1.2.25 — 2026-05-09

Release Notes

Internal

• Phase E second wedge: Task Runner extracted into app/tasks.rs —
  continues the ongoing decomposition of the monolithic
  crates/tui/src/app/mod.rs. run_task, get_tasks, and
  auto_detect_tasks (~348 lines covering Cargo / npm / Make / Go /
  Mix / Dart / Zig / sbt / Stack-Cabal / Python detection) now live
  in their own file. mod.rs shrinks 11,624 → 11,276 lines. No
  behavior change: App::run_task and App::get_tasks are inherent
  methods, so callers in input.rs resolve them identically. Mirrors
  the app/lifecycle.rs + app/updates.rs seam established in the
  first wedge (9a67c2e).

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1.2.24 — 2026-05-07

Release Notes

Fixed

• Context menu items highlight on mouse hover — the right-click
  popup (Cut / Copy / Paste / Delete / Select All) was stuck showing
  the first enabled item as selected no matter where the mouse moved
  inside the menu. Two issues:
  • EnableMouseCapture only enables button + drag tracking
    (CSI ?1002h), so bare-motion MouseEventKind::Moved events
    never reached the app. Startup now also emits CSI ?1003h
    (any-event tracking) and shutdown emits CSI ?1003l.
  • The mouse loop's catch-all _ => {} arm dropped Moved even
    if it had arrived. The handler now updates the highlight via a
    new ContextMenu::hover_at(col, row) while the menu is visible.
    Click-to-activate (action_at) and keyboard navigation are
    unchanged.

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1.2.23 — 2026-05-06

Release Notes

Fixed

• No more stale .git/index.lock from Aura's source-control poll —
  the 2 s git status poll could exceed the worker's 8 s wall-clock
  timeout on slow filesystems, at which point the worker SIGKILLed
  git mid-write and orphaned .git/index.lock. The next git add
  in any terminal would then fail with Unable to create '.git/index.lock': File exists until the user removed it manually.
  Multiple changes harden this end-to-end:
  • REFRESH_TIMEOUT raised 8 s → 30 s so a slow git status no
    longer trips the kill path on a normal workload.
  • On timeout, the worker now sends SIGTERM and waits up to 500 ms
    for git to release its lock cleanly before escalating to
    SIGKILL (Unix only — Command::kill is the fallback elsewhere).
  • After a forced kill, the worker sweeps .git/index.lock if it
    appeared during the killed run, so an orphan can't survive past
    the operation that created it. Pre-existing locks (from another
    process) are left alone.
  • The 2 s auto-refresh tick now skips firing while
    .git/index.lock is present, so an external git add running
    in a terminal can't race Aura's poll.

Internal

• New process-wide git_cli_lock() mutex serializes every git
  subprocess that originates from Aura — both the async worker and
  the synchronous GitRepo write paths (stage_file, unstage_file,
  commit, checkout_branch, all stash ops, …) take the same lock,
  so internal git ops can't race each other either.
• New GitRepo::is_locked() uses gix's authoritative git_dir(),
  so the lock check works in worktrees and submodules where .git
  is a file rather than a directory.
• New libc dep (cfg(unix)-gated on the tui crate) for raw
  SIGTERM delivery.

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1.2.22 — 2026-04-30

Release Notes

Fixed

• Right-click → Paste now lands at the click position — when the
  right-click context menu shipped in v1.2.19, the right-click never
  moved the editor cursor. So clicking on line 50 and choosing Paste
  inserted the clipboard wherever the cursor happened to be (often a
  completely different line). open_context_menu now matches the
  behaviour of VS Code / Sublime / most native editors:
  • Right-click inside an existing visual selection → keep the
    selection (so Copy / Cut still operate on the highlighted region).
  • Right-click anywhere else → drop the selection, move the cursor
    to the click position, then open the menu. Paste lands where you
    clicked.

Internal

• New screen_to_char_idx helper that maps a screen point to a buffer
  char index without mutating cursor state — used to hit-test "is the
  click inside the current selection?".

