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Release notes were written for the people who build Punktfunk, not the people who use it —
dense with protocol/ABI/type names that confused even technical readers. Rewrite v0.19.0 in a
benefit-first, plain-language voice (New/Improved/Fixed) with all internal terms removed from the
body and every protocol/ABI/embedder detail moved to a single bottom "Under the hood" section.
docs/releases/README.md now codifies this voice as the format spec for all future notes.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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co-authored by Claude Opus 4.8
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Canary / `-rc` builds have **no** file here on purpose: they get no curated body and are not
announced.
## Format
## Voice & format
Match the house style (see any recent `vX.Y.Z.md`):
**Write for the people who USE Punktfunk to stream their games and desktops — not for the people who
build it.** A non-engineer should finish knowing what's new and whether it affects them; an engineer
should never be confused or forced to decode internals. (See any recent `vX.Y.Z.md` for the target.)
- Open with a **wire-compatibility** line — *"Wire-compatible with X.Y.x — existing pairings and
clients keep working."* — plus a one-sentence fallback/negotiation note. This lead-in (all text
before the first `##` header) is what the Discord embed shows, so make it a real summary.
- Then `## Section` headers grouping the changes, with **bold lead-in** bullets.
- Be concrete: env vars, ABI/protocol versions, on-glass-verified hardware, platform scope.
1. **Lead with the benefit.** Each entry = what the user can now *do*, what now *works*, or what
stopped *going wrong* — in their words. Implementation is not the story.
2. **No internal vocabulary in the body.** No protocol/message names, code type names, hex codes or
hardware IDs, crate/component names, or API symbols. Translate any essential detail to plain
language. Name things users recognize (iPad, Apple Pencil, Steam Deck, Android TV, the Windows
sign-in screen) — not subsystems.
3. **Group as New / Improved / Fixed**, each a bold one-line lead-in + a tight plain explanation.
Skimmable. The lead-in text before the first `##` is what the Discord announcement shows, so make
it a real, plain-language summary.
4. **Be specific and honest** — no vague "various improvements"; a reader should know exactly what
changed.
5. **Compatibility line up top, in plain terms:** can they update one side at a time? does their
existing setup keep working? No version numbers in the lead.
6. **All protocol / ABI / driver / embedder detail goes in ONE `## Under the hood (for developers)`
section at the very bottom** — the only place internal names and version numbers belong, clearly
optional. The old dense engineering style survives only there.
The short annotated-**tag** message stays separate and short (a headline + a paragraph); it is the
tag object's message, not this file.