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1.9.3

22 September 2026

Build a component visually and convert it to a real .astro file, open a private repository straight from GitHub, and optimise your images without leaving the app.

New

  • Build a component, then convert it. Build Visually opens a blank component in Creative Mode, and Convert to Component writes the .astro with a typed Props interface. Put a prop where the value goes and that is the declaration.
  • Open a private repository straight from GitHub. Signs you in, lists the repositories you can push to, asks where the project should land, clones it and offers to install its dependencies.
  • Your projects, as cards with a picture of the site. Point FEWD at the folder you keep projects in and it lists everything inside, with recents along the bottom.
  • An image optimiser in the Assets panel. Quality, an optional downscale, and WebP, JPEG or PNG out, judged against the original either side of a divider you drag. Works on one image or a whole folder.

Improved

  • Click an element in the preview and it reports its styles. The magnifying glass that had to be armed first is now an Inspect / Browse toggle. Hold Alt (Option on a Mac) to let one click through without switching.
  • Styling can have a column of its own, instead of sharing the Inspector's tabs, so you can watch the tree you are selecting in and the controls you are changing at once.
  • Move a panel from the panel. Hover a title bar and buttons appear to send it left, right or out of the way.

Fixed

  • A page opened as code could be emptied when the component creator was started from it. An .astro in Framework Mode has no parsed source, so rebuilding it produced nothing, and nothing was written over the file. Three guards now stand where one circumstance used to.
  • Template files are no longer opened as editable HTML. A .njk, .liquid, .hbs or a Hugo layouts file opens as code, with the reason named.
  • An empty preview says why, and offers to fix it — with a button to start the dev server in the terminal you already have open.

1.9.1

16 September 2026

A roomier, better fitted interface: the window opens to fit your screen, the navigator shows what a node says, and Windows gets proper fonts.

New

  • The navigator shows a node's text first. Click a heading and you see what it says above its attributes. Containers are left out, since their children are what the tree is for.
  • The navigator's inspector can be resized, using the same handle as Creative Mode.
  • The window opens to fit your screen, using nearly all the available space around the menu bar, dock or taskbar, rather than a fixed small size.

Improved

  • A refreshed start screen, with a soft mesh of light behind frosted glass panels.
  • More room around things. Coding panes sit in a margin with rounded corners, and fields, lists and the file tree are inset from the panel edges.
  • Startup screen and Disconnect all panels have moved to the bottom bar, away from the reload button you press all day. The startup button is now a house icon.

Fixed

  • The interface looks right on Windows. The monospace text now uses fonts that ship with Windows (and with Linux) instead of falling back to Courier New. macOS is unchanged.
  • The navigator's node count sits at the bottom of the panel again.

1.9.0

16 September 2026

Collection entries get a proper editing panel that saves when you say so, and the preview is much easier to move around with a new page picker.

New

  • Edit collection entries in a panel, and save when you choose. An entry opens as fields beside a Save button (or Cmd/Ctrl+S). Changed fields are marked until saved, closing the entry saves rather than discarding, and a save that fails says so.
  • Saving changes only what you edited. Each field remembers the line it came from, so key order, comments and spacing in the file never move.
  • A page picker beside the address bar. Jump the preview to any real page or any collection entry your site renders, from a searchable list. In Creative Mode it lists the project's HTML files.
  • The panel follows what you are looking at. Navigate the preview or click into a code pane, and the panel shows that page's structure or that entry's fields.
  • The page navigator and fields panel is now optional, off by default. Turn it on under Preferences > Functionality and open or close it from its toolbar icon.

Improved

  • Opening a project shows the site straight away, finding the home page in more places, including sites built with the Flex pages prompt.
  • Main and Code for collection entries. Main opens the entry's fields and takes the preview to its page; Code opens it in a pane. Entries that are data rather than pages leave the preview alone.
  • One name, Open Panel, for opening a file in a pane, everywhere it appears.
  • Component / Full HTML is hidden in Framework Mode, where it had no effect.
  • Coding panes are equal width again. Resizing, added in 1.8.14, could leave panes unusable, so it has been removed in favour of collapsing a pane to its strip. Any saved widths are cleared on launch.

