chore: release v0.4.0

- look-ahead / point-in-time fixes across FRED macro, social sentiment, and the
  decision-log memory; clearer decision signals; CLI checkpoint resume; Trader
  price grounding
- GPT-5.6 / GLM-5.3 models

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -6,6 +6,63 @@ The format is based on [Keep a Changelog](https://keepachangelog.com/en/1.1.0/),
 and this project follows [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0.html).
 Breaking changes within the 0.x line are called out explicitly.
 
+## [0.4.0] — 2026-08-31
+
+Look-ahead and point-in-time fixes across the data and memory layers, clearer
+decision signals, working CLI checkpoint resume, and the GPT-5.6 / GLM-5.3 models.
+
+### Fixed
+
+- **FRED macro look-ahead.** Historical macro requests were served from today's
+  data vintage, leaking later revisions into a backtest; both the observations
+  and metadata requests now pin the vintage to the as-of date. (#1275)
+- **Social sentiment look-ahead.** StockTwits and Reddit were fetched with no
+  date, so a historical run showed today's chatter as if it were from the as-of
+  date; the social path is now trimmed to the analysis window, via one shared
+  UTC half-open window rule (`dataflows/date_window`) used by news too. (#1220)
+- **Memory point-in-time guard.** `get_past_context` returned every resolved
+  lesson regardless of the run date; each resolved entry now records the date
+  its outcome became known, and a historical run only sees lessons resolved by
+  the trade date. (#1251)
+- **Premature reflection.** A decision was settled on a partial return if a rerun
+  happened before its holding window fully traded; resolution now waits for the
+  full window. (#1169)
+- **Latest OHLCV bar dropped.** The newest bar with a NaN close was silently
+  dropped before the date cutoff, making the previous trading day look like the
+  latest; dates are normalized per element (DST- and non-US-market safe) and a
+  missing latest close raises rather than falling back. (#1201)
+- **Debate opening fabrication.** The first speaker in each debate round rebutted
+  an empty opponent response, fabricating the other side; all five debators now
+  open with their own case when no opponent has spoken. (#1176)
+- **Silent Hold.** An unparseable Portfolio Manager rating (including a fullwidth
+  colon) was coerced to a tradeable Hold; it now surfaces a `REVIEW` sentinel,
+  with `parse_rating` keeping its silent default for compatibility callers. (#1170)
+- **`--checkpoint` was a no-op on the CLI.** Checkpoint setup lived only in
+  `propagate()`; the CLI streamed the checkpointer-less graph. The lifecycle is
+  now shared, and a resume feeds `None` so LangGraph continues the interrupted
+  run instead of duplicating messages. (#1249)
+- **DeepSeek via OpenRouter.** `deepseek/<id>` fell through to default
+  capabilities and had object-form `tool_choice` forced on it; the official
+  namespace is stripped so it reuses the native DeepSeek quirks. (#1199)
+- **Trader price grounding.** The Trader saw only the digested plan; it now also
+  receives the technical market report so entry/stop levels anchor to real price
+  structure. (#1167)
+
+### Added
+
+- **Configurable output-token cap.** `max_tokens` / `TRADINGAGENTS_MAX_TOKENS`,
+  forwarded to every provider (Gemini as `max_output_tokens`), so a model that
+  emits unbounded reasoning can be bounded instead of hanging. (#1204)
+- **Latest models.** Added the GPT-5.6 family (`gpt-5.6` / `gpt-5.6-terra` /
+  `gpt-5.6-luna`) and GLM-5.3 (`glm-5.3`, `glm-5.3-flash`). The default models
+  are now `gpt-5.6` (deep) and `gpt-5.6-luna` (quick).
+
+### Contributors
+
+Thanks to everyone who reported these or sent a fix:
+
+[@PyriteResearch](https://github.com/PyriteResearch), [@yiran1268](https://github.com/yiran1268), [@fabiolenine](https://github.com/fabiolenine), [@lx7720](https://github.com/lx7720), [@taro0915](https://github.com/taro0915), [@Jaswanth-Sriram-Veturi](https://github.com/Jaswanth-Sriram-Veturi), [@ariesy](https://github.com/ariesy), [@liangzj1999](https://github.com/liangzj1999), [@zkwang616](https://github.com/zkwang616), [@aniketshukla1](https://github.com/aniketshukla1), [@loulanyue](https://github.com/loulanyue), [@hudsonwa](https://github.com/hudsonwa), [@daleselaji-dev](https://github.com/daleselaji-dev), [@wolfoswald777-crypto](https://github.com/wolfoswald777-crypto).
+
 ## [0.3.1] — 2026-07-05
 
