From 69987c4ac7e4a9990ebb51843ce5b3117f423ccb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: alejandro <dev@alejandro-ao.com>
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2026 20:48:39 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] chore: prepare 0.2.4 release

---
 pyproject.toml                                |  2 +-
 .../data/release-notes/releases.json          | 24 +++++++++++++++----
 tests/test_tui_app.py                         |  2 +-
 uv.lock                                       |  2 +-
 4 files changed, 22 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 4aee261d8..0d48cb350 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ build-backend = "hatchling.build"
 
 [project]
 name = "tau-ai"
-version = "0.2.3"
+version = "0.2.4"
 description = "A Python implementation of a minimalist Pi-style coding-agent harness."
 readme = "README.md"
 license = "MIT"
diff --git a/src/tau_coding/data/release-notes/releases.json b/src/tau_coding/data/release-notes/releases.json
index 30e314dab..94d0a29bc 100644
--- a/src/tau_coding/data/release-notes/releases.json
+++ b/src/tau_coding/data/release-notes/releases.json
@@ -1,11 +1,26 @@
 [
   {
-    "version": "0.2.3",
-    "date": "2026-07-20",
+    "version": "0.2.4",
+    "date": "2026-07-21",
     "sections": {
       "New": [
-        "Add 28 live-routable Hugging Face Inference Providers models from Pi's built-in catalog."
+        "Add 28 live-routable Hugging Face Inference Providers models from Pi's built-in catalog.",
+        "Insert files dragged onto the terminal as normalized prompt paths while preserving existing text and quoting paths that contain spaces."
+      ],
+      "Changed": [
+        "Shorten TUI sidebar context paths under the home directory with ~/ and give provider metadata quieter styling.",
+        "Raise the minimum supported Pydantic version to 2.11 for explicit wire-model alias validation and serialization behavior."
       ],
+      "Fixed": [
+        "Show expanded prompt-template text before automatic session naming starts, and avoid redundant naming attempts after provider retries are exhausted.",
+        "Fix the resume picker search to avoid matching workspace paths while retaining session-name and model matches."
+      ]
+    }
+  },
+  {
+    "version": "0.2.3",
+    "date": "2026-07-20",
+    "sections": {
       "Changed": [
         "Default the TUI sidebar to the right side while preserving explicit left, right, and off preferences.",
         "Label TUI sidebar token totals as cumulative session usage and document why cumulative provider usage can exceed the active context estimate.",
@@ -13,8 +28,7 @@
       ],
       "Fixed": [
         "Fix session JSONL reads splitting records on Unicode line separators (U+2028, U+2029, U+0085), which made affected sessions and the session index fail to load; the read-side fix also repairs already-affected session files.",
-        "Fix picker highlight text contrast so focused labels use each theme's configured highlight foreground and background colors.",
-        "Fix the resume picker search to avoid matching workspace paths while retaining session-name and model matches."
+        "Fix picker highlight text contrast so focused labels use each theme's configured highlight foreground and background colors."
       ]
     }
   },
diff --git a/tests/test_tui_app.py b/tests/test_tui_app.py
index 0d5f7b606..b031d9488 100644
--- a/tests/test_tui_app.py
+++ b/tests/test_tui_app.py
@@ -503,7 +503,7 @@ def test_session_sidebar_brand_includes_current_version() -> None:
 
     console.print(_sidebar_brand(theme=TAU_DARK_THEME))
 
-    assert "τ = 2π  0.2.3" in console.export_text()
+    assert "τ = 2π  0.2.4" in console.export_text()
 
 
 def test_session_sidebar_uses_prominent_title_and_accented_section_headers() -> None:
diff --git a/uv.lock b/uv.lock
index fdcf09f4e..7d9882ed1 100644
--- a/uv.lock
+++ b/uv.lock
@@ -527,7 +527,7 @@ wheels = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "tau-ai"
-version = "0.2.3"
+version = "0.2.4"
 source = { editable = "." }
 dependencies = [
     { name = "anyio" },