OpenJOC v0.4.1

[0.4.1] — 2026-08-16

OpenJOC 0.4.1 is a patch release focused on real-world usability, diagnostics,
and OAMD configuration correctness.

Fixed

• Ordinary valid render-joc input no longer requires users to provide
  --trim-config-count when it is omitted. The shared normative OAMD default
  resolves NUM_TRIM_CONFIGS to 9; the explicit option remains available as
  an expert override.
• OAMD configuration resolution is consistent across render, decode, and
  inspect paths without changing AUTO profile selection or rendering
  semantics.

Improved

• render-joc provides TTY-aware terminal progress on stderr and supports
  --no-progress for explicit opt-out without corrupting stdout diagnostics.
• --performance-report writes versioned machine-readable stage timings and
  frame percentile diagnostics.
• Low-risk render and WAV allocation improvements reduce avoidable per-frame
  work while retaining the existing output contract.

Known limitations

• Synthetic benchmarks improved substantially, but real E-AC-3/JOC performance
  still requires qualification on representative media. A real-media
  performance retest is required.
• JocSpatialBridge remains Experimental and SemanticBindingState remains
  Unresolved; no renderer-fidelity equivalence with Dolby is claimed.

Verification

• GitHub Actions verified the exact version tag, source tree, and release artifact checksums.
• The published binary targets are macOS arm64, Windows x86_64, and GNU/Linux x86_64.
• Per-platform manifests remain internal verification artifacts; the public asset set contains one unified SHA256SUMS file.