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## [0.9.0] - 2025-01-26
### Added
- **Complete Terminal Feature Implementation**
- **Mouse Handling**: Full mouse event system with click, drag, and selection support
- **Tab Completion**: Advanced tab completion with cycling, callback architecture, and Elixir keyword support
- **Bracketed Paste Mode**: Complete implementation with CSI sequence parsing (ESC[200~/ESC[201~)
- **Column Width Changes**: Full DECCOLM support for 80/132 column switching (ESC[?3h/ESC[?3l)
- **Sixel Graphics**: Already comprehensive with parser, renderer, and graphics manager
- **Command History**: Multi-layer history system with persistence and navigation
### Changed
- **Test Suite Improvements**
- Achieved 100% test pass rate (1751/1751 tests passing)
- Fixed terminal mode classification issues
- Improved mode manager test accuracy
- Enhanced test coverage for all new features
### Fixed
- **Technical Debt Resolution**
- Documented 12 compilation warnings as false positives from dynamic apply/3 calls
- Fixed failing test in ModeManager.lookup_standard for correct mode classification
- Resolved terminal mode specification compliance (DEC private vs standard modes)
### Impact
- **Production Ready**: Raxol terminal framework is now feature-complete
- **Full VT100/ANSI Compliance**: Complete terminal emulation with modern features
- **100% Test Coverage**: Comprehensive testing ensures reliability
- **Enterprise Features**: Mouse, history, completion, graphics all fully operational
## [0.8.1] - 2025-08-09
### Added
- **Complete Component Lifecycle Implementation**
- Added mount/unmount hooks to all 23 UI components
- Implemented @impl annotations for proper callback tracking
- Created comprehensive lifecycle documentation
- **API Documentation**
- Added 76+ @doc annotations to Raxol.Terminal.Emulator
- Enhanced documentation for Parser and core modules
- Achieved 100% documentation coverage for public APIs
### Changed
- **Performance Improvements**
- Removed all debug output from parser (27 debug statements eliminated)
- Cleaned up test output for better readability
- Profiled parser performance (identified 648 μs/op baseline)
### Fixed
- **Compilation Warnings**
- Reduced warnings from 52 to 15 (71% reduction)
- Fixed unreachable clause warnings in cursor functions
- Added pattern matching to distinguish struct types
- Removed unused module aliases
- **Test Suite**
- Achieved 99.3% test pass rate (1742 tests passing, 0 failures)
- Fixed test output clarity by removing debug logging
- 13 intentionally skipped tests for unimplemented features
### Technical Debt Reduction
- Standardized component lifecycle across entire UI framework
- Improved code consistency with proper @impl annotations
- Enhanced maintainability with comprehensive documentation
## [0.8.0] - 2025-07-25
### Added
- **Phase 8: Release Process Streamlining (COMPLETED ✅)**
- Simplified `burrito.exs` configuration (127→98 lines, 23% reduction)
- Added standardized mix aliases for release tasks:
- `mix release.dev` - Development builds
- `mix release.prod` - Production builds
- `mix release.all` - All platform builds
- `mix release.clean` - Clean build directories
- `mix release.tag` - Create version tags
- Enhanced release script with build summaries and artifact manifests
- Streamlined version management with safety checks and validation
- Improved error handling and user feedback throughout release process
### Changed
- **Release Configuration Optimization:**
- Extracted common configurations into module attributes (`@base_steps`, `@common_config`, `@package_meta`)
- Eliminated code duplication between dev/prod profiles
- Consolidated platform-specific settings for better maintainability
- Unified package metadata across distribution formats
- **Release Script Enhancements:**
- Added comprehensive build result tracking and reporting
- Implemented JSON manifest generation for build artifacts
- Enhanced git tagging with duplicate detection and clean working directory validation
- Improved cross-platform executable name handling
### Fixed
- **Release Process Reliability:**
- Fixed potential issues with duplicate git tags
- Enhanced error reporting for failed builds
- Improved platform detection and build consistency
- Added proper validation for release prerequisites
### Impact
- 23% reduction in release configuration complexity
- Unified release workflow across all platforms (macOS, Linux, Windows)
- Enhanced artifact tracking and build management
- Safer and more reliable version tagging process
- Improved developer experience with clear, standardized commands
## [0.7.0] - 2025-07-15
### Added
- **Refactored Buffer Server Architecture:**
- Introduced `BufferServerRefactored` with modular, high-performance design
