Release Notes

Unreleased (2026-04-17)

For users

New Features

• wire release notes pipeline — generator, release.sh, Explorer, docs site (2446d582)

Bug Fixes

• add Intervention + Scenario to the jinflow Experience diagrams (aee22d56)

Documentation

• backfill releases.md with complete history (220 releases, v0.2.0–v0.45.0) (adbb3a9d)
• Sense 19 — The Simulation (from suggestion to modeled impact) (e20dd599)

4 commits: 1 features, 1 fixes

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v0.45.0 (2026-04-17)

For users

New Features

• The jinflow Experience — extend analytical pyramid to full decision loop (aebced9b)
• playworks-gate — self-contained test gate for the release chain (01aaab81)

Bug Fixes

• missing import os in maintenance.py — broke jinflow afs update (b26666c3)
• build —skip-tests now propagates to ship (skips pytest too) (1b422dee)
• build —skip-tests now actually skips tests (d48bf03f)
• dbt-build for tenant build, dbt stays as the escape hatch (289771be)
• rename build → build-all to avoid collision with dbt build recipe (93d74226)

Documentation

• 14.2 (97398064)

For developers

Refactoring

• just build → just dbt, just build-all → just build (0c7dab9c)
• rename release → ship, add —skip-tests to build (5d2273d1)
• rename just ship → just build (eebe6701)

Maintenance

• release 0.45.0 (7b55dd5d)
• build stage says Package, not Ship (b66eaf73)

13 commits: 2 features, 5 fixes

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v0.44.9 (2026-04-17)

For users

New Features

• bookmarks in sidebar + What’s New sort by modified/created (5b81f9b8)

Bug Fixes

• use CTRL_BREAK_EVENT for Windows Explorer shutdown (44f2950a)
• signpost texture sharing bug + SMEbits→subject matter in tour stats (2374f8e7)

For developers

Maintenance

• release 0.44.9 (cdea3231)

4 commits: 1 features, 2 fixes

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v0.44.8 (2026-04-16)

For users

Bug Fixes

• lazy-import duckdb in commands/sis.py to prevent frozen-binary segfault (0005c8df)
• disable Phase 1d SIS publish — same DuckDB segfault root cause (12e262e5)
• remove SIS staleness check that segfaults in frozen binary (e0c8d48f)
• add progress markers between enrich and Phase 2 to locate segfault (f37e0641)

For developers

Maintenance

• release 0.44.8 (dbd390dc)

5 commits: 0 features, 4 fixes

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v0.44.7 (2026-04-16)

For users

Bug Fixes

• UnboundLocalError for _dt in metadata-only rebake path (f076de2f)

For developers

Maintenance

• release 0.44.7 (25748b12)

2 commits: 0 features, 1 fixes

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v0.44.6 (2026-04-16)

For users

Bug Fixes

• replace legacy ‘probes’ verb in Cathedral narration text (02579189)

For developers

Maintenance

• release 0.44.6 (5440da45)

2 commits: 0 features, 1 fixes

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v0.44.5 (2026-04-16)

For users

New Features

• Sense 17 Phase 1 — guided tour replaces FPS sandbox in Pipeline Cathedral (bdac5ddd)

Bug Fixes

• find node.exe without _node/ wrapper on Windows Explorer package (abda3f3c)
• ship drops retired extract step + fixes update command name (baa4b35a)

Documentation

• Sense 18 — The Ledger (computational provenance as narrative) (c9754e96)

For developers

Maintenance

• release 0.44.5 (d2face44)

5 commits: 1 features, 2 fixes

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v0.44.4 (2026-04-16)

For users

New Features

• dynamic Gold ER diagram from entity_registry + entity_relationships (d2e16f4e)

Bug Fixes

• render pack-supplied domain diagrams via mermaid (not raw pre) (99a83b2d)
• migrate duckdb-async → @duckdb/node-api in all build configs (26cca389)
• CI test failures — retire ‘extract’ from smoke test + reword comment (5057dd43)

For developers

Maintenance

• release 0.44.4 (d7824558)
• silence playworkscompile import warning in jin make (5852b9e3)

6 commits: 1 features, 3 fixes

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v0.44.3 (2026-04-16)

For users

New Features

• timestamped ‘starting’ indicator for every build step (97362d23)

