v0.5.0 (Released January 2026)

Type: Platform Expansion & Stability Date: 2026-01-10

🧩 Graphics & Palette Accuracy

• Fixed palette conversion and Tile16 tint regressions.
• Corrected palette slicing for graphics sheets and indexed → SNES planar conversion.
• Stabilized overworld palette/tilemap saves and render service GameData loads.

🧭 Editor UX & Reliability

• Refined dashboard/editor selection layouts and card rendering.
• Moved the layout designer into a lab target for safer experimentation.
• Hardened room loading APIs and added room count reporting for C API consumers.
• Refreshed welcome screen and help popups to spotlight multi-provider AI and CLI workflows.

🤖 Automation & AI

• Added agent control server support and stabilized gRPC automation hooks.
• Expanded z3ed CLI test commands (test-list, test-run, test-status) and tool metadata.
• Improved agent command routing and help/schema surfacing for AI clients.
• Added OpenAI/Anthropic provider support in z3ed and refreshed AI provider docs/help.

🌐 Web/WASM Preview

• Reduced filesystem initialization overhead and fixed /projects directory handling.
• Hardened browser terminal integration and storage error reporting.

📦 Platform & Build

• Added iOS platform scaffolding (experimental).
• Added build helper scripts and simplified nightly workflow.
• Refreshed toolchain/dependency wiring and standardized build directory policy.
• Hardened Windows gRPC builds by forcing the Win32 macro-compat include for gRPC targets.

🧪 Testing

• Added role-based ROM selection and ROM-availability gating.
• Stabilized rendering/benchmark tests and aligned integration expectations.
• Added AgentChat history/telemetry and agent metrics unit coverage; expanded WASM debug API checks.

v0.4.0 - Music Editor & UI Polish

Released: November 2025

• Complete SPC music editing infrastructure.
• EditorManager refactoring for better multi-window support.
• AI Agent integration (experimental).