v2.8.1 — Telemetry Learns Every Model's Real Name
Gentle AI v2.8.1 is a hotfix release: runtime telemetry now attributes models by their public family pattern instead of collapsing revisioned or unfamiliar Claude ids into a generic bucket.
Provenance
- Previous stable:
v2.8.0→890ca948 - Release target:
v2.8.1→7aad6a51064beef17299e59b6a59bb232238654a - Release workflow: run 34766215404
- Verification: preflight, release, and verify jobs all succeeded.
- Provider contract:
1.2.0
What's new
No new features; this is a hotfix release.
Breaking changes
No breaking changes are declared for v2.8.1. The provider contract remains at 1.2.0 and previously published contract artifacts remain byte-frozen.
Upgrade now
brew upgrade gentle-ai
gentle-ai syncRun gentle-ai sync after upgrading so managed agent, reviewer, and runtime assets match the installed binary.
What was fixed
Telemetry model attribution
Runtime telemetry attributes models by public family pattern instead of a fixed list, documents family-prefix pass-through so a new revisioned id inherits its family's handling, drops generic family tokens that hid real model identity, and makes the model id pattern unambiguous, accepting revisioned Claude ids in the CLI test.
Included work: #4537.
Numbers
3 non-merge commits, 1 merged pull request, and 1 unique GitHub PR author since v2.8.0.
Install
brew install Gentleman-Programming/tap/gentle-aior
go install github.com/gentleman-programming/gentle-ai/v2/cmd/gentle-ai@v2.8.1Windows remains supported through the Go installation path. Official Windows binary archives and Scoop publication remain unavailable; Windows upgrades fail closed to Go-based guidance rather than downloading unsigned binaries.
Signed platform archives below: linux_amd64, linux_arm64, darwin_amd64, darwin_arm64, plus gentle-ai-review-provider-contract-1.2.0.tar.gz and gentle-ai-release-provenance-v1.tar.gz. checksums.txt is signed with the release Minisign key (checksums.txt.minisig); see docs/release-signing.md for verification.
Full changelog: v2.8.0...v2.8.1