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FCC Release History

Moved out of README.md on 2026-09-04. It had grown to 201 lines — 26% of the front page — and had stopped at v1.4.0 (2026-04-22), nine releases behind, while the section carrying most of it was still titled "What's Next" despite being ~95% backwards-looking.

The front page now states what is true now; this file holds what was true then.

Canonical release record is CHANGELOG.md. This file is a narrative companion, preserved unedited below for continuity. Where the two disagree, the CHANGELOG wins. Entries below are historical and are not maintained — several counts were accurate at the time of writing and have since moved (e.g. "12,100+ tests" was true at v1.0.x; the measured figure at v2.2.0 is 15,647).

Phase Roadmap

Phase Status Tests Description
1. Foundation Done 3 Project skeleton, packaging, smoke tests
2. Core FCC Done 43 Personas, workflow graph, registry
3. Simulation Done 32 Engine, traces, AI client, scenarios
4. Scaffolding CLI Done 22 fcc init, templates, project config
5. Governance Done 21 Tags, quality gates, compliance
R.I.S.C.E.A.R. Expansion Done 259 total Full 10-component spec, dimensions, strategic architecture
Extended Persona Gallery Done 693 total 24 personas, cross-reference matrix, champion architecture, docs-as-code (1,348 files), dynamic validation
CI/CD, Scenarios & Docs Done 726 total GitHub Actions CI/CD, MkDocs deployment, 11 advanced scenarios, 5 new validation rules
Coverage Push to 100% Done 757 total 100% line coverage across 20 test files
Phase 5.5: Profiles & Docs UX Done 877+ total 24 dimension profiles, documentation overhaul, MkDocs UX, 50 hand-written pages
Phase 6: Cross-Reference Expansion Done 1030+ total Cross-reference matrix 16→106 entries, governance/champion-of types, 3 quality gates
Phase 7: Distribution Done 1168 total PyPI packaging, release automation, _resources module
Phase 8: Plugin System & Ecosystem Done 1454+ total 9 plugin types, 50→84 personas (17 categories), 5-phase workflow, artifact DB, ecosystem registry
Phase 9: EAIFC Integration Done 1705 total 34 new personas, 6-action workflow (204 actions), ActionEngine, ConstitutionRegistry
Phase 10: Plugin Ecosystem & Collaboration Done 2472 total Event bus, observability, collaboration engine, 10th plugin type, PAOM/AOME/CONSTEL plugins, dashboards
Phase 11: FCC Book, Notebooks & Streamlit Done 2932 total Object model abstraction, CTO bridge, 12 notebooks, 10 Streamlit apps, 14-chapter guidebook
Phase 12: Protocol Integration & Web Frontend Done 5570+ total A2A protocol, MCP server, 18 new personas (102 total), React frontend, JV governance, simulation hardening
Phase 13: Knowledge Federation & Doc Intelligence Done 9265 total Semantic search, knowledge graphs, RAG pipeline, federation, demos, tutorials, 3 books, docs-from-code
Phase 14: Evaluation, Governance & Compliance Done 11,025+ total CLEAR+ benchmarks, 128 model cards, EU AI Act compliance, NIST AI RMF, compliance pipeline, 73 event types
Phase 15 Stage I: Unified Object Model Done 11,439+ total AOME/CONSTEL bridges, UnifiedModelFacade, 67 CTO↔AOME + 45 SID↔CTO mappings, unified search/KG/RAG, provider registry
Phase 15 Stage II: Enhanced Demos, UI & Messaging Done 11,892+ total 4 new demos (19 total), PriorityEventBus, DLQ, circuit breaker, 81 EventTypes, 4 Streamlit apps (27 total)
Phase 15 Stage III: Documentation Excellence Done 12,052+ total 6 book chapters (30 total), 4 notebooks (23 total), 4 guidebook chapters (24 total), maturity model
Phase 15 Stage IV: Platform Release & v1.0.0 Done 12,100+ total VS Code extension, 3 domain verticals (15 new personas), public API freeze, migration guide, v1.0.0 release
v1.0.1: Documentation Overhaul Done 12,100+ total Docs accuracy across 60+ files, guidebook restructure, model card version fix, adoption guide, audience quick-starts, expanded vertical prompts
v1.0.2: Multi-Format Publishing Done 12,100+ total 300+ Mermaid diagrams, Quarto/Pandoc publishing pipeline, PDF/EPUB/DOCX/PPTX output, all 117 personas in MkDocs, 0 strict-mode warnings, executive/academic/reference packages
v1.0.3: Publishing Pipeline Live Done 12,100+ total 27 artifacts built and committed, GitHub Actions publish workflow, make help completeness, for-teams expansion (5 files), 2 new tutorials, 2 new sample prompt files, README Publications section
v1.1.0: Docker + AI Provider Expansion Done 12,100+ total 4 Dockerfiles + compose stack, make docker-* targets, WebSocket bridge entry function with HTTP /health endpoint, Ollama plugin, LiteLLM plugin (100+ backends via one client), conservative auto-detection, scenario ai_config override, model-reference sweep, [full] optional deps group, deployment + provider docs (7 files), notebook 24, audience tutorials
