Every release,
with the reason to update.

Clearer, more predictable video processing

• Video processing now reports speech, visual, and on-screen text coverage separately, with clearer partial-result and no-audio states.
• OCR can be enabled with an explicit sampling interval, while cloud credits now follow successful media seconds and OCR frames more precisely.

Search understands more of every video

• Cloud video memory can now combine speech, on-screen text, and key visual frames, making silent and text-heavy footage easier to find.
• App, MCP, and API usage now draw from one shared credits balance, while Go includes the expanded local capabilities previously reserved for higher tiers.

Clearer feedback when something needs attention

• Warnings, errors, and success confirmations now use one consistent, accessible visual language, with clearer priority and recovery actions.
• Undo notices for deleted moments now stay available until you act or dismiss them and remain tied to the correct moment.

A smoother start and more reliable cloud video processing

• First-run setup and sign-in now guide you into the app with a clearer, more focused flow.
• App updates can now be checked, downloaded, and installed with visible progress and clearer recovery when something goes wrong.
• Cloud video uploads can resume one part at a time and reuse an existing index instead of processing and charging for the same content again, while still confirming what leaves your device.

Ask a video with grounded evidence

• Ask questions from a video detail page and open timestamped evidence without widening the answer to the rest of your library.
• Processing settings now show the active retrieval engine, plan allowance, and local or cloud boundary more accurately.
• Cloud processing confirmations now explain what leaves the device before you continue.

More reliable local search

• Local indexing now uses updated integrity and identifier libraries for a more reliable foundation when rebuilding or searching your library.

Quicker settings and clearer device approval

• The Settings window can now be moved normally, with Updates in its own section and clearer Library storage controls.
• The account avatar now opens a compact system-style menu with clearer sign-in guidance and the shortcut actually used by Settings.
• Desktop sign-in now shows the same four-character verification code on the app and approval page, making the device check faster and easier to confirm.

Settings that stay out of your way

• Settings now opens in a dedicated window with simpler navigation, built-in search, and clearer Library, Processing, and Advanced controls.
• Account sign-in and subscription changes now refresh across Cerul and return you to the window where you started.
• Appearance follows your system by default, updates immediately across windows, and keeps processing options readable on smaller screens.

Account usage at a glance

• The Account & Usage screen now shows a 30-day activity timeline, plan status, local library capacity, and MCP allowance in one place.
• Cerul Cloud sign-in now mirrors the device being authorized and keeps onboarding open when sign-in cannot start, so you can retry safely.
• Pro accounts now show their unlimited MCP allowance correctly, with clearer guidance when a capped plan reaches its daily limit.

A clearer visual home for your video memory

• Recent videos now appear as thumbnail cards with timecodes and processing states, making them easier to recognize at a glance.
• Audio items and videos without thumbnails now use stable media-type fallbacks, and the loading grid holds its layout while your library appears.
• Refined Traditional Chinese and Japanese brand wording across Desktop surfaces.

Safer connections and broader download support

• Updated the bundled Desktop HTTP/2 networking stack to address a recently disclosed security issue.
• Updated the bundled downloader for the latest site and extractor compatibility fixes.

A calmer, more coherent workspace

• Refreshed the Desktop experience with the Cool-Paper Atelier visual system across Home, search, Library, Moments, Settings, and startup, with clearer hierarchy and more consistent light and dark themes.
• Added optional deep-field and search-pulse effects, a refined launch sequence, and unified status notices while fully respecting Visual effects and reduced-motion preferences.

A safer, current foundation

• Updated Cerul's desktop runtime and packaging foundation to supported releases, strengthening security and update reliability without changing your workflow.

Local and cloud, clearly connected

• Upload a single local video to Cerul Cloud from Desktop, with explicit confirmation before data leaves your Mac.
• Improved local/cloud routing, cloud-replica verification, and retry recovery so indexing cannot silently switch execution locations or duplicate uploads.

A more focused Cerul workspace

• Refined Desktop settings into focused surfaces for models, storage, usage, advanced controls, local downloads, and updates.
• Improved the Web console, documentation, and developer surfaces with clearer navigation and more focused copy.

