DAWG

Changelog ​

Notable changes to DAWG are grouped by release family and listed in descending release order. Released versions link to their corresponding GitHub releases and direct release assets.

Omega family — 0.4.x ​

0.4.3-omega - 2026-10-04 ​

Tag: omega-3 · Desktop: 0.4.3 · Extension display version: 0.3.5_middlechild (unchanged)

Downloads: Windows installer · Linux AppImage

Added ​

  • First-run onboarding with four welcome slides covering capture, DOM-and-mouse replay, QA-to-Dev artifact sharing, and entering the workspace. Completion is remembered locally. (c04847c)
  • A 14-step guided workspace tour across Dashboard, Capture, Artifacts, Replay, and Editor. Users can skip with Stop, the close button, or Escape; completion and skipping are saved locally. (d6f714d)
  • Dashboard .dawg archive import and latest-artifact shortcuts for Replay and Edit review. (d6f714d)

Changed ​

  • Artifacts search supports Enter to inspect the first match, with more readable catalog metadata and inspector details for added time and instance ID. (d6f714d)
  • Replay search includes instanceId; Enter selects the first match without running replay. Run Replay remains a separate action. (d6f714d)
  • Refreshed controls, cards, dialogs, page layouts, settings, logs, and empty states provide a more consistent workspace. This is a UI refresh, not a change to engine capture or replay algorithms. (224bddf)
  • Improved onboarding keyboard focus and Editor artifact-selection layout. (d6f714d)
  • Simplified Replay search handling and refined Dashboard illustrations and active Editor controls. (fbe31df)
  • Current website metadata, navigation, download links, and documentation identify 0.4.3-omega, Desktop 0.4.3, and tag omega-3. The capture extension remains 0.3.5_middlechild.

Fixed ​

  • Fixed an intermittent replay subprocess-output handling error that could report a failure after the browser process exited successfully. Replay now drains stdout and stderr before completing process cleanup.

Removed ​

  • Removed the placeholder Diff & Verify page from Desktop navigation. CLI verification remains available through dawg verify.

Compatibility ​

  • Capture still requires a Chromium-based desktop browser version 116 or newer; Firefox and Safari recording are not supported.
  • Replay and review continue to use the bundled Playwright Chromium runtime.

0.4.2-omega - 2026-10-01 ​

Tag: omega-2 · Desktop: 0.4.2 · Extension display version: 0.3.5_middlechild (unchanged)

Downloads: Windows installer · Linux AppImage

Changed ​

  • Desktop Capture now displays a prominent compatibility notice that recording currently supports Chromium-based desktop browsers only.
  • The obsolete replay sandbox status UI has been removed from Desktop while replay execution and controls remain available.
  • Website installation guidance and the main project documentation now state the current browser-recording boundary explicitly.
  • New artifacts use the explicit v0.4.2-omega schema while all previously supported schemas remain readable.
  • Application, Desktop, website metadata, and release downloads now identify 0.4.2-omega, Desktop 0.4.2, and tag omega-2.
  • The capture extension remains display version 0.3.5_middlechild; no extension update is required.

Compatibility ​

  • Recording requires Chrome, Edge, or another Chromium-based desktop browser version 116 or newer.
  • Firefox and Safari recording are not supported in this release.
  • Replay and review continue to use the bundled Playwright Chromium runtime.

0.4.1-omega - 2026-09-28 ​

Tag: omega · Desktop: 0.4.1 · Extension display version: 0.3.5_middlechild (unchanged)

Downloads: Windows installer · Linux AppImage

Added ​

  • A dedicated Artifacts page for catalog search, origin and review filtering, inspection, replay, editing, import/export, revision history, and confirmed safe local deletion.
  • A Chromium-hosted Editor for portable point and range flags with titles, notes, categories, severities, keyboard adjustment, local drafts, and non-destructive revision publication.
  • A review timeline that distinguishes blue point markers from purple range bands, shows drag handles only for the selected flag, supports short-range hit targets, and provides immediate delete with Undo.
  • Custom saved-artifact names, with the default <source title> review <revision>, plus an in-Chromium confirmation once the Engine has actually published the new artifact.
  • Replay flag lists, timeline markers, click-to-seek, previous/next navigation, selected-flag playback, and Review flags only mode.
  • Dashboard summaries with one latest-added local artifact and counts for local captures, imported artifacts, flagged artifacts, diagnostics, and Doctor compatibility.
  • Explicit Doctor compatibility reporting for the labeled Engine/application version and numeric Desktop version.

