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What's New in v0.27.25

A fix release driven by reports from people using the last two releases: code review with a colorized git config, Bitbucket reviews on large pull requests, wide tables in Firefox, Ask AI on Windows, and a failing install. Six pull requests, two of them from community contributors.

Code review works with color.diff = always

If your git config set color.diff = always, a common line in dotfiles, plannotator review showed 0 files with no explanation. Git wrapped every line of the diff in terminal color codes even though Plannotator reads it through a pipe, and the diff parser skipped every line it could not recognize. Viewed-file marks also stopped saving.

Plannotator now turns color off for every git command it runs during a review, in every runtime. Setting color.ui=never alone is not enough, because a more specific color.diff=always wins over it, so each color setting is turned off explicitly. jj gets --color=never, gh pr diff gets --color=never, and the review agents and Call Flow analysis run their own git with color off. A normal diff is byte for byte what it was before, so saved comments and viewed marks are unaffected.

(#1662, #1663, closing #1661, reported by @sholsinger)

Bitbucket review fixes from real use

@Toparvion tested Bitbucket Cloud review on a large pull request with several reviewers, existing comments, and Guided Review, and reported three things:

• "View on Bitbucket after submitting" now opens. The browser only lets a page open a tab within a few seconds of a click, and posting a large review takes longer, so the tab was blocked as a popup. Plannotator now opens the tab the moment you click submit, sends it to the pull request once the review posts, and closes it if posting fails. The Feedback Sent screen also has a plain link. This affected GitHub and GitLab too, and links now also open from the VS Code panel.
• Your overall comment shows at the top. Bitbucket's activity feed lists the newest comment first, so the summary comment posted before the inline comments ended up at the bottom. It is now posted after them, so it lands on top. A retry after a partial failure still never posts it twice.
• Long reviews in Claude Code. Claude Code stops a slash command's shell after about 30 minutes. That limit belongs to Claude Code, not Plannotator. The Claude Code guide now shows how to raise it with BASH_DEFAULT_TIMEOUT_MS, and the review skill tells Claude it can re-run the review in the background. Your comments come back either way, because drafts are saved.

(#1653, from #1583, reported by @Toparvion)

Wide tables no longer collapse in Firefox

In Firefox, commenting inside a wide table while the action bar was pinned to the top squeezed the table into a narrow strip beside the bar. The bar was both a float and sticky, and Firefox laid the table out around where the bar sat once stuck. The bar is now sticky without being a float, and tables keep their width in Firefox, Chrome and Safari. Plan review had the same problem and is fixed too.

(#1660, closing #1659, by @ruaridhw)

Additional Changes

• Ask AI dropdowns are readable in dark mode on Windows. The provider, model and reasoning-effort lists showed light text on a light background. They now use the theme's own colors (#1658, by @Aayushyaash).
• The install script reads the latest version correctly. It found the version with a line-based text match, which picked up the wrong value when GitHub returned its answer on a single line, and the install failed with a 404. It now reads the version by name, and the Windows install.cmd parses it as JSON. This fix has been live on plannotator.ai since it merged (#1656, closing #1655, reported by @jdppettit).

Install / Update

macOS / Linux:

curl -fsSL https://plannotator.ai/install.sh | bash

Windows:

irm https://plannotator.ai/install.ps1 | iex

Claude Code Plugin: Run /plugin in Claude Code, find plannotator, and click "Update now".

Pi: Update @plannotator/pi-extension to 0.27.25 and restart Pi.

OpenCode: Clear cache and restart:

rm -rf ~/.bun/install/cache/@plannotator

What's Changed

• fix(review): Bitbucket feedback from #1583 by @backnotprop in #1653
• fix(install): parse the latest release tag by key, not by line by @backnotprop in #1656
• fix(ui): stop long tables collapsing in Firefox while annotating by @ruaridhw in #1660
• fix(ui): style Ask AI dropdown options for dark themes by @Aayushyaash in #1658
• fix(review): keep git and jj output color-free under color.diff=always by @backnotprop in #1662
• fix(call-flow): run CallDiff with color-free git config by @backnotprop in #1663

New Contributors

• @Aayushyaash made their first contribution in #1658

Contributors

@ruaridhw tracked the Firefox table collapse down to a sticky float, measured it across browsers, and sent the fix.

@Aayushyaash fixed the unreadable Ask AI dropdowns on Windows dark mode, with before and after screenshots.

Community

• @sholsinger diagnosed the 0-files review down to colorized git output and suggested the fix in #1661
• @Toparvion tested Bitbucket review on a real team pull request and reported the popup, comment order, and timeout issues in #1583
• @jdppettit reported the failing install, with a workaround, in #1655

Full Changelog: v0.27.24...v0.27.25