Bug Fixes

• —clean actually wipes build/dbt/ before rebuild (9829d6fc)
• notebook PDF — smart filename + hide browser chrome in print (8c08f834)

Documentation

• CRLF line endings guide — symptom, cause, fix (54240510)

For developers

Refactoring

• rename ‘extract’ command to ‘inspect’ (read-only inspection) (a719839a)

Maintenance

• release 0.44.3 (9649d717)
• drop ‘extract’ alias — inspect is the only name now (a69bb2a9)

7 commits: 1 features, 2 fixes

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v0.44.2 (2026-04-16)

For users

New Features

• JINFLOW_READONLY env var for read-only mode (966a9f44)
• migrate from duckdb-async to @duckdb/node-api (834d6014)
• mermaid diagrams for Mental Model + Domain tabs on /what-is-this (bac868e9)

Bug Fixes

• admin link points to /api/admin/page + hide calibration (c82c0085)
• build-desktop.sh also needs @duckdb/node-api (not duckdb-async) (1c913e7f)
• build-deploy.sh installs @duckdb/node-api instead of duckdb-async (d927e541)
• _find_node_runtime walks upward instead of hardcoding 3 levels (389cfa26)
• commit visual baselines — un-gitignore snapshot PNGs (d334ed1e)
• dev:solo defaults JINFLOW_READONLY=1 for stable Playworks runs (f078ed63)
• playworks gate catches parse errors only, not TS strictness (394018f1)
• playworks-local pre-checks Svelte compilation before running tests (b8935fa9)
• escape mermaid ER diagram braces for Svelte 5 (cfeb163d)
• don’t ATTACH SIS to KLS Store — eliminates SIGBUS on macOS arm64 (f504ee7b)
• preserve float precision in playworks manifest money_at_risk (3afe318d)
• JINFLOW_READONLY guard in journal POST handler directly (fbe7184d)
• update test mocks for shared safeQuery + stale getAdjustedExposure tests (5743ac88)

Documentation

• more (1992d3ac)
• Sense 17 — The Cathedral (guided 3D pipeline walkthrough) (edefbc23)

For developers

Refactoring

• extract shared pageSize persistence utility (174d14e3)

Maintenance

• release 0.44.2 (5552c34c)
• playworks-local shows pre-flight progress in terminal (9f3ba190)

21 commits: 3 features, 13 fixes

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v0.44.1 (2026-04-16)

For users

New Features

• just ship accepts patch/minor/major version bump (54a4a5e1)

Bug Fixes

• bundle Node.js runtime so jinflow explore works without node on PATH (a147a3a6)

For developers

Maintenance

• release 0.44.1 (5a5b68dd)

3 commits: 1 features, 1 fixes

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v0.44.0 (2026-04-16)

For users

New Features

• playworks subset recipes — ui, routes, cardinal, anchors (d2d813a4)
• Four Convictions — manifesto tab on /what-is-this (EN/DE/FR) (04fd9bad)
• server-side chart rendering in notebook reports (Step 6.2) (8bc7673f)
• retire template-driven report engine (report engine Step 8) (0fbd8f2d)
• PDF rendering for notebook-YAML reports (report engine Step 6) (05389272)
• polish /verdicts and /perspectives — human IDs, grouping, composition bars (247ac045)
• /perspectives and /verdicts as first-class routes (bc99c6bf)

Bug Fixes

• dev:solo sets KLS_SOURCE + JINFLOW_LIVE_ROOT so KLS is actually found (096bc90f)
• revert PyInstaller spec entry to init.py (6fa7f141)
• PyInstaller frozen binary — absolute imports + shim entry (be11f5e6)
• playworks stability — drop duckdb override + single-tenant dev mode (bd534e74)
• drop local playworks workers to 2 to avoid SIGBUS crashes (618a641d)
• consolidate safeQuery + record visits on new detail routes (9e424e89)
• playworkscompile emits post-rename route paths (bc47280f)
• use tenantMetaSchema in theses.ts for catalog-qualified meta schema (e4a5fdb3)
• Pipeline Cathedral 3D rendered empty — wrong node/edge filter (00cc24ea)
• /recents color map — hypotheses → theses, add perspectives/verdicts/signals (b20b5e80)
• graceful empty state when pipeline3d artifact is missing (2557fbdb)
• klsStore cold-start visibility + 10s self-heal retry (c533c51b)
• release.sh scrollback-friendly CI + local build progress (07221e41)

