v0.5.0

Bug Fixes

• eliminate walk teleport/replay regressions + headless render harness (#62)
• freeze snap-back origin instead of re-reading per frame (#66)
• cascade exit to subagents when a parent is stale-swept (#75)
• footprint the meeting screen + bookshelf, tighten the sofa footprint (#84)
• unify the first-sight gate — stop the rescan resurrecting ended/stale sessions (#85) (#104)

Documentation

• tighten description + add etymology, audience hook, collapse migration (#51)
• convention — track every deferred finding as a GitHub issue (#88)
• config/contributing split + Copilot instructions + just-demo image pipeline; gate walkable overlay out of release (#108)

Features

• centralize easing curves + animated transitions (#54)
• ambient effects + weather-aware physics (#55)
• friendlier install/uninstall flow + backup cleanup (#56)
• UI polish — help overlay, tooltip framing, footer color, theme swatches, popup glow (#57)
• real-physics walk pacing with distance-driven staggered arrivals (#61)
• per-spot dwell + emergent meeting-room group-talk venue (#65)
• multi-CLI hook install + Codex transcript source, with hooks/JSONL lifecycle correctness (#63)
• physics-grounded weather × light audit — day+night, storm/lightning (#69)
• 3-seat sofa (meeting + lounge) + seated-overlap z-sort fix (#70)
• glass meeting-room partitions + connected wall joints (#72)
• per-furniture approach sides — stand on the side nearest the desk (#73)
• unify the furniture model — footprint SoT, approach sides, desk, occlusion (#74)
• decode Codex subagent hooks + semantic subagent-dispatch detection (#79)
• upstream wire-format drift watch + internal registered-vs-decoded test (#80)
• office overhaul — unified furniture + approach/settle/reach routing, walkable/occlusion audit, per-theme appliances (#78)
• user-defined pet names via [pet-names] config (#86)
• fade the sleeping zzz as it rises (less distracting) (#106)
• remove the distracting thinking-pose overhead dots (#107)

Miscellaneous

• remove stale Formula/pixtuoid.rb from main repo (#53)
• review follow-ups — CLAUDE.md decouple, bug fixes, test gaps (#67)
• add PR + issue templates for external contributors (#71)

Refactoring

• explicit scope layer + prompt subagent-completion (#76)
• extract Layer-A FSM (state/fsm.rs) + harden the decode layer (#81)
• param-unification, file reorg, type newtypes + correctness (#89)
• whole-codebase DRY sweep — shared helpers, extractions, doc-drift fixes (#100)

Testing

• lock in per-frame derive_with_routing idempotency (#68)
• raise coverage 92→95% (raw) + apply whole-codebase CR findings (#101)
• poll-backend watch in tests — ~6min → <1s watcher suite (#105)

Build

• adopt just as the single source of truth for checks (#83)

Ci

• skip Claude review workflows on fork PRs (#60)
• harden release pipeline + bump to 0.5.0 (#102)

Polish

• warmer crash message + underlined bug-report URL (#52)