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+# FastAPI Boilerplate Changelog
+
+## Introduction
+
+The Changelog documents all notable changes to FastAPI Boilerplate, organized by version. For releases before v0.18.0, see [GitHub releases](https://github.com/benavlabs/FastAPI-boilerplate/releases).
+
+For the full narrative on each release — rationale, decisions, migration guide — see the corresponding GitHub release page.
+
+___
+
+## [0.18.0] - May 24, 2026 — The Pluggable Restructure
+
+This is the release we promised in v0.17.0; the one that tears the layout apart and rebuilds it as a real plugin system. If you've been pinned to v0.17.0 waiting for it, this is your moment.
+
+A heads-up before we go further: **the diff is enormous**; v0.17.0 → v0.18.0 is not the kind of upgrade you run `git pull` for. The Python package moved, auth changed completely, workers changed, the admin panel changed, there's a new CLI in a new workspace member. We didn't do this lightly.
+
+### Why this release is so different
+
+We didn't iterate on the v0.17.0 codebase to get here. We **rebased the project on the [fastroai-template](https://fastro.ai) structure**.
+
+fastroai-template is the production-tested template we use internally (and sell) for AI SaaS products. It's been running real apps for months and the structural choices (three-layer architecture, vertical-slice modules, server-side sessions, SQLAdmin, Taskiq, swappable infrastructure) have proven themselves under load. Reinventing all of that for FastAPI-boilerplate would have meant another six months of polish; rebasing meant we could ship the good parts on day one.
+
+The trade-off is that fastroai-template carries a lot of stuff this boilerplate's audience doesn't necessarily need: a Stripe integration, subscription/credits/entitlements modeling, AI agent orchestration, usage tracking with cost calculation, OAuth-specific provisioning for SaaS, an Astro frontend. Excellent for an AI SaaS starter, wrong for a general FastAPI boilerplate.
+
+**So this release is fastroai-template minus the SaaS/AI parts, plus a plugin system that fastroai-template doesn't have.** What's left is the structural skeleton; the parts that any FastAPI app needs and that we've watched hold up in real use:
+
+- The three-layer split (`interfaces/`, `infrastructure/`, `modules/`)
+- Vertical-slice modules (`user/`, `tier/`, `api_keys/`, `rate_limit/`)
+- Server-side sessions + CSRF, OAuth (Google wired, GitHub scaffolded)
+- SQLAdmin, Taskiq, swappable cache/session/rate-limit backends
+- The production security validator that refuses to boot with insecure defaults
+
+The new part, the one fastroai-template doesn't have, is **`bp` — a plugin-aware CLI**. fastroai-template ships everything in-tree because that's appropriate for an AI SaaS starter. FastAPI-boilerplate's whole pitch is "use what you need, drop what you don't", and that pitch only works if dropping things and adding things are first-class operations. The `bp.commands` and `bp.features` entry points are how external Python packages contribute new commands and feature generators without touching the core. Build a Stripe plugin, a Prometheus plugin, a CRUD-generator plugin, they all ship as separate packages.
+
+### If you can stay on v0.17.0, consider it
+
+For brand-new projects, v0.18.0 is the better starting point. For existing apps with significant custom code on v0.17.0, the honest answer is: **the migration path is "copy your business logic into the new structure"**, not a sed-style find-and-replace. If your fork has diverged from v0.17.0 in non-trivial ways, pinning to v0.17.0 may be the right call. We'll keep v0.17.0 around as a tag forever.
+
+For the full migration guide and per-section detail, see the [full release notes on GitHub](https://github.com/benavlabs/FastAPI-boilerplate/releases/tag/v0.18.0).
