CURRENT PUBLIC ALPHASeptember 5, 2026
VERSION 0.43.0 · SEQUENCE 127
Adaptive companions, clearer controls, and complete Feed actions
- Introduced the new white-and-cyan Scrap mascot and matching application icon while preserving Scrap's voice, personality, companion identity, and memory.
- Replaced the old player-facing companion mode choices with automatic delivery that responds to explicit requests, current gameplay and danger, companion identity and mood, relationship context, and learned conversation rhythm.
- Kept automatically selected step-by-step guidance when context supports a walkthrough request: ScrapLink uses one actionable step and its visible completion signal at a time, advances after player or current-screen confirmation, and can prioritize verified urgent danger or low-interruption preferences.
- Added varied companion-specific startup welcomes that can use a permitted player name, remain visible in chat, and respect mute and existing voice routing.
- Simplified Active Companion controls to companion selection, persistent voice mute, and size; added visible social Profile navigation and aligned responsive panels and action geometry.
- Improved bounded five-person Crew voice mixing, playback queues, reconnect feedback, participant containment, and frame clipping while retaining the documented HTTP PCM alpha limits.
- Added persisted Feed comments, capability-gated mutually exclusive Like or Dislike reactions, saved/copy actions, and emoji-ready Unicode input with over-limit drafts preserved for correction.
PRIOR PUBLIC ALPHAAugust 30, 2026
VERSION 0.42.1 · SEQUENCE 126
Live fallback wording and restored-history hotfix
- Corrected misleading legacy offline-test wording in the limited emergency fallback so regular Live no longer appears to have entered Test Lab.
- Normalized the legacy fallback line when restoring recent assistant history, preventing an old message from appearing as a current mode status.
- Kept the hosted AI and hosted voice configuration unchanged; this hotfix changes fallback wording and restored-history presentation, not provider routing.
- Verified Windows installer metadata: sequence 126, 643,707,118 bytes, and SHA-256 E085E5CA9163819DA249749A7989EAA42B3253BB79DC02C1AE8DD651001DABAA.
PRIOR PUBLIC ALPHAAugust 30, 2026
VERSION 0.42.0 · SEQUENCE 125
Unified command interface and verified local speech
- Promoted the fully qualified Patch Lab interface across Command Center, Crew, Memory, Library, and ScrapLink Social.
- Unified navigation, movable overlays, responsive layouts, microphone state, and quick companion controls across the desktop experience.
- Added an account-gated offline speech pack bound to a signed manifest, verified once, and reused locally after initial setup.
- Verified real Kokoro companion speech and Faster-Whisper transcription on CPU with int8 inference.
- Kept the manifest-protected core installer below the legacy updater cap by separating verified model weights from application code.
- Verified Windows installer metadata: sequence 125, 643,710,400 bytes, and SHA-256 0C7D408248FD0D731E3C877E39DBF01D43763C98E7A651C33B70B36DBD1E64CA.
PRIOR PUBLIC ALPHAAugust 4, 2026
VERSION 0.31.0 · SEQUENCE 37
Friendship and voice upgrade
- Five companions with distinct hosted voice direction and separate character state.
- Player-controlled friendship callbacks, optional desktop hangouts, and deeper contextual memory behavior.
- Protected installer delivery with a signed manifest, monotonic sequence, package-size check, and SHA-256 verification.
- Published-update verification confirmed settings, account session, and memory survived the upgrade.
RETAINED HOSTED-VOICE QAJuly 23, 2026
SERVICE AVAILABILITY
Six hosted companion voice cues were verified
- The retained promotion QA records six hosted 24 kHz companion cues verified; current source and packaged diagnostics map Scrap/echo, Vantrel/cedar, NOVA/ash, Rusty Sentinel/ballad, The Iron Hare/verse, and Sable Flint/ash.
- That evidence does not substitute for a fresh six-route provider probe and does not guarantee current uptime or playback on every tester PC.
- Crew voice alpha is a separate authenticated 16 kHz mono PCM relay and remains available with explicit alpha-quality limits.
- No claim is made that Crew voice is WebRTC-grade, end-to-end encrypted, or equivalent to a mature calling service.