Release Notes

v2610.01 - 2026-10-08

Release candidate for changes since v2605.01.

Normalize volatile protocol timestamps before port and host smart hashing:
SMTP greetings, HTTP/RTSP banner Date: headers, HTTP Date: headers, and
cookie expiry values.
Support case variations, one- or two-digit days, numeric timezones, and
escaped banner line endings.
Preserve meaningful dates and identifiers in hash input, including
certificate validity periods, Last-Modified, service versions, and build
dates.
Mask additional volatile headers before smart hashing:
X-GitHub-Request-Id, X-Fastly-Request-ID, and Connection-Id.

Document source reinstall requirements, smart-hash helper usage, and
historical rehash/deduplication expectations.
Add regression tests for volatile date normalization, header masking, raw
input preservation, and meaningful hash differences.
Move the smart-hash debug helper out of the package source tree into
tests/smarthash_debug.py.

Existing raw scan data remains unchanged.
SHA-256 and JSON serialization remain unchanged.
Hashes for affected reports may change after rehashing. Existing stored
hashes are not migrated automatically.
The package metadata still uses version 0.0.0; record deployed Git
revisions when installing from source.