Release v2026.7.20.2250

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✨ What's Changed in v2026.7.20.2250

• Commit Range: ➡️ v2026.7...v2026.7

🛠️ Bug Fixes

• 24a4119 — 🛠️ [fix] Prefer pwsh for redirected color capture _{(1 file, +6, -20)}

Restore the module's modern-PowerShell-first child renderer contract. Windows PowerShell serializes redirected host records as CLIXML, so using it while pwsh is available corrupts captured output and cache comparisons.

• 890804b — 🛠️ [fix] Make localized help builds idempotent _{(116 files, +1691, -5251)}

🛠️ [fix] Replace generated related-link sections with one canonical HelpUri and collapse duplicate or empty MAML navigation links after PlatyPS export.

🧪 [test] Verify every translated Markdown topic and MAML command exposes exactly one online link and prove consecutive help builds are byte-stable.

📝 [docs] Normalize packaged documentation casing so copied cross-platform links resolve on case-sensitive filesystems.

• 11c9f4c — 🛠️ [fix] Make ANSI conversion terminal-aware _{(11 files, +1548, -1918)}

🛠️ [fix] Decode legacy art safely, emulate cursor movement, split compound canvases deterministically, and preserve PowerShell-safe output across converters.

🧹 [chore] Remove duplicate source artifacts only after byte-aware comparison and retain the usable Megajoint segment already in the module catalog.

🧪 [test] Add Node coverage for SGR state, cursor controls, CP437 input, Unicode escaping, malformed sequences, and splitter boundaries.

• 1898573 — 🛠️ [fix] Harden module state and process handling _{(32 files, +396, -273)}

🛠️ [fix] Make configuration getters side-effect free, defer approved writes, preserve malformed files, and keep cache and metadata state coherent.

🛠️ [fix] Drain child-process streams without deadlocks, report renderer failures, and keep Windows PowerShell platform detection explicit.

🧪 [test] Cover WhatIf behavior, transient configuration paths, profile ownership, large redirected streams, and updated internal contracts.

🛡️ Security

• d8a3806 — 🔒 [security] Remove SAUCE font regex backtracking _{(2 files, +22, -1)}

Parse the fixed-width SAUCE font field with a direct null-terminator lookup instead of a potentially quadratic regular expression. Cover null, padded, and unterminated fields explicitly.

• a1682f0 — 🔒 [security] Remove vulnerable build dependencies _{(6 files, +179, -534)}

Replace the unmaintained frontmatter validator and enforce patched adm-zip and esbuild versions so a clean npm audit reports zero findings.

Scope publish write access to the release job and replace flagged SAUCE padding regexes with bounded linear parsing plus regression coverage.

📝 Documentation

• 8d26887 — 📝 [docs] Synchronize help and collection guidance _{(177 files, +43125, -39030)}

📝 [docs] Regenerate Markdown and MAML help for all ten cultures from corrected command metadata and align translated messages with the current module behavior.

📝 [docs] Replace stale cache, platform, testing, versioning, and publishing claims; fix case-sensitive links; and keep the Gallery README below its strict size threshold.

📝 [docs] Document terminal-aware ANSI conversion, duplicate handling, and additional source collections including 16colo.rs, Textfiles art packs, botany, os-ansi, and hyfetch.

🧹 Chores

• a0f1e64 — 🔖 [chore] Prepare version 2026.7.20.2250 _{(15 files, +51, -26)}

Update the module and localized help metadata to the release candidate version.

Make changelog validation tag-aware and document the reproducible versioned release-note workflow.

👷 CI/CD

• fffde8e — 👷 [ci] Install pinned help tooling for releases _{(1 file, +7, -2)}

Install Microsoft.PowerShell.PlatyPS 1.0.2 before the release build generates localized MAML help, and pin PSScriptAnalyzer 1.25.0 alongside the existing Pester pin.

• fd19bd8 — 👷 [ci] Install ANSI runtime dependencies for Pester _{(1 file, +22, -0)}

Install the locked production-only Node.js dependency set in the Windows PowerShell and cross-platform PowerShell jobs. This lets repository-script tests execute the ANSI converter in the same clean environment used by GitHub Actions.

• 250f6d8 — 👷 [ci] Make release validation deterministic _{(19 files, +1287, -3595)}

👷 [ci] Normalize versioned builds across release triggers, reuse the repository analyzer entry point, and keep verification non-mutating.

🛠️ [fix] Isolate flaky PSScriptAnalyzer passes with bounded adaptive subdivision while preserving every enabled rule and failing closed on persistent errors.

🧪 [test] Add release-wiring and maintenance-script regressions, strengthen coverage output handling, and remove the obsolete private-function snapshot.

