Ferrous-Solitaire/CHANGELOG.md

Changelog

All notable changes to Solitaire Quest are documented here. The format is based on Keep a Changelog and this project follows Semantic Versioning.

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[0.18.0] — 2026-05-06

The launch-experience round. The engine used to drop the player on a silent default Classic deal whether they had unfinished work or not; v0.18.0 replaces that with two stacked decision points — a Restore prompt for in-progress saves, then an MSSC-style Home / mode picker that surfaces Daily / Zen / Challenge / Time Attack as picture tiles with live stats. The same round closes the last solver-on-main-thread hot path (winnable-only seed selection moves to AsyncComputeTaskPool), wires "Copy share link" into Stats, lights a "Won before" HUD chip on re-deals of beaten seeds, and tidies the unified-3.0 rule set across CLAUDE.md / CLAUDE_SPEC.md / CLAUDE_WORKFLOW.md / CLAUDE_PROMPT_PACK.md.

Added

• Restore prompt on launch (3c7a0eb). When game_state.json holds an in-progress game (move_count > 0, not won), the engine now seeds GameStateResource with a fresh deal and holds the saved game in a new PendingRestoredGame resource. After the splash clears, a "Welcome back" modal offers Continue (Enter / C / click) or New game (N / click). Fresh-deal saves (move_count == 0) skip the prompt and load directly.
• Save preservation while the prompt is unanswered (f863d85). Both save_game_state_on_exit and auto_save_game_state consult PendingRestoredGame first: if it still holds a pending saved game, that's what gets persisted (or the auto-save is skipped), so exiting before answering the prompt no longer overwrites the meaningful save with the placeholder fresh deal.
• Home / mode picker auto-shows on launch (dd63261). The mode picker was only reachable via M during gameplay; players who hadn't discovered the hotkey never saw the Daily / Zen / Challenge / Time Attack entry points after the splash cleared. HomePlugin gains an auto_show_on_launch flag (default true) and a one-shot LaunchHomeShown gate. Skips when the Restore prompt is on screen so Welcome-back still takes precedence.
• MSSC-style Home picker — header / chips / score chips / draw mode (ae40a1d). Player-stats header strip (Level / XP / Lifetime Score, compact-formatted as 1.2M / 12.3K / 1,234) acts as a clickable shortcut to Profile. Draw-mode chip row above the mode cards lets the player flip Draw 1 / Draw 3 from the picker itself; persists settings.json and respawns the modal so the active state repaints cleanly. Per-mode best-score / streak chips on each card; hidden on a 0 best so a fresh profile doesn't read "Best 0" everywhere.
• Today's Event callout on the Daily card (b73d246). "Today, May 6" date line plus the server-fetched goal (when SyncPlugin is wired). Once today's daily is recorded as completed, the date flips to Today, May 6 • Done in ACCENT_PRIMARY so the picker reads as a reward state rather than a TODO.
• Picture-tile mode cards (9fe650f + glyph-picking follow-ups 40d6e0a, c30b04e, d065d49). Mode cards become a wrapping 2-up grid (FlexWrap::Wrap, tiles 48 % wide, min_height: 180px) with a centred Unicode-glyph centrepiece per tile. Final glyph set picked from FiraMono-Medium's actual coverage: ♣ Classic, ◆ Daily, ○ Zen, ▲ Challenge, → TimeAttack. ACCENT_PRIMARY when the mode is unlocked, TEXT_DISABLED when locked. Centrepiece is a Text node for now — when real per-mode artwork lands, swap to Image without touching tile layout, focus order, or chip rendering.
• Solver-vetted seed selection on AsyncComputeTaskPool (d489e7a). Closes the worst-case 6 s UI stall on a New Game click with "Winnable deals only" enabled. New PendingNewGameSeed resource holds the in-flight Task<u64> plus the original request's mode / confirmed flags. poll_pending_new_game_seed runs .before(GameMutation) and replays a synthetic NewGameRequestEvent once the task resolves — the player sees no extra-frame visual lag. Cancel-on-replace: a fresh NewGameRequestEvent while a task is in flight drops the old task, letting Bevy's Task Drop cancel cooperatively at the next await point.
• "Won before" HUD indicator (bdac754). When the current deal's (seed, draw_mode, mode) triple matches an entry in the rolling ReplayHistory, the HUD's tier-2 context row shows ✓ Won before in STATE_SUCCESS. Cleared on win (the on-screen victory cue is enough) and on first-time deals. New HudWonPreviously marker driven by a separate update_won_previously system; gracefully no-ops in headless tests that don't load StatsPlugin.
• "Copy share link" Stats button (540869c). End-to-end replay sharing on a server-backed sync backend: sync_plugin::push_replay_on_win spawns the upload on AsyncComputeTaskPool and stores the handle in PendingReplayUpload (drops any in-flight predecessor — the most recent win is what the player wants the link for); poll_replay_upload_result writes <server>/replays/<id> to LastSharedReplayUrl on success; the Stats overlay's action bar gains a button that writes the URL to the OS clipboard via arboard and surfaces a "Copied: <url>" toast. URL is in-memory only — sharing must happen within the session of the win.
• Empty-state copy + onboarding hints (56e2e6f). Leaderboard empty state: two-tier "Be the first on the leaderboard." headline
  • body invite. Achievements panel: first-launch hint above the grid until the first unlock. Volume hotkeys ([ / ]) now emit an InfoToastEvent with the new percentage so off-panel adjustments give visible feedback (previously silent).
• Enter dismisses the Win Summary and starts a fresh deal (17e0737). The post-win modal's "Play Again" was click-only; keyboard-only players had to reach for the mouse to leave the celebration screen. The button label gains a trailing return-key glyph so the keyboard path is discoverable on first sight.
• N opens the real Confirm/Cancel modal (93660c2). The old "Press N again" double-tap pattern was a UI-first violation (only continuation was another keystroke). N now fires NewGameRequestEvent::default() directly; handle_new_game's active-game check spawns the existing ConfirmNewGameScreen. The HUD button already routed through the same modal — keyboard and mouse paths are unified. Shift+N keeps the keyboard power-user bypass (confirmed: true).

