# 🚀 AGNTCY Dir v0.5.5 Release
We're excited to announce the release of **AGNTCY Dir v0.5.5**, a feature release that introduces OASF API validation, improves SPIFFE authentication, enhances the importer, and strengthens CI/CD workflows.
🌟 What's New
• *OASF API Validation**
- Optional validation of records against OASF API specification
- Configurable strict mode (reject vs. warn-only)
- Environment variable configuration: `OASF_API_VALIDATOR_ENABLED` and `OASF_API_VALIDATOR_STRICT_MODE`
- Disabled by default for backward compatibility
• *Importer Enhancements**
- Prioritized deduplication checker for better performance
- Checks for duplicates before processing
- Deduplication available in dry-run mode
• *SPIFFE Authentication Improvements**
- Enhanced X509-SVID retry logic for edge case timing issues
- Improved SPIFFE ID validation during certificate fetching
- Added X509Source wrapper to support TLS handshake operations
• *CI/CD & Development Workflow**
- Feature branch builds for testing changes in isolation
- Container security scanning against latest release versions
- Improved test reliability - CI now properly fails when unit tests fail
- Better build workflow with component-specific tagging
• *Developer Experience**
- Taskfile improvements with cleanup and sudo support for SPIRE
- Automated Homebrew formula updates
• *Dependencies**
- Updated `golang.org/x/crypto` from 0.43.0 to 0.45.0
- Updated `js-yaml` from 4.1.0 to 4.1.1 in SDK
What's Changed
• feat(mcp, dir/server): add OASF API validation by @ajaky in #711•
• feat(importer): prioritize dedup checker by @ajaky in #743•
• feat(dir): add workflow for building images and charts from feature branches by @tkircsi in #739•
• feat: add job to fetch latest release version for container security scan workflow by @paralta in #746•
• fix(client): fix SPIFFE X509-SVID retry logic for timing issues by @tkircsi in #741•
• fix: reusable build workflow use the component tag if presented by @tkircsi in #742•
• fix(dir): add cleanup and sudo to spire task by @arpad-csepi in #734•
• ci(dir): fail when unit test fail by @arpad-csepi in #733•
• chore: update brew formula version by @tkircsi in #738•
• chore(deps): bump golang.org/x/crypto from 0.43.0 to 0.45.0 by @dependabot in #744•
• chore(deps-dev): bump js-yaml from 4.1.0 to 4.1.1 by @dependabot in #745•