Changelog

All notable changes, new features, architectural improvements, and deprecations in the Ginboot Framework are documented here.

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[v1.1.0] - 2026-07-29

🚀 New Features & Enhancements

1. Spring-Boot Style Declarative Configuration (ginboot.yml)

• Introduced unified YAML configuration parsing (ginboot.yml, application.yml, ginboot.yaml, application.yaml).
• Config structure supporting server, services, db, and telemetry sections.
• Access server configuration anywhere via server.Config().

2. Automatic .env Environment File Loading

• Automatically loads .env, .env.local, and .env.development files into process environment variables without needing third-party loader boilerplate in main.go.
• Added support for 4 environment variable injection syntaxes inside YAML config files:
  • ${VAR:default}
  • ${VAR}
  • env(VAR, default)
  • $VAR

3. Inter-Service Communication Layer

• Added high-level service communication methods to ginboot.Context:
  • ctx.CallService("service-name", path, payload, &response) (synchronous request-reply)
  • ctx.CallServiceAsync("service-name", path, payload) (non-blocking fire-and-forget)
• Implemented ConfigServiceResolver supporting dynamic endpoint resolution via SERVICE_<NAME>_URL environment variables and Ginboot Cloud UI environment injection.
• Automatic OpenTelemetry W3C trace context header propagation (traceparent, tracestate) across downstream service calls.

4. Live Hot-Reloading with Air (.air.toml)

• Added generic .air.toml configuration generator (EnsureAirConfig).
• Ginboot applications running in debug mode automatically ensure .air.toml is created in the project root watching .go, .yml, .yaml, and .env files for seamless live hot-reloading.

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[v1.0.0] - Initial Release

• Core controller registration system (server.RegisterController).
• Flexible handler signatures returning (ResponseDTO, error).
• OpenTelemetry instrumentation and Grafana OTLP exporting.
• MongoDB and InMemory repository generic abstractions.
• AWS S3 Storage Service integration.
• AWS Lambda serverless execution mode support.