v1.42.0

This release introduces a powerful new interactive commit screen, extensive enhancements to worktree notes (including a new CLI command and split markdown storage), custom worktree coloring, and major improvements to the command palette's search relevance.

🚀 Features

• Interactive Commit Screen: Added a dedicated modal for staging and committing changes, accessible via Ctrl+G. It features separate fields for subject and body, support for external editors (Ctrl+X), and an option to auto-generate commit messages from staged diffs (Ctrl+O).
• Worktree Color Customization: You can now visually organize your workspace by assigning colors (hex, named, or 256-index) to worktrees via the command palette. Colors are seamlessly persisted in the worktree's YAML frontmatter.
• CLI Note Command: Introduced lazyworktree note show and note edit CLI commands, allowing you to view, pipe, or modify worktree notes directly from the terminal without opening the TUI.
• Splitted Note Storage: Added worktree_note_type: splitted configuration. Instead of a single JSON file, notes can now be stored as individual markdown files with YAML frontmatter, utilizing customizable template paths for better interoperability with external tools.
• Advanced Command Palette Search: Completely overhauled the command palette's scoring system. It now ranks results using a tiered approach (exact word, prefix, and fuzzy matching), prioritizing label matches over descriptions, ensuring faster and more accurate command discovery.
• Palette-Only Custom Commands: Custom commands can now be configured to appear exclusively in the command palette by prefixing their key with _, keeping your keyboard shortcuts and footer hints clutter-free.
• Commit Log Indicators: The log pane now features distinct visual indicators for commit states (↑ for unpushed, ★ for unmerged) and assigns deterministic, color-coded highlights to different commit authors.
• Container Execution Enhancements: Custom container command mounts now support an options field, allowing for arbitrary volume flags such as z or Z for SELinux relabeling.
• GitLab MR Improvements: Added support for GitLab Draft MR statuses and improved MR head commit resolution using native API endpoints and diff_refs.head_sha fallbacks.
• Contextual Footer Hints: The footer now intuitively displays a Ctrl+G (Commit) shortcut hint whenever the active worktree contains local changes.

🐛 Bug Fixes

• UI Pane Switching: Fixed an issue where the Git Status pane would fail to refresh and display stale content when cycling through panes using the Tab key. Restored proper focus-driven auto-resizing behavior.

🧹 Maintenance / Refactoring

• UI Simplification: Refined the command palette selection UI by removing cluttered left-accent borders and shortcut badges in favor of a cleaner, full-width background highlight.
• Documentation Overhaul: Reorganized internal project architecture documentation, refreshed AI and container execution examples, and updated the README with a clearer outline of core features and workflows.
• Development Tooling: Added a hack/sample-repo.sh script to automatically scaffold a rich Git repository with branches, commits, and worktrees to accelerate local testing.
• Asset Optimization: Integrated automated image compression (pngquant and jpegoptim) into the build pipeline to shrink website assets.

📦 Dependencies

• Added github.com/google/shlex to safely parse user-defined shell commands for the new auto-generated commit message feature.
• Incremented system dependencies for rendering and UI components.

Contributors

• @chmouel
• @github-actions
• @goreleaserbot