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.
Install aura 1.2.20
Install prebuilt binaries via shell script
curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -LsSf https://github.com/odtorres/aura/releases/download/v1.2.20/aura-installer.sh | sh
Download aura 1.2.20
