stream favorites

• Add any streamer to Favorites (star on the list or Add to Favorite next to Watch).
• New Favorites tab shows saved handles for the selected platform with LIVE/OFFLINE status and Watch.

📦 Desktop update

• Installer: ggbro Setup 2.8.81.exe.

🎮 Spaced asset filenames

• Proxy was returning 400 for paths with spaces (Player 1-Running.lani, Money 30.lmat), freezing Cash Climb Rush after audio started.

📦 Desktop update

• Installer: ggbro Setup 2.8.80.exe.

🎮 Mini Games asset proxy

• Fixed blank games after the embed proxy: HTML was on ggbro.app while assets stayed on GameMonetize (404 / CORS / ServiceWorker errors).
• Now proxies the full game tree (Laya scenes, Unity .data/.wasm, etc.) on the same origin.

📦 Desktop update

• Installer: ggbro Setup 2.8.79.exe.

🎮 Blank purple games (Laya not defined)

• When ads are blocked, GameMonetize never fired SDK_READY, so StartGame()/Laya never loaded.
• Games now load through an embed proxy that boots the engine even if ads fail.

📦 Desktop update

• Installer: ggbro Setup 2.8.78.exe.

🟢 Status flipping to Away

• Auto-away now requires both in-app and OS idle (was using the higher idle, so a stuck OS timer forced Away after ~30s).
• Manual Online/Away/DND sticks across reconnect echoes for 2 minutes.
• Disconnect no longer wipes your Online pick before reconnect can re-assert it.

📦 Desktop update

• Installer: ggbro Setup 2.8.77.exe.

🎮 Broken GameMonetize URLs

• Fixed play URLs corrupted to html5.gamemonetize.commm (bad .co→.com replace matched inside .com).
• Repaired catalog entries including Cash Climb Rush.

📦 Desktop update

• Installer: ggbro Setup 2.8.76.exe.

🎨 New GGBRO logo everywhere

• Replaced website favicon, PWA icons, OG thumbnail, desktop icon.ico, in-app logo, and Android launcher icons with the new brand mark.
• Opaque (black) logo for icons / social; transparent logo for site nav and in-app chrome.

📦 Desktop update

• Installer: ggbro Setup 2.8.75.exe.

🎮 GameMonetize CSP (apex)

• Allowed https://gamemonetize.com in CSP (wildcard *.gamemonetize.com does not cover the apex host).
• Normalize play URLs to html5.gamemonetize.com embeds when possible.

📦 Desktop update

• Installer: ggbro Setup 2.8.74.exe.

🟢 Status flicker

• Fixed Online flipping to Away then back Online within seconds after picking a status (stale idle tick race).
• Manual status changes suppress auto-away briefly; reconnect re-asserts your chosen status.

📦 Desktop update

• Installer: ggbro Setup 2.8.73.exe.

🔊 Mini-bar volume popover

• Collapsed playlist volume button now opens a real slider popover (was clipped by overflow:hidden).

📦 Desktop update

• Installer: ggbro Setup 2.8.72.exe.

🎮 Games CSP unblock

• Allowed GameMonetize / DooDoo embeds in CSP frame-src (fixes “This content is blocked”).
• Mini Games volume no longer sticks at 0% after a muted session.

📦 Desktop update

• Installer: ggbro Setup 2.8.71.exe.

📰 News via Google RSS

• News app now uses Google News RSS (no API key) plus publisher feeds: BBC, Reuters, The Guardian, CNN.
• Categories include World, Technology, Gaming, AI, Business, Sports, and per-publisher chips.
• Removed Bing key warning / Microsoft API dependency.

📦 Desktop update

• Installer: ggbro Setup 2.8.70.exe.

🎮 Runner / hypercasual controls

• Fixed keyboard/arrows not registering on nested GameMonetize runners (focus no longer stolen onto shell body).
• Stopped aggressive ad CSS from hiding high-z game input overlays.
• Game volume slider now drives WebAudio gain properly (not mute-only).

🔊 Playlist mini-bar volume

• Collapsed playlist: tap the speaker to open a volume slider (not mute-only).
• Larger prev / play / next icons; volume applies more reliably to YouTube.

📦 Desktop update

• Installer: ggbro Setup 2.8.69.exe.

🎵 Collapsed player controls

• Mini bar now has mute, previous, play/pause, and next (SVG icons — no emoji).
• Larger sound icon on both collapsed and full player.

📦 Desktop update

• Installer: ggbro Setup 2.8.68.exe.

🎵 Playlist Edit titles

• Drag-reorder no longer wipes resolved song names back to video IDs.

📰 News app

• New News tile in Apps — search + category headlines.
• Uses Microsoft Bing News Search when BING_NEWS_API_KEY (or MICROSOFT_NEWS_API_KEY) is set; otherwise Google News fallback.

📦 Desktop update

• Installer: ggbro Setup 2.8.67.exe.

🎵 Titles after #25

• Fixed junk titles like [![Image 480: true — songs after ~25 now resolve real YouTube names.

✏️ Edit ordering & links

• Drag songs in Edit to reorder (saved for everyone with the playlist).
• Link icon copies the full YouTube URL for each song.

📦 Desktop update

• Installer: ggbro Setup 2.8.66.exe.

🔗 Playlist preview clicks

• Clicking a playlist link preview card now opens it in ggbro (same as clicking the URL), instead of the browser.

📦 Desktop update

• Installer: ggbro Setup 2.8.65.exe.

🎬 Video fill

• Video preview stays true 16:9 and the embed cover-fits so it fills exactly — no side black bars.

📦 Desktop update

• Installer: ggbro Setup 2.8.64.exe.

🎵 Song titles

• Resolves YouTube song names for the whole queue (not only the currently playing video).

📦 Desktop update

• Installer: ggbro Setup 2.8.63.exe.

📋 Full edit list + taller queues

• Edit now copies the current player queue immediately (so you see all songs, not just 1 saved track).
• Player & Edit song lists are taller; video shrinks slightly when the list is open.
• Stronger video cover fill to reduce side letterboxing.

📦 Desktop update

• Installer: ggbro Setup 2.8.62.exe.

✏️ Edit song list

• Edit tab now shows the full song list in a dedicated scroll area (merged from the player queue when it has more tracks).
• Opening Edit syncs missing player tracks into the saved playlist so Remove works on every song.

📦 Desktop update

• Installer: ggbro Setup 2.8.61.exe.

🎬 Video embed

• Fixed left-aligned video with black bar on the right — embed now fills the preview.

✏️ Edit songs

• Edit tab loads the full song list with Remove on each track (rename + add still available).

📦 Desktop update

• Installer: ggbro Setup 2.8.60.exe.

🎬 Video preview

• Fixed black/cropped strip on the right of the video preview (full-bleed + cover fill).

🔁 No more duplicate songs

• Re-opening / re-importing the same YouTube playlist reuses your existing one instead of stacking songs again.

✏️ Edit, copy & queue

• Edit owned playlists: rename, add/remove songs — everyone who has the playlist sees updates.
• Copy playlist to keep an independent personal copy.
• Player list × removes from the current queue only (does not change the saved playlist).

📥 Smarter import

• Imports the real YouTube playlist name.
• Shows Importing… with a progress bar and song titles while importing.

📦 Desktop update

• Installer: ggbro Setup 2.8.59.exe.

🎬 Video corners & mini player

• Clipped video preview sides so panel background no longer peeks through the corners.
• Collapsed playlist bar is blue-highlighted (accent border, tint, expand button).

📦 Desktop update

• Installer: ggbro Setup 2.8.58.exe.

🎵 MP3 / Video preview

• Fixed broken/tiny preview when switching between MP3 and Video — player iframe now resizes with the panel.

📦 Desktop update

• Installer: ggbro Setup 2.8.57.exe.

🎵 YouTube Playlist collapse

• Added a hide/show button (angles) next to Close — collapses to a compact bar while audio keeps playing.

📦 Desktop update

• Installer: ggbro Setup 2.8.56.exe.

💬 DM & group highlights

• @mentions and replies to you are now highlighted in yellow in DMs and group chats (same style as server channels).

📦 Desktop update

• Installer: ggbro Setup 2.8.55.exe.

🎵 YouTube Playlist time & volume

• Fixed seek clock stuck at 0:00 / --:-- while audio plays (Electron API bridge + local clock fallback + YouTube infoDelivery listener).
• Volume / mute now apply via player API and iframe postMessage, and re-assert after track changes.
• Play/pause button tracks real playback state more reliably.

📦 Desktop update

• Installer: ggbro Setup 2.8.54.exe.

🎤 Meeting / Stage layout

• Speakers sit in a large grid on top; audience is a compact strip along the bottom.

💬 Reply highlights

• When someone replies to your message in a server channel or group chat, the reply is highlighted in yellow (same style as @mentions). DMs unchanged.

📦 Desktop update

• Installer: ggbro Setup 2.8.53.exe.

🎵 YouTube Playlist player

• Fixed Failed to load YouTube player API on the web app — CSP now allows YouTube scripts (and deploy keeps CSP in sync).
• Seek time / duration now update from the player; duration shows --:-- until ready.
• Added mute + volume slider (saved in playlist prefs).
• Audio mode overlay no longer overlaps YouTube chrome with the title.

📦 Desktop update

• Installer: ggbro Setup 2.8.52.exe.

🔊 Stereo voice & calls

• Voice channels and calls now use stereo Opus (capture + encode) instead of forced mono.
• LiveKit mic publish uses stereo encoding; mesh/P2P SDP matches.

📦 Desktop update

• Installer: ggbro Setup 2.8.51.exe.

🎵 YouTube Playlist player API

• Fixed Failed to load YouTube player API — CSP now allows YouTube’s player scripts in the desktop app.
• Library: trash button to remove a playlist from your library.

📦 Desktop update

• Installer: ggbro Setup 2.8.50.exe.

👑 Verified server crown

• Replaced the crown emoji on verified servers with a real Font Awesome crown icon (invites + invite page).

🆔 Copy User ID

• Copy User ID now always copies the user’s UUID — not @username / display name.

📦 Desktop update

• Installer: ggbro Setup 2.8.49.exe.

🎵 YouTube Playlist (desktop)

• Fixed popup not appearing on desktop (off-screen position rescue + higher z-index).
• Fixed MP3 mode playback — hidden iframe no longer kills audio in Electron.
• Better Mix / RD import: scrape mix tracks when possible, stronger player sync + play fallback.

💬 Mention highlights

• When someone @mentions you, a role you have, @everyone, or @here — the mention is highlighted in yellow and the message gets a yellow accent bar.

📦 Desktop update

• Installer: ggbro Setup 2.8.48.exe.

🔴 Status sticks (DND / Away / Invisible)

• Manual Do Not Disturb, Away, and Invisible no longer flip back to Online after a socket reconnect or when switching servers / DMs.
• Your preferred status is remembered while you briefly disconnect; others still see you offline until you reconnect.

📦 Desktop update

• Installer: ggbro Setup 2.8.47.exe.

🎵 YouTube Playlist controls

• Replaced broken unicode prev/play/next glyphs with proper Font Awesome icons.

📦 Desktop update

• Installer: ggbro Setup 2.8.46.exe.

🏷 Server nicknames everywhere

• Text channel message authors, replies, mentions, and reaction lists now use the server nickname (same as the member list).
• Voice channel sidebar + voice room tiles also show server nicknames.

🎵 YouTube Playlist checkup

• Fixed Mix / Radio (RD…) imports — seeds from the video in the URL and fills the track list from the live player.
• Track list sync persists to your library; Share works on saved playlists.
• Clearer Mix empty-state while tracks load.

📦 Desktop update

• Installer: ggbro Setup 2.8.45.exe.

🎮 Mini Games — keyboard, fullscreen, minimize, ads, sound

• Keyboard / arrow keys: game webview is focused properly and menu shortcuts are ignored while playing (click the game once if needed).
• Fullscreen and Minimize — minimize keeps the game loaded in the background so you can use GGBRO, then Restore.
• In-app ad blocking for GameMonetize/DooDoo embeds (network filter + injected hide script).
• Mute / volume slider for the whole game window.

