Changelog — Drever

Notable user-facing changes to Drever are recorded here. Named releases use their matching version section, while commit snapshots use the current Unreleased section.

Unreleased

Changed

Unified website button feedback around stable, non-lifting surfaces and intent-specific icon motion, and aligned standalone documentation action cards to the shared compact and medium corner-radius scale.

0.17.4 - 2026-08-11

Release impact: patch — this batch keeps an active local Studio easy to recover and makes follow-up feedback visibly progress without weakening the managed-agent sandbox.

Fixed

Preserved development-terminal scrollback, printed the exact local Creation room URL when the last Studio tab closes, and kept it near later semantic phase changes while no room is open, so users can reopen an active session without restarting it or searching through cleared output.
Kept accepted Draft feedback visibly pending or refining until the managed agent settles, including while a disconnected provider restarts, instead of briefly returning the main status to a ready state or leaving only a quiet request counter.
Made managed providers retry one interrupted delivery from the same durable action revision and made Claude Code start a fresh child after its completed one-shot process retires, so follow-up feedback does not require a duplicate request or manual continue message.
Routed eligible managed Codex approval requests through Auto-review while retaining the workspace-write sandbox and on-request approval policy; provider requests that still surface a user decision keep Studio's existing approval path.

0.17.3 - 2026-08-11

Release impact: patch — this batch keeps Studio draft progress honest while work continues and shortens the final refinement path while hardening the rendered readability gate.

Changed

Kept post-preview refinement source-led and made the final rendered review the sole owner of the exhaustive slide, Step, document, speaker, and reduced-motion matrix. A bounded read-only visual planning lane may overlap Draft 1 without delaying its preview, while final delivery no longer repeats browser review or recursively inspects generated bundles after a successful fresh build.

Fixed

Kept managed drafting and refining phases authoritative across intermediate preview and ready publications, so Studio continues to show active work while leaving the latest draft available to inspect, and only reports review readiness after the agent turn actually settles.
Made rendered preflight ruleset 6 measure the weakest individual syntax token in each code block, so a mismatched canvas color scheme can no longer hide unreadable highlighted code behind an indeterminate mixed-color warning. Generated custom Themes now explicitly set --drever-canvas-color-scheme instead of relying on the document root's color scheme.

0.17.2 - 2026-08-11

Release impact: patch — this batch makes managed Studio progress observable, shortens the path to the first useful preview, and makes rendered visual intent harder to overstate.

Changed

Made an approved Draft publish immediately after its first passing source check, before loading the design workflow, researching optional assets, making design-led Theme or Stage replacements, or waiting for visual polish. A minimal replacement required for safe rendering remains allowed; later factual and art-direction work may proceed in parallel without competing with the single visual-source writer.
Taught the final visual-review workflow to begin with a pixel-first verdict from the settled and transition contact sheets before reading art-direction.md. An unchanged artifact followed by a receipt, label, underline, or glow should no longer qualify as a signature transformation.

Fixed

Added deduplicated Studio action and phase lines to the development terminal and taught managed supervisors to treat Studio status—not quiet Vite output—as the completion source of truth, so a continuously running agent is not mistaken for one that needs a chat continue message.
Stopped retrying and reporting a denied audience screen wake lock on every pointer or keyboard event; a new visible-fullscreen lifecycle may still retry once.

0.17.1 - 2026-08-11

Release impact: patch — this batch makes authored motion explain a visible state change and strengthens the generated deck's intermediate-frame review.

Changed

Made the installed design and review workflows require a semantic start-to-result chain for every prominent motion. Transient scans, sweeps, cursors, and similar cues must now leave a visible result, while related wording uses a fixed live-DOM slot instead of scaling captured glyphs.
Expanded the motion review pass beyond the deterministic early-frame capture: signature moments must also be checked at their visual midpoint, settled state, reverse path, and briefly after navigation so duplicate destination entrances cannot hide behind a valid endpoint. Rendered preflight ruleset 5 now reports the high-confidence form of that defect as DREVER_RENDER_POST_TRANSITION_ENTRANCE.
Refined the Product showcase's validation and multi-surface beats around persistent results and a stable sequential text transformation.

0.17.0 - 2026-08-10

Release impact: minor — this batch hardens the managed Studio handoff and adds inspectable subject-led design plus an analysis-only post-draft review workflow.

Changed

Added an analysis-only Studio draft review action with up to three structured, evidence-based improvement ideas that users can selectively turn into feedback without automatic application.
Added a version-matched visual decision pass that records one Scene map across every slide and one Handoff map across every adjacent edge before refined visual authoring. The installed Codex and Claude workflows now choose evidence, imagery, typography, color roles, content-led motion, continuity geometry, reverse behavior, and settled endpoints explicitly, then verify those decisions against the rendered deck.
Made a restrained cover the default opening for generated decks and made the accepted Draft 1 geometry an immutable refinement checkpoint, so later motion polish cannot temporarily discard safe areas, spacing, layout shells, or readable line wraps.
Added drever dev --topic <text> as a private Studio Brief prefill so coding agents can carry an already supplied subject into the Creation room without putting it in the URL or asking twice.