Changed

• Settings row layout (a4bc063). All five slider/toggle row helpers (volume × 2, tooltip delay, time-bonus multiplier, replay-move interval, generic toggle) restructured to a label-spacer-cluster layout (width: 100%, label gets flex-grow: 1, controls cluster sits flush right). Stable across varying value-text widths ("0.80" → "1.00", "Instant" vs "1.5 s") and narrow windows.
• Docs adopt the unified-3.0 rule set (f2f30c8). CLAUDE.md grows from a 114-line pointer doc to a 571-line rulebook (hard global constraints §2, engine rules §3, asset rules §4, code standards §5, build + verification §6, git workflow §7, the ASK BEFORE list §8, Context Injection System §14). New companions: CLAUDE_SPEC.md (formal architecture spec — crate dependency graph, data ownership, state-machine invariants, sync merge / server contracts, validation checklist), CLAUDE_WORKFLOW.md (two-agent Builder/Guardian pipeline with hard-fail patterns), CLAUDE_PROMPT_PACK.md (task-type templates). Three duplicate rule passages removed across CLAUDE_SPEC.md and ARCHITECTURE.md.
• Test discipline pruning (a49a340). Removed 43 low-value tests across solitaire_data and solitaire_core (default-value tests, serde-derive round-trips on plain structs, single-field clamp tests, near-duplicates, constant-equals-itself tests). None pinned a behaviour contract or a regression on a real bug. Future agent briefs request tests for behaviour contracts or real-bug regressions, not a count of N.

