Changelog

0.1.7 - 2026-07-28

Make Phoenix integration optional and support installation into plain Mix projects.
Simplify Web and desktop artifact publication while preserving complete outputs during replacement.
Run Rekindle setup before asset builds and apply installer defaults when target options are omitted.
Validate plugin Cargo dependencies and resolve custom publication paths consistently.

Replace the fixed framework registry with a public plugin contract.
Generate Cargo manifests from plugin specifications while keeping Cargo authoritative after installation.
Let external Igniter packages provide client resources and delegate project installation to Rekindle.
Configure framework support exclusively through plugin modules and keep generated Cargo projects application-owned.

Make the generated Rust Web UI the primary Phoenix page surface for GPUI, egui, and Slint.
Preserve each framework's upstream starter UI across Web and desktop targets.
Keep the Slint Web event loop and UI instance alive after startup.
Serve WebAssembly with the standard application/wasm media type.
Keep freshly installed Phoenix projects formatted and passing their default controller tests.

Start one supervised Web development runtime from the first Rekindle.DevServer request, without a Phoenix endpoint watcher.
Run headless Web or native desktop development explicitly through mix rekindle.dev.
Separate enabled build targets from the target selected for development and default combined projects to Web.
Serve development Web generations through the host-independent Rekindle.DevServer Plug.
Allow Web release publication below a configured :public_dir.
Route build notifications only to their target-specific development runtime.

Use Phoenix's standard mix phx.server command for development and remove the redundant mix rekindle.dev wrapper.
Integrate Web builds with mix assets.build, simplify generated target configuration, and preserve application-owned Rust UI source.
Add concise build timing, browser loading and failure feedback, and Web development lifecycle events.
Integrate target-aware Rust formatting, Clippy, and library checks with Phoenix's mix precommit alias.

Simplified external process ownership, artifact publication, and installation.
Fixed Phoenix development entry resolution and runtime startup behavior.
Added staged desktop release replacement and stricter process option validation.
Added automated architecture, dead-code, and code-smell checks.
Fixed Web publication at priv/static/rekindle and removed the :public_dir option.
Restricted installation to newly generated clients instead of adopting an existing client/.
Replaced retained desktop generations and restart rollback with a single current executable.