busymirror/CHANGELOG.md

Changelog

All notable changes to BusyMirror will be documented in this file.

[1.8.2] - 2026-08-27

Changed

• Standard app instead of menu-bar-only. Removed LSUIElement from Info.plist: BusyMirror now shows a Dock icon, appears in Cmd+Tab, and gets the standard app menu (Cmd+Q to quit, among others). The menu bar extra stays as a secondary quick-access point. This also fixes the practical problem it was causing: with no Dock icon and no accessible app menu, there was no reliable way to quit the app to let an update replace the bundle — you had to know the menu bar dropdown's "Quit BusyMirror" existed and use exactly that. Verified via lsappinfo (type="Foreground", previously UIElement) since this app type change isn't something a screenshot would catch either.

[1.8.1] - 2026-08-26

Fixed

• Preferences window unreachable: 1.8.0's Settings scene (⌘,) and its SettingsLink button didn't work because BusyMirror is an LSUIElement (accessory) app — those don't get the standard app menu, so there's no menu for the automatic "Settings…" command or Cmd+, to live in. Replaced the Settings { } scene with a plain Window(id: "preferences-window"), opened via openWindow(id:) — the same mechanism that already reliably opens the main window from the menu bar. Also added a "Preferences…" item to the menu bar dropdown itself, so there are two direct routes in instead of one that depended on OS menu plumbing this app type doesn't get. (BusyMirrorApp.swift, MenuBarSupport.swift, ContentView.swift)

[1.8.0] - 2026-08-26

Added

• Real Settings (⌘,) window: PreferencesView now hosts the pure-defaults controls (time window, privacy/mirroring defaults, title prefix/placeholder, work hours, skip filters) that used to live in the main window's "General Settings" panel. They're @AppStorage-backed so both windows always see the same live values. Main window keeps everything with session/live state: routes, calendar picker, dry-run toggle, Export/Import, manual scheduling, cleanup.
• Menu bar icon reflects state: idle (calendar.badge.clock), syncing (arrow.triangle.2.circlepath.circle.fill), or last run failed (exclamationmark.triangle.fill).
• Menu bar dropdown diagnostics: last-sync time and result, and whether auto-sync is currently armed — sourced from the same lastRunAtISO/lastRunOK/lastRunSummary keys --status reads, so CLI/interactive/auto-sync runs all feed the same indicator.
• ContentView.swift split from ~2000 lines into CalendarsSectionView, RoutesSectionView, ScheduleSectionView, LogSectionView (plus a small shared CalendarDisplay.swift). View-layer extraction — state ownership and settings persistence were deliberately left untouched, since that's exactly the area the 1.6.0/1.6.1 release had to fix a real data-loss bug in.

Fixed

• Latent revert-on-relaunch bug, caught while building the Settings window: moving the @AppStorage-backed preference controls out of ContentView meant changing them no longer re-triggered saveSettingsToDefaults(), so the settings.v2 snapshot blob could go stale relative to the individual UserDefaults keys. Since loadSettingsFromDefaults() used the same full applySnapshot as Import, the next launch would silently revert a preference you'd just changed in Preferences back to whatever the stale blob had. Fixed by splitting launch-time restore into a narrow restoreLaunchState (routes + manual selection only — the only state that isn't already self-restoring via @AppStorage) separate from applySnapshot (unchanged, still used by Import where overwriting everything is the point). (ContentView.swift)