Fixed

Kept Studio on Storyboard and Draft after approval by deriving in-flight authoring from the durable action journal and artifact checkpoint instead of transient activity telemetry. The current loading summary now remains visible until a Draft publication, failure, or disconnect.
Removed expandable activity history from Direction, Storyboard, and Draft so each stage presents one consistent current status without oversized controls or clipped popovers.
Normalized Claude Code's real mixed-case tool event IDs before publishing Studio telemetry and made invalid live telemetry fail soft, so durable questions remain usable instead of freezing the Creation room. Managed Claude children also start without inheriting the parent nesting marker.
Made a disconnected managed agent restart and replay the same pending journal revision instead of appending a duplicate Brief or feedback action.
Kept the installed workflow from mirroring Studio questions or treating a later continue as a chat fallback, and made Claude Code supervision of the live development task explicit.

0.16.0 - 2026-08-06

Release impact: minor — this batch makes Studio's completed creation stages safely revisitable and adds explicit public state for superseded Storyboards and live drafts.

Added

Added a dedicated @drever/client/studio-thumbnail entry point for isolated visual slide thumbnails without loading the complete Studio surface.

Changed

Made completed Brief, Direction, Storyboard, and Draft stages navigable from Studio's progress header. Revising an earlier stage now asks for confirmation, rebuilds dependent work, and keeps the previous Storyboard and live Draft available as clearly marked read-only references.
Persisted validated adaptive-question context with Studio actions so Direction remains reviewable after plan publication, agent reconnection, and local server reloads.
Rebalanced Studio's creation progress, Storyboard rail, plan cards, and supporting controls around a compact semantic type scale, equally spaced stages, and content-first slide labels.
Replaced Live Draft's text-only rail with lazy, isolated visual slide thumbnails while keeping Storyboard navigation focused on story structure and feedback scope in the Direction panel.

Fixed

Kept Studio's isolated live-preview proxy alive when thumbnail or HMR connections reset, and re-established the Draft connection after revisiting an earlier stage so the first navigation is never dropped.
Kept Studio's packaged brand fonts available to generated development apps, avoiding a system-font fallback when the authored deck lives outside Drever's workspace.
Kept Live Draft canvas geometry stable as speaker-note length changes, removed a discrete hover repaint from Brief actions, and moved the disconnected-agent notice into a dismissible floating glass panel that no longer reduces the workspace height.
Kept production output outside the development watch graph so existing build files cannot reload Studio while visual Draft thumbnails initialize.

0.15.0 - 2026-08-06

Release impact: minor — this batch makes Storyboard approval content-first, while preserving legacy plan files and strengthening the live Draft 1 handoff.

Changed

Added a strict version-2 drever.plan.json story contract that keeps each slide's job, purpose, evidence, and anchor artifact in review while deferring per-slide density, layout, and motion until the approved design pass. Existing version-1 plans remain readable.
Simplified Studio and standalone Storyboard cards around content and sequence, with roomier evidence surfaces and no premature layout or motion labels.
Kept the parent creation task observing a managed Studio session across the human approval gate, so a browser approval can start the next managed turn without a separate chat message.
Added explicit whole-deck and current-slide feedback targets to Live Draft without coupling the chosen feedback scope to preview navigation.

Fixed

Opened Draft View History as a compact anchored popover instead of expanding the work-in-progress banner, preventing the canvas and neighboring Studio rails from shifting.
Made drever check reject data:, blob:, and javascript: CSS imports with a precise source diagnostic before Vite or PostCSS can strand the live preview on an error overlay.
Replaced Studio's backtracking Markdown link cleanup with a linear forward scan so malformed or adversarial agent narration cannot monopolize the browser main thread.
Attached audience shortcuts before the viewer reports itself ready so an immediate keypress after a cold load is no longer dropped.

0.14.0 - 2026-08-05

Release impact: minor — this batch makes Studio creation more resilient and deliberate, adds recoverable audience rendering, and deliberately stops treating the Basic design study as an implicit default. Existing decks that rely on Basic layouts must select Basic explicitly.

Changed

Made Direction publish a first reviewable Storyboard from the submitted brief before browsing or open-ended research, with uncertain facts carried forward as evidence requirements and deeper research deferred until the approved live draft.
Added restrained transitions for Studio screens, semantic status copy, disclosures, plan-card metadata, controls, notices, dialogs, and feedback so state changes remain legible without animating streaming text or the live presentation canvas.
Reframed Storyboard card metadata as explicit Layout and Motion information with an accessible motion purpose, and aligned Studio controls with Drever's shared design tokens.
Locked the approved canvas, safe area, surface ownership, and last-known-good layout across the generated authoring skills; official designs now remain reference studies unless explicitly selected, and custom art direction replaces conflicting starter paint instead of layering over it.
Stopped applying the official Basic study when theme is omitted. Theme-less projects now use an undecorated internal baseline with safe insets and readable semantic Markdown, while Basic and its named layouts remain available through an explicit project choice.

