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Changelog ​

Notable changes to Canon, grouped by minor release.

v1.57 ​

Features ​

  • Sync UI for ticket mapping and sync management
  • Fix UserPromptSubmit hook blocking fresh repos + add canon-interrogate skill

Bug Fixes ​

  • Address review findings — grep fallback, variable naming, test gaps (plugin)

v1.56 ​

Features ​

  • Automatic Jira OAuth token refresh on 401 and via cron
  • Add refresh-tokens CronJob (every 30 min) to Helm chart

Bug Fixes ​

  • Disable refreshTokensCronJob in preview values (chart)

Documentation ​

  • Update CLAUDE.md with current project structure and gotchas

v1.55 ​

Features ​

  • CLI integration management, doctor command, and guided onboarding

Bug Fixes ​

  • Suppress misleading org_id warning for device-flow tokens (doctor)

v1.54 ​

Features ​

  • Plugin ecosystem Phase 2-3 — adapters, catalog, hooks, MCP tools, agents

Bug Fixes ​

  • Exclude non-package directories from sdist to stay under PyPI 100MB limit
  • Allow bearer tokens without org_id to access org-scoped routes
  • Resolve org_login from request URL when JWT lacks org_id

Documentation ​

  • Add extension system documentation pages and testing extensions locally guide

v1.53 ​

Features ​

  • Plugin ecosystem with extension system and Slack extraction

v1.52 ​

Features ​

  • Expand integration test coverage to 192 tests + fix 3 auth bugs

Bug Fixes ​

  • Sync missing OSS modules and guard cloud-only imports
  • Fix choose-org page showing no orgs due to SPA intercepting JSON fetch
  • Cast IPv4Address to str in audit event response (admin)
  • Resolve ticket sync adapters using GitHub App token and DB credentials
  • Env var / auth_profile credentials take precedence over installation token
  • Add cancel-in-progress to Release & Publish workflow (ci)
  • Skip reverse sync commit when file content is unchanged (cron)

v1.51 ​

Features ​

  • Canon plugin product polish + dev-to-PR evidence pipeline

Bug Fixes ​

  • PostHog reliability gaps — schema, JWT, instrumentation, security

v1.50 ​

Features ​

  • GitHub Actions Suite — 14 actions, 2 reusable workflows, full V1.2 spec

Bug Fixes ​

  • Upgrade to Sonnet 4.6 + dynamic prompt budgeting (agent)

v1.49 ​

Features ​

  • User & organization management — P0 admin spec implementation

Bug Fixes ​

  • Address review findings from admin UI PR

v1.48 ​

Features ​

  • Per-spec sync events with adapter tagging for ticket sync dashboard (observability)

v1.47 ​

Features ​

  • Apply tracked_cron to 6 missing crons + instrument device auth flow (observability)

v1.46 ​

Features ​

  • Centralize Jira/Linear sync through Canon backend

Bug Fixes ​

  • OIDC live-provider smoke harness, Basic auth at device endpoint, localhost issuer exception, CI job
  • Robust parser for Claude analysis responses + structured failure reporting (agent)
  • Fix Jira search endpoint and parser start_line off-by-one
  • Stop pytest from spawning chromium tabs on every run (cli)

v1.45 ​

Features ​

  • Admin UI enhancements — user deactivation, org suspension, auth fixes

Bug Fixes ​

  • Enable GitHub/Google/email connections for CLI client (auth0)
  • Resolve org in device auth flow for multi-org tenants
  • Wire class-based dark mode in Tailwind v4 (ui)

v1.44 ​

Features ​

  • Super admin interface for platform management

Bug Fixes ​

  • Resolve org in device auth flow for multi-org tenants

Documentation ​

  • Add admin-actions spec (impersonation, deactivation, suspension)

v1.43 ​

Features ​

  • Development execution workflow skills for Canon plugin

Bug Fixes ​

  • Close auth bypass allowing any user to access any org

v1.42 ​

Features ​

  • Integration management UI with OAuth for Jira and Linear

v1.41 ​

Bug Fixes ​

  • Wire GitHub OAuth App into Auth0 social connection (infra)
  • Import core infra into Terraform state (infra)

v1.40 ​

Features ​

  • Migrate Auth0 from gv-os to canonhq tenant (infra)

v1.39 ​

Features ​

  • Complete Slack product experience — 57 ACs across 9 systems

v1.38 ​

Features ​

  • Complete Slack App spec — 68/68 ACs implemented

v1.37 ​

Features ​

  • Implement /canon slash command handlers (slack)
  • Web app UX polish

Bug Fixes ​

  • Add Helm repo before dependency build in publish workflow (ci)
  • Fix Starlette Request handler instead of raw ASGI mount (slack)