Fixed

• Esc on a modal no longer opens Pause underneath (08b006f). A single Esc press on Confirm New Game / Restore / Home / Onboarding / Settings used to both close the modal and spawn the Pause overlay on top in the same frame. toggle_pause now skips when any non-Pause ModalScrim is in the world; the HUD-button path is gated too. The four modal queries are bundled into a PauseModalQueries SystemParam to stay under Bevy's 16-parameter cap.
• Esc dismisses Home / accepts the Restore-prompt default (d48b948). Both screens previously ignored Esc, leaving the player no keyboard-only escape after the previous fix. Home: Esc behaves like Cancel (despawns the modal, keeps the underlying default deal). Restore: Esc maps to Continue (preserves the saved game, matching how the primary action already advertises Enter).
• Esc dismisses the topmost modal when Profile stacks on Home (9aa0dd2). Clicking the Home header chip opens Profile on top of Home; Esc used to close Home (because handle_home_cancel_button fired with no awareness of layered modals) and leave Profile orphaned over the game. profile_plugin now splits P/button (toggle) from Esc (close-only); handle_home_cancel_button skips its Esc branch when any other ModalScrim exists.
• Restore-prompt resolution suppresses Home auto-show (b7c3a49). Resolving the Welcome-back prompt cleared PendingRestoredGame and despawned the modal, but the launch-time Home auto-show then fired the next frame and stacked itself over the player's chosen path. LaunchHomeShown becomes pub so handle_restore_prompt flips it to true after either resolution; M still re-opens the picker on demand.
• Game timers freeze while the Home picker is up (c497c31). The HUD's elapsed-time counter ticked from the moment the default Classic deal landed at startup, even though the auto-show Home picker was still up — the player saw "0:11" before they had chosen a mode. tick_elapsed_time and advance_time_attack now also gate on the absence of HomeScreen, mirroring their existing PausedResource check.
• Popover rows stay visible regardless of action-bar fade (cc63532). Opening Modes / Menu showed a solid dark-purple block in the top-right with no readable content — the action-bar auto-fade was matching the popover rows by their shared ActionButton marker and dropping their alpha to the cursor-position-based fade value (typically 0). New PopoverRow marker on rows in spawn_modes_popover / spawn_menu_popover; apply_action_fade excludes them via Without<PopoverRow>.

Stats

• 1166 passing tests (was 1208 at v0.17.0 close — 43 net removals from the test-discipline prune plus 1 net-new test from the async-seed work, no behaviour regressions).
• Zero clippy warnings under --workspace --all-targets -- -D warnings.

[0.17.0] — 2026-05-06

A short follow-up round on top of v0.16.0: the H-key hint is no longer a heuristic guess but the actual best first move suggested by the v0.15.0 solver, and the in-engine replay player now has a player-tunable playback rate.

Added

• Replay-rate slider in Settings → Gameplay. Tunes replay_move_interval_secs from 0.10 s to 1.00 s in 0.05 s steps; default 0.45 s. tick_replay_playback reads the value from SettingsResource per frame so the slider takes effect on the next playback tick — no restart required.

Changed

• Solver-driven hints. Pressing H used to surface a heuristic-best move (foundation moves preferred, then tableau-to-tableau by depth-of-flip-revealed). It now asks the v0.15.0 solver for the actual provably-best first move via the new solitaire_core::solver::try_solve_with_first_move / try_solve_from_state APIs. When the solver returns inconclusive (rare deals where the bound runs out before a result), the old heuristic remains the fallback. Median 2 ms per H press.

Stats

• 1208 passing tests (was 1196 at v0.16.0 close).
• Zero clippy warnings under --workspace --all-targets -- -D warnings.

0.16.0 — 2026-05-06

A modal-feel polish round. Every overlay screen now scrolls when its content overflows the 800×600 minimum window, every clickable button shows a hand cursor on hover, keyboard focus lands on the primary button on the same frame the modal opens, and read-only modals dismiss when the player clicks the scrim outside the card.

Added

• Pointer cursor on hover for every interactive Button entity (modal buttons, HUD action bar, mode-launcher cards, settings toggles, Stats selectors). update_cursor_icon gains a fourth branch sitting between Grabbing (active drag) and Grab (draggable card hover): when no drag is active and any Interaction::Hovered/Pressed button is detected, the window cursor swaps to SystemCursorIcon::Pointer. A pure pick_cursor_icon helper makes the priority logic unit-testable.
• Click-outside-to-dismiss for the six read-only modals: Stats, Achievements, Help, Profile, Leaderboard, Home. New ScrimDismissible marker on ModalScrim opts a modal in; dismiss_modal_on_scrim_click runs in Update, despawns the topmost dismissible scrim on a left-mouse press whose cursor lands on the scrim and outside every ModalCard. Bevy's hierarchy despawn cascades to the card and children. Settings, Onboarding, Pause, Forfeit confirm, and Confirm New Game intentionally don't opt in — they carry unsaved or destructive state.