Fixed

Gave newly created projects an explicit 1600 × 900 canvas contract so an agent cannot silently switch resolutions while replacing the starter design or refining motion.
Kept authored render failures inside their owning slide or deck surface so one broken Draft 1 route no longer turns the audience view or Studio preview into a blank page; development previews retain actionable error detail while production fallbacks avoid exposing source exceptions.
Kept custom art directions from exposing a half-migrated starter frame by making official designs reference-only for agents, assigning one owner to the complete Theme and Stage surface, and preparing replacement modules before switching the live configuration.
Removed synthetic 0 of 5 progress from provider-internal planning steps while retaining truly measurable progress when a reliable completed and total count exists.
Kept a managed agent's idle review checkpoint resumable instead of reporting a normal app-server exit as a disconnect failure, and let the durable awaiting-approval Storyboard outrank late transport errors.
Kept Live Draft feedback scoped to the corresponding semantic Storyboard slide while bridging the audience runtime's positional slide identity by ordered index.
Prewarmed the authored presentation graph and recovered one transient cold-module fetch with a guarded reload, so Studio previews no longer remain stranded on the loading shell after Vite refreshes its dependency graph.
Suppressed the config watcher's initial file-discovery events so cold startup does not reset a Live Draft after the user has already begun navigating it.
Kept the user-owned Studio development server isolated from agent review infrastructure by putting managed agents in their own process group, rejecting nested managed drever dev launches, and reserving temporary rendered-check cleanup for its own ephemeral loopback preview and browser.

0.13.1 - 2026-08-05

Release impact: patch — this batch fixes compatible Studio preview and lifecycle regressions in the new local authoring workflow.

Fixed

Kept the embedded Live Draft in its preview row when the lifecycle banner is absent, so speaker notes can no longer collapse the rendered deck to zero height.
Treated an approved Storyboard that is waiting for Draft 1 as active work, preserving truthful progress and toolbar copy while keeping the not-yet-available preview disabled.
Rendered bounded agent summaries as clean plain text instead of exposing Markdown formatting markers in Studio activity.
Gave atomic agent publications a bounded verification grace window and kept a current durable ready state above a late transport error, preventing completed Studio passes from being reported as paused.

0.13.0 - 2026-08-05

Release impact: minor — this batch adds a more legible and inspectable local Studio workflow without changing authored presentation APIs.

Added

Added an authenticated, HMR-stable Live Draft bridge for manifest-backed slide navigation and real speaker notes inside Studio, with a dedicated low-privilege preview capability isolated from both arbitrary parent messages and Studio's action token.

Changed

Derived Studio progress from durable brief, question, plan, and draft artifacts so transient agent telemetry cannot mark Storyboard complete before it exists.
Reduced agent activity to the current specific public summary by default, with completed history available on demand, and made active refinement, review readiness, recoverable errors, and required approvals visually explicit.
Kept stale approved storyboards out of a new Direction pass, switched the Live Draft rail to the currently rendered manifest, mapped its positions back to storyboard feedback, and added truthful retry or resume actions when agent work pauses.
Kept the latest bounded tail of managed-agent public summaries visible during long operations without exposing private reasoning or raw provider output.
Accepted one reviewable storyboard publication for the common “submit brief, then skip the remaining questions” path while retaining strict action-order and artifact postconditions.

Fixed

Allowed the embedded Live Draft to enter fullscreen, retained its authenticated connection across child HMR, added a child-ready handshake for slow cold starts, and kept slide-rail navigation in Live Draft instead of unexpectedly returning to Storyboard.
Preserved the last available draft when refinement pauses and clarified that intermediate HMR layouts may still change while the agent is working.
Coalesced duplicate configuration file events into one development-server restart, avoiding transient outdated dependency requests during local theme and Stage reloads.

0.12.1 - 2026-08-05

Release impact: patch — this batch keeps the compatible local Studio workflow responsive and coherent across progressive authoring and development-time configuration changes.

Changed

Made the approved-plan handoff publish a bounded, content-complete Draft 1 through the existing Studio server before design research, rendered review, production builds, or browser automation, so users can review real content sooner while the agent continues visual refinement.
Kept managed agent sessions and their development command alive for the full Studio workflow, while one-shot and non-interactive hosts now use the chat-based Storyboard workflow instead of handing users a Creation room whose local agent process has already exited.

Fixed

Kept an already published Studio live draft available while the agent starts later drafting or refinement passes, without forcing the user back to the Storyboard view.
Reloaded imported drever.config.ts dependencies, local theme modules, and Stage components in the same development listener, preserving the Studio URL and session; an invalid configuration now leaves the last valid preview running and recovers when its missing dependency is created.
Kept the public development listener stable and held requests during Vite configuration-graph swaps, so browsers no longer hit transient resets or stale-graph responses while reloading virtual styles or Studio.

