Grafida 0.3

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! Security hardening: site URLs must use HTTPS. Test Connection, Diagnose, Create and Edit Site all reject http:// (and any non-HTTPS scheme) with a 400 error before any outbound request is dispatched, so the API token never leaves the process in cleartext

! Idle CPU use is down from about half a core to under 1%; the native event loop was a busy wait

! macOS 15 Sequoia is now the minimum; the bundled webview library cannot load on macOS 14 or earlier (gh-58)

+ Normalise AI-generated content: strip the invisible characters (zero-width spaces, bidi and tag characters, exotic spaces) AI tools leave in text, from AI replies, imported Markdown, plain-text pastes and everything you publish. On by default, three-way setting

+ Ctrl/Cmd+N in the Articles view starts a new article (gh-64)

+ Custom fields of type Media can now be edited, using Grafida's own media browser — site media or a local picture uploaded on publish

+ Publish anyway: an article from your site can be published even when it has required custom fields Grafida cannot edit (gh-59)

+ Editing a site article now carries its custom field values, including the types Grafida cannot display (gh-59)

+ A publish the site rejects now explains it is probably stale field metadata, and offers to reload it (gh-59)

+ Media Manager: new Local Media tab to crop, resize, rename and delete images before they are published (gh-36)

+ Sites: choose which Media Manager filesystem and folder the images of a published article are uploaded to (gh-57)

+ Sites: say whether the site uses Unicode Aliases, for tokens not allowed to read it from Global Configuration (gh-61)

+ The article alias is transliterated per the article's language — German, French and Greek rules, mirroring Joomla's own (gh-61)

+ Documentation: Aliases and transliteration — the two Joomla alias rules, the new setting, and the per-language rules (gh-61)

+ Diagnose Connection: see the exact request and response when a site connection fails (gh-37)

+ Optional Request Log: record the last 20 requests to the site, with JSON export (gh-37)

+ Reload metadata button on the Articles page, keeping your filters (gh-42)

+ Settings: how long site metadata is cached, and whether to reload it on startup (gh-42)

+ Light / dark / follow-system switch in the sidebar, so you can change it without leaving the open article (gh-41)

+ Right-click an image in the editor for Edit image (crop/resize/rotate/flip a local picture), CSS class and Reset size (gh-43)

+ The in-article media browser can now also pick a Local media image, not yet published (gh-43)

+ The Articles list shows each article's created and modified date, on both tabs (gh-53)

+ Ctrl/Cmd+Shift+V pastes the clipboard into the editor as plain text, in a single keystroke

+ Settings: choose how the source code editor closes HTML tags — both halves, closing tags only, or off (gh-52)

+ Built-in Help screen with the documentation, also published as the GitHub wiki (gh-55)

+ Help screen: the contents list can be resized or hidden, for narrow screens (gh-55)

+ Documentation: Articles, Editing Articles, Media Manager, Settings, Request Log, Connection Troubleshooting, Help and the four AI pages, with screenshots (gh-55)

+ MiniMax is now a built-in AI service provider

+ Documentation: Secrets security — how API tokens and AI keys are kept in the OS secret store, and what that protects against (gh-55)

+ Documentation: Translation — the INI format, the glossaries, and how to add or test a language (gh-55)

~ The editor's status bar no longer shows the "Press Alt+0 for help" hint (and the platform-dependent rendering of it, "Press ⌥0 for help" on macOS); the help shortcut is now documented through the sidebar Help entry, not the editor's status bar

~ The image URL field now shows where a picture picked from your computer will be published, instead of staying empty until it is (gh-72)

~ Article HTML is parsed and written with a standards-compliant HTML5 parser, so an article is published in the shape a browser shows it

~ New conformance test corpus pinning how arbitrary article HTML is split into introtext/fulltext and published

~ Documentation: Connection Troubleshooting now explains what "no working API endpoint" actually means — broken third-party plugins, WAFs and rate limiters, and how to read the Diagnose Connection output (gh-46, gh-55)

