v0.12.2

Bug Fixes

A focused bug-fix release. No configuration changes are needed — existing sites build and deploy exactly as before.

MCP search no longer crashes on non-ASCII content

seite_search built its result excerpt by slicing the page body with byte offsets taken from a lowercased copy of the text. On any page containing multibyte characters — accents, CJK, emoji — those offsets could land in the middle of a character and panic, taking the whole MCP server down mid-session. Since the MCP server is how Claude Code talks to your site, a single search over international content could drop the connection.

The excerpt is now computed in character units, so it never splits a character and never panics, regardless of the content.

Frontmatter with --- inside a value now parses

The frontmatter parser looked for the closing --- delimiter with a plain substring search, so a value like description: "Before --- After" was mistaken for the end of the frontmatter block. That truncated the YAML and produced a confusing parse error on a perfectly valid file. The closing delimiter is now matched only when --- appears on its own line.

Self-update verifies checksums in-process

seite self-update previously shelled out to sha256sum / shasum to verify the downloaded binary. On systems without those tools (notably Windows) verification always failed, blocking the update. SHA-256 is now computed in-process with the sha2 crate — integrity verification works everywhere and can no longer silently produce an empty digest or panic on a missing temp directory.

GitHub Pages re-deploys are idempotent

seite deploy to GitHub Pages now creates the gh-pages branch with git checkout -B instead of -b, so a re-deploy over a stale .git directory in the output folder no longer fails with "branch 'gh-pages' already exists".

Subpath deploys rewrite single-quoted URLs

When deploying under a base path (e.g. GitHub Pages project sites), the base-path URL rewriter only handled double-quoted HTML attributes. Single-quoted attributes from custom templates — href='/about' — were left unprefixed and broke. Both quote styles are now rewritten.

Developer Experience

• seite init now lists seite agent in its "Next steps" so new users discover the Claude Code workflow immediately.
• seite agent "…" --once prints a next-step hint on success, pointing to seite serve / seite build.