YAZE v0.7.1

v0.7.1 (April 2026)

Type: Packaging + Welcome Screen Overhaul + Dungeon Editor Parity/Polish
Date: 2026-04-19

Welcome Screen & Project Startup

• Added a guided New Project flow with clearer startup/project creation affordances.
• Added async ROM metadata scanning for recent projects plus pin/rename/notes actions.
• Added a short undo window for recent-project removal and command-palette entry points for welcome actions.

Dungeon Editor Parity & Polish

• Restored BG1/BG2 layout routing while preserving pit/mask semantics.
• Fixed real-room 0x034 rendering for single-tile payloads.
• Added replay-geometry selection bounds for more accurate object hitboxes.
• Added ROM-backed parity tests and room render snapshots.
• Simplified workbench inspector/navigation flows, kept hidden room state sparse, and lazily materialized room state.

Performance & Footprint

• Added lazy session-editor construction.
• Deferred hidden full-mode asset loads.
• Trimmed eager overworld bitmap memory.
• Released unused room buffer textures and split render-target texture creation.

CLI / Build / CI

• Fixed the WASM dungeon tile-row build path.
• Added overworld map ID validation before ROM access.
• Hardened Linux GUI smoke-run binary path handling.

Deferred to 0.8.0

• z3dk integration proposal tracks embedded assembler/LSP/lint workflows, unified Mesen2 client work, and .mlb export.

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YAZE v0.7.0

v0.7.0 (March 2026)

Type: Feature Completion + iOS Remote Control + API Expansion
Date: 2026-03-03

📱 iOS Remote Control

• Added Bonjour LAN discovery (_yaze._tcp.) for auto-detecting desktop instances.
• Added Remote Room Viewer for all 296 dungeon rooms with overlay/metadata controls.
• Added Remote Command Runner with command catalog autocomplete/history and --write safety confirmation.
• Added Annotation Review Mode with create/edit/delete workflows synced through desktop REST endpoints.
• Added desktop connection controls with discovered hosts, manual IP fallback, and persistent status pill.

🌐 Desktop HTTP API

• Added POST /api/v1/command/execute for remote z3ed command execution.
• Added GET /api/v1/command/list for command metadata and autocomplete catalogs.
• Added GET/POST/PUT/DELETE /api/v1/annotations for annotation CRUD against annotations.json.
• Added Bonjour publisher integration for desktop service advertisement on macOS.

🧰 Editor Completion (0.7.0 must-ship + should-ship)

• Added Sprite Editor undo/redo with snapshot actions and unit tests.
• Added Screen Editor undo/redo and restored toolbar wiring for map edits.
• Added Message Editor replace + replace-all behavior.
• Completed music tracker stubs (rest/key-off insertion, range delete, song rename popup).

🏰 Dungeon Editor Improvements

• Added DungeonUsageTracker visual usage grids for blockset/spriteset/palette analysis.
• Polished dungeon workbench/panel workflow (mode clarity, status badges, and return affordances).
• Extended undo/redo coverage into adjacent dungeon map edit workflows.

🛠️ Custom ROM Hack Features

• Added desktop BPS patch export/import with CRC validation for patch-based release flows.
• Strengthened overworld hack editing reliability with hard-delete semantics, list/filter/sort + duplicate/nudge iteration flow, and undo-backed item workflows.

💻 CLI Expansion

• Added palette command set (palette-get-colors, palette-set-color, palette-analyze) for scripted ROM-hack iteration and automation.

🎨 UI and Theming

• Added themed tab-bar primitives (BeginThemedTabBar/EndThemedTabBar).
• Adopted themed widgets in key editor surfaces (dungeon workbench, status bar, pixel editor, screen editor).

✅ Validation Snapshot

• ctest --preset mac-ai-unit --output-on-failure passed on the release candidate revision.
• ctest --preset mac-ai-integration --output-on-failure passed on the release candidate revision.

🗂️ Deferred to 0.8.0

• Overworld scratch-pad persistence.
• Overworld eyedropper mode.
• Graphics editor clipboard workflow.
• Music SPC/MML import.
• Final dungeon draw-routine registry dedupe/docs cleanup.

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YAZE v0.6.2

• Release & Version Consistency:
  • Synchronized version artifacts and app-facing release metadata to 0.6.2.
  • Updated documentation current-release markers and coverage report headers.
• Oracle Workflow & Validation:
  • Continued hardening for Oracle smoke/preflight workflows and structural gating.
• Project Bundle Reliability (.yazeproj):
  • Improved bundle unpack safety/cleanup behavior and dry-run validation flow.
  • Expanded bundle verify coverage with hash and manifest compatibility checks.
• Editor UX Polish:
  • Refined dungeon placement feedback and tile selector interaction ergonomics.

YAZE v0.6.1

• Oracle Workflow & Validation:
  • Added Oracle smoke/preflight command flows in z3ed and editor integration for faster structural checks.
  • Added D6 minecart threshold gating (--min-d6-track-rooms) to catch track-object regressions.
• Project Bundle Reliability (.yazeproj):
  • Added bundle verify/pack/unpack command paths with structured JSON output.
  • Added safer unpack behavior: traversal rejection, failure cleanup by default, and --keep-partial-output opt-out.
  • Added --dry-run unpack validation and --check-rom-hash verification support.
• Cross-Platform Hashing:
  • Replaced platform-conditional hash behavior with portable SHA1 output for bundle verification consistency.
• Dungeon/Overworld UX Improvements:
  • Added live room limit indicators and improved placement feedback for objects/sprites/doors.
  • Added custom-object overlay visibility controls and D6 quick navigation in workbench.
  • Improved Tile16 selector usability with hover previews, ID jump/filter bar, range validation feedback, and explicit decimal input (d:<id>).

