mcp-feedback-enhanced/RELEASE_NOTES/CHANGELOG.en.md

Changelog (English)

This document records all version updates for MCP Feedback Enhanced.

[v2.4.2] - Web-Only Architecture Refactoring & Smart Feature Enhancement

🌟 Version Highlights

This version underwent major architectural refactoring, completely removing PyQt6 GUI dependencies and transitioning to a pure Web UI architecture, dramatically simplifying deployment and maintenance. Additionally, multiple smart features were added, including prompt management, auto-submit, session management, and more, comprehensively enhancing user experience and work efficiency.

🔄 Major Architectural Changes

• 🏗️ Complete PyQt6 GUI Removal: Thoroughly removed desktop application dependencies, simplifying installation and deployment processes
• 🌐 Pure Web UI Architecture: Unified use of Web interface, supporting all platforms and environments
• 📦 Dramatically Simplified Dependencies: Removed PyQt6, related GUI libraries and other heavy dependencies, significantly reducing installation package size
• 🚀 Simpler Deployment: No need to consider GUI environment configuration, suitable for all development environments

✨ Brand New Features

• 📝 Smart Prompt Management System:
  • CRUD operations for common prompts (Create, Edit, Delete, Use)
  • Usage frequency statistics and intelligent sorting
  • Quick selection and one-click application functionality
  • Support for auto-submit marking and priority display
• ⏰ Auto-Timed Submit Feature:
  • Configurable countdown timer from 1-86400 seconds
  • Visual countdown display and status indicators
  • Deep integration with prompt management system
  • Support for pause, resume, and cancel operations
• 📊 Session Management & Tracking:
  • Real-time current session status display
  • Session history records and statistical analysis
  • Today's session count and average duration statistics
  • Session detail viewing and management functions
• 🔗 Connection Monitoring System:
  • Real-time WebSocket connection status monitoring
  • Latency measurement and connection quality indicators
  • Auto-reconnection mechanism and error handling
  • Detailed connection statistical information
• ⌨️ Enhanced Shortcuts: Added Ctrl+I quick focus input box feature (Thanks @penn201500)

🚀 Feature Improvements

• 🎨 Comprehensive UI/UX Optimization:
  • Added left session management panel with collapse/expand support
  • Top connection status bar with real-time system status display
  • Responsive design adapting to different screen sizes
  • Unified design language and visual style
• 🌐 Enhanced Multi-language System:
  • Optimized language switching mechanism with instant switching support
  • Added extensive translation text, improving localization coverage
  • Improved language selector UI with dropdown design
  • Fixed display issues during language switching
• 🖼️ Image Settings Integration:
  • Moved image settings from workspace to settings tab
  • Unified settings management interface
  • Improved organization and layout of setting items
• 📱 Interface Layout Optimization:
  • Adjusted layout to accommodate multi-language display requirements
  • Optimized button styles and spacing
  • Improved visual design of form elements
  • Enhanced accessibility and usability

🐛 Bug Fixes

• 🔧 Session Management Fixes:
  • Fixed session statistics information not updating correctly
  • Fixed session count calculation errors
  • Improved session state tracking mechanism
• 🎯 Prompt Feature Fixes:
  • Fixed common prompt management unable to correctly set auto-submit
  • Improved prompt selection and application logic
• 🌐 Localization Switch Fixes:
  • Fixed partial text not updating during language switching
  • Improved multi-language text loading mechanism
• 🏗️ Architecture Stability Fixes:
  • Fixed session management initialization issues
  • Improved error handling and resource cleanup
  • Optimized module loading order and dependencies

🛠️ Technical Improvements

• 📦 Modular Architecture:
  • Complete JavaScript code modular refactoring
  • Adopted ES6+ syntax and modern development patterns
  • Clear module separation and responsibility division
• 📊 Performance Enhancement:
  • Optimized WebSocket communication efficiency
  • Improved frontend resource loading speed
  • Reduced memory usage and CPU load

📚 Documentation Updates

• 📖 Architecture Documentation Update: Updated system architecture description to reflect Web-Only design
• 🔧 Installation Guide Simplification: Removed GUI-related installation steps and dependency descriptions
• 🖼️ Screenshot Updates: Updated all interface screenshots to showcase new Web UI design
• 📋 Enhanced API Documentation: Added API descriptions for new features like prompt management and auto-submit

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[v2.3.0] - System Stability & Resource Management Enhancement

🌟 Highlights

This version focuses on improving system stability and user experience, particularly solving the browser launch issue in Cursor SSH Remote environments.

