0.8.5

[AHS12]

What's Changed

[0.8.5] - 2026-09-06

Heka learns to introduce itself and to scale: a first-run tour, a What's New
dialog fed by the changelog embedded right in the binary, a hidden heka dev
toolbox for rehearsing both, and — the big one — server-side search with
cursor pagination for the tasks and schedules lists, so the pages stay fast
and complete even with hundreds of entries. Freshness is engineered rather
than polled: a tiny revision pulse catches scheduled runs, CLI commands, and
on-disk YAML edits without ever refetching the pages you're scrolling.

Added

• What's New dialog. CHANGELOG.md ships inside the binary. After an
  update the shell greets you with every release newer than the one you last
  saw (newest first), rendered as proper markdown; a fresh install shows this
  release's notes right after the first tour. The About page carries a
  "View changelog" button that opens the whole file, plus Website and Docs
  buttons (heka.ahs12.xyz) beside the existing GitHub link.
• First-run tour. A five-step spotlight tour over the always-visible
  chrome — nav pills, daemon status, theme toggle, Settings — with
  high-contrast popover and arrow styling that stays legible on every theme
  variant, plus a visible ring around the highlighted element. Replayable
  from Settings → Appearance or the About page; the tour hands straight over
  to the release notes on a fresh install.
• Server-side search and cursor pagination for the tasks and schedules
  lists. Search is debounced (one request per settled query — tasks match
  name and slug, schedules match slug and task slug) and runs on the daemon;
  type and enabled filters (tasks) and the kind filter (schedules) moved into
  SQL as well. The lists load 50 rows at a time over stable slug keyset
  cursors and keep every page already scrolled into memory as you scroll for
  more, with a "X shown · Y total" footer and honest loading states: a
  spinner in the search field while a query is in flight, a "Loading more…"
  row while the next page arrives.
• Revision pulse. A new /v1/revision endpoint exposes one cheap
  aggregate signature per domain (tasks, schedules, runs). The GUI diffs it
  every few seconds and invalidates exactly the list whose signature moved —
  so a scheduled run firing in the background, a heka run from another
  terminal, or a YAML file edited on disk all appear in the open lists within
  seconds, without refetching a single page.

Changed

• Tasks and schedules lists no longer poll. Freshness comes from mutation
  invalidations (Run Now, enable/disable, delete, create/update/import,
  reconcile) plus the revision pulse for everything outside the GUI;
  window focus still refetches as a safety net. Run-toggling stays
  optimistic — chips flip instantly and roll back on failure, now correct
  across every loaded page.
• /v1/tasks and /v1/schedules now return {items, total, next_cursor}
  envelopes instead of bare arrays. Calls without a limit (the CLI, the
  dashboard's next-run panel, the schedule-form picker) still receive full
  lists — heka list --json output is byte-identical. Schedules' kind
  filter moved from the handler's in-memory loop into SQL.
• Schedule cards lead their header with the enable switch; edit and delete
  sit side by side next to it.
• Reconcile schedules now refreshes the tasks list too, since reconciled
  runs change task chips.

Fixed

• New IPC query parameters are URL-encoded properly, so search text
  containing spaces, %, or & reaches the daemon intact (the older runs
  filter path keeps its behavior).

Full Changelog: 0.8.2...0.8.5

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