[SunkenInTime]

The next desktop release is the first with accounts, cloud sync, sharing, live editing and replays, so it ships as 5.0.0. Dara chose the number on 2026-10-13. This PR names the version and adds the player-facing notes the What's new dialog and the updater show.

Version

• pubspec.yaml: 4.6.3+104 becomes 5.0.0+104, and msix_version becomes 5.0.0.0.
• Settings.versionName: 5.0.0.
• The build number stays 104. Main moved to 104 for the Paranoia migration (Bring cloud sync and the web beta into main #234), and desktop never shipped it (4.6.3 is 103). So no saved strategy or .ica gets a newer stamp than it already would. I didn't use scripts/bump_version.ps1, because it always adds one to the build number.

Release notes (release/metadata/5.0.0+104.json)

Title: "5.0.0: Icarus goes online". It has 12 features and 3 fixes, drawn from the PRs merged since 4.6.3 (#179–#296):

• sign-in and sync
• Move to cloud
• share links and people
• live cursors and outlines
• Replays and Capture, .vrf from anywhere, Keep and Remove
• Recently deleted
• lineup Edit placement and copying
• turning abilities with X
• theme profile codes and Lotus Moss
• backups that include the cloud
• the welcome tour
• view cones on Riot's minimap lines
• Paranoia and Steel Garden sizes
• text and image placement on defense
• smoother dragging

Not visible early: the dialog reads the published updater manifest (Settings.desktopUpdaterArchiveUrl), not main. So 4.6.3 users won't see these notes until the release is published.

Check before release day

• date is 2026-10-18. Set it to the day you publish.
• Offline line. It now covers page changes too (a82f9d8): cloud strategies open from this computer's copy (Open cloud strategies offline from a copy kept on this computer #325, Keep the cloud library listed while offline, and reconnect by itself #326), offline edits are drawn and synced (Draw the outbox's waiting changes when a cloud page loads #324), and page adds, renames, moves and deletes made offline are kept in order and shown (Keep offline page changes in order and show them in the pages bar #332, Offline "+" in a cloud strategy copies the page here and opens it at once #333 makes "+" copy the page on this computer, Check a page delete made offline against the page before it goes #334 checks a delete against a teammate's changes first). "Keep both" for a refused page change is not built; Keep mine / Use cloud cover it, so the line makes no promise about it.
• Replays line. It now says which patches work: 13.08 (the live patch), and 13.06 and earlier. 13.07 can't be read because that game build is gone. Update it when VALORANT moves to 13.09.

Updated on Oct 18 (e63de26)

Main merged in (it was 4 days behind), plus the work merged since the notes were first written (#304–#329):

• New: "Keep working without a connection" (offline cloud, Tell a signed-in user when their cloud library couldn't connect #322–Settle a stuck media upload when the server already serves its picture #329).
• New: "Review a round in the replay" (Watch one player in the replay viewer #309 watch one player, Round outcomes and kill details in the replay viewer #310 round outcomes and kill details, Show ability uses in the replay killfeed, and filter kills, spike and abilities #314 killfeed filters, Draw on the paused replay #311/Replay: full drawing tools, one playback card, spawn barriers; build with Xcode 27 #321 drawing on the paused replay).
• New: "Give agents VALORANT's new Warden rifle" (Add the Warden #307).
• Reworded: the replays line now names the patches it reads. Corrode 13.08: new layout, cones and navigation #298 already added the Corrode 13.08 fix line.

Updated later on Oct 18 (03cc27e, 68bb7eb)

• New: "Save screenshots and videos with a transparent background" (#335, #336 moved the choice to the camera button, #337 added transparent .mov video export).
• Main merged in through #338 and #339 (offline page-delete and page-open wording fixes, no line needed).

Installer pass on Dara's PC (Oct 18)

Built an unsigned 5.0.0+104 installer locally from this branch with the release script's build steps (the stable script refuses to run off main; signing happens in the workflow). Dara's 4.6.1 install was taken to the published 4.6.3 installer (checksum checked) and launched once, after a full backup in E:\w\inst-pass\backup. Then the 5.0.0 installer went over it:

• The library probe CI uses read the real library before and after: same strategies, pages and items, data version 103 to 104.
• 5.0.0 opens on the library with the welcome tour. Opening a .vrf from Explorer plays the replay, and an .ica imports. icarus:// points at the installed exe. The update check sees the stable channel.
• Signed in as the test account, a throwaway strategy was moved to the cloud, opened intact from the cloud, and deleted.
• Not covered: Authenticode signing (the workflow signs, then runs its own 4.6.3 to 5.0.0 upgrade test before publishing).

Checks

• flutter test test/release_notes_test.dart test/update_checker_test.dart test/cloud_build_config_test.dart passes (27 tests, rerun on 68bb7eb). scripts/test_release_safety.ps1 passes on 68bb7eb.
• scripts/test_release_safety.ps1 passes.
• I didn't see the notes in the running app: they appear only once the release manifest is published.

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Summary

• New Features
  • Added account sign-in, cloud syncing and sharing, live collaboration, and offline editing of cloud strategies.
  • Added replay viewing and management, strategy export and screenshot options, page recovery, lineup and map updates, and a welcome tour.
• Bug Fixes
  • Fixed issues with view cones, Corrode, abilities, resizing, dragging, and gameplay layouts.
• Release
  • Updated the version to 5.0.0 (build 104).

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