Changelog

What changed in Battle Painters, release by release.

v0.2.18 — 2026-07-20

• Keep the Go! burst rings out of the lazy GlowLayer and un-race the flash spec

v0.2.17 — 2026-07-20

• Note the celebration, UI blips, and timer pulses in the manuals
• Choreograph the results screen: staggered ranks, pip light-up, sparkline draw, confetti
• Give every UI interaction a synthesized blip and the portrait pick a pop
• Celebrate the winners on the live scene and punch up the round's start and finish

v0.2.16 — 2026-07-20

• Assert log-panel narrowing by content and run flatpak-builder directly on the runner

v0.2.15 — 2026-07-20

• Fail the production build when the menu entrypoint outgrows its byte budget
• Render store listing art in exact per-store sizes via capture:store
• Stage real payloads for the Snap and Flathub lanes and sign the MAS pkg and MSIX
• Make the paint-coalescing and camera-orbit specs tolerate a loaded machine
• Carve item valuation out of tileScoring into an itemScoring module
• Publish the release history as a static /changelog/ page
• Generate a per-version changelog from the git tag history

v0.2.14 — 2026-07-20

• Point the minimap e2e seam at RoundHud and suppress the tutorial in multiplayer sessions
• Cap Playwright at 4 workers so concurrent software-WebGL rounds stay responsive
• Expose the recorded frame count on ReplayCapture for the replay e2e seam
• Chart the new helper modules in the README tree and manuals
• Stage store packages and capture sessions through shared script kits
• Back the UI control components with pure, unit-tested logic modules
• Hand RoundController's HUD and replay wiring to RoundHud and ReplayCapture
• Lift the results-card canvas primitives into resultCanvasKit
• Carve the player checkpoint capture into a pure playerSnapshot module
• Route every workflow's Node+pnpm setup through the shared composite action
• Localise the menu footer nav's accessible name
• Keep the first-launch tutorial out of specs that click Start directly

v0.2.13 — 2026-07-17

• Tuck the sandbox out of the centre pane and hang the classroom clock by the chalkboard
• Declutter the classroom: school door, snake plant, full desk row, no art corner
• Give the classroom its own door, shelf, art line, and world map

v0.2.12 — 2026-07-16

• Keep hill backdrop depth fixed so the rocking swings clear it
• Space classroom windows in proportion to the wall width
• Deepen the classroom-bedroom split with rocking swings, a tidier room, and a number line

v0.2.11 — 2026-07-16

• Give the classroom a curtainless window band onto a playground and seat the teacher at the board
• Furnish the classroom theme with desks, decor, and a linoleum floor

v0.2.10 — 2026-07-16

• Restyle the Stats and tutorial dialogs on the Settings/About design language
• Regroup online parties under a successor host after a silent host drop
• Show a first-launch How to Play dialog gated on a persistent seen-flag
• Add a selectable Art Classroom room theme behind a theme registry
• Split the window builders into per-concern modules over the room kit
• Extract playerMotion, timedEffects, and spawnLayout from PlayerState
• Track lifetime player stats locally with a menu Stats dialog
• Build the AI coarse grid lazily and reuse per-player observations across ticks
• Cover pointerShared, the Transport contract, and gamepadMenuNav with Jest mirrors

v0.2.9 — 2026-07-13

• Publish static guide and privacy pages with crawlable interlinks

v0.2.8 — 2026-07-13

• Split itemModels into per-item builder modules over a shared kit
• Share per-tick player projections across AI snapshots
• Cover AITargeting with a Jest mirror and sync the AI docs
• Format the gameEventTypes freeze test

