🪴 Dibber

v5.0 - 15 Aug 2026

Added

• leaf create scaffolds four presets interactively or by flag: lite apps, full-stack MVC, MVC APIs, and console apps via Seedling — console apps get their binary renamed after your project, so php my-tool greet works immediately
• Added leaf up : scale a lite app into full MVC structure. It writes a .leaf/migration.yml plan you review and edit before anything moves
• Added leaf context : print a compact project handoff for external AI assistants — real routes with handlers and middleware, modules, models, schema files and environment key names (names only, values never leave your machine), with your shared .leaf/CONTEXT.md appended
• leaf deploy actually deploys, with Render support, instead of only writing config files
• leaf serve supports the full Leaf 5 flow, and installs missing dependencies automatically when there's no vendor folder
• Added the CLI's first test suite: route scanning, secret-safety, and command construction are all pinned, run through Alchemy on every OS

Fixed

• leaf view:install --tailwind, --vite and --vue install what you asked for in MVC apps
• Docker scaffolding sets the document root correctly
• Exit codes are real, so scripts and CI built on the CLI can actually fail
• leaf install passes flags to composer correctly

Changed

• leaf create --basic is now --lite (the old flag still works)
• New apps install the latest stable Leaf 5 packages
• Commands run on Sprout, and the CLI requires PHP 8.2+