InferBridge 0.9.6

InferBridge 0.9.6

InferBridge 0.9.6 promotes the 0.9.6 beta line to stable with hardened Windows startup and installation, stronger local security boundaries, more resilient model and storage lifecycle handling, expanded OpenAI-compatible APIs, and privacy-safe support workflows.

This release is unsigned. Windows will report an unknown publisher and SmartScreen may warn on first launch. No Authenticode signing claim is made in the release metadata. Verify downloaded artifacts against the published SHA-256 checksums.

Highlights

• Adds connection management, conversation management, storage management, runtime health, and expanded Responses API capabilities.
• Hardens desktop API keys, browser authentication, LAN exposure, local-request validation, credential handling, and path safety.
• Improves model preparation, cancellation, recovery, quantization guidance, embeddings lifecycle safety, and device-aware runtime diagnostics.
• Hardens the Windows installer and frozen first-launch path with installed-runtime bootstrap validation and semantic-version downgrade protection.
• Adds System Doctor feedback entry points and privacy-safe copyable diagnostics without uploading prompts, history, credentials, logs, or model files.
• Expands Windows CI and regression coverage across packaging, installer, lifecycle, security, UI, storage, recovery, and resilience contracts.

Compatibility

• Persistent data schema remains version 1.
• Existing 0.9.5 and 0.9.6 beta models, settings, caches, browser history, onboarding state, and diagnostics remain compatible.
• Installer identity and installation location remain unchanged for in-place upgrades.
• OpenVINO GenAI remains the inference runtime, with CPU, GPU, and NPU availability determined by the installed runtime and drivers.

Validation scope

The release build runs the repository's source tests, lint and format gates, packaged bootstrap and native checks, and packaged mock smoke test. Mock validation does not prove behavior on every physical CPU, GPU, NPU, driver, or Windows installation. These artifacts are not Authenticode signed; signature and publisher-trust validation are intentionally not claimed.