Parthenon v1.0.8: The Research Surface Grows Up
Parthenon v1.0.8 is the release where the research surface grows up.
v1.0.7 was a platform release: the Community/Enterprise fork, AGPLv3, extension points, and the deployment plumbing underneath everything. It mattered, but it lived below the waterline. v1.0.8 comes back up to the surface researchers actually touch — and it does three substantial things at once. It gives every artifact in the library a real lifecycle. It turns a finished study into a shareable, server-persisted manuscript. And it brings the first two AI copilots into the workspace, behind a single switch an administrator controls.
More than 200 commits landed in 18 days (May 10 to May 28). This post is the engineering story behind them.