Release Date: January 18, 2026 Focus: Service & Monitoring Management

v0.4.2 adds 6 new service management commands that complete the optional services layer of nself. These commands provide full control over email, search, serverless functions, ML experiment tracking, and monitoring - all with smart defaults that work out of the box.

Comprehensive email service management with 16+ provider support.

Commands:

• nself email - Show current configuration
• nself email setup - Interactive setup wizard
• nself email list - List all supported providers
• nself email configure <provider> - Configure specific provider
• nself email validate - Validate configuration
• nself email check - SMTP pre-flight connection test
• nself email test [email] - Send test email
• nself email docs [provider] - Show provider documentation

Supported Providers:

• Transactional: SendGrid, Mailgun, Postmark, Amazon SES
• Marketing: Mailchimp Transactional, SparkPost
• Enterprise: Microsoft 365, Google Workspace
• Infrastructure: Mailjet, Sendinblue (Brevo), SMTP2GO
• Self-Hosted: Custom SMTP, Mailu, Mail-in-a-Box
• Development: MailPit (default), Mailhog, Mailtrap

Pre-flight Check (nself email check):

• DNS resolution verification
• TCP connectivity test
• SMTP banner response check
• TLS certificate validation

Multi-engine search with 6 backend options.

Commands:

• nself search enable <engine> - Enable search with specified engine
• nself search disable - Disable search service
• nself search status - Show current configuration
• nself search test - Test search functionality
• nself search index - Manage search indices
• nself search docs - Show engine documentation

Supported Engines:

Serverless function deployment with JavaScript and TypeScript support.

Commands:

• nself functions create <name> - Create new function
• nself functions deploy [target] - Deploy functions (local/production)
• nself functions list - List all functions
• nself functions logs [name] - View function logs
• nself functions test [name] - Test function endpoint
• nself functions delete <name> - Delete function

Function Templates:

• basic - Simple HTTP handler
• webhook - Webhook processing with signature verification
• api - REST API endpoint with CRUD operations
• scheduled - Cron-scheduled background tasks

TypeScript Support:

# Create TypeScript function
nself functions create my-api --template api --ts

# Deploy with validation
nself functions deploy validate
nself functions deploy local
nself functions deploy production

ML experiment tracking and model management integration.

Commands:

• nself mlflow enable - Enable MLflow
• nself mlflow disable - Disable MLflow
• nself mlflow status - Show configuration
• nself mlflow open - Open MLflow UI
• nself mlflow test - Test API connectivity
• nself mlflow experiments [action] - Manage experiments
• nself mlflow runs [experiment] - List experiment runs

Experiments Subcommands:

nself mlflow experiments list              # List all experiments
nself mlflow experiments create "My Exp"   # Create new experiment
nself mlflow experiments delete 1          # Delete experiment by ID

Runs Listing:

nself mlflow runs                          # List runs from default
nself mlflow runs 1                        # List runs from experiment 1
nself mlflow runs "My Experiment"          # List runs by name

Monitoring stack configuration with 3 profile levels.

Commands:

• nself metrics enable [profile] - Enable monitoring
• nself metrics disable - Disable monitoring
• nself metrics status - Show current configuration
• nself metrics profile [name] - Manage profiles
• nself metrics configure - Interactive configuration

Monitoring Profiles:

Profile Services:

• minimal: Prometheus, Grafana, cAdvisor, Node Exporter
• standard: + Loki, Promtail, Alertmanager
• full: + Tempo, Postgres Exporter, Redis Exporter

Real-time monitoring dashboards and CLI views.

Commands:

• nself monitor - Open Grafana (default)
• nself monitor dashboard - Open Grafana
• nself monitor prometheus - Open Prometheus UI
• nself monitor loki - Open Loki in Grafana Explore
• nself monitor alerts - Open Alertmanager UI
• nself monitor services - CLI service status view
• nself monitor resources - CLI resource usage view
• nself monitor logs [service] - Tail service logs

CLI Views:

# Real-time service health
nself monitor services

# Container resource usage
nself monitor resources

# Live log streaming
nself monitor logs hasura

All 6 commands are fully compatible with:

• macOS (Bash 3.2, BSD tools)
• Linux (Bash 4+, GNU tools)
• WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux)

Fixes Applied:

• Replaced all echo -e with printf for portable colored output
• Replaced all sed -i.bak with safe_sed_inline() wrapper
• Added platform-compat.sh sourcing to all commands

New test suite with 92 tests covering:

• File existence checks
• Function definition verification
• Provider/engine support validation
• Cross-platform compatibility checks (no echo -e, no Bash 4+ features)

Run Tests:

bash src/tests/unit/test-services.sh

Complete documentation for all 6 commands:

• EMAIL.md
• SEARCH.md
• FUNCTIONS.md
• MLFLOW.md
• METRICS.md
• MONITOR.md

This is a feature release with no breaking changes:

nself update

Or manually:

cd /path/to/nself
git pull origin main

All changes verified on:

• Ubuntu 22.04 (Bash 5.1, GNU tools)
• macOS (Bash 3.2, BSD tools)
• CI Pipeline (92/92 unit tests passing)

No known issues in v0.4.2.

• Database operations command (nself db)
• Backup/restore commands
• Production deployment enhancements

• Scaling commands
• Performance profiling
• Multi-environment migration

See CHANGELOG.md for complete history.