* docs(changelog): weekly digest 2026-08-10–2026-08-17
Rewritten from `git log --no-merges` grouped by type and scope rather than
polished from the generator draft.
The window overlaps last week's digest. 106 non-merge commits land inside
2026-08-10T00:00:00Z..2026-08-18T00:00:00Z, but five were already published
in the Aug 3-10 entry (#3148, #3149, #3150, #3089, #3151, all dated Aug 10).
Those are excluded by set-subtracting the 109 SHAs that entry cites, so this
covers 101 commits and cites 89 PRs. The release range is corrected the same
way: last week claimed v0.7.90 through v0.7.105, and both the v0.7.104 and
v0.7.105 release commits fall inside this window, so this week is v0.7.106
through v0.7.109.
Verified at HEAD rather than from commit bodies:
- The audio FX rack is behind the `audio-fx-rack` canary at percentage 0 in
canaryRegistry.ts, and the gate site is real: PropertyPanelFlat.tsx reads
isCanaryEnabled("audio-fx-rack"). It is described as staged, not shipped.
The flag gates the authoring surface only, so a composition that already
carries data-fx-chain still plays and renders, and that is stated.
- The video primitive moves were added, reverted twenty minutes later
because their previews did not deploy, then relanded with the workflow
fixed. Only the end state is announced.
- The CLI canary route was added and reverted inside the window, so the
revert is what gets reported.
- The preview volume control landed after v0.7.109, so it is called out as
shipping in the next release rather than as available now.
Every SHA is emitted by a script that refuses to write unless it resolves to
40 chars, prefix-matches its abbreviation, is an ancestor of origin/main,
falls inside the window, and was not cited by the previous digest. Six
negative controls confirm each check rejects, and a positive control confirms
valid input still writes. No SHA was hand-typed.
* docs(changelog): embed the weekly video in the Aug 10-17 digest
45.1s square film built from the changelog-video skill. Uploaded to
static.heygen.ai and the CloudFront path invalidated and verified serving.
* docs(changelog): weekly digest 2026-08-03–2026-08-10
Rewritten from `git log --no-merges` grouped by type and scope, not polished
from the generator draft. The generator's picks were a 10-item list that put
two internal tooling commits in Highlights, split the router story across
three bullets that supersede each other, and covered none of the week's 70
fixes or 76 docs commits. This cites 109 commits and 45 PRs.
Verified at HEAD rather than from commit bodies:
- The DE parallel router is default-on for every install. The canary entry is
gone from canaryRegistry.ts and render.ts no longer gates it. Framed as a
restoration, since the canary had cut fleet exposure to 0.13 percent.
- Catalog meaning search is opt-in behind a 33 MB consented download, so it
is not described as default behaviour.
- The Reference Project landed and was removed inside the same window, so it
is reported as both rather than announced as new.
- 30 Days really does carry thirty distinct films. Examples now has 23, not
the 19 its commit subject claims, so no count is published for it.
Every SHA is expanded from a token by a script that refuses to write unless
it resolves to 40 chars, prefix-matches, is an ancestor of origin/main and
falls inside the window. No SHA was hand-typed.
* docs(changelog): correct release range to v0.7.90 in weekly digest
v0.7.91 was never published. Its artifacts were folded into v0.7.92, so
the sequence goes v0.7.90 -> v0.7.92 and the window's first release is
v0.7.90. Still fifteen releases.
* docs(changelog): embed the weekly video in the Aug 3-10 digest
45.1s square film built from the changelog-video skill. Uploaded to
static.heygen.ai and the CloudFront path invalidated.
Measured across all 136 hand-written pages, the twelve hardest to read were all
in prompting/. These ten were untouched — 29% to 40% of their sentences ran over
28 words, against a site median under 15%.
media-and-audio 39.7% -> 6.2% 15 semicolons -> 6
visual-specs 37.1% -> 19.0% 11 -> 9
weekly-updates 39.1% -> 0.0%
runtimes-and-3d 34.1% -> 17.5%
design-systems 34.0% -> 4.3%
recreating-references 33.3% -> 7.3% 16 -> 1
storyboards 31.9% -> 5.4%
variables-and-templating 30.3% -> 7.3%
generated-artwork 29.4% -> 9.1%
explainers 29.1% -> 3.3% 12 -> 1
Word counts barely move — 1752 to 1748, 1633 to 1617 — which is the point. The
facts and worked examples all survived; the sentences carrying them got shorter.
weekly-updates is an archive, so no date, version or fact changed there at all.
