CHANGELOG.md

Changelog

3.8

WIP

• Bump Go to 1.23

3.7

28.08.24

• Interacting with stories in any way (open link in browser, open in reader mode etc.) now marks the submission as read (Thanks, @antznin!)

3.6

01.04.24

• Update header styles in reader mode
• Bump Go to 1.22
• Bump most dependencies

3.5

17.10.23

• Responses from the official HN API are now properly sanitized
• Improved the spacing in the descriptions when using Nerdfonts
• Fixed a bug where the domain was not shown

3.4

12.10.23

• circumflex now uses the official HN API to fetch submissions instead of Algolia
• Fixed a bug where less --version would not properly be parsed

3.3.1

01.10.23

• Fixed a bug where content wouldn't properly be sanitized for malicious ansi escape codes

3.3

01.10.23

• Bump to Go 1.21
• All content (headlines, comment section and articles from web) are now sanitized for malicious ansi escape codes
• Added subcommand: url [URL] to open a URL directly in Reader Mode
• Renamed clx read ID to clx comments ID and clx view ID to clx article ID
• Added support for NERDFONTS env variable

3.2

08.07.23

Changes

• Default categories are now: top, best, ask, show (replaced new with best)

New features

• Set the CLX_BROWSER env variable to override opening links in the default browser.

3.1.3

25.06.23

Bugfixes

• Fixed a bug where circumflex would panic if go-readability failed to parse the URL of an article to be read in Reader Mode

3.1.2

24.06.23

Bugfixes

• Fixed a bug where the submission rankings would disappear during a refresh

3.1.1

17.06.23

Bugfixes

• Fixed a bug where the wrong default string would be set in the categories flag

3.1

17.06.23

New features

• Added new optional category: best
• Dynamically set the categories with the --categories flag

Bugfixes

• Fixed a bug where the urls would not be correctly parsed and highlighted

3.0

11.06.23

Cosmetic

• Changed the Nerd Font Icon for comments

Bugfixes

• Fixed a bug where the first dot in the "fetching..." spinner was highlighted in faint

2.9.1

06.05.23

Core

• Set minimum less version to latest stable release (633)

Bugfixes

• Fixed a bug where less would open the comment section on the second line
• Fixed a bug where less would not properly render Nerd Fonts
• Updated Nerd Font icons to version 3
• Fixed a bug where the help screen would not render properly after resizing

2.9

05.05.23

Cosmetic

• Simplified coloring of items to only use terminal colors from 0-16. This will make circumflex look better across different color schemes.

2.8.2

11.03.23

Dependencies

• Bump Go from 1.19 to 1.20
• Bump lipgloss from 0.6.0 to 0.7.1
• Bump html-to-markdown from 1.3.6 to 1.3.7
• Bump termenv from 0.14.0 to 0.15.1
• Bump go-pretty from 6.4.4 to 6.4.6
• Bump testify from 1.8.1 to 1.8.2
• Bump goquery from 1.8.0 to 1.8.1

2.8.1

08.02.23

Dependencies

• Bump go-pretty 6.4.3 to 6.4.4
• Bump bubbles from 0.14.0 to 0.15.0
• Bump termenv from 0.13.0 to 0.14.0

2.8

25.11.22

Bugfixes

• Fixed a bug where circumflex would crash if the less version contained decimals in the version number (Thanks @PrayagS! #40)

Cosmetic

• Rearranged and rephrased the info screen items
• Re-stylized headers in Reader Mode

Other

• Increased timeout for fetching submissions
• Added Dockerfile for running circumflex inside a container (Thanks @stefins! #42)

2.7

23.10.22

New features

• Check less version on startup
• Network errors are now displayed to the user

Bugfixes

• Headlines are now properly highlighted in the comment section
• Headlines are now somewhat sanitized to avoid breaking formatting
• Pressing r while page is already reloading no longer leads to a panic

Cosmetic

• Re-aligned the information under the submission title for the --nerdfonts flag

2.6

09.10.22

New features

• Comments are now collapsed by default and can be expanded with l

Changes

• --auto-collapse flag changed to --auto-expand
• Changed disable emoji shorthand flag from -s to -e