Fixed

• Modal content scrolls when it overflows (Achievements, Help, Stats, Profile, Leaderboard). Each modal's body Node now carries Overflow::scroll_y() plus a max_height constraint (Val::Vh(70.0) for most, Val::Vh(50.0) for the leaderboard's variable-length ranking section) and a marker component (AchievementsScrollable, HelpScrollable, StatsScrollable, ProfileScrollable, LeaderboardScrollable). A sibling scroll_*_panel system per modal routes MouseWheel events into the body's ScrollPosition. Mirrors the existing SettingsPanelScrollable pattern. Home modal intentionally not scrolled — its five mode cards + Cancel are sized to fit at 800×600 by design.
• Modal focus arrives on the same frame the modal opens. Previously attach_focusable_to_modal_buttons and auto_focus_on_modal_open ran in Update alongside arbitrary click-handlers that spawn modals; with no ordering edge, Bevy's deferred Commands queued the new entities but the attach system couldn't see them on the same tick. Both systems moved to PostUpdate so the schedule boundary itself supplies the sync point — FocusedButton is always populated before app.update() returns. The very next Tab/Enter press lands on a populated resource instead of wasting itself moving focus from None to the primary.

Stats

• 1196 passing tests (was 1178 at v0.15.0 close).
• Zero clippy warnings under --workspace --all-targets -- -D warnings.

0.15.0 — 2026-05-02

In-engine replay playback, the Klondike solver + "Winnable deals only" toggle, a 19th achievement, rolling replay history, and a significant build-time / binary-size win from disabling Bevy's default audio stack.

Added

• In-engine replay playback for the Stats overlay's Watch Replay button. New ReplayPlaybackPlugin runs a state machine (Inactive / Playing / Completed) that resets the live game to the recorded deal and ticks through replay.moves at REPLAY_MOVE_INTERVAL_SECS (0.45 s) firing the canonical MoveRequestEvent / DrawRequestEvent per recorded move. Recording is suppressed during playback so replays don't re-record themselves.
• Replay overlay banner (ReplayOverlayPlugin) anchored to the top of the window during playback. Shows "Replay" label, "Move N of M" progress, and a Stop button. Z-order leaves modals (Settings, Pause, Help) free to render on top so the player can adjust audio mid-replay.
• Rolling replay history at <data_dir>/replays.json capped at 8 entries. Replaces the single-slot latest_replay.json (legacy file is migrated forward on first launch via migrate_legacy_latest_replay). Stats overlay gains a Prev / Next selector and a "Replay N / M" caption so the player can revisit older wins.
• "Cinephile" achievement (#19). Unlocks the first time ReplayPlaybackState transitions Playing → Completed (i.e. the replay played out to its end without the player pressing Stop). Stop transitions Playing → Inactive directly so it doesn't count.
• Klondike solver in solitaire_core::solver. Iterative-DFS with memoisation on a 64-bit canonical state hash, two budget knobs (move_budget + state_budget) for pathological cases, and a three-state SolverResult (Winnable / Unwinnable / Inconclusive). Median solve time 2 ms; pathological inconclusives cap near 120 ms. Pure logic — solitaire_core keeps no Bevy or I/O.
• "Winnable deals only" toggle in Settings → Gameplay (default off). When on, handle_new_game walks seed N, N+1, N+2, … through try_solve until it finds Winnable or Inconclusive, capped at SOLVER_DEAL_RETRY_CAP (50) attempts. Daily challenges, replays, and explicit-seed requests bypass the solver — only random Classic deals are gated.

Changed

• Bevy default-feature trim (bevy = { default-features = false, features = [...] } in workspace Cargo.toml) drops 51 transitive crates including the bevy_audio → rodio → cpal 0.15 + symphonia chain that the project doesn't use (kira handles audio directly). The retained feature list is curated to exactly what the engine uses; solitaire_wasm is unaffected because it doesn't depend on bevy.

Stats

• 1178 passing tests (was 1134 at v0.14.0 close).
• Zero clippy warnings under --workspace --all-targets -- -D warnings.

0.14.0 — 2026-05-02

Two threads land in v0.14.0: the second half of the post-v0.12.0 UX candidate list (theme thumbnails, daily-challenge calendar, Time Attack auto-save, per-mode bests, time-bonus multiplier) plus a major new feature — the replay pipeline (record → upload → web viewer). Three Quat-reported bugs from a smoke-test round shipped alongside.

