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## Problem and outcome / 问题与结果

This maintenance phase fixes failures around native capture startup, room reconnection and media handoffs. Capture mutations stay cancellable, relayed-content failures remain request-scoped, and failed media connections return to the existing route controller. Windows Auto codec selection measures delivered cadence instead of timer-sensitive per-frame work estimates.

The phase preserves P2P-first routing, one committed graph and one route operation. It adds no signaling replay mechanism, changes no wire/schema version, and includes no interaction prototype or 4K feature work.

## Release notes

### 中文

Piik v1.6.8 是一次稳定性修复,重点改善 Windows 原生采集、断线恢复和分享过程中的控制响应。

#### 修复与改善

- **更准确地选择编码器。** Windows 的自动模式按实际出帧表现评估 H.264,并正确区分启动预热和持续性能不足,减少计时误差导致的不必要 VP8 回退。硬件编码事件改为异步等待。
- **改善断线与线路切换。** 房间信令短暂断开后保留观众成员身份 20 秒;修复线路切换、SFU 订阅恢复及声音重协商卡住的问题。失效连接及时交回现有路由控制器处理,原生 SFU 发送端不再把短暂断连直接判为终止。
- **保持 App 控制响应。** 开始分享和更换来源时仍可取消操作;合法消息突发不再直接关闭控制连接。中继信令的单条内容错误不会连带结束整场原生分享。
- **修正设备列表与配置保存。** 来源或麦克风数量达到上限时保留可用列表;配置替换失败时保留原有设置。
- **改善紧凑布局和辅助功能。** 调整手机横屏下的画面与播控布局、画质预设标签和长邀请链接显示,修正部分提示与辅助功能语义。
- **加强站点访问保护。** 站点登录 Cookie 使用独立随机签名密钥,应用自身阻止被其他页面嵌套。发布说明也会在合并前检查。

#### 升级说明

通信协议和持久化格式保持不变。设置了站点密码时,App 或 Server 重启后需要重新输入站点密码;持久化房间和邀请授权不受这项 Cookie 调整影响。Piik 操作页面不再支持嵌入 iframe。

### English

Piik v1.6.8 is a stability update focused on Windows native capture, connection recovery and responsive sharing controls.

#### Fixes and improvements

- **More accurate codec selection.** Windows Auto mode evaluates H.264 using delivered frames and distinguishes startup warmup from sustained performance limits, reducing unnecessary VP8 fallback caused by timing noise. Hardware encoder events now use asynchronous waiting.
- **Improved reconnection and route handoffs.** Viewer membership survives brief signaling outages for 20 seconds. Fixes cover route activation, SFU subscription recovery and stalled audio renegotiation. Failed connections return to the existing route controller, and the native SFU publisher no longer treats a transient disconnect as immediate termination.
- **Responsive App controls.** Starting a share and replacing its source remain cancellable. Valid message bursts no longer close the control connection, and an invalid relayed payload cannot terminate the entire native sharing session.
- **Device lists and saved settings.** Source and microphone enumeration retain a usable list at their limits. Failed configuration replacement preserves the previous settings.
- **Compact layouts and accessibility.** Improved picture and playback-control layout on landscape phones, quality preset labels and long invitation links, with corrected tooltip and accessibility semantics.
- **Stronger site-access protection.** Login cookies use an independent random signing key, and the application prevents embedding by other pages. Release notes are also checked before merge.

#### Upgrade notes

Wire protocols and persistent formats are unchanged. If a site password is configured, restarting the App or Server requires entering it again; this cookie change does not revoke persisted rooms or invitation grants. Piik operation pages can no longer be embedded in an iframe.

## Verification / 验证

- `npm run check`: passed, 76 test files / 1,171 tests, TypeScript and production Web build.
- `npm run check:go-core`: passed; full Go/native checks also passed during integration of the capture changes. macOS cgo builds remain native-runner checks.
- Windows native Host gates: Auto, H.264 and VP8 passed during the phase; final control changes rechecked with Auto, including live/paused quality, source replacement, failure retirement and subsequent sharing.
- Embedded SFU browser VP8 recovery: passed with production Host/Viewer route owners.
- Embedded SFU native H.264, two rooms: passed, including recovered decoded video/audio, independent room retirement and resource cleanup.
- Documentation, repository hygiene and diff checks: passed. Final follow-up changes only align operations documentation with the PR note check.
- Go race checks could not run locally because no cgo/GCC toolchain is available; the existing Linux CI race job remains required. AMD/Intel hardware, broader device combinations, public-NAT field reports and long endurance are not established by these local checks.

