Phon 4.0.0-beta.8

Changes since Phon 4.0.0-beta.7

Session Editor

• The Participants and Tier Management lists now support mouse and keyboard selection with a focus outline, and keep the highlighted card selected when the list is reordered or rebuilt; the selection background appears only on the list that has focus (#387).
• The spectrogram now refreshes when switching records instead of continuing to show the previous record's image.
• Pauses are now aligned correctly across the IPA Target and IPA Actual tiers; existing sessions have their pause alignments recomputed when opened.

Welcome & Project Windows

• Recent-project and workspace lists gain the same mouse and keyboard selection and focus outline (#387).

Phon 4.0.0-beta.7

Changes since Phon 4.0.0-beta.6

Session Editor

• Find & Replace gains an "Include header tiers" toggle that also searches the session's header tiers (Date, Media, Languages, Participants, Tiers); the toggle covers find only and replace never modifies header tiers (#389).
• Find & Replace no longer crashes when highlighting or navigating to a result located in a header tier.
• Switching from single-record view to all-records view now scrolls to the record you were viewing instead of jumping to the top of the transcript.
• New toolbar buttons toggle the transcript display mode.
• The caret is placed on the first editable position when a transcript opens.
• A session date typed directly in the transcript header is now saved.
• Editing the session date updates participant ages and keeps participant date fields in sync; the date applies even when no day is selected.
• Fixed an intermittent problem where opening a session could render transcript tiers in the wrong order or duplicate them (#451).

Project Window

• Inline rename in the project tree no longer loses focus while typing.

Analysis & Reports

• Consistency Analysis adds per-target Types and Type-Token Ratio (TTR) columns, aggregated in the session and speaker summaries.
• Word tables are now sorted alphabetically by Orthography.
• Inter-transcriber Reliability no longer shifts its result columns.
• Percent Diacritics Correct now counts diacritics correctly (#433).
• Tier Match produces results using sensible tier defaults (#429) and applies diacritic options correctly (#428).
• Word Match applies diacritic options correctly (#431).
• Multisyllabic Non-linear analysis runs without error (#427).
• Vocalization and Word-level Analysis run correctly in headless mode (#426).
• Legacy sessions with out-of-range or invalid phone alignments are repaired when the session is read.

Appearance

• Search field buttons no longer show a border outline under the FlatLaf look and feel.

Phon 4.0.0-beta.6

Changes since Phon 4.0.0-beta.4

Welcome Window

• The Welcome window can be reopened from the Window menu after it has been closed.

Project Window

• Project tree drag-and-drop now copies items dragged between projects and moves items dragged within a project, no longer depending on modifier keys.

Session Editor

• Segmentation waits for the media player to finish loading before it starts, preventing a premature auto-pause.
• The Timeline automatically resumes following the playback marker after you manually scroll it.
• CSV export and import guard against empty tier and session fields, avoiding errors on incomplete records.

Media

• Session audio loads in the background, so opening a session with media no longer freezes the interface; the Timeline and Speech Analysis views load their audio asynchronously.
• A status-bar indicator shows while media, session audio, and RMS waveform analysis are loading.
• Waveform display gains adjustable spike suppression levels (#398).
• Fixed several waveform display problems, including the display rescaling itself unexpectedly; audio analysis is now shared across views (#398).

Analysis & Reports

• Measure of Cluster Proximity analysis no longer omits clusters (#403).
• Inter-transcriber Agreement is now scored per word.
• Inter-transcriber Agreement reports add separate consonant and vowel tables and a Summary section pooling all table totals; blind-only inter-word pauses are removed before alignment.
• Cross-tier alignment is pause-aware, so pauses no longer shift word alignment.
• Aligned IPA domains query results include Word Index and Syllable Index columns.
• Syllabification correctly handles IPA tiers that contain an intra-word pause (#395).

Appearance

• Dark-mode contrast improved for the syllabification display, the unidentified-phone box, and the OpGraph editor.
• The Schwa view icon is tinted when its view is selected, and is also used for the AI assistant views.
• The AI assistant disclosure control is now a permanent label.
• macOS Dock icon inset adjusted to match the updated icon body.

Phon 4.0.0-beta.5

Changes since Phon 4.0.0-beta.3

Welcome Window

• Recent-projects and workspace lists now have inline search filters (matches name or path, case-insensitive) hosted in each section's title bar.
• Workspace section uses the new card-style WorkspaceCard, matching the project-card styling.
• Window geometry (position and size) is persisted across launches; the window stays alive across project open/close so filter text, sort selection, and scroll positions survive the cycle.
• Action buttons (New / Open / Browse / Preferences) repainted using FlatButton with theme-aware contour borders.
• macOS Finder color tags are read from project folders and shown as a colored dot on the card; right-click "Tag" submenu writes or clears the tag (#390).
• Project list scrollbars are always shown so the recent and workspace columns line up.
• Spacing of action and workspace card aligned with the project card list.

