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Chibi CLI: all versions and old releases

Chibi for AniList - A lightweight anime & manga tracker CLI app powered by AniList.

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6 versions of Chibi CLI are listed here, from December 30, 2024 to the current 1.2.1. Each one links to the publisher’s own installer files.

2024: 1 1 24 2025: 3 3 25 2026: 2 2 26

6 versions over 1 year · about 4.9 a year

VersionDateSizeFiles
1.2.1Latest March 24, 2026 — 64-bit EXE (Inno Setup)
Release notes
✨ What's New
🎨 Theme System
- Added comprehensive theme support with customizable color palettes
- New chibi theme command to view and set active themes
- Support for custom themes via TOML files in DATA_DIR/themes
- Four built-in themes: default, nord, sunset, and forest
- Environment variable override: CHIBI_THEME for temporary theme switching
📊 JSON Output Support
- Added -j, --json flag to all major commands for structured JSON output
- chibi ls --json outputs media list with romaji, english, and native titles
- chibi search --json outputs search results in JSON format
- chibi profile --json outputs profile information as JSON
- chibi info --json outputs detailed media information including synonyms
📁 Data Directory Customization
- Custom data directory support via environment variables
- CHIBI_DATA_PATH (preferred) - set custom data storage location
- CHIBI_PATH (legacy fallback) - for backward compatibility
- Documentation updated with examples for both bash and PowerShell
📚 Expanded Media Information
- Added synonyms field to media info queries and responses
- Extended title metadata: romaji, english, and native titles across all commands
- Next airing episode information for anime (timestamps with countdown)
- Fixed search query spacing (words now properly separated)
🐧 AUR Package Support
- Added Arch Linux User Repository (AUR) integration
- New chibi-cli-git package for development/latest builds
- New chibi-cli-bin package for pre-built releases
- Automated PKGBUILD generation and AUR publishing in CI/CD
📖 Documentation Improvements
- New documentation pages for info and theme commands
- Updated all command guides with JSON flag examples
- Fixed documentation links (changed from develop to main branch)
- Added contributors section to README
- Custom data directory configuration guide
⚙️ Build & Deployment
- Updated GitHub Actions workflow for better build efficiency
- Added Go module caching to improve build times
- Changed trigger from pull_request to push on main branch
- Added AUR publishing workflow step
🔧 Code Quality & Refactoring
- Introduced theme system with centralized color palette management
- Separated theme colors from hardcoded hex values throughout UI
- Added comprehensive unit tests for theme loading and persistence
- Improved data path resolution with environment variable support
- Refactored media list and search UI components for JSON support
- Fixed indentation and formatting inconsistencies
📦 Dependency Updates
- Added github.com/BurntSushi/toml v1.4.0 for theme file parsing
- Bumped Go toolchain and various dependencies to latest versions
- Removed unused dependencies to keep binary size minimal
🐛 Bug Fixes
- Fixed search media query handling (proper word spacing)
- Fixed media list rendering to show only CURRENT and REPEATING statuses
- Improved error handling for missing theme configurations
- Fixed spinner color styling to use theme palette
🎯 Other Changes
- Added APP_DIR_NAME constant for consistent directory naming
- Enhanced helper functions with new FormatAiringTs() for countdown display
- Improved code organization with separate theme and path resolution modules
- Added test coverage for data path resolution logic
1.2.0 February 21, 2026 — 64-bit EXE (Inno Setup)
Release notes
✨ What's New
- Added info command to display media information.
✨ Other Changes
- Removed keyring dependencies and switched to database storage.
- Bumped all dependencies to latest versions.
- Updated docs to use chibi logo instead of the old GIF.
- Updated build pipeline trigger rules.
🐛 Bug Fixes
- Fixed spinner writing to stdout instead of stderr.
1.1.0 March 3, 2025 — 64-bit EXE (Inno Setup)
Release notes
### ✨ What's New

#### The `chibi profile` command now supports **Rendering Pixel Perfect Avatar** in the terminal. See [supported](https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/graphics-protocol/#:~:text=Other%20terminals%20that%20have%20implemented%20the%20graphics%20protocol%3A) terminals.
<img src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/0eb56d2b-1b13-4f54-b71f-f953b012bc93" width="500">

---

#### New colorful help text (thanks to [charmbracelet/fang](https://github.com/charmbracelet/fang))
<img src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/6884eed5-97f7-45a5-b639-1b2c6f8dc860" width="500"/>

---

#### The Table Layout for `chibi ls` and `chibi search` commands has been redesigned to be a compact [`eza`](https://github.com/eza-community/eza) like layout.
<img src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/baba0b6c-d2f8-4063-805a-6972883827ec" width="500"/>

### ✨ Other Changes
- Removed SQLite Dependencies.
- Used keyring store instead of SQLite DB.
- Removed [`charmbracelet/huh`](https://github.com/charmbracelet/huh) dependencies (forms, spinners) and implemented those manually.

> [!NOTE]
> By reducing those dependencies, I was able to save approximately 3MB 😁.

### 🐛 Bug Fixes
- Fixed an early token check in `chibi ls` command, which restricts from calling the AniList API.
1.0.4 March 3, 2025 — 64-bit EXE (Inno Setup)
Release notes
✨ What's New
- Chibi is now available in Snap Store for Linux users. To install chibi, run
sudo snap install chibi
- Added Loading indicator to all API Requests.
- Added chibi logout command to log you out from AniList.
- Start Date is automatically added when chibi add command in invoked and status flag is set to watching.
chibi update command now supports 2 new flags,
-n "<note>" for entry notes.
-r <score> for entry score.
✨ Other Changes
- Migrated from JSON file storage to Sqlite3 storage for configurations.
- Complete Architecture change for faster response.
- Added Code Comments in missing areas
🐛 Bug Fixes
- Fixed a bad if check when handling start date. (085fff2)
- Fixed app exiting with weird error messages.
- Fixed "WinGet not detecting app version". This change will take effect when installing upcoming versions of chibi.
1.0.3 February 6, 2025 — 64-bit EXE (Inno Setup)
1.0.2 December 30, 2024 — 64-bit EXE (Inno Setup)

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