[1.7.0] - 2026-08-26

Added

• Event-driven background sync, replacing the hourly launchd StartInterval poll (which only fired if the Mac happened to be awake at that instant, and got throttled/coalesced by macOS). Once saved routes exist, the app registers as a login item (SMAppService.mainApp), removes any previously-installed launchd schedule, and reacts to EKEventStoreChanged (debounced ~3s), NSWorkspace.didWakeNotification (resync after sleep), and a 30-minute fallback timer as a safety net for a missed notification. Auto-sync always writes (writeEnabled: true) regardless of the interactive dry-run toggle, matching what the old scheduled --write 1 runs did.
• This logic lives in BusyMirrorAppController, not ContentView — the controller is owned by the App struct for the whole process lifetime, whereas ContentView's own EKEventStoreChanged observer is torn down in .onDisappear when the main window closes (confirmed: MenuBarSupport.swift's "Sync Now" already reopens the window before syncing, which only makes sense if the window's state is discarded on close). Auto-sync needs to work with the window closed, so it can't live there. (MenuBarSupport.swift)

[1.6.1] - 2026-08-26

Added

• Sync reminders: new "Sync reminders when mirroring" option (global and per-route) copies source event alarms/relative offsets into mirrored placeholders. This lets calendars that are synced to a phone ring for mirrored events. When merging is enabled, only the first event's alarms are preserved for a merged block. (ContentView.swift, MirrorEngine.swift, BlockMath.swift)
• CLI flag --sync-reminders to enable reminder syncing from scripted/headless runs.
• CLI polish: --help/-h, --list-calendars, and --status (all support --json for machine-readable output). Scheduled/headless runs now record last-run time, success/failure, and a summary so --status can report real diagnostics instead of just log-file grepping. Failure paths (no calendar access, no saved routes) now exit with distinct nonzero codes instead of always exiting 0. (ContentView.swift)

Fixed

• Settings silently wiped on upgrade: SettingsPayload used fully auto-synthesized Codable, so decoding a settings blob written by an older build (missing a field added since, e.g. syncReminders) threw keyNotFound and failed the entire decode — not just that one field. The app then ran with in-code defaults (empty routes, filters, etc.), and the next autosave persisted that empty state back over the real data. SettingsPayload now has a custom init(from:) that reads every field added after the first release with decodeIfPresent + its existing default, matching the pattern Route already used. loadSettingsFromDefaults() also now recovers routes from the legacy routes.v1 backup key if settings.v2 decodes successfully but with an empty routes array — repairing installs that already hit this bug before upgrading. (ContentView.swift, SettingsPayloadTests.swift)

[1.5.1] - 2026-05-27

Fixed

• Mirror index dirtied on every sync: MirrorRecord used synthesized Equatable which included updatedAt: Date = Date(). Because updatedAt is set to the current time whenever a record is constructed, the comparison used to detect changes always returned "not equal", causing UserDefaults to be written on every sync run even when nothing changed. A custom == / hash(into:) now excludes updatedAt. (MirrorEngine.swift)
• Mirror URL corruption with special characters in calendar IDs: buildMirrorURL placed raw calendar and source IDs into the URL path without percent-encoding them. If any ID contained the ; separator character the resulting URL would be mis-parsed on the next sync. mirrorURLComponentEncode (which already existed and was tested) is now called on all ID fields before they are joined. The path is set via percentEncodedPath to prevent URLComponents from double-encoding the already-encoded values. (MirrorUtils.swift)
• Dead constant: removed unused SKIP_ALL_DAY_DEFAULT = true from ContentView.swift.
• Deprecated FileHandle API: replaced FileHandle(forWritingAtPath:) + handle.closeFile() with the modern throwing FileHandle(forWritingTo:), handle.seekToEnd(), and handle.write(contentsOf:) in AppLogStore. (AppLogStore.swift)
• Cleanup jumps calendar picker: runCleanupForRoute was mutating sourceIndex, sourceID, and targetIDs during route cleanup, visibly shifting the picker in the UI. Cleanup does not need to update the UI selection; those mutations are removed.
• --exit flag redundancy: NSApp.terminate was called whenever isCLIRun was true, making --exit a no-op. The app now exits only when --exit is explicitly passed, so --routes / --run-saved-routes can be used without forcing termination.

