2025.12.12 - 2025-12-18

🚀 Features

• (backend) add version timestamps for spm, conda, and gem backends by @jdx in #7383
• (backend) add security features to github backend by @jdx in #7387
• (ruby) add GitHub attestation verification for precompiled binaries by @jdx in #7382

🐛 Bug Fixes

• (aqua) improve security feature detection by @jdx in #7385
• (github) use version_prefix when fetching release for SLSA verification by @jdx in #7391

🚜 Refactor

• (vfox) remove submodules, embed plugins directly by @jdx in #7389

🧪 Testing

• (registry) add final ci job as merge gate by @jdx in #7390
• split unit job to speed up macOS CI by @jdx in #7388