Version 3.1.1 beta

RawCull Changelog: v2.3.5 → Latest Commits

The version 3.1.1 beta requiere macOS 27 (Golden Gate) latest beta either public or developer.

Commit range: 3b1c41d..ef34c7a
Current version: RawCull 3.1.1 (Build 307)

🚀 Major Features

• Introduced the RawCull 3 local AI workflow.
• Added natural-language semantic photo search using CLIP models.
• Added CLIP-powered visual similarity analysis and burst grouping.
• Added SAM 3 Deep Review with subject isolation, detailed scoring, and burst-winner recommendations.
• Added automatic fallback to Apple Vision similarity when the selected CLIP model is unavailable.
• Added persistent storage for AI embeddings, masks, scores, signatures, and burst-review decisions.

🧠 AI Models

• Added dedicated AI model settings and model-management views.
• Added model bundle discovery, validation, and resource management.
• Added support for selecting CLIP, SAM 3, and EfficientSAM models.
• Added model-location controls and validation feedback.
• Added model-download and Managed Background Assets infrastructure.
• Added license-acceptance handling for externally distributed models.
• Added model provenance, license notices, manifests, and installation documentation.
• Improved model-download validation, error handling, and test coverage.

🔍 Grid and Similarity View

• Added clearer sharpness-scoring controls with scoring, re-scoring, sorting, and cancellation actions.
• Added contextual scoring targets for selected images, filtered images, or the complete catalog.
• Added combined Index & Find Similar behavior when CLIP index entries are missing.
• Improved similarity backend status and progress presentation.
• Improved selection coordination and keyboard navigation.
• Refined grid controls, button styling, and rating interactions.

🔎 Loupe View

• Added a redesigned metadata panel for the selected image.
• Added expandable and collapsible metadata sections.
• Added keyboard control for showing or hiding metadata.
• Added filename, folder, camera, exposure, rating, and culling information.
• Improved source-image switching and one-to-one zoom rendering.
• Fixed one-to-one zoom so it displays actual image pixels.
• Improved thumbnail and image navigation while using Loupe View.

🎞️ Burst View

• Redesigned the burst-culling workspace.
• Added clearer burst numbering and frame-position indicators.
• Added navigation back to the burst list.
• Added reviewed and unreviewed burst controls.
• Added keyboard-action guidance for navigation, zoom, source selection, focus, rating, picks, and rejection.
• Added burst-aware metadata to the zoomed image view.
• Added culling status, rating, sharpness, focus, review, and recommendation information.
• Improved comparison-grid navigation and selected-frame handling.

🗂️ Sidebar and Navigation

• Refined the main catalog sidebar and file presentation.
• Added clearer empty, filtered, and missing-file states.
• Added image-sorting progress and status indicators.
• Moved additional navigation actions into application menu commands.
• Improved toolbar organization and reduced duplicate controls.
• Refined rating controls, filters, and rating-pin behavior.

⚡ Performance and Reliability

• Added replacement-safe thumbnail cache identities.
• Prevented stale cached thumbnails from being reused after files are replaced.
• Added bounded thumbnail preloading to reduce CPU and memory contention.
• Improved thumbnail loading, scanning, and disk-cache coordination.
• Added contention and memory diagnostics.
• Made histogram loading use the latest request when selections change quickly.
• Improved AI artifact persistence and cache-boundary handling.
• Improved catalog loading, sorting, saved-file persistence, and culling-state restoration.
• Improved similarity, sharpness, focus, and burst-analysis consistency.

♿ Accessibility

• Added bounded accessibility labels, values, and hints across major workflows.
• Improved accessibility for ratings, image controls, focus controls, model management, and comparison views.
• Added accessible descriptions for image sorting and metadata controls.
• Improved keyboard-accessible culling and navigation actions.

🧪 Testing and Quality

• Added tests for semantic search, Deep Review, and AI integration.
• Added model-download and model-validation test coverage.
• Added thumbnail cache identity and contention tests.
• Added histogram request-ordering tests.
• Added typed AI persistence and cache-boundary tests.
• Added accessibility presentation tests.
• Added Loupe and Burst metadata tests.
• Added smoke-test and performance-test manifests.
• Expanded release metadata and package migration verification.
• Improved concurrency and Thread Sanitizer stability.

🛠️ Build and Documentation

• Updated the project for RawCull 3.0.0, 3.1.0, and 3.1.1.
• Added a dedicated model-downloader target and supporting entitlements.
• Updated Swift package dependencies and project configuration.
• Added model installation, provenance, and licensing documentation.
• Added Copy Engine design documentation.
• Updated the README with the RawCull 3 architecture, AI workflow, requirements, and build instructions.
• Updated export, release, smoke-test, and performance-test configuration.

📦 Version Progression

• Released the initial RawCull 3.0.0 implementation.
• Stabilized AI persistence, thumbnail loading, accessibility, and release validation.
• Advanced the project to RawCull 3.1.0.
• Updated the current release to RawCull 3.1.1, Build 307.

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