The Partner Center submission API has no call that releases a held
(Manual) submission, and update refuses a committed one, so the release
step's PUT and re-commit could not work. The publication pass now only
reads the submission: a certified one prints a GitHub warning to click
Publish now in Partner Center, one still in certification says what comes
next, a live one is a no-op, and a failed one leaves the run red.
It finds the held submission through pendingApplicationSubmission on the
app, instead of posting a probe submission and scraping an id out of the
409 error. The HTTP runner also sends the request headers it is given:
before, every API call after the token went out without Authorization.
transitions splits into one job per receipt (darwin-arm64, darwin-x64,
win32-bundle), and each packaged install job waits only on its own. The
Mac install arms no longer wait for the other arch or for the smokes.
candidate-manifest moves into stable-release.yml and waits for every
candidate call, so it still runs after every smoke (decision 23). The
smoke results it records are the calls' own results, mapped to the smoke
job names the final manifest requires. publish-bundles and complete read
its digest again, which the per-group split had left unset.
read_manifest resolves its opener per call instead of binding
urllib.request.urlopen as an import-time default, so the process trust
setup applies. The receipt fixtures gain the runner's RUNNER_TEMP and the
baseline's macOS identity.
Stable now calls the desktop bundle workflow once per build group, and
each Mac arch and the Windows bundle assembly stage a <group>-receipt.json
into its attempt archive before the group's smoke runs. The receipts let
the next commit start each install arm from its own group's bytes.
publish-bundles and complete temporarily lose their candidate-manifest
digest source; the next commit moves that job into stable-release.yml and
wires the digest back.
builds-pending ran whenever termux_only was false. The jobs input turned
that into 'termux is selected', so a desktop-only run skipped the pending
page and a termux-only run wrote one that builds-table never finalizes.
Admission now emits all-jobs from the same parser, and builds-pending,
builds-table and commit-builds-summary gate on it.
termux_only is replaced by jobs=termux. smoke-win32-universal is removed: the per-arch MSIX smokes cover each arch, and stable's install arms install the msixbundle on both arches.
validate_receipt no longer requires smoke results: receipts are staged right after the bytes and before the smokes run (decision 11), so only the final manifest (validate_candidates) still requires every SMOKE_JOBS result.
The green run no longer lets the Store go live on its own: stable-store
deletes any in-flight submission, uploads the verified msixbundle as a
draft (msstore publish --noCommit), sets targetPublishMode to Manual via
msstore submission get/update, and commits with msstore submission
publish. The publication pass releases it from sequencer production_advance
(after the feeds and Docker aliases move) through the Partner Center
submission REST API with the same MS_STORE_* credentials: it finds the
in-flight submission, and rewrites it with targetPublishMode Immediate and
commits, so a certified (status Release) submission goes live now and one
still in certification goes live when certification passes. Both calls act
on the submission's current state and are safe to rerun; a failed Store
call leaves the run red. The Store product id is optional in the
publication environment, so runs without Store credentials skip the step.
Each install arm starts from its own receipt, so stable must accept a
manifest that covers only one arch or the Windows bundle. The per-row
checks move into one helper shared by validate_candidates and the new
validate_receipt, and the per-target transition logic into one helper
shared by plan_transitions and plan_receipt_transitions. The full
manifest still has to cover every desktop target.
Stable archives live under the attempt ref, but channel records only
carried releaseTag, so the protected prefix check rejected the bytes the
pipeline actually writes. An optional archiveRef on the request names the
attempt archive; validators and readers use it for the releases/tag/
prefix and fall back to releaseTag, which fails closed for stable
records without it. Canary records never write the field.
gh api --field reads a value that starts with @ as a file and converts
true, false and integers. Generated notes can open with an @mention, so
the body goes through --raw-field like the other string fields.
Nobody should publish a stable release from the GitHub UI, and once
immutable releases land that mistake is permanent: the release stays on
the attempt ref with no receipt tag, no feed move, and no alias move.
The draft now carries a fenced caution above and below the generated
notes, and publish strips both fences before the release goes public,
refusing an unbalanced fence. The notes are fetched from the API and
written to a file because --generate-notes cannot place text below the
notes.
The final tag is the custody receipt of one publication pass: publish
hashes the candidate manifest from the attempt archive (nothing records
the digest earlier), resolves the image digest from the attempt-ref tag,
and binds both with the claim and archive path into v{version}. The
draft is retargeted onto the receipt tag and stripped while it is still
a draft, and only then does a final, separate call make it public —
immutable releases take no edits afterwards. The needs_retarget recovery
reruns exactly that draft edit; a public release can never be repaired.
The stable/latest Docker aliases move onto the attempt's image in the
same pass as the feed pointers, and no bytes are copied to a v-tag path.
The sequencer and the release entrypoint each carried their own copy of
what makes an attempt outstanding, and discover still read the old
vX.Y.Z-rc claim shape. One pure predicate in versioning now answers it
for both, and the sequencer lists receipt tags, attempt refs, and
abandon markers, filtering each through its parser. An attempt is
burned by its marker, published by its final tag, and green only with
its draft and a succeeded workflow; more than one outstanding attempt
across all versions is refused.
