Semantica 0.5.0 — Distance Intelligence & Ontology Hub 🚀
Released: 2026-05-11
Highlights
- Distance Intelligence — measure semantic distance between any two nodes across the graph, API, and Explorer
- Ontology Hub — full workspace for browsing, loading, aligning, and validating ontologies in the Explorer
- Parquet Ingest — native Parquet file ingestion support
- KnowledgeGraph dataclass — first-class
KnowledgeGraphtype with native visualizer support - MCP Server — modular,
pipx-installable MCP server package with 4 new plugin bundles
New Features
Distance Intelligence
- Semantic distance between nodes across
ContextGraph, REST API, and Knowledge Explorer — #502, #512 by @KaifAhmad1 - Node distance semantics in
PathResponse(step count, hop distance, relationship type) — #472, #477 by @KaifAhmad1 - Bidirectional path finding via
directed=falseparameter — #469, #476 by @KaifAhmad1 - Distance intelligence optimization and UI polish — #550 by @KaifAhmad1
Ontology Hub
- Ontology Hub workspace in the Explorer: Registry, Loader, Entity Search, SKOS browser — #518, #521, #523 by @KaifAhmad1
- Alignments panel, SHACL Studio, and ontology health dashboard — #524 by @KaifAhmad1 and @ZohaibHassan16
Knowledge Explorer UI
- Full Explorer UI with graph, decision, provenance, temporal, and vocabulary workspaces — #453 by @KaifAhmad1 and @ZohaibHassan16
- Redesigned landing page — #516 by @ZohaibHassan16
- Grouped graph view — collapse related nodes into logical clusters — #493 by @ZohaibHassan16
- Graph declutter mode and calm layout — #483 by @ZohaibHassan16
- Stabilized local graph interaction — #487 by @Sameer6305
- Welcome screen and SPA root handler — #501, #463 by @KaifAhmad1
- Explorer visual refresh and graph element rendering system — #503 by @ZohaibHassan16
- Indexed search for large graphs (bisect-based, thread-safe) — #481 by @ZohaibHassan16
Parquet Ingest
- Native Parquet file ingestion (
ParquetIngester) — #548 by @Luffy2208
KnowledgeGraph Dataclass
- New
KnowledgeGraphdataclass with nativeKGVisualizersupport — #471, #474 by @KaifAhmad1 - All
visualize_*methods now acceptKnowledgeGraphobjects directly — #459 by @KaifAhmad1
MCP Server & Plugins
- Modular MCP server package at repo root, installable via
pipx— by @KaifAhmad1 - New plugin bundles: Windsurf, Cline, Continue, VS Code — by @KaifAhmad1
- OpenClaw integration module — #460 by @KaifAhmad1
- Plugin local install fixed (hooks field, auto-load) — #489 by @serge
Deduplication
DuplicateDetectornow supportsmax_results,top_k_per_entity,min_similarity, andsort_by— by @KaifAhmad1
Cookbooks
- Datalog-style reasoning end-to-end notebook — #457 by @KaifAhmad1
- Manual ontology + Snowflake mapping cookbook — by @KaifAhmad1
Bug Fixes 🐛
- Windows install failure from
gpuin[all]extra — #538 by @KaifAhmad1 UnicodeEncodeErroron cp1252 / Windows consoles in progress tracker — #537 by @KaifAhmad1- Circular import in
semantic_extract— #536 by @ZohaibHassan16 - Lazy-load optional ingest backends — uninstalled extras no longer raise on import — #535 by @ZohaibHassan16
ConflictDetector.detect_conflictsduplicate method definition — #539 by @KaifAhmad1DuplicateDetectormerged group key normalization — #540 by @ZohaibHassan16- MCP server package structure for
pipxinstallation — #544 by @KaifAhmad1 - OWL/Turtle exporter silent data-property omission — #478 / #479 by @KaifAhmad1
- Blazegraph literal serialization and prefixed datatype expansion — #450 by @KaifAhmad1
- TripletStore IRI resolution against ontology namespace base URI — #447 / #451 by @KaifAhmad1
- OWL generation — preserve user-facing schema fields, align IRIs with namespace — #449 by @KaifAhmad1
- Provenance upstream ancestor traversal and direction classification — #480 by @Sameer6305
- DeepSeek provider switched to OpenAI SDK client — #482 by @lingli
- Distance intelligence visibility and slash-safe API calls — #513 / #515 by @ZohaibHassan16
- Explorer graph motion and live layout restore — #486 by @KaifAhmad1
- Polynomial ReDoS regex removed from format detection — #521 by @KaifAhmad1
Security 🔒
- Patched 12 vulnerabilities (CRITICAL → LOW) across path traversal, injection, and unsafe deserialization — #452 by @KaifAhmad1
- Updated
mkdocs≥1.6.1 — #507 - Updated
mkdocs-mermaid2-plugin— #508 - Updated
mkdocs-jupyter— #509 - Updated
mkdocs-material— #511 - Updated
pymdown-extensions— #510
Dependencies
- Docker base image:
python 3.12-slim→3.14-slim— #466 - Docker base image:
node 20-alpine→25-alpine— #465 pytest-benchmark≥5.2.3 — #522
Contributors
- @KaifAhmad1 — Distance intelligence, Ontology Hub, KnowledgeGraph dataclass, TripletStore, Blazegraph, MCP server, security, Windows fixes, Explorer welcome screen, OWL exporter, OpenClaw, MCP packaging, Datalog cookbook
- @ZohaibHassan16 — Explorer UI overhaul, grouped view, graph declutter, indexed search, landing page, lazy ingest, circular import fix
- @Sameer6305 — Provenance upstream traversal fix, local graph interaction
- @lingli — DeepSeek provider fix
- @Luffy2208 — Parquet ingest support
- @serge — Plugin local install fix
- @dependabot — Automated dependency and security updates
Breaking Changes
None.
Contributors
serge, lingli, and 5 other contributors