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Radicle 1.5.0 – Hibiscus 🌺

30.09.2025

The Radicle team is delighted to announce the release of Radicle 1.5.0 (5fea9ac0), code name Hibiscus. The Hibiscus flower tends to bloom from late spring through autumn, and can be made into a nice warming tea. So grab your cup and take a seat, while we walk through this 1.5.0 release.

This release consists of 74 commits from 7 contributors. Thanks to the following contributors for their effort in making Radicle better:

Installation

curl -sSLf https://radicle.xyz/install | sh -s -- --no-modify-path --version=1.5.0

Better Support for Bare Repositories

Some improvements to supporting bare repositories have been made for rad and git-remote-rad. For rad, the rad clone command has learned a new flag --bare, which clones the repository into a bare repository, as opposed to having a working tree (see gitrepository-layout).

git-remote-rad (our Git remote helper), also learned to better handle bare repositories, when using git push and git fetch with a rad:// remote.

For jj users, this begins to unlock being able to use jj without co-location of the Git repository. Further improvements to interoperability with jj are in progress and will be released in future versions.

Introducing the patch.branch Option

Continuing on the theme of making jj users happy, git-remote-rad can now handle the option -o patch.branch[=<name>]. When the option is passed without a name, i.e. -o patch.branch, an upstream branch will be created which is named after the patch being created – patches/<PATCH ID>. Alternatively, the <name> value is used if supplied.

This allows you to specify if you want a tracking branch (or bookmark in jj) for the patch. This means that you can avoid using rad patch checkout.

Improved rad patch show

The rad patch show command has received some love by improving its output. The Base of the patch is now always output, where before it was behind the --verbose flag.

The previous output would differentiate “updates”, where the original author creates a new revision, and “revisions”, where another author creates a revision. This could be confusing since updates are also revisions. Instead, the output shows a timeline of the root of the patch and each new revision, without any differentiation. The revision identifiers, head commit of the revision, and author are still printed as per usual.

Structured Logging

The radicle-node has learned to output structure logging using the new --log-logger structured and --log-format json option pairs. If they are not specified, then the logging will remain the same as per usual.

Deprecations in rad

It is important to note that we are now emitting deprecation and obsoletion warnings for several rad commands and options.

For rad diff, the whole command is deprecated, and git diff should be used instead. It is better to use the tools that already exist in this case.

The option rad self --nid was deprecated in favor of rad node status --only nid. The reason for this is that we will be making efforts to separate the cryptographic identity of user and node. For this case, the node will – in a future version – read the location of the secret key to use from configuration or arguments at runtime. This means that a running node is required to report the correct Node ID – and the command cannot rely on the default location, which is shared with the user.

The options rad patch review [--patch | --delete] are marked as obsolete, since their functionality never worked as intended. Reviews are something that requires more research and time to implement. These commands will likely be removed before a next major release, since their lack of functionality is confusing.

Changelog

This release contains 74 commit(s) by 7 contributor(s).

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