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- No changes.
- Fix double scroll regression -- cursor movement in the Client caused the IDE to move, which then incorrectly caused the Client to move again.
- Claude code reviews revealed the following issues, which were fixed manually:
- Fix multi-byte Unicode encoding bug.
- Fix incorrect websocket shutdown sequence.
- On websocket disconnect and reconnect, correctly retain timeouts for responses.
- Change websocket response timeout to a reasonable value.
- Provide better error reporting when
hashLocations.jsonfile isn't found. - Improve encoder performance.
- Correct bug in diff computation.
- Correctly handle CRLFs in files that begin with a LF.
- Fix several XSS vulnerabilities.
- Remove redundant reference counting on shared state.
- Avoid panics when validating passwords and when converting paths to strings.
- Fix bugs in nested comment parser.
- Improve CLI interface with better userid/password parsing, error reporting, and ipv6 support.
- Include Windows drive letter Z when looking for available drives.
- Use block comment delimiter found in code, not a hard-coded C-only delimiter.
- Correct many errors in the grammar for supported languages.
- Add lexer support for shell scripts, Swift, TOML, and Verilog, and VHDL.
- Ensure math is re-typeset after saving the document.
- Delay math un-typesetting until all typesetting is complete.
- Improve error reporting in VSCode extension.
- Fix losing last typed character when receiving a translation while a TinyMCE edit is pending.
- Avoid unnecessary and distracting scrolling to the top of a doc block when focusing the doc block.
- When first switching to a file, restore the cursor position from VSCode.
- Revert back to working version of CodeMirror.
- Updates to other libraries.
- First and second-level heading underlines are now sized based on the heading's length, rather than fixed at 80 characters.
- Update to latest version of CodeMirror, graphviz, ts-rs, pdfjs, notify-deboucer, dprint-markdown, Rust. Improved CodeMirror means removal of a patch to CodeMirror source.
- Replace old
win_partitionscrate which no longer builds.
- Added instructional videos to manual.
- Improve accessibility by using content sectioning tags.
- Avoid unnecessary re-translations of Markdown documents containing line break elements.
- Fix data corruption of math, in which an equation was stored as its rendered form after a re-translation in the Client.
- Re-translate Markdown documents as necessary. This causes math written in the Client to immediately be rendered, instead of needing to switch to the IDE and perform an edit.
- Ignore re-translations if the Client contents is dirty; overwrite Client contents when dirty when an IDE update arrives. This prevents data corruption.
- Correctly mark Client contents as clean after sending an update to the IDE, instead of waiting until the IDE's response arrives. This prevents cases where the Client edits didn't update IDE text.
- Fix errors in Client when editing a file with adjacent doc blocks.
- Fix out of sync errors when the table of contents file is open.
- Fix incorrect version info sent by the VSCode extension.
- Change lexer name for C/C++ code to avoid escaping when converting from HTML to Markdown.
- Fix Client so that edits produces updates to the IDE; previous, edits would occasionally stop updating the IDE.
- Prevent editing the
<span>that wraps math expressions. - Automatically re-sync Client with IDE when out of sync.
- Update to latest release of MathJax.
- Add support for Loci files.
- Avoid spaces disappearing in Client when editing lists.
- Improve speed of convert
- Improve Client error reporting.
- Fix loss of editing in the Client when in document-only mode.
- Fix data corruption in the Client when in document-only mode and edits are made in both the IDE and Client.
- Fix loss of autosave when making GUI-based edits in the Client.
- Correctly retain Client cursor position during IDE edits.
- Correctly translate table cells containing blocks from HTML to Markdown.
- Update Graphviz to latest build; make Graphviz output a block element, not an inline element.
- Allow creating Mermaid and Graphviz diagrams using simpler code block syntax.
- Support math free of Markdown escaping. This is a backward-incompatible change: you must manually remove Markdown escaping from math written before this release.
- Fix failures when trying to edit a doc block which contains only diagrams.
- Fix data corruption bug after sending a re-translation back to the Client.
- Correct incorrect whitespace removal in Graphviz and Mermaid diagrams.
- Fix cursor movement errors in the Client.
- Prevent unnecessary saves of Client data to the IDE.
- Drag and drop of images creates a mess; disable drop and drop for this reason.
