Release Notes

Documentation-facing release notes for public Alef users. Compiler and runtime

source stay private; this site is the public contract for learning and APIs.

2026-07-18 — AlefDocs + native maturity snapshot

Public docs project

• Progress tracker: Documentation Roadmap (foundation shipped; expansion continues)

• Canonical public documentation is AlefDocs:

github.com/mturac/alefdocs

• Live site: mturac.github.io/alefdocs
• Full write-up: What's New — July 2026

Runtime and stdlib (native alef run)

User-visible capability clusters closed and documented for the native path:

• Crypto / random: secure random, digests, HMAC-SHA256, AES, Ed25519, PBKDF2,

Blake2, ECDSA, X.509-related helpers

• Sync / concurrency: atomics, mutex patterns, once, maps, pools, barriers,

semaphores, when_all / when_any

• Time / IO: sleep, parse, mono clock, ticker; copy, read-all, limit, pipe,

multi-writer, tee, seek

• HTTP / encoding: richer HTTP surfaces, cookie helpers, base64, gob/ASN.1

related encoding work

• Archive / embed: zip/tar and embed-related helpers
• AI agents: chat, stream, tools, embeddings; jobs queue with retry and

optional SQLite persistence hooks

• Ops: SSE, auth, metrics, circuit-breaker style advanced surfaces for

native services

Install

On macOS, after installing a release binary:

codesign --force -s - ./alef
alef --version

Maturity note

Alef remains AI-native and native-first. It does not claim full Go or .NET

stdlib replacement. Prefer documented modules and tutorials over assuming

unlisted package parity.

Native-first Docs

Public examples target:

alef run main.alef

HTTP Client Result Behavior

Native HTTP client calls return Result<HttpResponse, string>:

match std.http.get("https://example.com") {
    Ok(r) => println(r.body),
    Err(e) => println("request failed: {e}"),
}

Bytecode Strict Mode

Use strict bytecode checks when validating bytecode support:

alef --strict-bytecode run main.alef