ForgeFlow/CHANGELOG.md

Changelog

0.8.3 - 2026-07-26

• enriched light mode with layered color, depth and stronger navigation hierarchy;
• made every deployment visually identifiable by container, repository, environment and stable accent color;
• added live-versus-Gitea commit proof directly to deployment cards;
• reconciled stale failed operations against healthy live Unraid and current Gitea truth.

0.8.2 - 2026-07-26

• enabled checksum-verified binary auto-update for installed and portable Windows builds;
• added an external binary updater that waits for ForgeFlow to close, applies the verified release and restarts the application;
• added reproducible SHA-256 sidecars and authenticated Gitea release publishing;
• made packaged update checks fail clearly when a matching published release asset is incomplete.

0.8.1 - 2026-07-26

• introduced a refined premium visual system with clearer hierarchy, richer depth, responsive density and reduced-motion support;
• added a live open pull-request overview per repository instead of only pull-request creation;
• added a safe installed-connection self-test for DPAPI, Gitea identity, repository access and Actions access;
• verified the existing dedicated Unraid Ed25519 key and strict host fingerprint against the configured server;
• expanded compact-window visual acceptance at 1120 × 720 and the dashboard check at 1440 × 900.

0.8.0 - 2026-07-25

• Added partial-hunk staging, conflict guidance, protected-branch awareness and Gitea pull requests.
• Added configurable editor/terminal integration, tray, notifications and login startup.
• Added deployment policies, release notes, append-only audit export and encrypted configuration backup/restore.
• Added a guarded end-to-end environment acceptance harness.

0.7.0

• Added server-authoritative adoption of existing Unraid/Compose deployments.
• Added Docker, Compose, Git and DockerMan discovery with provenance and complete runtime metadata.
• Added a general one-click troubleshooter for common Git and deployment failures.
• Added safe abort recovery for interrupted Git operations and protected divergence repair.
• Fixed Unraid WebUI placeholder validation, serialized config saves, malformed config recovery and CRLF manifest verification.

0.6.1

• Fixed Windows PowerShell 5.1 updater status replacement and STARTED handshake.
• Added helper-log diagnostics and update-request identity validation.

0.6.0

• Added complete repository troubleshooting for stale HEAD.lock, index.lock, ref locks and diverged branches.
• Added safe one-click fetch, fast-forward, push and backup-then-reset synchronization repairs.
• Reconciled interrupted SSH deployments from live Unraid state at startup and on demand.
• Added DockerMan WebUI, icon and shell metadata plus a persistent XML template fallback for repository and generated Compose deployments.
• Added a built-in high-contrast ITWorx icon, local PNG upload, DockerMan image storage and metadata/icon-cache invalidation.
• Enforced lowercase internal Compose identities while preserving visible names such as Portfolio.
• Hardened source updater startup, status reporting, rollback and restart behavior.
• Completed successful SSH operations before post-deployment reconciliation to prevent stale deployment mode.
• Added startup server-truth refresh, batch DockerMan repair and healthy-live-SHA deploy suppression.
• Added lockfile-aware updater installs and direct Electron restart.
• Expanded automated coverage to Git lock, divergence, DockerMan, deployment reconciliation and updater regressions.

0.5.4

• Added exact Unraid-to-Gitea clone preflight.
• Made SSH deployments background operations with automatic polling.
• Preserved configured Compose casing such as Portfolio.
• Guaranteed failed remote operations become terminal failed records.

0.5.3

• Confirmed updater handoff before application exit.
• Persistent lifecycle state and startup result notification.
• Reliable success/rollback restart tracking.

0.5.2

• Made release verification and built-in update validation independent of Windows Bash shims.
• Added portable structural safety validation for the Unraid deployment script.
• Kept GNU Bash syntax validation on Linux and other non-Windows systems.

0.5.1

• Fixed Windows publication quality gate by validating Bash syntax through standard input.
• Added regression coverage for path-independent shell validation.

0.5.0

• Viewport-safe scrollable dialogs with persistent actions.

• NUL-delimited Git pathspec transport for large selections.

• Per-repository mutation serialization and stale lock repair.

• Bulk normalization of legacy Gitea origins.

• Expanded regression coverage.

• Correctly stage deleted and renamed paths.

• Preserve and surface local commits when push fails.

• Always refresh the actual Git state after operation errors.

• Add end-to-end Git regression coverage for deletion and push recovery.

0.4.3

• Removed the platform-dependent Unraid inspection integration test that mixed Windows temporary paths with remote Linux semantics.
• Added deterministic SSH inspection contract coverage.
• Released as one complete clean source archive.

0.4.2

• Replaced nested SSH Bash quoting with a single-line base64 transport.
• Fixed Windows Git Bash inspection failures caused by multiline quote parsing.
• Made temporary test cleanup resilient to short-lived Windows directory locks.
• Corrected remote status-file base64 invocation.
• Added Windows-focused regression coverage and a recovery updater from 0.4.0/0.4.1.

0.4.1

• Fixed Windows bash -n verification for ForgeFlow paths such as C:\Projects\ForgeFlow.
• Bash now receives a relative POSIX script path with the project root supplied through cwd.
• Added cross-platform regression tests, including a project root containing spaces.

0.4.0

• Made the changed-file panel independently scrollable for large working trees.
• Added explicit commit-message readiness and clarified that commit actions stage selected files automatically.
• Integrated the supplied ITWorx.tech logo into the title bar, setup and desktop icons.
• Added a private-Gitea source updater pinned to an exact update-branch commit.
• Added secure SSH / Unraid server profiles with host-key pinning.
• Added exact-SHA deployment to Git-backed /mnt/user/appdata/<project> folders.
• Added existing deployment inspection, tracked-change blocking, origin alignment and nested-Git warnings.
• Added repository Compose adoption and basic generated Compose for simple Dockerfile applications.
• Added exact previous-SHA rollback with repeat health verification.
• Added the LumaOps server-versus-Gitea migration audit.
• Expanded the automated suite to 59 passing tests.

0.3.2

• Clone from Gitea now uses the first configured project root automatically.
• Repository-named target folders are created without reopening the folder picker.
• Added an explicit Choose another location action for exceptional clones.
• Existing matching checkouts are linked instead of cloned again.
• Different repositories, non-empty ordinary folders and file conflicts are blocked.
• Clone identity and destination are resolved again in the privileged backend.
• Added a Windows source-update script and upgrade guide.
• Expanded the automated suite from 39 to 45 passing tests.

0.3.1

• Fixed the Windows environment doctor failing with spawn npm ENOENT after a successful npm installation.
• Added safe npm invocation through npm_execpath with a cmd.exe fallback.
• Added Windows and cross-platform regression tests for npm discovery.
• Removed the duplicated hard-coded doctor version.

0.1.0 — Functional MVP foundation

• Reworked the Stitch static screens into one coherent desktop application.
• Added secure Electron main/preload/renderer architecture.
• Added real Gitea connection and repository loading.
• Added bounded local Git repository discovery and remote matching.
• Added real Git status, diff, staging, commit, push, fetch and fast-forward pull.
• Added deployment profiles and exact-SHA Gitea Actions dispatch.
• Added deployment confirmation, operation history and healthcheck foundation.
• Added dark/light themes, onboarding and browser demo.
• Added unit tests and a real temporary Git remote integration test.
• Added safe workflow and server deployment examples.

0.4.5

• Fixed commit/push after manually staging a deleted file.
• Already staged deletions and renames are no longer re-added as missing pathspecs.
• Added a real bare-remote regression test for silent-zebra-glow.zip.