Release: roll forward 0.9.48-alpha.1 Windows Alpha candidate

[TheOrcDev]

Roll the failed unpublished Windows candidate forward under the release runbook.\n\n- bumps the shared numeric version to 0.9.48\n- replaces the unpublished 0.9.47-alpha.1 changelog entry\n- scopes Windows backend lint allowances to platform-only dead/unused code warnings\n- validates changelog, Rust formatting, TypeScript typecheck, and diff hygiene\n\nThe prior 0.9.47-alpha.1 workflow failed before signing because Windows Clippy promoted existing platform-specific warnings to errors; no candidate bytes were published.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features

  • Improved Windows recording startup reliability across hardware-accelerated and software fallback modes.
  • Improved live preview responsiveness during demanding capture and encoding workloads.
  • Enhanced GPU and capture capability detection across more Windows systems.
  • Preserved the signed Alpha installer publisher identity as “Videorc.”

• Documentation

  • Added Windows Alpha release notes, including known limitations and a link for reporting issues.

[coderabbitai]

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ℹ️ Recent review info

⚙️ Run configuration

Configuration used: defaults

Review profile: CHILL

Plan: Pro Plus

Run ID: 54d813fb-7390-4c23-84b2-3f78f512d18f

📥 Commits

Reviewing files that changed from the base of the PR and between 1496f8c and 6f8f645.

📒 Files selected for processing (3)

• apps/desktop/package.json
• changelog/0.9.48-alpha.1.md
• crates/videorc-backend/src/main.rs

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

The desktop package version is bumped to 0.9.48, a Windows Alpha changelog entry is added, and selected unused-code lints are allowed for Windows backend builds.

Changes

Windows Alpha release

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Windows build lint configuration crates/videorc-backend/src/main.rs	Windows builds allow selected dead-code and unused-code lints.
Desktop version and release metadata apps/desktop/package.json, changelog/0.9.48-alpha.1.md	The desktop version changes to 0.9.48, and Windows Alpha release metadata and highlights are added.

Estimated code review effort: 1 (Trivial) | ~5 minutes

Possibly related PRs

• TheOrcDev/videorc#159: Both update the Windows desktop version and add a Windows Alpha changelog entry.
• TheOrcDev/videorc#67: Both perform a desktop release version bump with a corresponding changelog entry.
• TheOrcDev/videorc#73: Both update the desktop package version and add release changelog metadata.

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 5

✅ Passed checks (5 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Description Check	✅ Passed	Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled.
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly matches the release roll-forward to 0.9.48-alpha.1 for the Windows alpha candidate.
Docstring Coverage	✅ Passed	No functions found in the changed files to evaluate docstring coverage. Skipping docstring coverage check.
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.

✨ Finishing Touches

📝 Generate docstrings

• Create stacked PR
• Commit on current branch

🧪 Generate unit tests (beta)

• Create PR with unit tests
• Commit unit tests in branch codex/release-0.9.48-alpha.1

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[TheOrcDev]

Closed after scope clarification: the request was only to download the latest completed Windows installer, not prepare a new release candidate.