OmniClip RAG v0.4.2 Release Notes

Release Focus

v0.4.2 turns the recent environment-root and GUI recovery work into a release-ready product line.

This version is not about adding a second new subsystem. It is about making the current desktop app, the MCP shell, and the startup/runtime/data-root contract behave like one coherent product instead of a collection of adjacent flows.

Highlights

• Unified the active data root into one startup truth shared by GUI, launcher, headless bootstrap, Runtime selection, logs, model cache, and extension runtime storage.
• Added a restricted GUI recovery shell so users can still repair or switch environments when the active data root is unavailable, instead of being locked out by a broken path.
• Added a proper saved data-root switcher with preflight classification, environment summaries, invalid-path cleanup, and controlled restart semantics.
• Added compact query-desk collapse so the search surface can shrink to a one-line working mode when extra controls are not needed.
• Added five classic UI themes:
  • Sepia
  • Nord
  • Solarized Light
  • Solarized Dark
  • Graphite
• Unified the app icon chain so the runtime assets, packaged Windows icon resources, and GUI shell point at the same icon source.
• Published the project website on GitHub Pages:
  • https://msjsc001.github.io/OmniClip-RAG/

Release Assets

v0.4.2 is designed to ship three release assets:

• OmniClipRAG-v0.4.2-win64.zip
  • desktop GUI package
• OmniClipRAG-MCP-v0.4.2-win64.zip
  • manual MCP package for direct stdio setup
• omniclip-rag-mcp-win-x64-v0.4.2.mcpb
  • MCPB package for the official MCP Registry line

MCP Registry Status

This release refreshes the Registry metadata and the .mcpb package line for v0.4.2.

Notes

• The MCP line remains read-only.
• V1 still remains stdio-only and tools-only.
• Environment switching remains a controlled restart workflow; this release does not attempt full in-process hot migration.