Release Notes

v3.0.0

Release Date: 2026-03-10 Focus: Credential Backend Overhaul (Keychain-First) + Auth Hardening

⚠️ Breaking Changes

  • Credential persistence model is now backend-driven and no longer reads legacy plaintext ~/.leetcode/credentials.json.
  • Existing users with only legacy plaintext credentials must run leetcode login again.
  • Default credential backend is now OS keychain (keytar).

🔐 Security & Auth

  • Added deterministic credential backend resolver:
    • env-readonly mode when LEETCODE_SESSION and LEETCODE_CSRF_TOKEN are both set.
    • keychain backend by default.
    • Explicit encrypted-file backend via LEETCODECLI_CREDENTIAL_BACKEND=file + LEETCODECLI_MASTER_KEY.
  • Added typed auth storage status/reason handling across CLI and TUI:
    • ENV_PARTIAL, KEYCHAIN_UNAVAILABLE, KEYCHAIN_ERROR, FILE_MISSING_MASTER_KEY, FILE_DECRYPT_FAILED, LEGACY_CREDENTIALS_IGNORED.
  • Updated login, logout, whoami, and shared auth checks with consistent remediation messaging.

⚙️ Runtime & Platform

  • Added Linux keychain prerequisites in CI for deterministic native module builds (libsecret-1-dev, pkg-config).
  • Updated Docker image build/runtime dependencies for keytar compatibility in Linux containers.
  • Docker/headless guidance now documents env-readonly auth usage.

🧪 Testing

  • Added dedicated credential-store tests for resolver precedence, reason states, encrypted file read/write, and legacy-ignore behavior.
  • Added CLI and TUI auth tests for env-readonly mode and keychain-unavailable handling.

🔧 Additional Merged Fixes

  • Included merged PR #5:
    • Config file write normalization: config writes now include a trailing newline for POSIX-friendly file formatting.

v2.4.1

Release Date: 2026-03-08 Focus: TUI Config Editing Hotfix

🐛 Bug Fixes

  • TUI Config Key Hijacking (#3): Fixed an issue where global navigation hotkeys (h, l, tab) would intercept keystrokes while editing a config field in the TUI. For example, typing python3 as the default language would fail because the h key triggered a focus-toggle instead of inserting text. The fix ensures that when a config field is in edit mode (isEditing), text input takes precedence over all interface hotkeys.

v2.4.0

Release Date: 2026-02-28 Focus: SQL Language Support + Cross-OS CLI E2E Coverage + Sync Security Hardening

🚀 Features

  • Added sql as a first-class supported language for CLI and TUI flows.
  • leetcode config -l sql and leetcode pick ... -l sql are now supported.
  • SQL solution files are generated and recognized with .sql extension.

⚙️ Improvements

  • Centralized language normalization and slug resolution logic in a shared utility.
  • Added SQL dialect resolution fallback (mysql default) for test/submit compatibility.
  • Updated config and help surfaces to display SQL as a supported language.
  • Replaced shell-interpolated command strings in sync with argument-vector execution for dynamic values.
  • Updated git commit -m, git remote add origin, and gh repo create dynamic flows to safer execFileSync(command, args) usage.

🔒 Security

  • Resolves CodeQL alert js/incomplete-sanitization by removing custom shell-escaping dependence for user/config-derived arguments.

🧪 Testing

  • Added dedicated SQL language unit tests for mapping, extension detection, and slug resolution.
  • Added deterministic cross-OS CLI E2E command-flow tests (config/workspace/snapshot/help) running in Linux/macOS/Windows CI matrix.

v2.3.0

Release Date: 2026-02-11 Focus: TUI Functionality + Stability + Cross-Platform Fixes

✅ Compatibility

This is a minor, non-breaking release.

  • Existing CLI command signatures are unchanged.
  • Existing problem action shortcuts remain available in TUI (p/t/s/h/H/V/b/n/e).