Session Editor

• Session Check view gains a CHAT strict mode toggle (forum icon) that mirrors the wizard's top-level toggle and persists globally via PrefHelper (#384).
• Session Check wizard exposes a top-level CHAT strict mode checkbox; checks marked ChatModeAware (currently SessionMediaCheck) honour the wizard-level flag (#384).
• Non-strict CHAT mode no longer warns when the media basename differs from the session name; the auto-fix preserves the directory and extension instead of overwriting the full media path (#384).
• Video visibility preference is preserved when the session's media file is missing or has not yet loaded (no longer overwritten with the live canvas state on save).

Appearance

• Shaded backgrounds switched from saturated orange to muted blue-grey tones that blend with the rest of the Phon palette in both themes.
• Titled headers lightened in light mode.
• macOS Dock icon re-rendered to match Apple's icon template (rounded-square tile inset to 824/1024).

Analysis & Reports

• New "Inter-transcriber Agreement (ITA)" analysis: per-record T1, T2, A, D, EA, ED, AA, DD, AD, DA, ITA, and Cohen's kappa columns plus a pooled Total row.
• ITA Parameters node adds a "Word selection:" combo with five presets (All / Monosyllabic / Disyllabic / Mono+Di / Polysyllabic) that drive the wordPattern stress filter and report title suffix.
• ITA report pipeline extracted into a stock report (Reliability/ITA) so it can be applied to any query result set via the Reports menu.
• Three analysis opgraphs (Measure of Cluster Proximity, Multisyllabic Non-linear, Word-Level Analysis of Polysyllables, Word Match) ported to the Phon 4 IPA API; empty cluster sections render a "No results" header instead of a duplicate empty table; "Aggreate" typo fixed.
• Corrected nine misspellings in user-visible analysis and report opgraph node names and notes.

Build & Dependencies

• jcefmaven bumped 135.0.20 → 146.0.10 (CEF 146 / Chromium 146.0.7680.179) — fixes a macOS 26 crash in the embedded browser.
• opgraph bumped 3.0.0 → 3.0.1 — restores classpath ServiceLoader discovery, fixing the broken context menu and edge-drag-to-canvas in the OpGraph editor.
• IPA dictionaries updated.

Phon 4.0.0-beta.3

Changes since Phon 4.0.0-beta.2

Welcome Window

• Kebab menu button on recent and workspace project cards exposes the full action list (previously only reachable via right-click).

Project Window

• Project tree refreshes automatically after adding a custom script folder (matches the existing remove flow).
• Drag-and-drop of non-XML session files (e.g. .cha) in the project tree now preserves the source extension instead of rewriting to .xml.

Session Editor

• Auto Transcription source list rebuilt on the shared CardListPanel UI used by Participants and Tier Management; inline up/down reorder, drag-and-drop, and per-source delete via card actions (#382).
• "Add source", "Auto Transcribe", and "Remove" buttons in the Auto Transcription panel now show text labels alongside icons (#382).

Media

• Media load deferred until the session finishes loading, eliminating start-up stalls.
• VLC native discovery and MediaPlayerFactory creation moved off the EDT — opening a session with media no longer freezes the UI on first use.

Build & Dependencies

• phontalk bumped to 4.0.4-3.2.4 (fixes NoClassDefFoundError ca/phon/session/io/xml/OneToOne during CHAT export, #378).
• New build flags -PskipDitaBuild and -DskipManualDocs to skip the documentation build for faster iteration.

Phon 4.0.0-beta.2

Changes since Phon 4.0.0-beta.1

Appearance & Theming

• FlatLaf look and feel installed as the default UI theme, with light/dark/system variants.
• Appearance preferences added to the General preferences pane (light / dark / system).
• Dark-mode-aware application icon at startup.
• IPA Chart, buffers, script parameter panels, and progress bars now use theme-aware colors (no more hard-coded black/white in dark mode).
• Welcome page strip color adapts to the active theme.

Welcome Window

• Redesigned recent-projects and workspace views using elevated project cards.
• Blue-tinted card backgrounds with stable IPA glyph positioning across resizes.
• Actions sidebar given a gradient surface treatment.
• Double-click anywhere on a card opens the project.
• Right-click context menus on cards for secondary actions (reliable scrolling / popups fixed).
• Long project names and paths now elide so narrow cards remain usable.
• 50/50 split between recent projects and workspace is enforced and no longer shifts after show.

