Releases · April 2026 · W16

v0.45.1 (2026-04-17)

New Features

• wire release notes pipeline — generator, release.sh, Explorer, docs site

Bug Fixes

• add Intervention + Scenario to the jinflow Experience diagrams

Documentation

• backfill releases.md with complete history (220 releases, v0.2.0–v0.45.0)
• Sense 19 — The Simulation (from suggestion to modeled impact)

For developers

Maintenance

• release 0.45.1

5 commits: 1 features, 1 fixes

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v0.45.0 (2026-04-17)

New Features

• The jinflow Experience — extend analytical pyramid to full decision loop
• playworks-gate — self-contained test gate for the release chain

Bug Fixes

• missing import os in maintenance.py — broke jinflow afs update
• build —skip-tests now propagates to ship (skips pytest too)
• build —skip-tests now actually skips tests
• dbt-build for tenant build, dbt stays as the escape hatch
• rename build → build-all to avoid collision with dbt build recipe

Documentation

• 14.2

For developers

Refactoring

• just build → just dbt, just build-all → just build
• rename release → ship, add —skip-tests to build
• rename just ship → just build

Maintenance

• release 0.45.0
• build stage says Package, not Ship

13 commits: 2 features, 5 fixes

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v0.44.9 (2026-04-17)

New Features

• bookmarks in sidebar + What’s New sort by modified/created

Bug Fixes

• use CTRL_BREAK_EVENT for Windows Explorer shutdown
• signpost texture sharing bug + SMEbits→subject matter in tour stats

For developers

Maintenance

• release 0.44.9

4 commits: 1 features, 2 fixes

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v0.44.8 (2026-04-16)

Bug Fixes

• lazy-import duckdb in commands/sis.py to prevent frozen-binary segfault
• disable Phase 1d SIS publish — same DuckDB segfault root cause
• remove SIS staleness check that segfaults in frozen binary
• add progress markers between enrich and Phase 2 to locate segfault

For developers

Maintenance

• release 0.44.8

5 commits: 0 features, 4 fixes

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v0.44.7 (2026-04-16)

Bug Fixes

• UnboundLocalError for _dt in metadata-only rebake path

For developers

Maintenance

• release 0.44.7

2 commits: 0 features, 1 fixes

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v0.44.6 (2026-04-16)

Bug Fixes

• replace legacy ‘probes’ verb in Cathedral narration text

For developers

Maintenance

• release 0.44.6

2 commits: 0 features, 1 fixes

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v0.44.5 (2026-04-16)

New Features

• Sense 17 Phase 1 — guided tour replaces FPS sandbox in Pipeline Cathedral

Bug Fixes

• find node.exe without _node/ wrapper on Windows Explorer package
• ship drops retired extract step + fixes update command name

Documentation

• Sense 18 — The Ledger (computational provenance as narrative)

For developers

Maintenance

• release 0.44.5

5 commits: 1 features, 2 fixes

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v0.44.4 (2026-04-16)

New Features

• dynamic Gold ER diagram from entity_registry + entity_relationships

Bug Fixes

• render pack-supplied domain diagrams via mermaid (not raw pre)
• migrate duckdb-async → @duckdb/node-api in all build configs
• CI test failures — retire ‘extract’ from smoke test + reword comment

For developers

Maintenance

• release 0.44.4
• silence playworkscompile import warning in jin make

6 commits: 1 features, 3 fixes

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v0.44.3 (2026-04-16)

New Features

• timestamped ‘starting’ indicator for every build step

Bug Fixes

• —clean actually wipes build/dbt/ before rebuild
• notebook PDF — smart filename + hide browser chrome in print

Documentation

• CRLF line endings guide — symptom, cause, fix

For developers

Refactoring

• rename ‘extract’ command to ‘inspect’ (read-only inspection)

Maintenance

• release 0.44.3
• drop ‘extract’ alias — inspect is the only name now

7 commits: 1 features, 2 fixes

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v0.44.2 (2026-04-16)

New Features

• JINFLOW_READONLY env var for read-only mode
• migrate from duckdb-async to @duckdb/node-api
• mermaid diagrams for Mental Model + Domain tabs on /what-is-this

