Changelog

DetentShell 1.0.3.0 — first public release

• DetentShell is available in the Microsoft Store. Microsoft signs the package at publication; the install is per-user with no elevation, and uninstalling removes it cleanly.
• DetentShell is $49.99 in the Microsoft Store, with a free trial. Volume licensing for teams is handled separately.

The build ledger currently stands at 54 of 92 engineering briefs complete, 37 in final review, and 1 pending. The work in this most recent stretch has been the last mile: finishing features, then hardening them.

Toolbar redrawn

• Every toolbar glyph replaced with a colored, theme-adaptive vector icon set: steel for neutral actions, blue for commands, kept out of the way of the green Run and red Stop icons.
• Dead panel-toggle commands and hidden toolbar buttons removed along with it.

PesterForge Editor Edition moved in-process

• A Generate Pester Tests command for the function under your caret, with a one-click generate → run → save → coverage loop.
• The integration no longer runs PesterForge as a separate process over MCP. It now loads in-process into its own isolated runspace, hermetically pinned to its own bundled copy. That removes the “can’t connect” failure class the earlier process-boundary design carried.
• The generic MCP client layer, never wired into any shipping feature, was parked out of the build along with it.
• The Editor Edition slice is free in the app. The epic closed with a manual QA checklist covering the whole flow.

The ISE-parity feature set

• Seven epics landed as one wave: a theme system, menu and keyboard-shortcut parity, settings pages, recent files, snippets, a Show Command add-on, and remote sessions as tabs.
• Follow-up waves wired the settings into real behavior, made them apply live and persist across restarts, and made every surface legible in every theme.

Editor productivity

• PSScriptAnalyzer integrated as live editor linting.
• Quick Fix: the editor’s first real fix action, preview-then-apply, backed by ModuleWorkshop transforms.
• Integrated F1 context help: a real Get-Help pane with an online fallback and an Update-Help nudge.
• Comment/uncomment with toolbar buttons, a function navigator, Edit Profile, an outlining toggle, and multi-select in File > Open.

Engine and console

• The console got a real PowerShell prompt, and it is now theme-aware.
• Runspaces are built with CreateDefault2, so importing built-in modules behaves the way it does in stock pwsh.
• The engine moved to the PowerShell 7.6 SDK.
• Windows PowerShell 5.1 sessions are reachable from the UI and work in both directions.

Hardening sweeps

• Unsaved tabs are guarded when the window closes. That was the one that could lose your work, so it got fixed first.
• Tabs, the engine, backend lifecycle, elevation, and remote-session UX each got a dedicated sweep, along with a pile of editor and console papercuts.
• Closing every tab now leaves an empty window instead of a stuck one.

Packaging groundwork

• An MSIX packaging pipeline (manifest, logo assets, version stamping) that produces a versioned installer build entirely from the command line.
• An install plan settled on direct download first.

Two videos are planned to ship alongside launch: an introduction tour and a getting-started walkthrough. Neither is recorded yet. The slots below fill in when they are.

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