Added

• Live calendar refresh: the calendar list now updates automatically when the system calendar database changes (EKEventStoreChanged notification), removing the need to press "Refresh Calendars" after adding or removing a calendar. The observer is unregistered on view disappear and re-registered when the EKEventStore is recreated. (ContentView.swift)

Changed

• AppLogStore extracted: moved from an inline private enum in ContentView.swift to its own file AppLogStore.swift for easier navigation. (AppLogStore.swift)
• Block.span factory: added Block.span(start:end:) to replace the repetitive Block(start:end:srcStableID:nil:label:nil:notes:nil:occurrence:nil) construction pattern throughout BlockMath.swift and MirrorEngine.swift. (BlockMath.swift)
• Removed redundant MainActor.run wrappers: MirrorEngine is @MainActor; wrapping store.save / store.remove in try await MainActor.run { } was unnecessary and added overhead. (MirrorEngine.swift)
• SettingsPayload indentation: the nested struct was de-dented to column 0 inside ContentView, making it look like a top-level type. Indentation is now consistent with the surrounding members.

Build

• Bump version to 1.5.1 (build 20).

[1.5.0] - 2026-05-27

Removed

• Mark Private feature: removed the non-functional server-side "Private" flagging for mirrored events. The Objective-C runtime hack (setPrivate:, KVC on sensitivity/classification) never worked reliably and would have blocked App Store review. This simplifies the UI and removes a private-API liability.

Changed

• Extracted mirror engine: the ~500-line runMirror and runCleanup logic has been moved from ContentView.swift into a new MirrorEngine.swift class. ContentView now delegates to the engine via makeEngine().
• MirrorRecord, mirror index persistence, and SAME_TIME_TOL_MIN now live in the engine module.
• calLabel moved to MirrorUtils.swift so it can be shared between UI and engine.

Build

• Bump version to 1.5.0 (build 19).

[1.4.0] - 2026-05-27

Fixed

• Sandbox LaunchAgent: added temporary-exception entitlement so scheduled runs work in the sandboxed app.
• Mirror URL generation: buildMirrorURL was silently broken — URL(string:) rejects raw | characters on current macOS, so mirror metadata URLs were always nil. Rebuilt with URLComponents using ; separator and backward-compatible parser.
• Crash on Cleanup: runCleanup() no longer crashes if the selected source calendar was removed.
• State corruption in multi-route runs: runConfiguredRoutes no longer mutates global @State settings and restores them at the end of each loop; instead it passes a MirrorConfig struct into the engine.
• KVC safety: removed misleading do-catch around setValue:forKey: in setEventPrivateIfSupported() (Objective-C exceptions are uncatchable in Swift).
• Log memory leak: in-memory log now caps at 2,000 lines.
• CLI race: tryRunCLIIfPresent() now preloads calendars when access is already granted, eliminating the 10-second timeout race.
• launchCtl output: stdout and stderr now use separate pipes instead of interleaving into one.

Added

• Cancel button: long-running mirrors now show a Cancel button; loops check Task.isCancelled for responsive cancellation.
• Progress indicator: multi-route runs display "Route X of Y" in the status area.
• Unit tests: 45 tests across BlockMathTests, MirrorUtilsTests, and EventFiltersTests.
• Extracted modules: BlockMath.swift, MirrorUtils.swift, EventFilters.swift, and MirrorConfig.swift separate pure logic from the UI monolith.
• Target event cache: target calendars shared across routes are fetched only once per run session.

Changed

• mergeGapMin is now a computed property instead of redundant @State.
• Log editor is now read-only (still selectable/copyable).
• SettingsPayload.excludedOrganizerFilters is now non-optional for consistency.

Build

• Bump minimum macOS version to 15.5 in Info.plist.
• Bump version to 1.4.0 (build 18).

[1.3.9] - 2026-04-09

• New: add a macOS menu bar extra with Sync Now, Open BusyMirror, and Quit BusyMirror.
• UX: menu bar sync requests reuse the existing mirror flow and can open the main window automatically when needed.
• UX: BusyMirror now runs as a menu bar-only app and no longer appears in the Dock.
• Build: bump version to 1.3.9 (build 17).