- Send sync data when doc blocks receive focus.
- Improve error handling.
- Improve method used to keep Client and IDE contents in sync.
- Correctly sync when IDE files are updated when editing in the Client.
- Fix data corruption bug when creating new doc blocks in the Client -- whitespace was lost.
- Update line numbering in the Client when word wraps occur in a doc block.
- Avoid unnecessary saves from the Client just after receiving new data.
- Reduce delay between Client edits and IDE updates.
- Increase time errors messages are displayed in the Client.
- Math now renders in the active doc block, as shown below.
- Math is now protected from accidental edits in the Client:
- Improved synchronization between the cursor and scroll position of the Client and IDE.
- Removed accidental debug output.
- Remove unnecessary TinyMCE plugins.
- File watcher now accepts new files from the Client.
- Improved translation from HTML to Markdown.
- Build correct binary for Mac M1.
- Add CodeMirror support for SQL and YAML.
- Scroll viewport to center on cursor movement.
- Significant improvements to test framework.
- Improved build framework.
- Refactor IDE interface back into the Server.
- Automatically find a free port for the Client, instead of requiring the user to specify it in the VSCode settings.
- Remove unused VSCode settings.
- Update code in the IDE when changes are made to the indent in the Client.
- Enable spell checking in doc blocks. Note that the VSCode browser doesn't support spell checking.
- Improved build process.
- Fix: avoid loading the same file twice in a row when the user clicks on a link in the Client.
- Improve VSCode connection with the Server.
- The system continues to work after a PC goes to sleep then wakes back up; communication within previous versions fails after a sleep/wake up cycle.
- Communicate between the VSCode extension and the Server using queues instead of a websocket and a queue.
- Remove the HTML editor's toolbar, to free up more space on the screen.
- Add a code formatting button to the quick toolbar which appears when tex is selected in the HTML editor.
- Remove the File entry from the HTML editor's main menu.
- Embed the CodeChat Editor Server inside the VSCode extension, rather than running it as a standalone binary.
- Fixes to the build process.
- Make the Client text editable again. Improve handling of selections.
- In VSCode, load a new file in the Client after a short delay, rather than immediately. This provides a more efficient process when changing files.
- Change
<graphviz-graph>syntax, which now correctly translates from the Client to source code, avoiding data loss in previous versions. - Make the Client text editable from the IDE by fixing a bug introduced in v0.1.32.
- Significantly reduce the size of the MathJax package.
- Correct a data loss bug when deleting multiple sequential doc blocks.
- Improve tooling for VSCode extension.
- Improve selection handling in the Client.
- Correct EOL handling on Windows which caused data corruption.
- Correct ordering of messages sent to and from the Framework to the Client.
- Fix and improve test framework and error reporting.
- Improve MathJax bundling.
- Update PDF viewer.
- Fix bugs in PDF viewer.
- Fix error when scrolling before a document is loaded.
- Fix debug print statements.
- Fix navigation in document-only mode.
- Improve errors reporting in the VSCode extension.
- Correctly handle document-only files.
- Update to the MathJax 4.0.0 release.
- Improve release process -- include release notes taken from the changelog.
- v0.1.26, 2025-Jul-31:
- Additional data corruption fixes when applying edits.
- Add more checks to detect data corruption.
- Update the file watcher to support the diff protocol.
- Send only changed fields when using the diff protocol.
- Provide basic synchronization between the IDE and Client.
- v0.1.25, 2025-Jul-29:
- Show notifications in Client when errors occur.
- For safety, close the Client if applying edits fails.
- v0.1.24, 2025-Jul-25:
- Fix indexing in diffs for characters that use more than one UTF-16 code unit, such as 😄,👉🏿,👨👦, and 🇺🇳.
- Fix data corruption with adjacent doc blocks.
- Translate line endings when loading a file from disk.
- v0.1.23, 2025-Jul-24
- Correct diff errors in IDE with CRLF line endings.
- Upgrade to newest release of MathJax, TinyMCE.
- v0.1.22, 2025-Jul-24
- Better support for opening a page in a web browser.
- Support HTTP basic authentication to restrict access; use
codechat-editor-server serve --auth username:password. - Apply diffs to the IDE when available.
- Better handling for CRLF line endings.
