[DISCUSS] Next release: version, timing and cadence

[Astro-Han]

0.2.0 was released on Oct 8. I'd like to agree on the next release's version, timing and cadence before anyone cuts an RC.

What has landed since 0.2.0

The 0.2.0 RC2 was cut from main on Sept 22. Since then main has gained 222 commits (compare): 40 feat, 117 fix, 11 perf, 27 refactor, the rest tests and docs.

User-visible changes include:

• Composer: resume a turn from the send slot after a manual Stop (feat(desktop): offer turn resume from the composer send slot #5904, fix(desktop): offer composer Resume after a manual Stop, drop the turn-footer resume button #5927); unchanged edit-and-resend (fix(desktop): allow unchanged edit-and-resend #5815).
• Tasks and storage: archived timestamps, cleanup by age and project, opt-in retention (feat(sessions): record when a task was archived #5884, feat(desktop): clean up archived tasks by age and project #5896, feat(storage): opt-in retention for archived tasks #5902, feat(desktop): show archived-task cleanup notices outside Settings #5961); Host storage usage and per-task sizes (feat(storage): report Host storage usage and per-task sizes #5832); context-offload space reclaim (feat(storage): reclaim context-offload SQLite free pages in Host maintenance #5855).
• WorkHub: inspect existing session conversations (feat(workhub): inspect existing session conversations #5886).
• Agent Graph output previews (feat(desktop): show Agent Graph output previews #4751); swipe navigation through session visit history (feat(desktop): navigate session visit history with horizontal swipes #5688).
• TUI: Tab and Shift+Left for queue and retract (feat(cli): replace Alt chords with Tab and Shift+Left for TUI queue and retract #5910).
• Runtime: compaction and resume fixes (fix(runtime): retry mid-turn compaction after a no_safe_completed_span miss #5792, fix(runtime): include tool_search in resume catalog #5878, fix(runtime): re-fold when a manual-compaction checkpoint is stale #5931), DeepSeek web search replay (feat(runtime): replay DeepSeek web search response items #5824), Antigravity session restore (feat(acp): restore Antigravity sessions after restart #5670).

main currently passes the shipped-dependency audit with no moderate-or-above advisories, and the Oct 9 Desktop Nightly built, signed and notarized on all platforms.

Proposal

• Version: 0.3.0. Forty new features is more than a patch release usually carries. 0.2.1 also works if people prefer to keep 0.2.x going.
• Timing: cut the RC around Oct 13–15. With the PPMC and IPMC votes, that puts the release in late October.
• Cadence: aim for roughly one release a month, so each release stays small enough to review.
• Scope: unchanged from 0.2.0. The signed source archive is the Apache release. Desktop and CLI packages are convenience artifacts and are not guaranteed for every release.

Questions

1. 0.2.1 or 0.3.0?
2. Does Oct 13–15 work, or is there something on main that should land or settle first?
3. Is a monthly cadence realistic for the release manager and the voters?
4. Mentors: when the RC is up, could you review and vote on the dev@ thread? Your votes carry over to the IPMC vote and let it close sooner.

Claude Code helped compile the change summary and draft this post. I reviewed it.