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1.2.20 — 2026-04-30

Release Notes

Performance & responsiveness — major

• Async git worker — every slow git shellout now runs on a
  dedicated worker thread instead of the UI loop. git status,
  git rev-list --left-right --count (ahead/behind), git stash list,
  and git commit all gain hard wall-clock timeouts (8 s for refresh,
  30 s for commit) and pipe Stdio::null() for stdin so pre-commit
  hooks and GPG prompts can no longer hang the editor waiting for a
  TTY it can't provide. The 2 s sidebar refresh tick and panel click
  handler now just send commands to the worker and return immediately;
  results arrive via a per-frame event drain alongside LSP/MCP. New
  crates/tui/src/git_worker.rs (340 LOC, 4 unit tests covering
  porcelain parsing and the kill-on-timeout path).
• Source-control panel state machine — SourceControlPanel.refresh
  is gone; the panel now tracks per-section RefreshState
  (Idle/InFlight/Stale) and coalesces overlapping requests so
  the 2 s tick can't stack up into a thundering herd on slow repos.
  A small spinner glyph in the panel header confirms the UI is alive
  during long status scans, and a red error row surfaces timeouts /
  commit failures in-place. A yellow status banner appears once at
  startup if the repo has commit.gpgsign=true, so the user knows
  signing must be non-interactive.
• git commit -m (legacy path) gets Stdio::null() — even the
  commit_with_conversation path that doesn't go through the worker
  no longer leaves stdin open to a non-existent TTY.

Performance — bounded growth

• ChatPanel.items capped at 500 with a FIFO drop and an elision
  banner row; long conversations no longer leak memory or pay
  per-frame iteration cost over hours.
• EmbeddedTerminal.commands capped at 1000 with ring-buffer
  semantics — terminal-heavy sessions plateau in RSS.
• App.file_mtimes is now evicted on tab close; the HashMap
  used to grow monotonically across an editing session.
• (App.jump_list already had a 100-entry cap; verified during
  audit.)

Performance — hot path

• New Buffer.revision monotonic counter (bumps on every insert /
  delete / undo / redo / restore_to). Used as a cache invalidation
  key for downstream caches in this and follow-up releases.
• notify_cursor_moved debounces full-buffer find_all scans:
  caches (word, revision, matches) and skips when both are
  unchanged; otherwise gates rescans to a 120 ms debounce window.
  A 10k-line file's "rapid cursor sweep" no longer regenerates the
  cursor-word match list on every keystroke.
• update_edit_predictions skips the per-frame history walk +
  diagnostics clone when neither the buffer revision nor the cursor
  row changed since the previous frame.

Internal

• New module crates/tui/src/git_worker.rs.
• crates/tui/src/source_control.rs rewritten around request_refresh
  • apply_event. Public method signatures gain a &GitWorker
    parameter (stage_selected, stage_all, unstage_selected,
    discard_selected, discard_staged_selected, commit).
• crates/core/src/buffer.rs gains the revision field + accessor;
  every mutation path bumps it.
• 4 new unit tests in git_worker (porcelain parser, child kill on
  timeout, fast-child happy path).

Deferred to follow-up release

• mpsc::channel() → sync_channel(1024) for LSP/MCP/DAP/watcher
  event channels. Requires rippling Sender<T> → SyncSender<T>
  through many call sites; lower priority now that the worst stall
  trigger (sync git on main) is gone.
• Tree-sitter incremental parsing (refresh_highlights still does
  rope.to_string() + full re-parse on a 40 ms debounce; works fine
  in practice but room to improve).
• Per-line render style cache, minimap line-vector cache, bracket-
  depth lazy rebuild — deferred to land alongside tree-sitter
  incremental so the cache key story stays consistent.
• Move 2 s mtime fs::metadata poll onto file_watcher thread.

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1.2.19 — 2026-04-29

Release Notes

Added

• Right-click context menu in the editor — right-clicking inside
  the editor area now opens a small popup with Cut, Copy, Paste,
  Delete, and Select All. Items that need a selection (Cut / Copy /
  Delete) are dimmed and disabled when none is active. The menu is
  navigable with Up/Down + Enter, dismissed with Esc, click outside,
  or any other key. Wired into the existing set_yank / clipboard
  ring / Buffer::insert plumbing so it interoperates with vim-style
  registers. New context_menu module with 6 unit tests.
• Mouse-wheel scroll now works in every editor view — the diff
  view (single-buffer git diff) and the 3-panel merge conflict editor
  already had scroll_up/scroll_down methods but the wheel only
  scrolled the underlying text buffer. handle_mouse_scroll now
  dispatches based on what's actually in front of the user: merge view
  scrolls all three panels in sync, diff view scrolls its own
  cumulative-line index, plain text buffers behave as before.

