Development Changes

Development Changes

This ledger maps winTerm source changes to their durable GitHub records and the Wiki pages synchronized with them. Source commits remain authoritative; the Wiki explains their user-visible and engineering effect.

2026-08-04 — winTerm 1.3.0-alpha1 prerelease

• Source: cdfa02be0ac0f9f3c7ba8bd34200854323dbf130
• Branch: release/v1.3.0-alpha1, based on main
• Version intent: 1.3.0-alpha1 / tag v1.3.0-alpha1, channel alpha.
• Summary: Promotes the Command Timeline to a testable alpha. The feature content was already on main as checkpoints v1.2.1–v1.2.4; this moves the release metadata and makes the version gates channel-aware. verify-version.ps1 now accepts stable, alpha, and beta and enforces that the channel, the module prerelease suffix, and the application-version suffix agree. The WinGet workflow now skips prerelease Releases.
• Publication boundary: The release workflow marks any non-stable channel --prerelease --latest=false, so /releases/latest keeps resolving to v1.2.0. The alpha is deliberately not listed on winterm-site and is not submitted to WinGet. The Setup EXE is unsigned and says so in its release notes.
• Documentation: Wiki changelog, release notes, repository changelog, and current progress.

2026-08-04 — Command Timeline Phase 4 checkpoint

• Source: c1426996372c5af0ba442eebf5603bad15a9135e
• Branch: feature/command-timeline-v1.3.0-phase4, based on main (Phase 3 was squash-merged to main as 5fd2172 through pull request #29)
• Pull request: #30 — feat: complete Command Timeline Phase 4 checkpoint
• Version intent: 1.2.4 / tag v1.2.4.
• Summary: Completes the in-memory Command Timeline surface. Adds pane-local literal case-insensitive search over each pane's bounded command-text index with a 256 UTF-16 surrogate-safe query cap, a filtered projection that keeps stable CommandId identity, / and Tab focus routing that never reaches the PTY, Escape clear-then-close, the commandTimeline.enabled and commandTimeline.historyLimit settings with a Settings UI section, four distinct shell-degradation states, and bounded per-pane history with oldest-first eviction.
• Documentation: Wiki changelog, repository changelog, Phase 4 development notes, Command Timeline user guide, keyboard shortcuts, privacy, and current progress.
• Boundary: No persistent history, output cache, output search, regex or fuzzy matching, telemetry, automatic execution, ConPTY/VT/TextBuffer/renderer change, workspace or shell protocol schema change, installer, Portable packaging, Release asset, Latest update, website change, or screenshot.

2026-08-03 — Command Timeline Phase 3 checkpoint

• Source: 08afcea737e21ca2d8b7f83704efe94601215c3f
• Pull request: #29 — feat: complete Command Timeline Phase 3 checkpoint
• Merged source: 5fd217238452b2f9fd4352629f86ffb7befd9b54 (squash merge to main)
• Branch: feature/command-timeline-v1.3.0
• Version intent: 1.2.3 / tag v1.2.3.
• Summary: Adds Command Timeline entry actions: load the selected command onto the focused pane input with Enter or a single click, Space to jump to a command's output, Ctrl+C to copy the selected command, and a per-entry context menu with copy command, copy output, and jump to output. Adds a pure CommandTimelineActionModel, execution-generation tracking that makes a late completion detectable, multi-line and large-load protection, and on-demand output resolution.
• Documentation: Wiki changelog, repository changelog, Phase 3 development notes, Command Timeline user guide, and current progress.
• Boundary: A load never executes, never reads the Windows clipboard, and is never forwarded by input broadcast. No output cache, persistence, search, filtering, telemetry, Release asset, installer, website, or screenshot change.

2026-08-02 — Command Timeline Phase 2 checkpoint

• Source: e3033cced4f68ae6e50962b48c91eb432d3d0e17
• Pull request: #28 — feat: add Command Timeline phase 2 checkpoint
• Merged source: 395f9becd3237bf0d439ba58de50a667a911445d
• Version intent: 1.2.2 / tag v1.2.2.
• Summary: Adds the pane-owned, read-only Command Timeline overlay; pure deterministic navigation; incremental Phase 1 index consumption; keyboard, pointer, wheel, accessibility, privacy, warm-access, and cleanup behavior; shortcut remapping; version synchronization; CI badge repair; and permanent changelog/Wiki policy.
• Documentation: Wiki changelog, repository changelog, and current progress.
• Boundary: No command insertion, copy, paste, execution, output jump, search, persistence, Release asset, installer, website, or screenshot change.

2026-08-02 — Command Timeline Phase 1 checkpoint

• Merged source: 510c326e474eccfbc40f8f6763b4b9227a2aa6b0
• Pull request: #26 — feat: add Command Timeline Phase 1 checkpoint
• Version intent: 1.2.1 / tag v1.2.1.
• Summary: Introduced pane-local OSC 133 indexing, stable native mark identity, bounded command-text caching, no output cache or persistence, warm markRevision reads, and lifecycle/reflow/eviction/close coverage.
• Documentation: Wiki changelog and repository changelog.

2026-08-02 — Test cleanup and label-gated CI

• Merged source: abb581a2a661f1d3a1f34b2ac384ce4c7e3c69c9
• Pull request: #27 — fix: prevent hanging tests and optimize CI builds
• Summary: Added bounded TAEF process-tree cleanup and made native build, delivery, and ci:full validation explicit maintainer-selected gates while ordinary pull requests retain quick validation.

Synchronization rule

Every source commit that changes user-visible behavior, versioning, release status, or project history must update the root CHANGELOG.md and the matching Wiki record in the same delivery cycle. A later source correction receives a new ledger entry; published tags and Releases are never rewritten.