Miller: release notes

Each version, newest first.

0.5.15

October 7, 2026

It carries the Steward's kit 2.36.1: the parts every agent of the manor shares.

Nothing: it updates itself as usual. This kit comes after 2.36.0; 2.33.0 (Steward 0.19.4) is still to be released and doesn't depend on it.

Castellan installs and updates it by itself. To install it by hand, unpack the zip anywhere and run node src\cli.ts install (Node 22.18 or later). SHA256SUMS.txt lists its SHA-256 (PowerShell: Get-FileHash).

October 7, 2026

It carries the Steward's kit 2.35.0: the parts every agent of the manor shares.

The Steward's kit 2.35.0: A release of an agent Castellan sells goes to the Exchequer, and no longer to the public releases repository.

Nothing: it updates itself as usual. Agents for sale stop appearing in the public releases repository once the Exchequer 0.6.0 is deployed with its migration applied. Until then, releases go there as before.

Castellan installs and updates it by itself. To install it by hand, unpack the zip anywhere and run node src\cli.ts install (Node 22.18 or later). SHA256SUMS.txt lists its SHA-256 (PowerShell: Get-FileHash).

October 7, 2026

It carries the Steward's kit 2.34.0: the parts every agent of the manor shares.

Nothing: it updates itself as usual. This kit comes after 2.33.0 (Steward 0.19.4); if 2.33.0 isn't released yet, release it first.

Castellan installs and updates it by itself. To install it by hand, unpack the zip anywhere and run node src\cli.ts install (Node 22.18 or later). SHA256SUMS.txt lists its SHA-256 (PowerShell: Get-FileHash).

October 7, 2026

The Miller makes video copies out of the box: it fetches its own FFmpeg when this PC has none.

When there's no FFmpeg on this PC, the Miller fetches its own, once: a small LGPL build (about 12 MB) for Arm or x64 PCs, checked against the exact build it expects before it's used. It reaches your PC's own video encoder through Windows' Media Foundation, so copies are quick and light on power. Before, videos waited in the hopper until you found and installed an FFmpeg yourself.

If the download fails (no internet, or GitHub having a bad hour), the Miller tries again on a later round by itself.
An FFmpeg of your own still comes first: on PATH, where the Miller found it before, or named in the FFmpeg setting. With that setting filled in, the Miller never fetches one.
When the video encoder refuses, the page says what to do in plain words instead of a build instruction.

Castellan installs and updates it by itself. To install it by hand, unpack the zip anywhere and run node src\cli.ts install (Node 22.18 or later). SHA256SUMS.txt lists its SHA-256 (PowerShell: Get-FileHash).

October 7, 2026

It carries the Steward's kit 2.32.0: the parts every agent of the manor shares.

The Steward's kit 2.32.0: A release goes to the agent's own repository, and to a releases repository only where one is named.

Manor installs and updates it by itself. To install it by hand, unpack the zip anywhere and run node src\cli.ts install (Node 22.18 or later). SHA256SUMS.txt lists its SHA-256 (PowerShell: Get-FileHash).