Cosmetic

• Add new comment indicator to the legend menu
• Made the separator between parent replies slightly thicker
• Aligned the information under the submission title (score, user, time and number of comments) when using the --nerdfonts flag

2.5

02.10.22

New features

• Comments can now be auto-collapsed with the -a or --auto-collapse flag

Cosmetic

• Cleaned up the man pages
• Immediately change category indicator on Tab/Shift + Tab
• Help screen (open with i or ?) is now rendered inside clx via the viewport Bubble

2.4

12.09.22

New features

• Added a new command: clx read [ID] to directly read the article associated with the given ID in Reader Mode

Cosmetic

• Use normal and best looking indentation block by default
• Improved word wrapping in Reader Mode
• Increased contrast between categories and header background

2.3

13.08.22

Core

• Bump Go to 1.19

New features

• Collapse / uncollapse all replies with h / l

Cosmetic

• Left-aligned help screen to better accomodate for screen resizes (Fixes #6)

Bugfixes

• Refreshing submissions no longer jumps to the first page just before fetching
• Fixed a bug where submissions marked as read would not properly italicize after a refresh
• Fixed a bug where " was not being showed correctly (Thanks @FnControlOption, #5!)

2.2

02.07.22

New features

• Added flags for explicitly setting dark or light color scheme
• Number of replies now also indicate how many of the replies are new since last visit
• clx add now fetches metadata (before: user had to manually enter comment section to update)

Cosmetic

• Added Nerd Fonts to the comment section and submissions list
• Fixed a bug where labels weren't hidden properly on Refresh or change of category
• Added legend to help screen

Bugfixes

• Fixed a bug where the number of submissions from the front page was off by one

2.1

25.06.22

New features

• Added support for Nerd Fonts
• Better fallback colors for terminals that do not support True Color

Bugfix

• Re-added keybinding for entering the help screen with ?
• Fixed a bug where Refresh was not working properly

2.0

12.06.22

New TUI

• circumflex now uses Bubble Tea for the TUI

New features

• Show a fetching indicator in the status line when fetching list of submissions
• Dark Theme / Light Theme is automatically applied based on the terminal color scheme
• Better styling for Add to favorites?/Remove from favorites? prompts
• Hide selected item bar on refresh or change of category to better show that application is fetching submissions
• Added spacing between submissions for better readability

1.33

05.02.22

New features

• New comment indicator: Highlight new comments since your last visit

1.32

09.01.2022

New features

• Added clx man pages

Backend

• Bump cobra to 1.3.0

1.31

08.01.22

Bugfix

• YC-startups and year of publication in headlines are now properly formatted

Backend

• Do not re-fetch submissions on terminal screen resize events when screen height remains the same
• Add debug mode for offline testing and development

Cosmetic

• Reworked the info section
• Updated filter list for macrumors.com

Meta

• Changed changelog date format from YYYY-MM-DD to DD.MM.YY

1.30

2021-12-24

Cosmetic

• Stylized less prompt
• Renamed headers in the keymaps view
• Year is now highlighted in submission titles

1.29

2021-12-14

Bugfix

• Re-enable view and add commands

1.28

2021-12-13

Backend

• clx now uses Algolia + the official Hacker News firebase API to fetch submissions

Bugfix

• Fixed a bug where tables would be improperly formatted

1.27

2021-11-10

Bugfix

• Fixed a bug where parsing of the comment section with 0 comments would cause a panic

1.26

2021-11-06

Cosmetic

• Top-level comments are now more clearly separated from other top-level comments

1.25

2021-10-31

Cosmetic

• Changed the default header and added options to choose between different options

1.24

2021-10-30

Cosmetic

• Fixed a bug where some terminals would have the indentation symbol appear as a disconnected line