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Release v2026.7.20.35

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✨ What's Changed in v2026.7.20.35

• Commit Range: ➡️ v2026.7...v2026.7

🛠️ Bug Fixes

• feeecff — 🛠️ [fix] Normalize release version overrides _{(1 file, +19, -3)}

🛠️ [fix] Canonicalize valid System.Version inputs before building and comparing the generated manifest version.

👷 [ci] Accept timestamp overrides with leading zero components while retaining strict rejection of malformed or genuinely mismatched versions.

• bcb0af5 — 🛠️ [fix] Normalize Write-Host array binding on PowerShell 5.1 _{(1 file, +5, -1)}

🛠️ [fix] Flatten the nested Object[] shape produced by ValueFromRemainingArguments before applying -Separator.

🧪 [test] Preserve A:B capture fidelity across Windows PowerShell 5.1 and PowerShell 7.

⚡ Performance

• 14ba72a — ⚡ [perf] Flatten deterministic colorscripts and avoid process startup _{(170 files, +5954, -10639)}

⚡ [perf] Replace 134 stable computational renderers with verified static ANSI output and restrict caching to expensive live scripts.

⚡ [perf] Route the 17 trusted dynamic renderers through fresh in-process runspaces while preserving the child-process boundary for custom code.

🛠️ [fix] Preserve syl signatures, remove console-state mutation from kevin-woods, and restore the rainbow pukeskull variant.

🧪 [test] Lock corpus classification, generated output hashes, capture fidelity, isolation, fail-closed policy handling, and cache routing.

📝 [docs] Document the deterministic conversion workflow and package the new dynamic policy.

👷 CI/CD

• 026bbf2 — 👷 [ci] Remove the redundant PSSecretScanner workflow _{(1 file, +0, -48)}

👷 [ci] Stop installing and running PSSecretScanner on every push and pull request because the scan is slow, non-blocking, and duplicated by the existing Gitleaks and TruffleHog workflows.

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Release v2026.7.19.703

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✨ What's Changed in v2026.7.19.703

• Commit Range: ➡️ v2026.7...v2026.7

🛠️ Bug Fixes

• 832da9a — 🛠️ [fix] Authenticate release note generation _{(1 file, +1, -0)}

• b0aff79 — 🛠️ [fix] Preserve Windows PowerShell test encoding _{(4 files, +6, -6)}

🛠️ [fix] Retain UTF-8 BOM markers on Unicode-bearing entry scripts so Windows PowerShell 5.1 parses status glyphs using UTF-8 instead of the active ANSI code page.

🧪 [test] Model inventory fixtures with FileInfo records and assert that metadata-only freshness checks avoid reading cached payloads.

🧪 [test] Verify the corrected tree with 513 passing Pester 6 tests and 87.06 percent coverage under Windows PowerShell 5.1.

• 734f104 — 🛠️ [fix] Make release version overrides authoritative _{(1 file, +27, -5)}

👷 [ci] Pass manual version overrides into the actual module build while preserving the repository's full release-note, verification, and coverage sequence.

🛠️ [fix] Derive tags from the built manifest and fail when a requested override does not match, preventing GitHub release and package-version drift.

⚡ Performance

• 57a0afe — ⚡ [perf] Harden selective output caching _{(19 files, +492, -148)}

🔒 [fix] Serialize each cache entry with a cross-process mutex and recheck freshness after lock acquisition to prevent competing terminals from deleting valid cache payloads.

⚡ [perf] Restrict implicit bulk builds to the curated cache policy, avoid loading full Pokémon metadata, and short-circuit exact-name inventory searches.

⚡ [perf] Add cats and nerd-font-glyphs to the output-cache policy while leaving static ANSI scripts on the direct rendering fast path.

✨ [feat] Expose Cache.EffectivePath so callers can inspect the resolved cache directory without losing the persisted override.

🧪 [test] Cover lock serialization, concurrent freshness checks, lightweight bulk selection, policy membership, and effective-path behavior.

🧪 Testing

• d2a204c — 🧪 [test] Match committed cache skip behavior _{(1 file, +2, -2)}

🧪 [test] Keep the release test aligned with the committed cache implementation, which returns the existing cached payload for an up-to-date entry.

🛠️ [fix] Avoid coupling release validation to separate uncommitted memory-cache work in the shared worktree.

• 1f2167e — 🧪 [test] Upgrade validation to Pester 6 _{(28 files, +241, -170)}

🧪 [test] Pin Pester 6.0.1 across local tooling and CI, migrate mock assertions to Should-Invoke, and retain the existing coverage and JUnit gates.

👷 [ci] Run the Windows PowerShell matrix entry directly under powershell so PowerShell 5.1 compatibility is exercised instead of being redirected through pwsh.

