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Problem

Creating a GitHub release can advance the published tag—for example from v0.72.1 to v0.75.1—without advancing the tracked version on main. The release workflow previously applied version changes only while preparing the detached release-tag commit, while just release maintained a separate local mutation path. That leaves the source tree, package metadata, and reported binary version behind the release developers and users see on GitHub.

This drift was present when the PR was prepared: the codebase still reported 0.72.1, while the newest published GitHub release was v0.76.0-rc1 (and the latest stable release was v0.75.1). This PR therefore also synchronizes the existing tracked version surface to 0.76.0-rc1.

GitHub-generated notes also chose their comparison tag automatically. After publishing an RC, the final stable release could therefore compare against the RC and produce only the post-RC delta, potentially leaving the final notes empty.

Why this work

Release versioning should have one low-maintenance authority regardless of how a developer starts a release. The durable source version should match every published non-canary release, tag-based releases should fail rather than publish drifted source, and RCs must not become the baseline for final release notes.

Release flow

flowchart TD
    JUST["just release VERSION<br/>preflight + dispatch + wait"] --> DISPATCH["Release workflow dispatch"]
    UI["GitHub Actions UI"] --> DISPATCH
    TAG["Pre-versioned v* tag push"] --> VERIFY["Verify tag is on main history<br/>and already version-complete"]
    DISPATCH --> META["Resolve version and highest prior stable notes tag"]
    VERIFY --> META
    META --> PATH{"Release path"}
    PATH -- "canary dispatch" --> CANARY["Use dispatch SHA<br/>do not update main"]
    PATH -- "non-canary dispatch" --> BUMP["Run release-version.sh"]
    BUMP --> VERSION_COMMIT["Commit tracked version surface<br/>fast-forward main"]
    PATH -- "tag push" --> TAG_SOURCE["Use validated tag source"]
    CANARY --> BUILD["Build, compose, and smoke artifact matrix"]
    VERSION_COMMIT --> BUILD
    TAG_SOURCE --> BUILD
    BUILD --> PUBLISHABLE{"Canary?"}
    PUBLISHABLE -- "yes" --> CANARY_DONE["Stop without tag or publication"]
    PUBLISHABLE -- "no" --> TAG_PATH{"Entry path"}
    TAG_PATH -- "dispatch" --> PREPARE_TAG["Add generated SDK resources<br/>create and push immutable tag"]
    TAG_PATH -- "tag push" --> EXISTING_TAG["Use existing immutable tag"]
    PREPARE_TAG --> RELEASE["Publish GitHub release<br/>notes compare from prior stable tag"]
    EXISTING_TAG --> RELEASE
    RELEASE --> KIND{"Prerelease?"}
    KIND -- "yes" --> RC_DONE["Stop after GitHub prerelease"]
    KIND -- "no" --> DOWNSTREAM["Publish crates and dispatch<br/>packages, images, and npm"]
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What changed

  • Bring the existing tracked source, crate, SDK, lockfile, and documentation versions from 0.72.1 to the newest published release, 0.76.0-rc1.
  • Make the Release workflow the canonical version-mutation path.
  • For non-canary dispatches, run scripts/release-version.sh, create a linear release-source commit when needed, and fast-forward main before builds begin.
  • Make just release a preflight/dispatch/wait wrapper around that same workflow instead of a second version-bump implementation.
  • Capture the dispatched workflow run URL separately, extract its numeric run ID, and use SHA-correlated lookup only as a fallback.
  • Validate tag-push releases are reachable from main and already contain the complete version update.
  • Keep canary releases read-only and non-publishing.
  • Generate release notes against the highest stable SemVer tag below the target, explicitly excluding prerelease tags.
  • Preserve final newlines when the canonical version script rewrites JSON package metadata, and emit rustfmt-compliant known-version entries.
  • Update release documentation and repository-consistency tests for the unified contract.

For example, both v0.76.0-rc1 and v0.76.0 compare against v0.75.1. The final release therefore retains the complete release-train notes and adds any changes made after the RC.

Validation

  • just ci-validate
    • 471 tests passed
    • 7 tests skipped
    • release target, crate-list, and publish-chain consistency checks passed
  • just ci-shellcheck scripts/release.sh
  • just ci-shellcheck scripts/release-version.sh
  • Canonical version-script idempotence and version-only diff audit passed
  • Simulated next-release (v0.76.0-rc2) bump passed cargo fmt --all -- --check, git diff --check, and JSON newline checks
  • Focused release workflow, dispatch-run selection, and stable-tag selection tests passed
  • git diff --check

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • Release workflows synchronize versions before building and publish from a verified source.
    • Generated release notes compare against the latest applicable stable release.
    • Canary releases validate changes without modifying the main branch or publishing.
    • Updated the release to version 0.76.0-rc1 across packages and SDKs.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Releases reject invalid, version-drifted, or older target versions.
  • Documentation

    • Clarified workflow publishing, tag requirements, canary behavior, and unsupported manual releases.
  • Tests

    • Added coverage for release synchronization, note comparisons, permissions, and publishing inputs.

