Semiotic v3.8.8

Added

• ProcessSankey is a full temporal process chart, not a thin Sankey wrapper.
  Layout is modular (mass simulation, packing/reuse, bonded multi-slot groups,
  crossing-min / inside-out / combined ordering, hug placement with post-scale
  geometry refine, quality metrics, and optional module Web Worker offload).
  Ribbons support feeder runway (ribbonMinRun, including "auto"), system
  in/out lifecycle cutouts, style-rules hatch fills, density-budgeted labels
  (showLabels="auto"), selection/linkedHover with selectionDatum raw/scene
  modes, and a push API via useProcessSankeyPush. Pure quality helpers
  (diagnoseProcessSankeyLayout / Props / explainProcessSankeyLayout) feed
  diagnoseConfig. SSR and CSR share buildProcessSankeyScenes.
  inventoryAtTime folds a ProcessSankey edge ledger into node stock at a
  given time (opening-stock lift for source-like nodes). toProcessSankeyTime
  is the shared domain/accessor/tooltip time coercion.
• History-river docs examples. /examples/germany-still-becoming and
  /examples/united-states-drawn-together tell vertical, time-down stock-and-flow
  stories on ProcessSankey (shared ProcessRiverExampleLayout, checked-in
  compact data projections, sync layout for deterministic docs paint). Integration
  and visual baselines cover hug placement and SSR/CSR parity.
• A causal-process Sankey example. /examples/good-earth-lying-flat uses a
  six-stage, vertical ProcessSankey to trace how modern security strategies can
  become risk, involution, precaution, and withdrawal. Carbon theming, claim
  lenses, confidence-aware ribbons, and incoming/outgoing HatchFill node
  junctions keep the interpretive argument explicit and inspectable.

Changed

• Network entry graph budgets rise with ProcessSankey layout/worker surface
  (semiotic / network / ai gzip graphs). Capability, API-surface, llms,
  JSDoc (≥2 examples), and visual-baseline gates know ProcessSankey push and
  linked-hover burn-down status.
• Dependabot bumps for React Router 7.18.x alignment, Playwright, size-limit,
  Vite React plugin, testing-library, and setup-node 7.

Fixed

• Docs river examples use the shared process-river__* shell classes and
  layoutExecution="sync" so Playwright source-route tests paint and stay free
  of worker/module-URL races in Vite. History-river demos share
  HISTORY_RIVER_PROCESS_SANKEY defaults, ProcessRiverStageReader, and
  scroll-linked stage selection; code snippets note that production apps should
  prefer layoutExecution="auto".
• ProcessSankey release hygiene: dead helpers and unused types cleaned,
  showLabels schema enum is string-only ("auto"), file-size splits for
  ordering/packing, CI-friendly ordering budget, and refreshed visual snapshots
  for hug + process-sankey SSR/CSR sheets. Shared toProcessSankeyTime /
  readChartAccessor, pure inventoryAtTime ledger helper, and
  ModuleWorkerSession (force + ProcessSankey layout workers).
• Stage-bound ProcessSankey nodes can opt into nodeSizing="max", holding
  their peak causal mass across an authored extent so same-stage handoffs no
  longer make a node visually smaller than an attached incoming or outgoing
  ribbon.