chore: release v0.2.27

- promote the 2026-07-14 changelog and synchronize application/installer version metadata
- publish checksum-pinned Scoop and WinGet manifests for the verified portable and installer artifacts
- validate Release build, tests, vulnerability scan, localization, diagnostics, SBOM, and provenance

Author: SysAdminDoc

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -4,6 +4,8 @@ All notable changes to **Images** are documented here.
 
 ## Unreleased
 
+## v0.2.27 - 2026-07-14
+
 - Archive books now offer a persisted continuous vertical-reading mode for webtoons and long strips; the virtualized reader lazily decodes nearby pages, recycles offscreen pixels, preserves per-book position, exposes calm retry states, and remains mutually exclusive with two-page spreads.
 - Diagnostics, About provenance, and startup logs now report the loaded `MagickNET.Version`, native ImageMagick version, and `SELECT sqlite_version()` result; versions below ImageMagick 7.1.2-2 or SQLite 3.53.2 raise an explicit warning instead of letting native payload drift stay invisible.
 - Archive pages now independently verify advertised ZIP/RAR/7z CRCs before returning decoded bytes; a corrupt-entry regression proves damaged page data fails as an archive error instead of silently reaching the image decoder.

README.md

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 
 # Images
 
-[![Version](https://img.shields.io/badge/version-0.2.26-89b4fa?style=flat-square)](https://github.com/SysAdminDoc/Images/releases)
+[![Version](https://img.shields.io/badge/version-0.2.27-89b4fa?style=flat-square)](https://github.com/SysAdminDoc/Images/releases)
 [![License](https://img.shields.io/badge/license-MIT-a6e3a1?style=flat-square)](LICENSE)
 [![Platform](https://img.shields.io/badge/platform-Windows%2010%2F11-cba6f7?style=flat-square)](#)
 [![.NET](https://img.shields.io/badge/.NET-10.0-f38ba8?style=flat-square)](#)
@@ -118,7 +118,7 @@ Development builds can still detect `IMAGES_GHOSTSCRIPT_DIR` and normal system i
 
 Release builders can use `scripts/Prepare-GhostscriptBundle.ps1`; see `docs/codec-bundling.md`.
 
-To build the installer locally, install [Inno Setup 6](https://jrsoftware.org/isdl.php), stage Ghostscript with `scripts\Prepare-GhostscriptBundle.ps1`, run `dotnet publish src/Images -c Release -r win-x64 --self-contained true -p:PublishSingleFile=false -o publish`, then `iscc /DMyAppVersion=0.2.26 installer\Images.iss`. Output lands at `installer\output\Images-vX.Y.Z-setup-win-x64.exe`.
+To build the installer locally, install [Inno Setup 6](https://jrsoftware.org/isdl.php), stage Ghostscript with `scripts\Prepare-GhostscriptBundle.ps1`, run `dotnet publish src/Images -c Release -r win-x64 --self-contained true -p:PublishSingleFile=false -o publish`, then `iscc /DMyAppVersion=0.2.27 installer\Images.iss`. Output lands at `installer\output\Images-vX.Y.Z-setup-win-x64.exe`.
 
 OCR depends on Microsoft Windows OCR optional capabilities. The installer installs the current Windows UI language OCR capability plus `en-US` fallback when needed; Images cannot legally bundle those Microsoft language packs inside the app folder.
 

installer/Images.iss

@@ -6,15 +6,15 @@
 ; so upgrades can remove stale per-user installs and provision Windows OCR.
 ;
 ; Compile:
-;   "C:\Program Files (x86)\Inno Setup 6\ISCC.exe" /DMyAppVersion=0.2.26 installer\Images.iss
+;   "C:\Program Files (x86)\Inno Setup 6\ISCC.exe" /DMyAppVersion=0.2.27 installer\Images.iss
 ;
 ; The workflow passes the version on the command line. Default below matches
 ; src/Images/Images.csproj so a local test compile without /D still produces a
 ; sensibly-versioned installer.
 ; =============================================================================
 
 #ifndef MyAppVersion
-  #define MyAppVersion "0.2.26"
+  #define MyAppVersion "0.2.27"
 #endif
 