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@ndizazzo ndizazzo changed the title Synchronize source versions during GitHub releases chore: sync source versions during GitHub releases Aug 14, 2026
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The release process delegates version synchronization and release-note generation to GitHub Actions. The workflow prepares a canonical source, validates tag paths, supports canaries, selects stable comparison tags, and publishes from the resolved source commit. Workspace and SDK versions are aligned to 0.76.0-rc1.

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Release workflow synchronization

Layer / File(s) Summary
Workflow dispatch contract
scripts/release.sh, tools/xtask/src/publish_consistency.rs, scripts/tests/test_release_script.py
The release script dispatches release.yml without local version commits or release-note attachment. Run tracking supports dispatch URLs and SHA-based fallback lookup. Consistency and unit tests enforce this path.
Canonical release source preparation
.github/workflows/release.yml, scripts/tests/test_release_workflow_artifacts.py
The metadata job validates or updates main, handles canary behavior, exports the source SHA and release-notes base, and publishes from the resolved source. Workflow tests verify sequencing and permissions.
Stable release-note base selection
scripts/select-release-notes-base.py, scripts/tests/test_select_release_notes_base.py
The selector returns the highest older stable semantic-version tag. Tests cover candidate, stable, invalid, nonstable, and first-release cases.
Release contracts and validation
.agents/skills/manage-ci/references/current-inventory.md, AGENTS.md, RELEASE.md, ci/ci.md
Documentation defines version ownership, tag validation, canary behavior, generated notes, canonical publishing inputs, and release sequencing.
Release version alignment
Cargo.toml, crates/*, docs/*, sdk/*, website/src/docs/pages/CLI.md, scripts/release-version.sh
Workspace packages, dependency constraints, SDK packages, schemas, examples, and release manifests use 0.76.0-rc1. JSON version updates retain a trailing newline.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to cdb2c

The PR centralizes release version synchronization and stable release-note selection so published releases keep source metadata aligned; no actionable merge-blocking risk remains after normal checks and review.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant ReleaseScript
  participant MetadataJob
  participant MainBranch
  participant PublishJob
  ReleaseScript->>MetadataJob: dispatch release.yml
  MetadataJob->>MainBranch: synchronize or validate release source
  MetadataJob->>PublishJob: provide source_sha and release_notes_base
  PublishJob->>MainBranch: checkout canonical source SHA
  PublishJob->>PublishJob: generate GitHub release notes
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In `@scripts/release.sh`:
- Around line 312-315: Update the release dispatch flow around
dispatch_release_workflow to capture the workflow run URL separately from its
numeric ID, extract the run ID before passing it to gh run watch, and avoid
combining URL and ID in run_id. Dispatch using the current release/main commit
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ndizazzo requested a review from i386 August 14, 2026 17:42
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Reviewed the release-path unification. The core design is right: one version authority (release-version.sh), one publisher (this workflow), and all three entry points converge. Tag-push drift now hard-fails instead of publishing mismatched binaries, and previous_tag pinning fixes the empty-final-notes problem. Checked softprops/action-gh-release@v2.6.2previous_tag maps to previous_tag_name (src/github.ts:515-533) and an empty value is coerced to undefined (src/util.ts:118), so a first-ever release with no stable predecessor degrades correctly rather than erroring.

Three things worth a look before merge.

1. The version commit lands on main before anything is built or smoked. metadata pushes $source_sha:refs/heads/main at line 185, and the whole build/compose/smoke matrix runs afterwards. Any failure downstream leaves main claiming a version that has no release. The old failure mode was "main behind the release"; the new one is "main ahead of reality". Recovery is also constrained: the main ruleset (id 20090642) has non_fast_forward + required_linear_history and bypass_actors: [], so unwinding means a forward revert commit, not a reset. I think this is the better tradeoff — a bumped-but-unreleased main is self-correcting on the next release, whereas drift was silent — but it deserves an explicit sentence in RELEASE.md so the next person who hits a failed release knows the state main is in and that a revert (not a reset) is the fix.