The archive readers already keyed every object on releases/tag/<attempt>;
the writers still keyed them on the plain payload tag, so a stable run
wrote releases/tag/vX.Y.Z/ while publish read releases/tag/rc.N-vX.Y.Z/
and found nothing. Derive one archive ref at admission (validate emits
archive-tag, jobs export HERMES_ARCHIVE_TAG) and use it at every writer
and reader of a releases/tag/<x>/ key in the stable path. The plain
vX.Y.Z keeps naming the payload identity: build stamps, package
versions, feed versions, and GitHub release bodies. Canary and channel
builds keep archive == payload tag, so their keys are unchanged.
Hand-installed attempt builds share the plain package version with the
published release, so the updater never replaces them. The diagnostic
page for an attempt ref now says so above the file table (decision 25).
The pool upload is immutable with a one-year cache header, so a recut
of the same version must not reuse a pool key. The candidate phase now
prefixes the pool path (and the Packages Filename field) with the
attempt ref; without --pool-subdir the layout is unchanged.
desktop preparation parses its claim ref and carries the attempt ref as
archive_tag beside the plain payload version. Stable admission accepts
only attempt refs and returns them; accepted candidates, bootstrap and
advance_stable read the attempt-scoped archive, and docker manifests may
carry the attempt-ref image tag while stable/latest aliases stay put
until publish.
The final tag is a publication custody receipt, so complete() only
validates the accepted candidate archive and the draft stays on the
attempt ref. A succeeded run with its draft is green; a missing draft
after success is an error, not an inferred abandonment.
Admission parses the attempt ref for the version and the attempt, and the
claim metadata must name the same attempt. release has written "attempt"
into every claim since the attempt refs landed; without this, admission
would refuse each of them for an unexpected key.
The attempt stays out of the workflow outputs: emit writes an explicit key
list and no job reads it.
abandon clears the outstanding attempt of a version by pushing
abandoned-rc.<N>-vX.Y.Z at the attempt's commit. The attempt ref stays, and
the next cut is rc.<N+1> of the same version.
The draft is deleted before the marker is pushed: a cleared attempt with a
live draft could still be published by hand, while a draftless outstanding
attempt is only abandoned again. abandon reads every outstanding attempt, so
it can still clear one when a concurrent cut left two. It refuses a release
that was already published.
A version is now spent only by publication. derive_next_version reads the
published stable head alone, and release claims the next attempt of that
version as rc.<N>-vX.Y.Z. An abandon marker clears an attempt without
freeing its number.
At most one attempt, of any version, is outstanding: an attempt ref with no
marker and no final tag on the remote. release refuses while one exists and
prints its workflow run, the abandon command, and the rerun command. The
pre-check and the push are not atomic across versions, so release re-reads
the attempts after its push and stops before the draft and the dispatch if a
concurrent cut of another version landed.
A new attempt must descend from the published stable head, read from the
stable channel with its version. Abandoned attempts put no constraint on it.
Fetch refspecs are rc.* and abandoned-rc.*: a refspec may hold one '*', and
the parsers filter what the globs over-match.
An attempt ref is rc.<N>-vX.Y.Z and its abandon marker is
abandoned-rc.<N>-vX.Y.Z. The ref grammar only anchors: version_from_tag
still owns the version shape, so CalVer and canary identities stay out.
The payload snapshot omits apps/ (INERT_SNAPSHOT_DIRS), so validate_bootstrap_version
raised FileNotFoundError on every native bundle leg since dd72571178.
release printed the claim URL and stopped. The other commands printed a
record or a one-line status. Each command now says what happened, what to
wait for, and the next action.
release names the claim, the workflow run, the notes page, and the publish
command when autopublish is off. publish and canary name their workflow.
abandon says the version is spent. A commit build names its page and says
it moves no channel.
The macOS runner uses Bash 3.2, which rejects parameter case conversion.
Normalize the GHCR owner with portable tr and verify mixed-case input.
The macOS runner can clear setgid from a directory when chmod applies 2770.
Compare scratch permissions with the native chmod result while preserving all
bits the host accepts.
Tests: scripts/run_tests.sh tests/scripts/test_termux_build_driver.py tests/test_scratch_dir.py
Shell: bash -n scripts/termux/build_builder_image.sh
main carries 0.0.0, so comparing the tag against pyproject.toml refuses
every release. Admission reads the version from the -rc claim and checks
only that the commit is on main.
The committed version is a placeholder now; a build stamps the real one.
Dev installs report their distance from the highest reachable release tag,
so an -rc claim sitting on the same commit never becomes the version.
The version lives in the ref now, so the mirrors writer takes a tree and
rewrites a copy. The checkout it was invoked from stays at the placeholder,
and the bootstrap installer's Cargo.lock finally moves with the rest.
`release.py release --commit --bump` derives the next version, pushes an
annotated -rc tag as exactly that ref, and treats a dispatch that never
starts as an error. A commit behind an outstanding claim is refused, and
abandon deletes the draft while the claim tag stays as the burn mark.
