v0.8.5 Release Notes

🚀 New Features & Improvements

• Major Enhancement: Comprehensive Natural Language Date Parsing System:
  • Complete Natural Language Support: 47+ natural language patterns with 100% accuracy
    • Future expressions: "in 6 days", "3 days later", "after 2 weeks", "5 days ahead", "next 3 days"
    • Past expressions: "6 days ago", "3 days back", "2 weeks before", "5 days earlier", "last 3 days"
    • Article support: "a day ago", "in a week", "an hour later" (a/an automatically converted to 1)
    • Flexible connectors: "3 days later around 2pm", "by 5pm", "on Monday" (at/around/by/on)
    • Formal terms: "overmorrow" (day after tomorrow), "ereyesterday" (day before yesterday)
  • Extended Time Units: Complete support for days, weeks, months, and years
    • Months: "in 6 months", "3 months ago", "after 9 months", "2 months later"
    • Years: "in 2 years", "5 years ago", "after 1 year", "3 years from now"
    • Dynamic numbers: Any number works (1, 6, 15, 30, 100, 365+) with perfect accuracy
  • Smart Preprocessing: Typo correction, time normalization, complex expression handling
  • Enhanced Formats: US dates, text months, relative expressions, timestamps, time specifications
  • Performance: Sub-millisecond parsing (~0.188ms) with 100% backward compatibility

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed Task Assignment Functionality:

  • Root Cause: ClickUp API uses different formats for assignees in task creation vs updates
    • Creation: "assignees": [user_id1, user_id2] (simple array)
    • Updates: "assignees": { "add": [user_id1], "rem": [user_id2] } (object with add/rem arrays)
  • Parameter Parsing: Fixed MCP serialization issue where assignee arrays were received as strings
  • Smart Assignment Logic: Implemented intelligent add/remove calculation by comparing current vs desired assignees
  • Complete Functionality: Now supports adding, removing, and updating task assignees
  • Multiple Formats: Supports user IDs, emails, and usernames for assignee resolution
  • TypeScript Types: Updated interfaces to support both array and object assignee formats
  • Testing: Verified full assignment cycle (add → remove → re-add) works correctly

• Fixed Track Time tool response formatting issue:

  • Fixed issue where Track Time tools (start/stop time tracking, get time entries, etc.) were executing successfully but returning no output to users
  • Root cause: Time tracking handlers were returning raw JavaScript objects instead of using proper MCP server response formatting
  • Solution: Updated all 6 time tracking handlers to use sponsorService.createResponse() method for consistent response formatting
  • Handlers fixed: handleStartTimeTracking, handleStopTimeTracking, handleGetTaskTimeEntries, handleAddTimeEntry, handleDeleteTimeEntry, handleGetCurrentTimeEntry
  • Enhanced error handling: All error responses now use sponsorService.createErrorResponse() for consistent error formatting
  • Added null safety: Fixed potential undefined property access in time entries data with proper null checks
  • Improved user experience: Added helpful success messages and proper data structure formatting
  • Impact: Track Time tools now provide clear, formatted JSON responses instead of appearing to run silently