2. Nothing validates the bump before it is pushed to main. The step checks only for unstaged leftovers. It does not check that the result is formatting-clean. That is exactly the class of bug this PR already had to fix — the update_known_mesh_versions perl change (release-version.sh:162) exists because the previous regex produced a non-rustfmt-compliant entry in built_in_schema.rs. Under the old flow that surfaced locally in front of a human; under the new flow it lands on main unattended and breaks main_quality for everyone. The job already installs dtolnay/rust-toolchain, so the guard is nearly free — before the commit:

cargo fmt --all -- --check
git diff --check

Fail the release rather than push a commit that red-lights main.

3. git diff --quiet on the tag-push path can reject for reasons unrelated to versions. release-version.sh calls refresh_cargo_lock_versions (cargo metadata, line 200-215), which rewrites Cargo.lock for any staleness, not just version staleness. A lockfile that drifted for an unrelated reason produces "tag does not contain its complete version update" with a git status that shows only Cargo.lock. The message is misleading in that case. Worth either narrowing the comparison to the version-bearing paths or extending the error text to say a stale lockfile also trips it.

Smaller notes, none blocking:

  • The metadata job is now on the critical path for node + rust toolchain setup and a cargo metadata run, and every other job blocks on it. Fine, just slower to first build.
  • ensure_target_version_not_older relaxing > to >= is correct now that main reaches the released version — re-dispatch of the same version is still blocked by "Reject an existing manual release tag" (release.yml:133-140), so the guard hasn't gone soft.
  • The push at line 185 is deliberately not forced, so a PR landing in the race window rejects the push and fails the release instead of clobbering. Right call; a comment saying so would stop someone "fixing" it with --force later.
  • publish checks out source_sha and re-runs release-version.sh (line 1767) as a no-op before building the detached tag commit with generated SDK resources. Intended as I read it, but the no-op re-run is non-obvious — one comment would save the next reader the trace.

Verified all 90-odd checks are SUCCESS at the current head. I have not exercised a real release; everything above is from reading the workflow, the script, the action source, and the repo rulesets.

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Nothing validates the bump before it is pushed to main. The step checks only for unstaged leftovers. It does not check that the result is formatting-clean. That is exactly the class of bug this PR already had to fix — the update_known_mesh_versions perl change (release-version.sh:162) exists because the previous regex produced a non-rustfmt-compliant entry in built_in_schema.rs. Under the old flow that surfaced locally in front of a human; under the new flow it lands on main unattended and breaks main_quality for everyone. The job already installs dtolnay/rust-toolchain, so the guard is nearly free — before the commit:

cargo fmt --all -- --check
git diff --check

Fail the release rather than push a commit that red-lights main.

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#!/bin/bash
set -euo pipefail

printf '%s\n' '--- release workflow outline ---'
ast-grep outline .github/workflows/release.yml --items all || true

printf '%s\n' '--- release-source preparation and push context ---'
rg -n -C 16 \
  'release-version\.sh|cargo fmt|diff --check|git diff --quiet|refs/heads/main|source_sha|rust-toolchain' \
  .github/workflows/release.yml

printf '%s\n' '--- release-version script update and lockfile context ---'
rg -n -C 12 \
  'update_known_mesh_versions|refresh_cargo_lock_versions|cargo metadata|built_in_schema|package-version' \
  scripts/release-version.sh

printf '%s\n' '--- relevant test coverage ---'
rg -n -C 8 \
  'release_source_version|cargo fmt|diff --check|release-version\.sh|source_sha' \
  scripts/tests/test_release_workflow_artifacts.py scripts/tests/test_release_script.py 2>/dev/null || true

Length of output: 58915


@ndizazzo: I agree. This is a valid blocking concern.

For a manual non-canary release, metadata runs scripts/release-version.sh, creates a commit, and pushes it to main before any downstream build, smoke, or quality job runs. The current check only rejects unstaged tracked changes after git add --update. It does not validate the staged release-version diff.

Add both checks immediately after scripts/release-version.sh "$RELEASE_TAG" and before git add --update:

cargo fmt --all -- --check
git diff --check

This placement is important. git diff --check after git add --update would inspect only unstaged changes. If the check must run after staging, use:

git diff --cached --check

cargo fmt --all -- --check specifically protects crates/mesh-llm-config/src/model/built_in_schema.rs, which scripts/release-version.sh updates. git diff --check protects the complete generated version update, including non-Rust files.

I also recommend a focused test in scripts/tests/test_release_workflow_artifacts.py. The test should assert that both checks occur after the version script and before the release-source commit or push.

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