YAZE v0.6.0

What's Changed

See release notes for detailed changelog.

Downloads

Linux

• DEB Package: yaze-*.deb (Ubuntu/Debian)
• Tarball: yaze-*.tar.gz (Generic Linux)

macOS

• DMG: yaze-*.dmg (macOS 11.0+)

Windows

• ZIP: yaze-*.zip (Portable)

Installation

Linux (DEB)

sudo dpkg -i yaze-*.deb

macOS

# Mount the DMG and drag to Applications
open yaze-*.dmg

Windows

Extract the ZIP and run yaze.exe directly.

Notes

• AI features require an Ollama server or Gemini/OpenAI/Anthropic/LMStudio API.
• z3ed CLI supports --openai_base_url for LMStudio and other local servers.
• Collaboration server setup lives in the separate yaze-server repo.

YAZE v0.5.6

What's Changed

See release notes for detailed changelog.

Downloads

Linux

• DEB Package: yaze-*.deb (Ubuntu/Debian)
• Tarball: yaze-*.tar.gz (Generic Linux)

macOS

• DMG: yaze-*.dmg (macOS 11.0+)

Windows

• ZIP: yaze-*.zip (Portable)

Installation

Linux (DEB)

sudo dpkg -i yaze-*.deb

macOS

# Mount the DMG and drag to Applications
open yaze-*.dmg

Windows

Extract the ZIP and run yaze.exe directly.

Notes

• AI features require an Ollama server or Gemini/OpenAI/Anthropic/LMStudio API.
• z3ed CLI supports --openai_base_url for LMStudio and other local servers.
• Collaboration server setup lives in the separate yaze-server repo.

YAZE v0.5.3

What's Changed

See release notes for detailed changelog.

Downloads

Linux

• DEB Package: yaze-*.deb (Ubuntu/Debian)
• Tarball: yaze-*.tar.gz (Generic Linux)

macOS

• DMG: yaze-*.dmg (macOS 11.0+)

Windows

• ZIP: yaze-*.zip (Portable)

Installation

Linux (DEB)

sudo dpkg -i yaze-*.deb

macOS

# Mount the DMG and drag to Applications
open yaze-*.dmg

Windows

Extract the ZIP and run yaze.exe directly.

Notes

• AI features require an Ollama server or Gemini/OpenAI/Anthropic/LMStudio API.
• z3ed CLI supports --openai_base_url for LMStudio and other local servers.
• Collaboration server setup lives in the separate yaze-server repo.

YAZE v0.5.0

What's Changed

Highlights in v0.5.0:

• Agent control server support and gRPC automation stability improvements
• z3ed CLI test commands (test-list, test-run, test-status) and tool metadata for AI clients
• Web/WASM filesystem initialization and terminal stability fixes
• Graphics/palette reliability fixes across Tile16 and palette conversions
• iOS scaffolding (experimental) plus build/CI workflow cleanup

Downloads

Linux

• DEB Package: yaze-*.deb (Ubuntu/Debian)
• Tarball: yaze-*.tar.gz (Generic Linux)

macOS

• DMG: yaze-*.dmg (macOS 11.0+)

Windows

• ZIP: yaze-*.zip (Portable)

Installation

Linux (DEB)

sudo dpkg -i yaze-*.deb

macOS

# Mount the DMG and drag to Applications
open yaze-*.dmg

Windows

# Unzip and run the portable build
yaze-*.zip

Notes

• AI features require an Ollama server or Gemini/OpenAI/Anthropic API key.
• Collaboration server setup lives in the separate yaze-server repo.

YAZE v0.3.9-hotfix7

What's Changed

This release includes:

• Cross-platform builds for Linux, macOS, and Windows
• Improved dependency management with CPM.cmake
• Enhanced CI/CD pipeline with parallel execution
• Automated packaging and release creation

Downloads

Linux

• DEB Package: yaze-*.deb (Ubuntu/Debian)
• Tarball: yaze-*.tar.gz (Generic Linux)

macOS

• DMG: yaze-*.dmg (macOS 11.0+)

Windows

• Installer: yaze-*.exe (Windows 10/11)
• ZIP: yaze-*.zip (Portable)

Installation

Linux (DEB)

sudo dpkg -i yaze-*.deb

macOS

# Mount the DMG and drag to Applications
open yaze-*.dmg

Windows

# Run the installer
yaze-*.exe

YAZE v0.3.8

What's Changed

This release includes:

• Cross-platform builds for Linux, macOS, and Windows
• Improved dependency management with CPM.cmake
• Enhanced CI/CD pipeline with parallel execution
• Automated packaging and release creation

Downloads

Linux

• DEB Package: yaze-*.deb (Ubuntu/Debian)
• Tarball: yaze-*.tar.gz (Generic Linux)

macOS

• DMG: yaze-*.dmg (macOS 11.0+)

Windows

• Installer: yaze-*.exe (Windows 10/11)
• ZIP: yaze-*.zip (Portable)

Installation

Linux (DEB)

sudo dpkg -i yaze-*.deb

macOS

# Mount the DMG and drag to Applications
open yaze-*.dmg

Windows

# Run the installer
yaze-*.exe