V26: Onboarding Intent, Quit Guardrail, and a Cleaner Markdown Pipeline
Tell us what you want to do. Don't lose work on quit. Trim videos with a filmstrip. V26 is here.
Twenty-six releases. Twenty-six consecutive Fridays. V26 opens with a first-launch intent question so Diwadi can show you the right things right away, and we renamed Pro Tips to Discover to match. A new quit warning stops you from accidentally closing the app while a batch, a download, or an AI stream is still working. The video trim dialog has been redesigned with a filmstrip preview and stepper timecodes so you can land on the exact frame you want. Image compress, convert, and resize now preserve ICC color profiles and EXIF data, and use correctly oriented dimensions so portrait photos stay portrait. Markdown got a large cleanup pass -- preview jitter around code and tables, export edge cases, broken-link toasts, external link handling, and search coverage all improved. The beautifier social export now lets you pick format and quality up front. Cmd+W closes tabs. Menus show shortcut hints. And AI-powered actions get a subtle badge so you always know what's on-device vs. AI.
What's New in V26
First-Launch Intent and Discover
When you open Diwadi for the first time, a quick intent question helps us tune the app to how you actually work. Pro Tips is now called Discover -- a cleaner home for tutorials, walkthroughs, and new-feature surfacing.
Quit Guardrail
Closing the window used to silently kill anything in flight. V26 adds a warning when operations, downloads, or AI streams are still running, with live status and an all-clear state so you know exactly what will be lost. Background work finishes before the app does.
Filmstrip Video Trim
The video trim dialog has been redesigned with a scrubbable filmstrip and stepper timecodes. See the frame you're landing on, nudge in and out points by frame, and trim with much more precision than a draggable range handle alone.
Color-Accurate Image Ops
Image compress, convert, and resize now preserve ICC color profiles and EXIF metadata, and use EXIF-oriented dimensions -- so photos that were shot in portrait stay in portrait after a resize. Color-managed workflows now round-trip cleanly through Diwadi.
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The Numbers
26 releases. 26 weeks. Intent onboarding. Quit guardrail. Filmstrip trim. Color-accurate images.
Twenty-Six Weeks of Shipping
V1 on Oct 31. V26 today. Twenty-six consecutive releases. Building in public, shipping every Friday.
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Major Features
- First-launch intent modal in onboarding, with Pro Tips renamed to Discover
- Quit warning when operations, downloads, or AI streams are still running
- Redesigned video trim dialog with filmstrip preview and stepper timecodes
- Format and quality settings in the beautifier social export flow, routed through a named subfolder
- Shortcut hints shown in menus, plus a Cmd+W close-tab shortcut
- Total size display for multi-selected files in the file navigator
- Subtle AI badges on AI-powered actions in menus
Technical Improvements
- Image compress, convert, and resize preserve ICC color profiles and EXIF orientation
- Markdown-to-PDF export no longer auto-generates a table-of-contents page
- Overwrite is now an explicit output-mode step in image and PDF dialogs
- Recalibrated file-browser hover, drop, and selection colors with neutral drop overlays
- Audio conversion skips re-encodes that will not shrink the file, with aligned m4a codec and extract parity
- OCR blocks empty or garbage output, uses atomic writes, and applies tighter prompts
Fixed
- Fixed Windows clipboard round-trip to preserve cut and copy intent
- Fixed PDF password prompt spinner and error race, with a new show/hide toggle
- Fixed markdown preview jitter around code blocks and tables, heading slug consistency, BOM-aware reads, broken-link toasts, empty-source DOCX/PDF conversion, external link handling, full-content search, print layout, and picker-cancel flicker
- Fixed Replace Original to harden against data loss and stale UI
- Fixed file-browser drag and drop: auto-scroll during in-app row drags, scoped editor drops, stopped ghost moves on out-of-tree drops, preserved selection across moves, and cleared stale highlights
- Fixed file path handling with normalized keys and inode identity
- Fixed multi-file trash main-thread hang and unified the delete path
- Fixed window-close flow to cancel zombie pendings and live-poll the dialog
- Fixed Windows to skip the native app menu and prevent a ghost menubar
- Fixed stable-Rust Windows builds and restored Android EXIF
- Fixed beautifier 3D mode to isolate effects and make the canvas panel responsive
- Fixed tips dismiss timer to gate on activity panel visibility