A clearer home and console

• Redesigned the web console with clearer navigation across API keys, Playground, usage, billing, and logs, while preserving deep links and checkout status.
• Refreshed Desktop Home and Saved Moments for faster source intake and review, with safer drag-and-drop that accepts supported video files only.

Faster and more focused delivery checks

• Streamlined pull request validation so relevant checks run when their consumers change, while preserving required safety gates.
• Expanded dependency and application coverage for workspace package changes to catch install and build regressions before merge.

More reliable sign-in and processing controls

• Email sign-in now reports delivery failures without consuming the user's retry allowance.
• Verification-code resend cooldowns follow the server's actual retry window and reset when switching email addresses.
• Cloud API mode now always routes work to Cerul Cloud, while account and settings recovery flows remain stable.

Automatic verified updates and a clearer Cerul identity

• Cerul now restarts automatically eight seconds after a downloaded update passes release verification, even when the app is minimized or unfocused.
• Removed the Later action so verified updates complete without another click.
• Made the homepage state clearly that Cerul is a video semantic search app and explain why Cerul Cloud sign-in is needed.
• Aligned the public homepage brand name to Cerul and made Google data-use and Privacy Policy details visible in the first screen.

Clearer Cerul Cloud sign-in

• Added a homepage explanation of why Cerul Cloud sign-in is needed and what Google account data Cerul does not access.

About release history stays current

• Desktop About now receives generated release metadata instead of a stale hardcoded history.
• Added localized About and updater copy for Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, English, and Japanese, including language-aware update and diagnostics states.
• Hardened release checks and tests so current and archived Web/Desktop release records cannot silently drift.

A cleaner and safer sign-in path

• Unified Google and GitHub sign-in around Cerul's official Web callback for both browser and Desktop authorization.
• Retired the legacy account callback path while preserving an explicitly allowlisted pre-promotion API candidate for release validation.
• Clarified the separate Local and Production provider setup and the transactional email sender boundary.

Search quality v4 and stronger evidence grounding

• Introduced scope-aware hybrid retrieval with boundary-aware context windows and calibrated candidate selection.
• Added multi-evidence sets, confidence and QA gates, and traceable evidence diagnostics for questions that require combining several clips.
• Added reproducible public benchmark runners, Product Golden review workflow, and fast regression contracts for tuning retrieval without training.

A steadier update and playback path

• Verified updates now reconcile against the public feed before installation and keep an explicit Later option.
• Repeated seeks and cross-item playback release abandoned media requests before they can exhaust the transport pool.
• The Moon Rock Amber download center now brings localized downloads and release history to the website.

The current public release baseline

• The signed macOS download remains the recommended install path.

Scrubbing now lands on the latest seek

• Fixed video playback honoring the latest seek when scrubbing rapidly.

A steadier player and evidence timeline

• Stabilized player navigation and the evidence timeline around each result.

Deep links open the right moment

• Fixed deep-link video playback so shared moments open at the expected time.

Pricing and entitlements are now visible

• Added the P0 pricing surface and entitlement states across the product.

A more coherent Cerul

• Unified Cerul branding and motion across the product surfaces.

Updater status, in the right place

• Aligned updater status and placement so update state is easier to understand.

A calmer first run

• Added sample-first onboarding and muted noisy OAuth and query alerts.

Restart with confidence

• Ask for confirmation before restarting after an update.

A clearer About page

• Reorganized version, release history, and help links.
• Reduced update controls to one primary action.
• Kept a manual release-page fallback after update errors.

A more trustworthy update experience

• Download progress now follows transferred bytes
• Added update management and live download details
• Release history is now available in the app

Build stability

• Stabilized generated client declarations for releases.

Private release support

• Improved authentication for private release checks.

On-demand releases

• Moved macOS release jobs to an on-demand runner.

Startup reliability

• Improved local service startup in production builds.

Media previews

• Added authenticated access for media previews.

Updater resilience

• Handled transient updater errors more gracefully.