shift-editor/shift v0.2.0

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0.2.0 (2026-11-10)

⚠ BREAKING CHANGES

• editor: type toolIf by the tool's class (#822)
• editor: answer the agent readers' questions on the model, not in the readers (#817)
• runtime: select sources and layers by name in agent reads (#815)

Features

• agents: bundle shift-cli and install it from the app menu (#550) (5f88819)
• backends: compile authored features into a shaper font (#589) (fa14dba)
• bridge: expose a read-only layer reader (9cbf971)
• bridge: shape text runs with the live shaper font (#596) (ea20421)
• cli: check fonts for interpolation, axis, and drawing problems (#642) (dd3c744)
• cli: create a document from another font's structure (#633) (16d5ab1)
• cli: expand atomic font authoring (#507) (ef19915)
• cli: export glyphs from any font as glyph batches with components (#629) (f92784a)
• cli: install the Shift agent skill with shift-cli (#569) (981ac96)
• cli: read and edit kerning with shift-cli (#580) (e38be44)
• cli: render proofs of fonts without opening the app (83938dc)
• cli: render proofs of fonts without opening the app (a2884ed)
• colour the launcher ghost lid with the theme accent (#506) (8a1616a)
• desktop: add pages, document and window tabs, and sidebar sections (#856) (4bc49b6)
• desktop: add your own themes as files in the config folder (#605) (059576e)
• desktop: bundle 34 community base16 themes (#634) (726ad23)
• desktop: choose the theme in a live-reloaded config.toml (#604) (40ef861)
• desktop: let a window read its workspace's layers synchronously (0640d9e)
• desktop: mark unsaved changes with a dot instead of "Edited" (#614) (83aa6cf)
• desktop: offer updates in a strip inside the app (#890) (fafa86d)
• desktop: override any interface or canvas color in a theme file (#606) (86a1958)
• desktop: reopen documents on their last glyph after interruptions (#495) (1942499)
• document: keep the canvas in the engine and save it as edited (#865) (39479dc)
• draw Shift's own title bar on Windows and Linux (#557) (062d751)
• editor: add a Kerning tool for proof text (#553) (5ca476f)
• editor: add a Spacing tool for adjusting sidebearings in proof text (#528) (6021608)
• editor: browse Add Component results with the arrow keys (#571) (e223ea7)
• editor: create and edit kerning groups (#561) (a032d30)
• editor: dock the floating toolbar by zone (5a219c5)
• editor: edit layers through the window's engine (54afac2)
• editor: flip the floating toolbar across the canvas on double-click (451a048)
• editor: float the tools over the canvas and dock them to any edge (#612) (c44550c)
• editor: let node definitions respond to double-clicks and content changes (#508) (3ec02e8)
• editor: pivot the floating toolbar about its handle (0669b86)
• editor: pivot the floating toolbar about its handle (e80bbe7)
• editor: propagate and attach anchors as export compiles them (#654) (c0bba2f)
• editor: show contour direction and first point in the object tree (#485) (d641450)
• editor: show the edit's page on undo and keep each page's camera (#870) (ab83165)
• editor: snap points to metrics and other points (#513) (e7dacfa)
• editor: space each glyph against its own advance (#594) (fd124ac)
• editor: transform whole glyphs in a text run (#519) (e73e740)
• engine: add an editing session over a partly loaded font (c6c2664)
• engine: build the editing engine as a WebAssembly module (efa1d9e)
• engine: edit layers through the engine in the renderer (cfdd62b)
• engine: persist the engine's edits and undo them in the window (3ec2a9c)
• engine: preview and preload edits in the window's engine (4f0b3c0)
• expose live Shift font and editor reads to agents (#489) (fa46fd7)
• keep each master's kerning through import, save, and export (#548) (af3caff)
• launcher: restyle the launcher as a header and bento grid (#875) (7b1dbdd)
• layout: lay out scene pages with Taffy, text measured by shift-text (#897) (bc03d8e)
• mcp: let agents control what a Shift window shows (#873) (1735853)
• mcp: let agents edit pages and undo (#894) (aa4007e)
• mcp: let agents set a text run's options (#888) (f6a8033)
• mcp: let agents write proof text on the canvas (#869) (5b49dfd)
• mcp: read kerning groups, pairs, and values over MCP (#581) (e23ade2)
• publish arm64 packages to the Linux APT and DNF repositories (#603) (8a9142d)
• publish native arm64 builds for Windows and Linux (#595) (94a90ac)
• runtime: select sources and layers by name in agent reads (#815) (47b40a6)
• scan: report conditional spreads and nested inline functions (656ea7c)
• scan: report Rust structure worth a reviewer's look (28c6f0e)
• scan: report TypeScript that ports a Rust rule or misses a method (9d6f96f)
• scan: scan tests and report test ledgers and refactor churn (57c62af)
• shape: position generated features at their insert markers (#859) (3c18331)
• store glyph categories and compile them into GDEF (#588) (4077a4e)
• store: read a font's directory through the read-only reader (d900fc7)
• store: read a store read-only beside the process that writes it (60991db)
• text: add editable text runs as scene nodes (#459) (1b51cc3)
• text: add the Features section and feature preview (#864) (f20c7d3)
• text: edit shaped and mixed-direction proof text (#862) (7b7b179)
• text: kern proof text with the font's pair kerning (#549) (484e663)
• text: lay out proof text in Rust (#861) (589b312)
• text: set proof text's features, language, script and lines (#863) (23fb0a3)
• text: shape proof text with the font's feature code (#618) (7ef9982)
• update Linux AppImages from their release channel (#544) (81791fd)

