Changelog

All notable changes to rninja are documented here.

The format is based on Keep a Changelog, and this project adheres to Semantic Versioning.

0.1.0 - 2024-12-01

Added

• Initial release of rninja
• Full Ninja build file compatibility
• Local build cache with BLAKE3 hashing
• Content-addressed blob storage using sled
• Remote cache support via nng transport
• Daemon mode for faster subsequent builds
• All standard ninja subtools (clean, compdb, graph, deps, query, etc.)
• Cache management tools (cache-stats, cache-gc, cache-health)
• Configuration via TOML files and environment variables
• Chrome trace output for build profiling
• JSON output mode for scripting and automation
• CMake, Meson, and GN generator compatibility

Performance

• 23x faster no-op builds compared to ninja
• 2-5x faster warm incremental builds with caching
• 1.3-2x faster cold builds with improved parallelism

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Unreleased

Planned

• Homebrew formula
• Pre-built binaries for major platforms
• Metrics export for Prometheus
• Grafana dashboard templates