Ibis 0.2.0

Ibis 0.2.0 has no downloads. Its build failed, so no packages were published, and its changes first shipped in Ibis 0.2.2.

Changes

⚠ BREAKING CHANGES

• Citation items and locators reject unknown JSON fields; empty locators are errors.

Features

• Accept complete citation intent through the cli (#1060)
• Add a copy tick, touch row press and soft link underlines (#1058)
• Add an accessible interactive citation demo (#1046)
• Add controlled chip keyboard and removal behavior (#826)
• Add ibis toggle for system keyboard shortcuts (#1102)
• Add privacy-preserving website search metadata (#1051)
• Add responsive website navigation and appearance controls (#1045)
• Add small website delights and tidy focus and drag (#1054)
• Add the accessible toolbar menu foundation (#589)
• Add the bounded global shortcuts portal client (#924)
• Add typed locators and safely expand citation outputs (#1344)
• Carry typed locators through search and copy (#1061)
• Citations: add natbib key output
• Clarify empty result states and idle instructions (#801)
• Cli: serve search and citations to AI agents over MCP (#1296)
• Cli: speak to people and take per-key locators and affixes (#1306)
• Close the website with Star and Share, and give sections a lead (#1052)
• Core: decide output and paste safety from the target app (#1272)
• Core: define the shared engine contract (#1212)
• Core: render key outputs from the shared citation contract (#1213)
• Csl: format citations in the shared engine
• Define the website rhythm and chip system (#1044)
• Deliver macOS login reapproval beside the picker (#982)
• Derive picker radii and spacing from one geometry chain (#702)
• Desktop: change the shortcut that opens Ibis from Settings (#1355)
• Desktop: copy citations as text, HTML and RTF in one write (#1328)
• Desktop: guide macOS paste permission in a new Settings window (#1309)
• Desktop: one shared scroll area with native bars and edge fade (#1081)
• Desktop: paste into the app the picker was opened from on macOS (#1277)
• Desktop: paste into the app the picker was opened from on Windows (#1349)
• Desktop: read Zotero through the shared engine
• Desktop: remember output per app and offer a one-copy override
• Desktop: use the canonical engine for file picker citations
• Discover configured Zotero data directories (#1063)
• Drain shortcut portal signals during consent (#966)
• Engine: drive file CLI through typed methods
• Engine: expose formatted citations through the cli
• Expose citation key preview ownership (#1032)
• Find a reference by pasting its DOI, ISBN, PubMed or arXiv ID (#448)
• First run, setup and recovery as choice screens (#1071)
• Follow the design for the picker header and per-platform looks (#499)
• Give the macOS picker the agreed glass look (#528)
• Introduce the canonical public website page (#1021)
• Keep all brand artwork in sync (#1001)
• Keep the quick picker out of the taskbar, select rows by pointer, and guard full-screen apps (#506)
• Lead result rows with a type tile that adds and removes (#540)
• Let people show the Ibis mark in search (#1076)
• Move keep-open controls to More and the footer (#819)
• Name starting at login in each system's own words (#734)
• Offer choices for empty and missing libraries (#1188)
• Offer to start Ibis when the user logs in (#530)
• Polish the website header, buttons and phone demo row (#1056)
• Prepare bounded shortcut suggestions (#805)
• Preview key citations without copying (#807)
• Quiet dividers, filled key caps and one search underline (#710)
• Release: ship the ibis command line for every system (#1267)
• Replace scaffold app icons with the B/G1 ibis (#658)
• Replace the picker format selector with a toolbar menu (#728)
• Restore controlled chip keyboard and removal behavior (#846)
• Retain ownership in formatted citation previews (#1036)
• Retain the kind of a Zotero best attachment in core (#624)
• Say Copied after the picker hides, and copy on row click (#517)
• Say what Enter does, list every key, and offer next steps on no match (#500)
• Scope searches to loaded library sources (#586)
• Search: cite pasted lists in order (#1334)
• Search: find other spellings and give closest matches (#1316)
• Search: forgive one typo, read field hints, rank by ordered rules (#1301)
• Select rows with a full accent fill and hide the key (C4) (#1069)
• Show footer hints as the action first, then its keys (#784)
• Show progress during agreed update downloads (#1002)
• Show what Enter pastes on a citation shelf above the footer (#816)
• Show where the library comes from and when it was last updated (#531)
• Sign Why with the key alone and steady the touch demo (#1057)
• Size the picker to its content (#1073)
• Sources: load files into engine snapshots
• Sources: map neutral Zotero items to CSL (#1220)
• Tell similar result rows apart by container and type (#502)
• Toggle and remember citation output (#852)
• Use checked acrylic on supported windows (#1009)
• Use Fluent and Adwaita type and neutrals, spacing on a 4 px grid (#717)
• Use liquid glass on supported macos (#1013)
• Use the permanent Ibis app identity (#1187)
• Zotero: read Better BibTeX keys from a closed Zotero (#1274)
• Zotero: read Better BibTeX keys outside Zotero's key field (#1270)
• Zotero: read Better BibTeX keys while Zotero runs or is closed (#1283)
• Zotero: read chosen group libraries through the engine and CLI (#1295)
• Zotero: read closed libraries through private copies
• Zotero: read live and closed libraries through the engine

