All notable changes to this project will be documented here. Loosely following keepachangelog.com format, loosely.
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Fatigue detection thresholds — finally. The old values were calibrated on a 6-bell tower; everything above 8 was throwing false positives after like 20 minutes. Raised the base BPM ceiling from 112 to 134 for 10+ bell configs, and softened the wrist-angle variance penalty (was 0.7, now 0.52). Tested against the Coventry dataset Priya sent over. See #GH-2291.
- NOTE: the 8-bell threshold is still a guess. TODO: ask Mehmet to run the simulator with the new Exeter logs
- cumulative fatigue score resets now happen on method splices, not just on touch boundaries — this actually matters for long peals, previous behavior was wrong for months and nobody noticed until Lieselotte filed the bug
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Diocesan bridge — the XML namespace collision with the CoE administration layer has been driving me insane since March. The
//diocese:tower/servicesxpath was shadowing our internalservicesnode when the bridge ran in passthrough mode. Added explicit namespace prefix registration insrc/bridge/diocese_connector.rs. Also fixed a crash when the diocese endpoint returns HTTP 204 with a body (which apparently some installations do??? why)- Bumped retry backoff from 2s to 5s because the Bradford server times out under load and was triggering our circuit breaker incorrectly
- Auth token refresh now happens 60s before expiry instead of at expiry. I can't believe this wasn't the case before. ref: issue #2318
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New change-ringing methods:
- Erin Triples — was missing from the method library, someone noticed at the Guildford symposium apparently
- Superlative Surprise Major — full lead head table added, with course/calling position labels. The lead end notation took me way too long, I kept getting the 7-8 pair wrong. c'est la vie
- Cambridge Surprise Royal — added 10-bell variant. The 8-bell was already there since v2.1 but nobody added Royal. Unbelievable
- Method import now accepts MicroSiril
.mfiles directly, not just BellBoard XML. Converts on ingest. Probably has edge cases I haven't found yet
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Touch composer: new "avoid course heads" filter option — lets you exclude specific course ends during composition search. Useful for avoiding back-rounds-adjacent courses in longer touches. Added at Nikolaj's request (he's been asking since last October, sorry man)
- Upgraded
tokioto 1.41.x — had to patch the timer precision stuff, we were seeing 8ms jitter on the striking engine callback which is... not great for a timing-critical app. Down to ~1.2ms now on the bench. Probably fine - Conductor display now shows method stage as an icon glyph instead of text abbreviation. Smaller and cleaner. The font rendering on the 7" Pi display was clipping "Maximus" anyway
- Striking analysis report: changed default window from 16 changes to 24. Nobody uses 16
- Dropped the
legacy_midi_bridgemodule. It's been deprecated since 2.8 and the last person who used it was me, in 2024, by accident
- Initial diocesan bridge integration (CoE and RC diocese schemas)
- Fatigue detection module — erste Version, thresholds obviously needed tuning (see 3.2.1)
- BellBoard live sync for peal submissions
- Striking engine drift on towers with asymmetric stay configurations
- Method library search was case-sensitive. Embarrassing
- Crash on startup when
~/.carillon/tower.tomlmissing (introduced in 3.1.3 — that refactor broke the config fallback path, classic) - PDF peal certificate generation: long method names were overflowing the footer. Clamped to 48 chars with ellipsis
- Config system refactored to use TOML throughout. The old mixed TOML/INI situation was, to put it diplomatically, un désastre
- Tower profile import from CSV (requested by the ringing societies bulk-onboarding workflow)
- Multi-tower mode (beta) — manage up to 4 towers from single instance
- Striking analysis v2: per-bell accuracy breakdowns, exportable
- Minimum Rust edition bumped to 2021
Initial 3.x release. Rewrote the striking engine from scratch. The old one was... look, we don't talk about the old one.