🛠️ [fix] Preserve Windows PowerShell 5.1 behavior for metadata loading, JSON cache metadata, console color parsing, single-record output, and WhatIf installation checks.

🔧 [build] Prevent duplicate test traversal, clear only reports owned by each test run, and scope analyzer exclusions to Pester DSL limitations in test files.

📝 [docs] Synchronize the Pester 6 requirement and commands across source and packaged documentation.

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Release v2026.7.19.59

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✨ What's Changed in v2026.7.19.59

• Commit Range: ➡️ v2026.7...v2026.7

🛠️ Bug Fixes

• e2bd1e1 — 🛠️ [fix] Preserve colors through accelerated rendering _{(4 files, +54, -12)}

🛠️ [fix] Keep literal ANSI sequences in the static AST fast path so only the public -NoAnsiOutput boundary removes them.

🛠️ [fix] Capture dynamic ANSI unchanged and translate Write-Host foreground and background ConsoleColor values to matching SGR codes without restoring ConsoleHost overhead.

🧪 [test] Cover static ANSI payloads, dynamic literal ANSI, and foreground/background color preservation.

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Release v2026.7.19.1720

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✨ What's Changed in v2026.7.19.1720

• Commit Range: ➡️ v2026.7...v2026.7

⚡ Performance

• d3f7f72 — ⚡ [perf] statically evaluate variable-based colorscripts _{(5 files, +487, -47)}

• Interpret the safe assignment, char, interpolation, concatenation, and sequential Write-Host subset without executing script code

• Read BOM-less scripts as UTF-8 for consistent Windows PowerShell 5.1 parsing and fail closed for runtime-dependent syntax

• Add corpus, byte-parity, negative-boundary, and child-process regression coverage under Pester 6

🧪 Testing

• 8f4ad39 — 🧪 [test] make UTF-8 regression portable to PowerShell 5.1 _{(1 file, +3, -2)}

• Construct the Unicode adjacency marker from its code point so Windows PowerShell does not decode the test fixture source through the active ANSI code page

• Preserve coverage of BOM-less UTF-8 parsing while keeping the expected static output byte-exact

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Release v2026.7.19.1250

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✨ What's Changed in v2026.7.19.1250

• Commit Range: ➡️ v2026.7...v2026.7

🛠️ Bug Fixes

• 023912b — 🛠️ [fix] Satisfy the publish analyzer gate _{(4 files, +5, -5)}

Rename the internal cache-policy resolver to use a singular PowerShell noun, matching the PSUseSingularNouns contract enforced by the publish workflow.

Update the direct caller, mocks, invocation assertions, and policy-resolution coverage without changing the resolver's collection semantics.

• 10f3548 — 🛠️ [fix] Stabilize help and manifest builds _{(2 files, +8, -5)}

• Derive the module name from the supplied module directory and select its matching manifest explicitly.

• Fail with the exact missing manifest path so isolated and package help builds remain deterministic.

• Normalize generated manifest newlines before the ScriptAnalyzer formatting pass to prevent mixed-line-ending build failures.

📝 Documentation

• 28c759e — 📝 [docs] Clarify policy-scoped cache behavior _{(20 files, +52, -43)}

• Document direct policy and exact-name lookup behavior instead of the obsolete full-inventory description.

• Explain rendered cache payloads, validation sidecars, orphan cleanup, the effective cache directory, and quiet progress suppression.

• Add the cache-directory summary localization key across all supported cultures.

• Repair wildcard examples and synchronize Spanish, French, and Russian Markdown and MAML semantics.

⚡ Performance

• 62e81df — ⚡ [perf] Accelerate cache validation and lookup _{(16 files, +803, -91)}

• Memoize validated rendered output by script, payload, and sidecar file stamps while keeping metadata-only warm checks lightweight.

• Resolve exact bundled names and cache-policy entries without initializing the full 3,000-plus script inventory.

• Bound live parallel pipelines to the configured throttle and suppress progress consistently in quiet mode.

• Remove orphaned sidecars accurately and preserve cached StdOut for the public PassThru contract.

• Add Pester 6 regression coverage for memoization, invalidation, fast paths, progress, cleanup, and compatibility behavior.

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Release v2026.7.18.710

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✨ What's Changed in v2026.7.18.710

• Commit Range: ➡️ v2026.7...v2026.7

✨ Features

• 89c8fe3 — ✨ [feat] Cache only computational color scripts _{(37 files, +756, -197)}

✨ [feat] Add a fail-closed cache policy that opts expensive renderers into persisted output while static and unknown scripts execute directly.

⚡ [perf] Skip cache initialization and I/O for unlisted scripts, clean obsolete entries safely, and preserve sequential, parallel, force, and WhatIf behavior.

🧪 [test] Cover policy integrity, selective rendering, cleanup, parallel execution, metadata, and existing cache command paths.

