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-# Changelog
-
-All notable changes to `de-shell`. The format follows
-[Keep a Changelog](https://keepachangelog.com/en/1.1.0/), the versioning is
-[semver](https://semver.org/) with the 0.x caveat: a breaking change to the
-sidecar protocol bumps the minor.
-
-## [Unreleased]
-
-### Fixed
-- `closeApp` (testing) removes the launch's temp profile directory on every
-  path, and `launchApp` reports it as `profileDir`. Each e2e launch used to
-  leave a `<appId>-e2e-profile-*` directory behind. `pythonEnv.test.ts` now
-  removes the directories it makes.
-
-## [0.2.1] - 2026-09-02
-
-Ground Crew's shell work from after the merge base, so it can move onto the
-package too.
-
-### Added
-- `createStdoutDemux` (main): the sidecar's stdout demuxer as a chunk-list
-  accumulator that copies each byte once. The inline parser re-copied the
-  whole buffered prefix per chunk, O(N^2/chunkSize) while a large frame
-  streamed in (11.9 s per 64 MB frame at 64 KiB chunks). A malformed
-  `PLOTAPP:` line is now reported on stderr rather than swallowed.
-- `createSizeReporter` (renderer): `FigureFrame` skips the zero-size first
-  layout and any resize whose rounded size is unchanged, and holds its
-  `onResize` in a ref so an inline callback no longer re-runs the effect
-  (measured at ~1,500 sends/s over constant geometry before).
-- `attachFigure` (renderer): figure registration is owned by an effect and
-  re-registers on every run, so React StrictMode's double-invoke no longer
-  leaves a figure registered nowhere with its pane black.
-- `PIN_SCROLL`: every figure document undoes the focus-scroll that shifted a
-  fresh pane by half its overflow on first hover.
-
-### Changed
-- anyplotlib floor raised to 0.8.0, for its fix to a tiled image born on a
-  placeholder rendering solid black.
-
-## [0.2.0] — 2026-09-02
-
-The first release as its own package. Until now the shell lived as a vendored
-copy inside each of SpyDE, Ground Crew and Autopilot, and the three had
-diverged.
-
-### Added
-- **One package.** The TypeScript half (`de_shell/js`: the Electron main
-  process, the preload bridge, the React renderer kernel, the Playwright
-  harness) ships inside the wheel, so `pip install -U de-shell` moves both
-  halves of the sidecar protocol together. `python -m de_shell.js` prints where
-  the tree is; apps link it into their Electron project.
-- From SpyDE 0.4.3: the problem reporter (`errorReport`, `problemLog`,
-  `sentryEnvelope`), `recentBackendOutput`, workspace-member wheels in the
-  environment setup, an update handoff that tree-kills the sidecar first,
-  `run_on_worker`'s in-flight count and `ComputeHandle` for cancelling a
-  superseded compute.
-- From Ground Crew: the sidecar spawn-error trap, a 5 s tree-kill grace, a
-  resolved `uv` path, the open-directory dialog channel, `_pin_tile_band` for
-  large stills, JSON emit that never writes bare `NaN`, harness hardening, and
-  the unit tests for all of it.
-- From Autopilot: the close handler forgets only its own child process, a
-  report for malformed protocol messages, `useFigureEventForwarding`, and a
-  `LOG_CLEAR` action in the renderer state.
-
-### Changed
-- License: MIT (the vendored copies were GPL-3.0-or-later inside SpyDE).
-- Line endings are LF throughout, enforced by `.gitattributes`.
-
-[Unreleased]: https://github.com/directelectron/de-shell/compare/v0.2.1...HEAD
-[0.2.1]: https://github.com/directelectron/de-shell/releases/tag/v0.2.1
-[0.2.0]: https://github.com/directelectron/de-shell/releases/tag/v0.2.0
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+An end-to-end launch through the testing harness left its temporary Electron
+profile directory behind — a few megabytes per launch, and a downstream app's
+full suite added about 150. ``closeApp`` now removes it once the process is
+down, on the clean-close, hard-kill and no-app paths alike, and ``launchApp``
+reports the path as ``profileDir``.