Changelog¶

0.2.6 - 2026-02-15¶

Frontend: Promoted the Next.js/React UI to production status, backed by the FastAPI API.
Auth + proxy model: Documented server-side auth enforcement and /api/* proxy routing for browser traffic.
New runbook: Added frontend.md with local setup, required env vars, login hash format, and build/deploy checks.
Docs alignment: Updated index, architecture, deployment, RAG, and diagrams to mark Streamlit as legacy fallback.
Navigation: Added Frontend (React) to MkDocs app navigation.

App docs: Added app.md with authoritative retrieval defaults and AUTO_PIPELINE_FROM_CHAT behavior (deployment uses =1).
Deployment: Added a full, self-contained deployment.md runbook (VPS + Dokploy + Neo4j + data + reset).
Retrieval params: Documented missing triple_retriever flags/defaults and added a retrieval params reference table.
Navigation: Replaced rag_demo.md with app.md in docs and MkDocs nav.

Rerankers: Documented the optional post-rerank MMR diversity pass (--diversify mmr, --mmr-lambda) and updated the reranker diagram.
Tests: Added a small MMR unit test to guard diversity vs. relevance behavior.
Docs polish: Clarified default MMR embedder (SentenceTransformer) and diagram bounds.

Rerankers: Added a detailed reranker guide covering inputs/outputs, provider options (HF, Cohere, FlashRank), graph-aware overlays, and logging expectations.
Benchmarks: Updated the benchmark playbook and SVG to include rerank overlays, log outputs, and the refreshed end-to-end evaluation workflow.

CLI: Added a full end-to-end Study Replication runbook (BM25, Dense, Hybrid, Hybrid+Graph) with latency logging guidance.
Reference: Clarified import rules for mkdocstrings and documented RAG modules consistently (top-level graphbuild|bm25|dense|communities, bench under rag.bench.*).
References: Curated links across data sources, retrieval/ranking (BM25, SBERT, RRF, CE, MMR), graph/communities, evaluation, and docs stack.

Docs: Added Gold pipeline, RAG overview, GraphRAG, retriever, benchmark, and demo runbooks with lineage diagrams and validation checklists.
Index: Linked Gold/RAG docs from the main landing page.
Tests: Added documentation link validator covering new pages and paths.

Docs: Updated all pages to match the current pipeline; added Silver notebook to nav; new API reference sections.
Silver: Documented media/patent canonicalization rules and io.safe_write behavior.
Unified: Documented ctunify CLI and unified schema.