Fluid Forge Docs Baseline: CLI 0.8.7

Release Date: May 30, 2026 Status: Superseded by 0.8.8 (supersedes 0.8.6)

Headline

0.8.7 is a schema-correctness patch: it makes contract schema fluidVersion 0.7.4 a true backward-compatible superset of 0.7.3 again. The 0.7.4 schema that shipped in 0.8.6 — introduced by the MCP "schema-minimize" refactor — silently dropped fields that 0.7.4 still advertised as fully 0.7.3-compatible, so some valid 0.7.3 contracts failed 0.7.4 validation. 0.8.7 restores every dropped field. No new schema features and no CLI surface changes.

What changed in v0.8.7

Fixed

• 0.7.4 is backward-compatible with 0.7.3 again (#162). The schema-minimize refactor that introduced fluid-schema-0.7.4.json dropped fields 0.7.4 claimed to keep. Restored:

  • top-level and per-binding governance — AWS Lake Formation admins, LF-tag definitions, principal grants, row/column filters;
  • the snowflake_view, redshift_table, redshift_serverless, and redshift_external_schema binding formats;
  • the athena, glue, and redshift runtime platforms;
  • datamesh_manager catalog registration and the opentofu deployment target.

  Every genuine 0.7.4 addition is retained — expose.mcp, the postgres platform, and the postgres_table / athena_table / glue_table binding formats.

• Stale 0.7.3 schema fallbacks no longer freeze the default (#163). Three "schema-discovery-came-up-empty" fallbacks (cli/validate.py, cli/version_cmd.py, forge/core/validation.py) and four hardcoded defaults in cli/plan.py still pointed at 0.7.3. They now derive from FluidSchemaManager.latest_bundled_version(), so the bundled-schema default tracks the newest version instead of drifting each release.

Unchanged

No new commands, flags, or schema features. The 0.8.6 surface — the MCP output-port gateway, JWT / mTLS gateway identity, the BigQuery row-access + AWS Lake Formation IAM compilers, the PostgreSQL + Athena drivers, PII / PHI redaction, and the audit webhook — carries forward as-is. Contract schema stays at fluidVersion 0.7.4.

Upgrade

pip install --upgrade "data-product-forge==0.8.7"

Contracts need no changes — both 0.7.3 and 0.7.4 contracts validate.