0.3.16

CLAUDE.md

@@ -145,9 +145,8 @@ Android identifies an app by
 applicationId **plus** signing key, so a changed key forces every user to uninstall and
 reinstall.
 
-Every version bump is also a publish operation: update the version and changelog together,
-commit the complete release, and push it to GitHub. Never leave a bumped version only in the
-local working tree.
+Every version bump is also a publish operation: commit the complete release and push it to
+GitHub. Never leave a bumped version only in the local working tree.
 
 For direct TV deployment without publishing a release, `deploy-tv.ps1` builds and verifies
 the signed release, connects over wireless ADB, installs it with `-r`, and launches the
@@ -159,23 +158,6 @@ pass `-Device host:port` when Android rotates the wireless-debugging port.
 URL is a static manifest, anything else is a Gitea host. `resolveApkUrl` lets a manifest
 use a relative `apkUrl`. Both are unit-tested in `UpdateSourceTest`.
 
-**`CHANGELOG.md` is the version history the TV shows.** It is read into
-`BuildConfig.CHANGELOG_TEXT` at build time the way `LICENSE` and `NOTICE` are, parsed by
-the pure `parseChangelog` in `ui/settings/VersionHistory.kt`, and rendered by Settings →
-About as one collapsible release per entry. So a release edits one file and the history
-stays readable offline. Keep the `## <version> — <date>` / `- bullet` shape; anything else
-in the file is skipped as prose, and a bullet wrapped onto a second line is rejoined.
-
-**An update is acknowledged once with a toast.** `ui/whatsnew/whatsNewDecision` compares the
-running build with `Settings.whatsNewSeenVersion`, and `AppRoot` briefly says “Memby has been
-updated to version …” over the launcher before recording it. The record is device state,
-deliberately not a synced preference: what is new is a property of the APK on *this* set.
-Two quiet cases matter: a **fresh install** has not updated from anything, so setup records
-the current build without announcing it; and a signed-out set with an older record waits
-until somebody signs in, because the notice belongs over the launcher. The changelog is no
-longer part of this decision — release history remains available in Settings → About, while
-local or unreleased builds still receive the same one-time update acknowledgement.
-
 **Forced updates are server-controlled.** `server/internal/appupdate` decides `none` /
 `optional` / `mandatory` from the client's `X-Memby-Version` header against an
 operator-set policy (admin page → App updates). `HomeViewModel.checkForAppUpdate` runs on
@@ -2636,8 +2618,7 @@ logo. Things to preserve:
 `-isation` (personalise, synchronisation, organise), `-our` (colour, favourite, behaviour),
 `-re` (centre, theatre), **licence** the noun and *license* the verb, **programme** for a
 broadcast, and grey, catalogue, cancelled, labelled, travelling. This covers on-screen copy
-in Kotlin and `res/values/strings.xml`, `CHANGELOG.md` (which the TV renders twice — Settings
-→ About and the what's-new panel), the admin console, the release landing page in
+in Kotlin and `res/values/strings.xml`, the admin console, the release landing page in
 `dist/template/`, every string the gateway sends the client to display (row titles, alert
 `label`s, the preference and feature catalogues, error messages), and this repository's own
 prose and comments.
@@ -2942,8 +2923,7 @@ seen"), not feature names.
 
 **Up out of the top of a page returns to the page list.** Nothing sits above a pane's first
 control, so that press did nothing at all on every page — and a remote that stops responding
-is not read as a list that has run out. About is where it was reported, its pane being a
-changelog long enough that walking back up it is the ordinary way to leave. The escape is an
+is not read as a list that has run out. The escape is an
 `onKeyEvent` on the content column that makes the move the default handler would have made
 and falls back to the rail only when it fails, so a page's own vertical navigation is
 untouched: `focusProperties { up = … }` is inherited by every row and would take that