Documentation

• replace outdated landing mermaid with two-hands + SME/Activities frame (0aacf6d9)
• more (ce00b28b)
• hrcentral according to sparky (14f5c4ef)
• todo (cf6ee2de)
• vocabulary sweep phase 4 — Python scripts, artifact decoder, etc/ (19cc835c)
• vocabulary sweep phase 3 — Explorer in-app content (692e05fa)
• vocabulary sweep phase 2 — 62 doc files (archive + notes + rewrites) (1c7ce973)
• big picture (7707c1de)
• vocabulary sweep phase 1 — CLAUDE.md + terminology.yaml (2a17e70e)

For developers

Refactoring

• extract misc standalone commands (5 of them) — Phase 5p (3def9198)
• extract cmd_generate + cmd_scripts + cmd_notebook_pdf — Phase 5o (a30b0cdb)
• drop dead run_reports from _derive_phase3_decisions helper (3ecbee29)
• extract auth + packs + snapshot (5 commands) — Phase 5n (ac1d6e39)
• extract cmd_extract to commands/extract.py — Phase 5m (2f719c67)
• extract cmd_r2_* to commands/r2.py — Phase 5l (b5086569)
• extract cmd_update + cmd_reset + cmd_purge — Phase 5k (b1a08812)
• extract cmd_init family to commands/bootstrap.py — Phase 5j (84c765e6)
• extract cmd_afs_* to commands/afs.py — Phase 5i (cf1149fb)
• extract cmd_sis_* to commands/sis.py — Phase 5h (13f534f3)
• extract cmd_explore + cmd_evolve_* to commands/launch.py — Phase 5g (f5ae1fde)
• extract cmd_sources to commands/sources.py — Phase 5f (4fc5205f)
• extract cmd_status + cmd_stat to commands/status.py — Phase 5e (f78d556e)
• schema class rename + DE/FR polish + todo done-marker (83f193be)
• extract cmd_us to commands/config.py — Phase 5d (a0415a8d)
• extract cmd_version + cmd_ls to commands/info.py — Phase 5c (f398ab60)
• SignalType ‘assessment’ → ‘perspective’ (+ 3 silent bugs) (c5c02ff7)
• extract build-meta helpers to jinflow/cli/_build_meta.py — Phase 5b (35241341)
• rename jinflow/cli.py → jinflow/cli/init.py — Phase 5a.1 (da54e6c6)
• consolidate engine_root resolution — Phase 5a.0 (54c5eac5)
• in-process compiler —check via runpy — Phase 4d (70e9dd0f)
• JumpBar — finish visible Sense 14 sweep (+ 3 silent bugs) (432beef5)
• extract ts* factories + align signal load_contract — Phases 4b+4c (f63458a3)

Tests

• scan only git-tracked files for legacy vocabulary (c40cbd32)
• CLI smoke suite — 54 —help invocations across all commands — Phase 6 (396c98d6)
• unblock release — drop retired ‘Report compile’ test + exclude gitignored dumps (5ca658dc)
• lock in Pipeline Cathedral 3D marker-replacement behaviour + docs (9bca6e76)

Maintenance

• release 0.44.0 (26db8c95)
• revert playworks to 2 workers + note duckdb-async cumulative SIGBUS (720a6300)
• ignore Playworks visual snapshot directories (7922cfa5)

59 commits: 7 features, 13 fixes

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v0.43.19 (2026-04-14)

For users

New Features

• generate Pipeline Cathedral 3D as third pipeline_graph artifact (1f5b695d)
• playworks 2a fix + 2b canary + 2c visual scaffold (44d9fc25)
• playworks 2a — UI cardinal + testid placements + split anchors (c632d431)

Bug Fixes

• Explorer reads anchor_signals/anchor_theses from SMEbit registry (be829a4f)
• fr.json ASCII drift — finish Sense 14 value sweep (d94381cc)
• drop destroyed jinflow-numetrix from deploy-cloud workflow (3bf614ba)
• post-build bake idempotency — Phase 1.6 of consistency plan (b252d4ef)

Documentation

• publish Two Worlds + refresh big-picture to match new vocabulary (be9fd34f)
• design note — The Two Worlds (Subject Matter vs Analytical Activities) (8e89b658)