v1.1.0.1: Forward-fix patch Done 12,100+ total 4 forward-fix commits consolidated: frontend Dockerfile tsc bypass, backend image OOM fix (slim deps), WS bridge /health endpoint using proper Response object, Jupyter HOME=/app fix, mkdocs-print-site-plugin added to [docs], docs.yml broken cross-repo links, publish.yml apt-get install pandoc. End-to-end local Docker stack verified: all 4 containers report healthy
v1.1.1: Helm + ghcr.io + vLLM Done 12,100+ total Multi-arch image push to ghcr.io/rollingthunderfourtytwo-afk/fcc-* (amd64+arm64), Helm chart at charts/fcc/ (12 default + 14 prod K8s resources, 39 helm tests), helm-mirror CI for sister fcc-helm repo (inert until configured), kind k8s-smoke CI workflow, vLLM provider plugin (#7) with docker/vllm.yml GPU example + 17 tests, 7 deferred deployment docs (kubernetes/helm/security/observability/upgrade/images/helm-repo-mirror), docs/providers/vllm.md, notebook 25
v1.2.0: Vertical Schema Extension + Industry Packs Done 12,100+ total Schema v2 with nested R.I.S.C.E.A.R. + backward-compat v1 loader (anyOf), retrofitted healthcare/finance/legal (15 personas → rich content), 3 net-new packs (insurance 6, energy 6, government 6), healthcare+finance expansions (+12 medical/financial personas), 45 vertical personas total across 6 packs (up from 15 across 3), 5 research notes with standards sources, vertical risk profiles for EU AI Act, persona ID collision prevention script, cross-reference generator, 173 model cards regenerated, 20 audience tutorials, notebooks 26+27, vertical_explorer Streamlit app, guidebook ch25, book 3 ch11
v1.2.1: K8s Smoke + Vocabulary Plugins + Demo Expansion Done 12,500+ total Helm chart bumped to 0.2.0/appVersion 1.2.1, K8s smoke probe tuning + post-failure diagnostics, coverage ratchet start (94%), VocabularyProviderPlugin ABC + loader + athenium/mnemosyne plugins, 4 new subsystem notebooks (28-31) + full_stack demo + notebook 32, 16 audience subsystem tutorials, persona/archetype interaction atlas auto-generator
v1.2.2–v1.2.6: Coverage Ratchet Done 13,000+ total 525 new coverage tests across 25 test files. Gate ratcheted: 94→95→96→97→98→98%. Targets: ai_client, action_engine, auditor, pipeline, runner, embeddings, requirements, feedback, dashboard, RAG, knowledge, federation, code_analyzer, observability, distiller, objectmodel, artifacts, plugins, demos, scaffold/cli (121 CliRunner tests)
v1.3.0: 10 External Project Scaffolds + Federation Expansion Done 13,000+ total 10 constellation-codename projects (5 ontology + 5 metadata) scaffolded at /mnt/d/.../Ideate/{codename}_ext/ with full CTO/CONSTEL-pattern applications (FastAPI + CLI + persistence + ETL + seed data + tests). Federation namespace registry 11→21, vocabulary mappings 95→175, vocabulary provider plugins 2→12. fcc scaffold-vertical-project CLI command. Coverage gate 98→99% with ABC/Protocol ellipsis exclusion + advisory --cov-branch CI job
v1.3.1: Foundation — Branch Gate + Seed-Full + Stale Doc Refresh Done 13,000+ total Hard --cov-branch gate (was advisory in v1.3.0); make seed-full implementation with pattern-based 500-1000 entity expansion; STRATEGIC_ARCHITECTURE_REVIEW.md refreshed v0.8.0→v1.3.1; ROADMAP.md rewritten (Phase 16+ → v1.3.x plan); docs/roadmap/release-plan.md refreshed v1.0.3→v1.3.1 with 11 new release entries
v1.3.2: Publication Pipeline — Mermaid Rendering + Markdown Format Done 13,000+ total publications/scripts/render_mermaid.py renders 280 mermaid diagrams across 228 files to SVG + PNG (560 assets committed); Pandoc Lua filter safety net (mermaid-filter.lua); all 27 existing artifacts rebuild with embedded images (PDF→SVG via Typst, DOCX→PNG, EPUB/HTML→SVG); NEW Markdown publication format — consolidated (single file per book) + per-chapter variants with dual representation (fenced source + image refs); Makefile targets pub-diagrams, pub-markdown, pub-diagrams-clean; CI publications-check advisory job
v1.3.3: Content Expansion — Sample Prompts + Persona Evolution + Audience Docs Done 13,000+ total 11 new sample prompt files (vertical insurance/energy/government + evaluation/compliance/docker/federation/scaffold + beginner/educator/research) → 35 total; persona evolution content: evolution-pathways.md + 6 archetype deep-dives (shepherd/quant/investigator/architect/storyteller/safety-engineer) + persona-evolution-workshop; guidebook chapter 26 (25→26); notebook 33 persona evolution explorer (32→33); 8 new audience docs (beginner first-30-min + common-mistakes, scientist experimental-design + statistical-analysis, educator grading-rubrics + lab-exercise-bank, professional cost-analysis + security-review); mkdocs.yml nav expanded ~29 entries

