Changelog

Public, hand-curated release notes covering the brandRNA REST API and MCP server. We summarise headline shipments — for per-commit history, follow our public GitHub mirror (forthcoming).

v1.0 — 2026-05-09

The first public-launch release. Headline shipments by phase:

• Phase 1 — Production API hardening. Async job pipeline with per-dependency /api/v1/health, sliding-window rate limiter, SSRF guard for cloud mode, scraper Cloudflare detection.
• Phase 2 — Dashboard auth. Cookie-based session, Google + email signup, gated /app/* surface.
• Phase 3 — Dashboard-minted keys + 90s onboarding. Auto-mint on first sign-in, reveal-once modal, per-key labels, atomic rotate.
• Phase 4 — Stripe billing + spending cap. Free tier (100 calls/mo), paid tier with usage-based metering, user-set monthly $-cap with 80% warning email.
• Phase 5 — Marketing site + interactive demo. Public homepage, no-auth demo widget with 5-layer abuse defence (Turnstile + per-IP quota + spend ceiling), copy across pricing / about / careers.
• Phase 6 — MCP server + OAuth 2.1. mcp.brandrna.com exposes analyze_brand and get_brand_pack to Claude Desktop, Cursor, Lovable, v0, and Bolt. Dynamic Client Registration + PKCE; per-client copy-paste setup from the dashboard.
• Phase 7 — Public docs portal. docs.brandrna.com with Quickstart, Concepts, Recipes, MCP guides, auto-generated OpenAPI reference, and full-text search.

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• Email subscription opt-in from the account dashboard.
• In-product banner for breaking changes affecting authenticated callers.

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