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Curated changes from each Drever release, with the current work in progress kept visible.

GitHub Releases

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

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.