Bug Fixes

• Add a website 404 page and keep previews out of search (#1050)
• Align picker menus with canvas decisions (#1019)
• Align picker radii with Canvas C15 (#1011)
• Align picker tile and title columns (#1007)
• Align platform shape and overlay tokens (#849)
• Attach macOS update consent to the picker (#979)
• Bind picker actions to the displayed library snapshot (#598)
• Bind updater signatures to their advertised version (#927)
• Bound aggregate Zotero reads across libraries (#1065)
• Bound stalled update manifest checks (#635)
• Bound update downloads and release busy state on exit (#1160)
• Bridge the macos system accent into shared roles (#909)
• Cancel pending row copies when the format changes (#596)
• Centre the year in each result row (#912)
• Citation: preserve literal affixes and locators (#1219)
• Citations: keep suffix-only postnotes literal
• Clarify first-run library and writing choices (#822)
• Cli: keep source flags from both positions and warn for old BBT (#1332)
• Coalesce library imports and cancel stale loads (#1157)
• Coalesce repeated search terms and poll cancellation (#937)
• Compare the file-size ratchet with main, not an exact baseline (#1172)
• Contain large citation selections inside the picker (#644)
• Copy the IEEE reference entry instead of a number that cannot match (#1154)
• Core: refuse to cite a key that another record shares (#1118)
• Correct macOS first-launch instructions (#836)
• Csl: drop edge line breaks; cite authors despite truncated editors (#1279)
• Csl: preserve valid citations across formatter requests #1228 #1229
• Csl: refuse unsupported truncated name lists
• Csl: refuse year-only when the year is not printed (#1353)
• Decide library errors from typed values, not their wording (#729)
• Decode native helper output in the caller thread (#629)
• Derive tray warnings from library provenance (#907)
• Describe filtered picker suggestions to assistive technology (#485)
• Desktop: an update offer never opens the picker by itself (#1362)
• Desktop: describe today's Ibis, open CSL-JSON, show closest matches (#1359)
• Desktop: Enter waits for the citation preview instead of refusing (#1093)
• Desktop: footer dot at the edge, shared close glyph, no menu halo (#1078)
• Desktop: hover only tints a row; a click selects it (#1097)
• Desktop: keep a clicked row from being scrolled by a late effect (#1179)
• Desktop: keep library status true across reloads and engine events (#1333)
• Desktop: keep the revision when a reread brings equal references (#1111)
• Desktop: make the Settings window fill and scroll like macOS (#1356)
• Desktop: menus fit the footer, native checks, grouped shortcuts (#1072)
• Desktop: move a macOS shortcut letter to the key that types it (#1146)
• Desktop: never paste into a password field on macOS (#1360)
• Desktop: offer update controls in More on every desktop (#1155)
• Desktop: preserve citation notices and refusal explanations
• Desktop: preserve Settings choices and wrap narrow controls (#1340)
• Desktop: restore selected Zotero group libraries (#1346)
• Desktop: use the macOS picker design on every system
• Desktop: veil the macOS picker glass so the desktop never shows through (#1321)
• Draw selection as a fill and focus rings for the keyboard only (#535)
• End portal sessions when their owner changes (#980)
• Explain website features in plain language (#1047)
• Fit footer actions before wrapping (#870)
• Flush settings before replacing them and keep unknown fields (#694)
• Generate neutral website colours from the brand source (#1043)
• Give the release pull request CI through the release app (#1100)
• Guard Windows update offer activation by capability (#657)
• Identify failing Windows snapshot provider operations (#662)
• Identify invalid Zotero settings list entries (#488)
• Include the year in older library check dates (#879)
• Isolate English picker phrases in RTL layouts (#928)
• Keep a neutral pin in the header (#891)
• Keep appearance diagnostics from interrupting recovery (#851)
• Keep breathing room around a wrapped picker footer (#730)
• Keep corner diagnostics from interrupting recovery (#862)
• Keep feedback browser diagnostics private (#558)
• Keep folded footer hints at their intrinsic width (#877)
• Keep maintainer agent identities public (#1183)
• Keep menus contained and shortcuts as plain text (#934)
• Keep More stationary across footer focus changes (#661)
• Keep native dialogs protected by their own leases (#813)
• Keep rapidly reopened menus keyboard usable (#794)
• Keep readable files usable without live watches
• Keep retained freshness in library status details (#634)
