Editing Changelog (section)

== v0.56.1 — The Intro Film Shows Up Every Launch, And The Skip Pill Stays Put ==
* OWNER TEST ROUND — first real Mac and Windows builds of the v0.55.15 launch pair found three field bugs the simulator never could. All three are fixed.
* '''The film sometimes never played on mac.''' MacOS can quietly carry the "already played this launch" marker across app restarts, so the previous run ate the next one. The marker now only counts against in-app reloads (importing a save, restoring from the cloud, walking the [[Caves#The Amber Door|Amber Door]]) — a real launch always opens on the film, and the welcome page got the same cure.
* AUTOPLAY IS A LADDER NOW, NOT A COIN FLIP. If the system refuses sound-on autoplay, the film starts muted and your first click or keypress brings the sound back. If even muted playback is refused, the film waits for a touch and steps aside on its own after six seconds — never a stuck black screen.
* '''The windows skip pill stopped vanishing.''' About a second after launch, Windows promoted the video onto a hardware layer that painted over the "Hold Esc to skip" pill (resizing the window brought it back). The film and the pill now each hold their own layer, so the pill stays put from the first frame to the last.