v0.76.0 Release Recap

v0.76.0 is a non-breaking ranking operations release that adds a machine-readable artifact manifest for versioned ranking baselines.

What's New

Area	New in v0.76.0	Why it matters
Ranking retention	--baseline-manifest-out PATH	Writes a JSON inventory for all retained and pruneable baseline artifacts
Artifact evidence	Byte sizes and SHA-256 hashes	Gives CI a durable record of exactly which ranking JSON and Markdown baselines were reviewed
Missing artifacts	missing: true entries	Makes incomplete JSON/Markdown baseline pairs visible to release jobs
Feature metadata	ranking-eval-baseline-artifact-manifest	Lets live deployments advertise ranking baseline manifest support

Operator Flow

Review ranking baseline retention and write an artifact manifest:

contextdb eval ranking \
  --baseline-retention-dir .contextdb/ranking-baselines \
  --baseline-retention-keep 5 \
  --baseline-manifest-out ranking-baseline-manifest.json

The command remains read-only for baseline artifacts. The manifest includes each baseline artifact's version, retention status, path, existence, byte size, and SHA-256 hash.

Compatibility

This release is intentionally non-breaking. Existing ranking eval snapshots, baseline files, retention reports, and delete-script output are unchanged unless --baseline-manifest-out is supplied.

Verification

Release verification included:

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

Read the full workflow in Ranking Baseline Retention.