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+## New Features
+
+- 🔎 **Faster Note-List Search Controls** — Clear note-list searches directly from the list header while keeping keyboard focus and loading feedback predictable.
+- 🧰 **More Granular Git Controls** — Use clearer Git actions for local commit, pull, push, and sync workflows without collapsing everything into one path.
+- 🐧 **Linux RPM Download Option** — Stable download pages can expose RPM packages alongside AppImage and other platform installers when release artifacts include them.
+
+## Improvements
+
+- 🧭 **Cleaner Update Release Notes Link** — The in-app update banner now opens the public release notes page instead of the old GitHub Pages root.
+- 📝 **More Reliable Editor Direction and Spacing** — Mixed right-to-left and left-to-right notes resolve text direction per block, and raw-editor line numbers align more cleanly with content.
+- 🧩 **Better View Filtering for Array Properties** — Saved views now match scalar array properties such as tags more consistently after reloads and across renderer/Rust evaluation.
+- 🖼️ **Safer Linux AppImage Media Handling** — AppImage builds avoid unstable in-webview audio/video preview paths while preserving stable external-open fallbacks.
+
+## Stability and Fixes
+
+- Rich-editor recovery was hardened for invalid list content, embedded attachment paths, file drops, Mermaid reload clicks, aliased wikilinks in Markdown tables, and empty-heading note edits.
+- Vault and workspace behavior is steadier around mounted default workspaces, app-owned frontmatter reloads, parsed note-list preload warmups, and built-in note body template removal.
+- Release build type safety, CodeScene thresholds, image-toolbar hover access, and multiple patch-review findings were addressed before promotion.