v0.8.0

[0.8.0] - 2026-04-08

Added

• Added a configurable watcher backend with non-breaking native
  default behavior plus a poll fallback mode for environments where
  native filesystem notifications are unreliable.
• Added a Rust repeated-edit watch flake smoke test that can be run
  locally with DEVLOOP_RUN_WATCH_FLAKE_SMOKE=1 cargo test --test watch_flake_smoke -- --nocapture.
• Added explicit trailing-slash syntax for literal directory watch
  targets, for example content/, so recursive directory intent is
  preserved even when the directory does not yet exist at startup.
• Added a development guide under docs/development.md
  and exposed it in the CLI as devloop docs development.

Changed

• devloop now derives concrete watch targets from configured watch
  patterns and asks the backend to watch only those files or
  directories instead of always watching the whole repository root.
• The watch flake smoke test is now opt-in instead of running during
  every default cargo test or CI run. The existing runtime smoke test
  remains in CI.

Fixed

• Native watch registration now resolves file and directory targets at
  runtime, so startup no longer depends on those paths already existing
  when config is parsed.
• Fixed a real watch flake where the debounce batch could be dropped if
  another tokio::select! branch won the race while filesystem events
  were already buffered.
• Test-only environment mutation now lives behind locked helpers with
  documented safety rationale instead of scattered raw unsafe blocks.

Full Changelog: v0.7.0...v0.8.0

v0.7.0

[0.7.0] - 2026-03-27

Added

• Added a browser reload event server and a notify_reload workflow
  action so workflows can explicitly tell downstream browser listeners
  to refresh after successful rebuild/restart steps.
• Added declarative workflow triggers so downstream orchestration can
  be expressed directly in config instead of being inferred through
  secondary file watches.

Fixed

• Workflow failures such as process-readiness timeouts now log loudly
  but do not terminate devloop, so the watcher stays alive and the
  next successful edit can recover a broken local build.
• Triggered workflows now run as part of the same execution tree,
  including when their parent workflow was reached via run_workflow.
• Config validation now rejects ambiguous trigger graphs where a direct
  trigger target is also reachable through run_workflow, and
  triggered workflows are documented as single-run deduplicated within
  one execution.
• Trigger-overlap validation now walks the full execution tree, so
  nested trigger graphs cannot schedule the same workflow once as a
  trigger target and again through an inline run_workflow path.
• Fixed a false positive in that validator so inline workflows with
  independent trigger targets are allowed.
• Added regression coverage for both the allowed independent-trigger
  case and the rejected case where a parent workflow and an inline child
  share the same trigger target.
• Platform-specific release workflows no longer duplicate GitHub release notes when both assets are published to the same tag.

Full Changelog: v0.6.2...v0.7.0

v0.6.2

[0.6.2] - 2026-03-26

Fixed

• Runtime requests for missing workflows now fail explicitly instead of being logged and skipped, and external events return 503 if their workflow trigger cannot be dispatched.
• Watcher callback delivery failures are now surfaced as errors instead of being dropped silently.
• Unexpected watcher and external-event channel disconnects now fail the engine explicitly instead of silently disabling those input paths.
• Accepted macOS notify event paths reported under /private/... for watched roots configured under /var/..., so file changes in temp directories are no longer dropped by the watch classifier.
• Made the CI smoke test wait for file watching to start before editing the watched fixture file, and retry the watched write until the state change is observed, avoiding startup races on macOS runners.
• Added a hard wall-clock timeout and bounded shutdown to the CI smoke harness so failed runs die loudly instead of hanging in CI.

Changed

• Split Linux and macOS CI into separate badgeable workflows backed by one reusable workflow definition, and limited release archives to the supported Linux x86_64 and macOS Apple Silicon targets.
• Split release publishing into separate Linux and macOS workflows backed by one reusable workflow definition so each platform publishes its asset independently.

Full Changelog: v0.6.1...v0.6.2