March 7, 2026

Reliability Update: Admin Startup, Failure Reporting, and Conformance Accuracy

Reliability work is often the difference between an interesting tool and one teams will actually adopt. The 0.3.72 and 0.3.73 releases improve the first-run experience and the trustworthiness of conformance output.

Admin Workflow Improvements

mockforge serve --admin no longer panics when production auth is not configured. An auto-generated JWT secret fallback helps the admin UI work out of the box, and default users are seeded so teams can log in immediately.

Clearer Reporting

Failed checks now show individual pass/fail counts, giving users more visibility into what actually failed instead of opaque summary counts.

More Accurate Mock Behavior

MockForge now supports X-Mockforge-Response-Status so conformance checks can validate non-default response codes like 400 and 404. Object-typed properties are no longer replaced with invalid placeholder strings; object and array generation returns structured defaults instead.

Why This Matters

These reduce setup friction during evaluation, confusion when conformance checks fail, and false negatives caused by mock-generation shortcuts. That is exactly the kind of work that makes a developer tool feel dependable.