Changelog

Generated from CHANGELOG.md in the project repository. Never maintained twice.

Unreleased

31 October 2026

changed**CLI help and explain-rule:** removed references to the internal, unpublished todo.md.
changedREADME: lists every subcommand and the network feature.
changedProject site: the start page shows an animated terminal scene from real judge output and a diagram of the baseline-to-verdict flow; install variants, judge.toml, the CI step and the deep tier are covered in the documentation.
changedDocs: the Baselines and CI guide shows how cargo judge compare reaches its verdict and exit code as a diagram.
changedProject site: the start page now carries a release teaser and an FAQ (theme 0.11.1).
fixedDocs: the library API docs build without warnings, with and without --all-features; links to private, feature-gated or removed items are now plain code spans.

29 August 2026

addedcargo judge deps --why CRATE shows one dependency's source usages, enabled features, dependency kind and resolved graph paths.
addedcargo judge refactor --format json includes a ranked next_actions summary (top 10), derived from the same candidate ranking as the full list.
changedSource reorganised into rules/, advisory/ and commands/. Library paths moved from judge::X to judge::rules::X and judge::advisory::X.
removedThe dead audit tool of judge-mcp.
fixedcargo judge dupes --format json no longer truncates the family list to 5.
fixedFour false positives in the slop and structural rules, found by running judge on itself.

29 July 2026

breakingjudge is now a purely deterministic current-state analyzer. It no longer reads Git history, authorship or churn.
breakingRemoved cargo judge distribution, cargo judge provenance and cargo judge audit --since. Use structure, slop and compare instead; see MIGRATION.md.
breakingBaselines no longer record a commit hash; they are artifact-based JSON snapshots.
changedThe gix dependency is gone, so judge works in archives, CI artifacts and vendored code.
changedHTTP lookups against crates.io are compiled only with --features network.

29 July 2026

addedstructure, complexity, refactor, api, errors, tests, unsafe and slop as focused views of the current project state.
addedcargo judge compare compares a saved baseline artifact with the current workspace.
addedThe bare cargo judge report groups findings by rule with a representative location; --details keeps the complete list.
addedcargo judge --format markdown writes a review-ready summary to .judge/judge.md.
changedTerminal reports use a shared renderer for verdicts, evidence groups, source locations, colour policy and next steps.

29 July 2026

addedJSON reports are written to .judge/<command>.json by default (--output PATH to override). Every artifact starts with a header and a non-binding triage assessment.
addedmap and impact expose workspace and change context for refactoring work.
addedDuplicate-code output includes a prioritised refactoring summary.

16 July 2026