1.23

2021-10-21

Cosmetic

• Slightly reformatted the comment section

Backend

• Refactored the rendering logic for the comment section

1.22.1

2021-10-04

Bugfixes

• Fix correct indentation for headers in Reader Mode

1.22

2021-10-03

Cosmetic

• Slightly redesigned headers in headlines and comment section
• Comment section now has a left margin

Backend

• Bump cview to 1.5.7

Bugfixes

• Fixed a bug where headers would occasionally be improperly formatted

1.21

2021-09-12

Bugfixes

• Invisible anchors are now longer properly hidden on all terminals
• The filtering logic now works with zero width spaces
• Fixed a bug where the root comment headline was one character longer than the comment width

Cosmetic

• Viewing articles in Reader Mode now updates 'mark as read' indicator

1.20

2021-09-04

New features

• New keybinding: press n/N to jump to the next top-level comment or headline
  • (No longer required to search for the string ::)
• Added an option to set the header to the orange and classic Hacker News header

Cosmetic

• Added custom filtering rules for the following sites:
  • nytimes.com
  • economist.com
  • tomshardware.com
  • cnn.com
  • arstechnica.com
  • macrumors.com
  • wired.com
  • wired.co.uk
  • theguardian.com
  • axios.com
  • 9to5mac.com

1.19

2021-08-28

This release replaces lynx for rendering HTML in favour of handling the rendering logic directly in circumflex.

Backend

• Bump Go to 1.17
• Reader Mode: Removed lynx as a dependency
  • Added support for code blocks and in-line code highlighting
  • Added support for prettier tables
  • Added support for rendering different headers (h1 - h6)
  • Added support for well-formatted lists and sub-lists

1.18

2021-08-03

New features

• Added an option to remove indentation symbols from the comment section

Cosmetic

• Better handling of stray newlines
• Monthly Who is hiring posts now have normal syntax highlighting

Backend

• Bump goreadability
• Bump cobra

1.17

2021-07-28

This release marks the one year anniversary since the first commit of circumflex 🎉

Cosmetic

• Included syntax highlighting for YC-funded startups in the comment section
• Code snippets are now in italics and magenta (was: just magenta)
• Monthly 'Who is Hiring' posts now honor the 'highlight headlines' setting
• Remove FAANG highlighting (it was a bit too colorful)
• Better handling of fractions
• Better handling of smiley to emoji substitution
• Better handling of syntax highlighting for URLs
• Better handling of double dashes to em-dashes conversion
• Better handling of username highlights
• Comments that have been deleted and have no replies are no longer printed
• Redesigned comment section header

1.16

2021-07-24

New features

• circumflex can now be customized with flags

Changes

• Highlight headlines option has been simplified and can now be either enabled or disabled (Removed an option to highlight headlines with the reverse highlighting flag)

Cosmetic

• Code snippets are now highlighted in magenta instead of blue
• Mark as read setting now turned on by default
• Rename create_config command to config
• Hyperlinks are now in blue instead of dimmed blue

Bugfixes

• Fixed a bug where highlighting of $ would cause a panic
• Comments are now properly shortened when they reach the edge of the screen
• Fractions now have proper spacing between them and the next word

1.15

2021-07-22

New features

• Submissions can now be marked as read (turned off by default)

Cosmetic

• Highlight mentions of FAANG in the comment section
• Highlight moderator author names in main screen
• Removed white from indent blocks
• Comments now show prettier Unicode fractions
• Double single dashes (--) now appear as a single em-dash (—)
• Triple dots (...) now appear as a single ellipsis (…)
• Added an option to convert smileys to emojis
• Removed support for hyperlinks in the terminal since they were somewhat too complex compared to the benefit / convenience they provided
• URLs are now highlighted in dimmed blue

1.14

2021-07-15

Bugfixes

• Fixed a bug where a single @ would be highlighted
• Fixed a bug where alternate indentation block would not apply for quotes

Cosmetic

• Monthly Who is hiring, Freelancer, Who wants to be hired posts are now highlighted in their own color

