org-drill NEWS — user-facing highlights since the fork
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For the full chronological log, see CHANGELOG.md.  This file
collects the changes a user is most likely to feel.

Since the fork (no tagged release yet)
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* Several long-standing bugs that users reported upstream are
  fixed.  If you've ever seen any of these, this fork should help:

  - "[Y-08-27 Wed 16:%]"-shaped timestamps in DRILL_LAST_REVIEWED
    (issue #59).
  - Your default-input-method getting silently set to nil after a
    drill session (issues #52, #58 — particularly noticeable for
    users with non-Latin input methods).
  - Drill entries whose answer lived inside a child sub-heading
    being silently skipped (issue #13).
  - The cloze face leaking onto unrelated org headings (issue #38).
  - "Window system frame should be used" error when running
    org-drill in a TTY emacsclient (issue #44 — affects tmux
    setups in particular).
  - org-drill-final-report not firing after an edit-and-resume
    cycle (issue #33).
  - "Wrong type argument: hash-table-p, nil" stopping a session
    after the first new (no-ID) entry, forcing one-at-a-time
    invocations (issue #53).
  - Crash on package load when the persist file got corrupted
    (issue #45).
  - Stray "[debug] org-drill: at marker position N" message logged
    on every drilled card.
  - Cards with DRILL_CARD_TYPE: translate_number hitting a
    void-function error.

* Org 9.6 is now the minimum supported version.  org-drill calls
  org-fold-show-entry / org-fold-show-subtree (introduced in 9.6)
  in seven places without guards — the dependency now matches
  what the runtime needs, so a too-old Org will fail at install
  time with a clear message rather than a cryptic void-function
  error during a session.

* org-drill-resume and org-drill-again now produce a clear
  user-error when there's no previous session to resume, instead
  of a cryptic eieio type error.

* New M-x targets exposed via the existing keymap haven't been
  added; everything is still launched via M-x org-drill,
  M-x org-drill-cram, M-x org-drill-resume, etc.

For developers
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* Test coverage went from ~12% to ~78% on org-drill.el.  The
  tests/ directory now holds ~370 ERT tests across 27 files.

* GitHub Actions CI runs the test matrix (Emacs 28.2 / 29.4 /
  snapshot), lint, and coverage on every push to main.

* The Makefile gained `make coverage`, `make compile`,
  `make lint`, and `make validate-parens` targets.  See the
  CONTRIBUTING.md file for the full developer setup.

* `make install` was renamed to `make setup` (it installs Cask
  dependencies into a project-local .cask/ directory, not the
  package onto the user's system).