What's Next

Phase 6 — FCC Portal redesign (in development). The web UI is being rebuilt into a true portal into the project: a persistent PortalShell with a ⌘K command palette, the formerly URL-only admin folded into the nav, a full 176-agent catalog with per-persona detail + adopt bindings (R.I.S.C.E.A.R. prompt / A2A card / PAOM-8), an Ask FCC Agent deep-search front door over a live read API (/api/v1/personas, /api/v1/ask), and a federation board + ecosystem product switcher. Design of record: docs/roadmap/fcc-portal-redesign.md.

v1.3.5.2 released (2026-04-13) — Third patch. Closes v1.3.5.1 deferred items and ships a broad content expansion: 5 demo addenda (*-v1352-addendum.md under docs/tutorials/demos/) covering WebSocket stress-test, distiller vocabulary evolution, cross-project FAIR audit, Sky-Parlour Phase-17 integration, full-stack OpenTelemetry trace; 10 new sample-prompt files (architecture teaching, persona evolution stages, plugin-dev gap-fill, guided-demo follow-ups); a first-class ecosystem alignment status table covering all 10 sibling projects; light-touch figure prose across 111 MkDocs-only Mermaid blocks. A new v1352 Showcase demo walks the 5 addendum flows end-to-end (built-in demo count: 20 → 21).

v1.3.5.1 released (2026-04-13) — Second patch of the v1.3.5.x series. Ships a brand-new docs/architecture/ tree: 5 classDiagrams, 6 sequenceDiagrams, 4 data-flow diagrams, 4 use-case diagrams (one per audience tier), a repo site map, an API-boundary matrix covering all 6 external interfaces, a plugin- boundary reference for all 11 plugin types, and a side-by-side "federated vs individual" comparison for both the object model and the knowledge graph. The 5 ADRs under docs/decisions/ are finally in the mkdocs nav (Reference → Architecture Decisions). Each audience tier has a new "See also" block bridging to the others and to the relevant architecture slice. Also: render_mermaid.py now disambiguates slugs by parent directory so the 20 overview.md siblings no longer collide on asset filenames (302 renders → 302 distinct PNG/SVG files, up from 281). Build-time guard in build_all.sh drops the redundant pre-render pass, saving ~10 minutes on WSL2.