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1.2.18 — 2026-04-29

Release Notes

Fixed

• Click-to-open file no longer panics — opening a file by clicking
  it in the file tree could panic ropey with "Char index out of bounds"
  when the new buffer was smaller than the previous one. The
  app-level cursor_word_matches and search_matches caches index
  into the previously-active buffer's rope and were not cleared on tab
  switch, so draw_word_highlights / draw_search_highlights would
  call Rope::char_to_line with stale indices. Fixed by (a) clearing
  the caches when open_file actually switches the active tab and
  (b) defensively skipping any cached match whose indices fall outside
  the active rope at render time.

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1.2.17 — 2026-04-26

Release Notes

Changed

• Chat panel: single source of truth for messages — the legacy
  Vec<ChatMessage> array that mirrored the richer Vec<ChatItem>
  list ("legacy, kept for compatibility") is gone. Every chat
  consumer (the panel renderer, the :export markdown writer, the
  conversation-store loader, the streaming finalisation, the system
  message pusher, the tool-call adder/resulter) now reads from and
  writes to items only. The :export writer pattern-matches on
  ChatItem::Text vs ChatItem::ToolCall to emit a richer markdown
  with tool-call summaries that the legacy path threw away.

Internal

• Removed the ChatMessage struct and the ChatPanel.messages
  field; updated 5 chat-panel unit tests to match against
  ChatItem::Text { role, content, .. } patterns.

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1.2.16 — 2026-04-26

Release Notes

Internal

• Tightened the tui crate's public surface — only app, render,
  tab, and config are still pub mod (the surfaces consumed by the
  aura editor binary, the render benches, and the integration test
  scaffold). The remaining 60 modules dropped to pub(crate) mod. This
  surfaces 19 forward-looking-API items that were invisible to the
  dead-code lint when they were pub and crate-external (the lint
  conservatively assumed an unknown caller existed). Each affected
  module (acp_server, apply_model, file_watcher, image_preview,
  lsp, mcp_client, mcp_server, notebook, remote,
  speculative, todo_panel) now has a module-level
  #![allow(dead_code)] plus a one-line comment explaining what the
  unused items are reserved for (protocol surface, future bulk-action
  UI, future "browse remote dir" command, etc). Net result: dead-code
  lint stays useful for accidentally-unused code in the rest of the
  crate, while genuine forward-looking API items don't generate noise.

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1.2.15 — 2026-04-26

Release Notes

Changed

• Single codepath for diff viewing — the long-running migration where
  App::diff_view (a per-app overlay) lived alongside Tab::diff (a
  per-tab field) is complete. The overlay field is gone; every diff
  opener now routes through a single new App::open_diff_tab(diff)
  helper which constructs a fresh tab, attaches the diff, switches to
  Mode::Diff, and lets app.tabs.close_active() close it. The four
  call sites that previously stuffed an overlay (the :diff two-file
  command, the unsaved-changes diff command, and the agent multi-file
  review's initial-open + revert-empty paths) all share the helper.
  Cycling within the agent diff (next_agent_diff) replaces the
  active tab's diff field rather than spawning new tabs each step.
• Side effect: the unsaved-changes diff is now a proper tab — pressing
  Esc returns to the underlying tab via close_active() instead of
  flipping a global flag, and the diff scroll keys (j/k/G/g/
  Ctrl+d/Ctrl+u) are now routed correctly through Mode::Diff for
  this opener (previously the overlay was drawn while the editor
  stayed in Mode::Normal, so scroll keys did the wrong thing).

Internal

• Removed the dual-fallback branches (app.tab().diff.or(app.diff_view))
  in render.rs:191, 1141, 1226. Removed the six else if let Some(dv) = &mut app.diff_view fallbacks in handle_diff (input.rs
  scroll/jump keys + Esc + Enter handlers). Removed App::diff_view
  field at app/mod.rs:668. 357 tests still pass workspace-wide,
  zero clippy warnings.

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