v1.10.4

IMPROVEMENTS:

• release: the flatpak now targets the current freedesktop 25.08
  runtime (was the previous-generation 24.08).

v1.10.3

BUG FIXES:

• release: the flatpak no longer reports a stale version (1.5.4) in
  software centers like KDE Discover. The AppStream release list was
  hand-maintained and had rotted; it is now generated from CHANGELOG.md
  by eng/gen-flatpak-releases.sh, which CI runs before every Flatpak
  build.

v1.10.2

BUG FIXES:

• release: the flatpak's launcher/search icon no longer looks like the
  generic "document" icon in KDE. The exported icon was an opaque
  white-background grayscale conversion; it is now generated from the
  GUI's own flashkit.ico with a transparent background, installed at
  32/64/128/256 px.

v1.10.1

IMPROVEMENTS:

• core: System.IO.Hashing updated 10.0.10 -> 10.0.11 (upstream .NET
  servicing fixes).
• serial: System.IO.Ports updated 10.0.10 -> 10.0.11 (upstream .NET
  servicing fixes).

v1.10.0

FEATURES:

• core: xdelta (VCDIFF/RFC 3284) patches are now supported alongside IPS
  everywhere patches are accepted. The CLI's --patch/--apply-patch
  detect the format from the patch file, --create-patch writes xdelta
  when the output name ends in .xdelta/.vcdiff/.xd3, and the
  GUI/TUI patch panel picks both formats up the same way. Patches
  created by xdelta3 with default settings apply as-is (secondary
  compression, -S djw/lzma, is rejected with a pointed error).

IMPROVEMENTS:

• gui: upgraded the UI framework from Avalonia 11.3 to 12.1.
• docs: the README's CLI reference is again the verbatim --help output —
  it had drifted from the 1.8.1/1.9.2 help-text reformat (single-column
  option descriptions, fuller --full-erase/--trust-header/bake-save text).

v1.9.3

BUG FIXES:

• gui: closing the app on Linux no longer crashes with an unhandled
  TaskCanceledException. Avalonia's DBus teardown could race dispatcher
  shutdown (AvaloniaUI/Avalonia#19523); the shared DBus connection is now
  disposed on the UI thread as soon as the application lifetime returns,
  before process teardown can race it.

v1.9.2

IMPROVEMENTS:

• core: code-quality pass. The full .NET analyzer set (latest-recommended,
  with code style enforced in build) now runs on every build with warnings
  as errors; a cart without save RAM now raises a dedicated exception type
  (the error message is unchanged); transaction timestamps format
  culture-invariantly regardless of system locale.
• release: build settings are shared via Directory.Build.props and NuGet
  versions managed centrally via Directory.Packages.props; the test stack
  updated to current stable (xunit 2.9.3, runner 3.1.5, Test.Sdk 18.8.1,
  coverlet.collector 10.0.1). No change to the shipped binaries' behavior.

v1.9.1

IMPROVEMENTS:

• gui: accessibility. The colour-only device/cartridge status dots are
  hidden from screen readers (their meaning is in the adjacent text), the
  status line is a live region so connect/disconnect is announced, the
  per-operation progress bar and result line are labelled, and the action
  buttons gain access-key mnemonics (Alt+R read ROM, Alt+W write ROM,
  etc.). Long auto-dump/-write/patch paths get a hover tooltip with the
  full value.

v1.9.0

IMPROVEMENTS:

• release: the published binaries are now trimmed, cutting download size
  by ~60% (the CLI from ~39 MB to ~13 MB, the GUI from ~48 MB to ~21 MB)
  while staying fully self-contained single files.
• gui: XAML bindings are compiled rather than reflection-resolved —
  faster, and safe under trimming.
• cli: write-rom now prints the flashed image's CRC32/MD5/SHA-1, matching
  the other read/write commands and the GUI/TUI, so you can confirm what
  was written against a known-good checksum.
• cli: --help/-h print usage to stdout and exit 0, instead of only
  showing usage on stderr with an error exit code when no command is given.
• tui: transaction cards are now only as tall as their status needs — a
  running or failed entry is compact, and a completed dump/write grows to
  fit its CRC32/MD5/SHA-1 lines, instead of every card reserving room for
  the hash block.
• tui: the left control column scrolls inside its own pane and shows a
  scrollbar when the terminal is too short to hold every panel, so the
  status bar (and a new key-hint line: Tab / scroll / Enter / Ctrl+Q) is
  always visible instead of being pushed off-screen on ~24-row terminals.
  Tabbing to a control below the fold scrolls it into view.

BUG FIXES:

• tui: long file paths in transaction cards are middle-ellipsized so the
  filename stays visible, instead of being truncated on the right and
  losing the name.

v1.8.1

BUG FIXES:

• cli: --help/usage descriptions now line up in a single column;
  flags that take an argument (--apply-patch <ips>, `--create-patch `, `--no-flash-check`) put their description on the next line instead of pushing it out of the column.