Changelog

Release Summary

• Full legal re-review (publication-counsel, 2026-09-05): inception + all 16 chapters + 4 appendices re-reviewed against the September content — no release-blocking findings; appendix-D received its first dedicated legal review.
• HyperFrames license corrected to Apache-2.0 in Chapter 7 and the front-matter OSS register (verified against the upstream repository).
• Figure D.21 home-directory path redacted to a generic username; Figure 3.2 provenance statement corrected to "composite frame"; Figure 4.2/5.2 alt texts aligned with the shipped images; three Chapter 16 figures relabeled as v0.11-era historical illustrations.
• Version stamps unified to v0.21.1 / September 2026 across appendices A-C; TOC and outline case-study count corrected to five; CLI count framing in Appendix A made current (26+ live roster vs the appendix's verified 17-slug table).
• Security and claims phrasing softened to design-intent language (Chapter 8), the Google sunset claim attributed (Chapter 10), vendor economics tagged self-reported (Chapter 13), MCP status dated (Chapter 15).
• Screenshot attribution inventory completed: 14 new entries (ch-02 v0.21.1 settings series, ch-03 composite, ch-11, ch-13 Case-5 captures), appendix-D manifest renumbered to D.1-D.26, rights register refreshed to the managed CC-BY-NC-ND-4.0 and now counting all 32 third-party assets.
• Internal workflow markers removed from shipped prose (70 TODO-VERIFY comments stripped); front-matter changelog now renders markdown properly; author contact path added to book metadata.

Release Summary

• Living-book refresh aligning all 16 chapters + 4 appendices with OpenDesign product v0.21.1 ("Community First: No Login Required", released 2026-08-31).
• All 26 figures of Appendix D (visual tour) recaptured from a working v0.21.1 install (privacy-reviewed: no API keys; account-menu surfaces that expose email deliberately excluded).

Content Changes

• Counts refreshed book-wide: 152 official brand systems, 93.1K GitHub stars, 26+ agent CLIs, 164 skill directories / ~280 plugins (Expert suites + Skills marketplace), stable 10-type creation list.
• New coverage: no-login first run (0.21.1), Open Design Labs + Design Harness (0.21.1), OD Next mobile structure and real-referent imagery (0.21.1), live multi-file previews (0.21.0), od lint (0.20.0), editable PPTX fidelity and stable creation types (0.20.0), Go Plan and entitlement-aware pickers (0.20.1), sub-minute exports (0.20.2), Export/Share/Handoff split and subscription image models (0.19.0), DeepSeek Harness (0.19.1–0.19.2), Team Workspace (0.18.x), direct-manipulation editing (0.17.0), launcher/payload update architecture.
• Case study 5 added (ch-13): an executive deck walked end-to-end in the 0.21.1 workspace using real captures (deck workspace, versions, direct manipulation, export); community-evidence section extended through September 1 (Launch Week Vol.01, Ikigai One customer story, login-mandate reversal).
• Fixed: dangling clip-reference markers in ch-01 (and ch-11); DS 3.0 correctly documented as rolled back; HN thread 49285244 reattributed to the DeepSeek Harness preview.
• Appendix A: od command table extended (export by project ID + --format html, lint, brand, library, figma import, templates, deploy, amr status/logout, agent setup deepseek-harness, mcp install claude-desktop, OD_MCP_STDIO_IDLE_EXIT_MS).
• Appendix C: new FAQ entries — update-payload activation, no-account usage, Open Design Labs.
• Stale v0.9.0 / v0.15.1-era settings screenshots in ch-02 and ch-03 replaced with v0.21.1 captures; historical artifact captures retained with honest version captions.

Validation

• Book version bumped 0.1.2 → 0.2.0 (living-book policy: same edition, content refresh; publication date 2026-09-05).
• Publication preflight, Review Jury, and export to be re-run for this release; release prepare freezes evidence (no auto-publish).

Release Summary

• Current public book package for Open Design (16 chapters + 4 appendices).
• Edition metadata, front matter, cover, and website copy aligned to version 0.1.2.
• Open Design is positioned as an open-source design harness for AI coding agents: local-first, agent-native design-as-code for building real design artifacts.
• License: CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 (prose); code samples Apache-2.0 / MIT as noted.

Links

• Product repository: https://github.com/nexu-io/open-design
• Book repository: https://github.com/imehr/open-design
• Website: https://piazr.github.io/open-design/
• Releases: https://github.com/imehr/open-design/releases

Content Changes

• Website chapter pages and cover synced from the canonical 0.1.2 book output.
• Homepage and about-page messaging updated to explain the design harness, skills, brand systems, plugins, MCP, and preview/export workflow.

Validation

• Publication preflight and image audit pass before publishing.
• Public book repo sync targets imehr/open-design; website sync targets Piazr/open-design.

Release Summary

• Public book package for Open Design (16 chapters + 4 appendices).
• Screenshots and feature references aligned with Open Design product 0.16.1.
• Cover and front matter show version 0.1.0 and publication date July 2026.
• License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 (prose); code samples Apache-2.0 / MIT as noted.

Links

• Book repository: https://github.com/imehr/open-design
• Website: https://piazr.github.io/open-design/
• Releases: https://github.com/imehr/open-design/releases
• Product (Open Design app): https://github.com/nexu-io/open-design

Artifacts

• Paged HTML Preview: open-design-paged.html
• ePub: open-design.epub
• HTML: open-design.html
• PDF: open-design.pdf

Content Changes

• Full visual tour and settings coverage refreshed for Open Design 0.16.1.
• Public HTML inlines compressed screenshots so GitHub accepts the package under the 100 MB limit.
• Edition block at the front of the book: version, date, repo, website, release page, and changelog summary (stamped on every rebuild).

Validation

• Publication preflight and image audit pass before publishing.
• Public book repo sync targets imehr/open-design; website sync targets Piazr/open-design.