~ The editor's Help dialog now opens with Ctrl+Alt+0 (macOS) / Shift+Alt+0 instead of Alt+0, which clashed with typing "@" on a French AZERTY keyboard

~ The editor's Help dialog no longer has a Plugins tab, and its Version tab no longer links to TinyMCE's website; no link in that dialog could be opened from the app (gh-21)

~ Pasted and dropped images are stored locally and referenced, not embedded in the article; existing articles are converted when first opened (gh-36)

~ Image editor: pressing Crop now visibly arms the tool, and the crop selection's size is shown as you drag (gh-31)

~ Site metadata is refreshed automatically once it goes stale, not only when you press Reload metadata (gh-42)

~ The editor's Reload metadata button now sits below Tags, next to the fields it controls (gh-42)

~ Offline: friendlier "site unreachable" message, and consistent error display across the Articles list, Media Manager and media browser (gh-29)

~ Adding or editing a site also refreshes its metadata and editor stylesheet

~ The site's editor stylesheet is cached, not looked up again on every editor open

~ A missing or incompatible system webview now shows a readable message instead of quitting silently (gh-58)

~ Documentation: the stated macOS, Windows and Linux requirements now match reality (gh-58)

~ Project tagline is now "Joomla content editing, untethered." everywhere it appears (docblocks, installer headers, DMG and .desktop files, README)

# [HIGH] The Read more separator of an article written in Joomla was invisible in the editor, and lost on publishing (gh-71)

# [HIGH] macOS 14 Sonoma: the application quit instantly, with no window and no error message (gh-58)

# [HIGH] Severe editor lag, and a frozen source code editor, after pasting a large image (gh-36)

# [HIGH] The editor would not load while a slow or newly added site was still answering

# [HIGH] Opening an article before the site's metadata had loaded could strip its category, access level or language on save

# [HIGH] Editor content stuck in dark mode when the site's editor.css switches on prefers-color-scheme (gh-38)

# [HIGH] The editor showed every custom field the site has, not the ones the article's category uses — and a required field belonging to another category made publishing impossible (gh-56)

# [HIGH] New Article opened with no editor at all, or with the article you had just backed out of — a single custom field the sidebar could not render took the whole editor down with it

# [HIGH] A list, radio or checkboxes custom field could not be rendered at all, because Joomla does not store its options as a list

# [HIGH] An article containing a stray closing tag was truncated at that tag when saved or published

# [MEDIUM] Published images were uploaded to the site's files folder instead of its images folder (gh-57)

# [MEDIUM] Picking an intro or full article image from the media browser's Local media tab published a broken image

# [MEDIUM] An untouched article asked to be saved on the way out, when the site's custom fields arrived after it opened

# [MEDIUM] Offline, the whole Articles screen was replaced by an error — even the Local articles tab, which needs no network (gh-29)

# [MEDIUM] The webview could cache Grafida's own API responses, showing stale data even after a restart (gh-35)

# [MEDIUM] The Articles list's category, tag and language filters never picked up reloaded site metadata (gh-42)

# [MEDIUM] Cropping or resizing a local image already used in an article distorted it the next time the article was opened (gh-43)

# [MEDIUM] Reset local storage left every AI service's API key behind in the OS keychain

# [MEDIUM] Editing a built-in AI tool's title or icon saved, but never took effect (gh-28)

# [MEDIUM] Enabling or disabling a built-in AI tool wiped its prompt and tone; editing a custom AI tool made it vanish from the list (gh-28)

# [LOW] The source code editor inserted a closing tag even when a matching one already followed (gh-52)

# [LOW] The Category drop-downs showed a flat list instead of the category tree (gh-40)

# [LOW] Slash commands and spell checking settings used Yes/No instead of On/Off (gh-48)

# [MEDIUM] Categories beyond Joomla's first API page were missing from the article editor's Category drop-down (gh-60)

Grafida 0.2

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+ Slash commands: type / in the editor for a filterable menu of headings, lists, images and more; switch it off in Settings (gh-9)

+ Search and replace in the source code editor with Ctrl/Cmd+F (gh-34)