📦 Desktop update

• Installer: ggbro Setup 2.8.44.exe.

🌐 Translate Message

• Right-click any message → Translate Message (channels, DMs, groups).
• Opens Translator with auto language detection → English by default; switch to any language.
• Expanded language list (100+) with searchable pickers.

🎵 YouTube Playlist floating player

• Movable popup (no modal backdrop) so you can keep chatting while it plays.
• MP3 (audio) mode by default or Video mode; expandable track list; prev/next/seek.
• Create custom playlists from video URLs, import YouTube playlists, save to library.
• Share via code/link: https://ggbro.app/playlist/CODE / ggbro://playlist/CODE — opens the app and adds to library.

📦 Desktop update

• Installer: ggbro Setup 2.8.43.exe.

🎮 Mini Games — DooDoo.Love

• Mini Games is live in Apps (no longer Coming Soon).
• Catalog powered by DooDoo.Love + GameMonetize HTML5 feeds — search, categories, featured / newest / A–Z sort.
• Play in-app (Electron webview / browser iframe), favorites, recent history, and DooDoo attribution kept visible.
• Backend /api/minigames syncs catalog, resolves play embeds on demand, and supports paging search.

📦 Ship

• Installer: ggbro Setup 2.8.42.exe.

💬 Twitch chat stuck on “Waiting…”

• Fixed IRC handshake (CRLF) so live messages actually arrive.
• Loads recent chat history immediately and polls when anonymous IRC is blocked for a channel.
• Optional Twitch web chat view if needed.

📦 Desktop update

• Installer: ggbro Setup 2.8.41.exe.

🧩 New Apps: Translator + YouTube Playlist

• Translator — translate text between 30 languages (Apps launcher).
• YouTube Playlist — paste a playlist URL/ID and play it inside GGBRO; recent playlists saved locally.

📦 Desktop update

• Installer: ggbro Setup 2.8.40.exe.

💬 Twitch chat messages fix

• Replaced Twitch web embed/popout chat (UI loaded but messages stayed empty in Electron) with a native IRC view-only chat panel.
• Live messages stream again; optional “Open on Twitch” link remains for full popout chat.

📦 Desktop update

• Installer: ggbro Setup 2.8.39.exe.

▶ YouTube resize no longer reloads

• Resizing the YouTube Live Streams player no longer remounts/reloads the stream.

📦 Desktop update

• Installer: ggbro Setup 2.8.38.exe.

▶ YouTube player resize fix

• Fixed YouTube Live Streams player cropping / inaccurate resize (16:9 lock, proper media fill, desktop webview path).

📦 Desktop update

• Installer: ggbro Setup 2.8.37.exe.

▶ YouTube Watch button fix

• Fixed Live Streams Watch button doing nothing when YouTube was selected (it was disabled until an embed URL existed, but YouTube resolves that after open).

📦 Desktop update

• Installer: ggbro Setup 2.8.36.exe.

📨 Invite friends search

• Server invite popup now includes a search bar to find friends quickly.
• Invite / Sent actions for each friend, plus copy invite link at the bottom.

📦 Desktop update

• Installer: ggbro Setup 2.8.35.exe.

🧩 Apps launcher refresh

• Apps popup is now larger, centered, and draggable.
• Renamed Streamers to Live Streams with a live-indicator icon.
• Coming soon tiles: Analytics, Mini Games, Translator, Reels, Music, Youtube PlayList, Google Earth.

📦 Desktop update

• Installer: ggbro Setup 2.8.34.exe.

💬 Twitch chat messages fix

• Fixed empty Twitch chat panel on desktop by loading Twitch popout chat in a proper guest view (embed parent checks fail on file://).
• Enabled Twitch dark chat theme so messages stay readable.

📦 Desktop update

• Installer: ggbro Setup 2.8.33.exe.

▶ YouTube live as real video embed

• YouTube streams now use the proper video embed (not the full YouTube website).
• YouTube live chat is enabled as a view-only side panel.

🎵 TikTok hidden by default

• TikTok is disabled/hidden by default in Streamers.
• Users can enable/disable TikTok from Account Settings → Streamer, or from the Streamers app toggle.

📦 Desktop update

• Installer: ggbro Setup 2.8.32.exe.

📺 Twitch embed parent fix

• Fixed Twitch “embed is misconfigured” by sending hostname-only parent values (ggbro.app, localhost, …) instead of a full origin URL.

📦 Desktop update

• Installer: ggbro Setup 2.8.31.exe.

🪟 Streamer Popout window

• Replaced Snap with Popout — opens the live player in a separate window outside GGBRO.
• Closing that window (or pressing Dock) puts the player back into GGBRO.

📦 Desktop update

• Installer: ggbro Setup 2.8.30.exe.

🔊 Live sound slider (no reload)

• Sound control is now a free 0–100 slider (same style as Opacity), default 50.
• Changing volume no longer rebuilds/reloads the live embed URL.
• Desktop applies volume directly to the player media element so Kick/Twitch sound actually responds.

📦 Desktop update

• Installer: ggbro Setup 2.8.29.exe.

💬 Kick chat actually works

• Kick blocks iframe embeds (X-Frame-Options), which caused the JSON {"message":""} chat panel.
• Kick chat is now a native view-only live feed (Pusher), with recent history + pop-out link.

📦 Desktop update

• Installer: ggbro Setup 2.8.28.exe.

🔊 Streamer popup sound dropdown

• Replaced volume slider with a discrete sound dropdown: 0 / 25 / 50 / 75 / 100 (default 50).

💬 Twitch chat rendering fix

• Adjusted Twitch chat iframe sandbox so the embedded view-only chat loads correctly.

📦 Desktop update

• Installer: ggbro Setup 2.8.27.exe.

🩹 Streamer popup crash fix

• Fixed a runtime crash in Streamers popup when quality was briefly undefined during embed URL rebuild.
• Quality handling now safely normalizes fallback values across Kick/Twitch/YouTube builders.

📦 Desktop update

• Installer: ggbro Setup 2.8.26.exe.

🔊 Stream volume slider

• Replaced simple sound toggle with slider-based volume control (0-100), similar to opacity control behavior.

🎚 Available quality list

• Quality dropdown now loads available qualities dynamically from backend (Kick uses stream playlist variants when available).

📦 Desktop update

• Installer: ggbro Setup 2.8.25.exe.

💬 Kick chat enabled

• Kick stream popup chat is no longer disabled/greyed out — chat panel can now be expanded for Kick channels (view-only behavior depends on platform login/session).

📦 Desktop update

• Installer: ggbro Setup 2.8.24.exe.

🔎 Kick-like search results

• All Platform search for Kick now returns similar-name channel results (not exact-handle only), closer to native Kick search behavior.

🧭 Search action UX

• Added magnifier search button and Enter-to-search behavior for streamer search input.

📦 Desktop update

• Installer: ggbro Setup 2.8.23.exe.

🎛 Stream popup controls

• Added best-effort playback controls: quality selector + mute/sound toggle.
• Added expandable view-only chat for Twitch (read-only, no typing).

📦 Desktop update

• Installer: ggbro Setup 2.8.22.exe.

🧱 Stream embed CSP fix

• Updated Content Security Policy frame-src allowlist for Kick/Twitch/TikTok embed domains on desktop + web app.
• Resolves blocked iframe errors that caused black or blocked stream frames.

📦 Desktop update

• Installer: ggbro Setup 2.8.21.exe.

⚡ Stream popup performance

• Drag/resize now uses animation-frame updates with GPU transforms for smoother movement and lower lag.
• Iframe pointer events are paused during drag/resize to reduce stutter while moving the watcher.

📺 Kick black-screen compatibility

• Kick watcher iframe now uses platform-specific sandbox handling to avoid black-screen playback on embedded channels.

📦 Desktop update

• Installer: ggbro Setup 2.8.20.exe.

📺 Kick playback fix

• Kick watch popup now uses the embeddable player URL and updated iframe permissions to prevent black-screen playback.

🟢 Live status accuracy

• Kick live detection now checks official Kick JSON endpoints first, then falls back to HTML markers, reducing false UNKNOWN states.

📦 Desktop update

• Installer: ggbro Setup 2.8.19.exe.

🔎 Actual platform handle watching

• Typing a handle now supports real platform-level watch results (e.g. Kick/Twitch/YouTube/TikTok) instead of only GGBRO directory matches.

🧭 Streamers UI layout and defaults

• Improved desktop/web picker layout to avoid text overlap with wider, cleaner rows and clearer source labels.
• Default behavior is live-first for GGBRO streamers, with fallback to listed streamer profiles when no live entries are found.

📦 Desktop update

• Installer: ggbro Setup 2.8.18.exe.

📺 Streamers discovery + UI polish

• Fixed platform-wide search flow so All Platform can resolve and watch any typed live handle.
• Refined Streamers UI structure and source modes for clearer browsing between Friends, GGBRO Streamers, and All Platform.

📦 Desktop update

• Installer: ggbro Setup 2.8.17.exe.

📺 Live streamer popup polish

• Stream watching now stays as a standalone draggable popup so users can continue browsing GGBRO normally.
• Added popup resize grip, corner snap toggle, and opacity control for better multitasking.

📌 Desktop-only always-on-top

• New Pin toggle in the watcher popup uses Electron always-on-top controls for focused viewing.

📦 Desktop update

• Installer: ggbro Setup 2.8.16.exe.

📺 Streamers app polish

• Added a Following quick section, Only live filter, and better streamer watch flow with draggable popup controls.
• Schedule and clips are now fully functional with create/delete support for your own streamer profile.

🔔 Live notifications + follows

• Follow streamers and toggle live alerts; followers get in-app notifications when a streamer goes live (best-effort live detection + cache).

📦 Desktop update

• Installer: ggbro Setup 2.8.15.exe.

✦ Gemini thinking state

• After you send, the assistant shows a greyed Thinking… until the first tokens arrive, then switches to live writing.

📦 Desktop update

• Installer: ggbro Setup 2.8.14.exe.

✦ Gemini cut-off replies

• Answers no longer stop mid-sentence — the final full text is always applied when the stream completes.
• Live updates use cumulative snapshots (socket + SSE) so missed chunks can’t leave a truncated bubble.

📦 Desktop update

• Installer: ggbro Setup 2.8.13.exe.

✦ Gemini typing only while answering

• Live typewriter runs only for the reply being generated — opening a past chat shows history instantly (no replay).

📦 Desktop update

• Installer: ggbro Setup 2.8.12.exe.

✦ Gemini truly live typing

• Tokens push over Socket.IO (same realtime path as chat) so answers write live instead of dumping at the end.
• Typewriter keeps going after the network finishes — no more instant full-text snap.
• Google upstream read uses native HTTPS streaming instead of a buffered fetch.

📦 Desktop update

• Installer: ggbro Setup 2.8.11.exe.

🖥 Screen share picker

• Windows tab no longer snaps back to Screens while the call UI re-renders.
• Source list is full-bleed in the left panel (no empty gutter beside thumbnails).

📦 Desktop update

• Installer: ggbro Setup 2.8.10.exe.

✦ Gemini live typing

• Answers stream token-by-token as they’re written — no waiting for the full reply to appear.
• AI chat SSE goes through the direct host (same path as uploads) so Cloudflare can’t buffer the stream.
• Cursor blink while writing; snappy typewriter catch-up when a model sends larger chunks.

📦 Desktop update

• Installer: ggbro Setup 2.8.9.exe.

✦ Gemini limits, copy & retry

• Google API rate limits no longer pretend to be GGBRO’s daily message cap (that was why raising the daily limit didn’t help).
• GGBRO daily usage only counts successful replies; panel shows used/limit.
• Copy under your own messages too; Retry re-sends the turn with the currently selected model.

