v0.8.x – The Parallel Engine Era

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docmd 0.8.0 is now available with a completely redesigned parallel build engine, first-class multi-project support, persistent indexing caches, and major rebuild performance improvements.

Large documentation sites that previously rebuilt in ~16s can now rebuild in ~4.3s, even with significantly more pages.

Highlights

• Native multi-threaded WorkerPool engine
• Multi-project documentation builds
• Persistent Git indexing cache
• Worker APIs for plugins
• TypeScript & JSON configs
• Improved Mermaid diagram controls

This release is a major architectural step forward for docmd and lays the foundation for much faster builds, smarter caching, and more scalable documentation workflows going forward.

Full release notes: https://github.com/docmd-io/docmd/releases/tag/0.8.0

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docmd 0.8.2 released

🔴 0.8.1 has been deprecated due to an internal structuring issue. 0.8.2 is a fix patch release.

docmd 0.8.2 introduces a pluggable engine architecture, persistent disk caching for Git indexing, and critical fixes for NPM compatibility.

Warm builds are now up to 45% faster on large documentation sites thanks to the new persistent cache system, while the introduction of the optional Rust engine provides a foundation for native build acceleration.

Highlights

• Pluggable Engine Architecture: Support for optional high-performance engines like @docmd/engine-rust.
• Persistent Git Indexing Cache: Dramatically improved warm build performance (~45% gain).
• JSON Configuration Standard: Standardized on docmd.config.json for cleaner, portable configurations.
• Configurable tmp Directory: Full control over build cache storage for CI/CD environments.
• SPA Navigation Fixes: Improved handling of external links and protocol-relative URLs in sidebars.
• NPM Compatibility: Resolved installation defects to ensure seamless usage across all package managers.

This release matures the architectural foundation introduced in the v0.8 series, bringing significant performance gains and a more robust configuration ecosystem to the docmd platform.

Full release notes: https://github.com/docmd-io/docmd/releases/tag/0.8.2

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docmd 0.8.4 released

This release focuses on deployment improvements, safer plugin behaviour, and stability fixes across the development server and UI.

Complete Changelog

1. Deployer: The deployment engine was extracted into @docmd/deployer, adding native, auto-configured target support for GitHub Pages, Vercel, and Netlify (docmd deploy).
2. Markdown formatting: Added markdown.breaks configuration option to globally toggle automatic soft wrap line breaks.
3. Security hardening: Locked down plugin installs to enforce official npm registry boundaries and mitigated unsafe shell-based spawn processes.
4. Security hardening: Restricted HTML rendering in @docmd/plugin-threads comment inputs.
5. CLI robustness: The parser and build hooks now exit with non-zero codes on plugin failures, improving CI build pipeline reliability.
6. Developer experience: Reduced dev-server output noise during hot-reloads and added filePath arguments to parser lifecycle hooks.
7. UI alignment: Revamped the version switcher with Lucide icon indicators and unified the Project Switcher pills and list items with standard theme dropdown styles.
8. UI bugfixes: Fixed project-switching cached page overlaps, XHR translations on noStyle pages, and copy-code icon hover states.

Full release note: https://github.com/docmd-io/docmd/releases/tag/0.8.4

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docmd 0.8.5 released

This release introduces semantic search as an alpha preview, adds automatic robots.txt generation, improves configuration migration, and fixes several rendering and development workflow issues.

• Semantic Search (Alpha): Added local embedding-powered semantic search through docmd-search, enabling context-aware search, typo tolerance, and related content discovery without external APIs.
• SEO Plugin: Added automatic robots.txt generation with sitemap support, AI crawler controls, and safe handling of existing files.
• Config Upgrades: Added docmd migrate --upgrade to automatically modernise legacy configuration files while preserving existing values.
• Mermaid Fixes: Fixed C4Context diagrams rendering as blank white boxes.
• Developer Experience: Added targeted rebuilds for configuration changes, automatic browser opening on startup, search result controls, and various UI improvements.

Full release note: https://github.com/docmd-io/docmd/releases/tag/0.8.5

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docmd 0.8.6 released

This release establishes docmd as an AI-First documentation engine with a native MCP server, modular agent skills, official Docker support, and a wide set of UI, search, and stability improvements.

Complete Changelog

1. MCP: Implemented a native docmd mcp server running on local stdio (protocol 2025-03-26), enabling AI agents to search, read, validate, and retrieve context from documentation workspaces.
2. Skills: Modularised agent instruction sets into 7 skill files (cli, config, plugins, plugin-development, formatting, api, validation) under docmd-skills/, with inline defaults and doc references.
3. Docker: Published an official multi-architecture Docker image (linux/amd64, linux/arm64) with Docker Compose, Kubernetes, and GitHub Actions deployment examples.
4. AI: Added "Copy Markdown" and "Copy Context" breadcrumb widgets with localisation for 7 languages, stripping frontmatter for clean LLM ingestion.
5. Search: Added a unified CJK and spaceless-script tokenizer for MiniSearch, fixing partial-match failures in Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Thai, and related scripts.
6. Search: Fixed confidence percentage calculation in docmd-search 0.1.0-alpha.1 to prevent scores exceeding 100%.
7. TOC: Extended table of contents to include H1 headings, added independent sidebar scrolling, and implemented debounced active-item centring during page scroll.
8. UI: Added a modern adaptive radial halo glow at the top of content pages (light and dark modes).
9. UI: Upgraded the Steps component and refactored the Changelog timeline to a continuous grid axis with interactive expandable markers.
10. UI: Redesigned Copy widgets as a unified sleek segmented control button group.
11. UI: Fixed a critical SPA routing bug where stylesheets and icons were duplicated in the document head on every client-side navigation, caused by relative path resolution shifting after pushState.

Full release note: https://github.com/docmd-io/docmd/releases/tag/0.8.6