ChatWalaʻau v0.103.0

This release adds a new feature to ChatWalaʻau: the Model Offering Catalog -- an optional, file-based way to manage every model an instance serves.

Highlights

Model Offering Catalog (v0.103.0)

• Manage every model from a single JSONC file (model_offerings.jsonc, set MODEL_OFFERINGS_FILE). Each "offering" declares one model: its provider, the real model / deployment name, an optional endpoint / base URL / hosting, a credential reference, its purpose (chat, embeddings, or image), an optional generation-option family, a context window, and an optional default flag.
• Gateways made simple: a single endpoint that fronts several model families becomes several offerings sharing an endpoint -- no new provider to wire up.
• Mixed hostings in one instance: direct Claude and Foundry-hosted Claude can coexist (per-offering hosting), which the single global hosting switch could not express.
• One required chat model, everything else optional: at least one chat offering is required; a single embeddings offering feeds document search and a single image offering feeds image generation, in place of their dedicated variables.
• Secrets stay out of the file: offerings reference an environment variable by name (or use the shared Entra ID credential lanes); endpoints support ${VAR} substitution. A malformed catalog fails startup fast with a message naming the offending offering.
• The startup log states the active source (Model routing source: Model Offering Catalog (...) vs the legacy .env variables), so it is obvious where models came from.
• Fully backward compatible: with no catalog file (the default), the existing AZURE_OPENAI_MODELS / ANTHROPIC_MODELS / OPENAI_MODELS / FOUNDRY_MODELS variables keep working unchanged, and demo mode always uses them. When a catalog file is present it becomes the single source of truth and those variables are ignored for routing (a startup warning lists them).
• Deprecation notice: the four *_MODELS variables and the global ANTHROPIC_HOSTING switch are deprecated in favor of the catalog and will be removed in a future release; migrate to model_offerings.jsonc when convenient. The endpoint and credential variables they reference are not deprecated.

Included in this release

This release includes implementation work from:

• v0.103.0 through v0.103.0

Notes

• Internal design management content and architecture control artifacts are intentionally omitted from this release note.

Installation

See the repository README for setup and usage instructions.

Version

• Release version: 0.103.0
• Previous release: 0.102.2