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Generated report

Release Notes

Published
By
Bob Bergman

Generated with timbers draft release-notes --last 20 | claude -p --model opus

I'll pull the release notes from the entries, filtering to only user-observable changes.

New Features

  • You can now run timbers report to turn captured decisions into a finished report from a named profile — no manual selection or prompt-wrangling required.
  • Timbers now records who contributed to each entry automatically, drawn from Git authors and Co-authored-by trailers, so credit survives rebases, squashes, and pruning.
  • Use --who "Name <email>" to set contributors explicitly for pairing, shared work, bots, or corrections — repeatable, and it replaces the automatically captured set.
  • New recurring report baselines ship as ready-to-run profiles, including a user-focused project update, so common reports work without setup.
  • Generated reports now carry contributor attribution, and the published site shows optional bylines.

Improvements

  • The project site has a new Working Mill theme with a redesigned hero, refined typography, dark mode, and reduced-motion-safe visuals.
  • Reports read as finished, direct artifacts — generated output no longer exposes model selection or drafting notes.

Bug Fixes

  • Standup reports now include contributors as promised; earlier versions omitted them from the report input.
  • Corrupt or malformed ledger entries no longer vanish silently — they surface in timbers doctor and query output, and timbers draft/timbers report now fail cleanly instead of emitting a partial artifact.
  • The site hero install command no longer forces an oversized horizontal scrollbar.

Breaking Changes

  • The built-in ADR generator has been replaced by a non-authoritative decision digest that cites its source entries. Generated digests no longer carry ADR numbers or lifecycle status — keep your hand-authored ADRs as the authoritative record; they remain unaffected. Automated migration not detailed in the entries.