Bug Fixes

• agree with Rust on lone closed points and collapsed scales (#664) (2068c5f)
• backends: report Designspace instances that share a location (#716) (25bce22)
• bridge: initialize the engine before the bridge tests read through it (#887) (215be64)
• ci: open screenshot fixtures through the native workspace interface (#854) (1719655)
• cli: print numbers with one precision in every report (#727) (db04685)
• deps: update tokio to 1.54.1 for RUSTSEC-2026-0386 (39e582a)
• desktop: keep canvas shortcuts working after sidebar focus (#651) (dc48fe8)
• desktop: keep New and Open commands enabled without active windows (#491) (b001475)
• desktop: keep sidebar widths stable across views and resizes (#500) (aa3ea65)
• desktop: keep the Text tool available when previewing fonts (#529) (3cea05e)
• desktop: release the window's store reader before deleting it (27e9bed)
• desktop: show the Transform sections below Kerning, before Text and Features (#889) (7937e22)
• document: open a glyph page without marking the document unsaved (#882) (bf83062)
• editor: frame a fit requested before the canvas is laid out (#672) (dfa29be)
• editor: keep anchors and components with the outline on LSB edits (#531) (6ade7f2)
• editor: keep the toolbar grip at its muted colour (29e8fb2)
• editor: keep the toolbar's tools visible while it is carried (4726afc)
• editor: let the toolbar's tip lead toward the sides it faces (e3a40f5)
• editor: paste many contours in one engine call (86bd824)
• editor: snap and hit-test edited glyphs at their size in scaled text (51d4649)
• editor: snap and hit-test edited glyphs at their size in scaled text (a3e3191)
• editor: steer the floating toolbar by regions, not zones (89e84e8)
• editor: steer the floating toolbar by regions, not zones (e86f540)
• editor: stop pen and shape editing at interpolated locations (#577) (b011282)
• editor: treat glyphs as marks only when export does (#660) (8286661)
• font: decompose components on every master (2619a14)
• font: serialize fonts stably and compute trig with libm (#704) (88ae480)
• font: store negative zero coordinates as zero (6c8518c)
• import: inline feature include files so imported fonts compile (#554) (443dc28)
• import: keep variable fonts whose axis default is its minimum valid (#598) (ffaf37b)
• import: open multi-family and repeated-instance sources (#641) (39c7092)
• install the ALSA library with the Linux DEB (#600) (0ad3647)
• interpolation: restore interpolation for mapped weight axes (#539) (0916dad)
• linux: keep npm output out of the cross-toolchain path (#635) (da14d2c)
• make desktop chrome and canvas overlays follow the theme (#469) (8dfe36f)
• open font files on Windows and Linux (#547) (3bd06c6)
• pen threshold on screen, channel error codes and three smaller bugs (#730) (e694c4d)
• preview: shape proof text in UFO, Glyphs and designspace previews (#900) (351c94c)
• scan: make shift-scan's Rust reports point at real problems (c2927d1)
• sdk: build and run the packed SDK in Vite and Next consumers (#883) (1ee337a)
• store: read each reader request from one committed state (3835882)
• store: update zstd to 0.14.3 for RUSTSEC-2026-0391, -0398, -0403 and -0410 (d384f5d)
• store: verify a clean claim before discarding unsaved edits (3c32807)
• support Ubuntu 18.04 and RHEL 8, and require macOS 13 (#617) (7aef927)
• text: lay out zero-width glyphs and marks at their real advance (#896) (1f7d317)
• text: type on the page you switch to in text mode (#912) (f2e113a)
• themes: keep the theme module free of runtime package imports (b125129)
• tools: apply a queued pointer move before a key's modifiers (#858) (de515d3)
• ui: show tooltips above the floating toolbar layer (#623) (dcd7ab1)
• use the GPU for WebGPU on Linux (#560) (d9e7a33)
• variation: interpolate scaled components the way fonts compile them (#647) (9c9b697)
• variation: stop mapped axes collapsing masters onto the default (#640) (b0cb2dd)

