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1.2.0 Release Notes

These notes describe the 1.2.0 - Adoption, Templates, Diagnostics, and Release Readiness package-family boundary.

In this software project, ASI means Accountable Systems Infrastructure. AsiBackbone is governance infrastructure for accountable software decision flow. It does not implement artificial superintelligence, host AI models, control robots, certify compliance, or provide production tamper-evidence by itself.

Release summary

1.2.0 is a backward-compatible minor release for the stable 1.x line. It formalizes the additive adoption, diagnostics, testing, and developer-experience surfaces added after the 1.1.x line while preserving the existing compatible API contract for current consumers.

The release centers on a clearer implementation-first path:

Host request
  -> host-selected provider registration
  -> endpoint governance metadata or explicit exclusion
  -> policy evaluation and decision receipt
  -> optional acknowledgment/capability continuation
  -> host-owned execution boundary
  -> local audit/outbox record
  -> optional provider projection

AssemblyVersion remains fixed at 1.0.0.0 for the compatible stable 1.x line. Package Version, FileVersion, and InformationalVersion move to 1.2.0.

Stable package family

The released 1.2.0 package line covers the package family below.

Package Stable role
AsiBackbone.Core Framework-neutral governance primitives: decisions, constraints, acknowledgments, audit residue, lifecycle events, capability-token abstractions, durable outbox contracts, provider-neutral emission contracts, DLP/classification policy primitives, signing-ready metadata, canonical hashing/signing seams, and verification-policy primitives.
AsiBackbone.DependencyInjection Explicit AddAsiBackbone(...) builder facade for coordinating host-selected provider registrations without making Core own infrastructure.
AsiBackbone.Storage.InMemory Non-durable in-memory storage helpers for tests, samples, local validation, lifecycle events, and outbox proof paths.
AsiBackbone.EntityFrameworkCore EF Core model configuration and host-owned persistence for audit ledger, acknowledgments, lifecycle events, and governance outbox records.
AsiBackbone.AspNetCore ASP.NET Core host adapters for actor context, request correlation, audit enrichment, HTTP result mapping, acknowledgment challenge flows, endpoint governance, development diagnostics, and hosted outbox drain integration.
AsiBackbone.Testing Test-only harness helpers for deterministic endpoint governance, policy results, capability validation, in-memory audit inspection, non-durable outbox storage, and no-signature signing seams.
AsiBackbone.Templates dotnet new templates for generating governed ASP.NET Core host scaffolds with endpoint governance, sample policies, local in-memory audit inspection, analyzers, and README guidance.
AsiBackbone.Analyzers Roslyn analyzer safety rails for governance persistence, continuation flows, and production-signing configuration mistakes.
AsiBackbone.OpenTelemetry Released OpenTelemetry governance emission provider that projects provider-neutral envelopes into .NET diagnostics.
AsiBackbone.Signing.LocalDevelopment Local-development signing and verification for tests, samples, and wiring proof paths only. Not for production key custody.
AsiBackbone.Signing.ManagedKey Managed-key signing adapter boundary. The host supplies the actual managed-key client, credentials, key operations, verification path, monitoring, and operational policy.

Future Event Hubs, Purview, Azure-specific SDK adapters, gateway, robotics, immutable-storage, external anchoring, and additional provider packages are not part of the 1.2.0 stable contract unless separately reviewed and released as stable packages.

What changed since 1.1.1

Explicit builder facade

AsiBackbone.DependencyInjection gives hosts an explicit AddAsiBackbone(...) registration facade for coordinating provider-owned registrations. The facade keeps provider registration intentional: Core does not silently register infrastructure, persistence, exporters, signing providers, or execution behavior.

Testing harness package

AsiBackbone.Testing provides test-only helpers for deterministic endpoint-governance decisions, policy-result shaping, capability validation, in-memory audit inspection, non-durable outbox storage, and no-signature signing seams. It is intended for tests and local validation, not production enforcement.

Template package

AsiBackbone.Templates adds dotnet new asibackbone-webapi scaffolding so consumers can generate a governed ASP.NET Core host from a clean directory. The template package is a developer-experience package and not a runtime dependency.

Endpoint governance diagnostics

ASP.NET Core endpoint governance now includes opt-in development diagnostics. Diagnostics are gated by explicit configuration and development-environment checks so production hosts do not accidentally expose additional governance metadata.

Analyzer hardening

The analyzer package now includes stronger guidance around local-development signing usage in production-oriented code paths. Analyzer diagnostics remain build-time guidance; they do not replace code review, runtime policy evaluation, operational controls, or security review.

Samples and reference evidence

The release adds a sample-first .NET Aspire AppHost path and reference-deployment evidence for the Plain ASP.NET Core host. These samples show wiring and validation patterns without turning Aspire, robotics, physical execution, or NetCoreApplicationTemplate into required runtime dependencies.

Documentation alignment

The documentation set now emphasizes an implementation-first adoption path, visible package selection, searchable DocFX navigation, visual governance flow diagrams, release-readiness validation, and project-governance contribution docs.

SemVer and compatibility

1.2.0 is a compatible minor release in the stable 1.x line.

Compatibility expectations:

  • existing stable 1.x consumers should be able to upgrade without required source-code changes for existing APIs;
  • additive public APIs, options, packages, diagnostics, samples, templates, and documentation are grouped under the minor release;
  • AssemblyVersion remains 1.0.0.0 for the compatible stable line;
  • package Version, FileVersion, and InformationalVersion move to 1.2.0;
  • provider packages and design pages remain separate: documentation can describe a future provider direction without implying a stable package has shipped.

Release validation posture

Before tagging v1.2.0, the release-candidate commit should pass the release-blocking validation path documented in Stable Release Validation and the 1.2.0 Release Readiness Record.

The expected release gate includes:

  • version metadata validation;
  • solution restore;
  • Release build;
  • formatting verification;
  • full solution tests;
  • DocFX build;
  • package creation;
  • generated package version validation;
  • generated NuGet metadata validation;
  • template package smoke validation;
  • external consumer smoke tests;
  • stable package integration smoke tests;
  • package artifact upload before publish.

Boundary notes

1.2.0 remains Accountable Systems Infrastructure and governance spine infrastructure, not an artificial superintelligence implementation, AI model host, robot controller, legal/compliance guarantee, production immutable ledger, or production tamper-evident storage provider.

The host application remains responsible for authentication, authorization, persistence, execution, deployment, DLP/classification scanner implementation, exporter configuration, key custody, verification policy, storage immutability, legal review, and operational accountability.

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