New Features
- Verifiable release source archives — GitHub releases now include deterministic, checksummed source archives with instructions for rebuilding standalone binaries. See Building standalone binaries from release source.
- Resilient compaction and branch summaries — Transient provider failures now follow the configured retry policy, with retry lifecycle events available to interactive, JSON, RPC, and SDK consumers. See Compaction & Branch Summarization and RPC retry events.
Added
- Added deterministic, checksummed source archives to GitHub releases with documented standalone binary rebuild instructions (#6913 by @christianklotz).
Fixed
- Fixed compaction and branch summarization to retry transient provider failures using the configured retry policy, with retry lifecycle events exposed to interactive, JSON, RPC, and SDK consumers (#6901 by @davidbrai).
- Fixed interactive startup waiting for background model catalog refresh while computing the footer provider count.
- Restored the default stream fallback for extensions using the pre-0.81 agent-core API (#6915).
- Fixed inherited Kimi K3 models from Moonshot AI and Moonshot AI China to use the OpenAI thinking format and expose reasoning effort support.