Bug Fixes

• admin link points to /api/admin/page + hide calibration
• build-desktop.sh also needs @duckdb/node-api (not duckdb-async)
• build-deploy.sh installs @duckdb/node-api instead of duckdb-async
• _find_node_runtime walks upward instead of hardcoding 3 levels
• commit visual baselines — un-gitignore snapshot PNGs
• dev:solo defaults JINFLOW_READONLY=1 for stable Playworks runs
• playworks gate catches parse errors only, not TS strictness
• playworks-local pre-checks Svelte compilation before running tests
• escape mermaid ER diagram braces for Svelte 5
• don’t ATTACH SIS to KLS Store — eliminates SIGBUS on macOS arm64
• preserve float precision in playworks manifest money_at_risk
• JINFLOW_READONLY guard in journal POST handler directly
• update test mocks for shared safeQuery + stale getAdjustedExposure tests

Documentation

• more
• Sense 17 — The Cathedral (guided 3D pipeline walkthrough)

For developers

Refactoring

• extract shared pageSize persistence utility

Maintenance

• release 0.44.2
• playworks-local shows pre-flight progress in terminal

21 commits: 3 features, 13 fixes

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v0.44.1 (2026-04-16)

New Features

• just ship accepts patch/minor/major version bump

Bug Fixes

• bundle Node.js runtime so jinflow explore works without node on PATH

For developers

Maintenance

• release 0.44.1

3 commits: 1 features, 1 fixes

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v0.44.0 (2026-04-16)

New Features

• playworks subset recipes — ui, routes, cardinal, anchors
• Four Convictions — manifesto tab on /what-is-this (EN/DE/FR)
• server-side chart rendering in notebook reports (Step 6.2)
• retire template-driven report engine (report engine Step 8)
• PDF rendering for notebook-YAML reports (report engine Step 6)
• polish /verdicts and /perspectives — human IDs, grouping, composition bars
• /perspectives and /verdicts as first-class routes

Bug Fixes

• dev:solo sets KLS_SOURCE + JINFLOW_LIVE_ROOT so KLS is actually found
• revert PyInstaller spec entry to init.py
• PyInstaller frozen binary — absolute imports + shim entry
• playworks stability — drop duckdb override + single-tenant dev mode
• drop local playworks workers to 2 to avoid SIGBUS crashes
• consolidate safeQuery + record visits on new detail routes
• playworkscompile emits post-rename route paths
• use tenantMetaSchema in theses.ts for catalog-qualified meta schema
• Pipeline Cathedral 3D rendered empty — wrong node/edge filter
• /recents color map — hypotheses → theses, add perspectives/verdicts/signals
• graceful empty state when pipeline3d artifact is missing
• klsStore cold-start visibility + 10s self-heal retry
• release.sh scrollback-friendly CI + local build progress

Documentation

• replace outdated landing mermaid with two-hands + SME/Activities frame
• more
• hrcentral according to sparky
• todo
• vocabulary sweep phase 4 — Python scripts, artifact decoder, etc/
• vocabulary sweep phase 3 — Explorer in-app content
• vocabulary sweep phase 2 — 62 doc files (archive + notes + rewrites)
• big picture
• vocabulary sweep phase 1 — CLAUDE.md + terminology.yaml

For developers

Refactoring

• extract misc standalone commands (5 of them) — Phase 5p
• extract cmd_generate + cmd_scripts + cmd_notebook_pdf — Phase 5o
• drop dead run_reports from _derive_phase3_decisions helper
• extract auth + packs + snapshot (5 commands) — Phase 5n
• extract cmd_extract to commands/extract.py — Phase 5m
• extract cmd_r2_* to commands/r2.py — Phase 5l
• extract cmd_update + cmd_reset + cmd_purge — Phase 5k
• extract cmd_init family to commands/bootstrap.py — Phase 5j
• extract cmd_afs_* to commands/afs.py — Phase 5i
• extract cmd_sis_* to commands/sis.py — Phase 5h
• extract cmd_explore + cmd_evolve_* to commands/launch.py — Phase 5g
• extract cmd_sources to commands/sources.py — Phase 5f
• extract cmd_status + cmd_stat to commands/status.py — Phase 5e
• schema class rename + DE/FR polish + todo done-marker
• extract cmd_us to commands/config.py — Phase 5d
• extract cmd_version + cmd_ls to commands/info.py — Phase 5c
• SignalType ‘assessment’ → ‘perspective’ (+ 3 silent bugs)
• extract build-meta helpers to jinflow/cli/_build_meta.py — Phase 5b
• rename jinflow/cli.py → jinflow/cli/init.py — Phase 5a.1
• consolidate engine_root resolution — Phase 5a.0
• in-process compiler —check via runpy — Phase 4d
• JumpBar — finish visible Sense 14 sweep (+ 3 silent bugs)
• extract ts* factories + align signal load_contract — Phases 4b+4c

