{ "generated_at": "2026-10-08T00:00:00Z", "project": "Byteanvil", "current": "2.4.1", "note": "Release history as data; each entry has a page at /rel-.html and an Atom feed at /feed.xml.", "releases": [ { "version": "2.4.1", "date": "2026-10-06", "page": "rel-2-4-1.html", "store_format_change": false, "summary": "A maintenance build: the progress counter no longer stalls on large uploads, and prune stops double-counting shared payloads.", "notes": [ "Fixed a stall in push --progress where the byte counter stopped updating after the first 2 GiB while the upload itself continued normally.", "config --explain now names the exact file path a value came from instead of printing the layer name alone.", "Prune no longer reports a reclaimable total that counts a payload twice when two versions share an object-storage key." ] }, { "version": "2.4.0", "date": "2026-09-14", "page": "rel-2-4-0.html", "store_format_change": false, "summary": "Promotion notes, a stricter verify, and the union reading of combined retention rules.", "notes": [ "Added promote --note, stored on the history entry and shown by show --history.", "verify gained the intermediate canonical-form check, so a reformatted manifest is reported instead of quietly passing on its signature alone.", "Retention learned the union semantics for channels defining both keep and older_than; previously the age rule won and kept less than operators expected.", "Server reloads retention and read_only on SIGHUP." ] }, { "version": "2.3.0", "date": "2026-07-14", "page": "rel-2-3-0.html", "store_format_change": false, "summary": "Archive imports keep their original dates, and large object-storage pulls stopped eating memory.", "notes": [ "import --mtime-as-created for archives whose chronology matters.", "Pattern matching reports versions that fail SemVer parsing as warnings and skips them rather than guessing a shape.", "Payload reads from object storage are streamed, cutting peak memory on a 400 MiB pull from roughly 430 MiB to 12 MiB." ] }, { "version": "2.2.0", "date": "2026-05-26", "page": "rel-2-2-0.html", "store_format_change": false, "summary": "Pinning arrives, and an empty selection stops masquerading as success.", "notes": [ "Pinning: promote --pin and --unpin, with a PIN column in ls.", "prune --include-pinned added and immediately restricted to a single named artifact.", "Exit code 7 introduced for an empty selection, which used to be reported as a plain success." ] }, { "version": "2.1.0", "date": "2026-04-07", "page": "rel-2-1-0.html", "store_format_change": false, "summary": "Object storage as a payload backend, and tokens that can push without being able to release.", "notes": [ "Object storage over HTTP as a payload backend via server.store; manifests stay on the local filesystem.", "Tokens carry a permission set, so a build account can push without being able to promote to release.", "A token found in a repository .anvil.toml is now a startup error." ] }, { "version": "2.0.0", "date": "2026-02-11", "page": "rel-2-0-0.html", "store_format_change": true, "summary": "Signing, the in-store trusted-key list, and store format 4 with its independently verifiable directories.", "notes": [ "Ed25519 manifest signing, the trusted-key list inside the store, and key new / key trust / key untrust.", "Store format 4: the manifest moved from a sidecar index into the version directory, making each directory independently verifiable. serve --migrate-store upgrades a 1.x store in place.", "Exit codes 3 and 4 split apart; both conditions previously returned 3.", "Removed the undocumented /v0/blob route that predated the manifest model." ] }, { "version": "1.4.2", "date": "2026-01-14", "page": "rel-1-4-2.html", "store_format_change": false, "summary": "Two crash and duplication fixes found in the field.", "notes": [ "Fixed a crash on a manifest whose meta map contained an empty-string key.", "Client retries no longer fire on a coordinate conflict, which could publish a duplicate history entry." ] }, { "version": "1.4.0", "date": "2025-12-09", "page": "rel-1-4-0.html", "store_format_change": false, "summary": "Directory imports, date-ranged listings, and a longer default timeout for wide-area pushes.", "notes": [ "import --from-dir --pattern for migrating an existing build share.", "ls --since accepting ISO dates and relative spans.", "Default request timeout raised from 30s to 60s after reports from sites pushing disk images over a wide-area link." ] }, { "version": "1.3.0", "date": "2025-09-23", "page": "rel-1-3-0.html", "store_format_change": false, "summary": "Machine-readable output on every command, and the columnar format marked unstable.", "notes": [ "--json on every command, with one object per line.", "show --history expands the promotion log.", "The columnar output was documented as unstable, since two downstream scripts had already broken on a width change." ] }, { "version": "1.2.0", "date": "2025-07-01", "page": "rel-1-2-0.html", "store_format_change": false, "summary": "A macOS build, metadata written beside pulls, and a refusal to start on a world-readable key.", "notes": [ "macOS arm64 builds published alongside the two Linux architectures.", "pull --manifest writes the metadata beside the payload.", "Server refuses to start on a world-readable key file, exiting 5." ] }, { "version": "1.1.0", "date": "2025-04-15", "page": "rel-1-1-0.html", "store_format_change": false, "summary": "Retention became configuration, and prune became dry-run by default.", "notes": [ "Retention policy moved into configuration; it had been compiled-in constants.", "prune became dry-run by default. This was the first change requested by someone outside the original team, and it was the right request." ] }, { "version": "1.0.0", "date": "2025-02-20", "page": "rel-1-0-0.html", "store_format_change": true, "summary": "The first public release under BSD-2-Clause, with store format 1 and its compatibility promise.", "notes": [ "First public release, under BSD-2-Clause.", "Store format 1 declared stable, with a written compatibility promise: a client never refuses to read an older store.", "Single statically linked binary for both roles; the separate client package was dropped." ] }, { "version": "0.5.0", "date": "2024-12-16", "page": "rel-0-5-0.html", "store_format_change": false, "summary": "Reverse-dns names and SemVer validation replaced the free-form strings of the first months.", "notes": [ "Reverse-dns artifact names replaced free-form strings, after two teams independently created an artifact called gateway.", "SemVer validation on push, rejecting what had until then been accepted as a version." ] }, { "version": "0.3.0", "date": "2024-09-05", "page": "rel-0-3-0.html", "store_format_change": false, "summary": "The three fixed channels and the append-only promotion log appeared here.", "notes": [ "Channels introduced with the fixed set of three, replacing a boolean named released.", "Promotion recorded as an append-only log rather than an overwrite of the channel field." ] }, { "version": "0.2.0", "date": "2024-07-23", "page": "rel-0-2-0.html", "store_format_change": false, "summary": "Digests and server-side immutability: a repeated coordinate now fails.", "notes": [ "SHA-256 digests computed and stored; the first version only recorded file sizes.", "Immutability enforced server-side, so a repeated coordinate fails with exit code 2." ] }, { "version": "0.1.0", "date": "2024-06-11", "page": "rel-0-1-0.html", "store_format_change": false, "summary": "The first tagged build of the internal tool: upload, list, download, port 8711.", "notes": [ "First tagged build of the internal tool started in April 2024: upload a file, list what is there, download it again.", "Default port fixed at 8711, which has not moved since." ] } ] }