v0.4.0

v0.4.0

This release resets and clarifies the public rave-* crate boundaries for crates.io
and improves publishability, docs.rs compatibility, and CI reliability.

Highlights

• Clarified crate responsibilities across the workspace
• Added rave-runtime-nvidia as the concrete NVIDIA runtime composition crate
• Kept rave-pipeline focused on orchestration and graph/runtime contracts
• Removed app-specific functionality from published core crates
• Improved crates.io packaging hygiene and docs.rs compatibility
• Hardened CI for cross-platform build portability (Linux/OpenSSL/pkg-config/FFmpeg env
  handling)

New Crate

rave-runtime-nvidia

Concrete runtime composition layer for the default NVIDIA stack:

• rave-cuda (CUDA kernels / stream helpers)
• rave-tensorrt (TensorRT inference backend)
• rave-ffmpeg (container probe/demux/mux)
• rave-nvcodec (NVDEC/NVENC)

Exports runtime setup and wiring helpers such as:

• runtime preparation
• input resolution/probing
• decoder creation
• encoder creation

Crate Boundary / API Cleanup

rave-pipeline

• Refocused on orchestration and graph/runtime contracts
• Backend-heavy paths are feature-gated
• Temporary compatibility runtime shim removed to avoid crates.io publish dependency
  cycles

rave-core

• Backend-specific ORT error conversion is now feature-gated (ort-errors)
• Dependency/API surface tightened for publishability

rave-cuda

• Removed non-core exports from public API surface
• sys module is no longer public

docs.rs / Build Portability Improvements

Added docs.rs-safe no-default/stub build paths for native integration crates:

• rave-ffmpeg
• rave-tensorrt
• rave-nvcodec
• rave-runtime-nvidia
• rave-pipeline

This improves documentation builds and CI behavior in environments without full native
toolchains.

Publishing / CI Improvements

• Added per-crate include lists for cleaner crates.io packages
• Added CI checks for:
  • package file listing
  • docs.rs-style compatibility checks
  • tag-triggered publish dry-run validation
• Marked rave-cli as non-publish (publish = false)
• Fixed Linux CI environment issues involving:
  • OpenSSL build dependencies
  • pkg-config resolution
  • Windows-local .cargo/config.toml overrides leaking into Linux builds
• Adjusted CI clippy configuration to avoid failing on non-blocking rustc warning lints
  and MSRV compatibility lint noise

Breaking Changes

• Public crate boundaries and feature layout were reworked for cleaner separation
• rave-pipeline no longer provides the temporary runtime compatibility shim
  • Use rave-runtime-nvidia directly for concrete runtime composition helpers

Notes for Users

• Use rave-pipeline for generic orchestration and graph contracts
• Use rave-runtime-nvidia alongside rave-pipeline for the default NVIDIA runtime
  stack
• rave-cli remains a workspace application and is not published to crates.io

RAVE v0.2.1 - Strict Policy Hardening & Loader Reliability

RAVE v0.2.1

Highlights

This patch release hardens strict-mode guarantees, improves loader reliability on Linux/WSL, and stabilizes non-GPU CI behavior while preserving existing runtime behavior for normal profiles.

What Changed

Strict policy and validation hardening

• Centralized strict profile wiring so production_strict behavior is consistent across command paths.
• Added policy snapshot output for upscale, benchmark, and validate (additive JSON fields only).
• Enforced determinism policy in strict mode: required hash paths now fail clearly when unavailable.
• Enforced strict no-host-copies capability: strict mode fails fast if host-copy auditing is disabled/unavailable.

No-host-copies and pipeline boundary auditing

• Added stage-level no-host-copies sentinel checks across decode/preprocess/inference/encode boundaries.
• Added stable audit status/reason reporting in validation output.

Config guardrails

• Added shared batch-config validation and fail-fast behavior for unsupported micro-batching.
• max_batch > 1 is now rejected with actionable messaging until micro-batching is implemented.

Linux/WSL loader robustness

• Included validate in Linux ORT loader re-exec gating.
• Centralized re-exec gate logic with unit tests.
• Refactored ORT provider directory resolution into testable logic with improved diagnostics.

Link/load stability for non-GPU builders

• Removed hard CUDA link-time assumptions in CLI/core/cuda paths by runtime-loading CUDA driver symbols where needed.
• Added CI-safe strict validation path on non-GPU runners using mock mode.

FFmpeg state-machine hardening

• Added deterministic permutation/property tests for BSF EAGAIN/EOF/flush-drain handling.
• Fixed clippy issues in new permutation tests.

Dependency and process hygiene

• Tightened crate boundary policy (check_deps) by removing unused allowed edges.
• Added unsafe-boundary audit checklist and opt-in sanitizer workflow.
• Restored executable bits for docs/deps check scripts used in CI.

CI/Tooling updates

• Ubuntu CI now installs required FFmpeg development packages.
• Strict validate fixture runs with audit-no-host-copies enabled.
• Added publishing helper script and release wiring for crate version 0.2.1.

Published crates (0.2.1)

• rave-core
• rave-cuda
• rave-ffmpeg
• rave-nvcodec
• rave-tensorrt
• rave-pipeline
• rave-cli

Notes

• production_strict is intentionally stricter and may fail where earlier builds tolerated degraded paths.
• Non-strict/default profile behavior remains unchanged.