v1.0.1
Release Date
January 23, 2026
Overview
This is a major release that introduces several powerful new features along with significant performance improvements, system optimizations, and enhanced observability capabilities.
SDK
New Features
Model Service(Experimental)
Model Service References Documentation
Provides comprehensive model service capabilities, including:
- Local model server with file handler support
- Model client for seamless interaction
- Support for model request proxy
- Model selection by "type" via CLI parameters
- Concurrent initialization with SWE Agent installation
- Lock mechanisms for thread-safe operations
Sandbox Agent(Experimental)
Sandbox Agent References Documentation
Features for quickly installing Agents in ROCK's Sandbox:
- Simple Agent installation interface
- Quick integration capability with Model-Service
- Support for running multiple Agents in isolated sandbox environments
Sandbox Speedup
Sandbox Speedup References Documentation
Provides network optimization and mirror configuration capabilities for sandbox environments:
- Support for one-click APT public mirror configuration
- PIP mirror acceleration with automatic HTTP/HTTPS and trusted-host handling
- GitHub access acceleration via automated Hosts mapping
- Non-intrusive configuration focusing on source optimization without forced installation
- Strategy-based URL parsing and normalization logic
Enhancements
Environment Builder
- Added
build_remoteparameter for remote environment building - Updated timeout configurations for better control
- Enhanced file size information display in
arun's ignore_output
Performance Optimizations
- Optimized PID extraction logic using bash-compatible patterns
- Improved
arunmethod performance - Enhanced file processing related operations
API Improvements
- Added more optional variables for Run API execute operations
- Enhanced request/response handling
- Improved error reporting with file size details
- Refine error types according to exception codes in
startmethod
Bug Fixes
- Fixed PID extraction logic with bash-compatible pattern
- Corrected PIPE redirection strategy
- Fixed write cluster operation status retrieval
- Improved exception handling when service startup fails
Admin
New Features
Enhanced Observability
- Added OpenTelemetry metric cleanup for expired timelines
- Provided in-memory metric reader for test cases
- Enhanced Model Service operation logs
- Added pod into OpenTelemetry metrics basic attributes
- Added cluster level ray resource metrics(cpu and memory)
System Improvements
- Support for read-only mount paths, enhancing security
- Enhanced write cluster status retrieval
- Improved service startup exception handling
- Added sandbox standard spec and upper limit to config
- Enhanced exception handler in HTTP layer to properly propagate error codes
Enhancements
Actor System
- Refactored actor pip dependencies for better management
- Enhanced actor dependency update mechanism
- Improved actor initialization flow
- Sync resource acquirements from deployment config to ray cluster when creating actor
Image Management
- Image Mirror enhanced with retry support
- Improved image building with experiment ID tracking
- Upgraded image tag management
Bug Fixes
- Fixed write cluster operation status retrieval
- Corrected PIPE redirection strategy
- Improved exception handling when service startup fails
Global System Changes
Refactoring
- Moved
is_absolute_db_pathto database module - Removed unused API keys and cleaned up tests
- Removed redundant
DockerDeploymentConfigimports
Log Improvements
- Updated logger format for better readability
- Added
__str__and__repr__methods to Sandbox class - Prevented logger propagation in
init_logger - Added logging for CLI configuration loading
CLI Enhancements
- Added system resource limits
- Enhanced EnvHub pre-check functionality
- Improved CLI command structure and organization
Documentation
- Added comprehensive release notes
- Created ROCK & ROLL Quick Start guide
- Enhanced GitHub Actions CI workflows
- Improved Issue template for better bug reporting
- Added GitHub metrics statistics page
Testing
- Optimized test cases using in-memory metric readers
- Enhanced test coverage for new features
- Improved test loader path resolution
Known Issues
- None at this time
Contributors
Thanks to all the contributors who made this release possible!
Next Steps
- Enhance documentation and tutorials
- Further performance optimizations and bug fixes