OpenVAPT v0.1.0-alpha.5

Pre-release: may be incomplete or wrong, for test machines only, 100% at your own risk.

Promoted through the OpenVAPT release channels after every gate passed on commit a2e2d70; evidence: release/channels.json.
The binaries are that commit plus the vulnerability snapshot built at release time from public OSV and CISA KEV data (sha256 a54686523648143de5d5985be2f1cf862e2eff73e149f42ed4731720b0b5cd59); the full tests and the installer test ran again on exactly these binaries, and two separate builds of the same source produced identical bytes.

Verify before use: gh attestation verify openvapt_linux_amd64 --repo OpenVAPT/openvapt (or arm64), cosign verify-blob --bundle SHA256SUMS.sigstore.json --certificate-identity-regexp '^https://github.com/OpenVAPT/openvapt/.github/workflows/release.yml@refs/heads/main$' --certificate-oidc-issuer https://token.actions.githubusercontent.com SHA256SUMS, then sha256sum -c SHA256SUMS. Sigstore bundles cover both binaries, SHA256SUMS, the SBOM and the vulnerability snapshot.

Changes in v0.1.0-alpha.5

Stream: discovery (SEO, GEO, AEO, LLM parsing)

• Website: an Atom feed of every release at /feed.xml (linked from every page and the footer), a web app manifest, PNG icons (favicon.ico, 192, 512, Apple touch) beside the SVG mark, codemeta.json for research-software catalogues, and an IndexNow key file with scripts/indexnow.sh to notify Bing, Yandex and other IndexNow engines after a deploy.
• Website: a Markdown twin of every check page, every Academy module, the FAQ and the glossary (same address with .md), each with front matter naming the canonical page, licence and last change date; pages link them with rel="alternate" type="text/markdown" and a visible "Also available as plain Markdown" note; llms.txt explains the convention. The root .htaccess marks .md files noindex so the HTML stays the one indexed address.
• Website: new page For Machines and AI (/machine-readable.html) listing every data file for search engines, AI answer engines, researchers and tools.
• Website: structured data enriched. Organization logo as a 512 px PNG ImageObject; SoftwareApplication gains author, image, releaseNotes, softwareHelp, installUrl and softwareRequirements; TechArticle (checks) and LearningResource (modules) gain author, image, datePublished (first git commit), mainEntityOfPage, licence, keywords, section, level, time required and the Markdown encoding; FAQ and home gain SpeakableSpecification; every page carries hreflang en and x-default, a robots directive allowing full snippets and large image previews, and og:type article with published and modified times on check and module pages.
• Repository: README badges and quick links, SUPPORT.md, extra GitHub topics.