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Digital Karma Full Changelog
A fuller changelog of the major release, tooling, and standards changes that shaped Digital Karma Web.
Why This Changelog Exists
The standards page carries the short public changelog. This page goes one level deeper. It tracks version milestones, tooling updates, packaging changes, and implementation shifts that matter when maintaining AI-readable sites.
Current Release Line
| Version | Date | Status | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
8.0 | 2026-07-29 | Current | Architectural revision: shared generation engine, protocol/lifecycle metadata, retired llm.json, constellation-resolved related_sites. Not a terminology change -- a 2026-05-11 proposal to rename Federation concepts to Constellation language was considered and dropped without ever shipping. |
7.1 | 2026-04-21 | Superseded | Portable installer release with root discovery tightening and repeatable agent-upgrade workflow. |
7.0 | 2026-04-13 | Baseline | Constellation major revision with 6 required artifacts, compliance tiers, and structured topology. |
6.1 | 2026-03-30 | Legacy | Early structured AI endpoint baseline before the dedicated constellation layer matured. |
4.21 | 2025-11-23 | Archive | Voice optimization, AI-first sitemap hardening, cleaner catalog validation, and dataset auto-indexing stabilized the pre-v7 constellation stack. |
Detailed Changelog Entries
v8.0 architectural upgrade shipped portfolio-wide
Shared generation engine, protocol/lifecycle stamping, and single-sourced constellation membership rolled out to 90 of ~99 properties. llm.json retired. Real drift found and fixed on six sites along the way, most with related_sites missing the majority of real constellation siblings. See specs/federation-spec-v8.md.
Constellation audit application introduced on DigitalKarmaWeb.com
Added a public validator and upgrade planner that can audit remote public sites, generate action plans, and export downloadable upgrade packages.
v7.1 portable installer published
Published v7.1-DigitalKarma.md as the portable installer brief for repo-to-repo upgrades and aligned the authority docs around the new root placement rules.
Root discovery rule tightened
Clarified that robots.txt and sitemap.xml belong at the root and should not be relocated into /ai/.
v7.0 constellation baseline shipped
Introduced the 6 required artifacts, formal compliance tiers, constellation mapping, and the modern Digital Karma badge naming.
Entity and diagnostics patterns documented
Added /entities/ JSON-LD conventions and /ai/diagnostics.json as part of the higher-tier maturity path.
v6.1 endpoint baseline stabilized
Four core AI endpoints formed the original structured baseline before the dedicated constellation layer existed.
Digital Karma v4.21 voice optimization and AI-first constellation layer documented
Major upgrades:
- Voice Optimization Dataset Layer: Added optional
voiceHintssupport for spoken titles, summaries, primary intents, and preferred pronunciation so voice assistants and read-aloud systems can interpret content more accurately. - Auto-Clean Catalog Structure: Added catalog consistency checks, normalized naming, and dataset health validation to reduce schema drift and misclassification.
- Enhanced AI-First Sitemap Layer: Hardened
/ai/sitemap.json,/ai/catalog.json, and/ai/llm.jsonas the machine-readable index layer for AI systems. - Dataset Directory Scaffolding & Auto-Indexing: Standardized
/ai/datasets/, auto-detected dataset files, and carried version stamps plus optional checksum validation across updates.
How to Use This Changelog
Use the public Digital Karma Web Changelog page when you need the high-level release story. Use this page when you are updating older repos, tracing why a rule changed, or checking whether a project is behind in file shape, version language, or upgrade workflow.