What changed

Release notes for the benchmark frame and the viewer that publishes it. App releases describe the whole user-facing product; dataset releases describe the scored data contract. The build checks that the newest entry in each stream matches its source version.

The entries before App 0.1.0 are retrospective, high-level summaries reconstructed from the repository history. They document explicit version bumps and may skip versions that were never committed.

App 0.1.0: 2026-08-30

The first formal product release gathers the benchmark, its research surfaces and its public viewer into one navigable application.

• The viewer is a complete reading surface. Country profiles, comparisons, capability pages, agendas, diagnostics, sources and method pages are linked through one navigation tree.
• Research is visible without being confused with scores. Brazil's institutional map and subnational reading, the thesis, evidence workflow and provisional leverage, velocity and residual layers each state their scope.
• The project is ready to be used and challenged. Contact/support paths, embeddable views, social metadata, an agent-readable contract, public feeds and a human changelog are part of the release.
• This app release publishes Dataset 4.4.0. The dataset remains the stable reference for any quoted score; this app version identifies the surrounding product release.

Dataset 4.4.0: 2026-08-29

The Trust dimension gained its first source-backed international adapter while the 52-country frame stayed fixed.

• Trust now has a source-backed adapter. The pinned Joint EVS/WVS A165 table enters the observation store as publisher-weighted data.
• Behavioural evidence remains separate. The bribery-incidence check stays visible beside Trust but remains outside scores, confidence and coverage.
• The existing 52-country frame remains the reference. No country was added and no normalization rebase was performed in this release.

Dataset 4.3.0: 2026-08-29

This release made the boundary between scored evidence and useful but non-scoring checks explicit.

• Behavioural checks became a first-class output. Bribery incidence is published beside Trust with its reason for exclusion, but does not enter a score, coverage floor or confidence calculation.
• Trust was split by evidence family. Social and institutional evidence are kept distinct, with court-case clearance recorded as a gap for future work.
• The release added fields without moving published scores. The version jump records a contract change while leaving the existing country results comparable.

Dataset 4.1.0: 2026-08-28

Coordination gained a directly observed measure of whether public budgets are executed close to plan.

• Budget execution fidelity was added as a scored indicator. The pipeline uses a distance-from-100 transform so both under-spending and over-spending count as deviation.
• The frame was rescored and the new indicator was published in the country, indicator and flat-table outputs.

Dataset 4.0.0: 2026-08-28

The benchmark expanded to a complete 52-country frame and rebased its ruler.

• Twelve Latin American countries completed the registry, bringing the published set to 52 countries and completing the region's coverage.
• Every score was restated against the new frame. Because each country helps define the normalization endpoints, this was a major, announced dataset change; old scores are not directly comparable.
• The Portuguese country reading covered the full region, alongside the viewer and method-page updates that explained the rebased frame.

Dataset 3.0.0: 2026-08-28

The scoring frame stopped treating any country as an external reference.

• All countries were scored against a ruler they helped build. Tukey fences and the 0–100 endpoints now come from the full country set in the frame.
• Every published score moved as a result, so the dataset received a major version bump.
• The panel workflow became inspectable. A second institutionalist panelist, chat-ready prompts and merged panel replies were added to the research workflow.

Dataset 2.0.0: 2026-08-27

The benchmark began withholding claims where the evidence could not support a dimension score.

• Wealth-correlated evidence was retired where diagnostics showed it was misleading, rather than allowing it to stand in for capability.
• A coverage floor was introduced. Thin dimensions publish their indicator rows, confidence, trends and evidence gaps, but no numeric dimension score.
• The viewer learned to preserve missingness honestly, leaving unsupported radar axes empty and labeling them as not measured.

Dataset 1.1.0: 2026-08-27

The first data contract was regenerated with the provenance and trend details needed to inspect a result over time.

• Trend outputs gained clamp counts and matched-basket context.
• Diagnostics gained out-of-frame and wealth-attribution fields.
• Data gaps and agenda holds became explicit published states, rather than disappearing into an empty result.

Dataset 1.0.0: 2026-08-27

The first versioned benchmark contract established the project as a published, inspectable dataset rather than only a prototype viewer.

• The benchmark model covered nine capability dimensions with equal-weight dimension scores and confidence reported separately.
• World Bank observations, evidence gaps and Delphi estimates were kept distinct, with provenance carried through the pipeline.
• The output became self-describing. A semantic version, JSON Schemas and a Frictionless Data Package were emitted alongside country, indicator and table outputs.