Minor. A navigation column now paints at its real width on the very first frame instead of flicking into place, a brand keeps its mark and its name on one row, and a counter that is asked to run again always ends on its target rather than on a zero. ### Added - **An `empty` slot on [``](https://docs.wirekit.app/components/data-table)** — put a real starting point on the screen a new user reaches first. `emptyText` can say that nothing is here; it cannot say what to do about it, and there was no way to supply anything that could. The slot replaces the muted line rather than joining it, so a table never shows a call to action and a sentence saying nothing is here at the same time. Leave it off and nothing changes. - **`rule="top"` on [``](https://docs.wirekit.app/components/shell-bar)** — draw the bar's rule above itself instead of below. A bar at the FOOT of a navigation column needs its line between itself and the last item, not along the column's bottom edge; without this the only symmetric column available was one with a band at the head and a bare row at the foot. ### Fixed - **A navigation column no longer flickers into place on load.** An interactive [``](https://docs.wirekit.app/components/sidebar) or [``](https://docs.wirekit.app/components/app-rail) carried its width only in a binding that runs after the page has already painted, so the column laid out at content width and snapped to its real width a frame later. The width is now on the element from the first frame. A column whose collapsed state is remembered across reloads can still move once — that choice lives in the reader's browser and only the client can read it. - **The brand slot of [``](https://docs.wirekit.app/components/navbar) keeps a mark and a wordmark on one row.** The wordmark is a block element, so in the previous wrapper the name dropped to a second line under the logo. Nothing inside the slot could correct that — the wrapper is what decides the flow. - **[``](https://docs.wirekit.app/components/popover) and [``](https://docs.wirekit.app/components/hover-card) now sit below page chrome.** Both are anchored panels that trap focus, so they belong on the dropdown layer rather than the tooltip layer, and a sticky header painted over them the way `--z-wk-chrome` was introduced to prevent. The tooltip layer keeps the surfaces that cannot be interacted with at all. - **`wirekit:doctor` now notices a package update when it checks the compiled-view cache.** It compared your own `resources/views/` against `storage/framework/views/` and nothing else, so a `composer update pushery/wirekit` — which moves the package's views and touches none of yours — left it reporting a fresh cache while every compiled template still held the previous version's markup. That is the state right after an upgrade, and the one where `php artisan view:clear` is the answer it exists to give. - **`hreflang` and `media` no longer read as unknown props.** Both are standard anchor attributes, and passing either to [``](https://docs.wirekit.app/components/link) logged a warning that named a real, spec-defined attribute and offered a spelling suggestion for it — a gap in the reserved list that read like a typo in your markup. The rendered output was correct throughout. - **A restarted counter no longer runs two animations at once.** Asking for a replay while the first count-up was still in flight left both running against the same value, so the number stuttered between them. - **Restarting a [``](https://docs.wirekit.app/components/stat) counter always ends on the target value.** The restart resets to zero and then counts up on animation frames, which a browser stops delivering while a document is not being rendered — a hidden or zero-sized frame kept the counter at zero for as long as that lasted. It now settles on the target if no frame arrives. ### Security - **Every Alpine expression a component writes into an attribute is escaped through one helper.** This landed in 2.35.0 across 117 call sites in 34 component views and was not named in that release's notes, so nobody reading them could tell it was worth prioritizing. It is stated here instead. No exploitable path was found in the shipped components — every value reaching those sites is either an allow-list member or already escaped — but the attribute was previously assembled by hand in each view, which is the shape where the next value nobody checks becomes a hole. ### Changed - **`--size-wk-rail` is derived from its own content** rather than written as a round number, and resolves about a quarter of a rem narrower than before. It has to be exact: a column that is wider than the icon plus its paddings and border leaves slack, and the slack showed up as a sideways jump on every expand. Override the token to keep the previous width. - **An icon-only rail row aligns its glyph to the leading padding instead of centering it.** With the width above derived from exactly that content the two look identical — centering had nothing left to center. Where they differed is a shell that insets the column beside a panel: centering averaged that inset in and moved the icon sideways on every expand, while the expanded row, which has a label beside the glyph, did not move. A caption placed UNDER the icon still centers, because there the axis in question is the vertical one. ### Documentation - **The [Sidebar Shell](https://docs.wirekit.app/blueprints/application-shells/sidebar-shell), [Stacked Shell](https://docs.wirekit.app/blueprints/application-shells/stacked-shell) and [Multi-Column Shell](https://docs.wirekit.app/blueprints/application-shells/multi-column) pages are published.** - **The observer helper leads the [custom Alpine plugin guide](https://docs.wirekit.app/extending/authoring-custom-alpine-plugins)** instead of appearing as an alternative to writing the guard by hand.