# Changelog

> True HMR for Lit components, CSS delivery helpers, and a DevTools timeline for Vite.

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## Version 0.9.0

Oct 1, 2026

Pick now works on pages connected to the standalone `lit-devtools dev` server, and `#private` state survives hot-patching on Vite 7 as it already did on Vite 8. One change needs action: runtime globals moved to the package’s own `Symbol.for` prefix. The rest are fixes to panel settings that didn’t stick, a Pick button with no picker behind it, and the HMR indicator sitting on the DevTools toolbar.

### Added

* **Pick works on pages connected to `lit-devtools dev`.** Pick in the Components tab, or Ctrl/⌘+Shift+S on the page, picks any Lit element; the panel selects it and a panel tab comes forward on it. If you opened the panel yourself, the first pick opens a second panel tab and later picks reuse it.

### Changed

* **Runtime globals are keyed `@oddsquad/vite-plugin-lit#…`.** Code that read component source metadata (or any other plugin global) through `Symbol.for('@lit-labs/vite-plugin-lit#source')` needs the new prefix.

### Fixed

* **`#private` state survives HMR on Vite 7 too.** Editing a method that touches a private field of a decorated component no longer throws “Cannot read from private field” after esbuild has lowered it.
* **Panel settings survive a page reload in standalone mode and on StackBlitz.** After reloading the app, overrides such as flash updates or the HMR indicator reverted to the config defaults until a setting was changed again.
* **A setting changed right after opening the panel is kept.** The first toggle in a fresh panel session (for example Flash on the Components tab) could be silently wiped from the saved settings, so it was gone after a reload. Seen with `lit-devtools dev`; the Vite DevTools panel runs the same code.
* **The Components tab no longer shows a Pick button that does nothing.** Without the source overlay (off by default, and unavailable to pages connected to `lit-devtools dev`) the button lit up and no picker appeared. It now only appears when there is a picker to start.
* **The HMR indicator no longer covers the DevTools toolbar.** With the Vite DevTools dock on an edge, the indicator and the source-overlay tooltip sat on top of it instead of moving aside.
* **A `#event=` link scrolls to its row on a slow first load.** Opening the panel or a snapshot through a timeline link selected the event but could leave its row out of view when the list’s layout code loaded slowly.