🚀 Orion Store v1.2.2 — Performance & Infrastructure

This release focuses on significant performance optimizations, core logic refinements, and a major upgrade to the build infrastructure to support modern Android standards.

⚡ Performance Overhaul

• Debounced Search Engine: Implemented smart debouncing for repository filtering, significantly reducing UI jank during rapid search queries.
• Intelligent Resource Throttling: Optimized background polling intervals (1500ms) for active downloads, balancing real-time feedback with reduced CPU overhead and improved battery efficiency.
• Advanced Code Splitting: Leverage Vite's manual chunking to isolate Vendor and Capacitor modules, resulting in faster initial paint times and improved long-term caching.
• UI Render Isolation: Key global states (modals, toasts) and core hook references in App.tsx have been memoized and stabilized to eliminate cascading re-renders across the component tree.
• Cleanup Optimization: Refactored the "Silent Janitor" logic to only discard metadata for successfully removed files, ensuring no data loss on transient file system failures.

🏗️ Infrastructure & Build System

• Gradle 8 Migration: Upgraded the entire Android build environment to Gradle 8.2.1 and Java 17. This ensures compatibility with the latest Android SDKs and improves build times.

✨ New Features & Enhancements

• Changelog Persistence: Added a "Release Notes" history button in the Developer Tab to provide transparency on the project's evolution.
• Robust Donation Hub: Enhanced detection logic for VPNs and DNS-based AdBlockers to provide more accurate feedback when supporting the project via advertisements.
• Expanded Security: Integrated comprehensive internal documentation for client-side HMAC salts and security protocols.
• Refined UX: Removed legacy polyfills and unused internal code to reduce overall bundle footprint and improve execution speed.

️🐛 Core Stability & Bug Fixes

• Notification Engine: Fixed a stale closure bug where tapping a download completion notification would occasionally open the wrong application details.
• Semantic Versioning: Improved the version comparison algorithm to correctly handle pre-release tags (e.g., .beta.1, -rc), ensuring accurate update detection for all update streams.
• Native Lifecycle Guards: Properly clear isMounted refs and native event listeners on unmount to prevent memory leaks and background crashes on older Android versions.
• Queue Integrity: Resolved an issue where auto-update would occasionally re-trigger downloads for applications already pending in the install queue.
• Platform Safety:
  • Added guards to prevent haptic feedback errors on non-supported environments.
  • Fixed a bug that could allow hiding all platform tabs simultaneously.
  • Corrected build version parsing to prevent incorrect dotted-format splitting.

Orion Store is built with passion and optimized for performance. Thank you for your continued support!

— RookieZ