docs(changelog): cut 0.44.0 — Phase B home hierarchy

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

.gitea/workflows/test.yml

@@ -2,6 +2,19 @@
 # locally, run on every master push and pull request. Until this workflow
 # existed, nothing in CI ran the test suite at all — a direct push to
 # master was entirely unguarded.
+#
+# Build caching (2026-07-13): the Gitea actions cache never restored on
+# this instance — every run back through run 597 logged "No cache found"
+# even for exact keys saved successfully ("Cache saved successfully") by
+# a run an hour earlier, including master→master restores. Until the
+# cache server on the runner host is fixed, Swatinem/rust-cache is pure
+# overhead here. `rust-host` is a HOST executor (its filesystem persists
+# between runs — ~/.cargo and the rustup toolchain already carry over),
+# so we get warm builds by pointing CARGO_TARGET_DIR at a persistent
+# path on the runner instead of tarring gigabytes through a cache API
+# that never returns them. Concurrent runs are safe: cargo serialises
+# on the target-dir lock.
+
 name: Test
 
 on:
@@ -28,8 +41,27 @@ on:
   workflow_dispatch:
 
 jobs:
+  # Seconds-long formatting gate in its own job so a rustfmt slip fails
+  # here instead of after a 35-minute cold build (run 600 spent its
+  # whole build budget to report an unformatted file).
+  fmt:
+    runs-on: rust-host
+    steps:
+      - name: Checkout
+        uses: actions/checkout@v4
+
+      - name: Install Rust 1.95.0
+        uses: dtolnay/rust-toolchain@master
+        with:
+          toolchain: 1.95.0
+          components: rustfmt
+
+      - name: Format check
+        run: cargo fmt --check
+
   test:
     runs-on: rust-host
+    needs: fmt
 
     # Full debuginfo made the solitaire_engine test-binary link peak past the
     # runner's memory — ld was OOM-killed (signal 9) on runs 447 and 486.
@@ -40,10 +72,19 @@ jobs:
     # test binaries concurrently; as the workspace grew (runs 514/516/519)
     # two+ simultaneous ld processes OOM-killed the runner again even at
     # line-tables-only. Two jobs keeps at most two links in flight — the
-    # compile-throughput cost is small next to the cache-warm build.
+    # compile-throughput cost is small next to the warm build.
+    #
+    # CARGO_INCREMENTAL=0: incremental artifacts bloat the persistent
+    # target dir for little benefit in CI (rust-cache used to set this
+    # for the same reason).
+    #
+    # CARGO_TARGET_DIR: persistent on the runner host — see the header
+    # comment. The prune step below keeps it from growing unbounded.
     env:
       CARGO_PROFILE_DEV_DEBUG: line-tables-only
       CARGO_BUILD_JOBS: '2'
+      CARGO_INCREMENTAL: '0'
+      CARGO_TARGET_DIR: /home/runner/.cache/ferrous-solitaire/target
 
     steps:
       - name: Checkout
@@ -53,10 +94,21 @@ jobs:
         uses: dtolnay/rust-toolchain@master
         with:
           toolchain: 1.95.0
-          components: clippy, rustfmt
+          components: clippy
 
-      - name: Cache cargo build
-        uses: Swatinem/rust-cache@v2
+      # Toolchain or lockfile bumps strand stale artifacts nothing will
+      # ever reuse; reset the dir when it crosses 40 GiB rather than
+      # curating it (a cold rebuild every few weeks is cheaper than the
+      # bookkeeping).
+      - name: Prune persistent target dir when oversized
+        run: |
+          limit_kb=$((40 * 1024 * 1024))
+          used_kb=$(du -sk "$CARGO_TARGET_DIR" 2>/dev/null | cut -f1 || echo 0)
+          echo "persistent target dir: $((used_kb / 1024)) MiB (limit $((limit_kb / 1024)) MiB)"
+          if [ "${used_kb:-0}" -gt "$limit_kb" ]; then
+            echo "over limit — clearing for a fresh cold build"
+            rm -rf "$CARGO_TARGET_DIR"
+          fi
 
       # Native link deps for the Bevy crates (engine/app/web) on a bare
       # ubuntu runner: ALSA + udev for input/audio, X11 + Wayland for winit.
@@ -67,9 +119,6 @@ jobs:
             libasound2-dev libudev-dev pkg-config libx11-dev libxcursor-dev \
             libxrandr-dev libxi-dev libwayland-dev libxkbcommon-dev
 
-      - name: Format check
-        run: cargo fmt --check
-
       # SQLX_OFFLINE uses the checked-in `.sqlx/` query cache (no live DB),
       # same as the web-e2e workflow's server prebuild.
       - name: Clippy (deny warnings)

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -6,6 +6,36 @@ project follows [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/).
 
