NEWS: complete the changes since 1.2; keep exception messages in the error column

[yannrichet]

Pull Request

Description

Review of NEWS.md (Unreleased) against the 52 commits between tag 1.2 and main, plus checks of the public API (__all__ unchanged), new environment variables, pyproject.toml and the plugin manifests. Fills the gaps, removes two contradictions, and fixes one small defect found on the way.

Type of Change

• Bug fix (non-breaking change which fixes an issue)
• Documentation update
• Test addition/modification

Changes Made

NEWS.md

• New "Upgrading from 1.2: behavior changes at a glance" at the top of Unreleased: the behavior changes were scattered over 8 sections.
• Missing entries added:
  • fzo() decodes percent-encoded case directory names back when rebuilding variable columns (9d73492);
  • an unexpected exception in one case no longer aborts a campaign run sequentially (one case or one calculator), the case gets status="error" (9d73492);
  • SSH/SLURM security warnings de-duplicated per host and message (9d73492);
  • Claude Code plugin / Agent Skill changes (skills/fz/ touched by 8 commits), with a reminder that .claude-plugin/*.json still say 1.2.0 and must be bumped at release.
• Contradictions fixed:
  • "Breaking changes" said Python 3.14 was not declared, "Project metadata" said it was; pyproject.toml declares 3.9–3.14 (CI: Windows 3.9 excluded);
  • the original fz-mcp entry said restricted mode "refuses to start", superseded by the P0-7 entry.
• Not added (no user-visible effect): CI-only commits (rpy2 install, coverage aggregation), tests-only commits, removal of the dead duplicate CalculatorManager, the staged then removed contrib/fz-Simulate.

Code (fz/helpers.py)

• When run_single_case raises, run_cases_parallel stored the message under error_message, which the results table does not read: the error column stayed empty. Both the sequential and parallel paths now also set error (Unexpected error: ...). error_message is kept.

Testing Performed

Automated Tests

• New test_case_exception_is_reported_in_error_column (sequential and parallel): fails on main, passes here
• tests/test_usability_fixes.py, test_skill_static.py, test_docs_consistency.py, test_readme_paths.py, test_readme_structure.py, test_parallel_simple.py, test_robust_parallel.py: 38 passed
• Full suite not re-run (two-line change in an exception handler)

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