NVIDIA/NeMo-Relay 0.9.0-rc.1

NeMo Relay 0.9.0 Release Candidate 1

Repository: NVIDIA/NeMo-Relay

Tag: 0.9.0-rc.1

Published: 2026-09-11T03:11:01Z

Prerelease: yes

Release notes:

What's Changed

💥 Breaking Changes

• feat!: make context propagation opt-out by @AnuradhaKaruppiah in https://github.com/NVIDIA/NeMo-Relay/pull/959
• refactor!: centralize dynamic plugin validation and host APIs by @willkill07 in https://github.com/NVIDIA/NeMo-Relay/pull/943
• fix(observability)!: enrich OTEL tool projections and secure trace exports by @bbednarski9 in https://github.com/NVIDIA/NeMo-Relay/pull/1032
• feat!: expose tool_call_id through ToolExecutionContext by @ericevans-nv in https://github.com/NVIDIA/NeMo-Relay/pull/1029

✨ New Features

• feat(adaptive): add logical response cache keys by @zhongxuanwang-nv in https://github.com/NVIDIA/NeMo-Relay/pull/818
• feat(langgraph): manage standalone ToolNode calls by @willkill07 in https://github.com/NVIDIA/NeMo-Relay/pull/902
• feat: add gateway lifecycle controls by @willkill07 in https://github.com/NVIDIA/NeMo-Relay/pull/947
• feat(cli): add pi as a supported coding agent by @yczhang-nv in https://github.com/NVIDIA/NeMo-Relay/pull/804
• feat(cli): forward launched pi model calls to named upstreams by @yczhang-nv in https://github.com/NVIDIA/NeMo-Relay/pull/977
• feat(cli): add high-performance daemon architecture by @willkill07 in https://github.com/NVIDIA/NeMo-Relay/pull/1000
• feat: report resolved plugin configuration by @willkill07 in https://github.com/NVIDIA/NeMo-Relay/pull/1025
• feat: add safe CLI script uninstallers by @bbednarski9 in https://github.com/NVIDIA/NeMo-Relay/pull/1008
• feat(daemon): use WebSocket sessions for daemon control by @willkill07 in https://github.com/NVIDIA/NeMo-Relay/pull/1020

⚡ Improvements

• enhancement: add environment-backed exporter headers to direct APIs by @ericevans-nv in https://github.com/NVIDIA/NeMo-Relay/pull/901
• enhancement(pii): allow bounded metric string attributes by @mnajafian-nv in https://github.com/NVIDIA/NeMo-Relay/pull/920
• enhancement: add typed editor configuration metadata by @willkill07 in https://github.com/NVIDIA/NeMo-Relay/pull/922
• enhancement: add PII target path globs by @bbednarski9 in https://github.com/NVIDIA/NeMo-Relay/pull/924
• enhancement(observability): promote metadata to OTLP resources by @willkill07 in https://github.com/NVIDIA/NeMo-Relay/pull/933
• refactor(cli): resolve Sonar findings by @willkill07 in https://github.com/NVIDIA/NeMo-Relay/pull/1018

