Version 1.2.1 🔖

✨ What's New

First of all, huge thanks to @aaravmaloo for the amazing contributions! 😁

🎨 Theme System

• Added comprehensive theme support with customizable color palettes
• New chibi theme command to view and set active themes
• Support for custom themes via TOML files in DATA_DIR/themes
• Four built-in themes: default, nord, sunset, and forest
• Environment variable override: CHIBI_THEME for temporary theme switching

📊 JSON Output Support

• Added -j, --json flag to all major commands for structured JSON output
• chibi ls --json outputs media list with romaji, english, and native titles
• chibi search --json outputs search results in JSON format
• chibi profile --json outputs profile information as JSON
• chibi info --json outputs detailed media information including synonyms

📁 Data Directory Customization

• Custom data directory support via environment variables
• CHIBI_DATA_PATH (preferred) - set custom data storage location
• CHIBI_PATH (legacy fallback) - for backward compatibility
• Documentation updated with examples for both bash and PowerShell

📚 Expanded Media Information

• Added synonyms field to media info queries and responses
• Extended title metadata: romaji, english, and native titles across all commands
• Next airing episode information for anime (timestamps with countdown)
• Fixed search query spacing (words now properly separated)

🐧 AUR Package Support

• Added Arch Linux User Repository (AUR) integration
• New chibi-cli-git package for development/latest builds
• New chibi-cli-bin package for pre-built releases
• Automated PKGBUILD generation and AUR publishing in CI/CD

📖 Documentation Improvements

• New documentation pages for info and theme commands
• Updated all command guides with JSON flag examples
• Fixed documentation links (changed from develop to main branch)
• Added contributors section to README
• Custom data directory configuration guide

⚙️ Build & Deployment

• Updated GitHub Actions workflow for better build efficiency
• Added Go module caching to improve build times
• Changed trigger from pull_request to push on main branch
• Added AUR publishing workflow step

🔧 Code Quality & Refactoring

• Introduced theme system with centralized color palette management
• Separated theme colors from hardcoded hex values throughout UI
• Added comprehensive unit tests for theme loading and persistence
• Improved data path resolution with environment variable support
• Refactored media list and search UI components for JSON support
• Fixed indentation and formatting inconsistencies

📦 Dependency Updates

• Added github.com/BurntSushi/toml v1.4.0 for theme file parsing
• Bumped Go toolchain and various dependencies to latest versions
• Removed unused dependencies to keep binary size minimal

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed search media query handling (proper word spacing)
• Fixed media list rendering to show only CURRENT and REPEATING statuses
• Improved error handling for missing theme configurations
• Fixed spinner color styling to use theme palette

🎯 Other Changes

• Added APP_DIR_NAME constant for consistent directory naming
• Enhanced helper functions with new FormatAiringTs() for countdown display
• Improved code organization with separate theme and path resolution modules
• Added test coverage for data path resolution logic

Version 1.2.0 🔖

✨ What's New

• Added info command to display media information.

✨ Other Changes

• Removed keyring dependencies and switched to database storage.
• Bumped all dependencies to latest versions.
• Updated docs to use chibi logo instead of the old GIF.
• Updated build pipeline trigger rules.

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed spinner writing to stdout instead of stderr.

Version 1.1.0 🔖

✨ What's New

The chibi profile command now supports Rendering Pixel Perfect Avatar in the terminal. See supported terminals.

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New colorful help text (thanks to charmbracelet/fang)

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The Table Layout for chibi ls and chibi search commands has been redesigned to be a compact eza like layout.

✨ Other Changes

• Removed SQLite Dependencies.
• Used keyring store instead of SQLite DB.
• Removed charmbracelet/huh dependencies (forms, spinners) and implemented those manually.

Note

By reducing those dependencies, I was able to save approximately 3MB 😁.

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed an early token check in chibi ls command, which restricts from calling the AniList API.

Version 1.0.4 🔖

✨ What's New

• Chibi is now available in Snap Store for Linux users. To install chibi, run

  sudo snap install chibi

• Added Loading indicator to all API Requests.
• Added chibi logout command to log you out from AniList.
• Start Date is automatically added when chibi add command is invoked and status flag is set to watching.
• chibi update command now supports 2 new flags,
  • -n "<note>" for entry notes.
  • -r <score> for entry score.

✨ Other Changes

• Migrated from JSON file storage to Sqlite3 storage for configurations.
• Complete Architecture change for faster response.
• Added Code Comments in missing areas

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed a bad if check when handling start date. (085fff2)
• Fixed app exiting with weird error messages.
• Fixed "WinGet not detecting app version". This change will take effect when installing upcoming versions of chibi.

Thanks @mist8kengas for the contributions ☺️.

Version 1.0.3 🔖

✨ What's New

• The ls command now shows Rewatching/Rereading Media along with Current Media. The Rewatching/Rereading media will be marked by "(R)" before the media title.

• You can now pass incremental or decremental progress to update command. For example,

  To increment progress of a media by 2,

  $ chibi update 8861 -p +2

  To decrement progress of a media by 5,

  $ chibi update 8861 -p -5

🐛 Bug Fixes

• None for now 👽️

Version 1.0.2 🔖

✨ What's New

• You can now find the docs on https://chibi-cli.pages.dev/

• You can now install chibi in windows via winget. To do so, type in

  winget install chibi

• Added install/uninstall scripts for linux and macOS.

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Undo gitignoring go.sum for nix flake builds.

Version 1.0.1 🔖

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue where if there are no entries, the ls command behaves weirdly.

🚸 Improvements

• Added a --version flag where the current version of the app is printed out.
• Added a command alias list for the ls command.
• Added --status flag to the ls command where you can list anime/manga by status.

Version 1.0.0 🔖

Critical Hotfix 🚑️

Fixed some tables not rendering and throwing errors in Windows.