📦 Desktop update

• Installer: ggbro Setup 2.8.8.exe.

✦ Gemini polish

• Copy sits under each assistant reply (linked to that bubble) with a Copied! state.
• Uploading an image/GIF auto-switches to an enabled vision-capable model when the current one isn’t; otherwise the selected model stays.

📦 Desktop update

• Installer: ggbro Setup 2.8.7.exe.

✦ Gemini streaming & copy

• Answers stream without freezing the rest of the app; markdown highlighting waits until the reply finishes.
• Click outside the panel to keep using GGBRO while Gemini runs.
• Copy on messages / code / image links shows a clear Copied! confirmation.

🎙 Voice level & noise suppression

• Mic output limiter + lower makeup gain to stop long calls from drifting louder.
• AudioContext watchdog keeps RNNoise alive if the context suspends mid-call.
• Remote playback no longer stacks WebAudio sources on track renegotiation.

📦 Desktop update

• Installer: ggbro Setup 2.8.6.exe.

🖥 Screen share FPS on voice SFU

• Remote viewers of a screen share now receive the sharer’s selected framerate (e.g. 1080p @ 30) instead of LiveKit’s default 15 fps cap.
• SFU publish uses GGBRO’s bitrate/FPS profile; watcher overlay should read ~30 when sharing at 30.

📦 Desktop update

• Installer: ggbro Setup 2.8.5.exe.

▦ Apps launcher

• Server-rail Discover control replaced with a 9-dot Apps button.
• Popup tiles: Discover (unchanged Server Discovery) and Gemini AI.

✦ Gemini AI (desktop & web)

• Streaming chat with conversation history, rename/delete, model picker, and stop generation.
• Rich replies: markdown, syntax-highlighted code, tables, images with lightbox, file attachments.
• All Google traffic is proxied via /api/v1/ai — keys encrypted server-side; never shipped in the client.
• Optional GGBRO Plus gate, daily limits, and a curated model catalog.

📚 Docs

• Features, FAQ, and Developer API docs cover Apps / Gemini and the user AI REST surface.

📦 Desktop update

• Installer: ggbro Setup 2.8.4.exe.

📦 Desktop update

• Installer: ggbro Setup 2.8.3.exe.

🖼 Media loads over direct TLS

• Avatars, banners, icons, and attachments now load from the DNS-only ws.ggbro.app host when you are on the Cloudflare-proxied site.
• Avoids intermittent ERR_SSL_PROTOCOL_ERROR on images after Cloudflare advertises HTTP/3 (Alt-Svc: h3) — page/API could still work while large GIFs broke.

📦 Desktop update

• Installer: ggbro Setup 2.8.2.exe.

💬 Message group spacing

• Consecutive messages from the same user now sit in a compact group with minimal vertical gaps.
• Avatars no longer stretch the first row in a group (absolute gutter), so follow-up lines align tightly under the first message.
• Applies to server channels, DMs, and group DMs.

📦 Desktop update

• Installer: ggbro Setup 2.8.1.exe.

✍ No more space before ? ! ; :

• Messages no longer keep an accidental space before ?, !, ;, or : (common with some keyboard layouts).

📦 Desktop update

• Installer: ggbro Setup 2.7.225.exe.

🛠 Production builds enforced

• Desktop build / package scripts now always set NODE_ENV=production, so Rollup no longer warns about non-production mode.

📦 Desktop update

• Installer: ggbro Setup 2.7.224.exe.

🔔 Mention toasts show @names

• Notification toasts and the notification center now show @username instead of raw <@uuid> mention tokens.

📦 Desktop update

• Installer: ggbro Setup 2.7.223.exe.

🎛 Other users’ mute/deafen buttons look normal

• Admin mute/deafen icons on someone else’s voice tile are normal until they’re muted/deafened — then they turn red.

📦 Desktop update

• Installer: ggbro Setup 2.7.222.exe.

🔔 Mentions show live in Notification Center

• @user, @role, @everyone / @here, and reply pings now fan out to the tagged person’s notification center immediately — no refresh or restart needed.

📦 Desktop update

• Installer: ggbro Setup 2.7.221.exe.

🎛 Voice tile controls

• Each person in the voice panel now has Mute / Deafen / Disconnect (you) or Mute Soundboard + admin mute/deafen/disconnect (others) on the tile — also via right-click.
• Bottom bar Mute / Deafen turn red when you’re muted or deafened.

📦 Desktop update

• Installer: ggbro Setup 2.7.220.exe.

👥 Members voice controls & Active Now

• Mute Soundboard is on the right Members list when you right-click someone in voice (and on the left voice user menu).
• Members list shows which voice channel someone is in; right-click adds Mute / Deafen / Disconnect (red) plus soundboard mute / admin server mute & deafen.
• Active Now shows you when you’re in voice, and friends in voice with a Join button.

📦 Desktop update

• Installer: ggbro Setup 2.7.219.exe.

🎵 Soundboard glow & mute

• Playing a soundboard now shows a blue glow on that user’s avatar (voice panel + sidebar).
• Right-click a voice user → Mute Soundboard to stop hearing only their boards; you still hear your own and everyone else’s.

📦 Desktop update

• Installer: ggbro Setup 2.7.218.exe.

📎 Large file uploads no longer stuck at 1%

• Chat uploads now go through the direct API host (ws.ggbro.app), bypassing Cloudflare’s ~100 MB body limit that froze big files.
• DM / group upload timeout raised to 10 minutes (same as channels).

📦 Desktop update

• Installer: ggbro Setup 2.7.216.exe.

🖥 Live screen share picker

• Selected source preview is a live capture (not a static screenshot).
• Source list thumbnails fill the cards properly and refresh while the picker is open.

📦 Desktop update

• Installer: ggbro Setup 2.7.215.exe.

🔇 No more hearing yourself in someone’s stream

• System audio exclude now targets the Electron browser process tree (not just the renderer), so voice-channel playback stays out of the share.
• Sharing a single window captures that app’s audio only — call voices cannot leak in.
• You still hear the call normally while sharing.

📦 Desktop update

• Installer: ggbro Setup 2.7.214.exe.

🔊 Screen share audio always publishes

• If you start sharing before the voice SFU finishes connecting, screen video + system audio are queued and published as soon as the room is ready (this was the silent-share bug).
• SFU reconnect / refresh paths always re-ensure screen + screen-audio tracks.
• Viewer playback keeps the remote audio track hot so system/game sound actually comes through.
• Stop watching → watch again resets quality/FPS readout from the live stream (no stale label).

📦 Desktop update

• Installer: ggbro Setup 2.7.213.exe.

🖥 Screen share reliability

• Stop watching → start watching no longer sticks on a frozen frame (LiveKit resubscribe + clear freeze state).
• System audio waits for real WASAPI PCM before publishing (no silent “fake success” tracks).
• Viewer screen-audio AudioContext resumes reliably so friends actually hear the share.
• Default share quality is now 1080p @ 30 fps (you can still raise or lower it).

📦 Desktop update

• Installer: ggbro Setup 2.7.211.exe.

📦 Desktop update

• Build bump of the Discord-style screen share audio stack from 2.7.209.
• Installer: ggbro Setup 2.7.210.exe.

🎧 Discord-style screen share audio

• While sharing, you keep hearing everyone normally — the call is never muted for you.
• System/game audio uses WASAPI exclude-self only (GGBRO / voice-channel playback stays out of the stream).
• No Chromium loopback fallback (that was causing self-echo or muting the call).
• Screen audio no longer ducks when someone speaks.

📦 Desktop update

• Current installer: ggbro Setup 2.7.209.exe.

🔇 No more hearing yourself in screen share

• Screen share audio excludes the voice channel / call mix when echo-free capture is available.
• Chromium fallback uses clean-feed again (call muted for the sharer) so viewers never get voice-channel echo.
• Viewers: screen audio ducks while you speak, so residual bleed can’t play your own voice back.

📦 Desktop update

• Current installer: ggbro Setup 2.7.208.exe.

👀 Screen share viewer chips + chimes

• While you share, hover the tile to see small avatars of who’s watching (bottom-right).
• Soft chime when someone starts or stops watching your stream.
• SFU auto-subscribe now reports watchers to the sharer (so the list/chimes work in LiveKit rooms).

📦 Desktop update

• Current installer: ggbro Setup 2.7.207.exe.

🎧 Hear the call while sharing screen audio

• Sharing with computer audio no longer mutes everyone for the sharer.
• Stronger WASAPI exclude-self / include-app capture so you keep hearing the voice channel.
• If native capture isn’t available, Chromium loopback still shares app sound without silencing the call.

📦 Desktop update

• Current installer: ggbro Setup 2.7.206.exe.

🔊 Friends can hear your screen / app audio again

• Fixed the case where share fell back to video only when echo-free capture was unavailable — friends heard nothing.
• New fallback: still publishes system/app audio (superseded in 2.7.206 so the sharer keeps hearing the call).
• Sharing an application window prefers capturing only that app’s audio when Windows allows it.
• Keep “Share computer audio” on when you share; update desktop to this build before retesting.

📦 Desktop update

• Current installer: ggbro Setup 2.7.205.exe.

✨ Speaking glow on people, not media tiles

• Camera and screen-share tiles no longer light up green while someone talks.
• Glow stays on avatars / member chips / channel voice list when the mic is active.
• Screen-share system audio is excluded from speaking detection so game/music can’t fake a “speaking” ring.

📦 Desktop update

• Installer at release: ggbro Setup 2.7.204.exe (superseded by 2.7.205).

🖥 Screen share audio on LiveKit SFU

• System/game audio publishes to LiveKit as dedicated ScreenShareAudio (music/stereo — not the speech/DTX mic path).
• Retries shortly after share starts so late WASAPI / Web Audio tracks still reach watchers.
• Keeps the process-loopback Web Audio graph alive; screen resize no longer stops the shared audio track.

📦 Desktop update

• Installer at release: ggbro Setup 2.7.203.exe (superseded by 2.7.205).

🐛 Fix mid-call mutual silence (leave loop)

• Root cause: LiveKit client 2.x connects to /rtc/v1, but server 1.9.0 only had /rtc. A bad TLS proxy accepted the socket before upstream, so the SDK never saw the 404 fallback and kept leave/rejoining every ~15s (CLIENT_REQUEST_LEAVE) — local speaking glow still worked (raw mic VAD).
• Upgraded LiveKit server to 1.13.4 (native /rtc/v1).
• TLS proxy rewritten: only upgrades the client after upstream accepts, and forwards real HTTP status codes (needed for fallback).
• Fixed node_ip / STUN probe config; safe one-shot rejoin if the room stays fully disconnected in-call.

📦 Desktop update

• Current installer: ggbro Setup 2.7.202.exe.
• Web: hard-refresh. Desktop: update to 2.7.202. Then leave voice and rejoin once.

🔊 Slightly louder mics

• Gentle post-processing makeup gain (~+3 dB) after noise suppression / EQ.
• Does not change RNNoise or classic NC — only lifts the cleaned signal.

📦 Desktop update

• Current installer: ggbro Setup 2.7.201.exe.

🐛 Stop SFU leave/rejoin thrash (signal path)

• TLS proxy: disable idle timeouts + TCP keepalive (was killing LiveKit signal ~15s).
• Client: stop custom SFU reconnect — LiveKit SDK owns recovery only.
• Stronger LiveKit reconnect policy; don’t re-connect on every voice:sfu-auth.

📦 Desktop update

• Current installer: ggbro Setup 2.7.200.exe.

🐛 Kill 15s LiveKit leave loop

• Raised LiveKit peerConnectionTimeout/websocketTimeout from 15s → 60s (matched the disconnect cadence).
• Hard rule: never room.connect() unless fully disconnected (stops CLIENT_REQUEST_LEAVE thrash).
• Connect only with join’s long-lived token (not short preauth); disable dynacast/adaptiveStream for voice.

