Changelog

Notable product releases are published on GitHub Releases (downloads, tags, and discussion). This page mirrors published release notes in a short, docs-friendly highlights format.

The section below is generated from GitHub Releases. Edit release notes on GitHub, then run npm run sync:changelog -- --force.

v0.9.0

Released May 4, 2026 · Details on GitHub

• Auto Focus surfaces prepared work closer to the moment of use, with tighter linting around promoted, archived, and contradictory memory
• vaner launch <client> and vaner clients verify make setup and recovery easier across supported AI clients
• Setup now applies policy bundles automatically and improves local model/GPU selection for desktop-class machines
• Signed PyPI artifacts, SBOM, and provenance are attached to the GitHub release

v0.8.10

Released May 2, 2026 · Details on GitHub

• chore: harden release preflight discipline
• ci: harden zizmor workflow checks
• feat: productize Prepared Work surface
• chore(readme): simplify to ~100 lines, single front-door, link to docs
• feat(primer): add Zed, Windsurf, Roo Code primer surfaces
• feat(clients): add vaner clients verify for the four-layer leverage stack
• ...and more on GitHub.

v0.8.9

Released May 2, 2026 · Details on GitHub

• fix(setup): pick qwen3.6 (latest+best) for 32 GB cards instead of qwen3.5 (#224) @abolsen
• feat: cockpit refresh + model catalog refresher with proper sampling defaults (#211) @abolsen
• feat(cli): vaner up --json + per-device GPU enumeration (#221) @abolsen
• feat(init): auto-apply policy bundle, no five-question wizard (#220) @abolsen
• feat(cli): vaner launch <client> end-to-end installer (#218) @abolsen
• feat(hooks): Cline + Windsurf prompt-submit hooks (Phase C4) (#217) @abolsen
• ...and more on GitHub.

Vaner 0.8.8

Released April 30, 2026 · Details on GitHub

• Vaner 0.8.8 focuses on prepared work quality, exact component targeting, and release-grade benchmark governance
• Adds the Prepared Work surface, combining predictions and generated work artifacts into one cleaner user-facing feed
• Adds WorkProduct lifecycle support for high-signal prepared artifacts such as review notes, bug hypotheses, docs drift, research briefs, and exportable virtual diffs
• Improves exact component targeting with lightweight symbol indexing and deterministic target normalization so named functions/classes/files beat broad stale relevance
• Tightens draft readiness: weak component matches stay evidence-only, while exact definitions, strong test+usage evidence, and explicitly docs/schema-shaped cases can become draft-ready
• Adds schema-locked benchmark governance with stable small/medium/large profiles, release gates, reproducibility metadata, and leak scanning
• ...and more on GitHub.

v0.8.7

Released April 26, 2026 · Details on GitHub

• feat(0.8.7): Live Intent Capture Phase 1 + L0 Claude Code adapter + 0.8.6 carry-overs (#189) @abolsen
• fix: resolve code scanning alerts (#188) @abolsen
• ci: move to larger GitHub-hosted runners + quality/compatibility split (#187) @abolsen
• @abolsen

v0.8.6

Released April 25, 2026 · Details on GitHub

• feat(intent): 0.8.6 WS4 — work-style intent priors (#175) @abolsen
• feat(0.8.6): WS5 → WS12b release content (recovery) (#186) @abolsen
• feat(setup): 0.8.6 WS2 — hardware detection (#185) @abolsen
• feat(setup): 0.8.6 WS1 — setup primitives + config schema (#172) @abolsen
• fix(release): call SLSA generator by tag, not SHA (#171) @abolsen
• @abolsen

v0.8.5

Released April 25, 2026 · Details on GitHub

• feat(integrations): 0.8.5 WS2 — context-injection layer (#158) @abolsen
• feat(integrations): 0.8.5 WS1 — guidance assets + behavior-shaping tool descriptions (#157) @abolsen
• docs(bench): 0.8.4 Deep-Run pipeline-validation bench writeup (#156) @abolsen
• chore: harden 0.8.5 contract and release checks (#167) @abolsen
• feat(mcp): 0.8.5 WS7 — MCP Apps UI bundle + ui:// resource registration (#163) @abolsen
• @abolsen