🚀 Highlights

TUI Functionality (leetcode)

  • Running leetcode (no args, interactive terminal) launches full-screen TUI mode.
  • Problem screen uses a single-column statement layout with a unified bottom drawer for hints, submissions, snapshots, notes, diff, and status/test/submit output.
  • Added focus toggle (Tab) between statement body and drawer, with j/k and arrows scrolling the focused region.
  • Action shortcuts are available in problem view: p/t/s/h/H/V/b/n/e.
  • Close behavior is consistent: Esc closes drawer first, then navigates back.
  • Rendering and terminal handling include full-screen redraw and cleanup guards (ANSI reset, cursor/raw-mode restoration) to reduce residue/flicker issues.

Cross-Platform Sync Fixes

  • Fixed sync repository-name extraction on Windows by using path.basename() instead of Unix-style path splitting.
  • Updated shell argument escaping to use double quotes for better cross-platform behavior.

🧪 Quality

  • Added dedicated TUI tests for problem-screen drawer routing and state transitions.
  • Verified with npm run typecheck, npm run test, and npm run build.

v2.2.2

Release Date: 2026-01-18 Focus: Critical Bug Fix (Update Command)

🐛 Bug Fixes

  • Update Command: Fixed a logic inversion where leetcode update would incorrectly report “You’re on the latest version” even when updates were available. It now correctly prompts for updates.

v2.2.1

Release Date: 2026-01-17 Focus: Security Hotfix & CI/CD Enhancements

🔒 Security Fixes

  • HTML Injection: Fixed vulnerabilities in problem descriptions, hints, and code templates by replacing regex-based sanitization with striptags (#security).
  • Double Escaping: Fixed issue where HTML entities (like ") could be double-unescaped (#security).
  • Dependencies: Updated CodeQL actions to v4 and added Dependency Review workflow.

🔧 Improvements

  • CI/CD: Added Stale issue management and optimized Docker builds with caching.
  • Linting: Resolved all ESLint warnings and enforced stricter type safety.

v2.2.0

Release Date: 2026-01-17 Focus: Problem Hints & Performance

🚀 New Features

Hint Command (leetcode hint)

Get hints for a problem when you’re stuck.

  • leetcode hint <id> - Show hints one at a time (press Enter for next)
  • leetcode hint <id> --all - Show all hints at once
  • Supports both problem ID and slug
  • Cleans HTML formatting for terminal display
  • Alias: h

⚡ Performance Improvements

Submission Polling Optimization

  • Exponential backoff: Reduced API calls by 60% (30 → 12 calls)
  • Faster results: 500ms initial delay for quicker feedback
  • Network resilience: Added retry logic for transient network errors
  • Better error messages: “Test” vs “Submission” context in timeouts

v2.1.1

Release Date: 2026-01-17 Focus: Refactoring & Robustness

🔧 Improvements

  • Code Refactoring: Extracted shared semver utility for consistent version comparison
  • Improved Parsing: Enhanced changelog parser regex to handle various version formats
  • Robustness: Integration tests now verify against real npm/GitHub APIs
  • Network Reliability: Fixed potential hangs by enforcing strict 10s total timeout for registry checks

v2.1.0

Release Date: 2026-01-16 Focus: CLI Updates & Changelog

🚀 New Features

Update Command (leetcode update)

Check for CLI updates from npm registry with automatic update notifications.

  • Visual notification box when updates are available
  • Detects breaking changes (major version bumps) and warns users
  • 24-hour caching to avoid excessive registry calls
  • --force flag to bypass cache and re-check

Changelog Command (leetcode changelog)

View release notes directly from the CLI.

  • Fetches changelog from GitHub (works for global installs)
  • Default: shows only versions newer than your installed version
  • --all - Show full changelog
  • --latest - Show only latest version
  • --breaking - Filter to breaking changes only
  • Enhanced terminal display with emojis and formatting

Startup Update Notifications

Non-blocking check on startup shows a subtle banner if updates are available.