v0.2.7 — 2026-07-10

• Replace polling-shaped hard waits with expect.poll in e2e specs
• Extract target selection from AIController into AITargeting
• Drive menu navigation from gamepads on non-TV platforms
• Auto-retry the client reconnect with visible backoff attempts
• Cover the joinFail transport seam in the createTransport tests
• Show classified join-error copy for bad codes vs connectivity failures
• Coalesce paint GPU texture uploads to once per rendered frame
• Maintain incremental per-owner paint tallies for O(1) coverage
• Add tests for the UI store and transition wrapper
• Throttle the minimap paint-layer rescan
• Add tests for the small pure util and DOM modules
• Add invariant tests for the AI tuning tables
• Convert comment headers to JSDoc on exported APIs
• Skip AI snapshot-input building when no AI controllers exist
• Share the dash latch and canvas projection between mouse and touch input
• Extract the lobby overlay focus-preserving notify helper
• Add a jest coverage script
• Add an HTML report artifact for CI e2e triage
• Fail instead of skip when the AI or replay hook is missing in e2e
• Correct accessibility doc's themes-and-contrast section
• Remove the ready-mode PlayerCard variant and its stranded CSS
• Drop three unreferenced test-seam exports
• Remove the unused Plain-English AI label tables
• Delete the dead ReadyDialog module pair
• Split replayBinary encode/decode into per-section helpers
• Split tileScoring's itemBaseValue and cellWeight into per-case helpers
• Split aiSteering into threat, wall, and item-race sub-behaviors
• Decompose StrategySelector.choose into perception helpers
• Extract focusTrap's Tab-wrapping into a helper
• Extract EditableName error bubble and chip into module helpers
• Split Minimap.update into paint, item, and player draw passes
• Decompose makeCoverageGraph into grid, label, and polyline appenders
• Extract CameraMouseInput pointer handlers from the constructor
• Extract TouchInput touch handlers from the constructor
• Split RoundNetBridge.build into bus wiring and coordinator deps
• Extract buildClientCfg and the terminal-dialog table from _onJoinMessage
• Extract Game._showRoundOver's between-round guard and lobby handler
• Split NetworkCoordinator.setup into host and client session builders
• Split RoundController._update into countdown and playing ticks
• Split ResultImage._drawSpotlight into card and text draw helpers
• Split makeSplatShape into per-feature generators
• Split buildDustMotes into sunbeam and mote-scatter builders
• Split buildLamp into stand and shade builders
• Split swatchCardMaterial into paper and column draw helpers
• Decompose buildPlushBear into body, face, and bow builders
• Decompose buildPalette into board, dab, and brush builders
• Decompose buildPaintCans into body and open/closed-top builders
• Decompose buildChair into seat, leg, stretcher, and back builders
• Decompose buildDoor into casing, frame, panel, and hardware builders
• Decompose buildBed into frame, bedding, pillow, and board builders
• Split paintings artMaterial into per-motif draw helpers
• Split buildPrecip into material and per-particle helpers
• Split GameScene._buildWalls into materials, panels, and posts
• Split itemModels brush, potion, and bomb builders into sub-part helpers
• Extract AIController._sampleCandidate from _pickAreaScore
• Decompose buildSunMoon and buildWindowFrame into per-part builders
• Decompose ResultImage coverage chart and items card into sub-draw helpers
• Split PaintSystem._redrawFromCells into fast and fallback cell painters
• Extract HostSession peer-event handlers from the constructor
• Split NetworkCoordinator client handlers into per-message methods
• Split createRoomKit helper attachment by concern
• Decompose buildBookshelf into carcass, bay, and decor builders
• Decompose buildRockingHorse into per-assembly builders
• Decompose buildToyChest into per-part builders
• Extract SparkleTrail star texture and mesh pool from _build
• Decompose playMagicSparkles into texture, resource, and per-sparkle helpers
• Decompose playSmallExplosions into shared-resource and per-burst helpers
• Decompose playExplosion into per-layer particle builders
• Split itemModels._buildShoe into named phase sub-builders
• Decompose GameScene.buildScene into phase helpers
• Decompose RoundController._setup into _setup* phase helpers
• Split ItemState.checkPlayerCollisions into per-pass helpers
• Decompose Player.update render-half into per-aspect _sync* helpers
• Extract PlayerState._integrateJump from update()
• Dedupe ResultImage layout math, player-color, and stats-card scaffolding
• Split MenuBackground into pure geometry, canvas renderer, and mount
• Decompose AIController.update into per-behavior tick helpers
• Split tileScoring's oversized scorers into named pure sub-functions
• Share the player name-label and direction-arrow billboard material
• Split the clock item model into per-sub-assembly builders
• Share the soft-disc gradient texture and unlit-alpha material
• Decompose RoundController _setup and route teardown through a disposer bag
• Extract GameScene's slot and control-role logic into a pure module
• Decompose buildWindow into per-section builders
• Extract the AI strategy-scoring math into a pure, testable module

