Release Notes - v2.8.44

Date: 2026-05-27

📝 Executive Summary

2.8.44 2026-05-27

- chore: implement compliance check script to enforce zero-dependency and single-file design.
- chore: implement post-checkout Git hook to automatically verify version consistency on checkout.
- feat: re-implement HTML report option (--reportfile) removing CPAN Text::Template dependency (#791).
- test: add unit test for HTML report generation logic.
- ci: configure CI workflows to trigger on all branches and execute compliance checks.
- docs: enhance release-manager workflow with branch lifecycle and checkout hook instructions.

📈 Diagnostic Growth Indicators

🛠️ Internal Commit History

• Merge pull request major#915 from jmrenouard/master (c4df3b5)
• Merge branch 'major:master' into master (1ead477)
• Merge pull request #46 from jmrenouard/v2.8.43 (485fa89)
• chore: automated project metadata update (0ba801d)
• Merge pull request major#914 from jmrenouard/v2.8.43 (432401b)
• test: filter compile warnings in audit_tests and map parallel images dynamically (3dd4839)
• docs: complete documentation refresh for v2.8.43 (730cb54)
• feat: implement parallel run resource limits, post-test cleanup, and TAP output (8274dce)
• docs: sync project documentation and reorganize roadmap/potential issues (5c7e0fa)
• fix(ci): fix declared_refs and segment HTML report tables (e4fefe8)
• feat: release v2.8.43 with schema export improvements and security hardening (c7d45d2)
• docs: generate FEATURES.md (3b51bf5)
• docs: generate USAGE.md (c0d9c0f)

⚙️ Technical Evolutions

➕ CLI Options Added

• --compress-dump
• --dump-limit

➖ CLI Options Deprecated

• --data

✅ Laboratory Verification Results

• Automated TDD suite passed.
• Multi-DB version laboratory execution validated.
• Performance indicator delta analysis completed.

Deliverables

Standalone Script & Data

Docker Images

docker pull jmrenouard/mysqltuner:2.8.44

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