v1.3.5 released (2026-04-13) — First patch. Main CI unblocked; publication pipeline fixed so DOCX/EPUB embed real PNG diagrams instead of blank boxes; 56 figures in publication source trees authored with unified "Figure N" captions + intros + followups; Quarto LOF/LOT enabled across PDF/DOCX/EPUB/HTML.

v1.4.0 released (2026-04-22) — Ecosystem pivot pillar 1 COMPLETE. Published all 10 constellation vertical projects as independent public GitHub repositories with their own release cycles, ending the pre-v1.4.0 prework pipeline (8 releases shipped in this session):

Each repo is v0.2.0 signaling FCC v1.4.0 alignment; each carries the full public-release package from v1.3.11 (CODE_OF_CONDUCT, CONTRIBUTING, SECURITY, MIT LICENSE, CI/release workflows, issue + PR templates, release-checklist runbook). Helm chart bumped to 0.3.0. Pillars 2-5 (GraphRAG, real canonical seed data, i18n, real-time multi-user collaboration, advanced federation, performance optimization) defer to v1.4.1+.

v1.3.11 released (2026-04-22) — Seventh and final patch of the pre-v1.4.0 prework plan. Wires ecosystem-integration-tests 49 offline contract tests as an advisory CI gate. Extends the vertical- project scaffold with a --public-release flag emitting all 10 artifacts a constellation needs to stand up as an independent GitHub repo (CODE_OF_CONDUCT, CONTRIBUTING, SECURITY, LICENSE, CI/release workflows, issue + PR templates, release-checklist runbook). Dry-runs all 10 constellation tarballs via make pub-constellations. Bumps all 12 vocabulary_provider plugins to version 0.2.0 with FCC pin >=1.3.11. +19 new tests.

Pre-v1.4.0 plan COMPLETE (7 of 7 patches shipped in this session — v1.3.5.4 through v1.3.11).

Next: v1.4.0 final — publish the 10 constellation GitHub repos (Ophiuchus, Serpens, Libra, Crater, Scutum, Norma, Pyxis, Vela, Columba, Caelum). This is a hard-to-reverse public action: gh repo create for each, push release tarballs, enable Actions + Issues + Discussions. Requires explicit user approval before proceeding.

v1.3.10 released (2026-04-22) — Sixth patch of the pre-v1.4.0 prework plan. Ships the full 9-audience canonical taxonomy the ecosystem has standardized on (beginners, developers, educators, scientists, architects, operators, auditors, knowledge-engineers, data-architects) — 25 new audience pages (~29,000 words), 4 new guidebook chapters (ch27-30) with 13 new diagrams, 5 new sample prompts (45 → 50), 5 new Jupyter notebooks (33 → 38), and a cross-link matrix connecting every audience to its related resources. Gracefully deprecates for-professionals/ + for-teams/ with MIGRATION.md stubs + banners; content preserved for external-link stability. Navigation reorganized across mkdocs.yml into canonical order; publications/_quarto.yml now carries 8 parts. No source changes; test suite + persona count unchanged.

Next: v1.3.11 — ecosystem-integration-tests CI gate + constellation scaffold for public release + v1.4.0-rc cut. Adds make ecosystem-check that runs the 49 offline contract tests from ecosystem-integration-tests, updates all 12 vocabulary provider plugins to match PAOM v3.2.0, and cuts the v1.4.0 release candidate.

v1.3.9 released (2026-04-22) — Fifth patch of the pre-v1.4.0 prework plan. FCC was designated patent-centric; this release ships the full draft patent package READY FOR COUNSEL REVIEW. Full docs/patent/ tree (12 files, 40,570 words): invention disclosure form, prior-art landscape (35 items reviewed — 0 direct overlaps, 2 Medium-risk items noted, 8 Low-risk), provisional specification with abstract + 20 claims (3 independent + 17 dependent), utility specification with 32 claims (5 independent + 27 dependent), FTO analysis + per-claim risk register, drawings pointer (4+1 UML from v1.3.7 re-used as FIG. 1-6). IP Evaluation Analyst introduced as the 104th core persona (governance 5 → 6). Quarto make pub-patent target builds the patent PDF + DOCX with DRAFT watermark. PAOM v1.4 preview plugin surface declared at fcc.plugins.v1_4_preview.* with 6-month deprecation policy. +6 new PAOM compat tests. Filing requires patent counsel engagement; outside plan scope.