 #define MyAppName        "Images"

packaging/scoop/images.json

@@ -1,12 +1,12 @@
 {
-  "version": "0.2.26",
+  "version": "0.2.27",
   "description": "Local-first Windows image viewer with broad codec support and inline rename.",
   "homepage": "https://github.com/SysAdminDoc/Images",
   "license": "MIT",
   "architecture": {
     "64bit": {
-      "url": "https://github.com/SysAdminDoc/Images/releases/download/v0.2.26/Images-v0.2.26-win-x64.zip",
-      "hash": "71DF81AA2BB9F1AA655437753B5C31711F273B4026E671C5EE5B957700AE01B5"
+      "url": "https://github.com/SysAdminDoc/Images/releases/download/v0.2.27/Images-v0.2.27-win-x64.zip",
+      "hash": "7163161BE10AA29AD7C4B438D4570CD7108429809555408462FE50E283257D3F"
     }
   },
   "bin": "Images.exe",

packaging/winget/manifests/s/SysAdminDoc/Images/0.2.27/SysAdminDoc.Images.installer.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+# yaml-language-server: $schema=https://aka.ms/winget-manifest.installer.1.9.0.schema.json
+PackageIdentifier: SysAdminDoc.Images
+PackageVersion: 0.2.27
+MinimumOSVersion: 10.0.17763.0
+InstallerType: inno
+Scope: machine
+InstallModes:
+  - interactive
+  - silent
+  - silentWithProgress
+InstallerSwitches:
+  Silent: /VERYSILENT /NORESTART /SKIPOCR
+  SilentWithProgress: /SILENT /NORESTART /SKIPOCR
+  InstallLocation: /DIR="<INSTALLPATH>"
+UpgradeBehavior: install
+Installers:
+  - Architecture: x64
+    InstallerUrl: https://github.com/SysAdminDoc/Images/releases/download/v0.2.27/Images-v0.2.27-setup-win-x64.exe
+    InstallerSha256: F416E17A935246B3FAF34B1643C0A143AD61DE3E1BDE7E2DB758005D616F8096
+ManifestType: installer
+ManifestVersion: 1.9.0

packaging/winget/manifests/s/SysAdminDoc/Images/0.2.27/SysAdminDoc.Images.locale.en-US.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+# yaml-language-server: $schema=https://aka.ms/winget-manifest.defaultLocale.1.9.0.schema.json
+PackageIdentifier: SysAdminDoc.Images
+PackageVersion: 0.2.27
+PackageLocale: en-US
+Publisher: SysAdminDoc
+PublisherUrl: https://github.com/SysAdminDoc
+PackageName: Images
+PackageUrl: https://github.com/SysAdminDoc/Images
+License: MIT
+LicenseUrl: https://github.com/SysAdminDoc/Images/blob/main/LICENSE
+ShortDescription: Local-first Windows image viewer with broad codec support and inline rename.
+Description: >-
+  A premium, local-first Windows image viewer with a compact image-first workspace.
+  Supports 100+ formats via WIC and Magick.NET, inline rename-while-viewing with
+  conflict resolution and undo, folder navigation with natural sort, animated
+  GIF/WebP/APNG playback, text extraction via Windows OCR, archive book previews,
+  gallery browsing, non-destructive editing, batch processing, and export with
+  visual diff preview. No cloud, no telemetry, and transparent network behavior.
+Tags:
+  - image-viewer
+  - photo-viewer
+  - image-editor
+  - dark-mode
+  - wpf
+  - dotnet
+  - ocr
+  - batch-converter
+  - local-first
+ReleaseNotesUrl: https://github.com/SysAdminDoc/Images/releases/tag/v0.2.27
+ManifestType: defaultLocale
+ManifestVersion: 1.9.0

packaging/winget/manifests/s/SysAdminDoc/Images/0.2.27/SysAdminDoc.Images.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+# yaml-language-server: $schema=https://aka.ms/winget-manifest.version.1.9.0.schema.json
+PackageIdentifier: SysAdminDoc.Images
+PackageVersion: 0.2.27
+DefaultLocale: en-US
+ManifestType: version
+ManifestVersion: 1.9.0

src/Images/Images.csproj

@@ -9,9 +9,9 @@
     <ImplicitUsings>enable</ImplicitUsings>
     <AssemblyName>Images</AssemblyName>
     <RootNamespace>Images</RootNamespace>
-    <Version>0.2.26</Version>
-    <FileVersion>0.2.26.0</FileVersion>
-    <AssemblyVersion>0.2.26.0</AssemblyVersion>
+    <Version>0.2.27</Version>
+    <FileVersion>0.2.27.0</FileVersion>
+    <AssemblyVersion>0.2.27.0</AssemblyVersion>
     <DebugType>embedded</DebugType>
     <Deterministic>true</Deterministic>
     <Product>Images</Product>

src/Images/app.manifest

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
 <assembly manifestVersion="1.0" xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v1">
-  <assemblyIdentity version="0.2.26.0" name="Images" />
+  <assemblyIdentity version="0.2.27.0" name="Images" />
 
   <trustInfo xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v2">
     <security>