+
+---
+
+#### Added
+
+- **Three-layer architecture** by [@igorbenav](https://github.com/igorbenav)
+  - `backend/src/{interfaces,infrastructure,modules}/` split
+  - Vertical-slice modules: each domain owns its full vertical (`models`, `schemas`, `crud`, `service`, `routes`, `enums`)
+  - Modules shipped: `user`, `tier`, `api_keys`, `rate_limit`, `common`
+
+- **uv workspace split** by [@igorbenav](https://github.com/igorbenav)
+  - Workspace root with two members: `backend/` (deployable) and `cli/` (developer tool)
+  - Single shared `.venv`; prod Dockerfile only copies `backend/src/`
+  - Install with `uv sync --all-packages --all-extras` from the repo root
+
+- **`bp` CLI with plugin extension points** by [@igorbenav](https://github.com/igorbenav)
+  - `bp.commands` — external Typer sub-apps mount under the root
+  - `bp.features` — external feature generators with manifest + plan + rollback
+  - In-tree commands: `bp deploy generate {local,prod,nginx}`, `bp env gen-secret`, `bp env validate`
+  - Built-in `deploy` feature with Jinja templates for compose + nginx
+
+- **OAuth provider framework** by [@igorbenav](https://github.com/igorbenav), [@LucasQR](https://github.com/LucasQR)
+  - Google end-to-end (callback creates session, sets cookie)
+  - GitHub scaffolded with the same provider/factory shape
+  - Documentation at `docs/user-guide/authentication/`
+
+- **API keys module** by [@igorbenav](https://github.com/igorbenav)
+  - Named keys with permissions and usage limits
+  - Per-call usage recording for analytics
+  - scrypt hashing with per-row salt (CodeQL strong-KDF compliant)
+  - Lookup via indexed `key_prefix` column with constant-time verify
+
+- **Production security validator** by [@igorbenav](https://github.com/igorbenav)
+  - Startup gate that refuses to boot prod with insecure defaults
+  - Checks `SECRET_KEY`, DB credentials, CORS policy, session flags, debug mode, `CREATE_TABLES_ON_STARTUP`
+  - `bp env validate` runs the same checks against any config
+
+- **Server-side sessions** by [@igorbenav](https://github.com/igorbenav)
+  - Opaque session IDs in `HttpOnly` cookies
+  - Backed by Redis (default), Memcached, or in-memory
+  - CSRF enforced by default for state-changing endpoints
+  - Documentation at `docs/user-guide/authentication/sessions.md`
+
+- **Swappable infrastructure backends** by [@igorbenav](https://github.com/igorbenav)
+  - Cache, rate limit, session storage all behind ABCs in `*/base.py`
+  - Concrete backends in `*/backends/{redis,memcached,memory}.py`
+  - Env-selectable: `SESSION_BACKEND`, `CACHE_BACKEND`, `RATE_LIMITER_BACKEND`
+
+- **Multi-stage Dockerfile** by [@igorbenav](https://github.com/igorbenav)
+  - `dev` / `migrate` / `prod` stages from a single `backend/Dockerfile`
+  - Uses `uv export` against the lockfile for reproducible builds with hash verification
+  - Pinned uv version (`0.9.9`) for build reproducibility
+
+- **Python 3.14 dependency compatibility** by [@carlosplanchon](https://github.com/carlosplanchon)
+  - Dependency bumps that compile and run on Python 3.14
+
+- **CI workflows for the workspace** by [@igorbenav](https://github.com/igorbenav)
+  - `tests.yml`, `linting.yml`, `type-checking.yml`, `docs.yml` covering both members
+  - Least-privilege `permissions: contents: read` on all workflows (`docs.yml` additionally has `pages: write` and `id-token: write`)
+
+#### Changed
+
+- **JWT → server-side sessions** by [@igorbenav](https://github.com/igorbenav)
+  - JWT access tokens, refresh tokens, and the `token_blacklist` table removed
+  - API surface is cookie-based now; clients sending `Authorization: Bearer` are rejected
+
+- **CRUDAdmin → SQLAdmin** by [@igorbenav](https://github.com/igorbenav)
+  - Custom admin panel replaced with SQLAdmin
+  - `DataclassModelMixin` added for `MappedAsDataclass` model compatibility
+  - Env: `CRUD_ADMIN_*` removed; use `ADMIN_ENABLED` (uses main `SECRET_KEY`)
+
+- **ARQ → Taskiq** by [@igorbenav](https://github.com/igorbenav)
+  - Async-native worker stack with Redis or RabbitMQ broker
+  - Worker command: `taskiq worker infrastructure.taskiq.worker:default_broker`
+  - `DBSession` dependency injection in tasks
+
+- **MkDocs → Zensical** by [@igorbenav](https://github.com/igorbenav)
+  - Docs site generator swapped; configured via `zensical.toml`
+  - Local: `uvx zensical serve`; build: `uvx zensical build`
+  - Deploy via `.github/workflows/docs.yml` to GitHub Pages
+
+- **Settings layout** by [@igorbenav](https://github.com/igorbenav)