v0.8.4 — Validate, then Generalize + contract crate

Released April 24, 2026 · Details on GitHub

• 0.8.4 is a validation-and-position release. It generalises the 0.8.3 Deep-Run maturation loop into a reusable RefinementContext (default-off feature flag), ships the WS4 adoption-outcome feedback log, and bundles the merged feat/vaner-contract-crate Rust contract crate with cross-language conformance fixtures
• Default-off: refinement.enabled ships False. 0.8.3 Deep-Run behaviour preserved exactly. 0.8.5 will activate the refinement consumer alongside a production drafter — the adoption-outcome log already accumulates real data from day one so 0.8.5 has signal to consume
• RefinementContext abstracts the 0.8.3 DeepRunSession input to mature_one() + select_maturation_candidates(), paving the way for background refinement outside Deep-Run mode
• _run_background_refinement_pass() engine hook — dormant by default; enabled only when refinement.enabled=True AND a refinement drafter is injected
• RefinementConfig with enabled=False default + explicit adoption_pending_confirm_seconds threshold
• 0.8.3 Deep-Run call sites preserved via RefinementContext.from_deep_run_session()
• ...and more on GitHub.

v0.8.0 — persistence + goals + unified resolve + briefing + drafter

Released April 24, 2026 · Details on GitHub

• Completes the architectural cleanup on top of the Phases 1–4 foundation. Six independent work streams ship together because they share the same touch points in engine.py and prediction_registry.py
• PredictionRegistry survives across precompute cycles. Signal-driven invalidation (file_change / commit / category_shift / adoption) demotes weight, clears briefings, and stales predictions only when real state has changed — no wall-clock decay. Per-path content hashes via git hash-object with SHA-256 fallback
• Single Briefing / BriefingSection / BriefingAssembler replaces three ad-hoc string-concat sites across engine + MCP. Optional tokenizer hook for real token counts
• Single Drafter owns the rewrite + draft LLM templates and gate arithmetic. _precompute_predicted_responses routes through it; arc / pattern / history / goal-sourced predictions all drive through one path
• WorkspaceGoal dataclass, branch-name parser with known-acronyms list, workspace_goals SQLite table. Engine seeds PredictionSpec(source="goal") from active goals. Four new MCP tools: vaner.goals.{list, declare, update_status, delete}
• VanerEngine.resolve_query(query, ...) — single canonical query → Resolution entry. Consults the prediction registry for a label-match, falls back to the heuristic query path, builds Resolution via BriefingAssembler with honest `alternatives_considered`, `predicted_response`, and `briefing_token_used` / `briefing_token_budget`
• ...and more on GitHub.

v0.7.1

Released April 22, 2026 · Details on GitHub

• See details on GitHub.

v0.7.0

Released April 21, 2026 · Details on GitHub

• ci: make windows verify non-blocking
• fix: ship vaner 0.6.2 hardening (refresh)
• docs: keep README focused on Vaner
• feat(cockpit): live pipeline view with scenario cluster + system vitals
• feat(plugin): ship supported Claude Code plugin + same-repo marketplace
• feat(init): install per-client usage primers alongside MCP wiring
• ...and more on GitHub.

v0.6.1

Released April 21, 2026 · Details on GitHub

• Fix MCP server startup for stdio/SSE by passing explicit notification capabilities
• Restore vaner config show/keys stability with intent config compatibility
• Add backup-file idempotence and rotation for repeated MCP client wiring
• Harden installer MCP dependency resolution and add vaner uninstall
• Include regression tests and updated installer-first docs/site flows
• See full changelog in CHANGELOG.md

v0.6.0

Released April 21, 2026 · Details on GitHub

• fix(ux): harden installer safety, upgrades, and hardware detection
• feat(mcp): v1.0 redesign + first-class memory semantics

v0.4.0

Released April 20, 2026 · Details on GitHub

• Added vaner up / vaner down for a supervised one-command startup and shutdown path
• Unified vaner status and vaner doctor via a shared runtime snapshot for consistent health reporting
• Hardened startup reliability with preflight checks (repo-root safety, inotify headroom, busy-port remediation)
• Added inotify overflow fallback to polling watcher mode instead of crashing
• Extended vaner logs to include daemon and cockpit runtime logs
• Updated installer next-steps messaging to point users to vaner up + vaner doctor
• ...and more on GitHub.

v0.3.0

Released April 20, 2026 · Details on GitHub

• MCP-first skills-loop improvements including scenario feedback plumbing and vaner distill-skill
• CLI UX polish (--version, grouped help, config get/keys/edit, aliases, richer doctor output, vaner upgrade)
• Hermetic eval/query core test lane (no sentence-transformers dependency in default CI path)
• exploration.exploration_model -> exploration.model
• exploration.exploration_endpoint -> exploration.endpoint
• exploration.exploration_backend -> exploration.backend
• ...and more on GitHub.

v0.2.0

Released April 20, 2026 · Details on GitHub

• See details on GitHub.

v0.1.0 - initial public release

Released April 19, 2026 · Details on GitHub

• Initial public release v0.1.0