For developers

Refactoring

• Sense 14 visible sweep — whats-new, narrative, probeSource, notebook refs (8565be8d)
• separate docs and engine Pipeline Cathedral templates (3a52b699)
• extract sql_escape to scripts/_compiler_base — Phase 4a (47a2b7b6)

Maintenance

• release 0.43.19 (4cb80247)
• ignore Playworks test artifacts (8a106ec6)

14 commits: 3 features, 4 fixes

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v0.43.18 (2026-04-13)

For users

New Features

• display rename — Subject Matter / Statement / Dossier (a4a7ea7d)
• playworks — data-aware black-box test harness for Explorer (6a3f0d7f)

Bug Fixes

• SIS write-purity + mtime fast-skip — Phase 2 of consistency plan (a9a8fa02)
• release.sh + build-desktop.sh point RELEASES_ROOT at DEPLOY_ROOT (f4c29405)
• jin make idempotency — Phase 1 of consistency plan (c8b89b8c)
• klsStore race — ATTACH loop crashes when refresh() nulls db mid-init (c4aa32fc)

Documentation

• more (545762b4)
• revise Phase 2 — SIS write-purity, not full-purity (cc79e766)
• more (0ef8c8b3)
• add consistency plan — sequencing path from drift to held (3e3748ad)

For developers

Refactoring

• rename i18n hypotheses/diagnosis namespaces to theses/verdict (Sense 14 Phase 1.5) (e77a02bb)
• rename Hypothesis/Diagnosis vocabulary to Thesis/Verdict (Sense 14 Phase 1.5) (bbf314a7)
• Sense 14 vocabulary sweep — engine + scripts (225600ec)

Tests

• CI guard for legacy Sense 14 vocabulary + cascading cleanup (7a78a3e3)
• Sense 14 vocabulary sweep — test fixtures (8c0c8b90)

Maintenance

• release 0.43.18 (c043f4b7)
• archive migrate_sense14.py — one-time migration is done (d7150c28)
• delete stale in-repo packs (interlogic, lexflow) (fc07bc3d)

18 commits: 2 features, 4 fixes

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v0.43.17 (2026-04-13)

For users

New Features

• flatten tenant gallery on this-is.jinflow.io (870269b3)

Bug Fixes

• thesis money_at_risk reads gold_net_exposure, N/A not zero (7285e3f2)
• adjusted exposure reads from gold_net_exposure, not signal findings (611b57a1)

Documentation

• merge identity_and_passes paper with March 2026 four-level model (e71b6252)
• concept paper for identity & passes (035dc785)

For developers

Refactoring

• drop legacy probe vocabulary and superseded identity doc (25fe087d)

Maintenance

• release 0.43.17 (6686551c)
• remove fly.numetrix.toml — jinflow-numetrix app destroyed (67e65455)
• upgrade fly VM to shared-2x/2GB and 10GB volume (bbfbc6bd)

9 commits: 1 features, 2 fixes

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v0.43.16 (2026-04-12)

For users

New Features

• volume metrics on overview tiles — CHF instead of row counts (cba436f0)
• three-logo hero + team credits on What is this? (274cedf3)
• About tab in What is this? — version info, team, copy + support (57d17e7f)
• pipeline cathedral — 3D first-person exploration of the DAG (a1ee69d1)
• three-tier overview — Clinical Volume / Master Data / Reference Data (02726e92)
• configurable overview section labels via nav_labels (67e602f6)
• report engine step 4 — chart cell type (scatter via Chart.js) (2411dc4f)
• report engine step 5 — Explorer Reports page shows report-kind notes (549a8ea8)
• report engine steps 2+3 — metric and table cell rendering (d9a00d36)
• report engine step 1 — kind field + metric/table cell types (dd5055c4)
• per-thesis net exposure + honest narrative themes (Phase 3 B+C) (3eb14129)
• Sense 13.1 Phase 3 — named studio instances, grammar complete (835b37dd)
• Sense 13.1 Phase 2 — named lab instances via components. (1aa82e90)
• per-host readonly mode via hosts.yml (f68a1979)
• fit-all button + global progress bar for async work (7ad6c608)
• Sense 13.1 Phase 1 — named salon instances via components. (6a943a9b)