## Impact / 影响

Compatible patch release after v1.6.7. The cookie and frame-protection effects are disclosed in the public upgrade notes. No automatic retry budget, room-code admission policy, room lifetime or media topology is replaced. Reports without matched diagnostics and unmeasured native performance costs remain in the TODO ledger.
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Piik Documentation

About Piik · 中文介绍 · 中文上手指南

For using Piik, troubleshooting or self-hosting, start with the reader documentation · 中文文档中心. This page also indexes developer and maintainer references.

Guides And References

Task Guide
Use Piik online Open the online site · Online sharing guide
Watch a friend or share my first screen Getting started
Choose an App mode or fix sound and connection trouble First-use help
Page opens but video will not connect / 网页能打开,画面连不上 Connection troubleshooting · 中文排查
Run Piik App, check platform requirements, or build a package App guide · 中文 App 指南
Try or change the source code Run from source
Find a directory or the module responsible for a behavior Repository layout and module map
Find the shared product, design and lifecycle rules Standards index
Host a site for my group Self-hosting · 中文部署
Keep a server running with systemd or Docker Service management · 中文服务管理
Set passwords, ports, or room storage Configuration
Update my server Server updates
Build, publish or recover a maintained release Maintainer release tooling
Send a useful bug report Diagnostics and export
Translate Piik or improve wording Translation guide · 中文翻译教程
Check release and platform readiness Current status

The introduction, getting-started, App, self-hosting, service-management and translation guides are available in English and Chinese. Technical references keep one shared version.

Run from source

You can try the Browser application locally with Node from .node-version, npm from package.json, and Go 1.26 from go.mod. Run these commands from the repository root.

Start the web UI:

npm ci
npm run dev

In a second terminal, start the server. For a POSIX shell:

PORT=8788 PUBLIC_BASE_URL=http://localhost:8787 go run ./cmd/piik-server

Or in PowerShell:

$env:PORT = '8788'
$env:PUBLIC_BASE_URL = 'http://localhost:8787'
go build -o build/dev/piik-server.exe ./cmd/piik-server
./build/dev/piik-server.exe

The fixed Windows executable path avoids repeated firewall prompts from go run. Open localhost:8787, start sharing, and open the invitation in another browser tab to try watching. This localhost invitation stays on your computer; remote invitations need a reachable origin as described in configuration. Browser capture requires localhost or HTTPS.

For the self-contained App, follow App development and packaging, including the platform's native capture requirements.

Work on Piik

Contributing covers the workflow and choosing focused checks. The main verification commands are:

npm run check
npm run check:go

Use the naming and copy guide for product names, commands, role labels and Chinese/English voice. Piik-owned code uses MIT; see the licensing guide for third-party components.

For the public website, see the introduction design and website preview and publishing.

Understand the product

Topic Its reference
Invitations, room codes and passwords Rooms and access
How viewers connect Routing and transport
Screen capture, quality controls and sound Media quality
Host and viewer behavior Presentation and lifecycle
Why a design was chosen Architecture decisions
Measurements and platform limits Research and verification status
Camera and Host microphone Capture scope and limits
Room voice proposal and media-fidelity boundaries Design assessment

Shared conventions

When changing… Follow this owner
Module responsibilities or interfaces Engineering and contract map
Product/tool names, role labels or copy Naming and copy
UI colour, illustration, motion or layout Visual language
Overlays, titles or state indicators Media status
Releases, protocols or stored formats Versions and compatibility
Main protection or automatic publishing GitHub operations
Documentation or a duplicated rule Documentation ownership
Checks, PRs, integration or cleanup Contributing

For ongoing work, use TODO. Project memory provides the compact product map; status indexes current source and deployment boundaries. Completed work lives in Git history and pull requests.