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Changelog

  • Sensors as first-class nodes with observation history
  • Sensor-aware CLI display (observation info instead of materialization info)
  • Rust + Python hybrid architecture: a Cargo workspace (barca-core, barca-cli, barca-server) for parsing, planning, and dispatch, plus a Python package (python/barca/) for decorator stubs and the worker
  • @asset() decorator with dependency tracking, partitions, and content-addressed caching
  • @sensor() decorator for external state observation with (update_detected, output) return contract
  • @task() decorator for side-effect operations (replaces earlier @effect concept)
  • Schedule-driven reconciliation: "manual", "always", cron("...") schedules
  • Single-pass and continuous (--watch) reconcile modes
  • AST-based dependency tracing with per-function dependency cone hashing
  • Partitioned assets with worker-pool parallelism
  • Asset continuity via @asset(name="stable_name")
  • SQLite metadata store with optional Turso/libSQL remote support
  • CLI: get, run, plan, history, stats, serve, version
  • HTTP server (axum) with background scheduler
  • Test suite covering all features (Rust unit/integration tests + Python worker tests)
  • Benchmark suite comparing Barca, Prefect, and Dagster
  • Spaceflights benchmark (10-asset diamond DAG adapted from Kedro)

For the full project changelog (including this site’s own history), see CHANGELOG.md in the repository root.