Sprint 04 Release Notes

Table of Contents

November 2025

This sprint focused on stabilizing the core application, improving developer workflows, and laying the foundation for AI-assisted development using LLMs and Claude skills.

✅ Highlights

  • LLM-powered code review completed across core modules (ores.accounts, ores.cli, ores.risk), identifying bugs, modern C++ improvements, and security patterns.
  • Claude skills framework implemented to automate documentation, code generation, and system analysis using structured prompts and PlantUML.
  • UI/UX modernization with Fluent UI icons, professional dark theme styling, and MDI window flexibility.
  • Critical crash on shutdown resolved via improved Qt ownership model and lifecycle management.
  • Build and packaging improvements on Windows and Linux, including CMake targets for docs/skills and better dependency handling.

🛠️ Key Improvements

Developer Experience

  • Added CMake targets for site and skills to streamline documentation and AI skill generation.
  • Restructured components to follow Dogen conventions: component/src, modeling, tests.
  • Generated PlantUML diagrams for all components; integrated into documentation pipeline.
  • Created reusable meta-skills for modeling, documentation, and code generation.

Code Quality & Stability

  • Fixed memory leaks in sqlgen backend (valgrind-clean).
  • Resolved Windows build errors (deprecated localtime → localtime_s).
  • Split monolithic MainWindow class for maintainability.
  • Decoupled JSON serialization from domain types; added table-based output.

UI & UX

  • Implemented currency CRUD: add, edit, delete, clone, multi-select.
  • Added export to CSV and ORE XML.
  • Detachable MDI windows for flexible workspace layout.
  • Splash screen, about dialog, and history viewer added.
  • Started professional styling (dark theme, monospace fonts, aligned columns) — further work postponed.

Infrastructure

  • Windows packaging now includes required Qt and OpenSSL DLLs via vcpkg.
  • Assets (icons) now bundled via Qt resources and properly packaged.
  • Debian package issues identified (t64 migration); fix postponed pending stable Qt6.8 on Debian.

⚠️ Known Issues & Postponed

  • Debian package installation fails due to t64-suffixed Qt6 dependencies not available. Target: fix after Qt6.8+ lands in Debian.
  • Full UI professional styling (side panels, hover effects, status bar) postponed — will resume using Claude skills for design suggestions.

📊 Time Summary

  • Total effort: not tracked
  • PRs merged: not tracked
  • Sprint duration: 2025-11-07 → 2025-11-16

Next sprint: Sprint 05.

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