beta 2.0

Changelog

Beta 2.0

Auto Decoder Pro Beta 2.0 is the first Qt-focused beta centered on layered decoding, a redesigned desktop UI, and a release-ready Windows installer flow.

Highlights

• Added a new smart decoding pipeline:
  Input -> Fast Heuristic Engine -> AI Strategy Planner -> Multi-Pipeline Executor -> Scoring Engine -> Auto Retry + Mutation -> Best Result
• Replaced the previous simple search flow with a staged pipeline tuned for nested and ambiguous encoded strings.
• Switched the Qt desktop app to use the new pipeline in the Pipeline tab.
• Added a refreshed Qt Widgets UI with updated layout structure, clearer visual hierarchy, and theme-aware styling.
• Updated the installer configuration to package the current Qt desktop release build.

Added

• Smart pipeline API in the core engine for multi-stage decoding.
• Heuristic detection for structured content such as Binary, Hex, Base64, Morse, and URL-like inputs.
• Strategy planning that adjusts beam width and search depth based on input structure.
• Parallel candidate execution using GThreadPool.
• Retry and mutation logic for normalized input variants.
• Built-in layered decoding support for Binary, Hex, Base64, and Morse inside the pipeline flow.
• Qt installer packaging via installer/setup.iss for the current auto_decoder_qt.exe build.
• New English project README for the Beta 2.0 release.

Improved

• Candidate scoring now combines readability, confidence weighting, route penalties, and structured-decoding preference.
• Pipeline routing now prefers structured layers before exploratory transforms.
• Repeated low-confidence paths such as unnecessary Scramble chains are deprioritized.
• Readable text outputs now stop earlier instead of being over-processed by extra transforms.
• Layered inputs now get deeper search planning when the intermediate result still looks encoded.
• Theme loading now respects the saved preference on startup.
• Qt stylesheets were cleaned up to use valid Qt QSS instead of unsupported browser CSS rules.
• The desktop UI now uses a more consistent mono design system across dark and light themes.

Fixed

• Fixed startup behavior that always applied the dark theme before loading saved settings.
• Fixed invalid QSS behavior caused by unsupported properties such as transition, box-shadow, outline, opacity, @media, and browser-specific selectors.
• Fixed pipeline cases where binary-like inputs were incorrectly routed into Base64 at the first step.
• Fixed repeated-transform route selection that produced poor results on obvious structured input.
• Fixed several nested decoding cases where the pipeline stopped too early or chose the wrong exploratory branch.
• Fixed installer targeting so setup now packages the Qt release instead of the old non-Qt executable.
• Fixed a compile issue in pipeline.c related to candidate_last_step declaration order.

User-Facing Changes

• Pipeline tab now shows the Beta 2.0 staged pipeline flow.
• Improved route selection for strings encoded in multiple layers.
• Better output quality for structured chains such as Binary -> Base64 -> Hex.
• Updated application styling and font usage for a cleaner desktop experience.
• Installer output now targets the Qt desktop version directly.

Known Limitations

• The pipeline is still heuristic-driven and may need further tuning for intentionally misleading or adversarial inputs.
• Some deeply layered or mixed-format strings may still benefit from additional scoring trace visibility in the UI.
• Build and installer steps currently assume a Windows Qt + MinGW environment.

Upgrade Notes

• Rebuild the Qt application after stylesheet changes because QSS files are embedded through the Qt resource system.
• Recompile the installer after producing the Qt release build so the packaged runtime files stay in sync.