✨ New Features

• 🌐 SSH Remote Environment Support: Solved Cursor SSH Remote browser launch issues with clear usage guidance
• 🛡️ Error Message Improvements: Provides more user-friendly error messages and solution suggestions when errors occur
• 🧹 Auto-cleanup Features: Automatically cleans temporary files and expired sessions to keep the system tidy
• 📊 Memory Monitoring: Monitors memory usage to prevent system resource shortage

🚀 Improvements

• 💾 Resource Management Optimization: Better system resource management for improved performance
• 🔧 Enhanced Error Handling: Provides clearer explanations and solutions when problems occur
• 🌐 Connection Stability: Improved Web UI connection stability
• 🖼️ Image Upload Optimization: Enhanced stability of image upload functionality
• 🎯 Auto-focus Input Box: Automatically focus on feedback input box when window opens, improving user experience (Thanks @penn201500)

🐛 Bug Fixes

• 🌐 Connection Issues: Fixed WebSocket connection related problems
• 🔄 Session Management: Fixed session state tracking issues
• 🖼️ Image Processing: Fixed event handling issues during image upload

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[v2.2.5] - WSL Environment Support & Cross-Platform Enhancement

✨ New Features

• 🐧 WSL Environment Detection: Automatically identifies WSL environments and provides specialized support logic
• 🌐 Smart Browser Launching: Automatically invokes Windows browser in WSL environments with multiple launch methods
• 🔧 Cross-Platform Testing Enhancement: Test functionality integrates WSL detection for improved test coverage

🚀 Improvements

• 🎯 Environment Detection Optimization: Improved remote environment detection logic, WSL no longer misidentified as remote environment
• 📊 System Information Enhancement: System information tool now displays WSL environment status
• 🧪 Testing Experience Improvement: Test mode automatically attempts browser launching for better testing experience

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[v2.2.4] - GUI Experience Optimization & Bug Fixes

🐛 Bug Fixes

• 🖼️ Image Duplicate Paste Fix: Fixed the issue where Ctrl+V image pasting in GUI would create duplicate images
• 🌐 Localization Switch Fix: Fixed image settings area text not translating correctly when switching languages
• 📝 Font Readability Improvement: Adjusted font sizes in image settings area for better readability

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[v2.2.3] - Timeout Control & Image Settings Enhancement

✨ New Features

• ⏰ User Timeout Control: Added customizable timeout settings with flexible range from 30 seconds to 2 hours
• ⏱️ Countdown Timer: Real-time countdown timer display at the top of the interface for visual time reminders
• 🖼️ Image Size Limits: Added image upload size limit settings (unlimited/1MB/3MB/5MB)
• 🔧 Base64 Compatibility Mode: Added Base64 detail mode to improve image recognition compatibility with AI models
• 🧹 UV Cache Management Tool: Added cleanup_cache.py script to help manage and clean UV cache space

🚀 Improvements

• 📚 Documentation Structure Optimization: Reorganized documentation directory structure, moved images to docs/{language}/images/ paths
• 📖 Cache Management Guide: Added detailed UV Cache management guide with automated cleanup solutions
• 🎯 Smart Compatibility Hints: Automatically display Base64 compatibility mode suggestions when image upload fails

🐛 Bug Fixes

• 🛡️ Timeout Handling Optimization: Improved coordination between user-defined timeout and MCP system timeout
• 🖥️ Interface Auto-close: Fixed interface auto-close and resource cleanup logic after timeout
• 📱 Responsive Layout: Optimized timeout control component display on small screen devices

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[v2.2.2] - Timeout Auto-cleanup Fix

