Release 4.190.0

The one dropdown, the wallet in colour, who is online, and five smaller things. From the owner's notes of 2026-11-10, each with a screenshot.

• The site's name opens its pages ("clicking the actual name of the domain should have a sleek little minimalist drop down … that just shows the pages … have the home button as an option … a custom, animated system for these drop downs and positioning of them, used across all sites"). New ov-drop.js: a small list that opens out of what was pressed (under it, or above when there is no room), kept on screen, its rows arriving in turn; arrow keys, Enter, Escape with the focus given back, a press outside; one open at a time, with the page's other panels. OVDrop.open, .attach and .pages. In the bar the name shows a small mark and lists Home first, each page with its icon and the present page marked; with a modifier key it is still a link to the site's home.
• The wallet sheet in the currencies' colours, with motion ("make this way nicer with animations and effects and color … nicer for the different currencies … effects like animations for the coin loss … shared and unified, also SDK API"). Each balance is a tinted card with its drawn icon in a tile and its action in the same colour; a light crosses each card as the sheet opens and the numbers count in; after a purchase the number counts to the new amount and the currency's pieces leave its card with the amount beside it. On a phone: the tile, the name over the number, the action at the right. A read that fails is said in a person's words, never a program's.
• The effects as calls (purse.js): OpenVibePurse.burst(element, id, delta) plays the gain or spend at any element, inside an open dialog too, upward near the bottom of the screen; .count(element, from, to, format); data-purse gives a holder the currency's colour (--pc); .ovp-play plays an icon's own move.
• The footer strip says who is online ("show how many users are across all sites … the last half hour … guests and users, like the old forum style where it lists everyone … live smaller, only if someone's live … other metrics"). One read, /api/frame/online: the count with a few faces, members and guests, and where members may be named the list of them with their site; then small tiles that open what they count: live (only while someone is), joined this week, the site's own items, the sites, the week's page views. The page-view beacon marks a signed-in browser with ?in=1 (no identity), so that person is counted from their presence and not as a guest.
• Uploads say when you already have the file ("tell the user they already have one"). OVUpload.queue takes checkDuplicate(file, sha256); the row says "You already uploaded this on 10 Nov 2026." with Open it, Use that one and Upload again, as one block. OVUpload.preflight does it for a single picker. Files over hashLimitBytes (32 MiB) or slower to hash than to send are not hashed.
• A change is New, Improved or Fixed, with a mark ("what is this confusing tag … better next to everything?"). A star, an arrow up, a tick; an improvement shows the mark alone. "Better" is gone.
• One picker for a person's computers (machines.js, with Network's /add-computer): each computer a tile with its state and what it can run, "Auto", and "Add a computer" through OpenVibe Link.
• One bar mount per page: an empty band under the bar is gone from seventeen sites ("why is there so much wasted space or unnecessary margin … for no reason", with the space under the bar circled on openvibe.community). Since 4.186.0 the server writes the bar's links itself, in its own #navbar-mount; a page whose body already had <div id="navbar-mount"></div> then had two, the bar mounted in the first, and the second stayed an empty 52 px box. shell.page puts the server's bar into the page's own mount where it has one.
• Sign In has its own icon (an arrow into the ring; it steps in now and then, and the ring's gap runs once pressed), and the menu button's three squares hop in turn every few seconds ("use a nice custom animated icon for the sign in … make the menu button animated as well").
• The bottom bar's highlight is centred on its icon ("this is all offset"). It was placed once from offsetTop, before the icons and the brand font arrived, and stayed above its icon; it is measured from where things are and placed again when the bar or an icon changes size.
• Jump back in links to the full history on openvibe.my; the Dock's agent can read recent history on a press (the history-timeline job's plumbing).

• The test runner gives a failed browser file one more try (retry in test-runner.js, used by this package's own run). Three releases in a row waited on the macOS runner, each time for different headless-Chrome files that pass on Linux, on Windows and locally. A pass on the second try is named in the summary.

Built by runner jobs and given their look here: the upload check (upload-dedupe), the computers picker (machines-one-place), the footer's read (whos-online-strip), the history link (history-timeline).