v1.1.0

Manim Studio 1.1.0

Added

• Editable timeline — timeline edits are anchored patches stored in
  <scene>.studio.json; per-animation lanes, an editable block inspector,
  orphan tray, icon toolbar, block context menu, exact-duration entry,
  snapping (frames, 0.1 s, edges), zoom buttons/fit-selection, scrollbar,
  insert-wait-at-playhead, loop range and playback speed. Exports bake the
  edits in (--no-sidecar to skip).
• Block highlight that follows the editor caret; Play from playhead.
• Themes — Chalkboard theme and loadable JSON theme files; new editor
  header/toolbar, rounded popup menus and a regenerated app icon.
• "Reload preview, discard frame cache" action; LaTeX caching.
• Welcome starter scene.

Changed

• Renamed the product from "Manim Editor" to Manim Studio: the import
  package is now manim_studio, the CLI is manim-studio, and the Windows
  org/bundle identity is ManimStudio.
• Renamed the LaTeX override environment variable MANIM_EDITOR_LATEX_DIR to
  MANIM_STUDIO_LATEX_DIR.
• Rendering performance: single-pass filmstrip crawl, filmstrip reuse across
  reloads and retimes, traced scene reused as the initial scene, preview
  frames scaled fast then settled smooth.
• Preview protocol bumped to v4 (timeline patches).
• Removed the render-preview scrub bar; block actions moved to the toolbar.

Fixed

• A block with many animations no longer pushes the preview off screen.
• Reliable play/pause, loop and review-speed behaviour (loop stops when turned
  off, pause stops a running loop, speed changes real wall-clock pace).
• Later blocks stay reachable after a section is lengthened.
• Selected code stays readable with a themed selection band.

Repository

• LICENSE (MIT), CI workflow (format, lint, types, tests on Ubuntu +
  Windows), tagged release workflow, Dependabot config, community files and
  issue/PR templates.

Full changelog: v1.0.0...v1.1.0

v1.0.0

Manim Studio 1.0.0 — Release Notes

First public release of Manim Studio. All changes below are included in the
frozen ManimStudio-1.0.0-portable.zip and ManimStudio-Setup-1.0.0.exe.

Highlights

• Syntax highlighting — Pygments-powered Python highlighting with colour
  themes in the code editor (0f66c6b).
• Autocompletion + calltips — Jedi-backed completions: in-scope names
  complete instantly, member completions and call signatures as you type
  (3b35687, 769ea3f).
• App icon — proper window/taskbar icon plus installer icon; drop a custom
  .ico next to the app and it gets picked up (ab98c99, 0d1fe85).
• Memory status — live filmstrip cache / RAM readout in the status bar plus
  an App stats dialog; preview host reports filmstrip bytes and RSS via
  STATS v2 (6730d37, 165e7bb, 11ae859).
• Frozen packaging — one-folder bundle (ManimStudio.exe GUI +
  manim-studio.exe CLI), portable zip and per-user Inno Setup installer
  (ADR 0005, d3c385d).

Fixes

• Completion offsets stay on the caret (LF newlines preserved, character — not
  byte — offsets) (fc50f42, 769ea3f).
• Comment and string words no longer pollute instant completions (b28fd47).
• New runtime deps declared: pygments>=2.19, jedi>=0.19.

What's changed (commits since 0.1.0)

11ae859 feat(stats): live cache/RAM status bar and App stats dialog
165e7bb feat(protocol): report filmstrip bytes and host RSS via STATS (v2)
6730d37 feat(stats): add pure RAM/cache formatting and RSS helpers
b28fd47 fix(editor): keep comment and string words out of instant completions
fc50f42 fix(editor): keep LF newlines so Jedi completion offsets stay on the caret
0d1fe85 feat(editor): pick up a dropped-in .ico for the app icon
769ea3f fix(editor): complete in-scope names instantly and use character offsets
ab98c99 feat(editor): show app icon in window and taskbar
3b35687 feat(editor): Jedi completion, member completion and calltips
0f66c6b feat(editor): Pygments-based syntax highlighting
d3c385d feat(packaging): frozen build support (ADR 0005)

Install

• Portable: unzip ManimStudio-1.0.0-portable.zip anywhere, run
  ManimStudio.exe. No install, no admin.
• Installer: run ManimStudio-Setup-1.0.0.exe (per-user, no admin prompt,
  Windows 10+ x64).
• First launch may trigger Windows SmartScreen (unsigned build):
  More info → Run anyway.

Requirements

• Windows 10+ x64, OpenGL 3.3 context for preview.
• ffmpeg on PATH for video export only (not needed to edit/preview).
• Optional LaTeX for Tex mobjects — inside the app run
  manim-studio latex install (provisions per-user TinyTeX).

Verify

Built with scripts\build.ps1: ruff format check (64 files), ruff check,
mypy (35 source files, no issues) and the full pytest suite green
(474 passed), plus frozen smoke tests (--version, check,
templates, api-index, manimgl dispatch, windowed host dispatch).