Changelog

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Create and manage recurring tasks from the CLI or TUI with daily, weekday, weekly, fortnightly, multi-week, and monthly schedules.

Long task titles wrap in the detail pane and remain fully selectable and copyable.
Natural-language task intake respects an explicitly selected project, keeps directory-based project inference available, and closes the composer after creating a task with an image.
Press g . to return to a task after moving it out of the active project.
Epics show accurate project-scoped counts, support viewing closed items with f d, and expand or collapse with l or Right.
Selecting an epic child highlights its visible parent for clearer context.
Exact command palette matches are selected immediately, and repeated Tab presses cycle through the other matches.
Deleted tasks remain visible during background refreshes so they can be reviewed or restored until the view is explicitly refreshed.
Note discard confirmations render cleanly without overlapping the editor.

Copy task text from the Linux TUI on Wayland or X11 with wl-copy or xclip.
Sync failures include useful server details and specific guidance for authentication, configuration, rate limits, and server errors. Protocol mismatches identify whether the client or server needs an upgrade.
Task changes and their undo history are saved together, preventing partial updates when a write fails.
The TUI keeps task lists, detail views, selections, and edit targets consistent when an update fails or needs to be retried.

Manage epic children from the TUI by adding existing tasks, creating new tasks, removing links, and undoing relationship changes.
Open linked tasks directly from detail views, including tasks outside the current filter, and return through your detail history with Esc.
Edit the project, priority, availability, due date, or labels for marked tasks as a batch while keeping your marks available for follow-up changes.
Note drafts with meaningful text ask for confirmation before Esc discards them.

Task detail help includes navigation shortcuts for moving through tasks, returning to previous views, and revisiting the most recently changed task.

Status changes keep your place in task lists, Columns, and detail views. If a changed task leaves the current view, press g . to return to it and then go back.

Explore Aven with aven demo, which opens a fresh sample workspace and discards all changes when you exit.
Task details remain responsive while scrolling through inline image previews, which reappear as soon as scrolling settles.

Attach images to tasks from the TUI or CLI, sync them between devices, preview and switch between them inline, inspect their metadata, and open them in the system viewer.
Click task references and timestamps in task details to copy their displayed values.

Search results and task details mark epics consistently, and child task details show their parent epic for clearer context.
Navigate epic children from task details with Tab, j/k or the arrow keys, and Enter.

Due dates use compact labels in the task list so deadlines fit cleanly in the time column.

Set task availability to defer work until a date or time, and find deferred tasks in the Upcoming view.
Add due dates independently of availability, with overdue filtering and deadline-aware queue ordering for visible, actionable tasks.
The documentation includes a complete CLI command reference and a practical VPN sync setup guide.

The TUI automatically checks for new releases and offers guided installation, with tailored instructions for package-managed installations.
aven update checks for and installs application updates. Task field changes use aven edit <ref>, a breaking command rename for scripts and agents.

Task detail views support dragging across rendered titles and descriptions and copying the selected text with y.
Ctrl-Enter submits task composers and multiline editors, with Ctrl-s as a portable fallback.
Batch actions clearly indicate when they target marked tasks, and status changes use the status picker.
Multiline editor controls remain visible as content grows, and note prompts appear only on empty drafts.

Move selected or marked tasks directly between Columns lanes with keyboard or mouse controls, with batch moves grouped into one undo step.
Improved the default Columns workflow with lifecycle-based lanes, ordering tailored to each lane, and a toggle for the selected-task preview.
Task previews render Markdown formatting and clearly indicate truncated text.
Configured database, workspace, and project paths support ~ for the home directory.

Added a configurable Columns view for navigating tasks in named status lanes.
Redesigned the task composer so project, status, priority, labels, title, and description stay visible and are accessible by keyboard or mouse.
Added task copy shortcuts for refs, titles, descriptions, notes, and combined task text.
Improved task detail navigation with a shortcut that jumps directly to notes.
Added a guided Taskwarrior migration workflow to the documentation.
Improved daemon and server startup in Linux services, containers, and other environments without writable state directories.

Selecting an epic in the task list highlights its child tasks for easier scanning.

Task composer labels can be set while creating a task.
TUI timestamps display in local time across task details, notes, recent actions, and database stats.
Database diagnostics show sync history size, synced and pending change counts, server sequence range, and payload bytes.
Task list selection stays visible when queue group headers remain pinned.
Back navigation from an epic child detail returns to the parent detail view and scroll position.

Epic detail views list child tasks inline, with mouse hover and click targets for jumping to visible child tasks.
The queue keeps blocked tasks below actionable groups and gives more weight to tasks that unblock other work.
The TUI sidebar preserves selection more consistently when switching focus, toggling the sidebar, or applying task changes.
Crashes are written to the aven log file with panic details for easier troubleshooting.

Added aven skill install so Claude Code, OpenCode, and Codex can install the bundled task-management skill into their agent skill directories.
Added a Recent Actions view in the TUI for reviewing task, project, label, and dependency activity.
Improved the TUI queue with epic parent and child context, a SOON band, created-age metadata, tighter task and label column sizing, and consistent metadata spacing.
Added batch editing in the TUI: mark multiple tasks, then apply one status change or add and remove labels across the selected tasks in a single action.
Improved TUI navigation and controls with back navigation, footer status hotkeys, mouse-scrolled help overlays, and clearer terminal startup errors.
Improved task detail and preview panels with epic metadata and parent markers.

Made natural task creation from the full TUI continue reliably after exiting the interface, while keeping created tasks undoable when the TUI remains open.
Improved daemon update handling so launchd services use a stable executable path, restart cleanly, and show richer status in aven doctor.

Initial release of aven, a local-first task manager. See Getting started to install it and create your first task.