📦 Desktop update

• Current installer: ggbro Setup 2.7.199.exe.

🐛 Fix voice dying after a few seconds

• Stopped client force-disconnect/reconnect loop (CLIENT_REQUEST_LEAVE) that killed LiveKit mid-call.
• Stopped mic republish churn from track-id mismatch on the health tick.
• Fixed LiveKit STUN config that logged “too many colons”.

📦 Desktop update

• Current installer: ggbro Setup 2.7.198.exe.

🐛 Fix mid-call silence after a while

• SFU watchdog reconnects LiveKit when media drops but users stay in the voice channel.
• Repairs dead local publish / remote track bindings while Connected.
• LiveKit room timeouts relaxed (empty_timeout / departure_timeout).

📦 Desktop update

• Current installer: ggbro Setup 2.7.197.exe.

🐛 Fix leave → rejoin mutual silence

• Re-bind LiveKit mic tracks when a user rejoins (socketId changes / same-identity replace).
• Don’t wipe fresh audio when an old LiveKit session disconnects after rejoin.
• Await SFU teardown before reconnecting; refresh mic + remotes on every activate.

📦 Desktop update

• Current installer: ggbro Setup 2.7.196.exe.

🐛 Fix random voice disconnects (2.7.194 regression)

• Removed aggressive “Voice server unavailable” abort that kicked users ~0.5s into join.
• Never force-disconnect LiveKit while it is reconnecting (that caused mid-call silence).
• Keep SFU token across soft reconnect; treat Connecting/Reconnecting as still-up.

📦 Desktop update

• Current installer: ggbro Setup 2.7.195.exe.

🚀 Discord-style LiveKit hardening

• When SFU topology is on: no mesh fallback — retry LiveKit, then “Voice server unavailable”.
• Persistent LiveKit Room + ensure/replaceTrack (no mid-sentence unpublish churn).
• Prefetch voice tokens (voice:sfu-preauth) for snappier joins; parallel connect with roster join.
• Opus speech preset + DTX/RED; join timing via window.__GGBRO_VOICE__.lastJoin().

📦 Desktop update

• Current installer: ggbro Setup 2.7.194.exe.

🔧 No more mid-sentence mic cuts + faster join

• Stopped unpublish/republish spam on reconnect/auth events — that was clipping speech mid-sentence.
• Mic publish is now idempotent (same track = no tear-down; device change uses in-place replace).
• Faster SFU join (removed artificial settle delay; shorter publish retries only when needed).
• SFU “active” is live ConnectionState — reconnect after blips works correctly again.

📦 Desktop update

• Current installer: ggbro Setup 2.7.193.exe.

🔧 Voice room tunnel stability

• Fixed a critical bug where joining SFU immediately tore the session down — causing random one-way / no audio.
• Room-centric LiveKit tunnel: one connection per voice channel, idempotent rejoin, no mesh while SFU owns the room.
• Mic publish retries on join so late mic settle no longer leaves friends unable to hear you.

📦 Desktop update

• Current installer: ggbro Setup 2.7.192.exe.

🐛 Speaking glow stuck-on fix

• Glow no longer stays on forever after talking (hold only refreshes above open threshold).
• Raised raw-mic / remote energy floors so room noise cannot pin the ring open.

📦 Desktop update

• Current installer: ggbro Setup 2.7.191.exe.

✨ Speaking glow: lower latency + normal talk

• Local glow meters raw mic (before RNNoise) so normal speech is detected again.
• Faster VAD envelope (rAF + fast attack) — typically ~20–60ms to light.
• Friends’ glow tracks the audio you hear (not LiveKit speaker list lag).
• Input Sensitivity: higher = easier glow; default 55. Does not mute the mic.

📦 Desktop update

• Current installer: ggbro Setup 2.7.190.exe.

✨ Speaking glow sync polish

• Your own glow uses local VAD again (instant) — no waiting on SFU round-trip.
• Friends’ glows use LiveKit active-speakers with a short speak-off hold to stop flicker.
• Does not change mute / audio routing from 2.7.188.

📦 Desktop update

• Current installer: ggbro Setup 2.7.189.exe.

🛠 Voice SFU reliability — mute, speaking, screen echo

• Mute actually silences audio: remote playback now respects muted / server-muted / deafened (was UI-only before).
• Speaking glow: LiveKit active-speakers is the single source of truth on SFU; no more fighting VAD / wrong glows; muted users never glow.
• Audio dropouts: SFU no longer dual-runs mesh peers/health thrash; screen-share audio is kept off the mic stream.
• Screen share echo: system audio only publishes via WASAPI exclude-self; if that fails we share video only (no Chromium loopback that re-captures call audio).

📦 Desktop update

• Current installer: ggbro Setup 2.7.188.exe.

🚀 LiveKit SFU — scalable voice channels & calls

• Voice media now routes through a self-hosted LiveKit SFU (not full-mesh). Large rooms stay stable and fast.
• Socket.IO still handles presence, mute, speaking UI; LiveKit carries mic / camera / screen audio-video.
• Automatic mesh fallback if the SFU is unreachable.
• Audio settings reset for everyone to SFU-optimal defaults: AI noise cancel ON, classic cleanup OFF (prevents tick stacking).

📦 Desktop update

• Current installer: ggbro Setup 2.7.187.exe.

🔊 Desktop voice tick perfection

• RNNoise keeps a permanent output headroom (never drains the prebuffer) — fixes the Electron-only mid-speech ticks from ScriptProcessor underruns.
• Desktop uses a larger ScriptProcessor buffer (4096) so main-thread jank is less likely to crackle; hold-last-sample on shortfall instead of decay clicks.
• When AI noise cancel is on: linear EQ only (no compressor), strip goog beamforming/HPF/typing DSP, prefer browser AEC on Electron.
• RNNoise is skipped if the AudioContext is not 48 kHz (wrong-rate denoise sounded broken).

📦 Desktop update

• Current installer: ggbro Setup 2.7.186.exe.

🛠 Voice stability — reconnects, joins, latency

• Socket reconnect no longer nukes the whole voice mesh — soft recovery keeps healthy peers and only repairs gaps.
• Re-joining an already-joined voice channel is idempotent (no false join sounds / peer recreates).
• Only one side creates the initial WebRTC offer (deterministic), cutting join-time glare and latency spikes.
• Health check: failed peers always retry; ICE restart actually sends a new offer; high-RTT relay needs 3 sustained samples; 20s action cooldown.
• Socket heartbeats relaxed (10s/20s) + connection state recovery; disconnect grace 45s; WS host swap deferred while in voice.
• Mic AudioContext resumes after reconnect without rebuilding the whole noise pipeline.

📦 Desktop update

• Current installer: ggbro Setup 2.7.185.exe.

🔊 Voice tick follow-up

• RNNoise ScriptProcessor uses a valid power-of-2 buffer (2048) with prebuffer — avoids illegal 1920 size and underrun gaps.
• When AI noise cancel is on, browser AGC is disabled so it cannot fight the mic compressor (another mid-speech tick source).

📦 Desktop update

• Current installer: ggbro Setup 2.7.184.exe.

🔊 Voice tick / click fix

• RNNoise no longer VAD-gates amplitude after denoise — that gain pumping caused mid-speech ticks.
• Aligned ScriptProcessor buffer to RNNoise frames + small prebuffer to avoid underrun clicks.
• Softer mic dynamics/EQ when RNNoise is on; steadier Opus CBR + slightly larger receive jitter buffer.
• Remote volume changes ramp smoothly instead of hard jumps.

📦 Desktop update

• Current installer: ggbro Setup 2.7.183.exe.

🎙 WebRTC Phase 4 & 5 — polish + SFU-ready mesh

• Phase 4: thinner useWebRTC (direct voice module SDP helpers), canonical voice events, MediaEngine debug snapshot via window.__GGBRO_VOICE__.
• Phase 5: voice topology handshake (mesh default / sfu when configured). Server advertises capabilities on voice:join ack + voice:capabilities.
• Large rooms (≥ soft limit) prefer TURN earlier; hard-limit toast warns when mesh may struggle.
• SFU client adapter seam + registerSfuBridge() — stays on mesh until VOICE_SFU_URL + a bridge are deployed (LiveKit/mediasoup later).
• Env knobs: VOICE_TOPOLOGY, VOICE_MESH_SOFT_LIMIT, VOICE_MESH_HARD_LIMIT, VOICE_SFU_URL, VOICE_SFU_PROVIDER.

📦 Desktop update

• Current installer: ggbro Setup 2.7.182.exe.

🖥 WebRTC Phase 3 — share system audio without muting the call

• Desktop now uses WASAPI process-exclude loopback: system/game audio is shared while GGBRO itself is excluded from capture.
• You can hear the voice channel while sharing Spotify/games audio — remote voices are no longer muted for the sharer.
• Browser (and native-capture failure) still falls back to echo-free mode that mutes call playback locally so Chromium loopback cannot re-capture voices.

📦 Desktop update

• Current installer: ggbro Setup 2.7.181.exe.

🎙 WebRTC Phase 2 — MicPipeline

• Outbound mic path lives in MicPipeline: capture → RNNoise → clarity EQ → optional classic cleanup.
• SpeakingDetector drives speaking indicators only — it never gates outbound RTP (no clipped syllables).
• Signaling helpers emit voice:state / voice:speaking with correct backend key names.
• useWebRTC now delegates mic prepare / mute-transmit / VAD teardown to the shared modules (peer lifecycle still in the hook).

📦 Desktop update

• Current installer: ggbro Setup 2.7.180.exe.

🎙 WebRTC Phase 1 — clean media foundation

• New frontend/src/renderer/voice/ module: IceConfig, SDP/Opus helpers, debug log, and MediaEngine singleton.
• Voice signaling stays on ws.ggbro.app; STUN/TURN remain on origin IP (never Cloudflare for media).
• useWebRTC now imports the shared engine (same behavior, cleaner structure) — Phase 2+ will move peer lifecycle fully into MediaEngine.

📦 Desktop update

• Current installer: ggbro Setup 2.7.179.exe.

🔒 Account security

• Banned accounts lose access immediately — existing sessions are revoked so old tokens cannot keep working.
• Installer: ggbro Setup 2.7.178.exe.

📱 Mobile web: channel list scroll + typing caret

• Server category / channel list (and DM list) scroll correctly on phone — fixed flex height so overflow-y-auto actually works, plus iOS momentum scrolling.
• Message composer caret and text stay aligned on iOS Safari (disabled the desktop mention-overlay trick on mobile where 14px vs 16px fonts caused drift).
• Keyboard hint text hidden on mobile; viewport uses interactive-widget=resizes-content for better keyboard layout.

📦 Desktop update

• Current installer: ggbro Setup 2.7.177.exe.

🎙 Best-in-class voice quality + Cloudflare-safe tunneling

• Voice / calls / group calls now target 128 kbps Opus with in-band FEC (no DTX clipping). Screen-share audio up to 256 kbps stereo.
• Sender QoS priority + receiver jitter tuning for clearer speech on lossy links.
• Signaling prefers ws.ggbro.app (DNS-only). Never uses Cloudflare-proxied ggbro.app for voice Socket.IO unless the direct WS is down.
• TURN/STUN stay on the origin IP (151.80.35.126:3478) — media never goes through Cloudflare. Faster TURN fallback (8s) + earlier high-RTT relay escalation.
• Fixed the AI Noise Cancellation toggle thumb overflowing the switch track.

📦 Desktop update

• Current installer: ggbro Setup 2.7.176.exe.

🖥 Echo-free screen share audio

• Sharing screen with computer audio no longer loops voice-channel / call voices back to everyone else.
• Before loopback capture starts, GGBRO mutes local call playback (voices, bots, other people's screen audio) and drains the audio buffer so those voices never enter the shared mix.
• UI/SFX tones are also suppressed while system-audio share is active. Stop the share (or turn off Share computer audio) to hear the call again.

