v0.72.0 Release Recap

v0.72.0 is a non-breaking documentation and release-operations release that adds a ranking baseline retention cookbook.

What's New

Area	New in v0.72.0	Why it matters
Ranking release operations	Ranking baseline retention cookbook	Gives teams concrete keep-count recipes for tagged releases, weekly release trains, active ranking tuning, and stable maintenance
CI artifacts	Baseline artifact storage pattern	Shows how to keep JSON and Markdown ranking outputs available for release review instead of losing them in transient build caches
Retention review	Review and delete-script flow	Documents the read-only retention report first, then the reviewable rm -- ... deletion plan
Feature metadata	ranking-eval-baseline-retention-cookbook	Lets live deployments advertise that the cookbook is part of the supported docs surface

Operator Flow

Capture a versioned baseline during release review:

contextdb eval ranking --baseline-dir .contextdb/ranking-baselines --markdown

Compare the current run with the latest previous baseline:

contextdb eval ranking --compare-baseline-dir .contextdb/ranking-baselines --diff-markdown

Review retention before pruning:

contextdb eval ranking --baseline-retention-dir .contextdb/ranking-baselines --baseline-retention-keep 5

Generate a deletion plan only after the retained and pruneable sets look right:

contextdb eval ranking --baseline-retention-dir .contextdb/ranking-baselines --baseline-retention-keep 5 --emit-delete-script > prune-ranking-baselines.sh

Compatibility

This release is intentionally non-breaking. It updates docs, release metadata, and package versions without changing CLI behavior, API schemas, storage formats, or ranking calculations.

Verification

Release verification included:

go test -count=1 ./cmd/contextdb
go test -count=1 ./...
npm run docs:build
git diff --check

Read the full cookbook in Ranking Baseline Retention.