Casca 1.4.0 (2026-06-03)Link to section

v1.4.0 release with v2-era licensing, distribution, and tooling reorganization. The CSS surface walks forward with additive changes (analytics block, theme manifests, picker form, opt-in live layer). The monorepo carries the licensing switch, the two-package npm split (@skellvin/casca CSS-only stays at v1.x; new @skellvin/casca-cli ships independently), the codeberg mirror at skell/casca-css, the cargo crate, and the release pipeline. The CLI debut rides separately at [0.1.0] (below).

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• casca-analytics block: new public selectors, scaffolding, §9 scoped state gates per 083 ticket.
• Phase 4.7a: static theme manifests, token theme compilation, server-state theme selectors, SSG-rendered no-JS picker form.
• Opt-in dist/casca-live.js: 1665 bytes minified, polls JSON sidecar, applies field-level swaps only (no innerHTML/replaceWith/replaceChildren/outerHTML/focus). Built by make build-live; never bundled into dist/casca.css or dist/casca-core.css.

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• dist/casca.css grew from 113,070 bytes to 138,561 bytes (about +25KB) to include three additional mood overlays (Cyber, Lunar, Arcade), the picker scoping rules, the casca-analytics block scaffolding plus §9 state gates, and the four-mood theme manifest assembly.
• The picker radio name changed from theme to casca-theme; this is an internal rename affecting only the no-JS picker form (consumers using <link href="casca.css"> are unaffected).

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• License switch: AGPLv3+exception for CLI, MIT for CSS, CC-BY-4.0 for docs.
• Per-file SPDX headers across all source files (casca lint-spdx --apply).
• New license files: LICENSE (AGPL), LICENSE-EXCEPTION.md (the Bison Parser Exception 2.2 adaptation), LICENSE-MIT, LICENSE-DOCS, LICENSING.md (path-rules table).

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• Mirror repository at skell/casca-css is the canonical drop-in CSS source tree, MIT throughout.
• Two npm packages: @skellvin/casca@1.4.0 (CSS only, MIT, unchanged contract from v1.x) and @skellvin/casca-cli@0.1.0 (CLI resolver plus five per-platform binary subpackages, AGPL+exception).
• casca cargo crate buildable at v0.1.0 (Rust users install via cargo install --git <https://codeberg.org/skell/casca.git> --tag v1.4.0 casca; crates.io distribution deferred for v1.4.0 because crates.io requires GitHub OAuth).
• Homebrew tap at skell/homebrew-casca, formula v0.1.0.

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• Release pipeline driven by .forgejo/workflows/release.yml on v* tag push: make release-preflight, make spdx-lint, make license-check, make mirror-roundtrip, plus the binary-build matrix and the npm-registry publish jobs (cargo publish step preserved as commented-out for future restoration if crates.io distribution is added).
• New .forgejo/workflows/lint-plus-policy.yml runs the same lint + preflight gates on every push to main and every pull request.
• casca lint-spdx subcommand (with --apply idempotent heal mode) and casca check-mirror-tree subcommand.
• tools/release-css-mirror.sh assembly + push script; tools/readme-npm.sh extended with --readme PATH flag for per-package README rewrites; tools/npm-pack-inspect.sh allowlist gate.
• New VERSION + VERSION-css source-of-truth files; make print-versions reports the release coordinates.
• 9 release Makefile targets: release-preflight, release-monorepo, release-css-mirror, mirror-roundtrip, npm-pack-all, cargo-publish-dry-run, stage-npm-packages, install-matrix, print-versions.
• Operator-local make release-npm-manual as disaster-recovery fallback.

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The @skellvin/casca npm package keeps its v1.x CSS-only contract. Existing consumers do not need to change anything: imports of @skellvin/casca/dist/casca.css continue to resolve at the same path. The v1.4.0 bump is additive (analytics block, theme picker, live layer) and the bundle stays byte-clean MIT.

Rust users can install the new CLI via cargo install --git <https://codeberg.org/skell/casca.git> --tag v1.4.0 casca, and npm users can install it independently via npm install -g @skellvin/casca-cli. The CLI is AGPL+exception; the CSS package remains MIT.