v1.0.6

Added

• On the WordPress.org distribution, all remote AI functionality is opt-in: activation contacts no remote service and AI features default off.
• Amazee.ai credentials are now stored with authenticated encryption (encrypt-then-MAC) instead of plain encryption.

Changed

• The /health endpoint now returns only the overall status to anonymous (logged-out) requesters — a user-visible REST API change.
• When the stored Amazee.ai connection is no longer accepted, AI search degrades gracefully and wp-admin shows a prompt to reconnect; the /health endpoint reflects the credential state.
• Ordinary page views no longer pay two extra non-autoloaded option reads per request on hosts without a persistent object cache.
• Scheduler and admin index builds now run the same streamed, budget-aware pipeline as wp scolta build, and both content paths produce identical items via one shared mapper.
• Synced the bundled browser script, stylesheet, and modern stemmer from scolta-php 1.0.5 (AI-Overview latency fix and the up-to-date Snowball stemmer).

Fixed

• Amazee.ai credentials stored without resolved model names now self-heal by re-resolving the model against the stored credentials, instead of leaving AI unavailable; the /health endpoint reports AI status accurately.
• Several admin and CLI fixes: connecting Amazee.ai no longer overwrites a customized AI model, the budget-exceeded admin notice can display, the dashboard widget is hidden from non-administrators, "Reset to default" on the custom-prompt fields works, "Rebuild Now" honors the build lock, and wp scolta clear-cache also clears transient timeout rows.