v0.9.1

[0.9.1] — 2026-05-17

Added

• New <ScrollBar> component (src/components/ui/scroll-bar.tsx) lifted out of the TextArea's inline scroll indicator. Both the notes editor and the journal event list consume it.

Changed

• Journal view now uses a two-pane focus model. ↑↓ (and j/k as aliases) scroll whichever pane currently has focus — the sidebar repo list or the event list. Esc toggles between panes (clearing an active filter first). Enter from the sidebar drills into the event pane instead of jumping out to the workbench; workbench access stays one keystroke away via g to garden or shelf, where Enter still opens it.
• High Contrast theme's focus ring is now cyan (#00FFFF) instead of yellow (#FFFF00) so a focused pane border no longer shares its hue with warning. Still 16.7:1 on black, well above AA.
• The ★ RepoGarden Credit footer no longer appends a literal (URL) fallback on terminals without OSC-8 hyperlink support — the brand mark stays on one line on narrow hotbars (Settings, Help, etc.). Hyperlink-capable terminals still get the clickable link.

Fixed

• Journal text no longer keeps stale characters after a transition. DitherOverlay was painting "stars" over the journal area via absolute-cursor escape sequences written directly to stdout, then erasing them by writing spaces at the same screen positions. The spaces overwrote whatever Ink had rendered, and Ink's diff cache didn't repaint. Rewritten to render the stars as Ink children so the natural unmount path reconciles the cells back.
• Single Escape now reliably closes the workbench, help, settings, usage, and edit-roots screens. The mouse and focus parsers held a trailing \x1b in a pending buffer waiting for a follow-up byte that disambiguates it (so split SGR-mouse sequences don't leak as Esc keystrokes). With no follow-up the byte sat forever. A 30 ms timer in cli-main.tsx now flushes both parsers' pending buffers after each chunk, so a paused Esc resolves on its own.
• Workbench overview no longer renders the value on top of the label, the section tabs no longer fuse with the "1 file changed" alert at small heights, the snapshot / top-actions panels keep their borders, and the help overlay's ┌─┐ key boxes render with full top and bottom borders. Single shared root cause: Yoga's default flexShrink=1 was letting overflow="hidden" ancestors squeeze multi-row bordered children below their natural row count. flexShrink={0} applied to Panel, Badge, the workbench section rows, and the KeyboardShortcuts grid.
• Onboarding scan-path input renders its content row (prompt + cursor) inside the box instead of on the bottom border. minHeight={3} on the bordered wrapper.
• Toasts sit inside the garden panel instead of straddling its bottom border. Toaster marginTop bumped from rows - 7 to rows - 9; the constant is hoisted to module scope (TOASTER_MARGIN_TOP) so the paint mask below reads from one source of truth.
• Garden engine's direct-stdout star/sprite painter no longer overpaints Ink-rendered toasts. New paintExclusions API on GardenSceneProps: a list of canvas-local rects whose cells the renderer marks transparent. The diff writer and setCell both short-circuit on transparent, and blockStarsForOverlays skips star-gen work entirely for excluded cells. ReadyShell derives the toast rect from useToasts().active and the shared layout constants, in canvas-local coords, and threads it through to both GardenView call sites.
• Journal event-summary no longer leaves a stale tail (shipped "Refresh live mobile data on focus"ences") when a long previous-frame summary contracts. Variable-length truncate(eventSummary(...), summaryWidth) swapped for fixed-width padTrunc(...) so the Text length is constant between frames.

Internal

• flushPending / hasPending exports on src/lib/mouse.ts and src/lib/focus.ts; cli-main schedules the 30 ms flush timer.
• Toast layout knobs (TOASTER_MARGIN_TOP, TOAST_MAX_VISIBLE, TOAST_ROWS_EACH, TOAST_WIDTH_PADDING) hoisted to module-level constants in ReadyShell.tsx.
• scripts/tui-observe.sh send now accepts any single printable char, C-* chords, Tab / Space synonyms, and text:<string> for literal multi-char input — enough to drive every surface from the harness.
• End-to-end QA report at docs/manual-qa-report.md with the inventory, root causes, and verification captures for every bug fixed this release.
• Test count: 491 → 497 (one new regression test covers the bare-Escape flush).