# Release Notes - v2.8.34

**Date**: 2026-02-02

## 📝 Executive Summary

```text
2.8.34 2026-02-02

- feat: modernize version check using `HTTP::Tiny` with robust fallback to `curl`/`wget` (PR #18 and #17).
- feat: integrate `perltidy` in `release-preflight` workflow and enforce script formatting (issue #19).
- test: add dedicated unit test `tests/test_version_regex.t` for version extraction verification.
- style: run `perltidy` on `mysqltuner.pl` to ensure code consistency.
```

## 📈 Diagnostic Growth Indicators

| Metric | Current | Progress | Status |
| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
| Total Indicators | 12 | +3 | 🚀 |
| Efficiency Checks | 0 | 0 | 🛡️ |
| Risk Detections | 2 | +1 | 🚀 |
| Information Points | 10 | +2 | 🚀 |

## 🛠️ Internal Commit History

- feat: integrate perltidy in release-preflight and format mysqltuner.pl (82f259a)
- feat(core): enable version check by default and remove verbose override (460a185)
- docs: update Changelog for PR #18 integration (10d0468)
- feat(core): modernize version check with HTTP::Tiny (eacdf15)
- chore: bump version to 2.8.34 (d419112)

## ⚙️ Technical Evolutions

*Internal logic hardening (no interface or diagnostic changes).*

## ✅ Laboratory Verification Results

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