ggWebGL 0.8.0

• Added a separate vignette gate for live WebGL widgets across coverage, renderer capability/showcase, real-data, boids, surface/mesh, and temporal trajectory articles so CRAN source builds, CRAN checks, and CI can show examples without executing browser-side widget chunks.
• Kept rich local and pkgdown vignette rendering opt-in through GGWEBGL_EVAL_COVERAGE_VIGNETTE=true plus GGWEBGL_EVAL_LIVE_WIDGETS=true.
• Delegated boids display defaults to the updated boids4R::as_ggwebgl_spec() adapter so species-aware velocity colours, current-boid emphasis, recent trails, and obstacle context rings are preserved by the optional integration.
• Split the live boids4R animation article into an overview plus smaller 2D, 3D, and custom-workflow pages so generated pkgdown artifacts remain below repository hosting file-size limits.

ggWebGL 0.7.0

• Added ggwebgl_interactions() as the structured interaction contract for hover, click, brush/lasso, camera, and Shiny event behavior.
• Added renderer-owned hover/click picking coverage for additional primitive types, including vectors, raster cells, and structured surfaces.
• Unified Shiny interaction event emission for hover, selection, brush, camera, and timeline/time state while preserving existing timeline update APIs.
• Added a CRAN-safe Shiny interaction demo that exercises hover, click, brush, camera, and time events without custom JavaScript.
• Added compact point transport and deterministic LOD metadata for large point scenes, plus manual dense-scene smoke helpers that record payload and browser diagnostics without making fixed performance statements.
• Added neutral scene-type benchmark helpers and public examples for dense embeddings, trajectory timelines, surface/mesh rendering, Shiny interaction, and static-versus-WebGL workflow comparison.
• Added surface/mesh and interactive benchmark vignettes built from small deterministic examples and manual metric schemas.

ggWebGL 0.6.0

• Added XGeoRTR and boids4R to Suggests as optional integrations while keeping them out of hard dependencies.
• Restored the richer boids4R animation and swarm-art vignette plus the matching htmlwidget example, using installed suggested packages instead of sibling-repository loading.
• Restored live XGeoRTR bridge vignette behavior with neutral renderer/backend ownership wording and guarded example code.
• Kept shapViz3D as a guarded optional ecosystem example without adding it to package dependencies.
• Updated dependency and bridge tests to allow XGeoRTR and boids4R in Suggests while continuing to reject hard dependencies on optional ecosystem packages.

ggWebGL 0.5.0

• Froze the experimental renderer API around structured ggwebgl_view(), ggwebgl_selection(), and ggwebgl_material() contracts.
• Extended vector layers to support 3D z/zend coordinates while preserving renderer-owned ids, frame/time metadata, and browser selection behavior.
• Added distinct orbit and trackball camera control paths with normalized rotation-based camera state.
• Upgraded mesh and surface payloads with generated normals, Lambert material metadata, picking ids, wireframe/culling controls, and GPU payload caching hooks.
• Expanded the interaction-frame benchmark artifact schema so fixed frame-rate performance statements require device, browser, GPU, commit, primitive-count, and artifact metadata.

ggWebGL 0.3.0

• Added exported ggwebgl_magnify_region() in R/magnify-region.R, with panel and inset modes driven by an exact data-coordinate rectangle.
• Added experimental vector-arrow rendering through geom_vector_webgl() and ggwebgl_layer_vectors(), using renderer-ready shafts and triangle arrowheads without backend-specific semantics.
• Added experimental brush and lasso interaction modes that emit selected primitive ids through Shiny inputs or optional JavaScript callbacks.
• Added experimental timeline controls with frame/time filtering for primitive layers plus play, scrub, speed, and reset UI controls.
• Added experimental opt-in 3D camera state, 3D point/line support, indexed mesh payloads, geom_mesh_webgl(), geom_surface_webgl(), ggwebgl_layer_mesh(), and ggwebgl_layer_surface().
• Added a renderer-generic future-work gallery and contract tests covering the new vector, selection, timeline, camera, mesh, and surface paths.
• Added an interaction-frame benchmark schema for frame-rate statements. Fixed performance numbers remain future-facing until generated benchmark artifacts exist for a named target machine.

ggWebGL 0.2.0

• Promoted the package from the long-running development scaffold to the 0.2.0 release line.
• Added large-scene demo support: persistent point buffers for stable large point-cloud interaction, deterministic count-aware density splats, generic hover labels for point primitives, and a reproducible renderer gallery.
• Added generic downstream adapter helpers for renderer-ready point, line, and raster primitive specs, including exported ggwebgl_layer_*() constructors and ggwebgl_spec().
• Added package-owned static export surfaces through snapshot_ggwebgl() and compose_ggwebgl_figure(), so publication-style PNG/JPEG captures and simple figure composition can be driven from the package API instead of ad hoc scripts.
• Added project evidence documentation and machine-readable evidence summaries for internal release validation.
• Added vignette-local figure copies for website articles that need images without referencing files outside pkgdown’s allowed article asset paths.
• Tightened the browser-backed static export path around dedicated chromote browser ownership, lighter examples, and explicit optional dependency declarations for export and vignette tooling.
• Fixed pkgdown/htmlwidget layout containment by restoring the widget CSS dependency and adding inline canvas-stage safeguards, preventing WebGL canvases from stacking at the top of article pages.

ggWebGL 0.1.0

• Expanded the core renderer beyond the initial scaffold with reusable showcase helpers, manual htmlwidget and Shiny smoke tests, and a stronger pkgdown-facing documentation surface.
• Implemented and stabilized the main point shader modes: default, density_splat, trajectory_age, and trajectory_age_glow.
• Added hover-based sample inspection on top of the existing pan and zoom interactions.
• Added texture-backed raster rendering for geom_raster_webgl().
• Added fixed-scale facet_wrap() and facet_grid() support through a panel-aware render specification and panel-local interaction state.
• Added packaged real-data evidence examples covering raster fields, storm trajectories, and dense embeddings.
• Added a reproducible evaluation suite against ggplot2 and plotly, including machine-readable metrics and benchmark figure scripts under inst/benchmarks/.
• Froze the XGeoRTR/ggWebGL renderer boundary in RENDERER_CONTRACT.md and added the first as_ggwebgl_spec.xgeo_state() adapter plus renderer contract tests.

ggWebGL 0.0.0.9000

• Reset package metadata and top-level documentation from the copied scaffold to the ggWebGL package identity.
• Rewrote the package README, citation, and pkgdown configuration around the intended ggplot2 plus WebGL rendering workflow and companion-package split.
• Removed imported carryover benchmark content from the copied package tree.
• Added the first real ggplot_webgl() renderer path for point and line layers, backed by a minimal WebGL htmlwidget.
• Added the initial showcase vignette and gallery, including dense latent-space, diffusion-trajectory, phase-portrait, and optimization-path examples.
• Added reusable standard and high_detail showcase presets for the gallery and demo surfaces.