Fixed

  • The fields panel and a code pane showing the same entry stay in step, so one can no longer save an older copy over the other.
  • The preview no longer opens blank when reopening a project, and the address bar keeps the real address.
  • Picking a page before anything has loaded works, and the page list opens fully and follows the window when resized.
  • Draft entries no longer open on a 404. The fields open as usual and the preview stays put, with a note explaining why.
  • The right thing reopens. Toggling the panel brings back what you were reading, and an open block stays the one that reopens after blocks are added or removed.
  • The preview loads once, instead of being sent to the same page several times in a row when connecting.

1.8.15

15 September 2026

Fixes for resizing coding panes and for the preview showing the wrong site or port.

Fixed

  • Resizing coding panes works properly. Dragging a handle now moves width between the two panes either side of it, instead of a pane in the middle of a row shrinking when you tried to widen it.
  • The resize cursor points the right way over panes and the side panel.
  • Opening one project no longer shows another project's site. When a previous project's dev server was still running, the preview could load that site. It now reloads when the right dev server is ready.
  • The preview follows the dev server to the port it actually uses, keeping the page you were on.

1.8.14

15 September 2026

Astro content collections come into FEWD Studio, with a Collections tab and editable entry fields, plus a set of accessible widget inserts.

New

  • A Collections tab, between Pages and Components. Your Astro content collections and their entries can now be browsed like Pages and Layouts, instead of hunted for in Files.
  • Entry fields. A collection entry opens as a form: plain values, lists, nested objects, a page's sections and the body. Editing a field changes only that line, so key order, comments and anything else in the file stay put.
  • Accessible widget inserts: accordion, modal, tabs, form, navigation with dropdowns, carousel, range and a styleable select. Each comes as plain markup or a BEM version for its stylesheet, keeping native controls and keyboard behaviour.
  • One-click install for widgets. Choosing a widget's markup offers to add its stylesheet and script too, with a picker for where each goes.
  • Icon size now has its own setting, with four steps covering every icon in the interface.
  • Structure labels can lead with the element's name, its class, or both.
  • Hover hints. Hovering an icon names it straight away on the bottom bar. On by default, and switchable under Functionality.
  • Coding panes can be resized by dragging the handle between them.

Improved

  • The Structure panel is easier to scan, with a glyph on every row for the kind of element it is.
  • Commits from your other machines are recognised as yours, including content published from BooshCMS, rather than being flagged as someone else's.

Fixed

  • Dev servers no longer pile up, and the preview shows the right one. FEWD Studio checks for a running server before starting another, previews the port it is really on, and stops the servers it started when you quit. Before, another project's server could answer and show you the wrong site.
  • Drag handles no longer stick to the cursor after letting go over the preview.
  • Projects whose remembered page has moved now open instead of stopping at the welcome screen.
  • Sites whose home page is a collection entry are recognised, and dynamic routes are previewed at an address that actually exists.

1.8.13

10 September 2026

The Apple Silicon download is back. The app itself is unchanged from 1.8.12.

Fixed

  • The Apple Silicon build is available again. 1.8.12 went out without a build for Apple Silicon Macs. This release restores it, with no other changes to the application.

1.8.12

4 September 2026

A new Flex pages prompt for sites where clients build their own pages, and a clearer, renamed Repo build prompt.

New

  • Flex pages, a new prompt snippet for sites where the client composes each page from an ordered list of sections. Adding a new kind of section takes a couple of lines and it appears in the client's Add a section menu. Use it alongside Repo build rather than instead of it.

Improved

  • Content as files is now called Repo build, a name that better describes a repository a client can edit.
  • Repo build is up to date and more precise. It explains which pages should be marked editable and which should not, and is written against what a Git CMS can actually read from your source, so sections no longer go missing without warning.
  • Keeping listing pages editable. Repo build now shows how to move a collection loop into a component so the page around it can belong to the client, with a heading, limit and variant they control.
  • Guidance on icons. Repo build now explains how to keep icons as SVG files imported into components, which keeps pages small and editable, and how to let a client choose from the icons you drew.

1.8.10

28 August 2026

More control over how large and how clear the interface is, with a new Label size setting and an Ultra contrast mode.

