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Related design and implementation plan: DEP #14685. This PR implements the N-2 component compatibility framework (phase 3), building on #14681. #14680 closed in favor of #14681, which includes its embedding canary change. Merge order: #14681 → #14460.

Implement the SGLang N-2 component compatibility matrix on the shared deployment-test infrastructure. With the current 1.6 baseline, test both frontend/worker age directions against 1.5.0 and 1.4.2. Each of the four mixed-version pairs runs chat and embedding, for eight deployments.

  • Load the existing chat and embedding example YAML through DeploymentSpec. Patch component images and runtime versions, Kubernetes discovery, and fixed model snapshot paths. Run the same check_deployment_api used by ordinary deploy tests.
  • Require successful ordinary SGLang deploy tests before PR/nightly compatibility runs. Manual dispatch runs the ordinary chat and embedding profiles first. Current/current controls are no longer implemented in the N-2 test module.
  • Require the shared model-cache PVC. Prepare pinned snapshots with a GPU-free download Job; inference uses offline snapshot paths. Remove registry digest resolution, Pod exec, dynamic inference manifests, RWO/GPU-placement fallback, test-created ResourceQuota and the private Docker runner.
  • Reuse ManagedDeployment for readiness, logs, Pod manifests/image IDs and cleanup. Keep fail-fast startup diagnostics and primary-error preservation. Make the shared deletion helper wait for both the DGD and its Pods; stop the pytest session after a cleanup failure without replacing the test's original exception.
  • Store version-pair metadata, raw API responses and normal deployment/JUnit artifacts. Always tear down the dedicated compatibility vCluster. The version catalog, download manifest and pytest tests live under tests/deploy/.

Depends on #14681. Merge order: #14681 → #14460. The N-2 matrix, including old-worker-1-embedding, must pass before this PR merges; #15159 tracks the Dynamo 1.5.0 embedding health-check payload fix needed for that case. While #14681 is unmerged, GitHub's main-based diff includes its commits. Review this PR's framework changes in the incremental diff.

The matrix covers static SGLang aggregated chat and embedding, not rolling upgrades or performance. Ordinary deploy prerequisites use the same model IDs and API checks but do not pin the matrix's snapshot revisions; they are functional prerequisites, not a strict experimental control.

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  • 33 related CPU tests passed locally with the normal repository conftest: matrix selection, example patching/runtime versions, fixed download snapshots, shared API contracts, DGD/Pod deletion waiting and timeout, init-container success after restarts, original-error preservation, and session stop after cleanup failure.
  • Collection produces exactly eight N-2 cases. Ordinary SGLang chat and embedding profiles collect separately for manual controls.
  • Python formatting/import checks, workflow actionlint, action pin checks, CODEOWNERS coverage and diff whitespace checks passed. Actionlint excludes existing custom-runner labels and the unrelated pre-existing if: false job.
  • GPU execution of this refactor is pending. Earlier runs of the superseded harness do not validate this implementation; no historical-matrix pass is claimed. CPU tests take under one second locally; GPU wall time still needs measurement. Cases run serially, bounded by a 240-minute workflow timeout.
  • RUN_DEPLOY_TESTS=false skips PR compatibility validation. Missing shared-cache configuration fails before vCluster creation; unavailable images or protocol mismatches remain failures.

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The pull request adds an N-2 compatibility runner for frontend and worker release combinations. It validates embedding, chat, and SSE contracts in isolated Docker environments, records reports, and integrates execution with reusable, nightly, and pull request workflows.

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Layer / File(s) Summary
Compatibility contracts and scenarios
scripts/compatibility/releases.json, scripts/compatibility/runner.py
Defines release metadata, compatibility matrices, response validators, and embedding and chat probe scenarios.
Docker execution and reporting
scripts/compatibility/runner.py
Manages isolated Docker resources, readiness checks, image resolution, model snapshots, scenario execution, cleanup, and report persistence.
Runner validation and lifecycle tests
scripts/compatibility/test_runner.py
Tests matrix selection, response validation, failure recording, report aggregation, continued execution, and cleanup after partial startup.
CI integration and operating guide
.github/workflows/compatibility-contract-tests.yml, .github/workflows/cross-version-compatibility.yml, .github/workflows/nightly-ci.yml, scripts/compatibility/README.md
Adds pull request, reusable, and nightly workflow paths. Documents release selection, execution, artifacts, failure handling, and extension procedures.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to fa6f1

The new compatibility workflows currently fail repository checks, and optimized Python execution can report success without validating responses. These issues should be fixed before merge.