Added

• Theme-picker thumbnails in Settings → Cosmetic. Each theme chip renders a small Ace-of-Spades + back preview pair via the existing rasterize_svg path. Cached per theme in a new ThemeThumbnailCache. Themes that lack a preview SVG fall back to a transparent placeholder rather than crashing.
• 14-day daily-challenge calendar in the Profile modal. Horizontal row of dots showing the trailing two weeks; today's dot is ringed in ACCENT_PRIMARY, completed days fill STATE_SUCCESS, missed days fill BG_ELEVATED. Caption above the row reads "Current streak: N · Longest: M".
• Time Attack session auto-save to <data_dir>/time_attack_session.json, atomic .tmp + rename. 30-second auto-save while a session is active, plus on AppExit. Sessions whose 10-minute window expired in real time while the app was closed are discarded on load. Classic, Zen, and Challenge already auto-saved correctly via game_state.json — Time Attack was the only mode missing session-level persistence.
• Per-mode best-score and fastest-win readouts in the Stats screen. StatsSnapshot gains six #[serde(default)] fields (Classic / Zen / Challenge × best_score + fastest_win_seconds). Stats screen renders a "Per-mode bests" section between the primary cell grid and progression. Lifetime totals continue to roll all modes together.
• Time-bonus multiplier slider in Settings → Gameplay (0.0–2.0, 0.1 steps, default 1.0, "Off" label at zero). Cosmetic only — multiplies the time-bonus shown in the win modal but does NOT affect achievement unlock thresholds (those still use the raw unmultiplied score).
• Win-replay recording + storage. Every move during a successful game appends to a RecordingReplay resource; on GameWonEvent the recording freezes into a Replay (seed + draw_mode + mode + score + time + ordered move list) and persists to <data_dir>/latest_replay.json atomically. Single-slot — overwrites on every win.
• "Watch replay" button in the Stats overlay. Shows the latest win's caption and surfaces a button that loads the replay (button fires an InfoToastEvent describing the replay; full in-engine playback is deferred to a future build).
• Replay upload + fetch endpoints on the server. POST /api/replays accepts a Replay JSON; GET /api/replays/:id returns it. JWT-gated with the existing auth middleware. Engine uploads winning replays automatically when the player has cloud sync configured.
• solitaire_wasm crate — new workspace member compiling replay-relevant solitaire_core types to WebAssembly so a browser can re-execute a replay client-side. No-std-friendly surface; wasm-bindgen glue.
• Web replay viewer served from the Solitaire server. GET /replays/:id returns HTML + CSS + the wasm bundle that fetches the replay JSON, rasterises a deal from the seed, and animates the recorded moves.
• Card flight animations on the web side so the browser viewer reads as a real game replay rather than a static dump.

Fixed

• Multi-card lift validation. solitaire_core::rules::is_valid_tableau_sequence rejects a moved stack whose adjacent cards don't form a descending alternating-colour run. Previously a player could lift any multi-card selection and drop it as long as the bottom landed legally. Wired into move_cards's tableau-destination branch.
• Softlock detection. has_legal_moves rewritten to walk every potential move source (every stock card, every waste card, the face-up top of every tableau column) and check it against every foundation and every tableau. Previously the heuristic early-returned true whenever stock had cards — players got stuck in unwinnable end-states with no end-game screen. GameOverScreen now actually fires for true softlocks. Quat's exact reproduction case is pinned by a new test.
• Deal-tween information leak. New-game now snaps every card sprite to the stock pile position before writing StateChangedEvent, so all 52 cards animate from a single point during the deal. Previously the sprites started from their previous-game positions, briefly revealing the prior deal.

Documentation

• SESSION_HANDOFF.md refreshed for the Quat smoke-test round including investigation findings on solver decisions and dependency duplicates.

Stats

• 1134 passing tests (was 1053 at v0.13.0 close).
• Zero clippy warnings under --workspace --all-targets -- -D warnings.

0.13.0 — 2026-05-02

Third UX iteration round on top of v0.12.0. Six handoff candidates shipped — three small polish items, three larger interaction features (theme-aware backs, full keyboard play, right-click power shortcut). Plus two code-review fixes (font handling unified, sccache wiring removed).