Changed ​

  • Acquisition origin and portable review state are independent, so an artifact can be both Imported and Flagged.
  • The local catalog uses instance-based identity, allowing duplicate copies of one artifact digest to be managed independently.
  • Save draft stores validated review flags locally for the selected source artifact; Save artifact publishes a named immutable artifact revision and clears its draft.
  • Replay and Editor fit the fixed recorded viewport into the available space once, while an unused review panel no longer consumes replay width.
  • New artifacts use the explicit v0.4.1-omega schema while previous supported schemas remain readable.
  • The capture extension remains display version 0.3.5_middlechild because Omega does not change extension source.

Fixed ​

  • Closing Chromium or using Stop Replay / Stop Editor now releases the interactive-process reservation before another interactive window can launch.
  • Valid numeric point and range offsets are accepted by the generated Editor client, with field-specific validation feedback.
  • Saving review revisions accepts rrweb JSONL records up to the shared 16 MiB limit instead of failing with Go's default scanner token too long error.
  • Empty Editor selections hide the flag form and disable draft/artifact save actions; externally discarded flags cannot be restored by a stale Undo action.

Compatibility and privacy ​

  • Flagged 0.4.1-omega artifacts require an Engine that supports the Omega review schema; supported older artifacts remain readable.
  • Flag titles, notes, and saved artifact names are portable artifact content and must be reviewed before sharing.
  • Flags guide replay navigation only; they do not delete captured evidence or alter rrweb state.

Middlechild family — 0.3.x ​

0.3.5-middlechild - 2026-09-24 ​

Desktop: 0.3.5 · Extension display version: 0.3.5_middlechild

Downloads: Windows installer · Linux AppImage

Added ​

  • Desktop replay controls now stay synchronized with the authoritative rrweb player in Chromium through a versioned bidirectional protocol.
  • Console, error, and network evidence appears at its literal replay time, including request, first-byte, and completion stages, with an All captured fallback.
  • Artifacts retain a sanitized browser device profile covering available browser/OS hints, viewport, screen, locale, timezone, hardware capacity, connection hints, page URL, and user agent; Replay exposes it in a dedicated Device tab.
  • Prominent tag-specific Windows and Linux downloads are available from the homepage.
  • GitHub Sponsors links are available in the website navigation/footer and Desktop open-source card.

Fixed ​

  • MV3 worker restarts preserve the private capture token and wait for state restoration before forwarding rrweb events.
  • Capture startup now fails when rrweb is unavailable instead of publishing an empty recording.
  • Packaging rejects replay traces without events, valid timestamps, or a FullSnapshot.
  • The Desktop Timeline tab reads the packaged diagnostic timeline instead of looking for unavailable manifest summary fields.

Changed ​

  • The extension capture panel is status-only; captures stop from Desktop or CLI so pending events drain before packaging.
  • Browser-restricted MAC, hostname, and reliable IP values are represented as unavailable; capture does not call an external discovery service.
  • New artifacts use the explicit v0.3.5-middlechild schema while previous supported schemas remain readable.

0.3.3-middlechild - 2026-09-23 ​

Desktop: 0.3.3 · Extension display version: 0.3.1_middlechild

Downloads: Windows installer

Added ​

  • Exported .dawg artifacts now register as DAWG Artifact documents in desktop bundles, using the DAWG paw application icon.
  • Double-clicking an associated .dawg archive opens DAWG and imports it through the existing validated import flow.

Changed ​

  • New artifacts use the explicit v0.3.3-middlechild manifest schema; existing supported artifact schemas remain readable.

