Release notes: v1.8.0

Why this release

v1.8.0 makes Akmon a practical trust runtime for AI-assisted engineering by combining policy governance, tamper-evident auditing, replay/evidence artifacts, and enforceable reliability gates into one operator workflow.

Top user-facing wins

  1. Deterministic policy controls with reusable profiles/packs (dev, staging, prod).
  2. Verifiable execution trail (akmon audit verify, akmon evidence verify).
  3. Replay metadata for forensic reproducibility in structured output.
  4. Reliability metrics exposed in run reports and evidence artifacts.
  5. CI-ready guardrails (akmon slo verify and akmon slo trend).

Migration checklist

  • Update audit parsers to AuditChainRecord (schema_version: "audit_chain.v1").
  • Update run report parsers to accept additive replay_metadata and reliability_metrics.
  • Validate evidence using evidence_schema_version.
  • Adopt policy precedence model: profile < packs < local < CLI override.

Verification checklist

akmon --yes --output json --task "run tests and summarize failures" | tee run.json
akmon audit verify .akmon/audit/<session-id>.jsonl
akmon evidence verify .akmon/evidence/<session-id>.json
akmon slo verify .akmon/evidence/<session-id>.json --strict
akmon slo trend .akmon/evidence/<session-id>.json --baseline-dir .akmon/evidence/history --window 20 --strict

Tutorials