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 ### News
 
+- **2026-07-16**: v0.0.4 released — protocol-driven recovery coordinator with budget-constrained strategies, unified error classification, checkpoint-based cross-turn resumption, structured audit trail, and tool execution idempotency ledger.
 - **2026-07-15**: v0.0.3 released — layered YAML config, Path/Profile/Cache layouts, encrypted secret refs, DuckDB cache indexing, `leap config`, and robustness hardening.
 - **2026-07-15**: v0.0.2 released — TUI, Gateway/App Connector, Hub sync, Scheduler, Workflow Copilot, and runtime hardening.
 - **2025-06-30**: LeapFlow Preview released — initial public release with record & replay, multi-modal signal fusion, and Workflow Copilot.