Performance

• desktop: open the window's engine from the workspace's directory (36bf446)
• desktop: profile a drag on a pasted glyph of any size (52279e7)
• desktop: profile a point drag and the renderer's memory (f7839de)
• editor: draw and hit-test long text runs per glyph, not per letter (#668) (f7df964)
• editor: draw each snap line once and cross only the corners on it (3637548)
• editor: index store records and rebuild the scene only on node changes (#517) (8bcbf5c)
• editor: keep text layout still while a drag moves only points (df8325f)
• editor: look up alignment snap targets by axis instead of scanning them (bb48e22)
• editor: move points faster and restore the nightly perf suite (#670) (0cb74d2)
• editor: preload a glyph's read set when the window shows it (4647819)
• editor: read a point selection's bounds from the contour buffers (39702c1)
• editor: segment each moved contour once per frame (5c31b07)
• editor: send big glyph edits without their unchanged parts (7a7f870)
• editor: stop selection and pointer events re-rendering the editor (#505) (9c96150)
• engine: send moves to and from the engine as numbers (ae1e542)
• font: back the font's lookup maps with a B-tree (c0026d9)
• font: index large change sets by difference (8b9925f)
• font: intern font-level ids (86d189f)
• font: make one edit cost what the edited layer costs (602f0ad)
• font: make one edit cost what the edited layer costs (f89d559)
• font: share kerning between font copies (898d386)
• font: share the glyph list between font copies (dc9be0f)
• rebuild only edited contours in the Objects panel tree (#568) (85706ac)
• speed up scrubbing, undo, and font opening on Linux (#565) (417a0cb)
• stop the closed Add Component picker re-ranking glyphs (#562) (e362c45)
• store: create a document's schema in one transaction (#678) (13f09e4)
• store: keep component reference queries prepared (#839) (b5ae7d5)
• store: write only the layers a change set changed (43608a3)
• text: shape proof text synchronously through a shared shaper (#683) (81c0d8b)
• tools: hit-test the pointer only when a tool reads its target (8ba8cc9)
• wasm: load the engine module from its own file (8931355)
• workspace: reply to an edit with only the glyph records it changed (9a3cad2)
• workspace: sweep layer residency only when layers can disappear (b9e37ea)

Internal Changes

• editor: answer the agent readers' questions on the model, not in the readers (#817) (bbe4afe)
• editor: type toolIf by the tool's class (#822) (29d6a4f)