- v0.1.21, 2025-Jul-18:
- Allow specifying the host address the server binds to.
- Send server logs to the console by default.
- v0.1.20, 2025-Jul-18:
- Correct data corruption in Client on delete/insert diff operations.
- v0.1.19, 2025-Jul-17:
- Correctly apply diffs to Client document.
- Avoid deleting adjacent doc blocks.
- Correct error where edits in the IDE were ignored.
- Provide in-browser feedback on Mermaid errors.
- Fix word wrapping in Mermaid diagrams in lists.
- v0.1.18, 2025-Jul-14:
- Send diffs to the Client, which prevents visual jitter.
- v0.1.17, 2025-Apr-14:
- Fix heading level 3 and below word wrapping.
- Correctly handle unclosed fenced code blocks.
- v0.1.16, 2025-Apr-11:
- Fix to allow running inside a GitHub Codespace.
- Add: new command-line option to open a file/directory --
codechat-editor-server start [filename/diretory].
- v0.1.15, 2025-Mar-31:
- Correctly view binary files (images, PDFs, etc.) within a project.
- Include support for viewing PDF files in VSCode.
- v0.1.14, 2025-Mar-13:
- Correct translation of leading slash in Linux/OS X paths to/from a URL. This fixes rewrites of URL in Markdown to long relative paths.
- v0.1.13, 2025-Mar-10:
- Show PDFs in the browser, instead of downloading them.
- Update to new release of Actix framework.
- v0.1.12, 2025-Mar-08:
- Fixed error when creating a new document in VSCode.
- Fixed error when updating a non-CodeChat Editor document in VSCode.
- v0.1.11, 2025-Feb-27:
- Fixed data corruption while editing math: typeset math, instead of LaTeX source, was saved to the source file. Now, math is untypeset during edits, then retypeset afterwards.
- Correctly handle webview shutdown in VSCode extension.
- v0.1.10, 2025-Feb-20:
- Update to the 2024 edition of Rust.
- Update dependencies.
- Update source formatting using current CodeChat Editor.
- v0.1.9, 2025-Jan-20:
- Correct word wrapping inside Mermaid diagrams.
- Correct translation after adding newlines to code blocks in the Editor.
- Use setext headings, different symbols for bullets.
- Drop prettier for word wrap.
- v0.1.8, 2025-Jan-12:
- Correctly handle file not found in VSCode.
- Correct filename handling on Windows.
- v0.1.7, 2025-Jan-08:
- Fixed hyperlink navigation.
- Fixed case-insensitive filename handling bugs.
- Improve filename handling in tests.
- v0.1.6, 2024-Dec-29:
- Improvements to the build tool.
- Corrections to the C parser.
- v0.1.5, 2024-Dec-21:
- Improvements to the build tool and tests.
- Fixed filewatcher bugs.
- v0.1.4, 2024-Dec-19:
- Added support for Mermaid.
- Fixed MathJax packaging.
- Resize large images to fit in browser.
- Switch to new parser for Python and C/C++.
- Correct styles so that the selection and current line are visible.
- Created a build tool to automate the build process and added CI checks.
- Fixed OS-specific warnings and bugs.
- Fixed filewatcher bugs.
- v0.1.3, 2024-Nov-18:
- Switch to using MathJax 4 beta; load MathJax in the frame it's used, per MathJax issue #3309.
- Modernize graphviz-webcomponent build.
- Move CSS to
client/src.
- v0.1.2, 2024-Nov-12:
- Fix issue #28, autosave failures.
- Fix filewatcher -- incorrect file path comparison.
- Fix errors saving mathematics in Markdown-only files.
- Improve spellchecking coverage.
- Fix data loss when the CodeChat Editor Client is not visible.
- v0.1.1, 2024-Nov-04:
- Added basic theme support; used a theme similar to Sphinx's Alabaster.
- Added support for printing.
- Added a user manual, improved documentation.
- Fixed a bug in the filewatcher that prevented saving changes made in the Client.
- Added math support.
- Removed save button.
- Added support for Kotlin.
- Updates to the build system.
- Cross-platform fixes.
- v0.1.0, 2024-Oct-16:
- Initial release, with binaries for Windows only. Built with manually-patched CodeMirror per this issue.