⚡ Performance Improvements

  • Build minification enabled: bundle size reduced ~40% (163KB → 98KB)
  • Tree-shaking for better dead code elimination

v2.0.1

Release Date: 2026-01-12 Focus: Security Hotfix

🔒 Security Fixes

  • Path Traversal Prevention: Fixed vulnerability where test, submit, and diff --file commands accepted file paths outside the configured workspace. Now validates that files are inside workDir before reading/submitting.
  • Command Injection Prevention: Fixed sync command to sanitize repository names, validate git URLs, and properly escape shell arguments to prevent command injection attacks.

v2.0.0

Release Date: 2026-01-11 Focus: Workspaces, Visual Debugging, Snapshots & Diff

⚠️ Breaking Change

This release introduces workspace-aware storage. Existing data in ~/.leetcode/ will not be automatically migrated. Delete the folder to start fresh with the new workspace system or manually move the data to the new workspace directory.

🚀 New Features

Workspaces (leetcode workspace)

Isolate your problem-solving contexts with separate config, timer history, and snapshots.

  • workspace current - Show active workspace
  • workspace list - List all workspaces
  • workspace create <name> - Create new workspace
  • workspace use <name> - Switch workspaces
  • workspace delete <name> - Delete workspace

Solution Snapshots (leetcode snapshot)

Save, restore, and compare different versions of your solutions. Supports save/list/restore/diff/delete operations with auto-backup on restore.

Solution Diff (leetcode diff)

Compare your current solution with past submissions or files. Shows both solutions with line numbers, or use --unified for line-by-line diff.

Visual Debugging (leetcode test --visualize)

ASCII visualization for test outputs based on problem tags.

  • Supports: Array, Linked List, Tree, Binary Tree, Graph, Matrix, String, Stack, Queue, Heap
  • Highlights mismatches in red
  • Auto-detects 2D arrays as matrices

🏗️ Architecture Improvements

  • Workspace-aware storage: Config, timer, collab, and snapshots are now isolated per-workspace

🧪 Testing Improvements

  • Comprehensive test suite with 194 tests
  • Integration tests for CLI binary verification
  • Multi-workspace isolation tests
  • Visual debugging unit tests

🐛 Bug Fixes

  • Fixed command help text alignment
  • Fixed empty stdout display

v1.6.0

Release Date: 2026-01-10 Focus: Collaborative Coding & Storage Improvements

🚀 New Features

Collaborative Coding (leetcode collab)

  • Pair Programming: Solve problems together with a partner.
  • Room System: Host creates a room, partner joins with a 6-character code.
  • Code Sync: Upload solutions to the cloud for comparison.
  • Solution Compare: View both solutions with line numbers.
  • Status Tracking: See who has synced their code.

🏗️ Architecture Improvements

  • Separated Storage: Config, credentials, collab, and timer data now stored in separate files (~/.leetcode/) for cleaner organization.

v1.5.0

Release Date: 2026-01-09 Focus: Interview Timer & Bug Fixes

🚀 New Features

Interview Timer (leetcode timer)

  • Interview Mode: Start problems with a countdown timer to simulate interview pressure.
  • Default Limits: Easy (20 min), Medium (40 min), Hard (60 min).
  • Custom Time: Use -m <minutes> for custom time limits.
  • Time Tracking: Records your solve time when you submit successfully.
  • Statistics: View your historical solve times with --stats.

🐛 Bug Fixes

  • File Search: Fixed issue where leetcode submit <id> would find notes files instead of solution files. Now correctly skips hidden directories (.notes) and only matches valid code files.

v1.4.0

Release Date: 2026-01-08 Focus: Advanced Statistics & Git Sync

🚀 New Features

Advanced Statistics (leetcode stat)

  • -c, --calendar: Weekly activity summary showing submissions and active days for the last 12 weeks.
  • -s, --skills: Skill breakdown by topic tags (Fundamental/Intermediate/Advanced).
  • -t, --trend: Daily trend bar chart showing submissions for the last 7 days.

Automated Git Sync (leetcode sync)

  • One-Command Sync: Automatically commit and push all your solutions to a Git repository.
  • Smart Initialization: Detects if your folder is a git repo; if not, handles git init for you.
  • GitHub Integration: If you have gh CLI installed, auto-creates private repositories on GitHub.
  • Improved Commit Messages: Commits include file count and a clean timestamp.

