v1.1.1 - Spectra Patch 1
Release Notes - 1.1.1
Release Date: March 7, 2026
Code Name: "Spectra Patch 1"
🔧 Overview
v1.1.1 is a patch release addressing three bugs discovered shortly after the Spectra launch: an incorrect API integration in the Brave Search plugin, a data-loss issue when editing agent definitions, and a missing plugin update detection mechanism.
🐛 Bug Fixes
Brave Search Plugin — LLM Context API (#70, PR #72)
The Brave Search plugin was using the raw Web Search API (/v1/web/search) which returns unprocessed search result links. It now uses the LLM Context API (/v1/llm/context), which returns pre-extracted, relevance-scored web content optimized for LLM consumption.
- Switched endpoint to
/v1/llm/contextwithmaximum_number_of_tokens=8192 - Updated response DTOs to match the grounding/sources schema
- Added
.Take(8)limit on grounding items for consistent output size - Added null guard on snippets to prevent
NullReferenceException - Bumped plugin version to 1.1.0
- Updated and expanded unit tests (6 passing)
Agent Domain Settings Not Persisting (#71, PR #73)
Editing an agent's domain list in the Definitions page and clicking "Update" silently discarded the changes. Two root causes were identified and fixed:
- Frontend:
SkillConfigEditormaintained its own React state for domain edits, but the parent form never flushed that state before saving. AddedforwardRef/useImperativeHandleexposing asaveAll()method with dirty-section tracking to only persist modified sections. - Backend:
UpdateDefinitionAsyncperformed a full document replacement, clobbering system flags (IsBuiltIn,IsRemote,IsOrchestrator) and any fields omitted from the request. Switched to merge-based PUT that preserves existing values when incoming fields are null. - Added 8 Playwright E2E tests covering domain persistence and system flag preservation.
Plugin Update Detection (#74, PR #75)
The plugin system stored version information but never compared installed versions against repository manifests. Users had no way to know updates were available.
- Added
CheckForUpdatesAsync()andUpdatePluginAsync()toPluginManagementServicewith semver-aware version comparison - Added
GET /api/plugins/updatesendpoint to check for available updates - Added
POST /api/plugins/{id}/updateendpoint to apply updates in-place - Enhanced
GET /api/plugins/installedresponse withUpdateAvailableandAvailableVersionfields - Skip redundant downloads when installed version is already current
- Dashboard now shows "Update Available (v1.0.0 → v1.1.0)" badges with an Update button on the Plugins page
- 9 unit tests and 5 Playwright E2E tests covering the full update flow
📊 Test Coverage
| Area | Unit Tests | E2E Tests |
|---|---|---|
| Brave Search LLM Context API | 6 | — |
| Agent Domain Settings | — | 8 |
| Plugin Update Detection | 9 | 5 |
| Total New Tests | 15 | 13 |
🔄 Upgrade Notes
- No breaking changes — this is a fully backward-compatible patch release
- Plugin update UI — after upgrading, the Plugins page will automatically show update indicators for any outdated plugins
- Restart required — applying a plugin update from the dashboard will prompt for a restart to reload the updated plugin