0.3.2-middlechild - 2026-09-23 ​

Desktop: 0.3.2 · Extension display version: 0.3.1_middlechild

Downloads: Windows installer · Linux AppImage

Fixed ​

  • Large rrweb events no longer fail diagnostic timeline extraction because of Go's default scanner token limit.
  • Diagnostic record streams are no longer limited by the retained-body file-size limit.
  • Oversized replay traces omit only optional timeline correlation; diagnostic inspection, HAR export, and cURL export remain available.
  • HTTP verification now records response-comparison failures instead of silently omitting the check.

Changed ​

  • Capture, sanitization, diagnostic packaging, and HTTP verification now share a 16 MiB JSONL record limit.
  • Diagnostic-layer decompression is bounded before data is retained in memory.
  • New artifacts use the explicit v0.3.2-middlechild manifest schema; previous supported artifact schemas remain readable.

0.3.1-middlechild - 2026-09-21 ​

Desktop: 0.3.1 · Extension display version: 0.3.1_middlechild

Downloads: Windows installer · Linux AppImage

Added ​

  • Safe capture as the default bounded diagnostic profile for console, error, and network metadata
  • Consented Enhanced Diagnostics capture using CDP for console APIs, exceptions, and network evidence
  • Eligible Enhanced CDP response-body retention for JSON, GraphQL, form-encoded, and text content, bounded by content type, record count, per-body size, aggregate-body size, layer size, and concurrent retrieval limits
  • Explicit diagnostic evidence states: captured, redacted, preview-only, truncated, blocked, unavailable, not-requested, and capture-failed
  • OCI diagnostic-record and diagnostic-body layers, manifest diagnostic summaries, and a strict v0.3.1-middlechild artifact schema
  • dawg diagnostics inspect, dawg diagnostics export-har, and dawg diagnostics copy-curl commands
  • dawg diagnostics remove to create an independently digest-addressed reviewed artifact with selected diagnostic categories or individual retained body references removed
  • Desktop Replay evidence review with state filtering, sanitized HAR export, reviewed cURL copying, and explicit evidence-removal confirmation
  • Approximate diagnostic-to-rrweb correlation and Desktop seeking for an active interactive replay when the record timestamp falls within the retained rrweb range

Changed ​

  • Sanitization now covers retained diagnostic console, network, error, and body evidence before packaging
  • Enhanced CDP attach failures fall back to Safe and capture degradations are retained as diagnostic errors
  • Enhanced capture attaches Chrome's debugger before rrweb takes its initial full snapshot, so captures use the viewport after Chrome applies its debugger infobar
  • dawg doctor derives schema:manifest from the current schema constant and now reports 0.3.1-middlechild
  • Version synchronization distinguishes the application/artifact schema (0.3.1-middlechild), Desktop (0.3.1), and extension display version (0.3.1_middlechild)

Privacy and fidelity boundaries ​

  • Safe capture does not retrieve response bodies through CDP
  • Enhanced capture retains only eligible bounded body content; unavailable, blocked, truncated, or failed content remains represented by its evidence state
  • Removing a retained body rewrites its matching network reference to unavailable; DAWG never recreates removed content
  • A reviewed artifact has recomputed OCI descriptors and logical identity. Source provenance is not carried over to modified evidence
  • Replay correlation is approximate and only appears for in-range timestamps; records without a valid correlation do not expose a seek action
  • Replay continues to render the rrweb recording rather than re-executing captured actions or restoring the original application runtime

Compatibility ​

  • Existing 0.2.3-naughty, 0.2.5-naughty, and 0.2.7-naughty artifacts remain supported for inspect, import/export, and replay. They return empty diagnostics where no evidence layers exist.

