Cortext v1.1.0

Cortext v1.1.0 Release Artifact

This file is the tracked release artifact for the v1.1.0 line. The v1.1.0
tag should point at the commit that contains this artifact.

Release State

• Version: 1.1.0
• Runtime: hard-cut production engine, limited to embedding-backed memory,
  durable graph associations, bounded retrieval, and shallow consolidation.
• Product surface: unchanged from v1.0. v1.1.0 is a hardening release, not a
  feature expansion.
• Removed research stack: decoder, provider registry, semantic extractor,
  summarizer, static label bank, fact layer, label-bucket graph, and
  mode-selected deep consolidation remain preserved in git but not shipped.
• Public API status: C++ facade, C ABI, and binding entry points remain the
  release surface for this tag.

Version Surfaces

The tracked package surfaces report 1.1.0:

• CMakeLists.txt
• bindings/python/pyproject.toml
• bindings/javascript/package.json
• bindings/dart/pubspec.yaml
• build.zig
• build.zig.zon

cortext_version() and every FFI package should report the same version.

Fix Train

v1.1.0 ships the release-hardening fixes completed after v1.0:

• Fixed graph-retrieval temporal decay overflow/stale-recency behavior and
  recorded the frozen replay A/B result.
• Restored bounded SQLite WAL behavior: default file-backed auto-checkpointing,
  SQLITE_CHECKPOINT_TRUNCATE for full checkpoints, and objstore blob garbage
  collection during eviction.
• Fixed GitHub Actions drift, split AIST model coverage into a dedicated cached
  job, and added ASan+UBSan CI coverage over the non-AIST suite.
• Validated media ingress before filters, encoders, or payload copies touch
  caller buffers.
• Made accumulator windows explicitly volatile staging state and stopped
  restoring or flushing legacy aggregate-only accumulator snapshots.
• Compiled ablation environment hooks out of default builds behind
  CORTEXT_EXPERIMENT_HOOKS=OFF while documenting the operational environment
  variables.
• Removed stale label-classifier/human-label tooling, fixed eval env-file
  discovery, and removed stale vendored submodule entries.
• Added direct tests for previously untested tail pipeline operations, made
  can-fail tests assert state, scrubbed external CORTEXT_* env vars during
  test startup, and switched temp DB naming to unique pid/time/counter paths.
• Updated the paper with negative experiment results, pattern-separation
  definitions, current consolidation framing, and tracked eval artifact copies.
• Added root NOTICE and third_party/VERSIONS inventory.
• Documented store/transaction single-owner semantics and one-writer-per-DB
  runtime ownership; schema migrations now take BEGIN IMMEDIATE before
  reading applied migration IDs.

Current Evidence

The v1.1.0 public evidence inherits the v1.0 hosted Meta Multi-Session Chat
eval, the 128k RAG ablation, and the post-optimization full replay verification.
The cited aggregate artifacts are tracked under docs/paper/artifacts/; full
protocol details are recorded in docs/paper/sections/9_experimental.qmd,
docs/paper/sections/11_optimization.qmd, and the generated manuscript at
docs/paper/_manuscript/index.md.

Additional v1.1.0 local verification recorded during the fix train:

• Full ctest --test-dir build-test -R cortext_tests --output-on-failure
  passed after the test-integrity work.
• Full ctest --test-dir build-test -R cortext_tests --output-on-failure
  passed after the store ownership and migration-lock work in 557.72 seconds.
• Focused AIST, sanitizer, media-validation, WAL, objstore-eviction, migration,
  paper-render, JSON/JSONL artifact, and Zig smoke checks passed at their
  respective fix points.

Build Gate

cmake -S . -B build/release \
  -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release \
  -DCORTEXT_DISABLE_OPENTELEMETRY=ON
cmake --build build/release -j
./build/release/tests/cortext_tests '~[aist]' --reporter compact

Run AIST-tagged tests separately on a host with the model installed:

./build/release/tests/cortext_tests '[aist]' --reporter compact

FFI Gate

cmake --preset ffi-release-node
cmake --build --preset ffi-release-node --target cortext cortext_node -j
(cd bindings/go && go test)
(cd bindings/dart && dart pub get && dart analyze && dart test)
python3 -m py_compile bindings/python/cortext/__init__.py
node --check bindings/javascript/index.js bindings/wasm/cortext.js examples/web/main.js
node -e "const c=require('./bindings/javascript'); if (c.version() !== '1.1.0') process.exit(1)"

Browser WebAssembly Gate

./build-wasm.sh
test -s build-wasm/dist/wasm/cortext.js
test -s build-wasm/dist/wasm/cortext.wasm

CI Gate

The GitHub workflow must pass with optional OpenTelemetry disabled for
deterministic model-free CI where applicable:

• Ubuntu native release build and non-AIST tests.
• Arch Linux native release build and non-AIST tests.
• Dedicated cached AIST model job running [aist].
• Debug ASan+UBSan non-AIST job.
• Browser WebAssembly bundle build.
• Zig host and Linux cross-build smoke checks.

Documentation Gate

When algorithm behavior or experiment conclusions change, update
docs/paper/sections/ and regenerate:

QUARTO_DISABLE_GIT=1 QUARTO_DISABLE_GITHUB=1 quarto render docs/paper

For packaging/API changes, update the root README and all affected binding
READMEs before tagging.