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• Update package.json (78f769c)

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Release v2025.10.27.140

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• 🛠️ [fix] Improve path handling and test reliability

This update introduces several fixes and enhancements to improve robustness, especially around path resolution and test execution.

• Source Code Changes

  • 🛠️ [fix] Strengthens cache path resolution by adding error handling for [System.IO.Path]::IsPathRooted. This prevents crashes when processing paths with invalid characters, returning null instead.

• Testing and Build Changes

  • 🧪 [test] Updates tests to be more resilient and accurate.
    • Improves test state management by using try...finally blocks to correctly restore environment and global variables, ensuring test isolation.
    • Refines assertions to be more specific, particularly for cache path and text emission tests, to correctly reflect behavior under different conditions (like output redirection).
    • Corrects a potential issue in a test by ensuring a Where-Object result is always treated as an array.
  • 👷 [ci] Enhances the module test script (Test-Module.ps1).
    • Introduces a helper function to reliably retrieve the module's cache directory, even if it hasn't been initialized yet.
    • Skips the PSScriptAnalyzer test with a warning if the module is not installed, preventing script failure in environments without it.
  • 🧹 [chore] [dependency] Updates the module version and updates related help files.

Signed-off-by: Nick2bad4u [email protected] (9c540a3)

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Release v2025.10.25.536

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• ✨ [feat] Expand colorscript collection to 498 and add slideshow functionality

🎨 Colorscript Collection Expansion

• Increases available colorscripts from 327 to 498 (52% growth) 📚
• Updates all documentation and metadata references across README files and module manifest
• Reflects new collection size in cache documentation (~4.9MB for 498 scripts)

🎬 New Show-ColorScript Slideshow Capability

• Adds -All parameter to cycle through all colorscripts in alphabetical order 🔄
• Introduces -WaitForInput flag for manual progression with spacebar between each script ⏸️
• Supports 'q' key to exit slideshow early for better user control
• Works seamlessly with existing -Category filter for themed slideshows
• Updates XML help documentation with three new usage examples demonstrating slideshow features

📦 Build Tooling Enhancement

• Adds git-cliff dependency (v2.10.1) to package.json for automated changelog generation
• Installs supporting dependencies: execa, figures, get-stream, human-signals, is-plain-obj, is-stream, is-unicode-supported, npm-run-path, pretty-ms, cross-spawn, and platform-specific git-cliff binaries 🔨

🕐 Version & Timestamp Updates

• [dependency] Updates module version from 2025.10.20.1440 to 2025.10.25.0124
• Updates generated timestamp in manifest to reflect latest build date

Enables richer user interaction for exploring the expanded colorscript library while maintaining backward compatibility with existing cmdlet usage.

Signed-off-by: Nick2bad4u [email protected] (0d48754)

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Release v2025.10.20.1920

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• ⚡ [perf] Improves module loading and execution speed

Improves the module's performance by optimizing configuration handling, script inventory, and metadata loading, and introduces a performance playbook.

• ⚡ [perf] Implements lazy loading for cache and configuration:
• • Initializes the cache directory and loads configuration only when needed, avoiding unnecessary overhead during module import.
• ⚡ [perf] Optimizes configuration saving:
• • Adds a check to prevent writing configuration if the content hasn't changed, reducing disk I/O.
• ⚡ [perf] Enhances script inventory management:
• • Caches script inventory and reuses record objects to avoid rescanning the scripts directory on warm calls.
• • Adds function to reset the script inventory cache.
• ⚡ [perf] Improves metadata loading and caching:
• • Adds support for JSON-based metadata cache file for faster subsequent loads.
• • Uses .NET file methods for faster file existence checks and modification time retrieval.
• ⚡ [perf] Optimizes script execution and output handling:
• • Introduces Test-ColorScriptTextEmission to determine when to emit text, reducing overhead when output is redirected or not needed.
• 🛠️ [fix] Fixes a regex in Show-ColorScriptHelp to correctly match parameter metadata lines.
• 🛠️ [fix] Corrects an issue where the configuration root path could be improperly determined if XDG_CONFIG_HOME was empty.
• 🚜 [refactor] Refactors Copy-ColorScriptHashtable and Merge-ColorScriptConfiguration to use System.Collections.IDictionary instead of hashtable for broader compatibility and adds cloning for arrays and ICloneable objects.
• 📝 [docs] Adds a PERFORMANCE_IMPROVEMENTS.md file, detailing performance objectives, optimizations, startup timeline, measurement playbook, usage recommendations, maintenance checklist, and future opportunities.
• 🧹 [chore] Updates the linting script to resolve paths and handle potential NullReferenceException during analysis.
• 🧹 [chore] Renames an ANSI file to correct character encoding.

Signed-off-by: Nick2bad4u [email protected] (7a9eb52)

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Release v2025.10.17.2106

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• ✨ [feat] Adds 32 new color scripts

Adds 32 new color scripts to the module, increasing the total number of available scripts from 295 to 327.