0.12.0 - 2026-08-05

Release impact: minor — this batch adds compatible managed-agent sessions, durable visual evidence, and stronger rendered-quality checks without changing existing deck workflows.

Added

Added drever dev --open studio so local agent-led creation can open the exact loopback Creation room automatically, while CI and headless environments retain a printed URL fallback.
Added a bounded Studio activity timeline so planning, research, drafting, and review can report truthful user-facing milestones without exposing private model reasoning.
Added managed Studio adapters for Codex and Claude Code, plus one standards-based ACP adapter for Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot CLI, Goose, Cursor CLI, OpenCode, OpenHands, and Cline. Existing and unsupported agents can continue to use the provider-neutral action journal.
Added a blocking rendered diagnostic for recurring full-canvas slide paint that would move under the default document View Transition instead of remaining on the stationary Stage.
Added opt-in Playwright visual evidence to drever check --rendered, with every exact settled state, forward and reverse transition samples, contact sheets, integrity hashes, and a versioned manifest. The manifest is published atomically and shares an inspection-build fingerprint with the JSON receipt, so a failed or stale refresh cannot be mistaken for current evidence.

Changed

Clarified that the public bootstrap is a Drever MDX/React project workflow and directs an agent away from unrelated artifact skills before delegating to Drever's version-matched local skill.
Made open Studio sessions detect agent-state and plan publications even when the operating-system file watcher misses an atomic replacement, removing the need to refresh the page manually.
Derived audience, speaker, document, and export canvas fallbacks from semantic Theme canvas and ink tokens, and made AI design and review require a sequence-level visual story plus source-backed implementation receipts for signature moments.
Distinguished content-complete Draft 1, active visual refinement, and a reviewed ready state in the local creation room instead of presenting the first tidy preview as finished work.
Consolidated required deck review on Drever's isolated Playwright Chromium instead of requiring Chrome DevTools MCP or a second agent browser.

Fixed

Evaluated full-canvas background ownership independently in both transition directions and made rendered review reject console errors and failed subresources instead of trusting incomplete pixels.
Kept the audience toolbar visible across slide navigation initiated by its previous and next buttons, while keyboard and canvas navigation continue to hide it before transition capture.

0.11.0 - 2026-08-04

Release impact: minor — this batch adds a compatible local creation room, rendered-quality diagnostics, and a visual-refinement gate for AI-authored presentations.

Added

Added an experimental, development-only local creation room for the common brief, adaptive topic-specific questions, visual Storyboard approval, a real Audience View preview, and deck- or slide-scoped feedback. A provider-neutral local action journal and drever studio agent commands coordinate the existing coding agent without placing model credentials or editor code in the production presentation.
Added rendered text safe-area diagnostics for required copy that hugs the canvas edge, including source evidence and a matching hard release-smoke browser gate.
Added content-led scene recipes and practical typography, spacing, contrast, and CJK-aware review baselines to the installed design, authoring, and review skills.

Changed

Made the experimental creation room's first brief clearer and more flexible with arbitrary minute durations, plain-language audience-goal copy, readable option descriptions, and compact recommendation badges. It now also distinguishes an active local coding-agent lease from an unconnected room instead of presenting the transport itself as a live agent.
Refined the creation room with a smaller navigation surface, calmer form typography, and a truthful animated activity timeline driven by the local agent's published milestones. The bundled creation skill now treats topic-specific questions as a latency-sensitive one-pass task, uses an exact decoder-verified publication template, and bounds schema recovery instead of inspecting project internals or entering open-ended debugging.
Taught the bundled design and review skills to reject detached annotations, connector overshoot, and implementation details that visually overpower the audience-facing claim.
Made every AI release-smoke candidate capture settled slides and adjacent transition frames in a keyless browser job, return two bounded contact sheets to its provider for one visual-refinement turn, and pass a fresh keyless build before publication.
Kept full-canvas Stage backgrounds stationary by default and directed agents to animate only meaningful inner paint, signals, or focal objects. Chapter and closing palette changes now have an explicit live-background recipe.
Removed Real AI Runs from public website discovery while the automated visual benchmark is being refined; retained runs remain directly addressable for internal review.

Fixed

Published build-module cache entries atomically so concurrent presentation builds can safely reuse the same project cache without observing a partially written content-addressed proxy.
Hid the audience toolbar before slide View Transition capture and kept it out of the presentation until fresh pointer intent, preventing its rounded glass surface from blurring content during navigation.
Preserved the submitted creation-room brief across entry-module hot updates by invalidating the virtual startup state after every accepted action, and prevented an older agent publication from moving a durable session back to the first screen.

0.10.0 - 2026-08-03

Release impact: minor — this batch adds compatible public planning and rendered-preflight capabilities.

