v0.4.0-alpha.1

This is the first Noctaya-branded prerelease. It publishes the v0.3.0 functional baseline under
the current repository, API, image, chart, namespace, metrics, and documentation coordinates while
v0.4.0 production-hardening work continues. It remains alpha software and is not production-ready.

Changed

• Adopted the Noctaya identity across the Go module, binaries, container images, Helm chart,
  Kubernetes object names, documentation website, examples, tests, and release automation.
• Changed the alpha API group to serving.noctaya.io, the gateway queue endpoint to
  /noctaya/queue, gateway metrics to the noctaya_gateway_* namespace, and gateway environment
  variables to the NOCTAYA_* prefix. Existing alpha resources require explicit migration; no
  conversion path is provided.

Migration

• Treat this prerelease as a reinstall rather than an in-place upgrade from v0.3.0. Back up custom
  resource specifications and model data, install the current chart, recreate resources with
  serving.noctaya.io/v1alpha1, verify the new workloads, and only then remove the previous
  installation.
• Preserve the existing v0.3.0 tag and release as historical artifacts. The renamed chart and
  images start at v0.4.0-alpha.1.

Verified

• The renamed repository passed generation, build, unit and controller tests, lint, documentation
  build, Helm and Kustomize rendering, and both disposable no-accelerator E2E scaler modes.
• Physical accelerator claims remain tied to their recorded release, runtime, driver, device
  plugin, and topology. This identity prerelease does not claim a new real-hardware validation run.

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🙏 Thanks to everyone who contributed to this release — the merged PRs and first-time
contributors are credited under What's Changed and New Contributors below.

What's Changed

📦 Dependencies

• chore(deps): bump alpine from 3.20 to 3.24 in the container-minor-and-patch group by @dependabot[bot] in #69
• chore(deps): bump @mermaid-js/layout-elk from 0.1.9 to 0.2.2 in /docs/hearth in the website-minor-and-patch group by @dependabot[bot] in #70
• chore(deps): bump the go-minor-and-patch group with 7 updates by @dependabot[bot] in #71

New Contributors

• @dependabot[bot] made their first contribution in #69

Full Changelog: v0.3.0...v0.4.0-alpha.1