+  - Composed setting groups (`AuthSettings`, `CacheSettings`, `RateLimiterSettings`, etc.) in `infrastructure/config/settings.py`
+  - `get_settings()` returns the composed `Settings` instance
+  - Most env var names stable; a few moved between groups
+
+#### Security
+
+- **Dropped `python-jose` / `ecdsa`** by [@igorbenav](https://github.com/igorbenav)
+  - Removed unused `fastsecure` dep, which was pulling in `python-jose` and `ecdsa`
+  - Addresses the Minerva timing attack on P-256 in python-ecdsa (the project explicitly won't fix it; switching to `cryptography` was the upstream recommendation)
+  - `bcrypt` is now a direct dependency (was transitive via `fastsecure`)
+
+- **Bumped `idna` to 3.16** by [@igorbenav](https://github.com/igorbenav)
+  - Fixes CVE-2024-3651 bypass for crafted inputs to `idna.encode()`
+
+- **Bumped `sqladmin` to 0.26.0** by [@igorbenav](https://github.com/igorbenav)
+  - Fixes the `ajax_lookup` authorization bypass
+
+- **scrypt for API key hashing** by [@igorbenav](https://github.com/igorbenav)
+  - Per-row salt, format `scrypt$N$r$p$salt$derived`
+  - Compliance with CodeQL's strong-KDF allowlist
+  - Constant-time verify via `hmac.compare_digest`
+
+- **Workflow permissions tightened** by [@igorbenav](https://github.com/igorbenav)
+  - All CI workflows now declare explicit `permissions:` blocks
+  - Read-only on test/lint/type-check; targeted writes only where needed
+
+#### Improved
+
+- **Full documentation rewrite** by [@igorbenav](https://github.com/igorbenav), [@LucasQR](https://github.com/LucasQR), [@emiliano-gandini-outeda](https://github.com/emiliano-gandini-outeda)
+  - Every page under `docs/user-guide/` rewritten for the new structure
+  - New `docs/cli/` section: `index.md`, `commands.md`, `plugins.md`
+  - New `docs/user-guide/authentication/sessions.md`
+  - README slimmed but still self-contained
+
+- **Lint enforcement: `PLC0415`** by [@igorbenav](https://github.com/igorbenav)
+  - No deferred imports anywhere — all imports at module top
+  - Surfaced and resolved a circular import in session storage by extracting `AbstractSessionStorage` to `auth/session/base.py`
+
+- **README polish** by [@carlosplanchon](https://github.com/carlosplanchon)
+  - Installation scripts moved out of Gists into the repo
+  - DeepWiki documentation link added
+
+#### Removed
+
+- **`src/app/` layout** — replaced by `backend/src/{interfaces,infrastructure,modules}/`
+- **JWT auth + `token_blacklist` table** — replaced by server-side sessions
+- **CRUDAdmin views** — replaced by SQLAdmin
+- **ARQ workers** — replaced by Taskiq
+- **Deployment scripts** (`setup.py`, `scripts/{local_with_uvicorn,gunicorn_managing_uvicorn_workers,production_with_nginx}/`) — replaced by `bp deploy generate`
+- **`mkdocs.yml`** — replaced by `zensical.toml`
+- **Demo `posts` module** — pure demo code, not needed
+- **`backend/uv.lock`** — stale duplicate of workspace `uv.lock`
+
+#### Breaking Changes
+
+⚠️ Eight breaking changes. The migration path for forks with significant custom code is "copy your business logic into the new structure" — there is no sed-style find-and-replace.
+
+| Change | Impact | Migration |
+|---|---|---|
+| `src/app/` layout removed | Imports break at import time | Manual restructure into `modules/<name>/` |
+| JWT removed | `Authorization: Bearer` clients rejected | Switch clients to cookie auth |
+| CRUDAdmin → SQLAdmin | Custom admin views need porting | Port to `ModelView` shape |
+| ARQ → Taskiq | Workers need re-registration | Rewrite tasks as `@broker.task` async functions |
+| API key hash format | Existing keys won't validate | Users must regenerate |
+| Settings composition | Env var names mostly stable; a few moved | Diff `.env.example` |
+| Sync command | `cd backend && uv sync --extra dev` produces broken venv | Use `uv sync --all-packages --all-extras` from repo root |
+| Deployment scaffolder | `./setup.py local` removed | `uv run bp deploy generate {local,prod,nginx}` |
+
+For brand-new projects, v0.18.0 is the better starting point. For existing apps with significant custom code on v0.17.0, **pinning to v0.17.0 may be the right call** — that tag stays supported.
+
+#### New Co-Maintainers
+
+- [@carlosplanchon](https://github.com/carlosplanchon) and [@emiliano-gandini-outeda](https://github.com/emiliano-gandini-outeda) are now officially helping maintain and improve the boilerplate.
+
+**Full release notes**: https://github.com/benavlabs/FastAPI-boilerplate/releases/tag/v0.18.0
+**Full changelog**: https://github.com/benavlabs/FastAPI-boilerplate/compare/v0.17.0...v0.18.0