Showcade Releases

Showcade is the browser harness: the page that renders a table, simulates it, and lets you author rules, lightshows and sound for it. It is versioned and released separately from the Cade Runtime, so a showcade version and a cade version are two different numbers that move at their own pace.

These notes cover showcade. For the runtime itself, see the Cade Runtime release notes.

Series

• 0.1 — the initial release line. Current: v0.1.0 “Vitrograph”.

The two numbers inside a showcade release

Showcade carries a second version that is not its own, and it is usually the one worth reading first:

• The application version — what these pages are organized by. It is what the About dialog shows and what a release is tagged with.
• The table file format version — version + minor inside every .showcade.json. A minor bump means an older build can still open the file, degrading whatever it cannot model; a version bump means it cannot open it at all.

A release note calls out a format change explicitly whenever one happens, because nothing derives that distinction automatically — and it decides whether tables you have already saved will still open.