Naughty family — 0.2.x ​

0.2.7-naughty - 2026-09-20 ​

Tag: naughty-4

Downloads: Windows installer · Linux AppImage

Added ​

  • Replay debugging through Chromium DevTools with named replay resources and a window.__DAWG_REPLAY__ handle for the reconstructed rrweb document
  • Artifact compatibility for supported manifests from 0.2.3-naughty onward

Changed ​

  • Interactive replay now uses a stable local replay page that can be inspected and reloaded normally

Fixed ​

  • Refreshing interactive Chromium now reconstructs and restarts replay instead of leaving a blank page
  • Artifact Inspector dialogs now remain above the sidebar and fit minimized or narrow windows

0.2.5-naughty - 2026-09-19 ​

Tag: naughty-3

Downloads: Windows installer · Linux AppImage

Added ​

  • A DAWG-styled extension popup using the real paw asset and locally hosted Outfit font
  • Portable .dawg Replay import and export
  • Chrome Web Store distribution for the browser extension

Changed ​

  • Dashboard Replay now navigates to Replay, preselects the chosen artifact, and does not start playback automatically
  • Desktop replay now provides interactive play/pause, skip, speed, and timeline controls
  • Desktop replay preserves the recorded viewport with corrected letterboxing and scaling

0.2.3-naughty - 2026-09-12 ​

Tag: naughty-2 · Release: Naughty 2, Naughty Boy

Downloads: Windows installer

Added ​

  • Portable .dawg artifact import and export through the engine, native desktop dialogs, and desktop drag-and-drop
  • A persistent local artifact catalog with automatic discovery and refresh after captures and imports
  • Readable, collision-safe capture names and optional artifact titles
  • Artifact origin labels plus replay search and filtering by title, digest, target URL, path, and origin
  • Staged archive extraction and validation for paths, links, size and compression limits, OCI descriptors, digests, and DAWG manifests

Fixed ​

  • Desktop export now preserves the path selected in the save dialog instead of creating an unintended file named json

0.2.0-naughty - 2026-09-11 ​

Tag: naughty · Release: Naughty Boy is Here, Finally

Downloads: Windows installer

Added ​

  • Extension-first capture of rrweb events, browser actions, and frontend request metadata through a session-authenticated engine streaming server
  • Real desktop replay execution, replay diagnostics, cancellation, and cleanup of DAWG-owned engine, Node.js, Chromium, mitmproxy, and capture processes
  • Centralized version management through version.json with synchronization and consistency checks

Fixed ​

  • Capture and replay lifecycle races, shutdown deadlocks, cleanup ordering, and stop timeouts
  • Replay corruption caused by sanitizing rrweb doctype names and SVG viewBox or points geometry
  • Unwanted Windows console windows for background DAWG subprocesses

Alpha family — 0.1.x ​

0.1.3-alpha - 2026-09-09 ​

Tag: v0.1.3 · Release: v0.1.3-1/alpha

Downloads: Windows installer

Added ​

  • Base Jenkins configuration for automated build and bundle validation

Fixed ​

  • Engine subprocesses now run without visible console windows on Windows
  • The desktop Replay Engine view now starts replay through the engine bridge
  • Bare Windows hosts now show the engine's native-compatibility replay status instead of an incorrect Linux or WSL2 blocker

0.1.2-alpha - 2026-09-06 ​

Tag: alpha-3 · Release: v0.1.2-1/alpha

Downloads: Windows installer

Changed ​

  • Revamped the desktop UI and standardized control paths

Fixed ​

  • Access-denied errors while creating the DAWG artifact store

0.1.1-alpha - 2026-09-04 ​

Tag: alpha-2 · Release: v0.1.1-1/alpha

Downloads: Windows installer

Changed ​

  • Improved dynamic path integration and engine commands on Windows
  • Deprecated MSI distribution in favor of the Windows NSIS bundle

0.1.0-alpha - 2026-09-04 ​

Tag: alpha · Release: 0.1.0-1/alpha

Downloads: Windows installer · Windows MSI

Added ​

  • A self-contained Windows desktop app with bundled runtimes and built-in dawg doctor diagnostics
  • DOM, browser-action, HTTP, and structured-log capture
  • OPA-driven privacy sanitization with gated PII redaction and reports
  • OCI artifact packaging, native browser replay, verification, and registry push/pull commands

Known limitations ​

  • Prebuilt Linux packages were not included
  • Container-isolated replay required WSL2 with rootless Docker on Windows; bare Windows used native mock sandbox mode

Full release history on GitHub