Next: v1.3.10 — 9-audience documentation scale-up. FCC currently has 5 audience dirs (for-beginners, for-educators, for-scientists, for-professionals, for-teams); the ecosystem has standardized on 9 canonical audiences. v1.3.10 adds for-developers, for-architects, for-operators, for-auditors, for-knowledge-engineers, and for-data-architects with 20+ sample prompts, 10+ new Jupyter notebooks, and guidebook chapters 27-30.

Pre-v1.4.0 plan (7 patches total):

  • v1.3.5.4 — Inventory + port realignment + carry-overs + JV L2 unblock (shipped 2026-04-22)
  • v1.3.6 — Self-audit + fcc admin CLI + PlantUML pipeline + forensic auditor archetype (shipped 2026-04-22)
  • v1.3.7 — 4+1 UML views + C4 context diagram + React /admin route + StressTestPanel.tsx (shipped 2026-04-22)
  • v1.3.8 — 58-gate quality registry from PHOENIX + R.I.S.C.E.A.R. completeness + 12 open-science templates (shipped 2026-04-22)
  • v1.3.9 — Patent infrastructure (provisional + utility + FTO) + PAOM v1.4-preview plugin surface (shipped 2026-04-22)
  • v1.3.10 — 9-audience documentation scale-up (6 new audience dirs, 25 pages, 4 guidebook chapters, cross-link matrix) (shipped 2026-04-22)
  • v1.3.11 — Ecosystem-integration-tests CI gate + constellation public-release scaffold + 12 plugin bumps + dry-run tarballs (shipped 2026-04-22)
  • v1.4.0 — Ecosystem pivot pillar 1: 10 constellation repos published to GitHub as independent public releases (this release; pillars 2-5 defer to v1.4.1+)

Past releases:

  • v1.1.0 — Docker + Compose stack, 6 AI providers
  • v1.1.0.1 — Forward-fix patch
  • v1.1.1 — Helm chart, multi-arch ghcr.io, vLLM provider
  • v1.2.0 — Vertical schema extension + 6 industry packs (45 personas)
  • v1.2.1 — K8s smoke + vocabulary plugins + demo expansion
  • v1.2.2–v1.2.6 — Coverage ratchet (94% → 98%)
  • v1.3.0 — 10 external project scaffolds + federation 11→21 + coverage to 99%
  • v1.3.1 — Hard branch gate + seed-full + stale doc refresh
  • v1.3.2 — Publication pipeline: mermaid rendering + Markdown format
  • v1.3.3 — Content expansion: sample prompts, persona evolution, audience docs
  • v1.3.4 — Hotfix: green CI + restored publications pipeline
  • v1.3.5 — Publication pipeline quality + figure numbering + main CI unblock
  • v1.3.5.1 — New architecture/UML docs tree (24 docs) + slug-collision fix + build-perf guard
  • v1.3.5.2 — Full republish + 5 demo addenda + 10 sample prompts + ecosystem alignment + 111 light-touch figure annotations
  • v1.3.5.3 — Coverage gate restored 98→99 + needs_render guard bug fixed; closes v1.3.5.x series
  • v1.3.5.4 — Inventory + port realignment (10 → 19 projects, constellation ports 8300→8600) + vendored RC registries with CI drift test + carry-overs resolved
  • v1.3.6 — Self-audit + admin CLIs + PlantUML pipeline + Forensic Auditor persona (103rd; governance 4→5)
  • v1.3.7 — 4+1 UML views + C4 context diagram + REST admin API + React /admin route + StressTestPanel.tsx
  • v1.3.8 — 58-gate quality registry from PHOENIX + R.I.S.C.E.A.R. strict gate + 12 OPEN-SCI templates + 3 PHOENIX Tier-1 gap closures
  • v1.3.9 — Patent infrastructure (12 files, 40,570 words, 20 provisional + 32 utility claims) + IP Evaluation Analyst (104th persona) + PAOM v1.4-preview (this release)