Changelog

What we've been shipping

Every release of Sideband, newest first. We ship fast in beta; here's the trail.

  1. v1.4

    May 2026

    Restyler fonts & accessibility

    • Symbol restyler ships a curated set of accessible fonts, including a high-legibility monospace for pin tables.
    • Restyle a whole library in one pass: fonts, colours and spacing normalised across every SchLib symbol.
    • Server-side restyle pipeline rewritten for speed; large libraries process in a fraction of the previous time.
    • Per-symbol preview diff so you can see exactly what changes before committing.
  2. v1.3

    March 2026

    Tokenised search everywhere

    • Type "10uF 25V 0805" in any order; each token narrows results, no exact-string matching required.
    • Search now spans components, symbols, footprints, suppliers and storage locations from one box.
    • Saved filters and recent searches surface in the command palette.
    • Result ranking tuned for MPN and SPN prefixes so part-number lookups land first.
  3. v1.2

    January 2026

    PCB viewer textures

    • WebGL board viewer gains realistic copper sheen, soldermask gloss and solder-paste textures.
    • Paste and silkscreen layers toggle independently for inspection.
    • Courtyard and 3D body overlays render together so footprint and model line up at a glance.
    • Viewer runs entirely in the browser; no Altium install required to review a board.
  4. v1.1

    November 2025

    Command palette & shortcuts

    • A VS Code-style ⌘K command palette reaches every action in the app.
    • Fully customisable keyboard shortcuts, remappable per user.
    • Auto-animate transitions across lists and trees so reordering and filtering feel fluid.
    • Jump-to-part and jump-to-location commands resolve straight from a scanned barcode.
  5. v1.0

    September 2025

    Live DBLib CDC streaming

    • The native DBLib endpoint moves from polling to change-data-capture; Altium sees edits sub-second.
    • Stable on-disk schema and a documented OpenAPI surface mark the 1.0 line.
    • Pin-to-pad mapping validation runs automatically and blocks mismatched parts from publishing.
    • First general release of the desktop app for Windows.

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