Added

• Tooltip-delay slider in Settings → Gameplay. tooltip_delay_secs ranges [0.0, 1.5] in 0.1 s steps; "Instant" label when zero. Settings.tooltip_delay_secs round-trips through serialise/deserialise with #[serde(default)]. The hover-delay comparison in ui_tooltip reads from SettingsResource with the existing MOTION_TOOLTIP_DELAY_SECS as the test-fixture fallback.
• Win-streak fire animation. New WinStreakMilestoneEvent fires from stats_plugin when win_streak_current crosses any of [3, 5, 10] (only the threshold crossing — not every subsequent win). The HUD streak readout scale-pulses 1.0 → 1.20 → 1.0 over MOTION_STREAK_FLOURISH_SECS (0.6 s).
• Score-breakdown reveal on the win modal. Replaces the single "Score: N" line with a per-component reveal (Base / Time bonus / No-undo bonus / Mode multiplier / Total). Rows fade in over MOTION_SCORE_BREAKDOWN_FADE_SECS (0.12 s) staggered by MOTION_SCORE_BREAKDOWN_STAGGER_SECS (0.15 s). Honours AnimSpeed::Instant by spawning all rows fully visible.
• Card backs follow the active theme. theme.ron's back slot now actually drives the face-down sprite. Active-theme back rasterises alongside the faces and supersedes the legacy back_N.png picker. The picker remains as a fallback for themes that don't ship a back, and the Settings UI surfaces a caption ("Active theme provides its own back") + dimmed swatches when the override is in effect.
• Keyboard-only drag-and-drop. Tab cycles draggable card stacks, Enter "lifts" the focused stack, arrow keys (or Tab) cycle the legal-destination targets only, Enter confirms, Esc cancels. A new KeyboardDragState resource models the two-mode flow without changing the existing SelectionState contract. Mutual exclusion with mouse drag uses a sentinel DragState.active_touch_id = KEYBOARD_DRAG_TOUCH_ID (u64::MAX) so neither pipeline can trample the other.
• Right-click radial menu. Hold right-click on a face-up card → a small ring of icons appears at the cursor with one entry per legal destination. Release over an icon → fires MoveRequestEvent; release in dead space, Esc, or left-click cancels. Skips the drag motion entirely. New RadialMenuPlugin owns the flow; co-exists with the existing RightClickHighlight pile-marker tint.

Fixed

• Font handling consolidated to bundled-only. Code-review feedback: the SVG rasteriser previously mixed load_system_fonts + bundled FiraMono + a lenient resolver, which made card text rendering depend on host fontconfig. Picked option (a) and applied it across both layers — font_plugin now embeds assets/fonts/main.ttf via include_bytes!() and registers it with Assets<Font>; svg_loader::shared_fontdb loads only the bundled bytes; the new bundled_font_resolver ignores the SVG's font-family request and always returns the single bundled face. A parse failure aborts with a clear error ("bundled FiraMono failed to parse — binary is corrupt").

Removed

• Project-level sccache wiring. Code-review feedback: sccache shouldn't be a per-project build dependency. Cargo's incremental cache already covers the single-project case, and forcing rustc-wrapper = "sccache" workspace-wide meant every contributor had to install it. .cargo/config.toml deleted entirely; plain cargo build now works without setup.

Documentation

• help_plugin controls reference gains a "Mouse" section covering double-click auto-move, right-click highlight, and the new hold-RMB radial.
• help_plugin also gains a "Keyboard drag" section for the new Tab/Enter/Arrows/Esc flow.
• Onboarding slide 3 picks up a Tab → Enter row referencing the full keyboard drag path.

Stats

• 1053 passing tests (was 1031 at v0.12.0 close).
• Zero clippy warnings under --workspace --all-targets -- -D warnings.

0.12.0 — 2026-05-02

UX feel polish round on top of v0.11.0. Six small-but-tangible improvements that make the play surface feel more responsive, forgiving, and discoverable, plus the doc refresh that should have ridden along with v0.11.0.

