Development Changes

Development Changes

This ledger maps winTerm source changes to their durable GitHub records and the Wiki pages synchronized with them. Source commits remain authoritative; the Wiki explains their user-visible and engineering effect.

2026-08-04 — Alpha1 field-report fixes

• Source: f3697b8c30776b7eb031b35bd29adac20d43c2a4
• Branch: fix/alpha1-feedback, based on main at ed70755 (pull request #31)
• Version intent: fixes ahead of 1.3.0-beta1; version metadata unchanged.
• Summary: Fixes the four issues reported from local v1.3.0-alpha1 testing. The Command Timeline handle is now a thin auto-hiding strip flush against the terminal's left edge that widens on hover, focus, or while the overlay is open, instead of a floating button that covered terminal content. A pointer press on the terminal area now light-dismisses an open overlay. The Visual Progress recognition engine no longer claims ownership from a bare product-name mention (a dir listing containing .gradle previously started a bar that never stopped), no longer rematches arbitrary records under an established claim, structurally clears a still-running provider bar after two consecutive ordinary records, and no longer reads slashed dates as completed/total meters. Bare PowerShell profile commandlines are now rewritten at connection creation to import the packaged winTerm.Shell module, so OSC 133 marks and the Command Timeline work out of the box; the rewrite is gated by the new per-profile setting "shellIntegration.autoInject" (default true) and refuses every customized invocation.
• Validation: SettingsModel winTerm TAEF classes 44/44, Control CommandTimelineTests 43/43, TerminalAppLib and Control.UnitTests x64 Release builds clean, and the command-timeline, visual-progress, privacy, version, release-workflow, CI-classification, and Smoke gates all pass.
• Documentation: PowerShell integration, repository changelog, and current progress.

2026-08-04 — winTerm 1.3.0-alpha1 prerelease

• Source: cdfa02be0ac0f9f3c7ba8bd34200854323dbf130
• Branch: release/v1.3.0-alpha1, based on main
• Version intent: 1.3.0-alpha1 / tag v1.3.0-alpha1, channel alpha.
• Summary: Promotes the Command Timeline to a testable alpha. The feature content was already on main as checkpoints v1.2.1–v1.2.4; this moves the release metadata and makes the version gates channel-aware. verify-version.ps1 now accepts stable, alpha, and beta and enforces that the channel, the module prerelease suffix, and the application-version suffix agree. The WinGet workflow now skips prerelease Releases.
• Publication boundary: The release workflow marks any non-stable channel --prerelease --latest=false, so /releases/latest keeps resolving to v1.2.0. The alpha is deliberately not listed on winterm-site and is not submitted to WinGet. The Setup EXE is unsigned and says so in its release notes.
• Documentation: Wiki changelog, release notes, repository changelog, and current progress.

2026-08-04 — Command Timeline Phase 4 checkpoint

• Source: c1426996372c5af0ba442eebf5603bad15a9135e
• Branch: feature/command-timeline-v1.3.0-phase4, based on main (Phase 3 was squash-merged to main as 5fd2172 through pull request #29)
• Pull request: #30 — feat: complete Command Timeline Phase 4 checkpoint
• Version intent: 1.2.4 / tag v1.2.4.
• Summary: Completes the in-memory Command Timeline surface. Adds pane-local literal case-insensitive search over each pane's bounded command-text index with a 256 UTF-16 surrogate-safe query cap, a filtered projection that keeps stable CommandId identity, / and Tab focus routing that never reaches the PTY, Escape clear-then-close, the commandTimeline.enabled and commandTimeline.historyLimit settings with a Settings UI section, four distinct shell-degradation states, and bounded per-pane history with oldest-first eviction.
• Documentation: Wiki changelog, repository changelog, Phase 4 development notes, Command Timeline user guide, keyboard shortcuts, privacy, and current progress.
• Boundary: No persistent history, output cache, output search, regex or fuzzy matching, telemetry, automatic execution, ConPTY/VT/TextBuffer/renderer change, workspace or shell protocol schema change, installer, Portable packaging, Release asset, Latest update, website change, or screenshot.

2026-08-03 — Command Timeline Phase 3 checkpoint

• Source: 08afcea737e21ca2d8b7f83704efe94601215c3f
• Pull request: #29 — feat: complete Command Timeline Phase 3 checkpoint
• Merged source: 5fd217238452b2f9fd4352629f86ffb7befd9b54 (squash merge to main)
• Branch: feature/command-timeline-v1.3.0
• Version intent: 1.2.3 / tag v1.2.3.
• Summary: Adds Command Timeline entry actions: load the selected command onto the focused pane input with Enter or a single click, Space to jump to a command's output, Ctrl+C to copy the selected command, and a per-entry context menu with copy command, copy output, and jump to output. Adds a pure CommandTimelineActionModel, execution-generation tracking that makes a late completion detectable, multi-line and large-load protection, and on-demand output resolution.
• Documentation: Wiki changelog, repository changelog, Phase 3 development notes, Command Timeline user guide, and current progress.
• Boundary: A load never executes, never reads the Windows clipboard, and is never forwarded by input broadcast. No output cache, persistence, search, filtering, telemetry, Release asset, installer, website, or screenshot change.

2026-08-02 — Command Timeline Phase 2 checkpoint

• Source: e3033cced4f68ae6e50962b48c91eb432d3d0e17
• Pull request: #28 — feat: add Command Timeline phase 2 checkpoint
• Merged source: 395f9becd3237bf0d439ba58de50a667a911445d
• Version intent: 1.2.2 / tag v1.2.2.
• Summary: Adds the pane-owned, read-only Command Timeline overlay; pure deterministic navigation; incremental Phase 1 index consumption; keyboard, pointer, wheel, accessibility, privacy, warm-access, and cleanup behavior; shortcut remapping; version synchronization; CI badge repair; and permanent changelog/Wiki policy.
• Documentation: Wiki changelog, repository changelog, and current progress.
• Boundary: No command insertion, copy, paste, execution, output jump, search, persistence, Release asset, installer, website, or screenshot change.

2026-08-02 — Command Timeline Phase 1 checkpoint

• Merged source: 510c326e474eccfbc40f8f6763b4b9227a2aa6b0
• Pull request: #26 — feat: add Command Timeline Phase 1 checkpoint
• Version intent: 1.2.1 / tag v1.2.1.
• Summary: Introduced pane-local OSC 133 indexing, stable native mark identity, bounded command-text caching, no output cache or persistence, warm markRevision reads, and lifecycle/reflow/eviction/close coverage.
• Documentation: Wiki changelog and repository changelog.

2026-08-02 — Test cleanup and label-gated CI

• Merged source: abb581a2a661f1d3a1f34b2ac384ce4c7e3c69c9
• Pull request: #27 — fix: prevent hanging tests and optimize CI builds
• Summary: Added bounded TAEF process-tree cleanup and made native build, delivery, and ci:full validation explicit maintainer-selected gates while ordinary pull requests retain quick validation.

Synchronization rule

Every source commit that changes user-visible behavior, versioning, release status, or project history must update the root CHANGELOG.md and the matching Wiki record in the same delivery cycle. A later source correction receives a new ledger entry; published tags and Releases are never rewritten.