The family is the published stable head, then outstanding -rc claims, then
the seed 0.21.4 when both are empty, so the first release is 0.21.5. CalVer
tags are excluded rather than sorted: v2026.9.21 is a valid three-component
version and would win every max(). A +canary identity compares equal to its
stable; the legacy -canary prerelease still sorts before its stable so feeds
published before the migration keep their order.
The OS lanes are marker-driven: list_os_marked_tests.py picks the files
a lane imports from their platforms() specs and the lane selects with
-m platforms. A test gated with skipif(sys.platform != "win32") is
therefore never imported on the Windows lane and skipped everywhere else
— it runs on no host. skipif(sys.platform == "win32") tests were merely
invisible to the lane bookkeeping, but the rule the tree now follows is
one host marker, never a bare skipif.
Mechanical mapping, semantics preserved: skip-on-Windows → "posix",
skip-off-Windows → "windows", skip-off-Linux → "linux", skip-on-macOS →
"not macos". The former skip reasons stay as trailing comments. A
non-host condition (os.geteuid() == 0) stays a separate skipif beside
the marker, spelled getattr(os, "geteuid", ...) so the decorator still
imports on Windows.
Where the conversion would stack two platforms() marks on one test (the
conftest rejects that at collection) the narrower mark wins:
- test_update_wedged_gateway: the class is already platforms("linux");
its per-test "needs UNIX sockets" marks were redundant and are gone.
- test_process_registry.TestSystemdCgroupIsolation: the class-level
skip-on-Windows moves onto the 11 methods that had no host mark; the
11 platforms("linux") methods keep theirs.
- test_file_ops_single_roundtrip: the two fifo tests drop their
platforms("linux") in favour of the module's "posix" (mkfifo exists on
macOS; both tests already skip when it does not).
- test_linux_desktop_entry / test_gateway_job_teardown_live: duplicate
or wider marks removed.
scripts/ci/list_os_marked_tests.py matched the literal lane word inside a
platforms() string, so 80 files gated platforms("posix") never reached the
macOS lane ("posix = linux or macOS" was false for CI), and "any" files
reached none. The selector now resolves specs the way the conftest gate
does (posix ⊇ linux+macos, any ⊇ all, "not X" admits the rest) and only
looks inside mark.platforms(...) calls, dropping a false positive whose
only "macos" was inside a generated-file string.
scripts/run_tests_parallel.py still grepped the retired linux_only/
macos_only/windows_only names, so its "N files SKIPPED on this host" note
had been silent since the migration. It now shares the selector's
resolver and names the spec and the lane(s) it runs on.
Restore the platforms("windows") mark that
test_suppress_platform_ver_console_stubs_syscmd_ver lost in the
windows_only migration (its docstring still declared it); it passed
vacuously on Linux and was deselected on the Windows lane.
Fail ends the script with `exit 1`, which unwinds past the stage
dispatcher's try/catch, so the catch that frames failures as JSON never
ran for the installer's own fatal errors: a `-Stage repository -Json`
run whose clone failed printed the reason via Write-Host only and put
zero frames on stdout (verified on Windows: 0 frames before, 1 after).
Only thrown exceptions were framed.
Fail now emits the failure frame itself when running under -Stage -Json,
so every fatal path yields exactly one frame carrying the original
reason, matching install.sh's EXIT-trap framing.
scripts/releases/semver.STABLE_TAG accepted any-width majors, so
is_valid_version('2026.9.21') was True and docker.require_stable_tag /
stable.py / release.py admitted the legacy CalVer tags that
hermes_cli.source_releases and get_last_tag() already refused. A
workflow_call carrying GitHub's current 'latest' (v2026.9.21) would have
passed the docker publish gate.
hermes_cli.update_channel already owns the canary tag shape; it now owns
STABLE_TAG_RE too (three-digit major cap, no leading zeros, no suffix)
and every stable selector imports it. release.py drops its private
_SEMVER_TAG_RE + CalVer exclusion pair, which the capped major makes
redundant.
check_platform accepted Termux as plain Linux, so `curl | bash` on a
phone walked the source-install ladder: a glibc uv, a lock whose CPython
is the bundled bionic build with no Android wheels, and on-device sdist
builds. The signed APT package is the only supported Termux shape, so
detect Termux the way the runtime does (TERMUX_VERSION or the com.termux
PREFIX) and stop before any stage with `pkg install hermes-agent` and
the setup docs URL. --json surfaces the reason in the stage frame.
The clone publication step did `mv <staged>/tree "$INSTALL_DIR"`. When
INSTALL_DIR already existed as a non-git directory, mv moved the
checkout INSIDE it as INSTALL_DIR/tree and the stage reported success,
leaving later stages to read pm/lock.json from a directory that holds
the user's files instead of a checkout. An existing file made mv fail
with a generic "cannot publish" error.
Before staging the clone, refuse a destination that exists and is not a
Hermes checkout (non-empty dir, file, or symlink) and say what to do; an
empty directory is taken over so the checkout lands AT the path.