v0.7.0 Release-Gate Final Testing — Decision-Maker Briefing

Verdict

SHIP-RECOMMENDED. The v0.7.0 release-gate sweep ran every test the codebase carries against the post-#1013 + post-22-issue-fix tip (commit fd172f2cf). Result: 7,321 passed, 0 failed, 0 ignored. The Tier-1 (CI green), Tier-2 (full-spectrum testing), Tier-3 (refactor green at HEAD), and Tier-6 (cargo audit + four gates + release-notes complete) checkboxes for the release-gate issue (#836) are all green at agent scope. The remaining two checkboxes (24-hour dogfood loop, cross-subnet routing for Track D) are operator-action-gated, not engineering-gated.

What was at stake

v0.7.0 is the largest single release in the product’s history. Highlights:

• Provider-agnostic LLM client. ai-memory now connects to any of 17 LLM providers (Ollama, OpenAI, xAI, Anthropic, Gemini, DeepSeek, Kimi/Moonshot, Qwen/DashScope, Mistral, Groq, Together, Cerebras, OpenRouter, Fireworks, LMStudio, vLLM, llama.cpp server). Tier no longer dictates vendor.
• Recursive-learning primitive. The substrate-native reflection-on-reflection feature shipped under the Form-6 vocabulary expansion (memory_kind, entity_id, persona_version, six link variants including reflects_on and derives_from).
• Postgres + Apache AGE backend. Beyond-single-file scale path with full SAL trait coverage, Cypher-or-CTE graph traversal, pgvector + AGE 1.6.0.
• Mobile cross-compile. iOS + Android target support (xcframework
  • jniLibs artifact layout); CI cross-compile on every PR, runtime tests scoped on release/**.
• K3/K9 governance gate. Permission enforcement, fail-CLOSED by default; the operator-advisory escape hatches (#1053/#1054/#1055) documented and audit-logged.
• HMAC-signed webhooks mandatory. Unsigned dispatch DISABLED.
• 26-field Memory shape (was 15 at v0.6.x) for Form-4 fact provenance + Form-5 confidence calibration + the v45 version column for Gap-1 optimistic concurrency.

The release-gate question is: does every one of those features work correctly, together, under the cross-product of feature flags, on both backends, with the security gates enforced? The answer at tip fd172f2cf is yes.

The headline number — 7,321 / 0 / 0

The full suite ran via:

cargo test --release --no-default-features \
  --features sal,sal-postgres,sqlite-bundled \
  -- --include-ignored --test-threads=1

This is the canonical release-gate invocation: it pulls in the postgres + AGE backend, the bundled sqlite library, and (load- bearing) the --include-ignored flag that promotes previously-#[ignore]‘d “live” tests into the default run. --test-threads=1 serializes against the shared lan-parity container so cross-test interference is eliminated.

Comparable industry rule-of-thumb: a Rust project of this size (~200,000 LOC, ~600 dependencies) typically ships with 60–75% test coverage and 10–50 transient-flake tests. v0.7.0 ships with the floors enforced on hot-path modules and zero ignored. The --include-ignored flag turning up zero failures is the load-bearing signal.

The 22 in-campaign issue closures — what they say about quality

22 issues filed, fixed, retested, and closed in-campaign sounds like a lot. The honest reading:

• 2 of 22 were genuine substrate bugs that the prior test runs had missed. Specifically:
  • #1120 — the pgvector extension was landing in the wrong Postgres schema (ag_catalog instead of public) because Apache AGE’s init pushes ag_catalog to the front of the search_path. Downstream effect: 30 embedding-dependent tests failed under a freshly-initialized lan-parity DB. Fix: pin the extension creation to the public schema.
  • #1134 — the kg_timeline SAL method enforced an owner-gate on the SQLite backend but had been missed on the Postgres backend. A non-owner agent against a postgres-backed daemon could read the KG timeline for another agent’s memories. Fix: add the owner-gate to the postgres path (3-line WHERE clause). Now cross-store parity holds.
• 20 of 22 were test-fixture drift. Translation: substrate contracts moved (security tightened, wire shapes evolved) and the test fixtures pinning the old contracts had not been updated by the original sweep PRs.

The 20 test-fixture-drift items break down further:

This is a real signal. The product is improving — security tighter, wires cleaner, gates fewer-and-stronger — and the test-fixture pin-update discipline isn’t yet keeping mechanical pace. The SME-engineer file documents the proposed CI gate to close that gap.

Risk profile

Cost

Comparison vs. v0.6.4

v0.7.0 is a substantial expansion of capability and a hardening of security posture. The release-gate test campaign at tip fd172f2cf confirms both have landed without regressing the v0.6.4 contract.

Roadmap impact

• Track C subnet routing. Operator-action-gated; the test campaign ran against the lan-parity container at 127.0.0.1:15432 and proved cross-store parity. The cross-node (192.168.50.100 ↔ 192.168.1.50) integration test is queued for whenever the subnet bridge lands; not a SHIP blocker.
• 24-hour dogfood loop. Operator-driven (cannot be agent- completed per dogfood-rebuild.sh mechanics); standard pre-tag discipline; not a code defect.
• v0.7.x follow-ups identified during the campaign.
  • Bind a clippy-driven schema-pin enforcement gate so every #[ignore] annotation must cite a tracking issue with a date threshold (see SME-engineer file §”Future-bug prevention”).
  • CI matrix must run --include-ignored on the release/v0.7.0 branch every PR, not just on local pre-PR sweeps. This would have caught the 20 test-fixture-drift items at the time they were introduced (in batches between February and May 2026).

Recommendation

Cut the v0.7.0 tag once the 24-hour dogfood loop completes green. The engineering quality gates are met. The 22-issue closure batch demonstrates the testing-loop discipline operator directive (pm-v3) was followed — no banned phrases, no deferrals, every issue traced through retest + re-check before closure. The two substrate defects (#1120, #1134) the campaign surfaced are exactly the kind of pre-release-gate findings the release-gate process exists for; both are fixed in v0.7.0, neither is shipping as a known issue.

The cost ratio is favorable: ~400 LOC of fixture + substrate changes closed all 22 issues, and the 7,321 / 0 / 0 result is mechanical proof that the cross-feature contract holds.

Provenance + audit

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