Added

Added the versioned drever.plan.json story contract for AI-created decks. Source preflight now validates the interview state, brief, stable slide IDs, narrative jobs, evidence, focal artifacts, composition recipes, density, and explicit motion ownership before authoring begins.
Expanded rendered preflight with line-fragment clipping, direct scroll overflow, high-confidence sibling overlap, and resolved solid-color WCAG contrast diagnostics. Complex image, gradient, blend, and translucent paint remains an explicit review warning instead of receiving a false pass.
Added a development-only /storyboard surface that renders the versioned plan before deck authoring, updates through HMR, preserves the last valid structure during partial writes, and never enters production deck builds.

Changed

Resolved the current Codex latest and Claude Code stable CLI versions once at the start of each comparative AI release-smoke run, then reused those exact versions across generation and repair so a single run remains internally reproducible while tracking current stable agents.
Routed new, replacement, and existing-deck AI requests through explicit workflows, exposed the coherent Draft 1 before design refinement, and assigned exhaustive rendered review plus final artifact builds to single owners so feedback invalidates stale evidence without repeating every expensive gate.
Reduced the public AI bootstrap to a small handoff and made the installed, version-matched creation skill the single workflow authority. Design, authoring, review, and comparative AI release smoke now preserve and verify the same approved story contract end to end.
Put the full AI release smoke behind one protected approval, then ran all four provider-and-briefing journeys independently in parallel. Failed cases now receive bounded validation diagnostics and at most one provider repair turn before a final keyless build; passing cases make no extra model call.
Reframed the comparative AI release smoke around a globally readable 12-slide black-hole science story, with a 10-to-14-slide contract for longer narrative, diagram, motion, and speaker-note review, plus a bounded Claude budget sized to finish that larger artifact.
Presented the public AI generation evidence consistently as Real AI runs in page metadata, the footer, and the agent index.

Fixed

Raised the Basic accent-cover eyebrow and footer contrast above the rendered large-room readability threshold.
Made the documentation navigation roomier on common laptop screens while keeping long sidebars smoothly scrollable and external destinations clear.
Made the final AI release-smoke source review explicitly inventory normalized slide headings and keep a repeated closing refrain beneath a distinct title.
Kept the Motion showcase's anticipated browser bitmap out of viewport letterboxing before its authored entrance.
Returned pointer-activated audience toolbar actions to the presentation surface so navigation shortcuts remain immediate and the controls hide after a shorter idle interval.

0.9.0 - 2026-07-27

Changed

Made AI deck creation resolve visible slide density as an essential briefing decision, persist a complete brief.md with slide count, direction, and a numbered outline, and stop for explicit plan approval before authoring or opening Draft 1.
Made the guided and surprise-me release-smoke journeys share one stable, presentation-worthy neighborhood-park proposal and factual fixture so their briefing modes can be compared without subject drift.
Reorganized the public documentation around the path from AI-assisted creation through authoring, presenting, and delivery; added one complete command reference with exact options, defaults, workflow links, and drift protection against future CLI additions.

Fixed

Kept audience keyboard navigation active after using the previous and next toolbar controls with a pointer.
Kept the static sitemap synchronized with new public documentation routes and added a fast regression check before deployment.

0.8.0 - 2026-07-27

Added

Added drever check --rendered, which builds an isolated production inspection app, visits Step 0 and every exact authored Step at the configured canvas, and emits stable diagnostics for clipping, canvas overflow, persistent-geometry instability, suspicious density, and runtime readiness. The current typed V2 JSON report includes a rendered receipt with receipt and ruleset versions, canvas, Chromium engine, optional browser version, captured state count, status, and explicit skip or failure reason.
Added drever design import <url> to derive a project-owned Pass-0 Theme, stylesheet, evidence record, and art-direction brief from deterministic rendered website evidence. The importer writes only to a new or empty local directory and copies or hotlinks no source HTML, CSS, JavaScript, font, image, or script asset. Public HTTP and HTTPS references are allowed by default; credential-bearing URLs are rejected, localhost and private-network targets require --allow-private, persisted references redact query strings and fragments, and captured metadata remains untrusted evidence.

Changed

Advanced the emitted deck preflight report to typed V2 so source and optional rendered diagnostics share one stable summary and diagnostic vocabulary, while retaining a typed source-only V1 shape and report union for stored consumers. Advanced the authoring context to typed V2 with a corresponding V1-or-V2 union. Rendered preflight complements rather than replaces visual review.

0.7.1 - 2026-07-27

Added

Added an independent Claude Opus 5 path to the post-release AI smoke, with the same guided and surprise-me briefs shown beside Codex as live decks, source, conversations, timing, and verified build receipts. Both providers use medium reasoning effort for a balanced, bounded comparison, followed by an explicit literal-source review before isolated validation. Claude runs serialize against the shared credential and use a bounded 35-minute scenario, 20-minute turn, $6 cumulative budget, and finite agent and proxy request counts.

