Changelog¶

All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.

The format is based on Keep a Changelog, and this project adheres to Semantic Versioning.

[0.3.1] - 2026-01-01¶

CI: Resolved Rustfmt failures and Windows-specific line ending mismatches in byte-level tests.

README: Polished Documentation section with high-fidelity badges and corrected links.

Professional Visuals: Integrated high-fidelity terminal animations via VHS.
Visual README: Overhauled landing page with centered branding and feature gallery.
Interactive Tapes: Added .tape files for automating all project demonstrations.
Security Audit: Completed full codebase scan for secrets and sensitive data.
Project Logo: Official Rocket Crab branding integrated across all docs.

Layout: New tiling layout engine (Layout, split_row, split_column).
Live: Live display updating (Live context manager).
Prompt: Interactive user input handling (Prompt.ask).
Inspect: Object introspection tool (inspect()) for Rust and Python objects.
Filesize: Utilities for human-readable file sizes (decimal, binary).
Bindings: Full Python bindings for all new modules.
Benchmarks: Comparisons for Layout and Inspect scenarios.
CI: Strict enforcing of atomic commits and formatting.

Syntax Highlighting Performance: Optimized Syntax rendering speed by 3.5x (14.5s -> 4.2s for 1000 iterations) by using OnceLock for global syntax/theme set caching. This resolved a major bottleneck where large binary dumps were reloaded on every instantiation.

Core Library: Implemented Rust port of Rich's core components:
Console with style and color support.
Table with auto-sizing and unicode borders.
Tree for hierarchical data.
Panel and Rule layouts.
Progress bars with spinners.
Markdown rendering via pulldown-cmark.
Syntax highlighting via syntect.
Traceback beautiful error reporting.
Logging handler.
Python Bindings: Full ABI3-compatible Python extension module (fast_rich) exposing all core components.
Benchmarks: Comprehensive suite proving 2x-24x performance improvements over Python rich.
Logging: 24x faster.
Columns: 23x faster.
Table: 17x faster.
Tree: 11x faster.
Markdown: 9x faster.