v0.1.0 - 1st. Alpha Release

🎉 First Alpha Release of ASAP Protocol

This is the first public release of the ASAP Protocol Python implementation, marking a significant milestone in the project.

🚀 What's New

Security & Authentication (CRIT-01)

• ✅ Complete Bearer token authentication middleware
• ✅ Sender verification to prevent identity spoofing
• ✅ Optional authentication based on manifest configuration
• ✅ 22 comprehensive authentication tests

Observability & Metrics

• ✅ Prometheus metrics endpoint (/asap/metrics)
• ✅ Request, error, latency, and authentication metrics
• ✅ 95.71% test coverage on metrics module

Performance Benchmarks

• ✅ Comprehensive benchmark suite using pytest-benchmark
• ✅ Model and transport layer performance baselines
• ✅ Regression detection capabilities

Documentation

• ✅ 5 comprehensive technical guides (2,545 lines)
  • Security Guide
  • Transport Guide
  • State Management Guide
  • Metrics Guide
  • Migration Guide
• ✅ Complete API reference
• ✅ Error handling documentation

📊 Statistics

• Tests: 543 (100% passing)
• Coverage: 91.03%
• Type Safety: 100% (mypy --strict)
• Security: ✅ Zero vulnerabilities (pip-audit)
• Files: 50 files changed, +9,479 lines

📦 Installation

# With uv (recommended)
uv add asap-protocol

# With pip
pip install asap-protocol

🔗 Links

• PyPI: https://pypi.org/project/asap-protocol/
• Documentation: https://adriannoes.github.io/asap-protocol
• GitHub: https://github.com/adriannoes/asap-protocol

📝 Full Changelog

See CHANGELOG.md for complete details.

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Ready for production use! 🚀