Fixed

Preserved slide View Transitions when the audience toolbar navigates while retaining immediate repeated clicks and stable button focus.

0.7.0 - 2026-07-26

Added

Added a focused Spatial Stories showcase that carries one official Spline cloner scene through authored 3D rotations, then contrasts it with a focused moving object and a CC0 ambient community scene, while keeping one remote 3D renderer at a time and deterministic original posters for non-audience surfaces.
Exposed useDreverRenderMode from the root drever authoring surface so project-local components can distinguish audience, document, speaker, and export rendering without importing an internal package.

Changed

Made AI creation author directly from the version-matched public contract instead of scanning node_modules, declarations, Drever source, official design implementations, and example decks. Draft 1 now exposes the complete readable content structure before a full custom Theme, while the design workflow can continue on the same preview or derive a disjoint art-direction plan in parallel.

0.6.0 - 2026-07-26

Changed

Made AI deck creation preview-first: agents now expose one stable, coherent Draft 1 URL before exhaustive validation, keep refining through HMR without waiting, and defer production builds and requested PDFs until the live draft is stable.

0.5.0 - 2026-07-26

Changed

Expanded the AI-first briefing into a short, adaptive multi-round interview with topic-specific choices, visible trade-offs, contextual recommendations, compact answers, and a skip-remaining escape in every round.

0.4.0 - 2026-07-26

Added

Added typed deck document metadata for canonical URL, language, direction, title, description, icon, and social previews; production builds now derive an omitted title from the first slide, preserve that language in tagged PDF export, require an explicit authored language for web/PDF delivery, validate local public metadata assets, and emit absolute link-preview image URLs at every static route.
Added public audience, document, and speaker client entrypoints so generated applications can load only the selected presentation JavaScript runtime.
Added a scheduled full browser suite alongside focused pull-request coverage, plus concise project setup, contribution templates, ownership, and community guidance for the public repository.

Changed

Added explicit CJK font stacks and language-aware tracking, casing, and leading to every official design study, including locale-correct Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese, and Korean glyph selection for both whole decks and mixed-language content.
Split generated JavaScript by presentation surface; the speaker chunk also avoids audience-only controls while all surfaces retain the shared client stylesheet.
Kept Vite+ inside the repository toolchain while publishing the CLI against upstream Vite 8, and reduced the PDF automation dependency to Playwright Core with a Drever-owned command that installs its exact matching Chromium revision without the unused headless-shell payload.

Fixed

Preserved Chinese, Japanese, and Korean glyphs in PDF exports with export-safe locale-specific sans, serif, and handwritten fallback stacks.
Kept fixed English presentation controls, loading states, and browser notices isolated from authored language and writing direction, derived RTL document direction when omitted, and prevented unsupported document-only language tags from breaking PDF browser startup.
Kept export-page labels explicitly English without retagging authored slide content, and refreshed manifest titles after development edits instead of leaving browser and navigation labels stale.
Replaced generated showcase metadata as one canonical set during website assembly, avoiding stale titles and duplicate social tags.
Kept the adaptive website header in sync with structural dark surfaces across documentation, showcase, and release-smoke pages.
Gave the Docs handoff card enough reading width and simplified its supporting copy, while returning the homepage hero artwork to a text-free composition.

0.3.0 - 2026-07-26

Added

Added a dev-only experimental Pretext typography probe for supported visible plain-text blocks, with advisory predicted-versus-rendered layout evidence that stays out of production and export bundles.
Made the installed deck-review workflow prefer Chrome DevTools MCP for its final rendered gate, including exact-route screenshots, computed geometry, real interaction, and console and network evidence.

0.2.6 - 2026-07-26

Fixed

Retried bounded transient TLS, 404, rate-limit, and server failures while verifying newly uploaded Cloudflare Pages release-smoke previews.
Restored the browsable release-smoke history and preserved its run metadata across later Cloudflare Pages Direct Upload deployments.
Kept long Slide Navigator titles inside their cards with stable two-line captions, separate current-state labels, and authored title spacing.

0.2.5 - 2026-07-26

Changed

Moved generated AI release-smoke decks, source, transcripts, and receipts out of Git and into a dedicated Cloudflare Pages Direct Upload deployment, with a short-lived GitHub Actions bundle retained only for diagnostics.
Strengthened the installed creation, design, authoring, and review workflows with stable Step coordinate systems, active-state keyframes, one motion owner, scoped Theme normalization, full-canvas paint containment, computed readability and spacing evidence, and a mandatory rendered Draft 1 refinement.
Expanded AI release smoke from a single audience advance to every exact slide and Step route, with transition and settled-frame geometry checks for material clipping and large layout rebases.

Fixed

Restored the public release-smoke decks from their immutable Pages deployment and hid bootstrap previews once the same package commit has a formal release run.
Made ordinary Step reveals opacity-only so an implicit transition cannot become a temporary containing block and make absolutely positioned content jump between coordinate systems.