 Correctness and stability patch: data look-ahead, graph-router crash-safety,

README.md

@@ -30,7 +30,8 @@
 # TradingAgents: Multi-Agents LLM Financial Trading Framework
 
 ## News
-- [2026-07] **TradingAgents v0.3.1** released with correctness and stability fixes: Alpha Vantage look-ahead filtering, graph-router crash-safety, graph-shape-aware checkpoint resume, working crypto sentiment sources, a configurable LLM retry budget, Bedrock API-key auth, and Claude Sonnet 5 / Fable 5 support. See [CHANGELOG.md](CHANGELOG.md) for the full list.
+- [2026-08] **TradingAgents v0.4.0** released with look-ahead / point-in-time fixes across FRED macro, social sentiment, and the decision-log memory; clearer decision signals; working CLI checkpoint resume; Trader price grounding; and the GPT-5.6 and GLM-5.3 models. See [CHANGELOG.md](CHANGELOG.md) for the full list.
+- [2026-07] **TradingAgents v0.3.1** released with correctness and stability fixes: Alpha Vantage look-ahead filtering, graph-router crash-safety, graph-shape-aware checkpoint resume, working crypto sentiment sources, a configurable LLM retry budget, Bedrock API-key auth, and Claude Sonnet 5 / Fable 5 support.
 - [2026-06] **TradingAgents v0.3.0** released with a verified data-access contract, an expanded provider registry (NVIDIA, Kimi, Groq, Mistral, Bedrock, and any OpenAI-compatible endpoint), FRED and Polymarket data vendors, a current-generation model catalog, and a CI gate.
 - [2026-05] **TradingAgents v0.2.5** released with the grounded Sentiment Analyst, GPT-5.5 etc. model coverage, Qwen/GLM/MiniMax dual-region support, `TRADINGAGENTS_*` env-var configurability with API-key auto-detection, remote Ollama support, non-US alpha benchmarks, and ticker path-traversal hardening.
 - [2026-04] **TradingAgents v0.2.4** released with structured-output agents (Research Manager, Trader, Portfolio Manager), LangGraph checkpoint resume, persistent decision log, DeepSeek/Qwen/GLM/Azure provider support, Docker, and a Windows UTF-8 encoding fix.
@@ -222,8 +223,8 @@ from tradingagents.default_config import DEFAULT_CONFIG
 
 config = DEFAULT_CONFIG.copy()
 config["llm_provider"] = "openai"        # e.g. openai, google, anthropic, deepseek, groq, ollama; openai_compatible covers any OpenAI-compatible endpoint (vLLM, LM Studio, llama.cpp, ...)
-config["deep_think_llm"] = "gpt-5.5"     # Model for complex reasoning
+config["deep_think_llm"] = "gpt-5.6"      # Model for complex reasoning
-config["quick_think_llm"] = "gpt-5.4-mini" # Model for quick tasks
+config["quick_think_llm"] = "gpt-5.6-luna" # Model for quick tasks
 config["max_debate_rounds"] = 2
 
 ta = TradingAgentsGraph(debug=True, config=config)

pyproject.toml

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ build-backend = "setuptools.build_meta"
 
 [project]
 name = "tradingagents"
-version = "0.3.1"
+version = "0.4.0"
 description = "TradingAgents: Multi-Agents LLM Financial Trading Framework"
 readme = "README.md"
 requires-python = ">=3.10"