NeMo Relay 0.9.0 Release Candidate 1

What's Changed

💥 Breaking Changes

• feat!: make context propagation opt-out by @AnuradhaKaruppiah in #959
• refactor!: centralize dynamic plugin validation and host APIs by @willkill07 in #943
• fix(observability)!: enrich OTEL tool projections and secure trace exports by @bbednarski9 in #1032
• feat!: expose tool_call_id through ToolExecutionContext by @ericevans-nv in #1029

✨ New Features

• feat(adaptive): add logical response cache keys by @zhongxuanwang-nv in #818
• feat(langgraph): manage standalone ToolNode calls by @willkill07 in #902
• feat: add gateway lifecycle controls by @willkill07 in #947
• feat(cli): add pi as a supported coding agent by @yczhang-nv in #804
• feat(cli): forward launched pi model calls to named upstreams by @yczhang-nv in #977
• feat(cli): add high-performance daemon architecture by @willkill07 in #1000
• feat: report resolved plugin configuration by @willkill07 in #1025
• feat: add safe CLI script uninstallers by @bbednarski9 in #1008
• feat(daemon): use WebSocket sessions for daemon control by @willkill07 in #1020

⚡ Improvements

• enhancement: add environment-backed exporter headers to direct APIs by @ericevans-nv in #901
• enhancement(pii): allow bounded metric string attributes by @mnajafian-nv in #920
• enhancement: add typed editor configuration metadata by @willkill07 in #922
• enhancement: add PII target path globs by @bbednarski9 in #924
• enhancement(observability): promote metadata to OTLP resources by @willkill07 in #933
• refactor(cli): resolve Sonar findings by @willkill07 in #1018

🐛 Bug Fixes

• fix: initialize builtins before dynamic plugins by @willkill07 in #916
• fix: preserve log severity during trajectory redaction by @mnajafian-nv in #919
• fix: make worker and native plugin gates callback-based by @willkill07 in #917
• fix: activate static plugins before dynamic loading by @mnajafian-nv in #929
• fix: harden security boundaries without API changes by @willkill07 in #934
• fix: support stderr opt-out in CLI config by @willkill07 in #940
• fix: preserve ATIF metadata across interleaved LLM ends by @owenniles in #938
• fix(uninstall): add forced coding-agent cleanup by @willkill07 in #942
• fix: refresh managed integrations after Relay upgrade by @willkill07 in #953
• fix: sync Cargo workspace version with ref_name in package-python by @bbednarski9 in #960
• fix(install): recover from orphaned plugin state in install, uninstall, and refresh by @bbednarski9 in #965
• fix(codex): resolve the relay binary the same way when writing and validating hooks by @bbednarski9 in #966
• fix: recover unhealthy managed MCP gateways by @willkill07 in #971
• fix(cli): keep Codex routing in exec scope by @ventali-fleet in #951
• fix: normalize Windows marketplace paths for host CLIs by @willkill07 in #982
• fix: preserve LangChain message boundaries by @ericevans-nv in #984
• fix(cli): preserve Pi tool-result text by @afourniernv in #987
• fix(cli): reuse MCP gateways across configuration changes by @willkill07 in #981
• fix: harden PII redaction safety by @willkill07 in #978
• fix: drain adaptive telemetry during shutdown by @willkill07 in #979
• fix: address Sonar findings by @willkill07 in #986
• fix(cli): tolerate dangling Codex marketplace registration by @sara-tadayon-nv in #993
• fix: force Codex Responses fallback to HTTP by @willkill07 in #994
• fix: preserve Anthropic usage across stream events by @mnajafian-nv in #996
• fix: normalize Anthropic v1 upstream paths by @bbednarski9 in #1010
• fix: use private files for generated hook commands by @willkill07 in #939
• fix(cli): recover dangling Codex marketplace registrations with --force by @sara-tadayon-nv in #1007
• fix: keep Relay headers out of LangChain models that reject extra_headers by @fede-kamel in #1012
• fix: harden trajectory context redaction by @bbednarski9 in #991
• fix: preserve Codex automation tool outputs by @willkill07 in #1016
• fix: prevent URL masks from retaining credentials by @afourniernv in #1015
• fix: preserve OTLP root spans for local scopes by @willkill07 in #1022
• fix: clarify dynamic-plugin attestation defaults by @willkill07 in #1023
• fix: preserve requests with overlapping PII paths by @bbednarski9 in #1031
• fix(cli): propagate coding agent conversation identity by @bbednarski9 in #1030
• fix(codec): accumulate Anthropic compaction deltas by @afourniernv in #1035
• fix(cli): warn when Claude modes suppress Relay hooks by @afourniernv in #1033

✅ Tests

• test: isolate implicit configuration in test builds by @willkill07 in #928
• test: update PII redaction plugin host calls by @willkill07 in #1017
• test: align managed Pi docs contract by @willkill07 in #1027
• test: cover tool execution context callbacks by @ericevans-nv in #1037

🧰 Maintenance

• chore: prepare 0.8 code freeze by @bbednarski9 in #833
• ci: update external action pins by @willkill07 in #906
• ci: remove release 0.8 nightly alpha branch by @willkill07 in #974
• ci: update PR size label thresholds by @willkill07 in #975
• ci: tighten stale issue and PR timelines by @willkill07 in #976
• ci: update Go and harden Rust package builds by @bbednarski9 in #1011
• chore: update OpenClaw dependency by @willkill07 in #1004
• chore: Fix proposed branch name in prepare-code-freeze Skill by @dagardner-nv in #1036
• ci: pin PyPI publishing action to release commit by @willkill07 in #1039

📝 Documentation Updates

• docs: repair stable plugin-guide redirects by @willkill07 in #875
• docs(adaptive): document logical response cache keys by @zhongxuanwang-nv in #819
• docs: add 0.8 patch release notes by @willkill07 in #962
• docs: reset 0.9 release pages by @willkill07 in #956
• docs: clarify epoch timestamp precision by @sara-tadayon-nv in #980
• docs: add 0.8.4 release notes by @willkill07 in #997
• docs: clarify ATIF metadata path sanitization by @willkill07 in #1024
• docs: add daemon architecture and deployment runbooks by @willkill07 in #1019
• docs: document Python plugin-host exceptions by @willkill07 in #1021
• docs: add plugin host initialization guide by @willkill07 in #1026
• docs: update 0.9 release notes and migration guide by @willkill07 in #1038

🧩 Skills Updates

• skills(built-in): streamline repository agent guidance by @willkill07 in #1003

New Contributors

• @owenniles made their first contribution in #938
• @ventali-fleet made their first contribution in #951
• @sara-tadayon-nv made their first contribution in #980

Full Changelog: 0.8.0...0.9.0-rc.1