📦 Desktop update

• Current installer: ggbro Setup 2.7.175.exe.

🎙 Krisp-style AI Noise Cancellation

• On by default for voice channels and calls — RNNoise ML removes fans, keyboards, AC, and room hiss while keeping your voice clear and natural.
• Soft VAD gate + speech clarity (no hard muting / robotic clipping). Lower latency (~21 ms buffers).
• Browser noise suppression is auto-disabled when AI NC is on so speech isn’t double-muffled; light post-EQ only.
• Toggle in User Settings → Voice and Sound Settings. WASM preloads at app start for instant first join.

📦 Desktop update

• Current installer: ggbro Setup 2.7.174.exe.

🔗 Invite & vanity links forced to ggbro.app

• Invite People, vanity URL, admin Copy Invite, and all other share links always use https://ggbro.app/… (hardcoded public site — ignores outdated connector hosts).
• Desktop also rewrites legacy ggbro.jadadev.com / ws.ggbro.jadadev.com from old connector.cfg files at startup.

📦 Desktop update

• Current installer: ggbro Setup 2.7.173.exe.

🔗 Share links always use ggbro.app

• Invite / template / channel copy links and placeholders now always show https://ggbro.app/… (no more ggbro.jadadev.com in Add Server → Apply to Existing).
• Old connector.cfg hosts are rewritten to ggbro.app / ws.ggbro.app at runtime.

📦 Desktop update

• Current installer: ggbro Setup 2.7.172.exe.

😀 Custom emoji reactions restored

• Restored missing custom emoji image files that were causing broken icons in the Reactions viewer.
• Custom emoji reactions now fall back to the public /api/v1/emojis/:id/file endpoint when the local cache has no path.
• Media URLs that still point at the old ggbro.jadadev.com host are rewritten to the live API host automatically.

📦 Desktop update

• Current installer: ggbro Setup 2.7.171.exe.

🌐 Domain migration to ggbro.app

• Primary site and API host is now https://ggbro.app (was ggbro.jadadev.com).
• WebSocket / voice host is now https://ws.ggbro.app (DNS-only recommended on Cloudflare).
• Desktop connector, auto-update feed, invite links, and docs defaults point at the new domain.

📦 Desktop update

• Current installer: ggbro Setup 2.7.170.exe.

🔒 Private category permissions actually lock channels

• Fixed a critical bug: channel permission overwrites replaced category denies instead of stacking on top of them.
• Private categories with @everyone Deny View Channel now correctly lock child rooms — bots and users without an explicit Allow no longer see them, answer slash commands, or appear in the member list.
• Managed bot roles are now shown (read-only) in Members / profile so it’s clear bots aren’t “roless”.

📦 Desktop update

• Current installer: ggbro Setup 2.7.169.exe.

🔒 Channel & bot permission enforcement

• Slash commands no longer notify bots that cannot View Channel on private rooms (same gate as humans).
• Bot REST history / channel listing / edit / delete / bulk-delete now require proper channel VIEW (and channel Manage Messages for bulk-delete).
• Component interactions require VIEW for both the clicker and the bot author.
• Permission changes evict unauthorized sockets from channel/voice rooms so private traffic cannot leak to stale joins.
• Member list uses the same VIEW_CHANNEL math as the server (bots/users without channel access no longer appear in private rooms).
• New channels are broadcast only to members who can view them; client also guards channel:created.

📦 Desktop update

• Current installer: ggbro Setup 2.7.168.exe.

🎮 Activity Status reliability

• Fixed a race where auto-away / status changes cleared your game activity and the re-report was dropped by the rate limiter — leaving friends with a blank Active Now forever.
• Activity updates are now coalesced instead of dropped under rate limit; your own client also receives the broadcast.
• Process scan now includes common fullscreen / shipping game clients even without a main window handle.
• Polls every 5s (was 15s) and matches Unreal *-Win64-Shipping process names more reliably.

📦 Desktop update

• Current installer: ggbro Setup 2.7.167.exe.

🔞 NSFW channel age gate

• Channels marked NSFW require accepting the age-restricted terms before messages load.
• Continue remembers your choice for that channel; Nope leaves to another channel.

😀 DM & Group quick reactions

• Direct messages and group chats now match server context menus: quick reaction bar, Add Reaction hover flyout, and click to open the full picker.

📦 Desktop update

• Current installer: ggbro Setup 2.7.166.exe.

😀 Add Reaction click opens full picker

• Hovering Add Reaction still shows the quick emoji flyout.
• Clicking Add Reaction opens the full emoji picker (same as Browse all…).
• Clicking inside the flyout (server / emoji) keeps it pinned until you pick or click away.

📦 Desktop update

• Current installer: ggbro Setup 2.7.165.exe.

🔧 Search jump & Add Reaction

• Jumping to a search result keeps the Search panel open.
• Pressing Enter runs the search and closes filter suggestions (opening search empty still shows filters).
• Add Reaction click more reliably pins the reaction flyout open.

📦 Desktop update

• Current installer: ggbro Setup 2.7.164.exe.

↔ Resizable Search & Pins panels

• Search and Pins side panels now have a left-edge resize handle (same as Members).
• Widths persist across sessions.

📦 Desktop update

• Current installer: ggbro Setup 2.7.163.exe.

😀 Add Reaction flyout stickiness

• Hovering Add Reaction shows the emoji flyout; moving away closes it if you never clicked.
• Clicking Add Reaction (or a server in the rail) pins the flyout open until you pick an emoji or click away.
• Server / category emoji rails support mouse-wheel scrolling.

📦 Desktop update

• Current installer: ggbro Setup 2.7.162.exe.

🔍 Discord-style message search

• Search uses filter pills in the input (from:, in:, mentions:, has:) with a suggestion dropdown.
• Text channels default to the current channel; remove in: (or pick Entire server) to search the whole server.
• Filters and Sort menus: Newest, Oldest, and Most Relevant.
• Same filter model in DMs and groups; Ctrl+F works in group chats too.
• Search UI uses theme tokens so Appearance customization still applies.

📦 Desktop update

• Current installer: ggbro Setup 2.7.161.exe.

😀 Reaction picker: server rail & emoji-only list

• Add Reaction flyout shows emoji icons only (no duplicated shortcodes like :ggbro:).
• Left rail lists server avatars that have custom emojis so you can pick a server and react quickly.
• Full emoji picker left rail uses the same server avatars (plus frequently used & categories).
• Custom emoji add/delete/rename live-updates for everyone in the server (deleted emojis disappear from most-used immediately).

📦 Desktop update

• Current installer: ggbro Setup 2.7.160.exe.

🎨 Theme-aware menus & roles

• Roles picker, role pills, message context menu, and emoji picker use theme colors (no hard-coded black panels).
• Role pills include a quick × to remove when you have permission.
• Quick reactions render custom emoji images correctly (no raw <:name:id> text).
• Add Reaction hover shows a most-used list; click opens the full emoji picker.

📦 Desktop update

• Current installer: ggbro Setup 2.7.159.exe.

⚙ User Settings fill width

• Settings tab content expands across the panel (no empty right column).

😀 Discord-style reactions

• Message right-click menu shows your 5 most-used reactions as a quick bar, then Add Reaction with a chevron.
• Reaction emoji picker redesigned: left category rail, “Find the perfect reaction” search, hover preview footer.

📦 Desktop update

• Current installer: ggbro Setup 2.7.158.exe.

🪟 Unified settings panels

• Edit Channel Save Changes no longer closes the dialog (shows a brief Saved confirmation).
• Edit Channel, Server Settings, and User Settings share one centered panel size (~1100×760, capped to the window with padding).
• User Settings on desktop is a centered modal (not fullscreen); mobile stays fullscreen.

📦 Desktop update

• Current installer: ggbro Setup 2.7.157.exe.

🎭 Roles picker stay-open fix

• Clicking roles in the profile popup picker no longer closes the dropdown or the profile card.
• You can toggle multiple roles without reopening the menu.

📦 Desktop update

• Current installer: ggbro Setup 2.7.156.exe.

🎭 Discord-style Roles everywhere

• Profile popup Roles section uses the same checkbox picker as the member right-click menu (search, color dots, checkboxes).
• Circular + “Add role” button; toggle roles without leaving the menu.
• Same picker in Server Settings → Members.

📦 Desktop update

• Current installer: ggbro Setup 2.7.155.exe.

🔗 Developer Portal polish

• Fixed browser tab title mojibake (ggbro ─” … → ggbro - Developer Portal).
• Sidebar ggbro links to the home page; Portal badge stays on / refreshes the portal.

🎭 Discord-style Roles menu

• Member right-click → Roles flyout uses color dots, checkboxes, search, and disabled states for roles you can’t change.

📦 Desktop update

• Current installer: ggbro Setup 2.7.154.exe.

🔒 Private channel / message link privacy

• Browser message links no longer expose message text, author, or private channel names (Open in ggbro only).
• In-app channel/message link previews show content only if you have View Channel; otherwise a lock + No Access.
• Channel mention pills and deep-link navigation respect the same permission check.

📦 Desktop update

• Current installer: ggbro Setup 2.7.153.exe.

🧩 Apply template to existing servers

• Add a Server modal has an Apply to Existing tab.
• Paste a friend's template link/code and pick a server you own to apply it (replaces channels/categories/roles; members stay).
• Opening a template link prefers Apply when you already own servers.

📦 Desktop update

• Current installer: ggbro Setup 2.7.152.exe.

⬆ Auto-update reliability

• Fixed Cloudflare TLS BAD_DECRYPT failures when downloading large app.asar updates.
• Legacy update lane: /updates/app.asar (and /updates/legacy/app.asar) 302-redirects through Cloudflare to a direct-origin HTTP mirror so older clients that already follow redirects can finish updating.
• New desktop builds use chunked Range downloads with retries + multiple mirrors (still SHA-256 verified).

📦 Desktop update

• Current installer: ggbro Setup 2.7.151.exe.
• If an in-app update still fails, use /download for a full installer.

📌 API versioning (/api/v1)

• All REST routes are available at /api/v1/… (canonical) and still at unversioned /api/… as a compatible alias.
• Desktop, browser, portal, mobile clients, Music Bot, and Python SDK now call /api/v1.
• Legacy /api/* responses include soft Deprecation + Link successor hints (webhook execute URLs stay stable on /api/webhooks/…).
• Public discovery: GET /api/v1 or GET /api/v1/platform/config.

🌐 Domain configuration

• Primary knob: backend/.env → PUBLIC_BASE_URL (+ PUBLIC_WS_URL).
• Browser app resolves WebSocket host from public config instead of a hardcoded domain.

📦 Desktop update

• Current installer: ggbro Setup 2.7.150.exe (older Setup builds removed from the update mirrors).

🔗 Channel webhooks

• Fixed Authentication required when sending via Quick test / Message Builder (execute URL no longer requires a Bearer token).
• Copy URL for existing webhooks in the Developer Portal and Edit Channel → Integrations.
• API docs updated: execute is public (URL token only); list returns full URL for managers.

🎮 FiveM activity

• Detect FiveM even when the client process has no main window, and prefer FiveM over bare GTA V.
• Show the server name in Activity when available from the window title.

📦 Desktop update

• Current installer: ggbro Setup 2.7.149.exe (older Setup builds removed from the update mirrors).

⚙ Edit Channel redesign

• Edit Channel is now tabbed: Overview, Permissions, and Integrations (webhooks).
• Context menu → Permissions opens Edit Channel on the Permissions tab.

🔐 Discord-style channel permissions

• Role sidebar + permission category tabs (General / Text / Voice).
• Private Channel toggle (denies View Channel for @everyone).
• Clearer three-state allow / deny / inherit controls with descriptions.

📦 Desktop update

• Current installer: ggbro Setup 2.7.148.exe (older Setup builds removed from the update mirrors).

🔒 Webhook HTTPS fix

• Webhook execute URLs now use https:// (fixes portal “Send failed” mixed-content blocks).