Documentation ​

  • Fix Claude Code plugin installation instructions

v1.36 ​

Features ​

  • Add interactive Slack app (§2-§9)

Documentation ​

  • Add multi-org & personal account support spec

v1.35 ​

Features ​

  • Add LLM observability via PostHog $ai_generation events

Bug Fixes ​

  • Handle empty SMTP_PORT env var to prevent startup crash

v1.34 ​

Features ​

  • Multi-target forward sync with shadow ticket creation
  • Cross-system drift detection for multi-target sync
  • Configure multi-target routing rules in CANON.yaml
  • Wire multi-target sync into push handler
  • Make sync failures loud with PostHog tracking and detailed logging
  • Auto-commit spec updates directly to default branch on merge

Bug Fixes ​

  • Prevent project_key mutation from bleeding into fallback path
  • Use original file SHA for auto-commit to prevent data loss
  • Log warning when section not found during shadow sync

v1.33 ​

Features ​

  • Add Stripe, SMTP, and Auth0 M2M secrets to Helm chart and deploy workflow

Bug Fixes ​

  • Add Zitadel Helm repo before dependency build in CI workflows

Documentation ​

  • Add web-app-ux-polish spec for Tasks, Explorer, Nav, Editor, and Global UX improvements

v1.32 ​

Features ​

  • Analytics dashboard with health score, events, and frontend
  • Add Canon-owned infrastructure (Terraform + SaaS automation)
  • Add GitHub API client integration tests (spec section 3)

Bug Fixes ​

  • Retry on stale SHA conflict (409) in reverse sync webhook processor
  • Make 0002 migration idempotent when target column already exists
  • Remove canon-github-tickets secret ref that breaks deploy

Documentation ​

  • Add spec for closing SDLC loop + multi-target ticket sync
  • Expand slack-integration spec into full Slack app design
  • Add analytics dashboard spec and infrastructure independence spec

v1.31 ​

Bug Fixes ​

  • Reduce PostHog log noise from opaque tokens and missing web_org
  • Add comment-posting tools to Claude code review workflow
  • Increase Claude code review max-turns from 15 to 25
  • Make Claude code review more robust

Documentation ​

  • Expand infrastructure independence spec with Stripe, PostHog, Auth0 provisioning, and GitHub App sections

v1.30 ​

Features ​

  • Add changelog automation for docs site
  • Add Auth0 M2M credentials to deploy and preview workflows

Bug Fixes ​

  • Detect opaque JWT tokens and add GitHub ticket sync Helm plumbing

Documentation ​

  • Add platform observability coverage spec
  • Add infrastructure independence spec

v1.29 ​

Features ​

  • Complete user profile page spec

Bug Fixes ​

  • Strip libpq-only params (channel_binding) from asyncpg URLs
  • Restore allowedTools for claude code review gh commands

v1.28 ​

Features ​

  • Add vite-ssg prerendering, SSG route serving, and integration tests

v1.27 ​

Bug Fixes ​

  • Set imagePullPolicy Always for preview deployments (helm)

Documentation ​

  • Add changelog automation spec
  • Add preview environment Auth0 configuration spec
  • Update SRE alerting spec section statuses

v1.26 ​

Features ​

  • Implement remaining OIDC migration + pricing gaps

Bug Fixes ​

  • Add lockfile check to pre-push hook
  • Improve claude code review prompt with project-specific context
  • Remove allowedTools override that blocked default claude review tools
  • Remove inline comment tool from claude review to prevent comment spam
  • Reduce claude code review noise with sticky comments and focused prompt
  • Add helm dependency build to deploy, publish, and preview workflows
  • Use core.hooksPath so git hooks work in worktrees automatically
  • Use single event loop for all specs + fresh ticket sync (sync)

Documentation ​

  • Add infra enablement spec for billing, email, and auth0 m2m
  • Add enterprise adoption and scale infrastructure specs
  • Add SRE alerting & monitoring spec
  • Audit and update spec statuses for auth-hardening and canon-rebrand

v1.25 ​

Features ​

  • Rename auth0_sub/auth0_org_id to oidc_sub/oidc_org_id, add users.role (db)