Added

• Foundation completion flourish. When a King lands on a foundation (Ace-through-King for that suit), a brief celebration fires: King card scale-pulses 1.0 → 1.15 → 1.0 over 0.4 s, the foundation marker tints STATE_SUCCESS for the first half then fades, and a synthesised C6→E6→G6 bell ping plays (~240 ms, octave above win_fanfare's root so the fourth completion + win cascade layer cleanly). New FoundationCompletedEvent { slot, suit } carries the trigger so future systems can hook in.
• Drag-cancel return tween. Illegal drops glide each dragged card back to its origin slot over 150 ms with a quintic ease-out curve (MotionCurve::Responsive, zero overshoot — reads forgiving rather than jittery). The audio cue (card_invalid.wav) still fires for negative feedback. Right-click and double-click invalid paths still use ShakeAnim since there's no motion to interpolate.
• Focus ring breathing. The keyboard focus ring's alpha modulates with a 1.4 s sin curve over [0.65, 1.0] of its native value so the indicator catches the eye on focus changes without competing with gameplay. Honours AnimSpeed::Instant by reverting to the static outline for reduced-motion users.
• First-win achievement onboarding toast. After the player's very first win, a one-shot info toast surfaces "First win! Press A to see your achievements." Settings.shown_achievement_onboarding persists the seen state so the cue never re-fires (legacy settings.json files load to false via #[serde(default)]).
• Mode Launcher digit shortcuts. Pressing M opens the Home modal (the Mode Launcher); inside it, pressing 1–5 launches each mode directly without needing Tab + Enter. Locked modes (Zen, Challenge, Time Attack at level < 5) are silent no-ops. Modal-scoped — digit keys outside the launcher fire nothing.

Fixed

• Card aspect ratio matches hayeah SVGs. CARD_ASPECT 1.4 → 1.4523 to match the bundled artwork's natural 167.087 × 242.667 dimensions. Cards previously rendered ~3.6 % vertically squashed. The vertical-budget math in compute_layout uses CARD_ASPECT algebraically so the worst-case-tableau-fits-on-screen guarantee adapts automatically.

Documentation

• README refresh with v0.11.0+ features (card themes, HUD overhaul, drag feel, unlocked foundations) and a corrected controls table — the previous table inverted Z/U for undo and listed H for help when F1 is the binding.
• CHANGELOG.md added (this file), covering v0.9.0–v0.12.0 with Keep a Changelog 1.1.0 conventions.

Stats

• 1007 passing tests (was 982 at v0.11.0).
• Zero clippy warnings under --workspace --all-targets -- -D warnings.

0.11.0 — 2026-05-02

The biggest release since 0.10.0. Headline threads: a runtime card-theme system, an HUD restructure that reclaims the play surface, and a round of UX feel polish surfaced by smoke testing.

Added

• Runtime card-theme system (CARD_PLAN phases 1–7).
  • Bundled default theme ships in the binary via embedded:// — 52 hayeah/playing-cards-assets SVGs (MIT) plus a midnight-purple back.svg as original work.
  • User themes live under themes:// rooted at user_theme_dir(). Drop a directory containing theme.ron + 53 SVGs and the registry picks it up on next launch.
  • Importer at solitaire_engine::theme::import_theme(zip) validates archives (20 MB cap, zip-slip rejection, manifest validation, every SVG round-tripped through the rasteriser) and atomically unpacks.
  • Picker UI in Settings → Cosmetic; selection persists as selected_theme_id and propagates to live sprites.
• Reserved HUD top band (64 px) so cards no longer crowd the score readout or action buttons; layout's top_y shifts down accordingly.
• Action-bar auto-fade — buttons fade out when the cursor leaves the band, fade back in when it returns. Lerp at ~167 ms.
• Visible drop-target overlay during drag — a soft fill plus 3 px outline drawn ABOVE stacked cards for every legal target (full fanned column for tableaux, card-sized for foundations and empty tableaux). Replaces the previously invisible pile-marker tint.
• Card drop shadows — every card casts a neutral 25 % black shadow with a 4 px halo; cards in the active drag set switch to a lifted shadow (40 % alpha, larger offset, bigger halo).
• Stock remaining-count badge — small ·N chip at the top-right of the stock pile so the player can see how close they are to a recycle. Hides when the stock empties.

Changed

• Foundations are unlocked. PileType::Foundation(Suit) → Foundation(u8) (slot 0..3). The claimed suit is derived from the bottom card via Pile::claimed_suit() — no separate field, no claim-stuck-after-undo bugs. Any Ace lands in any empty slot, and the slot then claims that suit. next_auto_complete_move prefers a claim-matched slot before falling back to the first empty slot for Aces. Empty foundation markers render as plain placeholders (no "C/D/H/S").
• HUD selection label and hint toast read claimed_suit() and fall through to "Foundation N" / "move to foundation" only when the slot is empty.