• Keep the focus ring off menu rows (#1028)
• Keep the unsaved-choice warning after a refresh (#898)
• Keep white selected text on the macos native accent (#1027)
• Keep Zotero pagination snapshots complete (#618)
• Keep Zotero scans stable when items are edited mid-scan (#693)
• Let the picker hide while independent messages wait (#904)
• Make fallback overlays opaque (#1025)
• Match letter shortcuts by physical key on Greek and Hebrew layouts (#732)
• Match picker shortcuts from the key table and list repeated warnings (#690)
• Narrow click fixture compiler references (#983)
• Observe macOS control roles before activation (#651)
• Pair native macOS selection background and text (#632)
• Parent macOS update recovery to the picker (#993)
• Picker: show whole chip rows in the tray (#751)
• Picker: show whole chip rows in the tray and test that regions never overlap
• Polish the website citation example and controls (#1048)
• Polish the website header, buttons and phone demo row
• Precompile Windows smoke helpers before timed checks (#1098)
• Preserve decomposed Korean name order
• Preserve decomposed Korean name order
• Preserve footer order on right-to-left pages (#818)
• Preserve Linux startup choices across app identities (#988)
• Preserve literal comparisons while normalizing rich-text tags (#621)
• Preserve native portal activation tokens (#985)
• Preserve newer picker interactions when a copy completes (#599)
• Preserve settings before the app identity changes (#834)
• Preserve settings symlinks and clean migration staging (#916)
• Preserve the Windows installer manufacturer (#963)
• Recognize native stale window error fields (#823)
• Recover backup-only settings without losing preferences (#1145)
• Recover damaged settings from the backup (#1101)
• Refuse blank command-line page locators (#623)
• Reject distrusted TLS certificate keys (#595)
• Release: preserve macOS signing identity safely (#1341)
• Release: put the signing keychain on the search list while signing (#1350)
• Report login registration refresh failures (#866)
• Report native menu check failures (#864)
• Report pending approval after failed login registration (#588)
• Respect explicit debug preview placement (#1006)
• Restore Search focus after More menu actions (#791)
• Restore Search focus after selected-reference removal (#665)
• Restrict desktop commands to their owning windows (#845)
• Retain all Zotero libraries when a refresh fails (#1185)
• Retain failed browser gallery attempts (#1018)
• Retain macOS login notice acknowledgement (#974)
• Retain verified Windows picker identity for menu actions (#792)
• Retry failed Zotero choices when the picker regains focus (#630)
• Return typing immediately after a format pick (#973)
• Return typing immediately after leaving More (#960)
• Save picker preferences on a blocking worker (#910)
• Scale nested geometry insets for larger text (#856)
• Search: find PMID identifiers kept in Zotero Extra (#1348)
• Select rows before copying and offer native actions (#1016)
• Serialize toolbar commands after menu exit (#804)
• Share button states for footer and dialog actions (#958)
• Share citation shelf button states (#977)
• Share composition guards across picker controls (#1017)
• Share copy warning dismissal button states (#986)
• Share empty-state recovery button states (#981)
• Share first-run setup button states (#989)
• Share footer unpin button states (#992)
• Share search clear button states (#990)
• Share toolbar button states and retain hit targets (#969)
• Skip stale Linux accessibility discovery entries (#911)
• Sources: hide brace-wrapped note paths and read larger libraries (#1278)
• Sources: read .bibtex as BibTeX even when it starts with a bracket (#1395)
• Sources: remove private URL tails and bound file records
• Stage the macOS login reapproval receipt (#967)
• Stop citation chip fitting feedback (#876)
• Stop Dvorak's Ctrl+' from quitting the picker (#1068)
• Time formatting from worker start and drop replaced previews (#677)
• Unify chip and result pointer states (#997)
• Unify picker spacing across platforms (#1000)
• Use native windows actions for update consent (#935)
• Use one default shortcut across platforms (#1186)
• Use the beak quote mark in the citation shelf (#920)
• Validate Windows memory process identities (#814)
• Wait for an explicit library search on first run (#999)
• Warn for a BibTeX day that cannot be used and keep a valid one (#1158)
• Write truncated author lists as et al (#1156)
• Zotero: keep closed libraries readable
• Zotero: skip malformed items and restore old title rules (#1331)

