v0.1.4 Release

🚀 Release v0.1.4
What's Changed

This release brings significant improvements to project management, session UI, and overall performance. We've introduced project favorites, enhanced search/filtering capabilities, and completely revamped
the chat interface with modular components.

✨ Features

Project Management

• Project Favorites: Add/remove projects to favorites for quick access
• Search & Filter: New search bar with sorting by name and last activity time
• Enhanced Project Cards: Redesigned cards with command display, favorite buttons, and improved layout
• Responsive Masonry Grid: New masonry grid layout for Claude plugins with responsive design

Session UI Improvements

• Modular Chat Components: Completely refactored session chat UI with modular component architecture
• Enhanced Markdown Rendering:
  • Improved code block rendering with syntax highlighting
  • Custom tag support
  • Better URL boundary handling
  • @mentions highlighting
• Specialized Message Blocks:
  • Agent-specific message blocks
  • Command execution blocks
  • Interrupted message blocks
  • System message blocks
  • Thinking process blocks
  • Tool use blocks with improved display

Backend Enhancements

• Enhanced Claude Project Scanning: Improved scanning logic for better project detection
• Session Message Merging: Optimized session message processing and merging logic

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed sorting issues with favorited field null values
• Projects without last_active_at now properly placed at end of list
• Improved Windows compatibility for subprocess execution
• Updated scan_sessions tests to skip agent sessions

♻️ Refactoring

Application Lifecycle

• Unified Cleanup Mechanism: Improved application lifecycle management with unified cleanup flow
• Subprocess Database Initialization: Database initialization now runs in subprocess to preserve logging configuration

Code Quality

• Refactored process_utils.py for better maintainability
• Significant improvements to project_service.py code structure

⚡ Performance

• 38.9% faster session loading through optimization
• Improved database query efficiency

🎨 UI/UX Improvements

• Enhanced chat UI styling and accessibility
• Better command execution display in sessions
• New useWindowSize hook for responsive design
• Updated locale files (English & Chinese)

📚 New Files

Database Migrations

• 04833bf282ac_.py: New database migration script
• 3dca7f30d925_.py: Database structure updates

Frontend Components

• MasonryGrid.tsx: Masonry grid layout component
• useWindowSize.ts: Window size hook
• Chat components:
  • AgentBlock.tsx
  • CommandBlock.tsx
  • InterruptedBlock.tsx
  • SystemBlock.tsx
  • CodeBlock.tsx
  • Markdown rendering plugins and utilities

Backend Utilities

• time_utils.py: Time processing utilities
• Process and session verification scripts

Tests

• test_claude_projects_scanner.py: Claude project scanning tests
• test_process_utils.py: Process utilities tests
• Enhanced session operations and project service tests

📊 Stats

• 15 commits since v0.1.3.1
• 68 files changed
• +10,695 lines added
• -2,116 lines removed
• Net increase: +8,579 lines

🔧 Dependency Updates

• Updated package.json dependencies
• Updated uv.lock Python dependencies
• Updated pyproject.toml configuration

⚠️ Breaking Changes & Migration Notes

1. Database Migration: This release includes new database migrations. Please run migration scripts when upgrading
2. Environment Variables: .env.example has minor updates - please review your configuration
3. Windows Users: This release includes significant Windows compatibility improvements

🔗 Links

• Full Changelog: https://github.com/kifile/alaye-app/v0.1.3.1...v0.1.4
• Contributors: kifile

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Previous Release: https://github.com/kifile/alaye-app/releases/tag/v0.1.3.1