v0.2.6 — 2026-07-04

• Share the menu/lobby store seam and keymap-claim algorithm
• Split the shoe item model and share its material-cache scaffold
• Decompose the AI target-selection branches into pure pickers
• Extract shared timed-effect lifecycle and material helpers

v0.2.5 — 2026-07-04

• Extract the AI steering and dash policy into a pure, testable module
• Extract the AI charge-decision math into a pure, testable module
• Extract the split-screen overlay chrome out of RoundController
• Move the AI charge and steering tuning constants into tables.js
• Extract a shared consent-gated activation base for ads and analytics
• Collapse the pref singletons into a factory and unify subscription teardown

v0.2.4 — 2026-07-03

• Contain the room-code field in a real join form
• Keep server dotfiles out of the service-worker precache

v0.2.3 — 2026-07-03

• Stop the concentric-sweeper exploit: contest the wall band, interdict the frontier

v0.2.2 — 2026-07-03

• Price CPU ground by rank: hell hunts the live pairwise margin late
• Wire the recorded standings into AIController item pricing
• Teach CPUs team division of labor and item-race contesting
• Bend Hell routes around write-offs and re-tune the tier vector
• Price bot routes by the paint they earn
• Give Normal bots a competent dodge
• Sharpen AI interception and item commitment
• Teach Hard/Hell bots to spend the dash cooldown

v0.1.46 — 2026-07-02

• Add a dash: tap-to-burst speed with cooldown

v0.1.45 — 2026-07-02

• Name the collected item in the pickup toast
• Steer toward taps and clicks outside the battleground
• Fix light-theme chart labels, 720p overflow, and off-brand replay HUD

v0.1.44 — 2026-07-01

• Reshape the Magic Shoe ankle zone into a fitted high-top

v0.1.43 — 2026-06-23

• Make player cards opaque so the splatter backdrop never bleeds through

v0.1.42 — 2026-06-22

• Stop the Orejime CMP double-loading en + fr on a non-en boot

v0.1.41 — 2026-06-22

• Fix unstyled online panel on the menu (orphaned lobby.css)

v0.1.40 — 2026-06-22

• Fix Start button + dialog cards unstyled (orphaned kit CSS)

v0.1.39 — 2026-06-22

• Lazy-load PeerJS, lobby + Settings off the menu boot chunk

v0.1.38 — 2026-06-22

• Cut menu main-thread work to improve Lighthouse performance
• Add upload-assets to .gitignore

v0.1.37 — 2026-06-21

• Add Mac App Store App Sandbox entitlements to the store build

v0.1.36 — 2026-06-21

• Add store packaging + CI lanes for mobile/TV/desktop-stores/Xbox
• Add BP_STORE/BP_TV build flavors and a store-safe (no self-updater) Tauri overlay

v0.1.35 — 2026-06-21

• Give the brush item a dark-blue handle and shrink the brush, shoe, and clock items

v0.1.34 — 2026-06-21

• Attach the speed-penalty bandage to the brush body bone and seat it flush

v0.1.33 — 2026-06-18

• Rework the Magic Shoe as a laced Converse high-top

v0.1.32 — 2026-06-17

• Replace the speed-penalty bandage billboard with a 3D crossed-plaster on the brush

v0.1.31 — 2026-06-13

• Give the balloons a subtle latex sheen

v0.1.30 — 2026-06-13

• Hollow out the toy chest with toys nestled inside

v0.1.29 — 2026-06-13

• Improve the plush bear: projecting snout, lively eyes, inset ears, hugging arms

