Every version, and what it changed for you.
63 releases since 25 Jul 2026. Breaking changes say what to do about them, and a version that rebuilds your index says so at the top.
Archis updates itself: chi update checks what is published, verifies the release hash before writing anything, and puts the previous binary back if the new one does not start. chi update --check installs nothing.
0.29.0
One command per subject, instead of two that share one.
Before you upgrade — Nothing to change, and no reindex. Every command you already type still works — the older spellings parse exactly as before and print the one line naming what to type instead, so scripts and muscle memory keep working while you move over.
- New
chi statusanswers the question you actually have afterchi init: is Archis ready in this repository, what does the index hold, and how far has it drifted from what is on disk. That last part is whatchi overviewcould not tell you — counts on their own cannot say whether they are current, and the number of files waiting to be picked up can. It replaceschi overviewand takes over whatchi supportdid, under--languages.chi statusandchi doctorstay deliberately separate: status is about the index, doctor is about the installation. - ImprovedTwenty-five commands became eighteen, and nothing you could do before is gone. Five pairs were one subject split in two, and the split was yours to solve:
chi indexandchi reindexasked you to decide whether you needed a full build or an incremental one, andchi symbolandchi refsmade "what does this symbol reach" a different word from "what is this symbol".chi indexnow decides for itself — a repository with no index is built whole, one that has an index has only its changed files recompiled and its deleted ones forgotten, andchi index src/router.tsrefreshes that one file.chi symbolanswers both directions of the call graph with--refs, one each with--callsand--called-by, and the transitive reach with--impact.chi authis the one noun for the account, withlogin,logout,statusandrefreshunder it;chi keysstays separate on purpose, because local encryption is a different job from signing in. Andchi toolsgathers the advanced surface that was three separate commands. - ImprovedThe download is smaller: 62.07 MB on 0.28.0, 59.05 MB here, for the same product.
- Fixed
chi indexfinished saying it in English. The progress display, the per-file counts and the notes and warnings it ends with were the last Spanish left in the CLI, on a command almost everybody runs first. They also group thousands the way the rest of the output does, and say "1 symbol" rather than "1 symbols".
- New
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Archis Free is the whole local engine, with no card. Everything semantic runs on your machine — there is no endpoint that accepts source.