🐛 Bug Fixes

• 🔄 Timeout Auto-cleanup: Fixed GUI/Web UI not automatically closing after MCP session timeout (default 600 seconds)
• 🛡️ Resource Management Optimization: Improved timeout handling mechanism to ensure proper cleanup and closure of all UI resources on timeout
• ⚡ Enhanced Timeout Detection: Strengthened timeout detection logic to correctly handle timeout events in various scenarios

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[v2.2.1] - Window Optimization & Unified Settings Interface

🚀 Improvements

• 🖥️ Window Size Constraint Removal: Removed GUI main window minimum size limit from 1000×800 to 400×300
• 💾 Real-time Window State Saving: Implemented real-time saving mechanism for window size and position changes
• ⚙️ Unified Settings Interface Optimization: Improved GUI settings page configuration saving logic to avoid setting conflicts

🐛 Bug Fixes

• 🔧 Window Size Constraint: Fixed GUI window unable to resize to small dimensions issue
• 🛡️ Setting Conflicts: Fixed potential configuration conflicts during settings save operations

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[v2.2.0] - Layout & Settings UI Enhancements

✨ New Features

• 🎨 Horizontal Layout Mode: GUI & Web UI combined mode adds left-right layout option for summary and feedback

🚀 Improvements

• 🎨 Improved Settings Interface: Optimized the settings page for both GUI and Web UI
• ⌨️ GUI Shortcut Enhancement: Submit feedback shortcut now fully supports numeric keypad Enter key

🐛 Bug Fixes

• 🔧 Image Duplication Fix: Resolved Web UI image pasting duplication issue

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[v2.1.1] - Window Positioning Optimization

✨ New Features

• 🖥️ Smart Window Positioning: Added "Always show window at primary screen center" setting option
• 🌐 Multi-Monitor Support: Perfect solution for complex multi-monitor setups like T-shaped screen arrangements
• 💾 Position Memory: Auto-save and restore window position with intelligent visibility detection

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[v2.1.0] - Complete Refactored Version

🎨 Major Refactoring

• 🏗️ Complete Refactoring: GUI and Web UI adopt modular architecture
• 📁 Centralized Management: Reorganized folder structure, improved maintainability
• 🖥️ Interface Optimization: Modern design and improved user experience

✨ New Features

• 🍎 macOS Interface Optimization: Specialized improvements for macOS user experience
• ⚙️ Feature Enhancement: New settings options and auto-close page functionality
• ℹ️ About Page: Added about page with version info, project links, and acknowledgments

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[v2.0.14] - Shortcut & Image Feature Enhancement

🚀 Improvements

• ⌨️ Enhanced Shortcuts: Ctrl+Enter supports numeric keypad
• 🖼️ Smart Image Pasting: Ctrl+V directly pastes clipboard images

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[v2.0.9] - Multi-language Architecture Refactor

🔄 Refactoring

• 🌏 Multi-language Architecture Refactor: Support for dynamic loading
• 📁 Modularized Language Files: Modular organization of language files

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[v2.0.3] - Encoding Issues Fix

🐛 Critical Fixes

• 🛡️ Complete Chinese Character Encoding Fix: Resolved all Chinese display related issues
• 🔧 JSON Parsing Error Fix: Fixed data parsing errors

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[v2.0.0] - Web UI Support

🌟 Major Features

• ✅ Added Web UI Support: Support for remote environments
• ✅ Auto Environment Detection: Automatically choose appropriate interface
• ✅ WebSocket Real-time Communication: Real-time bidirectional communication

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Legend

Icon	Meaning
🌟	Version Highlights
✨	New Features
🚀	Improvements
🐛	Bug Fixes
🔄	Refactoring Changes
🎨	UI Optimization
⚙️	Settings Related
🖥️	Window Related
🌐	Multi-language/Network Related
📁	File Structure
⌨️	Shortcuts
🖼️	Image Features
📝	Prompt Management
⏰	Auto-Submit
📊	Session Management
🔗	Connection Monitoring
🏗️	Architecture Changes
🛠️	Technical Improvements
📚	Documentation Updates

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Full Project Info: GitHub - mcp-feedback-enhanced