Bug Fixes and Optimization

• UI Optimizations
  • Make Chinendar date picker position more flexible
  • Fix tooltip writing direction for Vietnamese
  • Optimize HoverView and make the disappearance animated
  • Make watch face ignore horizontal safe area for better iPhone Duo experience
  • Date-time bar on iOS will turn transparent briefly when tapped to avoid blocking the view
• Preview
  • Fix widgets previews by not waiting for Location authorization in widget workflow
  • Fix various issues with App previews
• Other optimizations and bug fix
  • Force Calendar to use Georgian to fix issues where user uses a different calendar system
  • Give config Intent a default value
  • Remove reverseCount option from the calendar model
• Xcode settings
  • Enable EXISTENTIAL_ANY
  • Enable REGISTER_APP_GROUPS for macOS
  • Update project file to JSON

Fine Polish

• Add Vietnamese localization
• Update icon for OS 27
• Add Calendar entity for Siri suggestions
• Improve memory safety and concurrency safety
  • Use persistent observation tracking to auto-update states
  • No longer expose the model actor's modelContext
  • Ensure continuations are always consumed exactly once in WatchConnectivity
  • Replace unsafe memory methods involving CGPath
• Various hang optimizations
  • Reduce nested GeometryReaders
  • Cache Theme and Config
  • Only update gradients upon completion of user actions
  • Check for ColorPanel existence before invoking the shared instance
  • Precompute the timezone tree
  • Combine WatchFace bouncing animations into one transaction
  • Remove unnecessary macOS Setting frame configuration
  • Improve task cancellation to prevent unnecessary task spawning
• Other improvements
  • Prevent persistent data from syncing with iCloud in Widgets
  • Make nativeLang applicable to date selection
  • Adopt @Query sections in favor of manual sorting
  • Use SpatialEventGesture for better WatchFace bouncing animation performance
  • Add SKILL for agentic coding

Bug fix and optimization

• Fixed a bug that crashes Widget due to SwiftData model context contestion
• Fixed Font selecion bug where sometimes font family is not correctly displayed
• Fixed bugs due to the use of class object as ForEach View's id
• Optimized location task, make sure new task cancels existing ones
• Optimized watch connection, make sure continuation does not leak
• Reduced the number of GeometryReader
• Removed autoUpdateStatusBar from iOS and visionOS, instead use variable inline
• Removed calendar selection in OpenApp intention, which cannot be consistently fulfilled
• Apply native language selection to alternative datetime selection
• Changed default visionOS Settings placement to be sideway instead of the front

Native Date Time

• Added local language display for Chinendar date and time, enable in Settings -> Layout. This preference applies everywhere but the watchface.
• [iOS] Added an option to turn on status bar in Settings -> Layout, displayed below the watchface, to quick look at festivals as well as (potentially localized) date and time
• [iOS/watchOS] Revamped WatchConnection layer, rewrite in async/await flavor
• Converted Location service into an async stream
• Enabled memory safty check
• Removed Timer in favor of Task.sleep

OS 26

• Adopts Liquid Glass for various controls
• Use Liquid Glass for watchface tooltips and macOS panel background
• Adds Widgets to visionOS
• New Icon using composer
• Use SwiftUI for macOS panel
• Concurrency and WidgetIntent updates
• Optimize toolbar in Reminders page
• Add open app action to macOS and watchOS

JSON serialization

• Refactored codes in Setting views, making them much cleaner, breaking down large structs
• Unified logic for Themes and Configs, the 2 pages support the same operation set
• Added import and export for Reminder list
• Changed the export and storage format to JSON
• Redesigned control bar for macOS, merging the 2 icons into one bar
• Added Theme list view for watchOS, enabling user to choose a different theme from their phone
• Automatically update chineseCalendar whenever the config changes, also added auto update for statusBar
• Extract core calculation code into standalone repo, CelestialSystem
• Fixed a few bugs
  • Event indicator may not update timely
  • Widget refresh after quitting App may not pick up latest changes made
  • Importing wrong file may not raise correct error
  • Some translation inconsistencies
  • Reminder next date being wrong

Reminder and Notification

• Added Reminders to enable custom reminders based on Chinese calendar or Solar Terms
• Added shortcut support from Chinese calendar date to Gregorian calendar
• Adopts navigation path in all Settings views
• Expand toolbar buttons on macOS and visionOS
• Bug fixes:
  • Fix a potential crash in Time Walls on watch
  • Fix the alternative time on watch where UI may not update correctly

Siri Integration and Calendar Conversion

1. Supports Siri / Shortcut, with both prebuilt and customizable shortcuts
2. Supports Control Center and action button
3. Supports dark icon and tinted icon/widget
4. Adds conversion from Chinendar date to Gregorian date
   • Full support for both date and time
   • Easy-to-use UI resembles system date picker
5. Adds next Chinendar holiday widget and Siri shortcut
6. [dev] Adopts Swift 6 mode, eliminating potential data race
7. [dev] Adds a few unit tests on ChineseCalendar struct
8. [dev] Uses different Bundle ID and disables iCloud syncing for debug mode

New Solar System Model

1. Improves planet position accuracy, and also most noticeably, moon rise/set time accuracy.
   Now the moon time should be accurate to about 2 minutes.
2. Refactors code in Calendar, grouped methods by functionality.

World Times

1. Now you can manage multiple calendars, switch between different timezones at ease
2. Starting angle of rings are now customizable
3. Long press on a theme now shows a preview on a theme
4. Bug fix