v0.42.0 v0.43.0
shivangi-aneja/FaceTalkAug 17, 2026 → Sep 30, 202644 days between releases
What's New
Major architectural refactoring and new providers introduce significant breaking changes.
Breaking Changes
- Signature slots, upstream reasoning provenance, and legacy fixture corpus removed.
- Stateful handle round-trips and reasoning provenance architecture changed.
- Event-sourced hook state replaces the durable Scratchpad snapshot.
- Lower ModelHandle and erased tool set into rig-core.
- rig-rmcp moves MCP tool support out of rig-agent into its own crate.
New Features
- Base support for Anthropic and OpenAI models.
- Local YOLOv8 pose estimation via rig-candle.
- Automatic explicit caching for long runs (Gemini).
- Initial typesafeai provider.
- Explicit stream delivery with StreamItemsDelivered.
Improvements
- Major refactoring of the data layer, event sourcing, and effect-bus critical path.
- Moves recording tooling into xtask.
- Refactors transport layers (rig-rmcp, rig-reqwest).
- Exposure of typed content parts and shared binary assets.
- Refactor of cassette to refuse account failures and stored state.
Upgrade Notes
This upgrade requires migrating from the durable Scratchpad snapshot to event-sourced hook state. You must also update configuration for the new rig-core and rig-rmcp crates, as signature slots and legacy fixtures have been removed.
The Two Releases
rig-v0.42.0
Aug 17, 2026· 2 months ago
This release introduces embedding request options, adds new AI providers like Venice and Cohere, and enhances metadata handling. It also includes several bug fixes for providers such as OpenAI and Mistral.
Full release notesrig-v0.43.0
Sep 30, 2026· 22 days ago
This release introduces support for new AI providers like Anthropic and OpenAI, adds local YOLOv8 pose estimation capabilities, and undergoes a massive architectural refactoring including event sourcing, type-erasure sweeps, and the extraction of core protocols into separate crates.
Full release notes