Release Notes

Overview

The underlying view system has gone through an almost complete rewrite (#473). This major overhaul enabled us to implement various features that weren't possible before and made most of the UI clickable.

What's new:

• Mouse-clickable UI: details panel, evolog, git remotes, bookmark remotes, and more
• Mouse wheel scrolling support across all views
• Foundation for new interactive features like target picker and revset completion box

Highlights

🎉 Which-Key Style Status Bar (#503)

The status bar now works like which-key in Emacs/Vim:

• Dynamically adjusts to window width - shows ?/more when space is limited
• Press ? to expand and see all available keybindings
• Works with stacked menus (git, bookmarks) to show context-specific help
• Press esc to collapse
• Replaces the old help menu

🎯 Target Picker for Operations (#490)

Operations like rebase, new, edit, and squash now support an interactive target picker:

• Press t to open the target picker
• Select a revision or type a custom target (bookmark name, change ID, etc.)
• Press enter to execute the command

✨ Enhanced Revset Completion (#510)

Multi-line revset completion with comprehensive function support:

• Added 16 missing revset functions: bisect, divergent, none, subject, connected, heads, roots, reachable, tracked, untracked, conflict, file, diff, author_date, committer_date, working_copies
• Fixed function signatures and renamed diff_contains to diff_lines
• Shows full completion list when history is empty
• Better visual styling and source-based completion

🔍 Backward Quick Search Navigation (#509)

Quick search now supports cycling in both directions:

• Added quick_search_cycle_back keybinding (default: " which is Shift+')

Improvements

• Split/Restore interactive mode (#500)
• Quit now works from any view without needing to press ESC first

Bug Fixes

• Preview window now updates after squash operations (#518)
• Fixed "Change ID prefix is ambiguous" error when abandoning revisions (#517)
• Preview resets to top when switching revisions (#477)
• Confirmation dialog closes immediately after restore (#508)
• Description editing works with single-line log templates (#496)
• Fixed elided revision markers rendering (#486)
• Fixed highlight rendering when inline describe is open (#485)
• Fixed search highlighting (#481)
• Prevent clicking outside window boundaries
• Cursor position only enforced with keyboard navigation, not mouse wheel
• Fixed remotes dialog height
• Fixed divergent change ID parsing
• Fixed bookmark remote filtering
• Fixed curved graph lines
• Removed extra gap above status line (#513)
• Fixed preview split border z-index (#478)
• Fixed details view rendering position (#476)
• Added left/right arrow key support (#501, #502)
• jj describe -m now handles messages starting with - (#475)
• Fixed footer to show revset keybindings when active (#489)
• Preview updates when jumping through search results (#498)

What's Changed

• Introduce immediate view mode by @idursun in #473
• feat: add treefmt formatters by @doprz in #436
• revisions: fix displaycontext_renderer to render details before elided marker by @baggiiiie in #476
• preview: reset preview offset after revision change by @baggiiiie in #477
• fix preview split border and stacked menu indexes by @baggiiiie in #478
• refactor: intents by @idursun in #480
• hotfix(nix): add jjui build check and update vendor-hash by @doprz in #482
• displaycontext_renderer: fix overlay rendering over description lines by @baggiiiie in #485
• fix: set description from stdin to allow messages starting with minus by @kankri in #475
• fix: displaycontext_renderer elided revision rendering issue by @baggiiiie in #486
• revset,ui: fix ShortHelp display for revset by @baggiiiie in #489
• Nix build warning (harmless for now; use deprecated) by @bogorad in #492
• feat: add target picker to some operations (e.g. rebase) by @idursun in #490
• refactor: centralize z-index constants in render/zindex.go by @baggiiiie in #493
• Fix single line describe by @krksgbr in #496
• feat: add interactive split for files in details view by @baggiiiie in #500
• fix: add left/right keybindings in log by @lawcho in #501
• fix: pretty-print left/right keys by @lawcho in #502
• feat: enable quit keymap for different modes by @baggiiiie in #505
• fix: close restore confirmation by batching instead of sequencing by @baggiiiie in #508
• feat: add backward navigation for quick search by @baggiiiie in #509
• which-key like status (footer help) by @baggiiiie in #503
• feat: multi line revset completion by @idursun in #510
• fix(status): remove extra gap above status line during file fzf by @baggiiiie in #513
• fix(details): reload when selection changes by @baggiiiie in #517
• fix(preview): update preview window after squash operation by @baggiiiie in #518

New Contributors

• @kankri made their first contribution in #475
• @bogorad made their first contribution in #492
• @krksgbr made their first contribution in #496
• @lawcho made their first contribution in #501

Full Changelog: v0.9.10...v0.9.11