Backend

• Bump cobra and viper
• Bump cview

1.13

2021-06-30

New features

• Comment syntax highlighting can now be disabled

Cosmetic

• Adjusted article width in Reader Mode
• Added a message when successfully running clx create_example_config
• Reworked pagination indicator
• Ask HN is now highlighted in blue
• Tell HN is now highlighted in magenta
• $variables are now highlighted in cyan
• IANAL is now highlighted in red
• IAAL is now highlighted in green

1.12

2021-06-14

New features

• clx id [item-id] respects config.env and set environment variables

Cosmetic

• Text inside backticks is highlighted
• Mentions in comments @username are highlighted
• Changed highlighting of PDF, video and audio in headlines

1.11

2021-06-13

New features

• Added a command to go directly to the comment section for a given ID

Cosmetic

• Reader Mode: Do not print Footnotes in Wikipedia articles
• Reader Mode: Improved formatting for bullet points

1.10

2021-06-12

Bugfixes

• Fixed a bug where deeply nested comment did not use the whole screen

1.9

2021-06-12

Bugfixes

• Fixed a bug where the formatting in the comment section would occasionally break

Cosmetic

• Default comment width is now 65 instead of 70
• Comment quotes now have an indentation block
• Changed the order of colors for the indentation blocks
• Code blocks now use the whole screen
• Better handling of references inside quotes/nested blocks in Reader Mode

1.8

2021-06-02

Cosmetic

• A confirmation message is now shown after adding a story to favorites by ID
• Submissions in specific formats ([pdf], [audio], etc.) are now highlighted
• Monthly Who is hiring posts are now highlighted
• Wikipedia articles in Reader Mode now have improved formatting
• Improved formatting for confirmation, warning and error messages

1.7

2021-05-30

Cosmetic

• Keymaps screen is now fixed-width

Bugfixes

• Fixed a bug where references was printed twice in Reader Mode

1.6

2021-05-30

Cosmetic

• Quotes in Reader Mode are now dimmed and italicized

Bugfixes

• Fixed a bug where scrolling backwards in less would lead to improper formatting

1.5

2021-05-24

New features

• Added option to force open article in Reader mode
• Added option to use alternate indentation blocks for compatibility issues

1.4

2021-05-16

New features

• Create example config from the terminal with clx create_example_config

Cosmetic

• Simplified keymaps screen

1.3

2021-05-07

New features

• Added a validator to prevent entering Reader Mode on sites that are known to be unsupported

Bugfixes

• Fixed a bug where Reader View mode would occasionally format references incorrectly

1.2

2021-05-06

New features

• Read a submission's article in Reader View mode

1.1

2021-04-27

Cosmetic

• Show item ID in comment section

Bugfixes

• Fixed a bug where hrefs were not stripped inside quotes
• Fixed a bug where pressing G while in Relative Numbering mode would not properly update the left margin on the favorites page
• Fixed a bug where a refresh wouldn't trigger after returning from the comment section

1.0

2021-04-24

Bugfixes

• Fixed a bug where the first keystroke was lost when entering the comment section
• Fixed a bug where pressing G while in Relative Numbering mode would not properly update the left margin

0.17

2021-04-07

Bugfixes

• Fixed a bug where hidden stories of the type X is hiring would cause a panic

New features:

• Exit info screen with Esc and ? (in addition to i)

0.16

2021-04-07

Backend

• Rename submission to story

Bugfixes

• Fixed a bug where triple spaces would not be correctly converted to single space

0.15

2021-04-04

Cosmetic

• All views are now responsive

Backend:

• Simplified Info View logic

0.14

2021-04-03

New features

• Press F to add submission to Favorites by ID

0.13

2021-04-02

New features

• Submissions can now be added to Favorites

Cosmetic

• Headlines are now syntax highlighted by default
• Definition on info screen now realigns after resizing the terminal

Backend:

• Extracted logic for handling submissions out of the model

0.12

2021-03-03

New features

• Quotes are now dimmed and italicized

Cosmetic

• Changed appearance of error and success notifications

Bugfixes

• Fixed a bug where brackets in titles would not appear

0.11.1

2021-03-01

Bugfixes

• Fixed a bug where the separator between the submissions's root comment and the comment section was not properly formatted

