Changelog

All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file. Format follows Keep a Changelog; versioning follows Semantic Versioning.

[0.1.2] - 2026-06-27

Windows distribution fix.

Windows release binary is now statically linked against the MSVC C runtime (+crt-static). The previous build dynamically linked vcruntime140.dll, so tslime.exe failed to launch on a clean Windows without the VC++ 2015–2022 redistributable — silently, with no error, making tslime appear to do nothing. This restores the single-static-binary guarantee on Windows.
README Windows install snippet now handles an unset user PATH (avoids writing a leading ;).

Distribution and release-pipeline fixes.

Linux release binary is now statically linked (musl target), so the single tslime-linux-x86_64 download runs on any x86_64 Linux distribution regardless of glibc version.
Install documentation now leads with cargo install and a Homebrew tap; see the README for per-platform paths.

macOS distribution: prebuilt macOS binaries are no longer published (the previous one was Gatekeeper-blocked and mislabeled as x86_64 while actually being arm64). Install on macOS via brew install tamirelazar/tslime/tslime or cargo install tslime, both of which avoid Gatekeeper.

Homebrew tap tamirelazar/homebrew-tslime (source build).
One-paste install blocks for Linux and Windows in the README: they fetch the latest release binary, install it to a user directory, put it on PATH, and (on Windows) clear the Mark-of-the-Web so SmartScreen stays quiet.
Nix flake: nix run github:tamirelazar/tslime runs tslime ephemerally without installing; nix build and nix profile install are also supported.
Docker image on GHCR: docker run --rm -it ghcr.io/tamirelazar/tslime runs tslime ephemerally without installing (published on release; linux/amd64).

First public release.

Physarum simulation (Jones 2010 model) with 31 presets and runtime parameter controls
trademark preset (alias logo) — the tslime logo held as a stable figure (constellation re-stamp behavior with the embedded logo image as the template); bound to quick-key 4 by default
Terminal rendering: half-block, ASCII, braille, quadrant, shade, points, and sculpted charsets; 22 OKLch-based color palettes
Screensaver and interactive modes; pause, restart, preset/palette cycling at runtime
GIF, PNG, and WebM export
Window-frame display modes
README hero demo: a looping montage that grows the tslime logo across the Organic, Constellation, Vinescii, and Trademark launch presets
README gallery: six looping demos of the runtime controls — palette cycling, character sets, preset transitions, randomize, live parameter tuning, and the palette editor (replaces the earlier static preset stills)
No-notifications mode: suppress transient toasts and ambient parameter readouts for a clean field. Start with --no-notifications; toggle live with Ctrl+N. User-opened overlays (controls, palette editor, dashboard, preset transitions) are unaffected.
vinescii preset — the vines (flocking) pattern in pure ASCII
Experimental: multi-species, choir audio, and GUI (feature-gated); WASM build (standalone crate)

Quick-keys 1–4 now switch the launch presets (Organic, Constellation, Vinescii, Trademark).
Preset pass: renamed pulse→slime, flocking→vines, ripple→smoke, lumen→mold (old names still accepted as CLI aliases); per-preset visual tuning applied (braille/quadrant charsets, palette assignments, auto-normalize, window frames); constellation re-rolls its init layout on reset and auto-resets on collapse.
Fixed the stale --preset help text (was listing removed presets).

Custom key bindings via ~/.config/tslime/keybinds.toml: bind keys 1–7 to any preset or saved config; user binds override the defaults. A/B compare (Shift+1–7) works for bound presets and configs. The ? overlay shows live bindings.