This release adds 4 notable features for engineering teams evaluating rollout.
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Summary
AI summaryUpdates Bug Fixes, 5.3.0, and 2026-01-12 across a mixed release.
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5.3.0 (2026-01-12)
Bug Fixes
- agent: filter JSON from error extraction to prevent false matches (b5833aa)
- agents: use modelLevel instead of model in git-pusher-agent (646da10)
- clear require-await lint errors (c96c188)
- conductor: add robustness to prevent silent hang on hook failure (5453958)
- inject completion agent after template loading (0d92a36)
- openai: Codex CLI structured output support (999c55b)
- orchestrator: honor --pr in foreground runs (710466a)
- persist task status and stale recovery (56f51e0)
- preflight: use cross-platform command detection for Windows (adf599c), closes #47
- race: poll log file before checking stale output + auto-clean stale locks (78486e2)
- replace cpu-blocking spin-wait with async file locking (f5bfb0d)
- task-executor: handle stale task status when watcher dies (026357b)
- testers: require behavioral testing, not code review (27f9e08), closes #828 #829 #830
- validator: recognize zero-length fallback as valid role handling (474ca9b)
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