⚙️ Configuration

  • Repo URL: New -r, --repo <url> option in config command.
  • Unset Repo: You can now clear the repo URL by leaving it blank in interactive mode or passing an empty string.

v1.3.2

Release Date: 2026-01-06 Focus: Critical Hotfix.

🐛 Bug Fixes

  • CLI Execution: Fixed missing shebang (#!/usr/bin/env node) that prevented global CLI execution on Unix-like systems.

v1.3.1

Release Date: 2026-01-06 Focus: Bug Fixes & Code Quality. Warning: This release has a broken binary on Unix/Linux/macOS due to missing shebang.

🐛 Bug Fixes

API & Polling

  • Fixed redundant conditional in pollSubmission() - both branches were identical.

Premium Problem Handling

  • Refactored pick.ts premium problem flow for clearer control with explicit branches.
  • Now shows helpful message when language not available in code snippets.

File Search Safety

  • Added depth limiting (max 5 levels) to recursive file searches to prevent runaway traversal.

Type Safety

  • Fixed nullable types in ProblemDetail interface to match Zod schema validation.
  • Fixed type assertion order in config.ts - now validates before casting.
  • Added parseInt validation in submissions.ts before API calls.

Code Cleanup

  • Consolidated duplicate isProblemId/validateProblemId functions.
  • Removed unused config imports from daily.ts and show.ts.

Documentation

  • Updated Docker alias commands with shell-specific variations (Bash/Zsh, Fish, PowerShell).

v1.3.0

Release Date: 2026-01-06 Focus: Productivity & Code Quality.

🚀 New Features

Productivity Boosters

  • Today’s Progress: New today command shows streak, daily challenge, and solved stats.
  • Bookmarks: Save interesting problems with bookmark add/list/remove.
  • Problem Notes: Keep personal notes for problems using note <id>.
  • Batch Pick: Pick multiple problems at once with pick-batch.

🔧 Improvements

Code Quality & Robustness

  • Validation: Strict input validation for problem IDs in bookmark and note commands.
  • Error Handling: Improved error reporting for batch operations and API failures.
  • Refactored Utilities: Extracted shared logic for file finding and validation.
  • Better UX: Improved spinner messages and premium problem feedback.
  • Resilience: Added session auto-validation to detect expired cookies.
  • Security: Enforced global authentication checks across all commands.

v1.2.0

Release Date: 2026-01-05 Focus: Developer Experience & Type Safety.

🔧 Improvements

Dynamic Help Text

  • Each command now shows contextual examples with --help.
  • Login shows step-by-step cookie instructions.
  • Commands show ID vs. slug usage, custom testcase syntax, etc.

Editor Utility Refactor

  • Moved openInEditor to dedicated src/utils/editor.ts utility.
  • Uses open npm package for robust cross-platform file opening.
  • Better support for VS Code family, terminal editors, and GUI editors.

Type Safety: Zod Validation

  • Added Zod schemas in src/schemas/api.ts for all LeetCode API responses.
  • Validates data at the API “edge” to catch issues early.
  • Prevents “undefined” errors deep in application logic.

v1.1.0

Release Date: 2026-01-04 Focus: Feature Completion and Docker.

🚀 New Features

Random Problem Picker (leetcode random)

  • Fetch a random LeetCode problem instantly.
  • Filter by difficulty (-d) and tag (-t).
  • Options to auto-generate file (--pick) or skip opening (--no-open).

Past Submissions Viewer (leetcode submissions)

  • View your last 20 submissions.
  • Retrieve code from the last accepted submission (--last or --download).

Docker Support 🐳

  • Official Docker image available at nightslayer/leetcode-cli.
  • Run the CLI without Node.js installation.

Documentation Site 📚

  • Comprehensive guides hosted on GitHub Pages.

v1.0.1

🐛 Bug Fixes

  • Premium Problem Handling: Fixed a crash when attempting to show or pick Premium-only problems.

v1.0.0

🎉 Initial Release

  • Core commands: list, show, pick, test, submit.
  • Cookie-based authentication.

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