# Anvilink 2.1 - What's New **Recovery Readiness** - Vault Insights now gives every watched folder a clear recovery score. It checks recent snapshots, protected files, named milestones, vault integrity, missing stored data, reclaimable orphan data, and disk-space pressure. **Actionable protection findings** - The score is paired with a plain-language action list, so users know whether to run Snapshot Now, create a milestone, verify the vault, prune storage, or free disk space. **Better restore confidence** - The new report explains whether the folder has a recent recovery point and whether every referenced version is backed by stored data on disk. **Expanded tests** - Four new unit tests cover empty vaults, healthy milestone-backed folders, missing data, stale recovery points, and no-milestone warnings. The full macOS test suite now passes 170 tests. **Updated submission assets** - App Store screenshots, support copy, privacy copy, and review notes now reflect the current 2.1 app.

Anvilink 2.0 — a pro upgrade for your automatic local file history, still 100% offline. • Diff options: ignore whitespace or case, with live added / removed / changed counts. • Export a unified .patch of any change. • Vault Insights: a dedup-savings dashboard, an activity heatmap, and churn ranking. • Changes between any two dates, with rename detection. • Per-file history timeline — "blame," made for non-coders. • Prune dry-run preview: see exactly what a cleanup would remove before it runs. • Point-in-time export: rebuild a folder exactly as it was on any date. Everything stays in a local vault on your Mac — your files never leave the device.

A major Anvilink update: reliable folder access that survives relaunches, a visual Folder Timeline, compare any two versions with word-level text and image diffs, smart storage governance with compression and retention caps, a menu-bar extra, Quick Look, and search inside versions.

Anvilink 1.1 — What's New Smart Exclude Patterns — Stop the vault from filling up with build artifacts, caches, and system noise. Add glob patterns like `*.log`, `node_modules`, or `.git` per folder, or apply one-click presets for Node, Python, Xcode, Rust, and macOS. Excluded paths are skipped before any file I/O — they never enter the vault at all. Vault Storage & Cleanup — See exactly how much disk space your snapshot vault is using, then prune it with a single setting. Choose how many versions to keep per file (you pick the number), and optionally protect starred snapshots from deletion. Only unreferenced blobs are removed, so shared content is never double-deleted. CSV History Export — Export the complete version history of any folder as a CSV file: file path, version number, timestamp, size, content hash, tag, note, and starred status. Useful for project audits, client handoffs, or keeping a plain-text record of everything that changed and when. Settings (⌘,) — A new macOS Settings scene lets you set a default max versions shown per file, control whether binary files appear in the history list, and set the default keep-count for pruning. Vault menu — All major actions now have keyboard shortcuts and a dedicated Vault menu: Snapshot All (⇧⌘S), Export CSV (⇧⌘E), Manage Storage (⇧⌘U), and Edit Exclude Patterns (⇧⌘X). Sidebar context menu — Right-click any folder in the sidebar to access Snapshot Now, Export History, Manage Storage, Edit Exclude Patterns, and Remove Folder without navigating away. All versions now visible — The previous 8-version display cap has been removed. All saved versions appear by default; use Settings to set a preferred limit if you track high-churn files. Diff button now correctly disabled for binary files — The diff button is visually and functionally disabled for image, PDF, video, and compiled files, with a clear tooltip explaining why.