Status: 🚀 PHASE 7 STARTED
Version: 0.7.0 (from 0.6.1)
Date: January 2026
Scope: Full production-ready release preparation
System//Zero now includes enterprise-grade infrastructure:
- ✅ JWT token generation & validation
- ✅ API key management with rotation
- ✅ RBAC with role-based endpoint access
- ✅ Secure token storage and expiration
- ✅ Structured JSON logging to stdout/file
- ✅ Prometheus metrics (counters, histograms, gauges)
- ✅ Health check endpoints (
/health,/readiness) - ✅ Request tracing middleware with correlation IDs
- ✅ Performance metrics (latency, throughput, errors)
- ✅ Production Dockerfile (multi-stage, non-root user, health checks)
- ✅ docker-compose.yml with dev/prod profiles
- ✅ systemd service unit with hardening
- ✅ PM2 ecosystem config for process management
- ✅ Core config loader (
core/utils/config.py) - ✅ YAML-based settings with env var overrides
- ✅
SZ_*environment variable support - ✅ Runtime validation & caching
- ✅ Config applied to all API endpoints
- ✅ GitHub Actions lint workflow (black, flake8, mypy)
- ✅ Test matrix across Python 3.11, 3.12
- ✅ Coverage reporting with pytest-cov
- ✅ Docker image build and push to GHCR
- ✅ Release workflow for tag-triggered builds
- ✅ Rate limiting (60 req/min, 40 burst, sliding window)
- ✅ CORS configuration with allowed origins
- ✅ Request size limits (5MB default)
- ✅ Input validation on all endpoints
- ✅ Audit logging for security events
- Tests: 166 passing (91.5% code coverage)
- Quality: Black, Flake8, Mypy all green
- Hygiene: 5 backup files removed, 0 issues remaining
- Documentation: 100% docstring coverage
- Dependencies: All vetted, 1 optional update available
- All tests passing (166/166)
- Coverage >90% (currently 91.5%)
- Linting clean (black, flake8, mypy)
- Type hints comprehensive
- No deprecated code patterns
- No backup files or duplicates
- Naming conventions 100% compliant
- Module exports properly documented
- Auth/RBAC implemented and tested
- Rate limiting enforced
- Input validation in place
- No known vulnerabilities (pip audit clean)
- CORS configured
- Request size limits
- Audit logging active
- Docker image builds successfully
- docker-compose orchestration works
- systemd service unit present
- PM2 config available
- Environment config system ready
- Health checks implemented
- Structured logging implemented
- Metrics collection active
- Health endpoints responsive
- Request tracing functional
- Error tracking in place
- ARCHITECTURE.md (design patterns)
- CONVENTIONS.md (code standards)
- CODEHYGIENE.md (audit results)
- DEPLOYMENT.md (ops guide)
- SECURITY.md (security practices)
- README.md (project overview)
- All modules with docstrings
- docs/OPERATOR_GUIDE.md
- docs/DEVELOPER_GUIDE.md
- docs/PERFORMANCE.md
- GitHub Actions workflows configured
- Lint stage passing
- Test stage with matrix
- Coverage artifacts collected
- Docker build stage working
- Release workflow ready
- OpenAPI export workflow (artifact)
- Security scan workflow (Trivy FS/image)
- Locust smoke test workflow (PR checks)
Scope: Final polish for production release
Estimated: 2 weeks
-
API Documentation
- OpenAPI/Swagger schema export (scripts/export_openapi.py, /openapi.yaml)
- Interactive API explorer (/docs)
- Endpoint reference guide
-
Operator Guides
- Quick-start for Docker deployment
- Kubernetes YAML manifests
- Troubleshooting runbook
- Scaling recommendations
-
Developer Guides
- Extension development guide
- Custom detector plugins
- Testing your changes locally
- Contributing guidelines
-
Performance Baselines
- API response time baselines
- Throughput benchmarks
- Memory/CPU profiles
- Load test results
-
Release Artifacts
- Finalized CHANGELOG (Phase 6.5–6.6)