• 🎨 Updates module version and release notes to reflect the new scripts.
• 📝 Updates documentation and README files to reflect the increased number of color scripts.
• 🖼️ Includes the new we-acidtrip-1.ps1 script.
• 🧹 Updates the module manifest (.psd1) with the new version number and release notes.
• 👷 Updates documentation files (README.md, README-Gallery.md, MODULE_SUMMARY.md, Development.md, MEGALINTER-SETUP.md) to reflect the new script count.

Signed-off-by: Nick2bad4u [email protected] (89be5fa)

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Release v2025.10.15.755

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• ✨ [feat] Enhances ColorScripts with new features

Improves the ColorScripts-Enhanced module with several enhancements:

• ✨ Adds a Show-ColorScriptHelp function to display colorized help output for commands, improving user experience by providing more readable help information.
• Uses Write-Host with different ForegroundColor values to highlight sections, parameter names, example commands, and parameter metadata.
• 🛠️ Implements ShouldProcess support in configuration cmdlets (Set-ColorScriptConfiguration, Reset-ColorScriptConfiguration, New-ColorScript) to provide confirmation prompts before applying changes.
• ➕ Adds help alias to all functions
• ⚡ Improves ColorScript categorization by adding category tags to all scripts, enhancing discoverability and organization.
• Ensures every script has at least one Category:* tag, and verifies city-neon specifically has the Category:Artistic tag.
• 📝 Updates the module manifest ([ColorScripts-Enhanced](https://github.com/Nick2bad4u/PS-Color-Scripts-Enhanced).psd1) to reflect the latest version and enhancements.
• Updates ModuleVersion and ReleaseNotes to reflect new features and improvements.
• 🧪 Adds tests to verify the new categorization functionality and ensure that scripts are correctly tagged.
• 🧹 Removes unused inst_H, inst_P, and inst_U methods from Convert-AnsiToColorScript.js.

Signed-off-by: Nick2bad4u [email protected] (f40b353)

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Release v2025.10.15.39

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• ✨ [feat] Adds 41 new color scripts

• ➕ Increases the number of color scripts from 245 to 286, expanding the collection of available ANSI art.

• Updates module version to 2025.10.14.2033 and modifies release notes to reflect new count.

• 📄 Updates documentation to reflect the increased number of color scripts.

• Updates README files (main and gallery) to display the new total count.

• Updates documentation index to reflect new script count.

• 🔥 Removes unused temp.txt file from Scripts/ directory.

• 🛠️ Adds new command line option --max-height to Convert-AnsiToColorScript.js to split output into multiple files.

• Implements file splitting logic in Convert-AnsiToColorScript.js

• ⚡ Improves Convert-AnsiToColorScript.js to strip background color for plain space characters.

• 🧹 Adds new script conversion commands to package.json.

Signed-off-by: Nick2bad4u [email protected] (c142500)

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Release v2025.10.15.1915

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• ⚡ [perf] Improves caching and updates module version

⚡ [perf] Improves caching and boosts performance

• 💾 Implements an enhanced caching system that utilizes an OS-wide cache in AppData, centralizing cache storage.
• 🚀 Achieves a 6-19x performance improvement due to the enhanced caching mechanism.

🛠️ [fix] Corrects regex and updates output message

• 🐛 Fixes a regular expression in Show-ColorScriptHelp to correctly identify parameter metadata lines, ensuring proper formatting. The ? was escaped incorrectly.
• ✅ Updates the success message in Add-ColorScriptProfile to a more standard format: "[OK]".

🧹 [chore] Updates module version and release notes

• 📦 Updates the module version in [ColorScripts-Enhanced](https://github.com/Nick2bad4u/PS-Color-Scripts-Enhanced).psd1 from '2025.10.15.0349' to '2025.10.15.1509' to reflect the latest changes.
• 📝 Updates the release notes in [ColorScripts-Enhanced](https://github.com/Nick2bad4u/PS-Color-Scripts-Enhanced).psd1 to include the new caching improvements and performance enhancements.

Signed-off-by: Nick2bad4u [email protected] (1cd5ffc)

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Release v2025.10.14.551

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• Remove Markdown link check job from test workflow

Removed the Markdown link check job from the workflow. (e4bca67)

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Release v2025.10.14.22

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• 📝 [docs] Update module metadata and READMEs

Updates module version and documentation badges.

• ⬆️ Updates the module version in the module manifest ([ColorScripts-Enhanced](https://github.com/Nick2bad4u/PS-Color-Scripts-Enhanced).psd1) from '2025.10.13.1914' to '2025.10.13.2018'.
• 🕰️ This reflects a new build or release of the module.
• 🛡️ Updates badges in README.md and README-Gallery.md to use PowerShell Gallery and NuGet logos.
• 🎨 Improves visual appeal and clarity of the badges.
• 📦 Adds NuGet badges for version and downloads.
• 🔗 Updates badge links to point to the correct resources.
• ✅ Adds an OpenSSF Scorecard badge to README.md.
• ⚙️ Changes the platform badge to include a Windows Terminal logo.
• ✨ Enhances the README with additional badges for code size, repo stars, and contribution guidelines.

Signed-off-by: Nick2bad4u [email protected] (09a97ba)

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