Fixed

• shared_fontdb now bundles FiraMono. The hayeah SVGs reference Bitstream Vera Sans and Arial by name. On minimal Linux installs / fresh Wayland sessions / chroots where neither is installed AND the CSS-generic aliases don't resolve, card rank/suit text vanished. The bundled font is loaded into fontdb and pinned as every CSS generic's target so the resolver always lands on something real. Surfaced when a second-machine pull rendered cards without glyphs.
• Theme asset path resolution — AssetPath::resolve (concatenates) → resolve_embed (RFC 1808 sibling resolution). Was producing paths like …/theme.ron/hearts_4.svg and failing to load every face SVG.
• Sync exit log spam — push_on_exit silently no-ops on LocalOnlyProvider's UnsupportedPlatform instead of warn-spamming every shutdown.
• usvg font-substitution warn spam — custom FontResolver.select_font appends Family::SansSerif and Family::Serif to every query so unmatched named families silently fall through.

Migration

• In-progress saves invalidated. GameState.schema_version bumped 1 → 2; pre-v2 game_state.json files silently fall through to "fresh game on launch." Stats, progress, achievements, and settings live in separate files and are unaffected.

Stats

• 982 passing tests (was 819 at v0.10.0).
• Zero clippy warnings under --workspace --all-targets -- -D warnings.

0.10.0 — 2026-04-29

PNG art pipeline plus a major dependency pass. The first release where the binary shipped with bundled artwork.

Added

• 52 individual card face PNGs generated via solitaire_assetgen.
• Custom font (FiraMono-Medium) loaded via AssetServer at startup through the new FontPlugin.
• Card backs and backgrounds upgraded to 120×168 with richer patterns.
• Ambient audio loop wired through the kira mixer.
• Arch Linux PKGBUILDs for the game client and sync server (under the separate solitaire-quest-pkgbuild directory).
• Workspace README, CI workflow, migration guide.

Changed

• Bevy 0.15 → 0.18 workspace migration.
• kira 0.9 → 0.12 audio backend migration.
• Edition 2024, MSRV pinned to Rust 1.95.
• rand 0.9 upgrade.
• Card rendering moved from Text2d overlay to PNG-backed Sprite with face/back atlases; Text2d retained as a headless fallback when CardImageSet is absent (tests under MinimalPlugins).
• Asset pipeline switched from include_bytes!() for PNGs/TTFs to runtime AssetServer::load() so artwork can be swapped without a recompile. Audio remains embedded.
• Removed Google Play Games Services sync backend — redundant with the self-hosted server.

Fixed

• Server JWT secret loaded at startup (was lazy, surfaced as intermittent 500s).
• Daily-challenge race in the server's seed-generation path.
• Rate limiter switched to SmartIpKeyExtractor so the limit applies per real client IP rather than per upstream proxy.
• Touch input uses MessageReader<TouchInput> (Bevy 0.18 rename).
• Sync push/pull races in async task scheduling.
• Hot-path allocations reduced in card-rendering systems.
• Conflict report coverage added for sync merge edge cases.

Stats

• 819 passing tests at tag time.

0.9.0 — 2026-04-28

Initial public-tagged release. Established the workspace structure (solitaire_core / _sync / _data / _engine / _server / _app / _assetgen), the modal scaffold via ui_modal, the design-token system in ui_theme, and the four-tier HUD layout. Foundations were suit-locked at this point; cards rendered as Text2d rank/suit overlays with no PNG artwork yet.

Added

• Klondike core (Draw One / Draw Three modes).
• Progression system (XP, levels, 18 achievements, daily challenge, weekly goals, special modes at level 5).
• Self-hosted sync server (Axum + SQLite + JWT auth).
• All 12 overlay screens migrated to the ui_modal scaffold with real Primary/Secondary/Tertiary buttons.
• Animation upgrades: SmoothSnap slide curves, scoped settle bounce, deal jitter, win-cascade rotation.
• Splash screen, focus rings (Phases 1–3), tooltips infrastructure + HUD/Settings/popover applications, achievement integration tests, destructive-confirm verb unification, leaderboard error/idle states, first-launch empty-state polish, hit-target accessibility fix, CREDITS.md, persistent window geometry, mode-launcher Home repurpose, client-side sync round-trip integration tests.