Bug Fixes

• silence state_referenced_locally warning in StudioPanel (e0152d62)
• perspectives emit null money_at_risk — CHF comes from gold_net_exposure (3f52b4f3)
• perspective total_risk uses max() instead of sum() across signals (627b4740)
• silence state_referenced_locally warning in LabPanel (7401a1c0)
• metadata rebake fails hard on error, doesn’t poison hash state (33c1b48a)
• remove silent exception swallow from config.yml bake (8c533882)
• balance three-logo hero — constrain nuMetrix width, remove slashes, even spacing (9ba83e6f)
• trim nuMetrix logo viewBox — remove right-side padding (57aac6a3)
• tighten logo spacing on What is this? hero (be791bf1)
• Directions in Music — bold, larger than team lines (8faaf38c)
• jazzisnow credit line — strategy, principles, architecture & coordination (c2a7f5eb)
• About tab — jazzisnow logo, conceived box, full-width layout (05cb2e2a)
• Sense 14 — overview heading nav.hypotheses → nav.theses (efcc72c4)
• Sense 14 schema routing — probes→signals, hypotheses→theses, diagnoses→verdicts (33ba89c6)
• rename hypotheses → theses in tenant picker tiles (12f2754a)
• SIS warning no longer triggers on bookmarks or suggests retired pre-make (27f9e10d)
• make idempotent — skip unchanged writes, fix fingerprint, exclude post-build orphans (29ff9c90)
• silence Svelte state_referenced_locally warnings in Lab/Studio panels (7f9667c5)
• SIS warning points at ‘jinflow sis flush’, not phantom ‘pre-make’ (b8d9938a)
• rename probes → signals in tenant overview tiles (b43c30ce)
• kill the billions — tenant narrative uses gold_net_exposure (a43cff1b)
• cloud sync summary shows file types and names (6b837084)
• persist data-window slider range in URL (8195da15)

Documentation

• mas (e18a6b9e)
• todo (9fc32cf5)

For developers

Refactoring

• restructure Explorer sidebar — Backstage, Tools reorg, What is this? to top (a39ea5df)
• split overview tiles by entity kind (analytical vs master data) (ba4bfa3b)
• StudioPanel entity-agnostic — same treatment as LabPanel (2890be5c)
• LabPanel entity-agnostic — no hardcoded domain knowledge (d9b4a659)
• complete Sense 14 vocabulary sweep in terminology.yaml (6e7ff3fd)

Tests

• four regression anchors for bugs we lived through (0d76a41c)

Maintenance

• release 0.43.16 (9c146328)
• remove dead _view_count from SIS warning + clarify comment (f3bcd4c7)

49 commits: 16 features, 23 fixes

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v0.43.15 (2026-04-11)

For users

New Features

• global navigation progress bar (fa7f3c2e)
• jin sis flush — reconcile redundant SIS notes against AFS (71f3d9c7)
• bake recents AFS -> KLS, Explorer reads KLS + SIS overlay per-user (d5b93b24)
• bake bookmarks AFS -> KLS, Explorer reads KLS + SIS overlay (403c7800)
• jin sis ls / prune — inventory and manual cleanup (85c3cb51)
• inline display-name edit in UserBadge dropdown (3f551dfd)
• components.map.presets — curated map views from tenant config (4a2e4648)
• add three presentation decks for p2p2p, operating modes, extractor discipline (e597716e)
• recents orphan branch — per-user YAMLs from navigation journal (b4da7434)
• bookmarks orphan branch — per-file YAMLs via ARTIFACT_BRANCHES (5fc22697)
• delete capability — tombstone-based, owner-enforced (b5a7e189)
• identity bridge — user display name for artifact ownership (b37f1cb2)
• in-content tombstones for notebooks (status: deleted) (64ea789a)
• universal map source — dynamic per-signal observables (2db9e1d3)

Bug Fixes

• silence SvelteKit SSR fetch warnings in proxy query + signal-builder (00792026)
• cache per-pack welcome + tenant layout metadata (b44a2828)
• publish gate uses AFS.modified_at — final messenger/memory closure (e5935d12)
• dimension jump tooltip — no more “Open Open in Price Lab” (4deb6dfd)
• silence pack-qualified warnings in views/notebooks for standalone mode (5ad03bb8)
• gallery welcome — load brand + logo for selected pack (54b99d66)