 ## [Unreleased]
 
+## [0.44.0] — 2026-07-13
+
+### Added
+
+- **Home is now a real home (menu redesign Phase B).** The mode picker became
+  a hierarchy: a **Continue** card (mode · elapsed · score) appears while a
+  game is in progress and returns to the table; a hero **New Game** button
+  replays your last mode with the current deal options in one tap; deal
+  options (draw 1/3, a new **winnable-only** toggle, difficulty tiers) moved
+  into a disclosure under the hero; the six modes sit in a compact symmetric
+  2×3 grid with descriptions on wide screens; and the stats strip moved to
+  the bottom. Wide viewports (desktop, unfolded foldables) get a two-pane
+  layout — launch surfaces left, Continue/daily/stats right. Cancel is now
+  **Back to table** and only appears while a live game exists. (#175)
+
+### Fixed
+
+- **Save files are self-contained (schema v6).** Like replays in 0.43.3, a
+  saved game now stores the dealt board via the upstream session serializers
+  instead of re-dealing from the seed on load; v4/v5 saves still load through
+  the legacy path and rewrite as v6 on next save. (#171)
+
+### Internal
+
+- **CI is ~9× faster.** Root-caused why the actions cache never restored on
+  the host-executor runner (per-run workdir paths poisoned the cache version
+  hash); the test workflow now uses a persistent on-runner target dir, and a
+  seconds-long `fmt` gate fails formatting mistakes before the build. Warm
+  full-gate runs: 4m29s, down from ~40 min. (#176)
+
 ## [0.43.3] — 2026-07-10
 
 ### Fixed

solitaire_engine/src/home_plugin.rs

@@ -569,20 +569,21 @@ fn build_home_context<'a>(
     // additionally requires at least one move — a fresh untouched deal
     // is indistinguishable from "New Game" and doesn't earn a card.
     let game_live = game.is_some_and(|g| !g.0.is_won());
-    let continue_info = game
-        .filter(|g| game_live && g.0.move_count() > 0)
-        .map(|g| {
-            let g = &g.0;
-            let mut caption = format!(
-                "{} \u{2022} {}",
-                game_mode_label(g.mode),
-                format_elapsed(g.elapsed_seconds)
-            );
-            if g.mode != GameMode::Zen {
-                caption.push_str(&format!(" \u{2022} Score {}", format_compact(g.score() as u64)));
-            }
-            ContinueInfo { caption }
-        });
+    let continue_info = game.filter(|g| game_live && g.0.move_count() > 0).map(|g| {
+        let g = &g.0;
+        let mut caption = format!(
+            "{} \u{2022} {}",
+            game_mode_label(g.mode),
+            format_elapsed(g.elapsed_seconds)
+        );
+        if g.mode != GameMode::Zen {
+            caption.push_str(&format!(
+                " \u{2022} Score {}",
+                format_compact(g.score() as u64)
+            ));
+        }
+        ContinueInfo { caption }
+    });
 
     let wide = sources
         .windows
@@ -1023,7 +1024,12 @@ fn handle_home_digit_keys(
     }
 
     if let Some(game_mode) = mode.to_game_mode() {
-        persist_last_mode(game_mode, &mut settings, storage_path.as_deref(), &mut changed);
+        persist_last_mode(
+            game_mode,
+            &mut settings,
+            storage_path.as_deref(),
+            &mut changed,
+        );
     }
     writers.dispatch(mode);
 
@@ -1325,7 +1331,11 @@ fn spawn_new_game_hero(parent: &mut ChildSpawnerCommands, ctx: &HomeContext<'_>)
             HighContrastBorder::with_default(BORDER_STRONG),
         ))
         .with_children(|c| {
-            c.spawn((Text::new("New Game"), font_title.clone(), TextColor(BG_BASE)));
+            c.spawn((
+                Text::new("New Game"),
+                font_title.clone(),
+                TextColor(BG_BASE),
+            ));
             c.spawn((Text::new(caption), font_caption.clone(), TextColor(BG_BASE)));
         });
 }
@@ -1381,7 +1391,11 @@ fn spawn_daily_callout(parent: &mut ChildSpawnerCommands, ctx: &HomeContext<'_>)
                 font_label.clone(),
                 TextColor(TEXT_SECONDARY),
             ));
-            c.spawn((Text::new(date_text), font_value.clone(), TextColor(date_color)));
+            c.spawn((
+                Text::new(date_text),
+                font_value.clone(),
+                TextColor(date_color),
+            ));
             if let Some(goal) = today.goal.as_ref() {
                 c.spawn((
                     Text::new(format!("Goal: {goal}")),

solitaire_engine/src/ui_modal.rs

@@ -181,7 +181,13 @@ pub fn spawn_modal<M: Component, F>(
 where
     F: FnOnce(&mut ChildSpawnerCommands),
 {
-    spawn_modal_sized(commands, plugin_marker, z_panel, MODAL_CARD_MAX_WIDTH, build_card)
+    spawn_modal_sized(
+        commands,
+        plugin_marker,
+        z_panel,
+        MODAL_CARD_MAX_WIDTH,
+        build_card,
+    )
 }
 
 /// Default maximum card width in logical pixels — every [`spawn_modal`]