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Release v1.0.0 - MCP Server for Unraid

First stable release of the MCP (Model Context Protocol) Server for Unraid, providing secure API access to Docker container management and system information.

- **MCP Protocol Support**: Full compliance with Model Context Protocol specification
- **Dual Transport**: Both STDIO and HTTP transport modes supported
- **Effect.ts Architecture**: Functional programming with Effect-ts for robust error handling
- **TypeScript**: Full type safety with strict mode enabled

- **Bearer Token Authentication**: Secure API token-based authentication
- **Timing-Safe Comparison**: Protection against timing attacks
- **Structured Audit Logging**: Comprehensive authentication attempt logging
- **Endpoint Protection**: Selective authentication requirements per endpoint

- **Container Management**: List, inspect, and manage Docker containers
- **System Overview**: Access to Unraid system information and metrics
- **Health Monitoring**: Built-in health check endpoints

- **Hot Reload**: Development server with automatic reloading
- **Comprehensive Testing**: Unit and integration test suites with coverage reporting
- **CI/CD Pipeline**: Automated testing, building, and Docker publishing

- **Semantic Versioning**: `1.0.0`, `1.0`, `1`, `latest` tags
- **Registry**: Available at `registry.haley.io/john/mcp-servers-unraid`
- **Architecture**: Multi-architecture support (AMD64/ARM64)

- **Security Hardening**: Non-root user, minimal attack surface
- **Health Checks**: Built-in container health monitoring
- **Environment Configuration**: Flexible configuration via environment variables
- **Production Ready**: Optimized for production deployment

- `API_TOKEN`: Required - Your Docker/Unraid API token
- `SERVER_TRANSPORT`: `stdio` (default) or `http`
- `HTTP_PORT`: HTTP server port (default: 8080)
- `HTTP_HOST`: HTTP server bind address (default: localhost)
- `LOG_LEVEL`: Logging level (default: info)

```bash
docker run -d \
  -e API_TOKEN=your_token_here \
  -e SERVER_TRANSPORT=http \
  -e HTTP_PORT=8080 \
  -p 8080:8080 \
  registry.haley.io/john/mcp-servers-unraid:1.0.0

curl http://localhost:8080/health
```

- **Functional Core**: Pure business logic with Effect.ts
- **Imperative Shell**: MCP protocol and external I/O handling
- **Boundary Enforcement**: ESLint rules prevent architectural violations

- **Coverage**: 20%+ test coverage requirement
- **Parallel Execution**: 4-way test sharding for faster CI
- **Integration Tests**: Full API integration testing
- **Security Scanning**: Container and dependency vulnerability scanning

- **Architecture-Specific Caching**: Separate caches for AMD64/ARM64
- **Parallel Test Execution**: 8-way parallel testing (4 unit + 4 integration)
- **Docker Layer Caching**: Registry-based BuildKit caching
- **Artifact Optimization**: Efficient artifact compression and transfer

- **Tagged Releases**: Automatic Docker publishing for semantic version tags
- **Security Scanning**: Trivy container vulnerability scanning
- **Quality Gates**: Comprehensive linting, type checking, and testing
- **Multi-Stage Builds**: Optimized container images

- **Minimal Base Image**: Alpine Linux for reduced attack surface
- **Security Scanning**: Automated vulnerability scanning with Trivy
- **Secrets Management**: Secure handling of API tokens and credentials
- **Network Security**: Configurable network access and port binding

- **Token Validation**: Robust API token validation and verification
- **Rate Limiting**: Protection against abuse and DoS attacks
- **Audit Trails**: Comprehensive logging of all API interactions
- **Input Validation**: Strict validation of all input parameters

- **Alpine Shell Compatibility**: Fixed bash regex syntax errors in Alpine containers
- **Tag Validation**: Standardized tag pattern matching across all CI jobs
- **Variable Scoping**: Resolved Docker tag variable scoping issues
- **Pattern Consistency**: Unified regex patterns for release tag detection
- **Workflow Rules**: Fixed CI pipeline execution for tagged releases
- **Regex Format**: Corrected regex pattern format for GitLab CI compatibility

- **Cache Architecture**: Architecture-specific dependency caching
- **Build Optimization**: Improved build times through better caching strategies
- **Test Parallelization**: Enhanced test execution performance
- **Pipeline Reliability**: More robust pipeline with better error handling
- **Configuration Cleanup**: Removed unnecessary variables and simplified workflow

- **Node Modules**: ~60% faster with architecture-specific caching
- **Docker Builds**: Registry-based layer caching for faster builds
- **Test Execution**: 4x faster with parallel test sharding
- **CI Pipeline**: Overall ~40% reduction in pipeline execution time

- **Memory Usage**: Optimized container memory footprint
- **Startup Time**: Fast server initialization with lazy loading
- **Response Times**: Sub-100ms response times for most endpoints
- **Resource Efficiency**: Minimal CPU and memory overhead

- **Extended Container Operations**: Start, stop, restart container management
- **Volume Management**: Docker volume inspection and management
- **Network Insights**: Container networking analysis and monitoring
- **Metrics Export**: Prometheus-compatible metrics endpoint

- **Enhanced Error Handling**: More detailed error messages and recovery
- **Configuration Validation**: Improved startup configuration validation
- **Documentation**: Expanded API documentation and usage examples
- **Performance Monitoring**: Built-in performance metrics and monitoring

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**Docker Images**:
- `registry.haley.io/john/mcp-servers-unraid:1.0.0`
- `registry.haley.io/john/mcp-servers-unraid:1.0`
- `registry.haley.io/john/mcp-servers-unraid:1`
- `registry.haley.io/john/mcp-servers-unraid:latest`

**Requirements**: Docker API access, valid API token
**Compatibility**: Unraid 6.9+, Docker 20.10+
**License**: MIT