Adds a small auto-dismissing pill notification at the bottom-center of the participants area: 'Settings saved' on Apply Changes, 'Transcoder topology applied — restart Teams to take effect' after the one-click NDI groups setup. ToastViewModel owns its own DispatcherTimer and resets the dismissal countdown on successive calls, so the most recent message is always the one visible. Hooked into MainViewModel and threaded into GlobalSettingsViewModel via constructor injection.
_NEXT.md rewritten to reflect the May 2026 hardening pass: separates engine / UI / networking / Phase E.1 / diagnostics / CI / tests sections, lists every shipped item, and re-prioritizes the remaining work (Phase E.2-E.3 embedded Teams, code-signing the MSI, refresh-discovery affordance, output thumbnail previews, settings panel UX, auto-disable on departure, operator presets).
First step of Phase E.1 from the new spec at docs/superpowers/specs/2026-05-08-embedded-teams-orchestration.md: a third icon in the left rail launches the Microsoft Teams desktop client as a subprocess of TeamsISO so the operator doesn't have to leave the app to start a meeting.
Services/TeamsLauncher tries the ms-teams: URI first, falls back to %LOCALAPPDATA%\\Microsoft\\WindowsApps\\ms-teams.exe (new Teams), then the classic Update.exe handoff. On failure surfaces a friendly MessageBox with the install link.
The spec doc lays out the full three-phase roadmap (launcher -> window orchestration -> in-app meeting controls via Graph API or UIAutomation) and explicitly calls out what's out of scope (replacing Teams' media stack).
_NEXT.md updated to mark Phase D done and queue Phase E + remaining polish items (code-signing, Inter/JetBrains Mono font bundling, real Wild Dragon dragon-mark, drops counter, running-fps display).
.forgejo/workflows/release.yml triggers on annotated tag pushes matching v*.*.*. The workflow runs on a Windows runner (required for WiX MSI), restores and builds the Windows solution filter, runs unit tests (skipping the requires=ndi tier — CI runners don't have NDI), publishes TeamsISO.App + TeamsISO.Console for win-x64 framework-dependent, builds the WiX MSI scaffold, and uploads the MSI both as a workflow artifact (downloadable from the run page) and as an asset on the auto-created Release for the tag.
Tag version is parsed from refs/tags/vX.Y.Z and threaded into /p:Version on every dotnet build invocation so the publish output, the assembly metadata, and the MSI ProductVersion all agree.
Release-asset upload uses the Forgejo REST API directly via curl + Invoke-RestMethod rather than depending on a third-party action; if the auto-create-release-on-tag-push setting is off, the workflow creates the release itself. Pre-release flag is set when the tag contains -alpha/-beta/-rc.
docs/RELEASING.md walks through cutting a release and flags the code-signing TODO (SignOutput property is wired but no cert; SmartScreen will warn on first launch until that lands).
