Introducing the vlayer Product Changelog – Starting with v0.3

We’re excited to share the first edition of our product changelog — a new way for us to keep you updated on what’s shipping, what’s improving, and what’s being fixed under the hood. We believe changelogs should be more than just a list of commits; they’re a window into how the product is evolving and how we’re listening to your feedback.

Why a Changelog?

As our stack becomes more robust and modular — from proof generation to browser extensions and developer tooling — we want to:

• 🧭 Provide clear visibility into what’s new and what’s changed.
  
• 🧰 Help developers and users adopt updates confidently.
  
• 🛠️ Keep our product iterative and transparent.
  
• 📣 Spark better conversations with our community.
  
  

We’ll be maintaining two release channels going forward:

• Stable: For production-grade, ready-to-use releases.
  
• Nightly: For bleeding-edge changes and faster iteration cycles.
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What’s Next?

With this changelog, we’re setting the foundation for consistent and transparent updates. Whether you’re building with us or just keeping tabs — we want this to be the easiest way to stay informed and involved.

Thanks for being part of the journey. We’re just getting started.

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[Version 0.3] – 2025-05-06 Release Candidate

This release note also includes notable features from 0.2.* released in the last two weeks.

🚀 New

• Support for parsing floats inside Prover (jsonGetFloatAsInt)
  

🛠 Improvements

• Introduce two releasing channels: Nightly and Stable
  
  • Default Stability: vlayerup and vlayer update now default to the stable channel
  • Added channel specification mode in vlayer init (stable or nightly)
  • Nightly Release Notes Integration: Automatically generate and use pre-prepared nightly GitHub release notes.
  • CI/DevOps Enhancements:
    
    • Added automatic trigger for the stable release workflow.
    • CI now deploys the browser extension as part of the stable release.
    • Added stable prod prover to Ansible CI.
  • CI workflow for PR title linting added.
    
• Extension improvements:
  
  • Better navigation flow
  • Better edge case handling‍
• Refactor & Logging:
  • Refactored web proof header parsing logic.
  • Added additional logging to the web prover service.‍
• Dependency Update:
  • Upgraded RISC0 to version 2.0.2
  • Upgraded TLSNotary to v9 ‍
• ‍Example apps improvements:
  • Fixed blockchain explorer links in example UI
  • Updated to use useChain hook for correct behavior
  • Better error handling (Introduce ErrorBoundary to all examples with UI)
  • Email example: Verify address in the subject‍
• Authorization improvements:
  • Enable JWT for the email notary 
  • JWT token not required for devnet

🐛 Fixes

• Teleport: Fixed a bug affecting execution.
  
• Example UIs: Fixed blockchain explorer links in example UI.
  
• Prover: Corrected a typo in prover deployment logic.
  
• Playwright Tests: Ensured proper uploading of Playwright tests in test releases.
  
• u64_from_be_slice Parsing: Handled edge case with leading non-zero bytes.
  
• Environment Error Formatting: Improved formatting of environment validation errors in call_server to return JSON.
  
• Web Proof Example: Updated to use useChain hook for correct behavior
  

📚 Documentation Updates

• Added vlayerup upgrade instructions
• Updated documentation for email-related behavior and validation.
• Move devnet & testnet to Introduction section
• Added quickstart guide for generating Web Proofs with custom source 
• Added section about server-side proving

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