Bug Fixes ​

  • Migration tests — use cfg.attributes for schema, run Alembic in thread

Documentation ​

  • Update OIDC migration spec statuses to reflect implementation

v1.24 ​

Features ​

  • Implement ticket sync reliability spec (§2-§6)

Bug Fixes ​

  • Resolve critical bugs found in PR review

v1.23 ​

Features ​

  • Implement IDE Agent Integration spec (§2-§6)

Bug Fixes ​

  • Update list_specs tests for paginated response format

Documentation ​

  • Add IDE Agent Integration spec
  • Add OIDC migration spec for Auth0 to open-source auth
  • Add ticket links for ticket-sync-reliability spec (#376-#383)
  • Add ticket sync reliability spec
  • Remove duplicate ticket links and close stale issues
  • Sync spec ticket links and clean up issue tracking
  • Update spec statuses based on codebase audit

v1.22 ​

Features ​

  • Add setup, install-cli, and setup-claude targets to Makefiles

Bug Fixes ​

  • Differentiate oss setup-claude from setup, add --force to install-cli

v1.21 ​

Features ​

  • Add logo SVG as favicon across all sites

Documentation ​

  • Regenerate API/CLI/MCP reference docs (58 → 74 endpoints)

v1.20 ​

Features ​

  • Filter org dropdown by Auth0 membership in multi-tenant mode

Bug Fixes ​

  • OSS CI, broken logo, quick start rewrite; license MIT → BSL 1.1
  • Replace internal registry URL with public ghcr.io reference in FAQ
  • Update stale plugin paths missed during plugin directory flattening
  • Explicitly remove sensitive specs and stale plugin dirs from OSS target
  • Flatten plugin structure and consolidate OSS sync
  • Prepare canonhq/canon for public visibility
  • Change webhook endpoints to fail-closed when secrets are unconfigured
  • Handle unknown sslmode values safely, document allow→require upgrade
  • Set OTel service.name to "canon" instead of "unknown_service"

Documentation ​

  • Add FAQ, troubleshooting, example specs page, and improve CONTRIBUTING

v1.19 ​

Features ​

  • Implement managed cloud pricing with Stripe billing and BYOK support

Bug Fixes ​

  • Update plugin config to GitHub repo, fix setup crash on dangling symlink
  • Clean stale files from FOSS repo, add CI and .gitignore
  • Align billing routes with org-scoped URL pattern and fix response field mismatches

Documentation ​

  • Add schema migration for nullable stripe_customer_id and update spec

v1.18 ​

Features ​

  • Prepare for canonhq org migration and open-source split

Bug Fixes ​

  • Repair FOSS export pipeline for canonhq/canon
  • Add --extra cloud to local dev install and use bash in Makefile
  • Format _local.py after config class rename
  • Rename SpecwrightApiAdapter to CanonApiAdapter in test file
  • Remove duplicate wheel force-include causing PyPI upload rejection
  • Add verbose logging to PyPI publish for debugging
  • Update Dockerfile COPY path for restructured plugin directory
  • Create all target directories in export script
  • Create target directories before rsync in export script
  • Add cloud extra to CI workflows and format test files
  • Update plugin_data/skills symlink to new plugin directory

Documentation ​

  • Remove outdated specwright/openspec references from docs site

v1.17 ​

Features ​

  • Add GitHub App post-install redirect flow

Bug Fixes ​

  • Add Home link in docs nav bar pointing to marketing site

v1.16 ​

Features ​

  • Rebrand Claude Code plugin and skills to canon:*
  • Rebrand GitHub Action from Specwright to Canon
  • Rebrand HTML templates from Specwright to Canon
  • Rebrand Vue SPA marketing components and app UI to Canon
  • Update all user-facing strings and test assertions to Canon
  • CTA section dark background inversion (ui)
  • Redesign hero section — left-aligned, solid saffron CTA (ui)
  • Replace @theme tokens with Warm Machine palette (ui)
  • Replace all marketing gradients with solid saffron (ui)
  • Sweep remaining hardcoded color values (ui)
  • Update brand.css tokens to Warm Machine palette (ui)
  • Update font loading to Fraunces/DM Sans/IBM Plex Mono (ui)
  • Update LoginView scoped styles to warm palette (ui)
  • Update Monaco editor font to IBM Plex Mono (ui)
  • Update navigation and footer to solid saffron wordmarks (ui)

Bug Fixes ​

  • Correct broken specwright references in Makefile, Dockerfile.dev, setup.py, routes
  • Correct GitHub App install URLs to use canon-hq slug
  • Lint issues
  • Sync window.CANON global and plugin MCP config

