0.5.0: track vehicles 0.5 — the hosted images API is live

Version-only bump (the alias adds no code, by design): depending on
vehicles ~> 0.5 brings Model#image/#images backed by the live
vehiclesdb.com images endpoint.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

Author: rameerez

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -1,5 +1,14 @@
 # Changelog
 
+## [0.5.0] - 2026-07-26
+
+Track `vehicles 0.5.0`: the hosted VehiclesDB **images API is live**.
+`VehiclesDB.find("vw golf").image(color: "red")` returns rendered variant
+URLs once you configure an api_key (mint one at
+vehiclesdb.com/settings/api-keys); `#images` returns the full payload.
+No changes in this repo beyond the version — the client lives inside
+`vehicles`, exactly as designed ("one codebase, two front doors").
+
 ## [0.4.1] - 2026-07-26
 
 Jump to track `vehicles ~> 0.4` (the alias mirrors the minor it wraps —

lib/vehiclesdb.rb

@@ -7,9 +7,10 @@
 # vehiclesdb.com) can `gem "vehiclesdb"` and land on the real thing, and so
 # the name is defended in the vehiclesdb-<language> SDK family.
 #
-# There is deliberately NO separate API client here: the hosted-API seam
-# lives inside `vehicles` (configure an api_key and the providers answer).
-# One codebase, two front doors.
+# There is deliberately NO separate API client here: the hosted API client
+# lives inside `vehicles` (configure an api_key and the providers answer —
+# the images endpoint is LIVE as of vehicles 0.5.0; mint a key at
+# https://vehiclesdb.com/settings/api-keys). One codebase, two front doors.
 
 require "vehicles"
 

vehiclesdb.gemspec

@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ Gem::Specification.new do |spec|
   # Tracks the `vehicles` minor it aliases (no version.rb — the alias is two
   # files; the constant VehiclesDB is Vehicles itself, so a nested VERSION
   # would collide with the real one).
-  spec.version = "0.4.1"
+  spec.version = "0.5.0"
   spec.authors = ["rameerez"]
   spec.email   = ["rubygems@rameerez.com"]
 
@@ -30,5 +30,5 @@ Gem::Specification.new do |spec|
   spec.files = ["lib/vehiclesdb.rb", "README.md", "LICENSE.txt", "CHANGELOG.md"]
   spec.require_paths = ["lib"]
 
-  spec.add_dependency "vehicles", "~> 0.4"
+  spec.add_dependency "vehicles", "~> 0.5"
 end