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 | v1.5 | shipped | retrieval plumbing — composition plumbing + per-lane telemetry (#232), BM25F anchor text (#148), search-tool Bash matcher (#155), v3 federation version-vector schema (#204), v1.4 dynamic-trigger re-park (#188) |
 | v1.5.x | shipped | default-on host-driven LLM onboard classifier (#238, in v1.5.1) |
 | v1.6 | shipped | hardening + observability — hook-hardening framing-tag contract + audit log (#280, #297, #314), `aelf tail` (#321, #322), belief retention class (#290), rebuild diagnostic log (#288), posterior-ranking eval harness + heat-kernel composition (#151, #306, #310; default-flip still gated), deferred-feedback sweeper (#191, #256), v2.0 corpus public scaffold + bench-gate (#307, #311, #319, #320), `replay_full_equality` probe (#262, #304), `session_id` propagation (#192), reachable-install detection (#345) |
-| v1.7 | planned | graph signal wave + structural retrieval lane — signed Laplacian + eigenbasis (#149), heat kernel authority (#150), Plate FFT HRR primitives (#216), HRR bind/probe (#152), `uri_baki` post-rank adjuster retest (#153), benchmark-gate default-on flip (#154) |
+| v1.7 | shipped | graph signal wave + structural retrieval lane — signed Laplacian + eigenbasis (#149), heat kernel authority (#150), Plate FFT HRR primitives (#216), HRR bind/probe (#152), `uri_baki` post-rank adjuster retest (#153). BM25F anchor-text retrieval (#148) **default-on** at v1.7.0 per #154 bench evidence (+0.6650 NDCG@k uplift on the v0.1 retrieve_uplift fixture under Porter stemming). Other v1.7 components remain opt-in via `[retrieval]` flags in `.aelfrice.toml` (`use_signed_laplacian`, `use_heat_kernel`, `use_hrr_structural`) — placeholder lanes pending wiring. |
 | v2.0 | planned | feature parity with the original research line + benchmark reproducibility. v2.0's component issues land incrementally across v1.5–v1.7; final v2.0 tag is the reproducibility cut. |
 
 Per-version detail: [docs/ROADMAP.md](docs/ROADMAP.md). Open issues: [docs/LIMITATIONS.md](docs/LIMITATIONS.md).