Releases

Changelog.

What's new in Crit. Release notes pulled automatically from GitHub.

CLI

v0.23.1 October 23, 2026

What's Changed

Markdown source and new shortcuts

In files mode, Markdown files now have a Source button that shows the whole file as code, so you can read and comment on the raw Markdown even when there is no diff.

Press a to toggle a file as viewed and o to collapse or expand it, in the review list and in story chapters. Both can be rebound in Settings → Shortcuts.

feat(web): show a markdown file's source in files mode (#1106) by @jmacek in https://github.com/tomasz-tomczyk/crit/pull/1106 - Thank you!
feat(web): add shortcuts to toggle viewed (a) and collapse (o) (#1049) by @esnssr in https://github.com/tomasz-tomczyk/crit/pull/1049 - Thank you!

Comments are kept across concurrent writes

fix: keep crit comment replies when a daemon write is pending (#1060) by @schrek1 in https://github.com/tomasz-tomczyk/crit/pull/1060 - Thank you!
fix: serialize review saves and hosted comment merges (#1074) by @John-Isr in https://github.com/tomasz-tomczyk/crit/pull/1074 - Thank you!
fix: keep comments across concurrent review file writes (#1093) by @tomasz-tomczyk in https://github.com/tomasz-tomczyk/crit/pull/1093
fix: keep reply resolve state across daemon writes, and release-audit cleanups (#1111) by @tomasz-tomczyk in https://github.com/tomasz-tomczyk/crit/pull/1111

Security

fix: sanitize raw HTML in reviewed Markdown documents (#1088) by @tomasz-tomczyk in https://github.com/tomasz-tomczyk/crit/pull/1088
fix: package.json & package-lock.json to reduce vulnerabilities (#1089) by @tomasz-tomczyk in https://github.com/tomasz-tomczyk/crit/pull/1089
fix(web): stop reviewed markdown from reusing page ids and classes, and release-audit cleanups (#1112) by @tomasz-tomczyk in https://github.com/tomasz-tomczyk/crit/pull/1112

Scrolling and navigation

fix(web): scroll straight to a comment ref already on the page (#1095) by @jmacek in https://github.com/tomasz-tomczyk/crit/pull/1095 - Thank you!
fix(web): a thread that grows in Document view no longer moves the page (#1072) by @schrek1 in https://github.com/tomasz-tomczyk/crit/pull/1072 - Thank you!
fix(web): let the tree follow the scroll when the found file is off screen (#1062) by @schrek1 in https://github.com/tomasz-tomczyk/crit/pull/1062 - Thank you!
fix(web): review comment cards in the panel scroll all the way back (#1110) by @tomasz-tomczyk in https://github.com/tomasz-tomczyk/crit/pull/1110
fix(web): keep the thread in place when the top edge cuts the file header (#1092) by @tomasz-tomczyk in https://github.com/tomasz-tomczyk/crit/pull/1092

Fixes

fix(web): highlight quoted diagram text in the drawn diagram (#1098) by @jmacek in https://github.com/tomasz-tomczyk/crit/pull/1098 - Thank you!
fix(session): drop binary and ignored files from range reviews (#1108) by @jmacek in https://github.com/tomasz-tomczyk/crit/pull/1108 - Thank you!
fix(web): match error toast styles to the toast-error class (#1086) by @jmacek in https://github.com/tomasz-tomczyk/crit/pull/1086 - Thank you!
fix: scope=all re-queries git, and a pinned commit no longer overrides the scope (#1076) by @Jainbaba in https://github.com/tomasz-tomczyk/crit/pull/1076 - Thank you!
fix: track Story viewed state per hunk (#1073) by @John-Isr in https://github.com/tomasz-tomczyk/crit/pull/1073 - Thank you!
fix: read git paths verbatim so non-ASCII file names open (#1078) by @Flamintus in https://github.com/tomasz-tomczyk/crit/pull/1078 - Thank you!

Dependencies

chore(deps): bump mermaid from 12.1.0 to 12.2.0 (#1069) by @dependabot in https://github.com/tomasz-tomczyk/crit/pull/1069
chore(deps): bump dompurify from 3.4.16 to 3.4.17 (#1070) by @dependabot in https://github.com/tomasz-tomczyk/crit/pull/1070

Internal refactors

chore: read vendored asset versions from the lockfile (#1090) by @tomasz-tomczyk in https://github.com/tomasz-tomczyk/crit/pull/1090
test(e2e): wait for pending diagrams before calling the review pane settled (#1067) by @tomasz-tomczyk in https://github.com/tomasz-tomczyk/crit/pull/1067
test: wait for PR head after every push in roundtrip tests (#1068) by @tomasz-tomczyk in https://github.com/tomasz-tomczyk/crit/pull/1068

Contributors

schrek1

v0.23.0 October 16, 2026

What's Changed

Mermaid files and the renderer registry

.mermaid and .mmd files open with a Diagram / Source toggle. In files mode they open on Diagram; in git mode they open on Source, which is the diff. Click a node, edge label or actor to comment on the line that defines it. Expand opens the diagram fullscreen with pan and zoom.

This runs on a new renderer registry, and Mermaid fences in markdown now use it too. New renderers (for example Arazzo workflows) are added to Crit the same way. Crit does not load renderer scripts from outside its embedded assets. See docs/renderers.md. Mermaid is now on v12.

Find in diff

The review list only keeps rows near the viewport in the page, so the browser's own find missed most matches. Cmd+F (Ctrl+F off macOS) now opens a find bar that searches all files, loads lazy files in the background, and jumps to each match. Enter / Shift+Enter or Cmd+G / Shift+Cmd+G step through matches, Alt+C toggles match case, and Esc closes. Select text first to fill the bar. Press Cmd+F a second time to get the browser's find. Plan and Document reviews keep the browser's find.

feat(web): add a pluggable renderer registry with mermaid files render (#1043) by @akaguny in https://github.com/tomasz-tomczyk/crit/pull/1043 - Thank you!
feat: find in diff that reaches rows outside the viewport (#1059) by @tomasz-tomczyk in https://github.com/tomasz-tomczyk/crit/pull/1059 - Thank you @radeusgd for reporting!
fix(web): Esc peels one layer with find open, cache rendered diagrams (#1066) by @tomasz-tomczyk in https://github.com/tomasz-tomczyk/crit/pull/1066