llmff v0.1.3

Ecosystem-maturity release for agent and automation workflows. This release
keeps the GitHub Release asset lane from v0.1.2 and adds the schema,
plugin, provider, supervision, execution, and documentation surfaces needed for
downstream tools to treat llmff as a stable subprocess pipeline runner.

Supported Install

cargo install --git https://github.com/syndicalt/llmff --tag v0.1.3 llmff

Included Since v0.1.2

• Published schema v1 contracts for pipeline manifests, traces, lifecycle
  events, plugin manifests, and plugin validation reports.
• Golden schema fixtures plus scripts/check-schema-contract.py for contract
  validation.
• Provider examples for OpenAI, Azure OpenAI, LM Studio, vLLM, LocalAI,
  OpenRouter, Together, Groq, and Anthropic-compatible adapter usage.
• Opt-in live provider smoke workflow for OpenAI-compatible and Ollama
  endpoints.
• llmff backends report for backend capability and configuration reporting.
• Plugin protocol v1 fixtures, static registry documentation, and trust review
  guidance.
• Example plugins for retrieval, reranking, model backend, sampler, tool
  transport, and postprocessor-as-stage patterns.
• Production-oriented pipeline templates for summarization, extraction,
  classification, JSON repair, RAG, batch processing, tool calling, eval
  harnesses, multi-provider fallback, and cost/latency comparison.
• Execution controls for safe failure classification, retry/backoff, per-stage
  and default timeouts, concurrency limits, batch input, checkpoint/resume,
  cache policy, and guarded trace replay.
• Trace summary and Prometheus-style metrics exporters for local supervision.
• Agent workflow documentation and a runnable Python subprocess supervisor
  example.
• Governance, stability, release compatibility, and deprecation policies for
  the documented contracts.

Packaged Artifacts

Release-tag CI is expected to publish:

• Linux x86_64 .tar.gz archive, .deb package, and Arch PKGBUILD plus
  llmff-0.1.3-arch.SRCINFO metadata.
• macOS Apple Silicon and Intel .tar.gz archives and unsigned .pkg
  installers.
• Windows x86_64 unsigned .zip archive and unsigned MSI installer.
• Adjacent SHA-256 checksums for generated binary artifacts.

Manual workflow dispatch keeps generated files as Actions artifacts instead of
GitHub Release assets.

Known Limitations

• This is a pipeline runner, not a native inference kernel, model converter,
  serving platform, or full agent framework.
• Windows and macOS native artifacts are unsigned in this release.
• Package-manager distribution through Homebrew, winget, Scoop, apt
  repositories, or an official AUR package remains parked until maintainers
  decide those channels are support-ready.
• Authenticode signing, Apple Developer ID signing, and notarization remain
  deferred paid distribution tracks.
• Live provider smoke jobs remain opt-in and require maintainers to configure
  secrets and runner expectations explicitly.

Verification

Release verification should pass before tagging:

scripts/release-preflight.sh v0.1.3
scripts/smoke-install.sh --git https://github.com/syndicalt/llmff --tag v0.1.3