New

  • Label size, in Preferences > Interface > Typography. File names, structure labels, field labels, badges and small buttons now have their own size setting, where before they ignored the interface size entirely.
  • Ultra contrast, a step beyond High in Preferences > Interface > Colours. Dimmed text is lifted much further and panel surfaces are more clearly separated.

Improved

  • Wider size scales with a fourth step for both the interface and the editor. Large is now properly larger than Default.
  • Panels and dialogs grow with the interface size, so labels no longer wrap and colour fields no longer clip at the largest settings. A project panel width you have set yourself is left alone.
  • The file tree and inserts list follow the interface size rather than the code font size.

Fixed

  • Toolbar icons are back in the right order. A new toolbar icon had pushed three icons into the middle of the toolbar.

1.8.9

26 August 2026

A small maintenance release. Your custom inserts, saved components and preferences are unchanged.

1.8.8

26 August 2026

A small release for the preview window and for links that open in your browser.

Improved

  • Links open where they should. The main window stays on your project, and web links open in your usual browser.

1.8.7

25 August 2026

A maintenance release that trims the package down to the application itself.

Improved

  • A leaner download. Design files and notes that had been bundled with the app by mistake are no longer included, so the installer carries only what FEWD Studio needs to run.

1.8.6

New release notification added to app opening sequence and with a badge on new icon located on Ops bar. Click icon to go to fewdstudio.com/update and obtain latest version.

1.8.5

Check for changes when opening a project. If your project is in git, FEWD asks GitHub whether anyone else has pushed before it opens your files — and offers to bring those changes in first, so you're never working on an old version. Turn it off in Preferences → Functionality.

The Git panel now shows where you stand. Up to date, commits ready to push, or changes waiting from someone else — listed properly, so you can see what changed and who changed it before accepting anything.

Push won't overwrite someone else's work. If the remote has changes you don't have yet, the push stops and offers to fetch them instead.

The Git panel is now a proper window, with room for the list of changes.

Security fix in the git process. Commit messages are no longer passed through a shell. Low risk in practice, but worth updating for.

Fixes. FEWD's own preview file no longer stops you fetching changes; a commit made outside FEWD can now be pushed from the panel; a failed GitHub login no longer leaves the app looking frozen.

1.8.4

- FEWD Studio now has a public download page — no GitHub account needed to get it or update it.

1.8.3

- Component library. Save any component you've built and drop it into another project. Hover a component in the Components tab and press Save; use the Library button to insert it somewhere else. Your saved components live outside any single project, so they follow you around.

- New AI prompt: "Content as files." One click tells your AI assistant how to build an Astro site whose content lives in the project itself — blog posts, team members, testimonials and the rest as editable files rather than baked into pages.

1.8.2

- Structure panel: dots view. A new way of showing how deeply nested an element is. Instead of pushing each level further right, every row shows a small dot per level and everything stays lined up in one column — so deep components stay readable. Switch it on in Preferences → Interface. Indentation remains the default.

- Fixed: deeply nested elements no longer get pushed so far right that their names are cut off at the edge of the panel.

- Smooth interface. An optional coat of polish: a subtle gradient across panels and modals, and things fading and easing into place rather than snapping. Off by default; turn it on in Preferences → Interface, with Gradient and Motion speed controls to set how strong and how slow it feels.

- Inserts now work in the expanded editor. The puzzle-piece button is in the full-size editor's bar, so Inserts & Patterns are available there as well as in the panel row.

- Preferences tidied up. The title now spans the top of the window with the tabs beneath it, so nothing is hidden. The Interface tab is grouped into Display, Typography and Colours. Options that pick a side — operations bar, structure panel, docked project panel — are now clear Left / Right choices instead of single tick boxes. Your existing settings carry over.

- New SEO prompts. Two buttons in the AI Prompt tab: one for adding proper page titles, descriptions and social sharing tags to any site, and an Astro version that builds a reusable SEO component.