🐛 Bug Fixes

• fix: initialize builtins before dynamic plugins by @willkill07 in https://github.com/NVIDIA/NeMo-Relay/pull/916
• fix: preserve log severity during trajectory redaction by @mnajafian-nv in https://github.com/NVIDIA/NeMo-Relay/pull/919
• fix: make worker and native plugin gates callback-based by @willkill07 in https://github.com/NVIDIA/NeMo-Relay/pull/917
• fix: activate static plugins before dynamic loading by @mnajafian-nv in https://github.com/NVIDIA/NeMo-Relay/pull/929
• fix: harden security boundaries without API changes by @willkill07 in https://github.com/NVIDIA/NeMo-Relay/pull/934
• fix: support stderr opt-out in CLI config by @willkill07 in https://github.com/NVIDIA/NeMo-Relay/pull/940
• fix: preserve ATIF metadata across interleaved LLM ends by @owenniles in https://github.com/NVIDIA/NeMo-Relay/pull/938
• fix(uninstall): add forced coding-agent cleanup by @willkill07 in https://github.com/NVIDIA/NeMo-Relay/pull/942
• fix: refresh managed integrations after Relay upgrade by @willkill07 in https://github.com/NVIDIA/NeMo-Relay/pull/953
• fix: sync Cargo workspace version with ref_name in package-python by @bbednarski9 in https://github.com/NVIDIA/NeMo-Relay/pull/960
• fix(install): recover from orphaned plugin state in install, uninstall, and refresh by @bbednarski9 in https://github.com/NVIDIA/NeMo-Relay/pull/965
• fix(codex): resolve the relay binary the same way when writing and validating hooks by @bbednarski9 in https://github.com/NVIDIA/NeMo-Relay/pull/966
• fix: recover unhealthy managed MCP gateways by @willkill07 in https://github.com/NVIDIA/NeMo-Relay/pull/971
• fix(cli): keep Codex routing in exec scope by @ventali-fleet in https://github.com/NVIDIA/NeMo-Relay/pull/951
• fix: normalize Windows marketplace paths for host CLIs by @willkill07 in https://github.com/NVIDIA/NeMo-Relay/pull/982
• fix: preserve LangChain message boundaries by @ericevans-nv in https://github.com/NVIDIA/NeMo-Relay/pull/984
• fix(cli): preserve Pi tool-result text by @afourniernv in https://github.com/NVIDIA/NeMo-Relay/pull/987
• fix(cli): reuse MCP gateways across configuration changes by @willkill07 in https://github.com/NVIDIA/NeMo-Relay/pull/981
• fix: harden PII redaction safety by @willkill07 in https://github.com/NVIDIA/NeMo-Relay/pull/978
• fix: drain adaptive telemetry during shutdown by @willkill07 in https://github.com/NVIDIA/NeMo-Relay/pull/979
• fix: address Sonar findings by @willkill07 in https://github.com/NVIDIA/NeMo-Relay/pull/986
• fix(cli): tolerate dangling Codex marketplace registration by @sara-tadayon-nv in https://github.com/NVIDIA/NeMo-Relay/pull/993
• fix: force Codex Responses fallback to HTTP by @willkill07 in https://github.com/NVIDIA/NeMo-Relay/pull/994
• fix: preserve Anthropic usage across stream events by @mnajafian-nv in https://github.com/NVIDIA/NeMo-Relay/pull/996
• fix: normalize Anthropic v1 upstream paths by @bbednarski9 in https://github.com/NVIDIA/NeMo-Relay/pull/1010
• fix: use private files for generated hook commands by @willkill07 in https://github.com/NVIDIA/NeMo-Relay/pull/939
• fix(cli): recover dangling Codex marketplace registrations with --force by @sara-tadayon-nv in https://github.com/NVIDIA/NeMo-Relay/pull/1007
• fix: keep Relay headers out of LangChain models that reject extra_headers by @fede-kamel in https://github.com/NVIDIA/NeMo-Relay/pull/1012
• fix: harden trajectory context redaction by @bbednarski9 in https://github.com/NVIDIA/NeMo-Relay/pull/991
• fix: preserve Codex automation tool outputs by @willkill07 in https://github.com/NVIDIA/NeMo-Relay/pull/1016
• fix: prevent URL masks from retaining credentials by @afourniernv in https://github.com/NVIDIA/NeMo-Relay/pull/1015
• fix: preserve OTLP root spans for local scopes by @willkill07 in https://github.com/NVIDIA/NeMo-Relay/pull/1022
• fix: clarify dynamic-plugin attestation defaults by @willkill07 in https://github.com/NVIDIA/NeMo-Relay/pull/1023
• fix: preserve requests with overlapping PII paths by...