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Changelog

Release history for BitAgent. Newest first. The longer-form decision log lives in HISTORY.md at the repo root.

v1.0.0 — 2026-04-28 — First public release

The first publicly-shipped BitAgent release. Sidebar UI complete, real-data integration verified, MIT licensed, documentation site live.

  • Sidebar UI shipped (Dashboard / Library / Wants / Evidence / Settings / System tabs)
  • Real-data integration verified (3M+ torrents indexed, 325 DHT peers, full category breakdown across audiobook / ebook / movie / music / tv_show)
  • 14 doc guides + screenshots pushed
  • gekleos/bitagent on GitHub goes public, MIT licensed
  • Pages site live at https://gekleos.github.io/bitagent/

Highlights. This is the cut where BitAgent transitions from advanced tooling to a public release. The dashboard's six-tab sidebar layout, the public-quickstart compose file, and the docs site all date from this version.

v1.17.0 — 2026-04-26 — Quality evidence baseline

Production-deployed cut where the first end-to-end quality measurements were captured. Used as the reference baseline for the BEP-9 and wantbridge improvement workstreams.

  • 60 K/day classified throughput
  • 2,533 torrents/hr indexer rate
  • BEP-9 success rate 3.2% (improvements roadmap targets 8–15%)
  • TMDB-classified content; FP fix verified

Highlights. Quality numbers shipped a week of stability after the v1.1.0 features (preempt + retention + LLM stage) had time to compound on real data.

v1.1.0 — 2026-04-21 — Classifier preempt + retention + LLM stage

Four large branches landed in one cut. Defaults are conservative; live-apply flags are off. Deploy-and-observe was the explicit posture.

  • Canonical-label preempt (internal/classifier/runner_canonical.go) — short-circuits the CEL chain when a ground-truth label exists from *arr evidence. New metrics bitagent_classifier_preempt_*.
  • Retention pipeline (internal/retention) — two-layer opt-in (Enabled + EnablePurge), conservative predicate (no canonical, no evidence, > 60 days old, every source reports seeders=0). New metrics bitagent_retention_*.
  • LLM rerank stage (internal/classifier/llmstage) — fallback after CEL ErrUnmatched. Two-layer opt-in (Enabled + EnableLive). Aggressive gate chain (config → inner-unmatched → plausibility → privacy). sha256 LRU cache. Strict JSON {category, confidence} response. New metrics bitagent_classifier_llm_*.
  • Ops contract (ops/CARDS.md, ops/client.py, ops/promql.yml) — lifted the dashboard interface contract out of the core repo so the dashboard could iterate independently.

Highlights. This cut is where BitAgent diverged irreversibly from upstream — the preempt + LLM stage architecture has no upstream equivalent.

Pre-rebrand divergence

Below are the change sets that landed under the old bitmagnet name during the fork-establishment + divergence phase. Retained for context; not actionable for upgraders.

2026-04-24 — Prometheus namespace rebrand

Metric namespace migrated from bitmagnet_* to bitagent_* with a dual-emit window so legacy dashboards keep working.

  • New package internal/telemetry/dualemit provides drop-in replacements for prometheus.NewCounterVec / NewGaugeVec / NewHistogramVec and their scalar counterparts. Each constructor creates two collectors, one per namespace; every Observe / Inc / Set is teed.
  • All call sites migrated: pgstats, evidence, retention, dht/ktable, dht/server, dht/responder, dht/client, metainforequester, externalip, classifier/llmstage, classifier/runner_canonical, dhtcrawler.
  • Downstream migrated in lockstep: Grafana dashboard, PromQL ops contract, deploy README panel list.
  • dualemit.EmitLegacy defaults to true. Flipping to false ends the dual-emit window — a one-line change with no call-site touch.

Cost. ~2× map lookups + atomic increments per observation. Negligible vs the DHT socket and DB write that dominate the request path.

2026-04-24 — Rebrand: bitmagnet → bitagent

  • Go module path: github.com/bitmagnet-io/bitmagnet → github.com/gekleos/bitagent
  • Binary name: bitmagnet → bitagent
  • DHT client ID suffix on the wire: -BM0001- → -BA0001-
  • CLI app name flip
  • UPSTREAM_DIFF.md → HISTORY.md

Deliberately not changed in Phase 1. Postgres default DB name (bitmagnet), XDG config path (~/.config/bitmagnet/config.yml), and protobuf internal package name. All have separate-migration cost reasons.

2026-04-20 — Strip Angular webui + Jekyll docs

Removed the upstream-shipped Angular webui and the Jekyll-based marketing site. The dashboard moved to a separate FastAPI app; docs moved to MkDocs.

  • Deleted webui/, internal/webui/, bitmagnet.io/, graphql/ (TS client codegen).
  • internal/app/appfx/module.go no longer imports or registers webui.New.
  • Binary size: 63.4 MB → 58.0 MB.

2026-04-20 — Add pgstats Prometheus collector

  • New package internal/database/pgstats + internal/database/pgstats/pgstatsfx.
  • 14 new metrics scoped bitmagnet_postgres_* (now bitagent_postgres_*): database size, per-table size / rows-estimate / dead-tuples / autovacuum-age / analyze-age, connection-state breakdown, pgx pool utilisation.
  • Scrape-driven; 5 s per-scrape timeout.
  • Registered into the shared prometheus_collectors fx group.

2026-04-20 — Add evidence ingestor

  • New migration 00021_label_evidence.sql — label_evidence and torrent_canonical_labels tables.
  • New package internal/evidence + submodules store, sources/arrwebhook, sources/qbpoller, sources/arrpoller, evidencefx.
  • New config section evidence in configfx.
  • Exposes POST /evidence/arr/:instance webhook endpoint (shared-secret auth via X-Evidence-Token).
  • Worker registry gains evidence_qb_poller and evidence_arr_poller.
  • Metrics scoped bitmagnet_evidence_* (now bitagent_evidence_*).

Design premise. Canonical labels preempt the classifier entirely; the classifier runs only when no authoritative label exists for a given infohash. Classifier integration landed in the v1.1.0 cut.

2026-04-20 — Fork established

  • Base: commit 2b9e8ea (2025-07-01 upstream) plus all subsequent main-branch commits and tags through v0.10.0.

  • The fork is now independent. The upstream remote remains configured for ad-hoc reference (security-fix surveillance) but imports are no longer on a schedule.

Lineage

BitAgent is a 2026 fork of bitmagnet-io/bitmagnet, base commit 2b9e8ea (2025-07-01). After 9+ months of upstream dormancy, "fork" framing was no longer accurate; on 2026-04-24 the project rebranded to BitAgent and pursues an independent roadmap. The DHT primitives and core indexing engine were carried forward; everything above the classifier line is divergent.