Timeline & Waveform

• New RMS-based waveform rendering with a scroll-invariant cache (smoother, less jitter).
• Smooth follow-scroll during segmentation and playback, with velocity-aware scroll capping.
• Auto-adjusting RMS resolution tied to waveform zoom; rebuild is double-buffered to avoid flicker.
• Toggle between mixed mono and stereo waveform views.
• Opt-out per segment for RMS tier auto-adjust (via segment popup).
• Fixed envelope clipping glitch when painting near viewport edges.

Session Editor & Data

• Fixed reading of blind alignments from legacy Phon 3 data.
• Corrected distorted-correct feature check in phonological analysis (PPC).
• Wizard HTML report tab now closes on step change so combo-box popups work.

Project Window

• Project tree refreshes automatically after project mutations (listens to ProjectEvents).
• No more flicker or selection loss on focus changes — refresh is skipped when the tree signature is unchanged.
• Both the new and legacy project windows share the same refresh path.

Reliability & Performance

• Segmentation ticker now runs on the EDT (fixes intermittent UI glitches).
• PhonShell correctly rebinds stdout/stderr to the buffer when redirecting.
• Icon cache lookup fixed in IconManager (avoid redundant reloads).
• Java2D Metal pipeline disabled on macOS to eliminate rendering stalls.

Phon 4.0.0-beta.1

Changes since Phon 4.0.0-alpha.85

Project Management

• Rename project fix (#361): LocalProject.setName/setUUID was writing to an immutable JSON and folder rename leaked directory handles on Windows. New
  atomic flow: validate → close project-owned windows → release JGit → rename folder (with retries) → update pinned .phonproj → persist JSON. Tree window
  header now refreshes via updateProjectLocationDisplay().
• Default corpus restored in CorpusFolderIterator: eager scan had dropped the project-root corpus; seeded results with "" to restore it.

Session Editor

• Participant changes refresh transcript (#360): TranscriptEditor now listens for ParticipantChanged and targets speaker-label updates per affected
  record instead of full reload.
• Null media location fix (#359): MediaLocationEdit.getMediaLocation() now null-guards, so UnassignMediaAction actually clears session media.

Phon 4.0.0-alpha.88

Changes since Phon 4.0.0-beta.1

Appearance & Theming

• FlatLaf look and feel installed as the default UI theme, with light/dark/system variants.
• Appearance preferences added to the General preferences pane (light / dark / system).
• Dark-mode-aware application icon at startup.
• IPA Chart, buffers, script parameter panels, and progress bars now use theme-aware colors (no more hard-coded black/white in dark mode).
• Welcome page strip color adapts to the active theme.

Welcome Window

• Redesigned recent-projects and workspace views using elevated project cards.
• Blue-tinted card backgrounds with stable IPA glyph positioning across resizes.
• Actions sidebar given a gradient surface treatment.
• Double-click anywhere on a card opens the project.
• Right-click context menus on cards for secondary actions (reliable scrolling / popups fixed).
• Long project names and paths now elide so narrow cards remain usable.
• 50/50 split between recent projects and workspace is enforced and no longer shifts after show.

Timeline & Waveform

• New RMS-based waveform rendering with a scroll-invariant cache (smoother, less jitter).
• Smooth follow-scroll during segmentation and playback, with velocity-aware scroll capping.
• Auto-adjusting RMS resolution tied to waveform zoom; rebuild is double-buffered to avoid flicker.
• Toggle between mixed mono and stereo waveform views.
• Opt-out per segment for RMS tier auto-adjust (via segment popup).
• Fixed envelope clipping glitch when painting near viewport edges.

Session Editor & Data

• Fixed reading of blind alignments from legacy Phon 3 data.
• Corrected distorted-correct feature check in phonological analysis (PPC).
• Wizard HTML report tab now closes on step change so combo-box popups work.

Project Window

• Project tree refreshes automatically after project mutations (listens to ProjectEvents).
• No more flicker or selection loss on focus changes — refresh is skipped when the tree signature is unchanged.
• Both the new and legacy project windows share the same refresh path.

Reliability & Performance

• Segmentation ticker now runs on the EDT (fixes intermittent UI glitches).
• PhonShell correctly rebinds stdout/stderr to the buffer when redirecting.
• Icon cache lookup fixed in IconManager (avoid redundant reloads).
• Java2D Metal pipeline disabled on macOS to eliminate rendering stalls.

Phon 4.0.0-alpha.87

Changes since Phon 4.0.0-alpha.84

Fixes

• Open session in blind mode with selected project transcriber (PR #358)
• Cascade dependent tier changes to mirroring transcribers

Phon 4.0.0-alpha.85

Changes since Phon 4.0.0-alpha.84

Fixes

• Open session in blind mode with selected project transcriber (PR #358)
• Cascade dependent tier changes to mirroring transcribers