# Release Notes - v2.8.33

**Date**: 2026-01-31

## 📝 Executive Summary

```text
2.8.33 2026-01-31

- feat: add automated validation (regex/coderef) for CLI options like `--port` and `--defaultarch`.
- feat: implement option implications (e.g., `--feature` implies `--verbose`) in metadata.
- feat: add SSL/TLS security checks for missing configuration, insecure protocols (TLSv1.0, TLSv1.1), and secure transport enforcement.
- feat: add automated detection of current session encryption status.
- feat: add observability warning and explicit recommendation when `performance_schema` is disabled.
- fix: improved cPanel/Flex detection and refined `skip-name-resolve` recommendation (issue #863).
- fix: resolve numeric comparison warnings and prevent full workstation path leakage in CLI output.
- fix: resolve contradictory key_buffer_size recommendations by adding a usage threshold to the increase recommendation (issue #774).
- test: add enhanced unit test `tests/issue_863_enhanced.t` for cPanel detection verification.
- test: add unit test `tests/cli_validation.t` for comprehensive option validation verification.
- test: add unit test `tests/ssl_tls_validation.t` for comprehensive SSL/TLS verification.
- test: add unit test `tests/pfs_observability.t` to verify `performance_schema` diagnostics.
- test: add unit test `tests/issue_774.t` to verify key_buffer_size recommendation logic.
- docs: consolidate project governance rules and resolve backwards compatibility contradiction (00_constitution.md, 03_execution_rules.md).
- style: promote session-discovered rules to Tier 04 Best Practices and reset `remembers.md`.
- docs: cleanup MongoDB and PostgreSQL references from `ROADMAP.md` and README files.
- refactor: implement metadata-driven CLI option parsing to centralize defaults, validation, and documentation.
```

## 📈 Diagnostic Growth Indicators

| Metric | Current | Progress | Status |
| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
| Total Indicators | 9 | 0 | 🛡️ |
| Efficiency Checks | 0 | 0 | 🛡️ |
| Risk Detections | 1 | 0 | 🛡️ |
| Information Points | 8 | 0 | 🛡️ |

## 🛠️ Internal Commit History

- feat: release 2.8.33 (910a3c7)
- chore: harden release governance and sync docs (ca37444)
- chore: bump version to 2.8.33 (e4e7e86)

## ⚙️ Technical Evolutions

### ➕ CLI Options Added
- `--CLOUD`
- `--CONNECTION`
- `--MISC`
- `--OUTPUT`
- `--PERFORMANCE`
- `--server-log`

### ➖ CLI Options Deprecated
- `--colstat`
- `--dbstat`
- `--idxstat`
- `--myisamstat`
- `--pfstat`
- `--plugininfo`
- `--structstat`
- `--sysstat`
- `--tbstat`

## ✅ Laboratory Verification Results

- [x] Automated TDD suite passed.
- [x] Multi-DB version laboratory execution validated.
- [x] Performance indicator delta analysis completed.