0.2.4 - 2026-07-25

Changed

Gave all eight official design studies distinct motion vocabularies and cadences, then expanded their reference decks beyond one repeated three-page, left-copy/right-artifact continuity formula.
Reframed the homepage as one continuous creation story that carries the same brief, visual direction, room signal, evidence, and exact route through every useful presentation surface.
Taught generated creation, design, authoring, and review workflows to treat motion consistency as a shared vocabulary of cuts, fades, local handoffs, Steps, and selective continuity—not a View Transition on every page.
Taught generated creation, design, authoring, and review workflows to keep shared View Transition shells identical in width, height, aspect ratio, and box sizing, and to diagnose a grow-then-shrink handoff as endpoint geometry rather than easing.
Made every visible authored string a presentation-distance reading promise, required labels to fit the usable inner silhouette of their visual owner, and replaced representative visual sampling with exact slide and Step inspection after initial generation.
Unified the AI briefing around one adaptive interview flow and one skip-remaining escape per question round instead of advertising a second topic-level surprise mode.
Defined showcase-quality signature moments through a topic-fingerprint test, an explicit claim-to-static-endpoint beat sheet, and a final memorable-scene refinement ceiling.
Changed release automation to accumulate small fixes into intentional batches, run AI smoke by default only for stable releases, and let maintainers explicitly opt prereleases or commit snapshots in or out.
Pinned AI release smoke to quality-first gpt-5.6-sol with medium reasoning, controlling cost through release-level batching rather than a lower-capability generation model.

Fixed

Materialized finite CSS and Web Animations at their final export state and froze infinite decoration at a deterministic frame so animated text remains visible in generated PDFs.
Preloaded the homepage display font and gave its hero an explicit responsive line structure so slow first visits no longer reflow the headline after the font arrives.
Stabilized Cinema's changing media frame so its border, crop, and supporting composition no longer pop into place after the second-to-third-slide handoff.
Stabilized Atlas's shared river artifact in one fixed frame so it moves between compositions without stretching or settling after the transition.

0.2.3 - 2026-07-25

Added

Added a post-release Codex smoke workflow that exercises the public AI handoff through surprise and guided interviews, builds the generated decks without the API secret, and publishes interactive review evidence through an immutable Cloudflare Pages deployment.

Changed

Re-composed prominent website and showcase headings around complete semantic phrases, and taught generated design, authoring, and review skills to treat line breaks as editorial structure.
Varied the eight design studies with content-led full-canvas, stacked, reversed, and asymmetric compositions, restored their website catalog to a four-by-two grid, and taught generated authoring guidance to connect clearly corresponding objects without treating resemblance alone as continuity.
Made generated creation, design, authoring, and review workflows require a separate rendered refinement pass after the complete first draft, preserving successful choices while fixing evidence-backed narrative, visual, motion, and interaction issues.
Made release verification explicitly preserve the complete MIT license in every publishable package archive and documented the provenance of the Cinema study's original generated artwork.
Made the public showcase build reject authoring diagnostics before publishing, aligned the Motion and Art Direction guides with current continuity and layout-diversity principles, and refreshed the Delivery guide's GitHub Actions examples.
Replaced developer-specific and personal Basic and Editorial examples with audience-neutral presentation briefs in both the public studies and machine-readable design manifests.

Fixed

Made generated creation, design, authoring, and review workflows treat unreadable rendered text as a blocking defect, including descendant colors that override an inherited custom-surface foreground.
Gave the Feature Gallery opening a static accessible title and preserved semantic spacing in the Product Tour cover title used by navigation and search.
Used endpoint-appropriate media types when release-smoke provenance checks query npm and GitHub.
Kept the guided release-smoke transcript coherent by completing its optional interview before requesting a separate refinement pass.

0.2.2 - 2026-07-24

Changed

Reduced the Architecture showcase's persistent topology contrast and strengthened its content surfaces so the background supports rather than competes with the explanation.
Taught generated design and review skills to apply a first-glance hierarchy test to decorative backgrounds and foreground surfaces.

Fixed

Made the public AI handoff explicitly continue after fetching prompt.md without naming a competing generic presentation workflow.
Let the homepage Motion showcase finish its active lifecycle after pointer exit, removed its unnecessary vertical detour, and moved its route marker off the labels.
Slowed the Motion showcase cover's opening change and kept the Architecture signal behind its labels instead of obscuring them.
Kept the Product Tour cover color in its persistent Stage so foreground fades no longer fade the full-canvas background between the opening and the first content slide.

0.2.1 - 2026-07-24

Fixed

Made project-name normalization linear for separator-heavy directory names, preventing crafted create-command input from causing excessive regular-expression backtracking.
Reduced the public AI handoff to a neutral prompt fetch and made adaptive interviews ask a real question before offering the optional surprise escape.
Kept audience toolbar navigation immediately clickable by avoiding a document snapshot that temporarily removes its controls from browser hit testing.
Kept documentation route changes pinned to the correct top or restored history position instead of letting the navigation sidebar move the page.
Made the homepage light field composite consistently in Safari without its translucent canvas becoming a bright white circle.