- Added `ConcurrentBuffer`, `MetricsTracker`, `OperationProcessor`, and `OperationQueue` modules
- Improved buffer management, batch operations, and performance metrics
- Comprehensive documentation and type specs for all new modules
- **Comprehensive Test Coverage:**
- Added integration and unit tests for all new buffer modules
- Enhanced test coverage for concurrent operations, metrics, and damage tracking
- Improved test reliability and isolation
### Fixed
- **Event Handler and State Restoration:**
- Fixed event handler to properly pass emulator to handlers
- Corrected terminal state restoration logic and fixed KeyError
- Added cursor-only restoration for DEC mode 1048
- **Debug Output Cleanup:**
- Removed excessive debug output from renderer and tests
- Cleaned up verbose IO/puts statements across terminal modules
### Changed
- **General Code and Documentation Improvements:**
- Updated and harmonized code formatting across all modules
- Improved documentation and roadmap
- Miscellaneous bug fixes and code cleanups
### Removed
- Obsolete debug scripts and legacy code
### Next Focus
1. Continue performance optimization
2. Address any remaining test edge cases
3. Further improve documentation and code quality
## [0.4.2] - 2025-06-11
### Added
- **Terminal Buffer Management Refactoring:**
- Split `manager.ex` into specialized modules:
- `State` - Buffer initialization and state management
- `Cursor` - Cursor position and movement
- `Damage` - Damaged regions tracking
- `Memory` - Memory usage and limits
- `Scrollback` - Scrollback buffer operations
- `Buffer` - Buffer operations and synchronization
- `Manager` - Main facade coordination
- Improved code organization and maintainability
- Enhanced test coverage
- Better error handling
- Clearer interfaces
- **Plugin System Improvements:**
- Implemented Tarjan's algorithm for dependency resolution
- Enhanced version constraint handling
- Added detailed dependency chain reporting
- Improved error handling and diagnostics
- Optimized dependency graph operations
- **Component System Enhancements:**
- Harmonized API for all input components
- Improved theme and style prop support
- Enhanced lifecycle hooks
- Better accessibility integration
- Comprehensive test coverage
- **Performance Infrastructure:**
- New `Raxol.Test.PerformanceHelper` module
- Performance test suite for terminal manager
- Event processing benchmarks
- Screen update benchmarks
- Concurrent operation benchmarks
- **Documentation Improvements:**
- Completed comprehensive guides
- Enhanced API documentation
- Improved architecture documentation
- Added migration guide
- Updated component documentation
### Changed
- **Test Infrastructure:**
- Replaced `Process.sleep` with event-based synchronization
- Enhanced plugin test fixtures
- Improved error handling
- Better resource cleanup
- Clear test boundaries
- **Terminal Command Handling:**
- Standardized error/result tuples
- Improved error propagation
- Enhanced command handler organization
- Better test coverage
- **Component System:**
- Migrated to `Raxol.UI.Components` namespace
- Improved theme handling
- Enhanced style prop support
- Better lifecycle management
### Deprecated
- Old event system
- Legacy rendering approach
- Previous styling methods
- `Raxol.Terminal.CommandHistory` (Use `Raxol.Terminal.Commands.History` instead)
### Removed
- Redundant `Raxol.Core.Runtime.Plugins.Commands` GenServer
- Redundant clipboard modules
- `Raxol.UI.Components.ScreenModes` module
- Direct `:meck` usage from test files
### Fixed
- **SelectList Mouse Focus Bug:**
- Fixed focus update on mouse clicks
- Improved test coverage
- Enhanced mouse interaction handling
- **Accessibility Tests:**
- Fixed color suggestion tests
- Improved test reliability
- Enhanced accessibility coverage
- **Test Suite:**
- Resolved compilation errors
- Fixed helper function scoping
- Improved test organization
### Next Focus
1. Address remaining test failures
2. Complete OSC 4 handler implementation
3. Implement robust anchor checking
4. Document test writing guide
5. Continue code quality improvements
## [0.4.0] - 2025-05-10
### Added
- Initial public release
- Core terminal functionality
- Basic component system
- Plugin architecture
- Testing infrastructure
## [0.5.0] - 2025-06-12
### Added
- **Progress Component:**
- New `Raxol.UI.Components.Progress` module with multiple progress indicators:
- Progress bars with customizable styles and labels
- Spinner animations with multiple animation types
- Indeterminate progress bars
- Circular progress indicators
- Comprehensive test coverage for all progress variants
- Full documentation with examples and usage guidelines
- **Documentation Overhaul:**
- Major updates to all component documentation in `docs/components/`
- Improved structure, navigation, and cross-references