Documentation ​

  • Add Canon rebrand Phase 2 implementation plan
  • Canon "Warm Machine" visual identity design
  • Mark GitHub App creation as done (App ID: 3012101)
  • Mark PyPI reservation as done in Canon rebrand spec
  • Rebrand all documentation to Canon
  • Update docs/specs/new-spec.md
  • Update docs/specs/new-spec.md
  • Warm Machine visual identity implementation plan

v1.15 ​

Features ​

  • Add Canon brand assets — icon, favicon, OG image

Documentation ​

  • Add gv-infra infrastructure rebrand section to Canon spec
  • Add setup UX improvements spec
  • Update domain to canonhq.co, mark as acquired

v1.14 ​

Features ​

  • Improve ticket sync product experience

Documentation ​

  • Add Canon rebrand design document
  • Add Canon rebrand spec with acceptance criteria
  • Add repo transfer section, mark canonhq org as done

v1.13 ​

Features ​

  • Auto-advance section status to done on PR merge

Bug Fixes ​

  • Harden auto-advance on PR merge, mark ticket mapping spec done
  • Exclude blocked sections from auto-advance, guard duplicate ACs

Documentation ​

  • Mark ticket mapping model spec as done
  • Mark ticket sync §3 (real-time reverse sync) as done

v1.12 ​

Features ​

  • Surface preview deployment URL in Specwright bot comment

Bug Fixes ​

  • Unify preview workflow trigger and fix comment formatting

Documentation ​

  • Preview deployment design and spec status updates

v1.11 ​

Features ​

  • Real-time reverse sync via webhooks for all ticket systems

Bug Fixes ​

  • Base64-encode embedded analysis JSON to prevent HTML comment leak

v1.10 ​

Features ​

  • Structured spec detail view with collapsible section cards

Documentation ​

  • Check off verified ACs across 6 specs (11% → 58% coverage)

v1.9 ​

Features ​

  • Add issue type labels and title prefix for hierarchy visibility

Bug Fixes ​

  • GitHub reverse sync bug, auto-parent warning, review nits

v1.8 ​

Features ​

  • Auto-generate CLI, MCP, and API reference docs at build time
  • Configurable spec paths, sitemap/SEO, and versioned docs (§2, §11, §10)

Bug Fixes ​

  • Skip gen-refs prebuild when uv is not available

Documentation ​

  • Add cross-links to concept pages and verify content migration
  • Update spec statuses based on codebase audit

v1.7 ​

Features ​

  • Audit checks off realized ACs and inserts evidence comments

Bug Fixes ​

  • Apply AC updates even when section status is unchanged

Documentation ​

  • Fix ticket links and set ticket_project on all specs
  • Update spec statuses based on codebase audit

v1.6 ​

Features ​

  • Add production hardening for web app

v1.5 ​

Features ​

  • Add /sw-audit skill for full spec audit workflow
  • Add specwright audit CLI command for Claude-powered spec status auditing

Documentation ​

  • Add ticket links from specwright sync
  • Mark Background sections as done, fix parent section statuses
  • Update spec statuses based on codebase implementation audit

v1.4 ​

Features ​

  • Server-proxied ticket sync via GitHub App tokens

Bug Fixes ​

  • Decouple auth0_orgs_enabled from auth0_audience (auth)
  • Remove unused SyncResult import in test_engine (lint)
  • Only create tickets for todo/in_progress sections (sync)
  • Resolve org for device auth JWTs without org_id claim (auth)
  • Include AUTH0_AUDIENCE in K8s secret (deploy)
  • Fail fast on missing AUTH0_AUDIENCE and use correct status codes (auth)

Documentation ​

  • Fix configuration reference to match actual parser
  • Update docs for server-proxied sync, device auth, and AUTH0_AUDIENCE

v1.2 ​

Features ​

  • Add Specwright web app links to PR comments

Bug Fixes ​

  • Default platform_url to empty, use module-level Settings, drop redundant path

v1.1 ​

Features ​

  • docs-site: Logo links to main site + gradient wordmark

Documentation ​

  • Update install commands to use gv-specwright package name

v1.0 ​

Bug Fixes ​

  • Add AUTH0_DEVICE_CLIENT_ID to deploy K8s secret
  • Rename PyPI package to gv-specwright (specwright was taken)
  • Use version tag for pypi-publish action (Docker-based, SHA pinning unsupported)

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