1.0.0-beta.5

What's Changed

• Represent FieldValue.bytes as Data instead of a base64 String (#467)
• Add Asset.download(using:), which fetches an asset's downloadURL from the CDN and returns the bytes, plus CloudKitError.missingAssetDownloadURL. fileChecksum turned out to be a server-minted identity token rather than a digest of the file, so no client-side checksum verification is offered — check Asset.size to guard against truncation (#466, #473)
• Add VALIDATE to Reference.Action for CloudKit Web Services reference dictionaries (#464)
• Consume rotated web auth tokens from the X-Apple-CloudKit-Web-Auth-Token response header via a new TokenManager.didReceiveRotatedWebAuthToken(_:) requirement, defaulted to a no-op so existing conformances keep compiling (#462, #463)
• Model the zone payload fields confirmed live in #444: ZoneInfo.zoneType (a closed ZoneType enum that throws ConversionError.unrecognizedZoneType on unknown wire values) and ZoneInfo.deleted, so change feeds surface tombstones (#444)
• Fix ownerRecordName never decoding on zone payloads — ZoneID read the wire key as ownerName, so shared-zone owners were always nil (#444)
• Add an optional zoneID: parameter to createRecord, updateRecord, deleteRecord, and uploadAssets, so writes and asset uploads can target custom and shared zones (#454)
• Round [Date] list elements and nested Location.timestamp values to whole milliseconds on the way out, matching the scalar path, and make the list conversion an exhaustive default-free switch so a new FieldValue case fails the build instead of writing an empty list
• Extract the shared CloudKit credential configuration glue into a separate MistKitConfiguration package and converge the examples on typed configuration keys (#407, #455)
• MistDemo: expose zoneName/zoneOwner on the web query panel and add zone-aware writes plus a live shared-zone round-trip phase (#438, #453, #454)
• Documentation: add the "CloudKit as Your Backend" talk as a DocC article with its screenshots, plus new guides for request signing, field type polymorphism, deploying MistKit, and the two retrospectives (What CloudKit Got Wrong, What the AI Got Wrong); re-verify every existing catalog article against current source; link the guides and talk resources from the README; remove the top-level docs/ directory (#447)
• Add a repeatable release runbook, address code review fixes, coverage, and lint tooling, and fix the MistDemo Integration static build for Swift 6.4 (#460, #461, #475)

Full Changelog: 1.0.0-beta.4...1.0.0-beta.5