Documentation

• more (bc57b537)
• reflect supply-org, extractor discipline, operating modes, p2p2p, studio/salon/lab, search v2 (4797b993)
• harden _artifact_modified_at + document publish gate hazard (4d638ea0)

For developers

Refactoring

• move all jinflow meta tables from szo/main to _szo schema (d0a7baf2)
• split KLS meta into _{tenant} schema, retire DIRECT_WRITE_TABLES (5899025b)
• parameterize artifact branch sync for notes/bookmarks/recents (4b51ed98)

Maintenance

• release 0.43.15 (c546656a)
• remove etc/testdata.txt (ef4b0695)
• testdata (8a3a19aa)
• add temporary debug output to map API 400 response (1cd38b76)

Other

• Revert “chore: add temporary debug output to map API 400 response” (c930cd9b)

31 commits: 14 features, 6 fixes

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v0.43.14 (2026-04-10)

For users

New Features

• add lexflow to gallery — cabinet_geneve as showcase tenant (98f89158)
• gallery mode — curated pack showcase on this-is.jinflow.io (193387f8)

Bug Fixes

• complete Sense 14 rename in narrative compiler (526ca3ea)
• content-timestamp merge rule for notes branch + drop dead note_events (ac8df750)

For developers

Maintenance

• release 0.43.14 (5af47396)

5 commits: 2 features, 2 fixes

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v0.43.13 (2026-04-09)

For users

Bug Fixes

• Sense 14 i18n — Hypothesen → Thesen, Hypotheses → Theses (957ef364)
• Fit all button as symbol (⊡) + tooltip, fix action titles (32ae2312)
• Price Lab slider persists on tab switch, rename Reset zoom → Fit all (9ec66732)

For developers

Maintenance

• release 0.43.13 (35418782)

4 commits: 0 features, 3 fixes

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v0.43.12 (2026-04-09)

For users

New Features

• range slider shows data values at handle positions (7206ebd6)
• Price Lab range slider loading indicator + debounce (29e82f74)
• range slider loading indicator — shows “Updating view…” during debounce (89a38db5)
• search grammar v2 wired to SQL WHERE clause generation (d2e91d62)

Bug Fixes

• sort ascending (small left, big right), from-to label natural order (a049b729)
• range slider from-to label shows small–big (natural reading order) (572d0292)
• range slider from-to label + sort dropdown no longer freezes (61e95dc0)
• bigger Updating… overlay on chart, no updating text next to slider (bade77ed)
• Price Lab slider — update Chart.js data in place, default top 500 (82ea4021)
• range slider reactivity loop — guard re-sort with lastSortKey check (d5516274)

Documentation

• comprehensive search grammar documentation (v2) (cd019a70)

For developers

Tests

• 63 tests for search grammar v2 SQL WHERE generation (9becbe47)

Maintenance

• release 0.43.12 (ecff01ee)

Other

• Enrich map signals API with display names and exposure totals (86dfed1b)

14 commits: 4 features, 6 fixes

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v0.43.11 (2026-04-09)

For users

New Features

• jump from material list to Map Salon with filter context (2be03b79)
• jinflow-proxy — auto-discover KLS + —version flag (88dbc3d3)
• on-the-fly search grammar hints in both search components (bd6320cc)
• search grammar v2 — ranges, logic, negation, dates, hints (d254cdd6)

Bug Fixes

• improved pre-make full rebuild message (a41c916e)
• clearer message when engine changes trigger full rebuild (2a985072)
• jin make migrates SIS schema before querying (e5c89469)
• SIS schema migration — add saved_views + navigation_journal to Python sisdb (886bc2c8)
• resolve all 21 documentation drift issues — zero drift (51ad6ac0)

Documentation

• uzh (055f20ee)

For developers

Refactoring

• SIS migration in pre-make setup, not during build (5a7e6f3f)

Maintenance

• release 0.43.11 (7ea41621)

Other

• Centralize brand color: single DEFAULT_BRAND_COLOR constant (4f10b4cc)
• Remove all hardcoded de-CH locale references from components (f978a66c)
• Remove hardcoded pack fallbacks, easter eggs, and locale in format.ts (be1d77df)

15 commits: 4 features, 5 fixes