v2.3.0 - May 19, 2026

Added

• Replace SpotSplashForm with platform-agnostic DirectImage splash
• Add publish and deploy CLI commands
• Update setup script to refresh tool/template/workload installs
• Add --publish-single-file option to gondwana publish (desktop)
• Create holding sln in gondwana new commands
• Reuse existing solution when scaffolding new project
• Add RenderBackbufferPostScene event and OnPostRenderCanvas plugin hook

Fixed

• Add log warnings to SplashScreen.TryCreate for missing/invalid image file
• Delay Spot startup visuals/music until post-splash and hold Gondwana splash for 3s
• Make gpu acceleration restart prompt owned by Spot window
• Cache splash image as SKImage and fix disposing event handler type
• Decode splash asset once and cache as SKImage
• Tighten itch deploy validation
• Support wasm publish output directory in run command
• Remove redundant git rm --cached in sync-wiki workflow
• Update stale first-game-in-15-minutes.md links across all templates and Gondwana.Templates README
• Harden and clarify solution association messages
• Prefer existing solutions and robustly locate csproj
• Add explicit ProcessHelper namespace import
• Standardise color spelling in new XML docs and lifecycle doc
• Git-cliff PATH not refreshed after winget install; wrong winget ID in release hint
• Gondwana doctor --fix PATH not refreshed after winget install; wrong winget ID in release.ps1

Refactoring

• Rename holding solution helper to non-Try name

Documentation

• Add optional ps1 setup section to ONBOARDING.md
• Add InitializeGameContent to ONBOARDING.md lifecycle diagram
• Update CLI publish and deploy guides
• Add output-location notes to publish wasm, deploy, and deploy itch sections
• Replace first-game-in-15-minutes.md with wiki page; add CLI method tutorial
• Make Method B in first-game guide fully standalone

CI

• Swap Anthropic API for GitHub Copilot CLI in format-pr-title workflow

Maintenance

• Refine workload update messaging in setup script

Other Changes

• Add first-class SVG asset support (AssetTypes.Svg) with SvgResource and DirectSvg
• Fix SVG bitmap ownership and DirectSvg disposal issues
• Avoid redundant bitmap copies in DirectSvg
• Clarify DirectSvg bitmap ownership in dispose path
• Add engine lifecycle documentation
• Clarify engine lifecycle document introduction
• Add TOC to engine-lifecycle.md
• Add Spot startup splash with fade in/out and init overlay
• Harden Spot splash startup exception handling
• Fix Spot splash fade hang in GPU mode
• Adding gondwana-logo-text
• Including new image in assets/
• Add splash post-fade-in callback
• Refine splash callback docs
• Clarify splash callback comment
• Make publish wasm emit AppBundle path and warn when missing
• Remove duplicate AppBundle path line in publish wasm output
• Emit AppBundle path before publish guidance output
• Bump for next version
• Add recovered wiki pages to .github/wiki with updated links
• Removing defunct one-time use files
• Add core Gondwana unit test project and initial coverage suite
• Refine core test coverage and verify solution tests
• Add explicit Gondwana namespace import in TypedValueBag tests
• Fix remaining test-review issues in CoreUtility and Timer tests
• Ensure post-scene canvas hooks invalidate CPU backbuffers
• Skip post-scene hooks when no views exist
• Update CI master and labeler PR workflow behavior
• Refine CI failure gate condition for unit test step
• Add git-cliff and butler setup + doctor checks/docs
• Refactor doctor winget fix logic for git-cliff and butler
• Fix doctor --fix early return when no issues off Windows
• Rename doctor always-fix flag for clarity
• Tighten doctor always-fix predicate per item
• Updating cliff.toml
• Fix malformed format-pr-title workflow YAML by hardening multiline script blocks
• Detect Gondwana project references in gondwana info
• Enforce Gondwana.Tests in PR checks and release pre-flight
• Migrate CoordinateTest demo from BitmapBackbuffer to GPU backbuffer path
• Add repository ROADMAP.md generated from open issues with grouped, collapsible ticket details
• Improve gondwana new output with explicit project and solution locations
• Add local Gondwana.Cli reinstall script under Solution Items/scripts
• Correct git-cliff winget ID and make butler check-only in setup/doctor flows
• Collision detection helper

Full Changelog: https://github.com/Isthimius/Gondwana/compare/v2.2.4...v2.3.0