v1.17.0

1.17.0 (2026-09-16)

• Locate local prayers through a path source of any directory name (RFC 0117). pray prayer init adds source "local" when needed and declares pray "local/project" once. Version is optional until pray package or pray publish. .agents/project.md remains a compose shortcut for one local file.
• Copy upstream files into an empty path-fork tree on pray install and pray update (RFC 0116). Extra listed overlay files stay. pray outdated lists fork files that differ from the locked upstream. An identity-only fork uses empty spec.files; refresh lists content paths, not the prayspec file.
• Refuse a local path with file: and a local path inside tree. Compose still embeds local fragments. Package file: and package tree stay. RFC 0115 proposed those dest copies and is not adopted.
• Name dest versus lock on pray verify, dest versus a fresh render on pray drift, and dest write on pray render. Dry-run of a write is pray plan. pray update has a Packages-list description. Listed local compose files stay on pray install.
• Write .praytorrent.json when v1/distribution.json lists protocols: ["torrent"] (RFC 0062). pray repo init writes empty protocols. pray serve returns 404 for a missing file and 206 for a satisfiable Range.
• Parse spec.maintainers as a string array, and accept spec.pray_version as an alias for spec.prayfile_version (RFC 0011).
• Re-embed a changed local compose source on pray install, pray update, and pray plan, and print its sha256 as checked or was.
• List local checksum drift under pray outdated. The Rust CLI install footer counts local files separately from packages.