kanbanr 0.1.2 — features frozen until 1.0

Released 2 October 2026.

From this release, kanbanr’s feature set is frozen until 1.0. The 0.1.x releases take fixes, documentation, and the work that makes the 1.0 promise checkable. This one writes that promise down, makes boards safe to share across versions, and ships the VS Code extension.

Highlights

• What 1.0 keeps compatible is written down. Stability lists what stays stable from 1.0 until 2.0 — the board format and config.yaml, the .kanbanr marker, CLI commands, flags, exit status and --json, the monitor’s /api/…, the commit trailer and hooks — what is not covered, and how anything stable is deprecated before it is removed.
• An older kanbanr no longer deletes what a newer one wrote. Rewriting an item, a milestone, the config or the charter used to drop every field the running version did not know. Unknown fields are now kept and written back unchanged, so machines sharing a board can run different versions.
• The VS Code extension ships with every release as kanbanr-vscode-<version>.vsix, at the program’s version and covered by SHA256SUMS.

What’s new

• The release installs itself on every platform it publishes for. After publishing, it runs install.sh on macOS and install.ps1 on Windows (as irm … | iex, the way the docs say) beside the two Linux containers.

What’s fixed

• The VS Code extension packages. It now names the repository and the docs site, carries its licence, and installs from the packaged .vsix in a clean VS Code.

Known limits

• The new installer check reported all four platforms as failed for this release, although every install worked and named 0.1.2 and its commit: the check ran kanbanr init inside the repository checkout. Fixed in 0.1.3.
• The extension is not on Open VSX or the Visual Studio Marketplace yet.

Installing the extension

gh release download v0.1.2 -R startr-trade/kanbanr -p 'kanbanr-vscode-*.vsix'
code --install-extension kanbanr-vscode-0.1.2.vsix