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Changelog

Every change to UIScope, documented. Follows Keep a Changelog and Semantic Versioning.

v1.0.0 5 June 2026 Latest

First public release — all four product modes ship in a single installer.

Added — PC Inspector

Live accessibility tree inspection for any window on Windows, macOS, and Linux
Windows UIAutomation via JNA — no C++ code, pure Kotlin
macOS AX API via JNA (ApplicationServices.framework)
Linux AT-SPI2 via JNA (D-Bus / atspi-2.0)
Alt+Shift+P global hotkey — locks pick mode on the element under the cursor from any app
Hover highlight overlay drawn live on the desktop (always-on-top overlay window)
PC code generation: AutoHotKey v2, Python pywinauto, C# FlaUI, PowerShell

Added — Android Inspector

USB and wireless ADB device discovery (auto-scans every 5 s)
UIAutomator tree dump via adb exec-out uiautomator dump /dev/tty — no on-device agent
Live screencap refresh (configurable 1–30 s interval)
Bidirectional selection — click node → highlight on screenshot; click screenshot → select node
Wireless ADB: pre-Android 11 IP connect + Android 11+ pairing code flow
Android code generation: Python uiautomator2, Kotlin UIAutomator2, Appium Java, Appium Python, Maestro YAML, XPath

Added — Shared Inspector

Three-panel layout: Element Tree | Device Canvas | Properties panel
Properties panel: all node fields, one-click copy per field, "Fragile selector" warning badge
Breadcrumb bar — full ancestor path, click any crumb to jump up
Bookmarks — pin/unpin any node, persisted to SQLite
Search / filter (Ctrl+F) — fuzzy match across all node fields in real time
Export: JSON, XML, UIAutomator outline
Session auto-save to ~/.uiscope/uiscope.db + screenshot on every capture

Added — Diff Mode

Added — Watch Mode

Added — App Shell

Launcher screen — mode picker with last-mode memory
Onboarding screen — first-run ADB and OS accessibility check with one-click fixes
History screen — browse, search, and re-open past sessions
Settings screen — ADB path, polling interval, theme, export format, screenshot quality, tray behaviour, startup mode
System tray (Windows / Linux) with quick-launch menu
Global hotkeys: Alt+Shift+P (pick), Alt+Shift+R (refresh), Ctrl+F (search)
Auto-update check at launch — silent GitHub Releases API call, animated banner if newer version found
Multi-window: File → New Window (Ctrl+Shift+N) opens a fully independent second inspector
Native menu bar: File + View on every window; dark/light theme toggle in View menu

Added — Distribution

Windows: EXE (NSIS), MSI (enterprise), MSIX (Microsoft Store / WinGet)
macOS: DMG, PKG — optional notarization via GitHub secrets
Linux: DEB (Ubuntu/Debian), AppImage (universal)
GitHub Actions CI — auto-builds all 7 installer formats on every v*.*.* tag push
Published to Microsoft Store

Technical

Kotlin 2.0.0 / Compose Multiplatform Desktop 1.6.11
JVM target 19 (GraalVM CE 22.3.1 for local dev; Temurin 21 in CI)
SQLDelight 2.0.2 — SQLite at ~/.uiscope/uiscope.db
JNA 5.14.0 — pure Kotlin bindings to OS accessibility APIs, no native code
jnativehook 2.2.2 — system-wide hotkeys without OS permission dialogs
Software renderer forced on Linux (-Dskiko.renderApi=SOFTWARE) for VNC/headless stability

v0.1.0 1 May 2026 Internal skeleton

Internal project scaffold — not publicly released.

Added

Gradle multi-module project scaffold: core / engine / ui / app
SQLDelight schema: sessions, bookmarks, app_settings tables
Core data models: ElementNode, Session, Bookmark, DiffResult, WatchRule
LauncherScreen and OnboardingScreen skeletons
Compose Multiplatform Desktop wired up with UiScopeTheme (Material 3, dark default)

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