Release notes

2.5.0 [2026-09-02]

Maintenance:

• The gear now appears as Cow Says in Flywheel.
• Recategorized the gear as a utility so it shows up in the right place in Flywheel.
• The gear now runs on a newer, more secure and lighter-weight wolfi image, with the build and run command updated to match.
• Updated the fw-gear and pytest dependencies to supported versions.

Documentation:

• Rewrote the gear description so it clearly explains what the gear does and which animals it supports.
• Added help text to the animal option so you can see what it controls when configuring the gear.
• Reformatted the contributor guides for readability.

2.4.1

Maintenance:

• Updated .gitlab-ci.yml to use the latest CI/CD

2.4.0

Maintenance:

• Updated .gitlab-ci.yml to use the latest CI/CD
• Migrate from poetry to uv for package management
• Updated CONTRIBUTING.md
• Added release_notes.md documentation
• Updated Dockerfile to run as non-root user