Release v0.4.0
Ethos v0.4.0
Ethos v0.4.0 is a public-beta evaluation release for deterministic document evidence grounding
and citation checking across native Ethos JSON and supported foreign parser outputs.
This release prepares:
- verification hardening for claim kinds, matching, staleness, resource limits, capability
downgrades, proof summaries, and application answer-release inputs; - additive
1.1.0verification-config, verification-report, evidence-anchor, and answer-release
contracts while retaining the supported1.0.0forms; - a versioned citation-emission JSON contract, dependency-free Python emission helpers for
LangChain and LlamaIndex-shaped retrieval objects, and model-free walkthroughs; - schema-derived TypeScript declarations for verification reports, citation emission, and
answer-release decisions in@docushell/ethos-pdf; - caller-run PDFium setup and
ethos doctorchecks. Ethos does not automatically download or
bundle PDFium.
The intended v0.4.0 release surfaces are:
- Rust library crates
ethos-doc-core,ethos-verify, andethos-pdfat0.4.0; - the Python
ethos-pdfwheel at0.4.0; - the npm
@docushell/ethos-pdf@0.4.0CLI package; - macOS arm64 and Linux x64 CLI archives with checksums, inventory sidecars, and smoke evidence.
Archive SHA256:
ethos-macos-arm64.tar.gz:719f092101bb1e4cfeebc9507155b15739642f0b891664bd0d9f8a05d9688ba5ethos-linux-x64.tar.gz:616be562306d64a293554ca4695f19deb6e135dd328e88598a80e76f6f8fb3cd
Ethos verifies citation grounding against supplied source representations. It does not establish
semantic truth, and applications remain responsible for relevance, synthesis policy, and final
answer-release decisions.
PDFium-backed commands require caller-provided PDFium through
ETHOS_PDFIUM_LIBRARY_PATH. This release does not bundle a project-maintained PDFium build.
Outside the v0.4.0 release boundary: Windows packaged artifacts, bundled/project-maintained
PDFium builds, ethos-mcp, hosted surfaces, the WASM playground, native OCR or scanned-document
support, Action Marketplace publication, public benchmark reports or comparative claims, speed,
footprint, parser-quality, table-quality, production positioning, ethos-doc, and ethos-rag.