Release: Sean Tilley v 34.0 "Spicy Walrus"

It's been another rotation around the sun, and we here at Sean's Brain are thrilled to announce the latest 34.0 release, dubbed "Spicy Walrus".

Spicy Walrus is the result of thousands of hours of development work, careful reflection, and depressed stares into the bottom of a stiff drink. We had to steer development through a persistent stress period over the last several years, but the good news is that core maintenance has gotten us to a stable place.

New Features

🫡 Veteran Mode - Veteran Mode is an exciting refresh of system status and state management. We've retired the Active Duty framework in favor of the much more permissive IRR model. Veteran Mode brings lower performance requirements, and greatly reduced persistent operational stress, while maximizing individual happiness.

🏫 Education Module - An exciting new feature of Spicy Walrus is the inclusion of an Education System. For the next few major releases, system models will be trained on a comprehensive dataset focused on Computer Science and software engineering. The training team is starting out small, with the hopes of mastering gen ed basics before moving on to theoretical materials.

📰 News Backend - the built-in News Publisher framework has several exciting new updates, some of which are still in Beta. You can check out the latest developments here.

Bug Fixes

With this release, we've made some big improvements to system stability by reinforcing core areas, leading towards an overall higher quality of life.

✌️ Anxiety Adjustments -  We've realigned the weighting on various internal values to prioritize reactions with positive references. This fundamental reframing, with the LibSertraline and LibAdderall packages, allow for a greater level of confidence and productivity.

💎 Pressure Fix - Operation within stressful environments over a prolonged duration have revealed critical vulnerabilities. Refactoring has resulted in greater levels of resiliency with an overall reduction in system strain.

🧭 Direction Telemetry - System now offers a refreshed Roadmap framework, with clearer navigation and better response times. It's now much easier to figure out where you are, and where you want to go!

Regressions

Due to dynamic environmental changes, we had to introduce several feature regressions.  To ensure proper future functionality, we needed to reduce the scope of certain features while our developers focus on factoring in system-wide changes. Check your documentation for a full list of changes!

💤 Sleep Mode - an upstream kernel issue results in occasional failures when attempting to wake from sleep, and can lead to reduced performance output. Strangely, a lack of awareness of the system clock appears to be the primary culprit.

⏳ Automatic Scheduling - Sleep Mode issues occasionally affect the task scheduler, meaning that the system occasionally has to rely on manual init scripts submitted from the outside world. Processes occasionally hang without intervention, particularly while Game Mode is initialized.

🗑️ Garbage Collection - As a result of other regressions, it's possible for system runtimes to collect unnecessary amounts of garbage prior to cleanup. To work around this, we recommend pairing with a partner system capable of scheduling recurring cron jobs.

🤦‍♂️ Existential Dread Bug - carrying over from prior releases is the Existential Dread Bug, which emerges from a combination of operational and environmental strain, and results in reduced output, lag, and crash cycles of despair. While this bug surfaces far less often than in prior releases, the effects are worsened due to reduced alcohol and nicotine intake.

The Future

Moving forward, we will be focusing on development of Sean v 35.0. This will include a new programming environment and app distribution system, new media production capabilities, and a management framework for working with other managed systems in parallel.

Overall, we're very proud of the improvements we were able to release this year!