0.11

2021-02-28

Cosmetic

• The top bar is now transparent instead of orange
• Settings screen has been redesigned

Bugfixes

• Fixed a bug where references ([1], [2], […]) would highlight inside code blocks

0.10

2021-02-25

New features:

• g and G works the same way as it does in Vim

Cosmetic

• Cleaned up the keymap screen
• Highlight Headlines now either reverse highlights all headlines or color highlights all headlines (YC-funded startups were previously colorized in option 1)

Bugfixes

• Fixed a bug where the config.env template wasn't created with default values

Backend

• Bump to Go 1.16

0.9

2021-02-08

Cosmetic

• Settings screen now highlights booleans and integers

Bugfixes

• Fixed a bug where jumping multiple lines would lead to an infinite loop

0.8

2021-02-07

New features

• Posts of the type 'YC startup is hiring' are now hidden by default and can be enabled in the settings

Cosmetic

• Info screen now shows version number
• Increased spacing between the descriptions on the settings page for easier readability

Backend

• Added version number to User-Agent ID string
• Replaced stock http with resty

0.7.1

2021-01-21

Backend

• Added User-Agent ID

0.7

2021-01-21

Cosmetic

• Changed [Y] to 🆈
• Submission text highlighting now turned off by default
• Added ERROR and SUCCESS labels to some messages
• Changed YC S/WXX labels

Bugfixes:

• Fixed a bug where JSON errors were not handled properly

0.6

2021-01-15

New features

• Numerical input on the home screen now repeats the next action N number of times (same as in Vim's Normal mode)
• Added option 'Use Relative Numbering': Relative numbering marks each line with a number relative to the distance from the currently selected element (similar to Vim's hybrid line number mode)

Bugfixes

• Fixed a bug where the descriptions in config.env contained raw ANSI escape codes

0.5

2021-01-10

New features

• Added option to preserve right margin in comment section
• Added option to customize and colorize submission headlines

Cosmetic

• Settings will be shown in two columns if there is enough screen space

Bugfixes

• Fixed a bug where setting comment width to 0 did not use the whole screen

0.4

2021-01-08

New features

• Added functionality to customize circumflex by editing config.env or exporting environmental variables

Cosmetic

• Information page now has three screens: Information Home Screen, Keymaps and Settings

0.3

2020-12-17

New features

• Added a status bar to show contextual information
• circumflex now handles connection errors gracefully

Bugfixes

• circumflex will no longer suspend the application when trying to open submission of the type 'Company X (YC W20) is hiring'

Backend

• Use the 'level' field directly from the API instead of calculating it
• Large refactor of the program architecture

0.2.4

2020-12-11

Bugfixes

• Fixed a bug where the number of submissions to view was not calculated correctly
• Fixed a bug where pressing 0 would go to the last element on the list instead of the 10th
• Info line about entering less now appears right after submission info line

0.2.3

2020-12-05

New features

• Added keybinding: Press 0-9 to go directly to submission

Cosmetic

• Indented comment bar now also uses brighter colors
• References now also uses brighter colors
• Comment section: Added a notice about entering less and how to exit from it

0.2.2

2020-11-28

Cosmetic

• Selected items now uses the terminal's default colors in order to correctly highlight the selection regardless of color scheme

0.2.1

2020-11-27

New features

• Added keybinding: Press r to refresh

Bugfixes

• Fixed a bug where circumflex would crash while resizing the terminal while on the help screen and on pages larger than 1

0.2

2020-11-22

New features

• Added support for resizing the terminal while circumflex is running
• Added keybindings: g / G to go to first and last element
• Added keybinding: c to open submission comments in browser

Cosmetic

• On the submissions page, YC startup labels are now orange text on black background

Backend

• Large parts of the code have been refactored and placed into an MVC pattern
• cheeaun's unofficial Hacker News API: Changed API endpoint to use Cloudflare CDN

0.1

2020-11-15

• First Release