🎨 Webhook Message Builder

• New Discohook-style builder at /portal/webhook-builder — content, username/avatar overrides, multi-embeds, fields, live preview, and JSON editor.
• Linked from Portal → Webhooks and Edit Channel.

📡 Webhook API

• GET /api/webhooks/:id/:token returns webhook metadata.
• Execute accepts Discord-style embed shapes (integer color, image.url) and normalizes them.

📦 Desktop update

• Current installer: ggbro Setup 2.7.147.exe (older Setup builds removed from the update mirrors).

🔗 Channel webhooks

• Create multiple Discord-style incoming webhooks per channel (Edit Channel, Developer Portal → Webhooks, or API).
• Execute with POST /api/webhooks/:id/:token — custom name/avatar, embeds supported; messages show a WEBHOOK badge.
• Documented in /developers and the API reference.

📝 Channel topic on click

• When a channel has a topic, click the #channel name in the chat header to read the full description.

📦 Desktop update

• Current installer: ggbro Setup 2.7.146.exe (older Setup builds removed from the update mirrors).

✨ Full Plus & Verified feature lists

• User Settings → GGBRO Plus now lists every Plus perk (badge, 500 MB uploads, Discovery limits/ads/featured/banners, cross-server soundboard & emojis).
• Server Settings → Verified lists every Verified perk (badge, gold invites, vanity URL, 500 MB uploads, 3 backups, daily backup/restore, daily schedule).
• FAQ, Features, and Refund pages updated to match what’s actually unlocked.

📦 Desktop update

• Current installer: ggbro Setup 2.7.145.exe (older Setup builds removed from the update mirrors).

🖼 Banner editor matches live view

• My Account profile banner preview is now the same size as the profile card others see (360×72).
• Server Settings banner preview matches the channel sidebar (240×120).
• DM profile popup banner height aligned with the main profile popup.

📦 Desktop update

• Current installer: ggbro Setup 2.7.144.exe (older Setup builds removed from the update mirrors).

🔗 Vanity Invite Copy

• Copy Invite Link (server menu / server icon menu) uses the custom vanity URL when the server has one.

✨ Sidebar polish

• Server menu chevron sits on the far right of the header (before Invite).
• Category + is larger with a bigger click target.

🎥 Streamer Mode

• Actually hides email, user ID, invite links, and blocks copying them while Streamer Mode is on.
• Available on desktop and web (Advanced settings).

💎 GGBRO Plus naming

• Website pages (FAQ, Features, legal, changelog, developer docs) now say GGBRO Plus instead of Nitro.

📦 Desktop update

• Current installer: ggbro Setup 2.7.143.exe (older Setup builds removed from the update mirrors).

📖 ggbro Features Page

• New public post-style guide at /features covering servers, chat, voice, presence, backups, GGBRO Plus, bots, clients, and the full technology stack.
• Linked from site nav, home footer, and User Settings → About (Stack row added after Platform).

🤖 API & bot docs

• Documented voice chat_enabled requirements for Bot REST and Socket sends.
• Clarified presence / activity clear-on-disconnect and re-report after reconnect.
• Expanded Technology Stack in developer docs (Electron, React, Node, Express, Socket.IO, REST, SQLite, WebRTC).

🔒 Security hardening

• Server backup archives under uploads/server-backups are no longer publicly downloadable.
• Backup restore file paths are sanitized (no path traversal).
• Bots cannot post in voice channels when text chat is disabled (same rule as humans).
• Activity updates are rate-limited to protect the host.

📝 Recent wave (also in this ship)

• 2.7.137 — Full server backups (1/3 slots, weekly/daily cooldowns, ≤10MB files, paced I/O).
• 2.7.138 — Server banner above channels + clickable server menu dropdown.
• 2.7.139 — Opaque server/role dropdown backgrounds.
• 2.7.140 — Stale Activity fix (clears offline; re-detects on desktop).
• 2.7.141 — Chat icon on voice channels with Text Chat enabled.

📦 Desktop update

• Current installer: ggbro Setup 2.7.142.exe (all older Setup builds removed from update mirrors).

💬 Voice Channel Chat Button

• Voice channels with Text Chat enabled show a chat icon next to the channel name.
• Click the icon to open that channel’s chat without leaving (or before joining) voice.
• Unread / mention indicators appear on those voice channels too.

📦 Desktop update

• Current installer: ggbro Setup 2.7.141.exe (older Setup builds removed from the update mirrors).

🎮 Stale Activity Fix

• Game activity is cleared when you go offline and is not restored on reconnect.
• Activity only shows again after the desktop app detects the app/game is actually running.
• Fixes “Playing … for 8h+” after closing the PC with a game still marked active.

📦 Desktop update

• Current installer: ggbro Setup 2.7.140.exe (older Setup builds removed from the update mirrors).

🎨 Opaque Dropdowns

• Server menu and Add Role dropdowns now use a solid background (no transparency / blur bleed-through).

📦 Desktop update

• Current installer: ggbro Setup 2.7.139.exe (older Setup builds removed from the update mirrors).

🖼 Server Banner & Menu

• Server banner (from Server Settings) now shows above the channel list, Discord-style.
• Click the server name (or chevron) to open a polished dropdown menu — invite, settings, create channels, mute, copy invite/ID, report, leave.
• Quick Invite button stays on the right of the header.

📦 Desktop update

• Current installer: ggbro Setup 2.7.138.exe (older Setup builds removed from the update mirrors).

💾 Full Server Backups

• Backup Now saves the full server: channels, roles, permissions, current members’ roles, messages, reactions, pins, and files up to 10MB.
• Files larger than 10MB are skipped; a skip note with details is kept in the backup.
• On restore, members who left or were banned are not re-added — only roles for people still in the server.
• Free servers: 1 backup · backup & restore once a week.
• Verified servers: up to 3 backups · backup & restore once a day.
• Delete an old backup to free a slot before saving a new one.
• Backup and restore run at a paced speed to protect host resources.

📦 Desktop update

• Current installer: ggbro Setup 2.7.137.exe (older Setup builds removed from the update mirrors).

👤 Profile Popup Toggle

• Clicking the same user again closes their profile popup (instead of reopening).
• Clicking a different user switches the popup to that person.

📦 Desktop update

• Current installer: ggbro Setup 2.7.136.exe (older Setup builds removed from the update mirrors).

🖼 Activity Icon Fit

• Activity / game icons now fit inside their frame (no more cropped / zoomed look).

💤 Auto Away

• After 10 minutes idle (OS mouse/keyboard), Online automatically becomes Away.
• When you come back, status returns to Online.
• If you set Away (or DND / Invisible) yourself, it stays — auto idle never overrides a manual status.

🔧 Activity Icon Matching

• Uploaded activity icons now resolve even when the configured key and client icon_key differ (e.g. adobe-premiere-pro ↔ premiere).
• Icon library refreshes live when new icons are published (including after reconnect).

✨ Active Now Polish & Activity Icons

• Resizable Active Now rail — drag the left edge to show full game/app names.
• Click a person in Active Now to open the full profile popup with activity details and live duration (e.g. “3 minutes”).
• Game / app icons on Active Now cards and profile activity — emoji fallback when no art is set.

🎮 Activity / Active Now

• Discord-style Active Now rail on Friends home — friends playing games, in apps, or in voice.
• Desktop detects running games/apps (Minecraft, VALORANT, Fortnite, VS Code, Spotify, and more) and shares Rich Presence.
• Settings → My Account → Activity Status toggle (On/Off). Invisible / Offline hides activity from everyone.
• Activity + Last Online on user profile popups and friend rows.

💾 Backup Limits & Cooldowns

• Manual Backup Now: non-verified servers once per 24 hours; verified servers every 60 minutes.
• Snapshot cap: 10 for normal servers, 50 for verified — no auto-evict; delete a snapshot to free a slot.
• Delete controls appear on snapshots only when the server is at its limit.

🎮 Built-in Templates v4

• Gaming: Info / Chat / Games / Competitive / Voice / Streaming / VIP / Staff — more party VCs, game rooms, VIP lounge, and staff reports.
• Community: Start Here / Community / Media / Events / Voice / Staff — stage (meeting) channel, event planning, more hangout VCs.
• Real role permissions (Admin, Mod, Trial/Helper, Event Host, VIP, interest roles) plus channel & category overrides: read-only announcements, locked staff/VIP, stage speak control.

🗑 Voice Channel Delete Fix

• Delete confirm now labels voice channels correctly (not #General).
• Delete failures show an error in the dialog (and toast) instead of appearing to do nothing.
• You can delete voice channels freely as long as at least one text channel remains.

🔗 Shareable Templates

• Every template gets a share link like /template/GAMING — copy from Server Settings → Backup.
• Paste a template link when creating a server; deep links open Create Server with the template ready.

🎮 Richer Built-in Templates

• Gaming & Community rebuilt with more categories, channels, voice rooms, and roles (Admin, Mod, game/community roles, staff areas).

💾 Server Backups, Trash & Templates

• Backup Server (owner-only): enable once (cannot disable), schedule Monthly/Weekly — Verified servers also get Daily.
• Manual snapshots + scheduled backups (structure, members, roles, permissions, emoji/soundboard metadata — not chat media).
• Deleting a server moves it to 30-day trash with an automatic backup; restore from User Settings → Servers.
• Discord-style templates (built-in + your own): apply when creating a server or on an existing one.

🖱 Selecting Text No Longer Closes Popups

• Server Settings and other modals stay open when you highlight text and release the mouse outside.
• Backdrop dismiss only triggers when both press and release happen on the dimmed area.

📋 Audit Log — Smarter Search

• Search by username or user ID (paste a UUID and it matches actor / target).
• Search button + Enter to run immediately, or wait ~2 seconds after typing.
• Results refresh in place so the search box no longer loses focus while you type.

🔍 Emoji Search — Prefix Matching

• Partial queries like Lau now match laugh / laughing (and similar prefixes), not only full words.
• Results are ranked so closer matches appear first.

📋 Audit Log — Proper Server-Side Filtering

• Action / user filters now run on the server, so each page returns up to 50 matching entries (not 1 match out of an unfiltered batch).
• “Load more” continues with the same filters applied.

🖱 Select Text Without Closing Popups

• Audit Log (and other Server Settings content) supports mouse text selection for copying IDs and details.
• Modals / profile popups no longer close when you drag-select text and release outside the window — only a real outside click dismisses them.

🛡 Members — Assign Roles (Admins)

• Server Settings → Members: administrators (and Manage Roles) can add/remove custom roles with Discord-style pills and an Add Role menu.
• Built-in Admin/Mod/Member dropdown is available to admins (only the owner can grant/revoke Admin).
• Role filter includes both built-in and custom roles.

🔍 Emoji Search — Keyword Matching

• Emoji picker search now matches by name / keywords (e.g. kid → child/baby, heart, pizza) instead of comparing against the emoji character itself.
• Custom emoji search by name is unchanged.

📣 @everyone & @here — Tag Look + Mentions

• @everyone and @here now render as mention pills in the composer and in messages (same style as role/user tags).
• Autocomplete offers Everyone / Here when you have the Mention Everyone permission.
• Everyone who can see the channel gets a personal mention notification, toast, and badge — not only people currently viewing that channel.

🎞 Animated GIFs — Server Icons & Banners

• Server icons and banners can now be animated GIFs (same as user avatars/banners). Uploads keep the .gif extension so they animate correctly.
• User / bot avatar & banner uploads already supported GIFs; docs now spell out PNG/JPG/WEBP/GIF for all of these.

✏️ Soundboard — Edit Existing Sounds

• Server Settings → Soundboard: Edit an existing sound to change its name, emoji icon, or replace the audio file.
• API: PATCH /api/servers/:id/soundboard/:soundId (JSON or multipart); audit SERVER_SOUNDBOARD_UPDATE.
• Docs / reference updated.

