Release conformance tooling 0.7.8

README.md

@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ Use Python 3.10 or later in a fresh environment. These commands work without a
 repository checkout, account, hosted API or another SDK:
 
 ```sh
-python -m pip install jep-core-conformance==0.7.7
+python -m pip install jep-core-conformance==0.7.8
 jep-byoi export jep-example
 jep-validate validate jep-example/vectors/J-basic.json --keys jep-example/keys.json
 ```

RELEASE-NOTES.md

@@ -1,3 +1,17 @@
+# Software 0.7.8: external implementation lifecycle and candidate checks
+
+- Add optional `jep-byoi run --state-setup` for adapters that require isolated
+  acceptance state before each test case.
+- Provide a JEP-owned bridge for the pinned independent Probity implementation;
+  its native BYOI run passes all 37 selected cases without modifying reader code.
+- Add candidate checks against the frozen agreed suite, current suite and pinned
+  reader, including deliberate source faults and changed-expectation controls.
+- Document the bridge boundary, reproducible commands and retained evidence.
+
+This is a software/tooling release. Core 0.7, frozen publications, signed vectors
+and BYOI suite bytes are unchanged. Fixture results do not imply certification
+or evidence of a real deployment.
+
 # Software 0.7.7: a direct first-use path
 
 - Start with a packaged signed sample and a four-step implementation/report path.

VERSION

@@ -1 +1 @@
-0.7.7
+0.7.8

docs/BYOI-CONFORMANCE.md

@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ or clarification requests, not permission to silently redefine Core.
 Use Python 3.10 or later in a fresh environment.
 
 ```sh
-python -m pip install jep-core-conformance==0.7.7
+python -m pip install jep-core-conformance==0.7.8
 jep-byoi export jep-example
 jep-validate validate jep-example/vectors/J-basic.json --keys jep-example/keys.json
 ```

pyproject.toml

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ build-backend = "setuptools.build_meta"
 
 [project]
 name = "jep-core-conformance"
-version = "0.7.7"
+version = "0.7.8"
 readme = "README.md"
 license = "BSD-3-Clause"
 license-files = ["LICENSE", "LICENSING.md", "licenses/*.txt"]

reference-validator/README.md

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 
 ## Current: JEP Core 0.7
 
-After installing `jep-core-conformance==0.7.7`, follow the
+After installing `jep-core-conformance==0.7.8`, follow the
 [packaged first-event example](../README.md#verify-your-first-event). For a full
 reference exchange, run `jep-byoi demo --report byoi-reference-report.json`.