1.8.1

- AGENTS.md added to Generate AI Files. Alongside CLAUDE.md and GEMINI.md, FEWD now writes AGENTS.md — the cross-tool standard read by Codex, Cursor, Copilot, Windsurf, Zed, Aider and others. One click now covers effectively every AI coding assistant. - Astro prompt is stricter about component structure, so agents reliably put each component in its own folder with its own stylesheet.

v1.7.7

  • Added CSS Tokens AI prompt snippet to encourage token-based styling and design consistency
  • Improved Windows terminal detection and fixed project creation issues for users with WSL installed

v1.7.5

  • Astro IntelliSense now supports Image and Picture components
  • Added autocomplete support for astro:assets and astro:content imports

v1.7.4

  • Added dedicated Astro image inserts for imported and public assets
  • Copy asset paths directly from the Assets panel
  • Generate Astro image imports automatically from selected assets

v1.7.3

  • Added Astro Pages AI prompt snippet
  • Added Component Props AI prompt snippet
  • Existing projects now restore connected files and panel layouts automatically
  • Connect multiple files without repeatedly reopening the Project Panel
  • Fixed snippet insertion in Creative Mode
  • Fixed Emmet expansion in Creative Mode

v1.7.2

  • Refreshed Project Panel styling with a frosted-glass appearance
  • Improved default colours, typography and preview styling

v1.7.0

  • Added AI Prompt tab for creating project coding standards
  • Generate Claude and Gemini AI instruction files automatically
  • Open prompt files directly into editor panels
  • Drag files directly into terminal sessions
  • Added AI Prompt toolbar button
  • Updated Electron and terminal infrastructure
  • Improved Framework and Creative Mode workflows
  • Improved editor reliability and drag-and-drop handling

v1.6.0

  • Updated Electron foundation and added support for modern CSS features including light-dark()

v1.5.5

  • Improved dev server shutdown handling
  • Added clipboard feedback when copying asset paths

v1.5.4

  • Fixed dev server interruptions when switching files
  • Fixed inserts in Creative Mode HTML and template editors

v1.5.3

  • Move files between folders directly from the Ops panel
  • Improved Astro dev server cleanup when disconnecting projects

v1.5.2

  • Added experimental Linux support

v1.5.1

  • Add new Astro pages directly from the Ops panel
  • Panel visibility controls are now available to all users

v1.5 - Click any element in the Creative Mode browser preview to select it in the structure tree and open it in the inspector - Shopify [product-card] component insert — full Astro component template with GBP price formatting and CSS nesting - Preferences modal no longer dims the screen — colour choices are visible in context as you adjust them - HTML Export — renamed from "Bricks Export"; exported file name updated to [name]-export.html - Add Page button in Ops panel — scaffolds a new .astro file into the current pages directory - Panel Visibility preference available to all users — Pro badge removed

--- v1.4 - CodeMirror 6 syntax highlighting in Creative Mode across all panels - Heading picker in element toolbar — insert P, H1–H6 directly - Preferences modal redesigned with tabbed layout (Functionality, Layout, Interface, Panels) - Layouts tab in Ops panel with navigable folder tree and Add Layout scaffold - Components panel: navigable folder tree, Add Component scaffold, Connect as extra panel - Free tier: startup screen accessible (HTML and Clean Slate tiles only) - Free tier: panel visibility controls unlocked - Free tier: JS pane auto-opens alongside CSS when entering Deep Code Mode - Ops panel Pages, Components, and Layouts tabs hidden in Creative Mode - Bug fix: inspector blanking/deselect after node selection in Creative Mode

--- v1.3 - Shopify Storefront API project scaffold via the welcome screen - Welcome screen project type tiles (HTML, Astro, Shopify, Clean Slate) - File rename via right-click in the Ops panel - Free tier introduced with panel-level feature gating - Preferences modal: auto-connect, interface colours, typography settings - Inserts modal: HTML, Astro, Shopify, and Custom categories - Interface icon refinements and UI polish

--- v1.1 – v1.2 - Element toolbar categorisation and additional node type support - Touch bar cursor position tracking and CSS category additions - Terminal auto-opens when connecting a framework project - Ops / Project panel: file tree, assets, and components sections - Connect Main and Add Panel buttons in file panel - File connect and navigation fixes

--- v1.0.1 - Sections now nest correctly inside <main> when a node inside it is selected; falls back to root level otherwise