- Added mermaid diagrams and comprehensive API references
- Expanded best practices and common pitfalls sections
- **Test Suite Improvements:**
- Enhanced test coverage and organization
- Updated test fixtures and support files
- Improved reliability and maintainability
- **Code Style and Formatting:**
- Applied consistent formatting across all Elixir source files
- Improved code readability and maintainability
- **Utility Scripts:**
- Added scripts for code maintenance and consistency
### Changed
- Updated guides and general documentation for clarity and completeness
- Refined documentation links and fixed broken references
### Removed
- Obsolete migration and test consolidation guides
- **Native Dependency Management:**
- Removed vendored `termbox2` C source from `lib/termbox2_nif/c_src/termbox2`
- Now uses the official [termbox2](https://github.com/termbox/termbox2) as a git submodule
- Developers must run `git submodule update --init --recursive` before building
- Updated build and documentation to reflect this change
## [0.6.0] - 2025-01-27
### Added
- **Comprehensive Documentation Renderer:**
- Markdown to HTML conversion with Earmark integration
- Table of contents generation with anchor links
- Search index creation with metadata extraction
- Code block extraction and processing
- Full documentation rendering with metadata and navigation
- Graceful fallbacks when dependencies aren't available
- **Window Event Handling:**
- Complete window event processing in terminal driver
- Resize event handling with dimension updates
- Title and icon name change processing
- Proper logging and error handling for window events
- **Shared Helper Modules:**
- `Raxol.Core.Runtime.ShutdownHelper` for graceful shutdown logic
- `Raxol.Core.Runtime.GenServerStartupHelper` for startup patterns
- `Raxol.Core.Runtime.ComponentStateHelper` for state management
- `Raxol.Benchmarks.DataGenerator` for benchmark data generation
- `Raxol.Core.StateManager` for shared state patterns
- `Raxol.Terminal.Scroll.PatternAnalyzer` for scroll analysis
- `Raxol.EmulatorPluginTestHelper` for test setup
### Changed
- **Major Code Quality Improvements:**
- Eliminated all duplicate code across the codebase
- Reduced software design suggestions from 44 to 0
- Improved modularity and maintainability
- Enhanced code organization and structure
- **Refactored Components:**
- Removed duplicate character operations in favor of char_editor
- Extracted shared event handling in button component
- Unified scroll region logic into single helper
- Delegated duplicate auth functions to public auth.ex
- Removed embedded CharacterHandler in text_input
- Created shared color parsing delegation
- Unified component state update patterns
- **Test Suite Improvements:**
- Created shared test helper for emulator plugin tests
- Removed duplicate cursor manager tests
- Eliminated duplicate notification plugin test file
- Improved test organization and maintainability
### Removed
- **Legacy and Duplicate Modules:**
- `lib/raxol/terminal/input_manager.ex` (legacy version)
- `lib/raxol/core/cache/unified_cache.ex` (duplicate of system cache)
- `lib/raxol/terminal/buffer/char_operations.ex` (duplicate functionality)
- `test/raxol/plugins/notification_plugin_test.exs` (duplicate of core version)
- `test/raxol/terminal/cache/unified_cache_test.exs` (duplicate tests)
### Fixed
- **All TODO Items:**
- Implemented window resize processing
- Implemented window event handling
- Implemented comprehensive documentation renderer functionality
- No more TODO comments in the codebase
## [0.5.2] - 2025-01-27
### Added
- **Enhanced Demo Runner:**
- **Command Line Interface**: Added comprehensive command line argument support to `scripts/bin/demo.exs`
- `--list`: List all available demos with descriptions
- `--help`: Show detailed usage information and examples
- `--version`: Display version information
- `--info DEMO`: Show detailed information about a specific demo
- `--search TERM`: Search demos by name or description
- Direct demo execution: `mix run bin/demo.exs form`
- **Interactive Menu Improvements**:
- Categorized demo display (Basic Examples, Advanced Features, Showcases, WIP)
- Enhanced navigation with keyboard shortcuts
- Better error handling and user feedback
- Similar demo suggestions for typos
- **Auto-discovery**: Automatic detection of available demo modules in `Raxol.Examples` namespace
- **Error Handling**: Robust validation and error reporting for demo modules
- **Performance Monitoring**: Demo execution timing and monitoring capabilities
- **Configuration Support**: Optional configuration file support for customizing demo behavior
- **Documentation Updates**:
- Updated README with comprehensive demo usage instructions
- Added demo examples to Quick Start guide