- Release notes (Phase 6 → Phase 7)
- Migration guide (if applicable)
- Known issues & workarounds
Scope: Optimize for enterprise deployments
Est. Timeline: Post-v1.0.0
- Implement connection pooling for future DB backends
- Add caching layer for template matching
- Optimize DiffEngine for 1000+ node trees
- Load testing with k6/Locust
- Auto-scaling configuration for Kubernetes
Scope: New capabilities beyond MVP
Est. Timeline: Post-v1.0.0
- Custom rule engine for drift detection
- Machine learning-based anomaly detection
- Time-series analysis for trend detection
- Automated remediation workflows
- Integration with external monitoring systems
Scope: Multi-tenant, compliance, security
Est. Timeline: Post-v1.0.0
- Multi-tenant isolation
- SAML/OIDC SSO integration
- Compliance modules (SOC2, HIPAA, PCI-DSS)
- Encryption at rest for logs/configs
- Secrets management integration (Vault)
- Finalize CHANGELOG with all Phase 6 updates
- Update ROADMAP with Phase 7 entry
- Bump version to 1.0.0 in:
-
systemzero/interface/api/server.py(APP_VERSION) -
setup.pyorpyproject.toml(if created) - Docker image tag
- GitHub release notes
-
- Run final test suite:
pytest tests/ -v --cov - Verify CI/CD workflows passing
- Manual testing in staging environment
- Create git tag:
git tag -a v1.0.0 -m "Release 1.0.0" - Push tag:
git push origin v1.0.0 - GitHub Actions release workflow triggers automatically
- Verify Docker image pushed to GHCR with tags
v1.0.0andlatest - Create GitHub Release with notes and artifacts
- Announce on project channels/documentation
- Monitor logs for errors in deployed instances
- Verify metrics and alerting working
- Confirm API endpoints responding correctly
- Check health check endpoints
- Validate rate limiting in production
- Collect user feedback
- Fix any critical bugs (patch releases)
- Document known issues
- Begin Phase 7.1 planning
- ✅ Phase 6 complete (auth, observability, deployment, config, CI/CD, security)
- ✅ 166 tests passing
- ✅ 91.5% coverage
- ✅ Code hygiene audit passing
- API documentation complete
- Operator guides available
- Performance baselines established
- Release notes finalized
- Production deployment validated
- Maintain >90% test coverage
- Keep all linting checks passing
- Zero critical security vulnerabilities
- API response time <100ms (p95)
- Throughput >1000 req/sec
- Memory usage <500MB
- CPU usage <50% (idle)
- Uptime >99.9%
- Error rate <0.1%
- MTTR <15 minutes for critical issues
- Documentation clarity >4.5/5 stars (if surveyed)
- Deployment time <10 minutes (first-time)
- Support response time <24 hours
-
Textual version: 0.58.1 (v7.0.1 available but non-blocking)
- Workaround: Dashboard UI works fine; update in next patch
-
Docker Hub availability: Currently pushing to GHCR only
- Workaround: Use
ghcr.io/saltprophet/systemzero:v1.0.0
- Workaround: Use
- Connection pooling for future DB backends
- Advanced caching for template matching
- Load testing infrastructure
Week 1: Documentation + Performance Baselines
Day 1-2: API docs, operator guides
Day 3-4: Developer guides
Day 5: Performance testing
Week 2: Release Prep + Testing
Day 1: Version bump, CHANGELOG
Day 2-3: Staging testing
Day 4: Tag release
Day 5: Monitor post-release
- Date: January 2025
- Tests: 166/166 passing ✅
- Coverage: 91.5% ✅
- Quality: All checks passing ✅
- Security: Audit clean ✅
- Documentation: Complete ✅
- Code: Ready ✅
- Infrastructure: Ready ✅
- Operations: Ready ✅
- Documentation: Ready (v0.6.1) ✅
Status: ✅ APPROVED FOR PHASE 7
Next Action: Bump version to 0.7.0, commit changes, and begin Phase 7.0 release preparation work.
Owners: SaltProphet (System//Zero Team)
Last Updated: January 2025
Target Release: Q1 2025 (v1.0.0)