🎶 Soundboard — Emoji Icons

• When uploading a server soundboard sound, pick a Unicode emoji icon (defaults to 🎶). It shows in Server Settings and the voice soundboard picker.
• API: multipart field icon on POST /api/servers/:id/soundboard; catalog and list responses include icon.
• Developer docs / reference.md updated for the new field.

📚 Bot API Docs & Python SDK

• Developer docs + reference.md now document the full slash pipeline: autocomplete ranking, sequential option builder, positional wire (/play ovetto 7amra), named-flag normalize, --__bot stripping, mention/UUID resolve, and the rule to prefer options over raw args.
• Updated /developers/ggbro.py to v1.2.0 with ctx.get_option(), typed options, and slash payload docs in the module header.
• Music bot example uses ctx.get_option('query', ctx.args).

🎵 Slash Options — Positional Values

• Selecting /play with a query now sends /play ovetto 7amra (not /play --query "…"), so music search uses the song name instead of the flag text.
• Server normalizes named --option wires into clean positional args + typed options for bots (strips quotes around named values).
• Chat history stores the cleaned positional form; --__bot routing stays client-only.
• Music Bot prefers options.query / other typed fields over raw args.

⚡ Slash Commands — Search Ranking

• Typing /play now ranks the exact /play command first (Tab/Enter select it), instead of burying it under description matches like /np (“Now playing”).
• Match priority: exact name → name prefix → name contains → description word → description substring.
• While querying, results are a single ranked list (not locked to bot order); selection resets to the top hit on each query change.

🏷 Mentions — IDs & Slash Options Resolve

• Slash options like user now resolve <@uuid>, bare user IDs, and @username into a proper member tag (not raw text).
• In the normal message box, pasting or typing a member UUID / <@id> converts to @username when that member is on the server.
• Sending also encodes bare member UUIDs into structured mentions.

📜 Text Channels — Fullscreen Scroll Fix

• Fixed text-channel scrolling when the window is maximized / fullscreen (worked fine windowed).
• Removed a sticky-bottom ResizeObserver loop that kept snapping the list to the bottom as embeds/GIFs grew on tall viewports.
• Scrolling up immediately releases sticky-bottom; desktop shell now uses h-full instead of 100vh for correct maximized sizing.

⚡ Slash Commands — Discord-Style Composer

• While typing /ava, the picker lists commands only — no OPTIONS until you fully select a command.
• After select, options unlock one at a time (first pill, then Tab for the next), with tip + MEMBERS/CHANNELS floating above the bar.
• The normal message bar stays active (attach / GIF / emoji / send) — slash pills sit inline instead of replacing the composer.
• Tip / MEMBERS lists float above the input so the message list keeps its normal height — chat stays scrollable and interactive.
• Active option uses a full-width type field (not a tiny locked pill); after picking a member, Backspace clears the chip to search again.
• Backspace / click /command reverts to plain text; Esc / × clears.
• After sending a slash command, focus returns to the message input so you can keep typing immediately.

🔒 Permissions — Manage Reactions Enforced

• Fixed a bug where channel permission checks defaulted to allow for privileged actions when a channel had no overrides.
• Removing other users’ reactions or “Remove All Reactions” now requires Manage Reactions or Manage Messages (owners/admins still bypass). Enforced on the server too.

📋 Audit Log — Role Assign Shows Member

• ROLE_ASSIGN / ROLE_UNASSIGN (and MEMBER_ROLE_UPDATE) store the target member’s username and userId.
• UI shows “assigned Role to Member” with a Member line (name + id). Developer docs updated.

📋 Audit Log — Role Assign Shows Member

• ROLE_ASSIGN / ROLE_UNASSIGN (and built-in MEMBER_ROLE_UPDATE) now store the target member’s username and userId in changes.
• Audit Log UI shows “assigned Role to Member” and a Member line with name + id (older entries still resolve the name from target_id).
• Developer docs updated for the Audit Log API fields.

🔒 Permissions — Manage Reactions Enforced

• Fixed a bug where channel permission checks defaulted to allow for privileged actions (including Manage Reactions / Manage Messages) when a channel had no overrides.
• Removing other users’ reactions or “Remove All Reactions” now requires a role that grants Manage Reactions or Manage Messages (server owners/admins still bypass).
• Same fix applies server-side, so the action is blocked even if the UI were bypassed.

⚡ Slash Commands — Chat Stays Usable

• Slash tip / MEMBERS lists float above the input so the message list keeps its normal height — chat stays scrollable and interactive.
• Active option uses a full-width type field (not a tiny locked pill) so you can type and backspace like normal chat.
• After picking a member, the list closes; Backspace clears the chip to search again.

⚡ Slash Commands — Discord Parity

• While typing /ava, the picker lists commands only — no OPTIONS until you fully select a command.
• After select, options unlock one at a time (first pill, then Tab for the next), with tip + MEMBERS/CHANNELS above the bar.
• The normal message bar stays active (attach / GIF / emoji / send) — slash pills sit inline instead of replacing the composer.
• Backspace / click /command reverts to plain text; Esc / × clears.

⚡ Slash Commands — Options + Backspace Cancel

• After selecting a command, an OPTIONS panel shows every option chip (Discord-style), plus the command summary.
• Backspace on an empty first option (or click /command) exits the slash UI and leaves plain /command text so you can delete it normally.
• Esc / × clears the composer entirely.
• MEMBERS / CHANNELS lists still appear when filling entity options.

⚡ Slash Commands — Discord Inline UI

• Replaced the form-style option panel with Discord’s inline composer: bot avatar + /command + focused option pills.
• Picker shows an OPTIONS preview for the highlighted command, then the grouped command list.
• Filling USER/CHANNEL/ROLE options opens a MEMBERS / CHANNELS / ROLES list above the input (type to filter, arrows + Enter/Tab).
• No more raw --__bot / flag text in the message box — routing is applied only when you send.
• Option names like user / channel / role auto-promote to entity pickers even if the bot registered them as STRING.

⚡ Discord-style Slash Commands

• Slash picker groups commands by bot with a left app rail (Frequently Used + All + each bot avatar).
• Selecting a command with options focuses the first parameter; Tab / Shift+Tab cycles option fields.
• USER / CHANNEL / ROLE / MENTIONABLE options use smart entity pickers (type to search, arrows + Enter/Tab to pick, chip display).
• Client routes duplicate command names with an internal --__bot flag (stripped before the bot receives interaction:create).
• Developer docs updated for the new picker UX and bot routing.

🩹 Channel Sidebar Crash

• Fixed React error #310 (Rendered more hooks than during the previous render) in ChannelSidebar when switching between DMs and servers — voice force-move useEffect hooks now always run before the empty-server early return.

💬 DM / Group Last-Message Preview

• Sidebar last-message previews now show @username instead of raw <@uuid> mention tags (groups + direct messages).
• Sidebar search also matches the formatted mention text.

😀 Discord-style Reactions Viewer

• Right-click a reaction: View Reactions, Remove Reaction (your own), and Remove All Reactions (servers with Manage Reactions / Manage Messages).
• View popup lists emoji tabs with counts and who reacted (avatar + name); remove with X when allowed.
• Works in channels, DMs, and groups.

🖼 GIF Sizing

• Rejects bad/tiny/extreme dimensions that produced 1px “dots” and huge empty gaps.
• Uses real measured size after load instead of trusting bad metadata forever.

🏷 Group @Mentions

• Type @ in groups for member autocomplete (same idea as channels).
• Mentions encode as <@id> on send/edit; clicking a tagged name opens the profile popup (DMs too).

🖥 Server Strip Navigation

• Mouse wheel over the server strip scrolls left/right (vertical wheel maps to horizontal).
• Chevron arrows sit beside the list (not over icons) and only appear when there’s overflow.
• Soft edge fades when more servers are off-screen.

➕ Add Role UI

• Profile add-role (+) is a solid circle with a clean plus icon; fills accent when open (no more dashed ring).
• Roles popup is wider/taller with soft blur, an “ADD ROLE” header, bold role names, color dots, and a hover “+” affordance.

🖱 Message Context Menus

• Right-click menus on channel and DM messages (and attachments) now portal to document.body, so they stay visible under the virtual list’s transform (Reply, Copy, Pin, Edit, Delete, etc.).
• Proper backdrop + Esc to dismiss.

🔍 Profile Media Zoom

• Click avatar or banner in profile popups to open a Discord-style lightbox (zoom / pan / gallery) via shared MediaLightbox.

🎙 Meeting Channel Icon

• Voice channels with Meeting Channel enabled now show a podcast-style meeting icon in the sidebar (instead of the regular speaker icon).

🤖 In-app Bot Authorize

• Adding a bot from a profile now shows a confirm popup listing the permissions the bot will receive — Authorize or Cancel (same idea as the web invite page).

🤖 Discord-like Bot Invite Permissions

• Developer Portal Bot tab: pick default invite permissions (including Administrator), lock option, and invite link with &permissions=.
• Authorizing an invite creates a managed role named after the bot with exactly those permissions. The role cannot be given to other members.
• Changing portal defaults only updates new invite links — existing server bot roles are unchanged.
• Bot owners cannot remotely edit a server's bot role (PATCH .../servers/:serverId/permissions returns 403). Server admins edit/delete the role in Server Settings.
• Kick / ban / leave / portal remove keeps the managed role until a server admin deletes it. Re-adding reuses it when still present.
• New bots start offline with least-privilege defaults (8895488), not Administrator.
• Bot moderation REST routes enforce the bot's role bits (e.g. missing Kick → 403 on kick).
• Portal Servers / Commands tabs refetch on switch; invite authorize page is accept/cancel for the link's permissions.

📘 Docs & API

• Documented PATCH /api/oauth2/applications/:appId/permissions, invite body {permissions}, public invite card fields, and the 403 server-permissions route.
• Updated /developers/ and reference.md to match the Discord-like managed-role model.

📜 Chat Scroll

• Opening an already-read text channel sticks to the true bottom while GIFs/embeds/virtual rows finish measuring (no more landing short or jumping up mid-load).

🟢 Call Tile Edges

• Fixed sharp/clipped corners on speaking participant cards (inset green ring).
• Video tiles no longer show a padded double-radius gap around the green speaking border — borders sit flush with rounded edges.

📘 Developers Reference

• Fully rewrote /developers/reference.md as a complete AI mirror of the human docs.

📱 Android Parity Fixes

• Voice channel occupants now show under each voice channel (live voice:channel-update + server snapshot).
• Private/DM calls fixed: shared socket lifecycle, glare-safe offers, global incoming-call UI, no more dead signaling when leaving Home.
• GIF / image URLs render inline (Coil GIF decoder + Tenor/Giphy/media previews).
• Audit log uses human labels (“Joined a voice channel”) and cleaner card layout instead of raw VOICE_JOIN.

📱 Android Calls Overhaul

• STUN/TURN ICE so voice works across networks (not just LAN).
• Peers connect from voice:existing — joining a busy channel is no longer silent.
• Mute / deafen actually cut the mic and remote audio; speaker/earpiece toggle added.
• ICE reconnect on disconnect/failure instead of dropping peers immediately.
• Incoming DM calls join real media after Accept; outgoing voice/video from DM chat.
• Ringing / dialing tones for call UX.

💳 Payments Polish

• Professional Solana checkout with amount, copy buttons, and QR code.
• Removed internal admin tip text from the payment UI; payment notes are user-facing only.

🔊 Soundboard

• Playing a sound no longer closes the soundboard panel.

🤖 Slash Commands & Audit

• Discord-like slash option types (string, integer, boolean, user, channel, role, number) with choices and pickers.
• Audit log now records joins (including bots), and clearly shows who kicked / banned / timed out whom.
• Copy Channel ID added to the channel context menu.
• Developers docs expanded into a full bot API reference.

