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Piik now has one public presentation and a coordinated App/Server release path. This phase unifies the room UI, rewrites the bilingual README and guides, adds a static website with an inline product film, and prepares matching GitHub/Gitee packages and update links.

The film uses the current homepage and shared product controls on one seekable timeline. Runtime fixes preserve presentation when the App opens a room, normalize Site origins, and keep capture and media-recovery status in the television indicator. New visits use Chinese for a Chinese system language and English otherwise; explicit language and visual-mode choices remain available. An optional site passphrase controls site entry, while room authorization remains enforced.

GitHub is the release authority. Gitee mirrors verified packages and provides update metadata when GitHub is unavailable. Reviewed PR release notes become the GitHub Release description. The separate public demo uses P2P only, with HTTPS and STUN verified.

Validation: 756 Web tests, TypeScript and production build; Go core tests, formatting, vet and available target builds; bounded Windows capture and App/Site interoperability; browser film checks, audible playback and narrow layouts; anonymous Gitee Windows-package download, checksum and launcher/update-link checks. Public demo acceptance covers authenticated WebSocket signaling, synthetic P2P video and room cleanup on one network. macOS/Linux physical capture and the wider device/network/endurance matrix remain explicitly deferred.

Publication builds every package from the merged source SHA. The repository is public, main protection is active, and Pages is configured for piik.tv. CI/publisher and Pages deployment records own publication results.

## Release notes

### 中文

Piik 是免费开源的屏幕共享工具。开个房间,发出邀请,最多 20 位朋友就能用浏览器加入观看。

- 使用浏览器或 Piik App 分享游戏、窗口和整个屏幕。
- 优先建立直连;自托管站点可开启媒体转发作为备用线路。
- Piik App 支持本地房间、临时公网邀请和已有站点。
- Piik Server 内置网页界面、房间管理和连接服务,方便自行部署。
- 提供中英文界面与使用指南,以及 GitHub、Gitee 两条下载线路。

[官网](https://piik.tv) · [在线体验](https://demo.piik.tv) · [使用指南](https://github.com/TNTcraftHIM/Piik/blob/main/docs/guide/getting-started.zh-CN.md) · [自行部署](https://github.com/TNTcraftHIM/Piik/blob/main/docs/operations/self-hosting.zh-CN.md) · [Gitee 下载](https://gitee.com/TNTcraftHIM/Piik/releases)

Windows App 和桌面浏览器是本次主要验证的平台。macOS 和 Linux 尚未经过实机测试,欢迎有设备的朋友测试并反馈。演示站和 App 公网邀请使用 P2P,受限网络下可能无法连接;自托管站点可开启媒体转发。

### English

Piik is free, open-source screen sharing for you and up to 20 viewers. Start a room, send an invitation, and your friends can join in a browser.

- Share games, windows or a whole screen from your browser or Piik App.
- Direct connections come first, with optional media forwarding on self-hosted sites.
- Piik App supports local rooms, temporary public invitations and existing sites.
- Piik Server includes the web interface, rooms and connection services for self-hosting.
- English and Chinese interfaces and guides are available, with GitHub and Gitee downloads.

[Website](https://piik.tv) · [Online demo](https://demo.piik.tv) · [User guide](https://github.com/TNTcraftHIM/Piik/blob/main/docs/guide/getting-started.md) · [Self-hosting](https://github.com/TNTcraftHIM/Piik/blob/main/docs/operations/self-hosting.md) · [Gitee downloads](https://gitee.com/TNTcraftHIM/Piik/releases)

Windows App and desktop browsers are the primary validated paths. macOS and Linux have not yet been tested on physical devices; testing and feedback are welcome. The demo and App public invitations rely on P2P and may not connect on restrictive networks. Self-hosted sites can enable media forwarding.
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GitHub Repository And Releases

Versioning owns release meaning and compatibility; CONTRIBUTING owns review and local validation. This file owns the one-time GitHub settings. The source repository is public; automatic package publication has its own activation gate below.

Main And Pull Requests

Use squash merging only, with the PR title and body as the squash commit. These repository settings are applied. Keep automatic branch deletion off: the normal cleanup step checks local worktrees and remaining references first.

Protect main with PRs required, zero mandatory peer approvals for the solo maintainer, administrator enforcement, linear history, and no force pushes or deletions. Do not require cloud PR checks while branch/PR CI is intentionally quiet; local validation and acceptance precede the squash merge. PR/issue templates live in .github/; naming is shared with automatic version selection.

These protections are active, including conversation resolution. GitHub Pages uses the GitHub Actions publishing source and the piik.tv custom domain; the repository homepage points to https://piik.tv. The dedicated Website workflow publishes the static site under website operations.

Enable Automatic Publication Once

Before enabling, accept the release packages, compatibility baseline, public copy and repository visibility; finish main protection. Then set repository Actions variable PIIK_RELEASES_ENABLED to true. This is a repository setting, not an environment variable for Piik App or Server.

Subsequent accepted PRs merged to main use the existing CI workflow: calculate one version, validate, package Server and all App targets, and publish the same artifacts. Runs queue rather than overlap or cancel one another. Branches/PRs stay quiet; manual client_checks dispatch remains available for candidates. Writing a new version back to main is unnecessary and prohibited.

For a complete publisher rehearsal, dispatch with client_checks: true and an explicit candidate_version such as v1.0.0. This builds genuine Server and native App artifacts under one revision and version without tagging or publishing. Prepare its release-note section and inspect the generated preview in the run summary. For a local preview, run node scripts/release-notes.mjs v1.0.0 FULL_SOURCE_SHA from the checkout with full history and tags. Download that run's artifacts and pass their directory, version and full revision to scripts/publish-release.mjs --dry-run (put the flag after the three positional arguments). An omitted candidate version keeps the usual development/exact-tag identity.

Enable GitHub's built-in release immutability for formal publication where available. Upload all assets to the draft before publishing. A failed upload can resume its same-source draft; a published version is never clobbered. If its files are wrong or incomplete, publish a corrected new version. An older retry must not replace a newer release's latest designation.

To stop future automatic publication, remove/set false the activation variable; this does not alter existing releases or a currently running workflow. Inspect the active run separately. No pipeline step changes visibility or installs an update into a running Piik deployment.

Gitee Download Mirror

TNTcraftHIM/Piik is a public README/Release mirror. Source, documentation and issues stay on GitHub. The publishing job uses the repository Actions secret GITEE_TOKEN, which is configured; rotate it there when needed. Never put it in source, a remote URL or a distributed package. GitHub publication continues to use the workflow's scoped token.

After GitHub publication, the same job runs scripts/mirror-release.mjs on the original artifacts. Upload failure leaves the Gitee release marked as a preview. Rerun the failed publishing job to verify existing files and upload only missing ones. GitHub's published release remains unchanged. Both publishers reject changing a published package; use a corrected new version if its bytes are wrong.

If the original Actions artifacts have expired, download that release's files from GitHub into an external working directory, then run:

gh release download v1.0.0 --repo TNTcraftHIM/Piik --dir /tmp/piik-mirror
node scripts/mirror-release.mjs /tmp/piik-mirror v1.0.0 FULL_SOURCE_SHA

Use the release's actual version and full target_commitish SHA, with GITEE_TOKEN supplied through the publisher environment. --dry-run after the three arguments checks local identity, checksums and attachment sizes without publishing. The release-source policy owns provenance, selection and quota limits. Small-file upload/download acceptance has passed; full-package mirror acceptance remains part of release readiness.

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