v1.7.5 v3.42.0

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tobychui/zoraxySep 14, 2026 → Sep 15, 20260 days between releases

What's New

Major reliability batch release adds swarm consensus, vector search improvements, and MCP security hardening.

Breaking Changes

  • Direct MCP tool users now require a `hiveToken` to join, leave, or vote in hive-mind operations.

New Features

  • Swarm consensus actually uses trust weights for voting.
  • Enabled HNSW product-quantization for faster and more accurate vector search.
  • Implemented MCP tool governance enforcement via `RUFLO_MCP_ENFORCE_POLICY`.
  • Hive-mind voting and joining/leaving now require capability tokens to prevent Sybil attacks.
  • MMR re-ranking optimization for faster search results.

Improvements

  • Swarm consensus now uses trust weights for voting.
  • Vector search is faster and more accurate with HNSW product-quantization.
  • MMR re-ranking is ~6x faster with byte-identical results.
  • Swarm consensus reliability improved with 14 fixes.
  • Security hardening including MCP policy enforcement.

Bug Fixes

  • Swarm consensus now actually uses trust weights.
  • Vector search accuracy (recall) improved.
  • Hive-mind voting and joining/leaving now require capability tokens to prevent Sybil attacks.
  • MMR re-ranking tokenization optimized.
  • Swarm consensus reliability fixes (14 fixes produced by nightly pipeline).

Upgrade Notes

Direct MCP tool users must now use `hiveToken` for hive-mind operations. Swarm consensus logic has changed to utilize trust weights. Vector search configuration may need updates for HNSW product-quantization.

The Two Releases

v1.7.5

v1.7.5

Sep 14, 2026· 1 month ago

Adds `database.schemaName` support for PostgreSQL connections and fixes various database adapter issues.

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v3.42.0

v3.42.0 — Swarm, Memory & Security Reliability Batch

Sep 15, 2026· 1 month ago

A major reliability batch release featuring the actual implementation of trust weights in swarm consensus, performance improvements for vector search (HNSW product-quantization), and security hardening including MCP policy enforcement.

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