One anchor came back: capstone#the-full-prompt-verbatim, which these pages link
to and which an earlier commit had already moved to #the-prompt-word-for-word.
Repointed. Branch total: 0 broken pages, 0 broken anchors.
Thirty-two published videos were the raw render output. One 20-second catalog
preview was 60 MB at 25 Mbps — Blu-ray bitrate for a screen capture in a docs
page. Nothing autoplays, so no page shipped that silently, but a reader who
pressed play paid for it.
Re-encoded at 1280 wide, CRF 28, faststart, keeping audio where it existed.
Measured PSNR against the originals at ~38.5 dB, which is visually identical —
the first check I ran returned nothing and I mistook that for a pass, so this
number comes from a filter that actually worked.
Worth correcting one thing I said earlier: the catalog is not systemically
over-encoded. 190 videos, 0.36 GB, about 1.9 MB each. Six were over 10 MB. I
found two monsters and generalised from them.
Pages carrying more than 8 MB of video: 26 before, and the heaviest went from
140 MB to under 15 MB.
The durable fix is in generate-catalog-previews.ts, which had no delivery encode
at all — it published the render master directly. It has a web pass now, so the
next preview is born small instead of being cleaned up later.
Rewrites the pages that survive the restructure so they lead with what a reader
can accomplish, and points them at the sections added in the previous commit.
Page set and navigation are unchanged here; only content moves.
Keeps the skill count in README. CLAUDE.md's catalog-maintenance rule requires
the count to live in README and CLAUDE.md, and both now agree with the 19
directories under skills/.
## What
Adds the weekly digest entry for July 20 to July 27, 2026 to `docs/weekly-updates.mdx`.
Generated with `bun run changelog:weekly --from 2026-07-20 --to 2026-07-27 --write`, then rewritten to publish quality: entries grouped under Features, Fixes, and Docs, prose rewritten to describe user impact, and the `<!-- TODO: review -->` marker removed.
## Why
Keeps the public weekly-updates page current. The digest is the RSS-backed summary readers get between versioned releases.
## How
- Ran the generator over the July 20 to July 27 range.
- Rewrote the new `<Update>` block: 11 Features, 15 Fixes, 3 Docs bullets.
- Every commit and PR link the generator produced for these entries is retained. No link was invented; all references trace back to `updates/weekly/2026-07-27.md`.
- Headline items: professional color grading across core, Studio, and the CLI; a versioned distributed plan protocol with direct S3 and GCS publishing; the Studio keyframe ease editor; data-driven registry caption components.
- `renderStretch` (#2676) is deliberately omitted, since it was reverted in the same window by #2730 and is not present at HEAD.
- CI-only performance and internal refactor entries are omitted as not user-facing.
## Test plan
Docs-only change. No runtime code touched.
- [ ] Unit tests added/updated
- [x] Manual testing performed
- [x] Documentation updated (if applicable)
Verification performed:
- `git diff origin/main --stat` shows only `docs/weekly-updates.mdx`, 49 insertions and 0 deletions (purely additive, the prior week's entry is untouched).
- Confirmed the TODO marker is gone from the file.
- Confirmed every commit SHA and PR number in the new block appears in the generator's own draft, and that each link label matches its href.
- Confirmed the block contains no em-dashes and no stray JSX-unsafe characters outside inline code.
- `node scripts/check-tracked-artifacts.mjs` passes.
* docs(changelog): weekly digest 2026-07-13–2026-07-20
* docs(changelog): embed the weekly video in the Jul 13-20 digest
Adds the Jul 13-20 changelog video (produced via the changelog-video
skill, hosted at static.heygen.ai) at the top of the Update block using
Mintlify's <Frame> component with a native <video controls>.
Video URL: https://static.heygen.ai/hyperframes/changelog-videos/weekly-changelog-jul13-20.mp4
Slack thread: C0ACCNHLG3U · 1784565857.520599
Auto-generated weekly digest (bun run changelog:weekly), hand-cleaned to
publish quality. Grouped into Features / Fixes / Performance / Docs &
Examples with readable one-liners and commit + PR links.
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
James Russo