📝 [docs] Synchronize packaging, English help, README guidance, and generated module documentation with selective caching.

🛠️ Bug Fixes

• dad6fc2 — 🐛 [fix] Preserve the cache policy output type _{(1 file, +3, -2)}

• 🔎 [lint] Avoid the unary-comma analyzer false positive.

• 🧩 [fix] Emit the HashSet as one non-enumerated pipeline object.

🛡️ Security

• a4a9f8a — 🔒 [fix] (ci) Require explicit publication _{(1 file, +3, -13)}

• b2ddadc — 🔒 [fix] (ci) Guard workflow-run publishing _{(1 file, +10, -0)}

📝 Documentation

• be34e5d — 📝 [docs] Synchronize localized cache policy help _{(38 files, +1915, -380)}

• 🌐 [docs] Explain selective caching across all localized help surfaces.

• 🛠️ [fix] Repair malformed PlatyPS metadata and command fences.

• 📚 [docs] Add missing localized MAML command entries.

• 🧪 [test] Enforce cache-policy parity for every supported culture.

🧹 Chores

• cd49ab9 — 🔧 [chore] (ci) Retrigger exact-SHA verification _{(0 files, +0, -0)}

• 0e688a3 — 🔧 [chore] (tooling) Refresh shared validation tooling _{(20 files, +25939, -7509)}

• 46aaf64 — 🧹 [chore] Remove generated JSCPD reports _{(7 files, +0, -56196)}

• fb49073 — 🔧 [chore] Adopt shared validation configs _{(12 files, +56403, -170)}

🔧 [chore] Wire JSCPD, git-cliff, and Lychee through shared config packages.

👷 [ci] Point release-note generation at the shared git-cliff config where workflows invoke git-cliff directly.

👷 CI/CD

• 81f1275 — 👷 [ci] Use the stable coverage entry point _{(1 file, +2, -2)}

• 🧪 [test] Run the dedicated CI coverage script in every test job.

• 🐛 [fix] Avoid npm 12 treating the forwarded PowerShell switch as an npm option.

• 7a0c511 — 👷 [ci] Fail publication on Pester regressions _{(4 files, +36, -31)}

• 📌 [deps] Pin CI and publication jobs to Pester 5.8.0.

• 🧪 [test] Route publication through the shared Pester runner.

• 🚨 [fix] Propagate test and coverage failures outside CI mode.

• 📦 [build] Install locked npm dependencies during publication.

• 157ca79 — 👷 [ci] (release) Guard git-cliff note generation _{(8 files, +122, -322)}

Validate the authoritative manifest tag at HEAD immediately before git-cliff, pin release creation to the triggering commit, remove the release-notes wrapper, and use direct package CLIs.

• a7f3fdf — 🔧 [ci] Align Codecov module coverage target _{(1 file, +1, -1)}

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Release v2026.7.18.2139

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✨ What's Changed in v2026.7.18.2139

• Commit Range: ➡️ v2026.7...v2026.7

🛠️ Bug Fixes

• 5678d1f — 🛠️ [fix] Emit and strip real ANSI escape sequences _{(4 files, +14, -14)}

🛠️ [fix] Replace invalid braced-variable interpolation with actual ESC bytes in status-color prefixes, reset suffixes, and the sanitizer pattern.

🧪 [test] Update ANSI fixtures to assert real control sequences and plain-text output.

⚡ Performance

• e57419f — ⚡ [perf] Restore fast color script rendering _{(6 files, +226, -13)}

⚡ [perf] Parse the exact single-literal Write-Host shape and return normalized output without launching a second PowerShell process, while failing closed to process isolation for dynamic scripts and cache builds.

⚡ [perf] Capture dynamic Write-Host text inside the child process before ConsoleHost parses redirected ANSI output, and transport the wrapper with EncodedCommand.

⚡ [perf] Skip metadata construction for name-only selection and use case-insensitive HashSet lookups for Pokémon filtering.

🧪 [test] Cover static extraction, dynamic fallback output, metadata bypass, failure paths, and exact ANSI normalization.

🎨 Styling

• 48a9598 — 🎨 [style] Satisfy the release analyzer indentation rule _{(1 file, +5, -5)}

🎨 [style] Split static-string classification into named predicates so continuation lines follow the repository's consistent-indentation policy without changing parser behavior.

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Release v2026.7.1.2030

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Release v2026.6.20.800

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🛡️ Security

• 👷 [ci] Use shared workflow callers

👷 [ci] Switches the Dependabot auto-merge caller to workflow-templates@main and replaces local security and maintenance workflows with shared reusable callers.

⬆️ [build] Updates eslint-config-nick2bad4u to the published caller override version and records any peer dependency needed for the shared ESLint config to load. (6349f8d)

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