This release represents a comprehensive refactoring of the RAGS codebase, focusing on memory management, type safety, error handling, and performance. There is a lot of new changes. Some of those are breaking, but user configurations should not be affected. In certain edge-cases, i.e., custom services the users may need to update. See below for a full list of changes.

• Error class hierarchy: AgsError, AgsConfigError, AgsServiceError, AgsDBusError, AgsRuntimeError with context support

• Global signal registry (SignalRegistry) for centralized connection tracking and cleanup

• Disposable interface and pattern for explicit resource cleanup

• Type-safe GObject helpers for safer property access

• Type-safe signal definitions with SignalDefinition and SignalPayload types

• Lazy window registration via App.registerLazyWindow(), for windows created on-demand

• Runtime theme switching with App.registerTheme(), App.setTheme(), App.activeTheme

• Window names automatically added as CSS classes for scoping

• autoSuspend option to defer polling until bound to visible widgets

• dispose signal emitted on cleanup

• diffBind() method for binding to differences between values

• Development warnings for unregistered signals

• Error recovery with exponential backoff (retryWithBackoff)

• error signal emitted on service failures

• Frame-synced animation primitives

• System info helpers

• Promisified send_and_read_async with GLib.PRIORITY_DEFAULT

• Comprehensive JSDoc added to all public APIs

• Service lifecycle documentation (Construction → Initialization → Ready → Disposal)

• Dropped various deprecated features and cleanup

• Improved widget registration and initialization

• Widget class_names getter now cached (called hundreds of times per second)

• Battery icon name caching to reduce repeated string allocations

• Network access points caching infrastructure

• All signal handlers now have null-safe cleanup

• Widget _onHandlerIds initialized properly with destroy cleanup

• Improved signal handler lifecycle management

• Notifications: Added _timeoutIds Map to track and cancel timeouts properly

• Network: Added null check for get_ssid(); changed .map to .forEach where appropriate

• App: Fixed deprecation warnings (cacheCoverArt to maxStreamVolume)

• Fetch: Wrapped GBytes from send_and_read_async in MemoryInputStream

Some of the breaking changes:

• All services now implement Disposable interface

• Services require explicit dispose() calls for cleanup

• Signal connections must be tracked with trackConnection() and globalSignalRegistry.register()

• Variable class now throws errors instead of logging them in many cases

• Empty catch blocks replaced with proper error handling

• Errors include context for better debugging

• Widget base class uses native private fields (#field) instead of __field pattern

• Internal widget storage changed from direct properties to #internalFields Map

• Memory leaks in signal connection management across all services
• Non-null assertions, which got replaced with proper validation
• Type safety issues
• CSS error handling and reporting improved

Maintenance release to prepare the repository for future plans. Features dependency updates, minor bug fixes, and a large number of tooling consolidation. There should be no breaking changes between 1.9.0 and 1.10.0.

We've migrated to PNPM, and a more Nix-centric setup with proper CI/CD and user-facing documentation.

• TypeDoc setup for generated type documentation
• Hand-written guides in documentation
• Comprehensive JSDoc annotations across all modules
• GitHub Pages deployment for documentation
• Project README updated with usage examples
• New prettier configuration

• Streamlined ESLint flat config (ESLint 10 compatible)
• Bumped all dependencies to latest versions

• Linting issues across codebase
• Dependency hashes updated
• SystemTray now uses a Widget wrapper for DbusmenuGtk3.Menu, which fixes styling issues