Performance

• Borrow Zotero text and bound warning labels (#1062)
• Csl: register citation items once per request
• Engine: reuse unchanged records and hold one snapshot copy (#1391)
• Engine: share prepared objects and drop unused raw copies (#1310)
• Move references out of loaded files in the CLI (#900)
• Skip the key preview while the preview is hidden (#899)

Documentation

• Align public messaging with the Ibis brand headline (#1040)
• Align user and developer guides with current behavior (#645)
• Bring the picker spec in line with prototype rounds seven and eight (#565)
• Bring the Settings, design-system and preview specs into the repo (#796)
• Build the desktop interface on React Aria Components and layered CSS tokens (#542)
• Clarify platform fullscreen shortcut rules (#1012)
• Clarify reference and writing workflow coverage (#1342)
• Count only the required check as red main and restore work limits (#887)
• Cut harness internals from the testing guide (#1141)
• Cut process text to what agents need (#1302)
• Cut the release guide to what a release needs (#1149)
• Cut the testing guide to the strategy and drop per-PR images (#683)
• Describe local storage and per-platform cleanup (#929)
• Design: record the design canvas decisions (#953)
• Drop done roadmap items and mark unbuilt architecture parts (#682)
• Focus the roadmap, keep one tracking issue and freeze the look (#1084)
• Give the code of conduct its reporting address (#1150)
• Keep one brand master and its exports in brand/ (#996)
• Keep the website demo in step with the app (#1053)
• Keep website guidance in the shared rule book (#1041)
• Let hosted CI replace the local full check (#917)
• Link release permission guidance to its standing authority
• Link release permission guidance to its standing authority
• List the start-at-login entry and all settings in PRIVACY (#680)
• Locate unfamiliar repository files before use (#987)
• Make roles, pausing and resuming the same for every agent (#786)
• Match public claims to what has shipped (#1120)
• Merge the design rules into one rule book (#1039)
• Move the unbuilt Settings spec to its issue (#1095)
• Offer only what Ibis can get right (#1151)
• Persist the free-first review procedure (#1010)
• Plan selection search, ibis:// links and the agent pack (#1323)
• Plan the engine-first rebuild (#1191)
• Point changelog commit links at the rewritten history (#1140)
• Put both demo features in 0.3 and size pull requests by feature (#1167)
• Record macos login reapproval in the identity adr (#961)
• Record safe verification target reuse (#978)
• Record the maintainer's product role and release approval (#1137)
• Record the plan from the product review (#1388)
• Record which design steps are done and the agreed corrections (#494)
• Remove stale process and internal notes (#1126)
• Remove stale process and internal notes from public docs
• Require current evidence before recovery reverts (#850)
• Restore the bird's eye in the brand master (#1004)
• Roadmap: open PDFs linked from .bib files in the 0.5 reader (#1255)
• Route ideas to Discussions and state the AI policy (#1134)
• Say a conflicted pull request gets no CI run (#1319)
• Say what the README's stable and Nightly builds do and how to start (#681)
• Say which systems Ibis works with and how (#1135)
• Separate the picker spec from rollout status (#684)
• Shorten the contribution rules to what prevents damage (#800)
• Shorten the contributor guides and plan signing for 1.0 (#1114)
• Shorten the focused harness and screenshot notes in testing (#1103)
• Show the Ibis logo at the top of the README (#957)
• Specify the picker header, footer, empty states and first run (#759)
• State shipped platform behavior and installation limits (#926)
• Surface the review evidence format (#975)
• Tighten the design rule book (#1117)
• Trim the development guide to the rules people use (#1147)
• Use the macOS design on every system for now (#1210)
• Verify evidence links against GitHub metadata
• Verify GitHub evidence links before publishing (#867)
• Write one contribution standard for issues, pull requests and labels (#705)