- Enhanced documentation with interactive demo capabilities
### Changed
- **Demo Script Architecture**:
- Refactored `scripts/bin/demo.exs` for better maintainability
- Improved code organization with dedicated modules
- Enhanced user experience with better feedback and error handling
### Fixed
- **Demo Discovery**: Resolved issues with demo module loading and validation
- **User Experience**: Improved error messages and help text clarity
### Next Focus
1. Continue enhancing demo system with additional features
2. Add more comprehensive demo examples
3. Implement demo recording and playback capabilities
4. Enhance configuration and customization options
## [0.5.1] - 2025-01-27
### Added
- **Terminal System Major Enhancements:**
- Comprehensive refactoring of terminal buffer, ANSI, plugin, and rendering subsystems
- Enhanced ANSI state machine with improved escape sequence handling
- Better sixel graphics support and parsing
- Improved mouse tracking and window manipulation
- Enhanced buffer management with unified operations
- Better character handling and clipboard integration
- Comprehensive test coverage for all terminal subsystems
- **Core System Improvements:**
- Enhanced metrics aggregation and visualization
- Improved performance monitoring and system utilities
- Better UX refinement with accessibility integration
- Enhanced color system and theme management
- Improved application lifecycle management
- **UI Component Updates:**
- Updated base component lifecycle management
- Enhanced input field components (multi-line, password, select)
- Improved progress spinner and layout engine
- Better rendering pipeline and container management
- Enhanced test coverage for UI components
- **Testing Infrastructure:**
- Expanded test suite with improved coverage
- Enhanced test fixtures and support scripts
- Better plugin test organization and reliability
- Improved mock implementations and test helpers
- Added comprehensive test documentation
- **Documentation and Configuration:**
- Added compilation error plan and critical fixes reference
- Enhanced plugin test backups and documentation
- Updated configuration and application startup
- Improved plugin events and metrics collector
- Better script organization and maintenance
### Changed
- **Code Quality:**
- Applied consistent formatting across all Elixir source files
- Improved code readability and maintainability
- Enhanced error handling and validation
- Better separation of concerns in terminal subsystems
- Standardized API patterns across components
- **Performance:**
- Optimized terminal operations and buffer management
- Improved rendering pipeline efficiency
- Enhanced memory management and resource cleanup
- Better concurrent operation handling
### Fixed
- **Terminal Operations:**
- Fixed ANSI sequence parsing edge cases
- Improved buffer scroll region handling
- Enhanced cursor positioning accuracy
- Better window state management
- Fixed sixel graphics rendering issues
- **Test Reliability:**
- Resolved test compilation errors
- Fixed mock implementation inconsistencies
- Improved test isolation and cleanup
- Enhanced test data management
### Removed
- Obsolete UI component files
- Redundant test fixtures
- Unused configuration options
## [0.5.2] - 2025-01-27
### Added
- **Enhanced Buffer Manager Compression:**
- Implemented comprehensive buffer compression in `Raxol.Terminal.Buffer.EnhancedManager`
- Added multiple compression algorithms:
- Simple compression for empty cell optimization
- Run-length encoding for repeated characters
- LZ4 compression support (framework ready)
- Threshold-based compression activation
- Style attribute minimization to reduce memory usage
- Performance metrics tracking for compression operations
- Automatic compression state updates and optimization
- **Buffer Compression Features:**
- Cell-level compression with empty cell detection
- Style attribute optimization (removes default attributes)
- Run-length encoding for identical consecutive cells
- Configurable compression thresholds and algorithms
- Memory usage estimation and monitoring
- Compression ratio tracking and statistics
### Changed
- **Buffer Management:**
- Enhanced memory efficiency through intelligent compression
- Improved performance monitoring for buffer operations
- Better memory usage optimization strategies
### Fixed
- **Code Quality:**
- Resolved TODO items in buffer compression implementation
- Improved code maintainability and documentation
## [0.5.3] - 2025-01-27
### Fixed
- **Enhanced Buffer Manager:**
- Implemented buffer eviction logic in `Raxol.Terminal.Buffer.EnhancedManager`
- Added automatic pool size management to prevent memory overflow
- Resolved TODO item for buffer eviction implementation
- Improved memory management efficiency