Open Hardware Manager 0.8.1

Fixed

• OKH parser: OKHManifest.from_dict now accepts plain strings in making_instructions, design_files, manufacturing_files, operating_instructions, technical_specifications, and publications — converting them to DocumentRef objects with a field-appropriate DocumentationType. Previously, string items crashed with AttributeError: 'str' object has no attribute 'get', producing an opaque error in both ohm okh validate and ohm okh fix.
• OKH parser: standards_used now accepts plain strings (e.g. "CC0-1.0") in addition to dicts, coercing them to Standard(standard_title=<string>).
• Codebase: Removed ~100 redundant inline section comments (# Required fields first, # Optional fields after, etc.) from API model files; moved module-level imports that were deferred inside methods; simplified validate_input in MatchRequest from 9 repeated if x is not None branches to two list comprehensions; removed dead conditional in cleanup_service._detect_broken_links where both branches were identical; removed commented-out dead code from settings.py.

Added

• Characterization tests: 138 new unit tests covering CapabilityRule, CapabilityRuleSet, CapabilityRuleManager, CapabilityMatcher, BaseMatchingLayer utilities, DirectMatcher, and HeuristicMatcher — raising coverage on those modules from 10–42% to 78–96%.

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Docker

docker pull touchthesun/openhardwaremanager:0.8.1

Multi-arch: linux/amd64,linux/arm64

Open Hardware Manager 0.8.0

Added

• Federation MVP (opt-in): LAN peer catalog sync via HTTP (/v1/api/federation/*), mDNS discovery, follow allowlist, and anti-entropy Merkle sync. Disabled by default (OHM_FEDERATION_ENABLED=false). See federation MVP ADR.
• Release automation: GitHub Actions Release workflow validates git tags against pyproject.toml, runs pre-release tests, and publishes Docker images to Docker Hub.
• Release tooling: scripts/bump_version.py, scripts/validate_release_version.py.
• Test harness: Path-based pytest lane markers in tests/conftest.py; contract stability guardrail suite.

Changed

• Version: Application release 0.8.0 (pre-1.0 stable). Single runtime version via get_version() / pyproject.toml.
• Docker image: Built from frozen uv.lock (aligned with CI). Published as touchthesun/openhardwaremanager with tags 0.8.0, 0.8, and latest. Multi-arch manifest (linux/amd64, linux/arm64) via docker buildx.
• Dependencies: Security-pinned transitive deps (FastAPI ≥0.120, Starlette, urllib3, idna, gitpython, aiohttp); pip-audit in CI and release workflows.
• CI: Docker build-test on main push; develop branch name fixed to dev; GitHub Actions upgraded to Node.js 24–compatible action majors.

Fixed

• Contract test lane no longer runs live package-download integration tests (requires RUN_LIVE_API_TESTS=1).
• Package download route tests no longer stub matching in a way that breaks other unit tests.