+ Editable article alias (URL slug) in the editor, auto-generated from the title

+ Created by Alias in the editor, to credit an author other than the publishing account (gh-8)

+ Searchable icon picker for AI tools

+ Empty Local Articles tab offers New Article and List Site Articles

+ Ctrl/Cmd+comma opens Settings from anywhere

+ Windows: the installer bundles the Visual C++ runtime DLLs

+ AI panel: live "Thinking…" indicator for reasoning models, click it to inspect the thinking

+ AI services: tell Grafida the model can see images, and the article's pictures are sent with its text

+ Local Articles can be sorted by date created or date modified, newest first by default

+ Visit site button under the sidebar favicon opens the active site in your browser

+ Editor CSS URL site setting, for a template whose editor.css cannot be found automatically

+ macOS: the disk image now has a branded background with drag-to-install instructions

+ Insert/Edit Image: mark an image as decorative, as in Joomla (gh-5)

+ Spell checking can be switched off in Settings (gh-24)

+ The editor's Help dialog documents Grafida's own shortcuts and the AI assistant (gh-13)

+ Publishing records a "Created using Grafida" note in Joomla's version history (gh-17)

~ The editor's Help dialog is back in the Tools menu; it was only reachable with Alt+0

~ Article lists show the Joomla article ID before the title

~ The editor no longer pops up a quick insert toolbar on every empty line (gh-6)

~ Article lists show the publish state as a colour-coded icon before the title

~ AI panel: a tool's prompt is muted "Instructions" instead of a red bubble

~ The editor's Meta Keywords field is now called Keywords, as in Joomla 4 and later

# [LOW] The editor's Meta description, Keywords and unsupported-fields notice were always in English

# [LOW] The editor's "read more separator already exists" warning was always in English

# [HIGH] Windows: crash on startup ("broken signature") after Authenticode signing

# [MEDIUM] Windows: multi-second freeze whenever a stored secret was read

# [MEDIUM] The editor ignored your site's editor.css unless the site used the stock Cassiopeia template (gh-3)

# [MEDIUM] The editor used the parent template's editor.css on a site running a child template (gh-3)

# [MEDIUM] Media Manager: an edited image's thumbnail and preview still showed the picture as it was before the edit (gh-4)

# [MEDIUM] macOS: the editor never underlined misspelt words (gh-24)

# [MEDIUM] Windows: Ctrl+right-click showed no native context menu, so spelling suggestions were unreachable (gh-26)

# [MEDIUM] Grafida forgot your last used site on restart, selecting the first one instead

# [LOW] Windows: the Save and Settings shortcuts also answered to the Windows key (gh-13)

# [LOW] Windows: a command window flashed at startup and on theme detection

# [LOW] AI panel: a second click on Send could fire a duplicate request

# [LOW] AI tool icons were blank in Settings and the editor's AI Tools menu

# [LOW] The collapsed sidebar's icons had no tooltip and no accessible name

# [LOW] Dialogs closed when clicking outside them, discarding your input

# [LOW] The site selector's "no sites yet" placeholder was truncated

# [LOW] Media Manager: the header buttons were jammed against each other

# [LOW] The editor had no padding around the content when your site's editor.css supplied none (gh-23)

Grafida 0.1

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+ First release

+ Connect to one or more Joomla! 5.4+ sites through the Web Services (REST) API

+ Browse, search, sort, filter and paginate a site's articles, mirroring the Joomla back-end list

+ Create and edit articles in a TinyMCE 7 WYSIWYG editor with the site's own editor.css

+ Local article drafts stored offline in SQLite; edit a remote article as an unsaved draft

+ Offline media picker, inline image handling and a full online Media Manager screen

+ Publish articles back to the site (intro/full-text split, categories, tags, custom fields, images)

+ AI chat assistant and writing tools (multiple configurable providers; streaming replies)

+ Inserting an AI reply into the editor converts Markdown to HTML and preserves class/style formatting

+ Markdown import, light/dark/auto interface theme, and seven interface languages

+ Native desktop application for macOS, Windows and Linux built with Boson