v0.8.1 — Hardened, verified, and honestly numbered

Released July 2026

Orifold is in beta. v0.8.1 marks the move to semantic versioning — the v0.1–v0.7 line continues here as focused polish, validation, and user-flow hardening on the road to 1.0.

v0.8.1 has no single headline feature. Instead it hardens everything v0.7 shipped — signing, the qpdf engine, the companions, localization — under real use, and gives the documentation the overhaul it was overdue for.

Signing, made trustworthy — async signing with a working cancel button, a TSA fallback chain with a provider picker, certificate trust/revocation checks, persistent certificate profiles, and a post-export structural self-check. See Sign a document.
Toolbar and sidebar redesign — a consolidated, responsive toolbar with Find & Replace and a dedicated Settings window; a redesigned sidebar with better undo grouping and performance. See The Orifold window.
Keyboard shortcuts overhauled to match macOS conventions, with a new cheat sheet. See Keyboard shortcuts.
Document Comfort replaces Night Mode — four reading presets (Default, Night, Eye Care, Focus) plus warmth, brightness, and contrast controls. See Document Comfort.
Folder import added to the intro screen and Add Files menu. See Import files.
Companions are bigger and more detailed — both pets dock and hover larger so their folded-paper texture actually reads, and the first-launch companion shows off at full size for a few seconds before settling into its corner (hover it anytime to see that detail again; Reduce Motion skips the showcase). See Meet Gami & Ori.
Two rounds of locale-staleness fixes across companions, toolbar messages, and popovers, plus a fixed language-selector z-order bug. See Change the app language.
A full documentation site rebuild with in-app links from the Help menu — the pages you’re reading now.

Full changelog: docs/release-v0.8.1.md.