Changelog

• The website moved to patch-together.com — update any bookmarks or links you’ve saved
• In-app buttons for pricing, account registration, and the website now point to the new address

• Chat with your session — press Tab or click the Chat pill to open the panel; collapsed, it shows an unread count
• The panel is see-through so the rack stays visible behind it, and you can drag its top edge to resize it
• Hosts can mute individual users from the user list
• Session permissions now live in the session right-click menu: lock the session, choose who has presence (cursors, pings, cable drags), and who can chat
• Presence and chat permissions are role-tiered — everyone, non-spectators, or drivers only — instead of a single on/off toggle
• Hosts get their session back automatically after a lobby reconnect instead of it appearing lost
• Panels and menus no longer let clicks fall through to the rack behind them

• Guests can open the sync-policy editor mid-session and suggest changes to the host
• The host gets a toast when a suggestion arrives, and a review modal to accept or deny it
• Denying a suggestion notifies the guest who sent it
• Admins can view a session host’s effective sync policy and edit their overrides remotely, to help a host who’s stuck
• Browse & Edit can filter to just the modules whose policy has been changed

• Modals and overlays now render correctly when Rack’s UI scale isn’t 100%
• Fixed a crash on exit
• Sessions now recover their connection mid-session instead of dropping
• Rejoining no longer locks you out or clobbers your seat
• The rooms list stays fresh, and you’re warned before a join replaces your local patch
• Default session names dropped the time suffix
• Delete your account from the website
• Retract a sync-policy suggestion you’ve submitted

• Suggest sync-policy changes from the in-plugin policy editor — pick a module, tweak its policy, add a note, and submit for review
• Suggestions from policy reviewers and admins apply immediately, no review round-trip
• Accepted policy changes now reach everyone live: hosts pick them up automatically and redistribute to their session, no restart needed
• The sync-policy editor refreshes in place when new policy arrives, and is now available to session clients, not just hosts
• Login polish: press Enter to submit, clearer errors when the server can’t be reached
• Session capacity is shown in the session list, plus assorted LED, tooltip, and spectator fixes

• Right-click a peer in the session list and choose Follow to track their camera as they move around the patch
• Peers’ cables are visible while they’re being dragged, not just once they’re plugged in
• An edge-of-screen arrow points toward peers who’ve scrolled or zoomed off-screen
• Drop a ping, with an optional emoji, at any point on the patch
• React with an emoji that floats above your cursor for a few seconds
• Draw freeform on the patch with ctrl+right-click drag; strokes fade on their own
• The plugin checks for updates when you open the settings screen
• Deleting a module another peer is currently dragging is blocked
• Module data no longer syncs by default — only cables, knobs, and other core state do; a module opts in per data key
• A sync-policy editor lets the host curate which of a module’s data keys sync, live during a session
• Default sync policies for known plugins are now managed centrally by the lobby server

• Ghost cables can no longer be grabbed as if they were real cables, which could crash Rack
• Releases are verified to carry all three platform builds before the update server switches to them

• Versions now bump in lockstep across the plugin, the update server, and the site — the in-plugin updater can no longer report “up to date” on a stale version

• Joining a session now checks the host’s actual patch — not their whole library — so you’re only warned about modules the patch really uses
• Missing modules are tracked live as the patch changes, in a tabbed dialog that separates the patch from the host’s library

• Peers’ in-progress cable drags render as translucent ghost cables
• Protocol v3: sequence/acknowledgement reconciliation and a structural digest catch and repair divergence automatically
• Update status is always visible
• Fixed rejected module adds leaving a phantom module behind

• Sessions now heal themselves after a desync: snapshots are idempotent and data differences get targeted, minimal fixes instead of a full reload

• Parameters you’re touching are leased to you across the network — no more two people fighting over one knob
• Snapshot values flow through the same delta pipeline as live edits, so late joiners land on exactly the current state

• The plugin checks for updates and can update itself in place
• You can now see other peers’ in-progress cable drags
• Rejoin a session after a disconnect
• Built against Rack SDK 2.6.6

• All plugin logging now goes through one facility, making diagnostics for bug reports much more useful

• Module data now syncs under a three-tier scope policy — what syncs to everyone, what stays local, and what only the host owns
• The download link appears on the account page for entitled users
• The settings screen shows the plugin version

• Fixed a crash when quitting Rack while in a session
• Fixed a crash in the session right-click menus
• Hosts now reject sync operations that clients should never send
• Account page shows your live plan and email; change or reset your password from the site
• Entitled accounts can download the plugin from the site
• Public beta signup

The first public build of Patch Together: collaborative patching for VCV Rack 2.

• Host a session and invite others with a short invite code
• Modules, cables, and parameters sync in real time across everyone in the session
• Peer-to-peer connections with server-coordinated NAT punching
• Account registration and login