Tests

• scan only git-tracked files for legacy vocabulary
• CLI smoke suite — 54 —help invocations across all commands — Phase 6
• unblock release — drop retired ‘Report compile’ test + exclude gitignored dumps
• lock in Pipeline Cathedral 3D marker-replacement behaviour + docs

Maintenance

• release 0.44.0
• revert playworks to 2 workers + note duckdb-async cumulative SIGBUS
• ignore Playworks visual snapshot directories

59 commits: 7 features, 13 fixes

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v0.43.19 (2026-04-14)

New Features

• generate Pipeline Cathedral 3D as third pipeline_graph artifact
• playworks 2a fix + 2b canary + 2c visual scaffold
• playworks 2a — UI cardinal + testid placements + split anchors

Bug Fixes

• Explorer reads anchor_signals/anchor_theses from SMEbit registry
• fr.json ASCII drift — finish Sense 14 value sweep
• drop destroyed jinflow-numetrix from deploy-cloud workflow
• post-build bake idempotency — Phase 1.6 of consistency plan

Documentation

• publish Two Worlds + refresh big-picture to match new vocabulary
• design note — The Two Worlds (Subject Matter vs Analytical Activities)

For developers

Refactoring

• Sense 14 visible sweep — whats-new, narrative, probeSource, notebook refs
• separate docs and engine Pipeline Cathedral templates
• extract sql_escape to scripts/_compiler_base — Phase 4a

Maintenance

• release 0.43.19
• ignore Playworks test artifacts

14 commits: 3 features, 4 fixes

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v0.43.18 (2026-04-13)

New Features

• display rename — Subject Matter / Statement / Dossier
• playworks — data-aware black-box test harness for Explorer

Bug Fixes

• SIS write-purity + mtime fast-skip — Phase 2 of consistency plan
• release.sh + build-desktop.sh point RELEASES_ROOT at DEPLOY_ROOT
• jin make idempotency — Phase 1 of consistency plan
• klsStore race — ATTACH loop crashes when refresh() nulls db mid-init

Documentation

• more
• revise Phase 2 — SIS write-purity, not full-purity
• more
• add consistency plan — sequencing path from drift to held

For developers

Refactoring

• rename i18n hypotheses/diagnosis namespaces to theses/verdict (Sense 14 Phase 1.5)
• rename Hypothesis/Diagnosis vocabulary to Thesis/Verdict (Sense 14 Phase 1.5)
• Sense 14 vocabulary sweep — engine + scripts

Tests

• CI guard for legacy Sense 14 vocabulary + cascading cleanup
• Sense 14 vocabulary sweep — test fixtures

Maintenance

• release 0.43.18
• archive migrate_sense14.py — one-time migration is done
• delete stale in-repo packs (interlogic, lexflow)

18 commits: 2 features, 4 fixes

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v0.43.17 (2026-04-13)

New Features

• flatten tenant gallery on this-is.jinflow.io

Bug Fixes

• thesis money_at_risk reads gold_net_exposure, N/A not zero
• adjusted exposure reads from gold_net_exposure, not signal findings

Documentation

• merge identity_and_passes paper with March 2026 four-level model
• concept paper for identity & passes

For developers

Refactoring

• drop legacy probe vocabulary and superseded identity doc

Maintenance

• release 0.43.17
• remove fly.numetrix.toml — jinflow-numetrix app destroyed
• upgrade fly VM to shared-2x/2GB and 10GB volume

9 commits: 1 features, 2 fixes