v0.4.2

Pi-Vis v0.4.2

Highlights

• Improved responsiveness for large sessions and busy workspaces:
  • Session history now loads in pages instead of eagerly rendering the entire transcript.
  • Session discovery and metadata loading are faster and more parallelized.
  • High-volume pi events are batched to reduce renderer churn.
  • Large diffs render incrementally with “Show next … rows” controls.
• Improved prompt, steer, and retry status handling:
  • Prompts in flight now keep sessions in a working state without faking streaming.
  • Follow-up submits while work is active route more reliably as steers.
  • Queued steering/follow-up messages are shown separately until pi confirms them.
  • Auto-retry status is tracked more accurately so sessions remain busy while retrying.
• Fixed slash-command and custom UI edge cases:
  • Unknown slash commands no longer create misleading optimistic user bubbles.
  • Slash commands that open extension/custom UI no longer look like normal text prompts.
  • Failed prompt/steer sends restore the composer draft instead of silently clearing it.

Fixes and polish

• Moved the custom-view resize handle to a dedicated dock gutter so it no longer steals clicks from custom panel controls.
• Added a visible resize affordance for custom views, with double-click reset.
• Fixed collapsed-sidebar diff/tree overlays leaving thin unblurred strips at the top or bottom of the window.
• Refreshed context stats immediately after model changes so the context meter updates sooner.
• Made thinking-level changes more robust when pi clamps unsupported values.
• Optimistically updates session names after /name for more responsive UI feedback.
• Improved markdown rendering performance during streaming.
• Improved JSONL parsing performance for large or chunked messages.

Release tooling

• Public releases now require curated release notes via --notes-file or explicit --generate-notes.
• Added release-note documentation under docs/releases/.

Upgrade notes

• No manual action required.

Assets

• macOS Apple Silicon ZIP for installer/auto-update
• macOS Apple Silicon DMG for manual install

v0.4.1

Pi-Vis v0.4.1

v0.4.0

Pi-Vis v0.4.0

v0.3.5

Pi-Vis v0.3.5

v0.3.4

Pi-Vis v0.3.4

v0.3.3

Pi-Vis v0.3.3

v0.3.2

Pi-Vis v0.3.2

v0.3.1

Pi-Vis v0.3.1

Features

• Conversation tree (/tree) — native overlay for browsing the conversation DAG and switching the active leaf in place
• Unified TUI host for extensions — extension setWidget factory widgets now render in the composer slot
• Above-composer widget tray (Dock) collecting extension widgets and update notifications
• More supported / commands, including model scope controls (/scoped-models)
• Subprocesses now run under the system Node (parity with terminal pi, e.g. node:sqlite for extensions)

Improvements

• ANSI theme rendering improvements for terminal/extension surfaces
• Colorscheme refactor — semantic, palette-agnostic theming
• Sidebar highlighting and new-session button fixes
• Traffic light handling in full-screen mode

Fixes

• Fixed extension overlays, ESC handling, unified TUI padding, transcript pinning, and widget removal
• Model scope fixes

v0.3.0

Visual redesign

A comprehensive redesign of the Pi-Vis shell — canvas + floating content card layout, refined workspace sidebar, Catppuccin design tokens (spacing, radius, elevation), and a polished sidebar-hidden mode.

Inline extension panels (unified TUI host)

Extensions that register a factory setWidget now render their full pi-tui (Editor + widgets) inline in the composer slot, with a view switcher to flip between the extension's TUI and the native composer. This brings terminal-parity extension UIs into the app.

New & improved / commands

• /tree — first-class native overlay for browsing the conversation DAG and switching the active leaf in place (distinct from /fork).
• More supported slash commands mirroring pi's TUI.

Worktree-per-session

• Existing worktree option: attach an on-disk worktree to a fresh session, with live path validation.

Fixes

• Thinking selection in new sessions
• Streaming message ordering
• Display of non-display text in transcripts
• Transcript pinning and scroll behavior
• ESC handling and extension overlay robustness
• Fork flow
• Diff viewer file-size limit and unconstrained width
• Sidebar size adjustment and highlighting
• New session button highlight
• Traffic light handling in full screen
• Unsent text preservation across sessions

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Full changelog: v0.2.0...v0.3.0

v0.2.1

Pi-Vis v0.2.1