jerith-mesh v0.2.0 — first steady public release

Single source of truth for the mesh release (v0.2.0, pinned at 8a290d8). The JerithChain node repo stays untagged by design — the chain is deployed from its own main.

What's in it

• Public bootstrap live at https://p2p.jerithai.com (signed advertise/pings, Cloudflare Tunnel, no open ports)
• Live JerithChain escrow contract: POST /stake/lock, /stake/unlock, GET /stake, Ed25519-signed /stake/slash
• Core wiring: per-process escrow (wallet auto-create, idempotent marker, unlock on shutdown), ledger synced to GET /stake every tick
• jerith stake status|lock|unlock CLI
• Mesh fallback chat: consecutive-duplicate history compaction on the QUIC wire (verified wire-level)
• Dev tooling: one-command two-node E2E (scripts/dev-e2e.sh), Rust ≥ 1.85 enforced

Verification

• Workspace tests green (170), scripts/dev-e2e.sh green, CLI smoke-tested on scratch homes
• Deployed binary verified on the tunnel: /health, signed peer advertise, /stake/* token-gated (401s)

Install & verify (sign-off build)

Asset	What it is
jerith-mesh-v0.2.0.tar.gz	Source archive generated from the tag (git archive v0.2.0)
jerith-linux-x86_64	Release binary built in a clean worktree checked out exactly at v0.2.0 — same build profile as the binary deployed on p2p.jerithai.com (lto = thin)
SHA256SUMS	sha256 of both artifacts

Operator verification:

sha256sum -c SHA256SUMS

CI on this tag lineage is green: cargo test --workspace on Ubuntu and macOS plus the two-node live E2E. macOS operators: build from the source archive with Rust ≥ 1.85.