From b526de9bad4a6ea1d9ed56f98b93b75b8b388ade Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Penelope Yong <penelopeysm@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 26 Apr 2026 20:27:50 +0100
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] don't print messages in run_ad when verbose=false

---
 HISTORY.md           |  4 ++++
 src/test_utils/ad.jl | 16 ++++++++++------
 2 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/HISTORY.md b/HISTORY.md
index 9ef07ba41..097344f21 100644
--- a/HISTORY.md
+++ b/HISTORY.md
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+# 0.41.5
+
+Make sure that `DynamicPPL.TestUtils.AD.run_ad(...; verbose=false)` _truly_ silences all messages.
+
 # 0.41.4
 
 Improve docs (in particular, make sure that outer constructors of structs also appear in the built docs).
diff --git a/src/test_utils/ad.jl b/src/test_utils/ad.jl
index 434540cd5..40336d4fe 100644
--- a/src/test_utils/ad.jl
+++ b/src/test_utils/ad.jl
@@ -372,14 +372,18 @@ function run_ad(
     grad_time, primal_time = if benchmark
         logdensity(ldf, params)  # Warm-up
         primal_benchmark = @be logdensity($ldf, $params)
-        print("   evaluation : ")
-        show(stdout, MIME("text/plain"), median(primal_benchmark))
-        println()
+        if verbose
+            print("   evaluation : ")
+            show(stdout, MIME("text/plain"), median(primal_benchmark))
+            println()
+        end
         logdensity_and_gradient(ldf, params)  # Warm-up
         grad_benchmark = @be logdensity_and_gradient($ldf, $params)
-        print("     gradient : ")
-        show(stdout, MIME("text/plain"), median(grad_benchmark))
-        println()
+        if verbose
+            print("     gradient : ")
+            show(stdout, MIME("text/plain"), median(grad_benchmark))
+            println()
+        end
         median_primal = median(primal_benchmark).time
         median_grad = median(grad_benchmark).time
         r(f) = round(f; sigdigits=4)

From fb74f797d233e226baacbdc9122ee8e6182badf3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Penelope Yong <penelopeysm@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 26 Apr 2026 20:28:16 +0100
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] patch

---
 Project.toml | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Project.toml b/Project.toml
index 67249ccce..7572861d2 100644
--- a/Project.toml
+++ b/Project.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 name = "DynamicPPL"
 uuid = "366bfd00-2699-11ea-058f-f148b4cae6d8"
-version = "0.41.4"
+version = "0.41.5"
 
 [deps]
 ADTypes = "47edcb42-4c32-4615-8424-f2b9edc5f35b"