effector/CHANGELOG.md

Changelog

Every release of Effector, newest first. The version lives in one place, the project() line of CMakeLists.txt, and each release is a vX.Y.Z tag on the commit that made it. The interface shows this file under Changelog in its menu.

[0.5.2] - 2026-09-26

Changed

• Effector is free software under the GNU General Public License, version 3 or later; the LICENSE file holds the text, and About Effector says so.

[0.5.1] - 2026-09-26

Added

• An Arch Linux PKGBUILD in packaging/arch: makepkg -si there builds and installs the tagged release with pacman.
• A desktop entry, so an installed Effector shows up in the app menu.

[0.5.0] - 2026-09-26

Added

• A version number: effector --version prints it, and About Effector in the menu shows it.
• This changelog, readable from the interface under Changelog in the menu.
• Open Recent in the project menu, listing the projects opened or saved here.
• An optional shadow or glow under the image overlay, with an offset, size, spread, colour and opacity.
• Reordering the chain by dragging a row.

Fixed

• The params' scrollbar no longer covers the spin buttons.

[0.4.0] - 2026-09-23

Added

• Eight chaotic effects: slit shift, channel split, pixel sort, corruption, shatter, warp, bit crush and feedback. None needs sources, so any of them can lead a chain.
• The sidebar split into Chain and Setup tabs.
• A rotation for the text effect's placement.
• Text stages labelled in the chain list with their words.

Changed

• The preview stays centred however long the status line gets.
• The status line stays short, with the full chain and setup in its tooltip.
• The chain/params split fits the chain's rows until it is dragged; a double-click on the handle fits it again.
• The mouse wheel scrolls past spin buttons that do not have the focus.

[0.3.0] - 2026-09-19

Added

• Named styles: several text stages can share one font and colour, and editing the style moves every stage that follows it.
• Switching a chain stage off without taking it apart, in the interface and with --disable NAME on the command line.

Changed

• The interface opens on an empty chain, and shows the sources only when the chain uses them.

[0.2.0] - 2026-09-18

Added

• Effect chains: stages cascade, each handed the previous one's output, built in the sidebar or with repeated -e.
• Blur, film grain, black and white, image overlay, text and tiles effects.
• Projects saved and opened as plain JSON.
• Standard web and print canvas formats (--format, --dpi).
• Effects declare whether they need source images, so a chain led by blur renders with none loaded.

Changed

• The chain comes first in the sidebar.

Fixed

• The canvas size is checked before it is narrowed to an int.
• Projects are written and read in the C locale, and keep the seed whole.

[0.1.0] - 2026-09-18

Added

• The C++20 port of the Python prototype: a GTK 4 interface and a headless command line over pluggable effects, starting with scanlines.
• Source images load in the background, with a progress window and Cancel.