# Release Notes

All notable changes to **`SeroVerse`** and the SeroVerse ecosystem are documented on this page. This project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](<https://semver.org/>) and the [Keep a Changelog](<https://keepachangelog.com/en/1.1.0/>) specification.

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### Added

- **Structure-of-Arrays &amp; Graph Core (`seroverse.core`)**:
- `BatchedContainer` and `RaggedArrayContainer` zero-copy memory protocols (`seroverse.core.collections`).
- `Intervals` (`seroverse.core.interval`) and `GenomeAssembly` (`seroverse.core.genome`, `seroverse.core.io.fasta`).
- 2-bit DNA/RNA (`Alphabet.DNA`) and `MMSEQS12` reduced amino-acid alphabets with ragged translation across NCBI translation tables (`seroverse.core.seq.alphabet`).
- `RandstrobeIndex` (\\(O(1)\\) strobemer seeding) and `FracMinHashIndex` k-mer indices (`seroverse.core.seq.kmers`).
- Vectorized unbanded/banded Smith-Waterman-Gotoh local and semi-global alignment (`PairwiseAligner` in `seroverse.core.seq.pairwise`).
- Hybrid sequence + motif-rescued protein clustering (`Clusterer` supporting greedy incremental and sparse Markov Clustering `MCL` modes in `seroverse.core.seq.clustering`).
- Packed CSR directed multigraphs (`Graph`, `Graphs`), Consensus Pan-Graph compression (`GraphBatch.as_pan_graph`), Hungarian + L2-QP `GraphAligner`, branch-and-bound `maximum_spanning_arborescence`, `RelationalMPNN`, and Fruchterman-Reingold `LayoutEngine` (`seroverse.core.graph`).
- **Async Repository &amp; Metadata Clients (`seroverse.client`)**:
- Async token-bucket rate-limited HTTP client (`Client`) and `msgspec` cassette serialization (`cassette_context`, `encode_msgpack`, `decode_msgpack`, `load_msgpack`, `save_msgpack` in `seroverse.client.base`).
- `NCBIClient` (`seroverse.client.ncbi`), `ENAClient` (`seroverse.client.ena`), `BacDiveClient` &amp; `StrainInfoClient` (`seroverse.client.dsmz`), and `PathogenwatchBaseClient` (`seroverse.client.pathogenwatch`).
- **Unified Ecosystem Documentation**:
- Unified Zensical documentation hub for `SeroVerse`, `SeroRef`, `KBank`, `SeroGen`, and `SeroEpi` with organization-wide GitHub Discussions announcements and Giscus comments.