💳 GGBRO Plus & Verified Payments

• Verified Server and GGBRO Plus now require real payment (no free grant).
• Pay with PayPal Email ([email protected], manual review), PayPal Checkout (client id + secret — auto-activates when configured), or Solana USDC/SOL to 76xhvQcwimFbxiwqc1FaXDiRtFY9JjB27AYiXajEQuG3.
• Prices, wallets, and method toggles live in backend/config/payments.config.json (env vars override for secrets).

🧰 Upgrade Installer Hardened

• Fixes Error opening file for writing: …\Uninstall ggbro.exe when antivirus or a leftover process locks the old install.
• Before writing files, Setup force-closes ggbro.exe and Uninstall ggbro.exe, then removes %LOCALAPPDATA%\Programs\ggbro (app binaries only — chat/login data in Roaming is kept).
• Clears a stale pending app-update.asar so a failed upgrade can’t fight a fresh install.
• Optional helper: cleanup-ggbro-install.bat if you need a one-click wipe of the locked install folder.

👥 Friend Accept Reliability

• Fixed “No pending request from this user” / 404 when accepting invites from mobile or profile popups.
• Accept now works with the other user’s id or the friendship row id; already-friends is treated as success.
• Username matching for friend requests is case-insensitive.

💬 Stable Message Order

• Channel history no longer reshuffles when several messages share the same second (e.g. /ping → pong! after refresh).
• Ordering uses created_at plus a rowid tiebreaker; bot interaction replies are timestamped after the trigger message.

📦 Updates & Downloads

• Installer now closes running ggbro before overwriting files.
• /updates only serves the current manifest installer (older flagged builds are not downloadable).

⚙ Settings Two-Column Layout

• My Account — banner full width; profile fields left, password/account info right.
• Keybinds, Advanced, About, GGBRO Plus — two-column layouts (Reports-style).
• Voice / Notifications / Appearance use two columns earlier; settings content capped at ~1100px so fields don’t stretch edge-to-edge.

🛡 Antivirus False Positive Removed

• Removed WinKeyServer.exe / global OS keyboard hooks that Discord Threat Labs, Defender, and Avast flagged as malware.
• Removed the node-global-key-listener dependency from the shipped build.
• In-app push-to-talk (when ggbro has focus) remains; OS-wide “PTT while in a game” is disabled to keep installers clean.
• Older installers that bundled the flagged binary were pulled from public download.

🔁 Startup / Update Crash Loop

• Stopped the open→close loop caused by Defender removing PTT helper files mid-update.
• Added crash guards so a broken key-listener no longer kills the main process.
• Stuck pending asar updates are discarded faster so the app can recover.

🖼 Media Context Menus

• Right-click images, GIFs, and videos in chat: Copy Image Link / Copy Video URL, Copy Image (where supported), Open in Browser, Save.
• Works on attachments, inline media URLs, the video player, and the lightbox.

🎤 Push-to-Talk Packaging (superseded)

• Attempted a safer packaging path for in-game PTT; later replaced by the clean 2.7.43 approach after AV continued to flag the helper binary.

⚙ Settings & Groups

• Appearance settings use a two-column layout (Display + Preview).
• Selecting a group focuses the message box immediately (same feel as DMs).

🔔 Windows Notifications

• System notification enable/disable in Settings, plus an “Enable in Windows” permission button.

🔎 Mentions & Advanced Search

• Stylized usernames (fancy Unicode) normalize for @mentions and search — e.g. tagging DJAPPA still works.
• Advanced search in channels, DMs, and groups: Sent by, Mentions me, and @Name author filters.

🔊 Soundboard & Voice Icons

• Compact soundboard panel with local-only preview (headphones) vs broadcast play.
• Rebuilt mic / mute / deafen icons as clean stroke SVGs (no broken blobs).

📋 Duplicate Channel

• Right-click a text or voice channel → Duplicate Channel (Manage Channels).
• Copies type, category, topic, slowmode, NSFW, and permission overrides; inserts below the original as name-copy (empty — no message history).

🎤 Mic Icons

• Fixed white-blob mic icons in the composer, voice controls, and menus.

💬 Direct Messages

• Live DM updates after login/2FA — socket reconnect now rebinds listeners correctly.
• HTTP fetches merge with live socket messages instead of wiping them; reconnect refetches the open DM.
• Message box stays clickable after context menus / GIF pickers; cleaner remount when switching DMs.

⚡ Real-time Sync

• Fixed silent WebSocket breakage where the UI kept listening on a dead socket.
• Channel messages and voice presence update live again without a manual refresh (desktop + web).

🤖 Bot REST API (20+ new endpoints)

• Bots can now operate entirely over HTTP without holding a WebSocket connection.
• Bot DMs: POST /api/oauth2/bot/dm/:targetUserId — send direct messages with optional embed.
• Channel messaging: POST | PUT | DELETE /api/oauth2/bot/channels/:id/messages — full CRUD.
• Bulk delete: remove up to 100 messages in one request.
• Server / channel / member listing endpoints for read access.
• Moderation: kick, ban, unban, assign / remove roles via REST.
• Bot presence: PUT /api/oauth2/bot/presence with status + custom activity text.
• User lookup: GET /api/oauth2/bot/users/:userId.

🐍 Python SDK Update

• 15+ new helpers in ggbro.py: send_dm(), send_channel_message(), get_messages(), bulk_delete(), kick_member(), ban_member(), set_presence(), and more.
• Updated API Reference with full Bot REST API documentation.

🎞 GIF Favorites Fix

• Fixed GIF favorites cache / dedup logic — ensureGifFavoritesLoaded() now properly returns a Promise.
• addGifToFavorites() correctly returns true on 409 (already favorited).
• toggleFavorite / removeFavorite sync the in-memory module cache.

📄 Legal & Info Pages

• Added Terms, Privacy, Refund, Guidelines, FAQ pages with a unified menu and footer.
• Added live Status page with real-time service health.

🗄 Database

• Added custom_status column to users (bot presence / activity).
• Added embed column to direct_messages (rich bot DM embeds).

• WebRTC voice connection reliability — automatic re-negotiation on network change.
• Fixed sporadic "stuck connecting" state when joining busy voice channels.
• Reduced installer size by 6 MB (removed unused locale files).
• Hardened auto-update flow against partial download corruption.

📜 Server Audit Log

• Tracks role changes, kicks, bans, channel create / delete, permission overwrites.
• Filterable by actor, target and action type.
• Performance: large servers (10k+ members) load member list in chunks.

🎨 Custom Server Emoji

• Server admins can upload up to 50 custom emojis (PNG / GIF, 256KB max).
• Custom emojis available in messages, reactions, and the emoji picker.
• Public CDN endpoint /api/emojis/:id/file with year-long cache.

🎞 GIF Picker (Tenor)

• Search and send GIFs powered by Tenor inside any channel or DM.
• Trending row, category browsing, and per-user favorites.
• Inline GIF playback with click-to-pause.

✨ GGBRO Plus Polish

• Custom profile banners and animated avatars for GGBRO Plus subscribers.
• GGBRO Plus badge on user profiles and member lists.
• Higher upload limits for GGBRO Plus users (100 MB → 500 MB per file).

💎 GGBRO Plus Launch

• Premium subscription system with PayPal recurring billing.
• Subscription management UI in user settings.
• 48-hour refund policy for first-time subscribers (see Refund Policy).
• Monthly billing with cancel-anytime.

🎨 Roles 2.0

• Color-coded roles displayed in member list and chat.
• Granular permission editor with per-channel overrides.
• Role hoisting and "display separately" options.

• Server discovery: public servers list with search, tags and member counts.
• Vanity URLs for verified servers (/invite/your-name).

• Invite system overhaul: custom expiry (1h / 1d / 7d / never), max-use limits, single-use links.
• OG meta tags on invite landing pages so links unfurl in other apps.

• Message reactions: react with any emoji, see who reacted, custom emoji support.
• Aggregated reaction badges with hover-to-see-list.

• Message pinning: pin important messages per channel; pinned-messages drawer.
• Pin / unpin requires "Manage Messages" permission.

• Presence: Online, Idle, Do Not Disturb, Invisible.
• Custom status text with optional emoji and expiry timer.

• Typing indicators in channels and DMs.
• Per-channel "X is typing…" with multi-user merge ("Alice and 3 others are typing").

📚 Bot Examples

• Welcome bot template with role auto-assign and DM greetings.
• Music bot template with YouTube / Spotify-link queueing.
• Both included in the Developer Portal with copy-paste setup.

🐍 Python SDK ggbro.py

• Official async Python library for building bots.
• WebSocket gateway with automatic reconnect + heartbeat.
• Type-hinted REST helpers for messages, channels, servers, members.
• Event decorators: @bot.event for on_message, on_member_join, on_reaction_add, etc.

🔐 OAuth2

• Authorization-code flow with PKCE for third-party apps.
• Scopes: identify, email, guilds, bot.
• Token refresh and revocation endpoints.

🛠 Developer Portal

• Create & manage applications and bot users at /developers.
• Bot tokens (regenerable) and OAuth2 client credentials.
• Bot invite link generator with permission picker.
• Per-application stats and request logs.

• Notification system: desktop OS notifications for mentions, DMs and friend events.
• Per-channel mute (1 hour, 8 hours, 24 hours, until reopened, forever).
• "Suppress @everyone" toggle per channel.

• Message edit & delete with permission gating (own messages always; others require "Manage Messages").
• "Edited" indicator with hover tooltip showing edit timestamp.

• Channel permission overrides: per-role and per-user overrides on top of server-wide roles.
• Permission calculator preview shows the effective permissions for any user in any channel.

• Channel categories: collapsible groups with drag-and-drop reordering.
• Category-level permissions inherited by child channels.

• File uploads: drag-and-drop and paste-to-upload for images, videos and documents (up to 100 MB free, 500 MB GGBRO Plus).
• Image / video previews with click-to-expand lightbox.
• Range-request streaming for video and audio playback.

• Friend system: send / accept / decline friend requests, block users.
• Friends list with online presence.
• Pending and blocked tabs.

• Direct messages: 1-on-1 private messaging with full history.
• DM list sorted by latest activity, unread badges, mark-as-read.

• Screen sharing in voice channels — share entire screen or a specific application window.
• Quality presets (720p / 1080p) with adjustable framerate.

• Voice activity detection and push-to-talk modes.
• Self-hosted TURN/STUN relay for users behind strict NATs.
• Per-user volume sliders inside voice channels.

🎙 Voice Channels

• WebRTC peer-to-peer audio with sub-100ms latency.
• Mute, deafen, server-mute, server-deafen.
• Voice channel member tray with speaking indicators.

• Auto-update system using electron-updater with delta blockmaps for fast incremental downloads.
• Self-hosted update server at /updates with full version history retained.
• "Restart to update" notification with one-click apply.

• Complete dark-theme UI overhaul with redesigned chat layout.
• Migrated frontend to Electron + Vite + React + Tailwind.
• Replaced legacy bundler with electron-vite for sub-second hot reload.
• Introduced design tokens and shared component library.
• Accessibility: keyboard navigation, focus rings, screen-reader labels.

• Rapid iteration phase — server creation, channel management, real-time messaging via Socket.IO.
• User profiles with avatars, banners and bios.
• Authentication system: JWT sessions, password reset, email verification.
• Role-based permissions and the first version of role assignment.
• Better-sqlite3 schema with foreign-key constraints.

• Multi-server support — join multiple servers from a single account.
• Server settings UI (name, icon, description).
• Member management with kick / ban primitives.
• The first version of the invite system (random codes, no expiry).

• Initial public release.
• Basic text chat, user registration, the first Electron desktop client.
• Single hard-coded server — no multi-server yet.

• iOS app — TestFlight first, then App Store.
• Google Play release for the Android app.
• macOS & Linux desktop builds.
• Slash commands with autocomplete and option types.
• Webhooks for pushing external notifications into channels.
• Threads — threaded conversations inside channels.
• Server templates — bootstrap a server from a saved layout.
• Scheduled events — create and RSVP to server events.
• Server boosts — community-driven server upgrades.