Changelog

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Shortcut collisions fixed: Split Horizontal/Remove remapped off F10/F11; debug F5/F10/F11 only while a debug session is active; Command Palette and Quick Open are remappable
Busy overlay is non-modal (WindowModal show) with themed chrome; Escape cancels when Cancel is enabled
Workspace first-run accepts any folder (or creates layout); clearer validation messages
New Project Help dialog + field-level validation errors
Bottom panels renamed Output→Run, Alerts→Assistant; Git Fetch/Pull/Push on the toolbar with busy status
Theme tokens for busy overlay, splitter notifications, debug status, style editors, search borders
Empty states for Messages, Tasks, Git file list, Quick Open, Command Palette
Messages no longer steals the active bottom panel; badge + collapsed-pane flash only
Quick Open explains when no project is open; View Editor/Snapshot/Diff in the command palette
Cross-platform “Reveal in file manager”; Recent Files empty action disabled; Start page respects UI font scale
Venv install/upgrade progress dialog is cancellable
Top pull-down tool sheets flush to the tab bar

Run arguments are split with shlex (quoted paths work); profiler forwards args too
Go-to-Definition runs on a background thread
Project venvs are created with the selected base interpreter via
python -m venv (with pip); Configure / Run / Build / rope share path helpers
Enabling Use virtual environment requires an installed project venv first
Quick Open skips VirtualEnv project trees
Project venv install/upgrade runs off the UI thread with a progress dialog
Quick Open (Ctrl+P) fuzzy file finder; Print default shortcut moved to Ctrl+Alt+P
Git panel: Fetch / Pull / Push (async, 120s timeout)
Encoding-aware save (honors codingFormat, falls back to UTF-8)
Search find options relabeled (Case / Word / Regex / Wrap); broader accessible names
Assistant context menu: removed unfinished “Fix Selected/All Occurrences” stubs
Thin DAP debugger: Debug run attaches to debugpy, applies margin/Alt+B breakpoints, Continue/Step controls (F5/F10/F11)
General Settings UX: two-column layout, Appearance first, radios for completion, filter box, clearer labels
Module Completion: guard empty right-click selection (IndexError fix)

Central Extensions/version.py (0.2.0); About dialog stays in sync with pyproject.toml
User Guide at docs/USER_GUIDE.md; Help → User Guide opens it; Check For Updates queries GitHub Releases
Git panel I/O moved off the UI thread; toolbar slimmed (Stage / Unstage / Diff / More)
Outline explorer uses ast.parse (async defs, annotated assigns); rope completion/doc threads coalesce pending work
debugpy listens on 127.0.0.1:5678 only; external launchers require absolute paths and split args without a shell
Start page refresh; tool-overlay stylesheet cleanup; UI Font Scale setting (75–150%) and accessible names on main chrome
README install story clarified (source-only); broader ruff select set; legacy XML read/migrate kept for old workspaces
Release checklist: docs/RELEASE_CHECKLIST.md

PyQt6 migration complete for production code — all Extensions/ modules use direct PyQt6 imports
Workspace and project settings migrate from XML to JSON on first load
New projects write JSON only (project.json, Data/*.json, Rope/profile.json, Build/profile.json)
Legacy XML manifests still readable for older projects; no longer written on save
Color scheme / lexer style files remain XML under the workspace stylesdir (editor format, by design)
font_metrics_width → Extensions/font_metrics.py; QFileDialog helpers → Extensions/file_dialog_utils.py
qscintilla_compat.py re-exposes QScintilla scoped enums for legacy flat names
qt_bindings.py removed; historical peel scripts (scripts/archive/) removed
Dropped unused projectdata_xml / buildprofile_xml / ropeprofile_xml path keys; kept session_xml for migrate-on-load
JSON-only saves for project/build/rope manifests (XML read-only for legacy projects)

Command palette (Ctrl+Shift+P): build, rename symbol, close project, recent files, git amend/log
Git panel: branch switcher, commit log list, amend, stage/unstage, commit, diff
Assistant: progressive check updates, visible Cancel while pyflakes/pep8 run
UI theme tokens drive Default lexer colours (paper/text/comment/keyword/string)
CLI project freeze: scripts/freeze_project.py
debugpy debug run type with optional wait-for-client; status bar indicator while listening

pytest unit + smoke suites (including test_no_shim_import), ruff linting, GitHub Actions CI (Linux + Windows)
cx_Freeze freeze smoke on workflow_dispatch (Linux and Windows)
CI prepares workspace/PcodeProjects/ before tests to avoid blocking on the workspace dialog

Reverted back to the windows 32Bit binary.

You can now build executables on both 32bit and 64bit architectures by default.

Enhancements and Minor Bug Fixes

It is not compatible with previous workspace and projects.