aoc/RELEASE_NOTES_v1.7.16.md

AOC v1.7.16 Release Notes

Release Date: 2026-04-24

Infrastructure & Maintenance

Gitea Actions CI Fix

The CI workflow (.gitea/workflows/ci.yml) has been reworked for compatibility with Gitea Actions (act_runner):

• Removed actions/setup-python@v5 — incompatible with self-hosted Gitea (relies on GitHub's tool cache API)
• Added system Python installation via apt-get install python3 python3-venv
• Uses a virtual environment inside the job to avoid PEP 668 externally-managed-environment errors
• All steps (pip install, ruff check, ruff format, pytest) now activate the venv explicitly

Repository Cleanup

• Expanded .gitignore to cover all venv variants (.*venv*/), .ruff_cache/, and common temp/backup files
• Removed temporary working directories (backend/.venv_ci/, __pycache__/)

Files Changed

File	Change
.gitea/workflows/ci.yml	Complete rewrite for Gitea Actions compatibility
.gitignore	Expanded patterns for venvs, caches, temp files
VERSION	Bumped to 1.7.16

Test Results

• 80/80 pytest tests passing
• Ruff lint/format clean
• CI green on Gitea Actions

Docker Image

git.cqre.net/cqrenet/aoc-backend:v1.7.16