Dino has one promise. Not that it finds the most problems, or runs the fastest, or covers the most ground. Its promise is that you can believe what it tells you. A QA is only worth anything if its word is good; the moment you stop trusting the report, nothing else about it matters.

That promise is harder to keep than it sounds, because something built to test other things can fail in a way most software never does: it can be wrong and still look right. It can tell you your API is fine when it never truly checked. Ordinary software fails loudly. A QA can fail in silence, and a silent failure is the worst kind, because you act on it without ever knowing there was something to doubt.

So the deepest question in building Dino was never how much it can find. It was what the word "clean" should mean when Dino says it.

Dino 0.5.0 is our answer. The release carries months of new ability: Dino can sign in almost anywhere now, test who is allowed to do what, and follow an API wherever it truly lives. But the ability is not what this release is about. It is about making honesty the thing every other part answers to.

We got there by refusing to trust our own confidence. Passing our own tests was not enough, so now, before Dino ships, it has to prove itself against the real world: the actual product run against real APIs, not a rehearsal of it. Where that proof found places Dino might have called an API clean without truly getting inside, we did not quietly close them as bugs. We treated them as the promise being tested, and held the release until the promise held.

What that leaves you is a smaller, sturdier guarantee. When Dino says your API is clean, it got in and checked. When it raises something, it is real. And when it cannot tell, because your server went quiet or turned it away, it says so, rather than guess. The rarest thing a QA can do is admit what it does not know. Most software races to claim more; a QA earns its place by never claiming more than it has actually seen.

That is what this release means. Not that Dino does more, though it does. That you can build on what it tells you.

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npm install -g @dino-hq/cli

Dino lives in your terminal and your CI.