LXMF-rs v0.8.0

LXMF-rs v0.8.0 Release Notes

Date: 2026-07-10
Release ref: v0.8.0

This feature release consolidates the large Reticulum and LXMF compatibility
train landed since v0.7.1. It introduces the in-process LXMF runtime,
substantially expands typed SDK and daemon RPC behavior, strengthens direct and
propagated delivery, and closes additional software-testable Reticulum parity
gaps. All public packages and GitHub bundles move together to 0.8.0.

Public API comparison against the published 0.7.1 crates found additive
changes only: no existing public items were removed or changed. The 0.8.0
version marks the breadth of the new feature train rather than an intentional
source-breaking API transition.

Highlights

• Adds the lxmf-runtime crate with an in-process backend over the existing
  Reticulum transport, including direct delivery, link reuse, runtime state,
  and typed capability negotiation.
• Expands lxmf-sdk with delivery cancellation, delivery tickets and stamp
  policy, propagation policy controls, typed propagation status, conversation
  listing, richer lifecycle metadata, and corresponding ZeroMQ pipeline
  methods.
• Strengthens direct and opportunistic delivery with reusable backchannels,
  receipt and delivery-trace metadata, duplicate and malformed inbound-drop
  events, resource limits, and destination mismatch reporting.
• Expands propagation behavior with control ACLs, convenience policy mutators,
  selected-node wakeups, processed-marker expiry, status accounting, and
  Python-compatible peer lifecycle handling.
• Adds Reticulum daemon RPC coverage for targeted announces, path metadata,
  link counts, blackholed identities, shared-instance status, path restore
  accounting, and runtime interface mutation.
• Persists blackholed identities across restarts and evicts cached paths tied
  to newly blackholed identities.
• Broadens hot-applied TCP server and UDP interface support to host-bound and
  device-bound configurations, including Python-style IPv4 broadcast defaults
  and device-selected IPv4/IPv6 TCP listeners.
• Completes the pinned Python Resolver.py surface with an executable
  reference probe while retaining Rust's additional cached identity resolver.
• Improves mesh discovery, Reticulum transport configuration, path-table
  persistence, AutoInterface behavior, Windows compatibility, ARM64 release
  bundles, and Columba integration evidence.

Public Release Train

The following public packages are aligned at 0.8.0:

• lxmf
• lxmf-reference
• lxmf-wire
• lxmf-sdk
• lxmf-runtime
• reticulum-rs
• reticulum-rs-core
• reticulum-rs-transport
• reticulum-rs-rpc
• lxmf-embedded-mini
• rns-embedded-core
• rns-embedded-runtime
• rns-embedded-ffi
• rns-embedded-mininode
• lxmf-cli
• reticulumd
• rns-tools

Validation

• Public API diffs against published 0.7.1 found no removed or changed items
  in lxmf-wire, lxmf-sdk, reticulum-rs-core,
  reticulum-rs-transport, or reticulum-rs-rpc.
• Workspace formatting and all-feature clippy pass with warnings denied.
• Full reticulum-rs-rpc, reticulum-rs-transport, and reticulumd test
  suites pass.
• Architecture, module-size, and dependency-boundary gates pass.
• Local TCP and Unix shared-instance, pinned-Python shared-instance, software
  BLE management, and fake-TCP RNode prepared-host smokes pass.

Known Limits

• Full Python Reticulum/LXMF surface parity is not yet claimed; consult the
  maintained parity matrices for the six remaining partial Reticulum rows.
• Prepared-host RNode serial, TCP/Wi-Fi, and BLE reports are still required for
  the strict interface parity audit.
• Broader RNodeMulti, Weave, VR-N76, public I2P/network soak, and external
  client evidence remains environment-dependent.
• Python utility and CRNS command ecosystems are not yet reproduced in full.

What's Changed

• Fix Rust 1.97 xtask clippy by @brothercorvo in #453
• Fix/autointerface multicast race by @IgorShishkin12 in #398
• Fix Windows Rust 1.97 clippy gates by @brothercorvo in #454
• Split transport job tests below module gate by @brothercorvo in #455
• Avoid Windows Instant underflow in path test by @brothercorvo in #456
• Escape Windows paths in I2P TOML tests by @brothercorvo in #457
• Accept Windows executable name in rnsd help test by @brothercorvo in #458
• Add in-process LXMF runtime backend by @brothercorvo in #459
• Fix in-process runtime capability negotiation by @brothercorvo in #460
• Consolidate app-domain delivery cancellation by @brothercorvo in #461
• Consolidate typed LXMF event metadata by @brothercorvo in #462
• Gate propagation announce side effects by @brothercorvo in #405
• Add router policy convenience mutators by @brothercorvo in #407
• Add LXMF propagation control ACL parity by @brothercorvo in #410
• Hot-apply wildcard TCP server listeners by @brothercorvo in #411
• Expose delivery ticket generation over SDK by @brothercorvo in #414
• Expose conversation list over SDK envelope by @brothercorvo in #415
• Emit direct duplicate inbound drop events by @brothercorvo in #416
• Cover unsafe UDP reload restart policy by @brothercorvo in #417
• Expose delivery stamp policy over SDK by @brothercorvo in #418
• Hot-apply Pipe interface records by @brothercorvo in #419
• Expose path restore skip accounting by @brothercorvo in #420
• Validate propagation get transient IDs by @brothercorvo in #424
• Hot-apply UDP forward_ip shared port by @brothercorvo in #425
• Cover tunnel path restore status by @brothercorvo in #426
• Add announce-rate transport policy evidence by @brothercorvo in #428
• Cover prefer_ipv6 TCP server reload policy by @brothercorvo in #429
• Wake propagated outbound on selected node announce by @brothercorvo in #430
• Honor panic_on_interface_error config by @brothercorvo in #431
• Enforce direct delivery resource limit by @brothercorvo in #432
• Add Reticulum link_count RPC by @brothercorvo in #433
• Add targeted LXMF delivery announce RPC by @brothercorvo in #434
• Add LXMF delivery policy entry mutators by @brothercorvo in #435
• Add Reticulum blackholed identity RPCs by @brothercorvo in #436
• Expire LXMF processed transient markers by @brothercorvo in #437
• Add Reticulum next-hop path metadata RPCs by @brothercorvo in #438
• Add LXMF direct backchannel reuse by @brothercorvo in #439
• Expose Reticulum shared instance status by @brothercorvo in #440
• Cover opportunistic packet receipt metadata by @brothercorvo in #442
• Cover UDP hot-apply target validation by @brothercorvo in #443
• Flush Reticulum path table on shutdown by @brothercorvo in #444
• Expose typed LXMF propagation remote stats by @brothercorvo in #445
• Expose LXMF delivery trace envelope by @brothercorvo in #446
• Capture Columba external-client LXMF evidence by @brothercorvo in #447
• Expose propagated destination mismatch drop event by @brothercorvo in #448
• Emit direct duplicate delivery drop events by @brothercorvo in #450
• Emit paper duplicate drop events by @brothercorvo in #451
• Honor reticulum enable_transport toggle by @brothercorvo in #452
• Integrate outstanding parity PRs and compatibility hardening by @brothercorvo in #464
• Expose outbound stamp cost query by @brothercorvo in #406
• Hot-apply UDP multicast forward records by @brothercorvo in #408
• Isolate LXMF delivery announce side effects by @brothercorvo in #412
• Stop hot-applied TCP servers on removal by @brothercorvo in #413
• Close Reticulum parity gaps and prepare v0.8.0 by @brothercorvo in #465

Full Changelog: v0.7.1...v0.8.0