Releases & updates
Versioned milestones for the manuscript and companion site — newest first. Each release card compresses what changed; the full changelog lives in RELEASE_NOTES.md.
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Release cards
Manuscript and companion-site release notes — versioned milestones, newest first on the Updates page.
v1.0.0 — First official major release
The first official release of the manuscript. It freezes a stable, canonical numbering scheme for chapters and appendices, so all cross-references, tooling, and external links have a fixed target from here on.
v1.1.0 — Legibility, companion site, and empirical spine
A consolidation release focused on external legibility (making the framework readable and checkable by outside researchers, funders, and policy readers), a full companion website, a new institutional-histories appendix, and four empirical experiment lines that stress-test bridge cruxes.
v1.2.0 — Site publication layer, evidence index, and graded-lab v3
The companion site moves from a static mirror to a YAML-synced publication layer on towards-alignment.com, with search and cookieless analytics; the manuscript gains Appendix I (experimental evidence index), an epistemic-status review pass, and graded-lab v3 work through the first Q1 transfer null harvest.
v1.3.0 — Field news, chapter art, external transfer, and graded-lab v4
Field news ties 2026 alignment incidents to manuscript chapters; chapter-opening illustrations cover Part I–II (ch01–ch16); graded-lab v4 restructures the empirical program as independent per-bridge rigs; external transfer (ET-1 and ET-2) adds the first cross-codebase instrument runs; and the experimental evidence spine now states what the lines say about the book's chapter claims — in the manuscript, on the companion site, and in the ledgers.
v1.4.0 — Field crosswalk hub, legibility pass, and external-transfer ET-3/ET-4
Field agenda crosswalk maps 32 named agendas to MB1–MB11 on a companion Field hub; a plain-first legibility pass retires coined jargon in the manuscript and syncs Appendix E with a 152-headword inter-agenda glossary; external transfer closes the AI 2027 annex (ET-3) and ships the Secret Loyalties hackathon line (ET-4); and field-claim Lean adds finite defeaters and interface certificates without new bridge numbers.