# 2.3.0 - Maintenance Release

*Released February 19, 2026*

It is time for a periodic maintenance release, with mostly a fix to the json output, some internal library and dev tools upgrades, as well as a bunch of minor documentation improvements.

## New "stale" field in json export

Previously, json format exports in reporting module did not include whether or not Exosphere considers the host stale according to its configuration.

A "stale" boolean field has been added to both the `to_dict()` method on Host objects as well as the expected json schema. The documentation now covers this as well.

This has been a long standing oversight, since every other reporting format actively includes this information, and consumers of the json data should not have to do date math to figure out that information.

Since it is an addition to the schema, the change is backwards compatible.

## Documentation improvements

* Project README key features now cover parallelization and SSH pipelining
* Configuration docs now have better inter document links in regard to config file sections
* `uv` is now very clearly linked in Quickstart Guide, instead of being easily missed one word links
* Quickstart Guide now has better, more targeted links to specific documentation sections, as jump points
* Quickstart Guide now mentions the existence of the 'help' command (which felt like an oversight)
* The Next Steps section of the Quickstart Guide have been reorganized to better direct new users to features they might want

## What's Changed

* Add stale field to json export
* Misc Docs Fixes
