vietc/CHANGELOG.md

Changelog

v0.1.0 (2026-06-26)

Initial release.

Engine

• Direct Input engine — no pre-edit buffer, no underline, no text duplication
• Telex and VNI input methods
• Flexible diacritic placement (tone/modifier at end of syllable)
• Auto-restore English words on space/ESC
• ESC undo (strip all tones from current word)
• Macro expansion with custom shortcuts
• Casing preservation (titlecase, uppercase)

Injection

• X11 keyboard capture via XGrabKeyboard (no root, no /dev/input)
• Direct X11 clipboard injection (XSetSelectionOwner + XTest Ctrl+V)
• Bundled xclip + wl-copy for Wayland fallback
• Unified injection channel to prevent ordering race conditions

Daemon

• Backspace-Replay pattern — replays entire keystroke history through a fresh engine on every keypress, eliminating state desync
• FocusIn/FocusOut detection for automatic engine reset
• CPU pinning to P-cores (0-3) + nice(-10) priority boost
• Hot-reload config without restart
• Smart app memory (per-application Vietnamese/English)
• Persistent logging with 10MB rotation

Packaging

• AppImage with bundled xclip (no manual setup needed)
• Debian package with proper conffiles, maintainer scripts, and lintian overrides
• Systemd user service

Testing

• 255+ unit tests across engine, protocol, daemon config, and replay