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2026-10

  • 2026-10-21 — The cacao modules (AOloopControl*, computeCalib, pyramidWFStools) migrated to MILK_RUNNABLE: each module has one registry and one header, the cacao-fpsexec-* executables are generated from EXPORT_FPSEXEC, and the modalstatsTUI sources are parked in AOloopControl/tui/ #api #build #refactor
  • 2026-10-15 — The macro-based "V2 8-section" compute unit framework is removed (FPS_MAIN_STANDALONE_V2, INSERT_STD_PROCINFO_COMPUTEFUNC_*, CLIADDCMD_*, add_milk_standalone / add_cacao_standalone*, MILK_MODULE/init_module_CLI): every compute unit is a MILK_RUNNABLE, built by milk_add_runnable_module() #api #build #refactor
  • 2026-10-14 — milk_module_example migrated to MILK_RUNNABLE: the template units imsum1, imsum2, streamupdate, streamprocess and fpscli are listed in one module registry, and the template executables are generated from EXPORT_FPSEXEC #api #build #docs
  • 2026-10-14 — linalgebra migrated to MILK_RUNNABLE: its CLI commands are listed in one module registry, mandated (CUDA, MAGMA, LAPACKE) units are weak, and the 11 executables are generated from EXPORT_FPSEXEC #api #build
  • 2026-10-11 — New libcomputeunit engine library holds the FPS runtime (standalone main, tmux, conf/run, bindings, standalone macros); libfps is reduced to the FPS struct and no longer depends on USE_CLI. fpsCTRL and procCTRL move to src/tui/, and the CLI wrapper now lives in libmilkscript. Include computeunit.h instead of fps.h for the runtime API #build #api #refactor #fps
  • 2026-10-09 — MILK_RUNNABLE descriptors: several CLI commands / fpsexecs per file, sources compiled once, generated main() stubs via EXPORT_FPSEXEC (test module runnabletest) #api #build
  • 2026-10-06 — Reorganized docs/ into topic subfolders (quickstart/, guide/, developer/, arch/, operations/, maintenance/) matching the site navigation #docs

2026-03

  • 2026-03-29 — Complete CLI/Scripting layer decoupling; introduction of libmilkscript engine and standalone milk-script interpreter #cli #refactor
  • 2026-03-26 — @seq.NAME.prop variable expansion for sequencer state in CLI scripts #cli #fps (#183)
  • 2026-03-25 — milk-seq standalone sequencer, fpsCTRL and milk-cli integration #fps #cli
  • 2026-03-25 — Module dependency system with MODULE_DEPS macro #api #build (PR #169)
  • 2026-03-24 — Remove legacy s> stream modifier; consolidate to @S: syntax #streams #refactor (PR #168)
  • 2026-03-24 — Split CLIcore monolithic sources into smaller modules #cli #refactor (PR #165)
  • 2026-03-24 — CLI bitwise ops, string functions, processinfo integration #cli (PR #164)
  • 2026-03-24 — Compound assignments, ternary operator, numeric literals, until loops #cli (PR #163)
  • 2026-03-24 — Dual prompt/command history with type-tagged log #cli (PR #161)
  • 2026-03-23 — FITSIO-like stream slicing syntax (im[0:19,10:29]) #streams #cli (PR #157)
  • 2026-03-23 — CLI pipe operator |>, on_fpschange, listim glob, error context #cli (PR #153)
  • 2026-03-23 — Notify user of adopted default arguments #cli (PR #152)
  • 2026-03-23 — Advanced CLI introspection, regex =~, array splats, dynamic PS1 #cli (PR #151)
  • 2026-03-22 — Native shell expansions and arithmetic evaluation in CLI scripts #cli (PR #150)
  • 2026-03-22 — Advanced script template and argparse improvements #cli (PR #147)

2026-02

  • 2026-02 — Remove function-pointer overhead from pixel loops #performance (PR #146)
  • 2026-02 — Dynamic FIFO handling for CLI #cli (PR #144)
  • 2026-02 — Typed CLI variables & subprocess shell pipe parsing #cli (PR #141)
  • 2026-02 — Add -c (command) flag to milk-cli #cli (PR #139)
  • 2026-02 — Bi-directional environment variable sync and subshell assignments #cli (PR #138)
  • 2026-02 — Machine-readable JSON and TSV output for CLI #cli #api (PR #136)
  • 2026-02 — CLI wordexp() simplification and smart fallback #cli (PR #130)
  • 2026-02 — Pipe to shell commands (grep, sort, wc) #cli (PR #126)
  • 2026-02 — ghistory / lhistory with time range, glob, session highlight #cli (PR #124)
  • 2026-02 — Break help into topics; help-<topic> commands #cli (PR #121)
  • 2026-02 — CLI scripting variables, aliases, bookmarks, and history #cli (PR #116)
  • 2026-02 — Session-aware history commands #cli (PR #111)
  • 2026-02 — Advanced scripting: env vars, conditional chaining, history, continuation #cli (PR #107, PR #109)

2026-01

  • 2026-01 — Standalone fpsexec executables for image_gen (mkpolygon, mkdisk, mkspdisk) #fps #build (PR #103, PR #104)
  • 2026-01 — Fully static musl fpsexec build support #build #performance (PR #99)
  • 2026-01 — USE_STATIC_LTO cross-module LTO for fpsexec standalones #build #performance (PR #55)
  • 2026-01 — Context-aware tab completion for streams and FPS #cli (PR #92)
  • 2026-01 — Runtime perf sweeps 1–10: SIMD alignment, restrict, omp simd, BLAS MVM, powf specialization, __builtin_memcpy, UINT16 fast-path #performance (PR #53, PR #91)
  • 2026-01 — PGO per-executable profile isolation #build #performance
  • 2026-01 — GCC optimization infrastructure (milk_compiler.h) + codebase-wide annotations #performance #api
  • 2026-01 — Reduce transitive includes in CLIcore.h and fps.h #build #refactor (PR #54)
  • 2026-01 — MkDocs Material documentation site #docs (PR #57)
  • 2026-01 — Codebase-wide IMGID API migration (streams, FFT, linalgebra, image_basic, …) #api #refactor
  • 2026-01 — Gen 4 V2 CLI registration for all modules #cli #refactor
  • 2026-01 — FPS parameter tab-completion + argument hints #cli #fps (PR #71)