0.2.0 - 2026-07-24

Added

Added an accessible first-load presentation shell and narrow Vite entry warmup so a cold development session communicates progress while its MDX graph compiles.
Added a deterministic keynote-style motion card wall with reduced-motion and export-safe states.

Changed

Renamed the neutral Default design study and public package subpaths to Basic, matching its existing minimal showcase route without changing Drever's automatic fallback behavior.
Made the public AI handoff a short fetch instruction, added an adaptive briefing flow with an always-available surprise escape, and raised the generated-deck quality bar for subject-led visuals, highlighted code, and rendered review.
Gave Editorial, Studio, and Fieldnote distinct theme-led whole-slide transition voices while keeping Basic's existing transition unchanged.

Fixed

Kept the Motion showcase's revealed decision and closing quote on one stable line.

0.1.1 - 2026-07-24

Added

Rebuilt the Architecture showcase as a visual tour of compilation, routing, extensions, runtime surfaces, and delivery.
Expanded the lightweight Charts plugin with area, dot, and donut stories plus an active-slide animated number that remains stable for accessibility, reduced motion, and delivery surfaces.
Added one canonical changelog for the repository, public website, and audited GitHub Release notes.
Added a private vulnerability reporting policy for the public repository.
Added crawlable site icons, social sharing metadata, a launch card, and WebSite structured data to the public website.
Added concise Cloudflare Pages, Vercel, and GitHub Pages recipes to the delivery guide.

Changed

Moved slide navigation to document View Transitions with explicitly named deck and overlay groups, removing the client requirement for element-scoped transitions while keeping Stage backgrounds live.
Simplified the website hero and setup path while making showcase entry points easier to discover.
Aligned canonical, sitemap, and first-party website URLs with their final trailing-slash routes.
Refined Product Tour and Architecture motion so repeated elements remain stable and ambient animation does not compete with the story.
Made the public website informative rather than blocking when newer presentation APIs are unavailable; the Drever client continues to enforce its browser contract.
Marked Room Scenes as an incubating source study until its components have a supported public package contract.
Reframed Room Sense as a full-canvas microphone-reactive scene: its active opening requests access directly, removes the control card, and gives the lime, violet, and ring field a stronger response to nearby sound.
Reworked the Feature Gallery chart chapter around one decision story so each chart form answers a distinct comparison, trend, ranking, or part-to-whole question.
Made website presentation briefs start empty, with broad examples shown only as placeholders.
Reframed external motion and spatial tools as a neutral, non-exhaustive capability reference.
Made post-publish verification exercise the public npm create drever command, dependency installation, validation, and build exactly as a new user would.

Fixed

Made generated AI guidance invoke the project-local CLI through the detected package manager, state the exact creation skill, and keep accessible descriptions aligned with the current Step.
Kept authoring imports such as Step and Note from drever on a browser-safe runtime entry instead of pulling CLI and build tooling into the presentation bundle.
Kept audience controls usable on narrow screens, added a portrait reading choice, and made the phone-sized speaker surface prioritize the current slide, notes, and primary controls.
Restored the intended glass surface behind the client slide navigator.
Kept loud microphone input from pinning Room Sense at its visual ceiling by adapting its listening range to the room.
Restored MDX and JSX token highlighting in the public documentation.
Kept the reveal Footer out of route transitions and removed its stray shadow below final-page calls to action.
Stabilized the website build and deployment contracts used by CI.
Prevented initial hydration from stealing focus and improved the announcement and contrast of essential website guidance.

0.1.0 - 2026-07-24

Highlights

Introduced an AI-first project flow with one-command creation, project-local Codex and Claude skills, readable briefs, and deterministic authoring context.
Shipped readable MDX slides with protected --- boundaries, exact sparse Step URLs, speaker notes, semantic MotionGroup intents, and persistent Stage layers.
Delivered Audience, Speaker, and Document views together with rehearsal timing, Laser, Pen, Highlighter, static website output, and deterministic PDF export.

Extensions and design

Added official GFM, Shiki, Tailwind CSS, math, charts, and media plugins with build/runtime costs kept behind the plugin contract.
Added eight reproducible design studies: Default, Editorial, Studio, Fieldnote, Atlas, Ledger, Cinema, and Construct.
Published complete Product, Feature, Motion, Room Scene, Architecture, and minimal-reference showcases as real Drever builds.

Delivery

Established lockstep npm releases with Trusted Publishing, audited tarballs, clean-consumer verification, provenance-ready package metadata, and GitHub Releases.
Added parallel source, unit, package, browser, export, and website checks in CI.
Deployed the prerendered public website and per-branch previews through Cloudflare Pages.