v0.87.0 Release Recap

v0.87.0 is a non-breaking ranking release that adds stable bundle output for ranking baseline manifest verification.

What's New

Area	New in v0.87.0	Why it matters
Verification bundle	contextdb eval ranking baseline manifest verify --bundle-dir DIR	Writes all release-review artifacts with one flag
JSON report	ranking-baseline-manifest-verification.json	Keeps machine-readable verification evidence
Markdown recap	ranking-baseline-manifest-verification.md	Keeps a human-readable release summary
CI annotations	ranking-baseline-manifest-annotations.txt	Preserves inline failure callouts for CI logs
Feature metadata	ranking-baseline-verification-bundle	Lets live deployments advertise bundle output support

Operator Flow

contextdb eval ranking baseline manifest verify \
  --manifest ranking-baseline-manifest.json \
  --bundle-dir ranking-baseline-verification

The bundle directory is created when needed. Verification still exits non-zero when artifacts are missing unexpectedly, are directories, have byte-size drift, or fail SHA-256 checks.

Compatibility

This release is intentionally non-breaking. Existing --report, --markdown, --markdown-out, --annotations, and --annotations-out behavior remains available.

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 the Ranking Baseline Retention Cookbook.