v0.1.28 — 2026-06-13

• Round out the rocking horse: connected rounded legs, neck, mane, saddle, tail

v0.1.27 — 2026-06-13

• Revert "Round out the plush bear and rocking horse into proper toys"
• Round out the plush bear and rocking horse into proper toys

v0.1.26 — 2026-06-13

• Shape the shoe into a Converse high-top and lathe the brush smooth

v0.1.25 — 2026-06-13

• Item polish: the alarm clock tells the real time, the brush goes paint-free

v0.1.24 — 2026-06-13

• Stabilize the ink sheen under camera motion and polish the item trio

v0.1.23 — 2026-06-13

• Flatten the ink to one even sheen and sharpen the emoji likeness

v0.1.22 — 2026-06-12

• Match the item models to their emojis and settle the ink into a satin sheen

v0.1.21 — 2026-06-12

• Soften the ink relief and rework the shoe, brush, and clock models

v0.1.20 — 2026-06-12

• Refine the scene: Splatoon-style ink, realistic items, glow that spares players

v0.1.19 — 2026-06-12

• Upgrade the game scene: 3D item models, wet-paint sheen, VFX glow, wall trim

v0.1.18 — 2026-06-12

• Slim the surface handle and share the HUD screen-reader announcer

v0.1.17 — 2026-06-12

• Make HUD toasts show the sentence around the player name

v0.1.16 — 2026-06-12

• Share the match-settings bar, fix latest-ref effect deps, close HC palette gaps

v0.1.15 — 2026-06-12

• Re-render the host lobby through HostLobbyModel's own store seam

v0.1.14 — 2026-06-12

• Consolidate UI helpers and remove render-phase model writes

v0.1.13 — 2026-06-12

• Attach imperative ref hosts once per mount, not once per re-render

v0.1.12 — 2026-06-12

• Run the UI on Preact via preact/compat

v0.1.11 — 2026-06-12

• Drop an inert lint suppression in the replay transport
• Rewrite the UI documentation for the React architecture
• Convert the replay picker and consent fallbacks; retire the DOM primitives
• Convert the host and client lobbies to React
• Convert the main menu to React
• Convert the replay playback chrome to React
• Convert the in-round HUD to React
• Convert the results screen and host-exit dialog to React
• Convert the between-round screen to React
• Convert the loading / ready-check screen to React
• Convert the pause dialog family to React
• Convert the settings dialog to React
• Convert the About dialog and doc viewer to React
• Convert the ready dialog to React; add the match-settings subscribe seam
• Convert the share dialog to React
• Add React UI primitives with attribute-identical DOM
• Lay the React UI foundation: build config, surface store, root, hooks

v0.1.10 — 2026-06-12

• Add an App Store-style promo page at /promo/

v0.1.9 — 2026-06-11

• Add a promo-video capture pipeline and a shared capture kit

v0.1.8 — 2026-06-11

• Open the desktop app maximized

v0.1.7 — 2026-06-11

• Add a self-updating desktop app via the Tauri updater

v0.1.6 — 2026-06-11

• Make installed-PWA updates reliably detected, re-prompted, and applied

v0.1.5 — 2026-06-11

• Refresh lobby labels in place when the language changes
• Keep the lobby active when the language changes from its Settings dialog
• Restyle the room-code row: ticket chip on its own line, accented Invite Link
• Add a lobby invite link that deep-links guests straight into the join lobby

v0.1.4 — 2026-06-11

• Update the app icon artwork and regenerate all derived icons

v0.1.3 — 2026-06-10

• Deflake the head-to-head rotation specs

v0.1.2 — 2026-06-10

• Publish a GitHub Release for every deployed version
• Auto-bump the patch version on every web deploy
• Add TV device support: Remote input, D-pad navigation, 10-foot mode
• Poll the you-card hover shadow instead of sampling one frame
• Support the stated browser floor (Chrome 87 / Edge 88 / FF 78 / Safari 14.1)
• Harden the workflows: fail-fast CI graph, least privilege, timeouts

v0.1.0 — 2026-06-10

Initial public release.