[1.3.8] - 2026-04-08

• Fix: release ZIPs now package BusyMirror.app at the archive root instead of embedding the full build path.
• Fix: release builds now apply an ad-hoc bundle signature before packaging so downloaded artifacts pass codesign --verify --deep --strict.
• Build: suppress resource fork sidecars in release ZIPs via ditto --norsrc --keepParent.
• Build: bump version to 1.3.8 (build 16).

[1.3.7] - 2026-03-24

• Fix: mirror reconciliation now survives target providers that strip BusyMirror's custom event URL metadata.
• Fix: moved and deleted source events are tracked via stable EventKit identifiers and a persisted local mirror index, so target placeholders update reliably.
• Fix: mirror updates now detect title and notes changes, not just start/end time changes.
• Build: bump version to 1.3.7 (build 15).

[1.3.6] - 2026-03-13

• Scheduling: add in-app Scheduled runs controls to install or remove a user launchd LaunchAgent from BusyMirror itself.
• Scheduling: support Hourly, Daily, and Weekdays schedules; hourly mode runs saved routes via StartInterval.
• UX: generate and ship a proper macOS app icon set for BusyMirror.
• Build: bump version to 1.3.6 (build 14).

[1.3.4] - 2026-03-13

• Fix: route-scoped cleanup no longer deletes placeholders created by other source routes during the same multi-route run.
• Fix: stale calendars are pruned from saved selections and routes during refresh, and refresh now recreates EKEventStore for a hard reload.
• UX: the top bar DRY RUN / WRITE status pill is clickable, the left column keeps its own height on desktop, and the app can reveal its log file from the UI.
• Logging: mirror activity is persisted to ~/Library/Logs/BusyMirror/BusyMirror.log with simple rotation to BusyMirror.previous.log.
• CLI: add --run-saved-routes so scheduled launchd runs can use the saved UI routes instead of fragile index-based route definitions.

[1.3.1] - 2025-10-13

• Fix: auto-delete of mirrored placeholders when the source is removed now works even if no source instances remain in the window. Also cleans legacy mirrors without URLs by matching exact times.

[1.3.2] - 2025-10-13

• New: Organizer filters — skip events by organizer (name/email/URL). UI under Options and persisted in settings.
• CLI: add --exclude-organizers (and --exclude-titles) flags to control filters when running headless.

[1.2.4] - 2025-10-10

• Fix: enable “Mirror Now” when Routes are defined even if no Source/Targets are checked in the main window. Button now enables if either routes exist or a manual selection is present.

[1.3.0] - 2025-10-10

• New: Mark Private option to mirror with prefix + real title and set event privacy on supported servers; available globally and per-route; persisted.
• Misc: calendar access fixes, concurrency annotations, accepted‑only filter, settings autosave/restore, Mirror Now enablement.

[1.2.3] - 2025-10-10

• Fix: reliably save and restore settings between runs via autosave of key options and restoration of source/target selections by persistent IDs.
• UX: persist Source and Target selections; rebuild indices on launch so UI matches saved IDs.
• Build: bump version to 1.2.3 (build 5).

[1.2.1] - 2025-10-10

• Fix: reinitialize EKEventStore after permission grant to avoid “Loaded 0 calendars” right after approval.
• Fix: attendee status filter uses current user’s attendee participantStatus == .accepted instead of unavailable APIs.
• Concurrency: mark requestAccess() and reloadCalendars() as @MainActor to satisfy strict concurrency checks.
• Dev: add Makefile with build-debug, build-release, and package targets; produce versioned ZIP + SHA-256.

[1.2.0] - 2024-09-29

• Feature: multi-route mirroring, overlap modes, merge gaps, work hours filter, CLI support, export/import settings.