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428-428: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

Document the intentional lazy import.

Keep huggingface_hub inside main(): --plan runs with only requests, and the README promises no Hugging Face dependency for that mode. The normal run already documents huggingface-hub. Add a comment explaining this intentional exception.

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In `@scripts/compatibility/runner.py` at line 428, Add a concise comment
immediately before the lazy huggingface_hub import inside main(), documenting
that it remains deferred so --plan requires only requests, while normal runs use
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Use an explicit queue for derived cases. probe() currently visits the appended stop case once because Python list iterators observe later appends. However, this violates the repository’s Python guideline and couples probe behavior to list-iterator semantics.

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-    results = []
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In @.github/workflows/compatibility-contract-tests.yml:
- Line 20: Add the required release comments to all three SHA-pinned actions:
append # v6.0.2 to the actions/checkout pins in
.github/workflows/compatibility-contract-tests.yml:20 and
.github/workflows/cross-version-compatibility.yml:48, and append # v4.6.2 to the
actions/upload-artifact pin in
.github/workflows/cross-version-compatibility.yml:74.

In @.github/workflows/cross-version-compatibility.yml:
- Line 61: Quote the RUNNER_TEMP-based Python interpreter path in the unittest
command so shell word splitting cannot occur when the temporary directory
contains whitespace; preserve the existing unittest discover arguments.

In `@scripts/compatibility/releases.json`:
- Around line 1-31: Add scripts/compatibility/** to the changed-files filter
configuration used by the Pre Merge, PR, and Fern Docs workflows, mapping it to
the compatibility contract job. Ensure every file under scripts/compatibility is
covered without altering unrelated filters.

In `@scripts/compatibility/runner.py`:
- Around line 40-52: Replace all bare assertions in validate_embedding,
validate_chat, and validate_stream with explicit condition checks that raise
ContractError, preserving each existing validation condition and diagnostic
detail. Update probe’s exception handling to catch ContractError instead of
AssertionError so failed response contracts are recorded as failures even under
optimized Python execution.

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In `@scripts/compatibility/runner.py`:
- Line 428: Add a concise comment immediately before the lazy huggingface_hub
import inside main(), documenting that it remains deferred so --plan requires
only requests, while normal runs use the documented huggingface-hub dependency.
- Line 132: Update probe() to process derived cases through an explicit queue
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Follow-up round at 3b9dcd12d8. Both open P2 items are re-verified by execution. The cleanup split is fixed and pinned. The release-line drift is closed at the source, but the guard that closes it cannot execute in the lane that runs it, so I am withdrawing the approval I left at 6fc1f834b3. Two findings below, one P1 and one P3.

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Withdrawing this approval. It was left at 6fc1f83 and the head is now 3b9dcd1, so it covered a tree I had not read. Re-reviewed at 3b9dcd1: the cleanup split is fixed and pinned, but the new release-line guard cannot execute in the lane that runs it. See the P1 on tests/deploy/test_n2_compatibility_unit.py:69.

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Approving at ca94b0c7d5

The P1 and the P3 from the last round are both fixed. I re-verified each one by running it at the live head, not by reading the diff. Nothing is open from me: no P0, no P1, no P2 and no P3.

What I re-verified at ca94b0c, with the control for each check

ca94b0c7d5 adds one commit on top of 3b9dcd12d8, which is still an ancestor, so the earlier work still applies. The merge base is 3322d1f340 before and after. The removed-line set of the pull request is byte-identical across the two heads, and the added set grows by one line.

P1, the guard that could not run in its own lane. Fixed by removing the test. No file under tests/ now reads .github/workflows/. I rebuilt the image-like tree from the .dockerignore:30-36 allowlist and ran the file: 17 passed in the full checkout, 17 passed in the image-like tree, and 17 passed with the workflow files restored as the control. A one-line probe that reads cross-version-compatibility.yml still fails with FileNotFoundError in that rebuilt tree and passes in the restored control, so the tree can still catch this class of defect.

P3, the bare KeyError. Fixed. A 1.6 line now raises N-2 release catalog for release line 1.6 is missing: 1.5, and 1.7 names both missing entries. Reverting version_matrix to the bare lookup fails the new test with KeyError, and keeping the guard while changing the message fails it with AssertionError. A neighbouring test passed under both mutations.

The two earlier fixes still hold. pr.yaml and nightly-ci.yml still pass no release_line, read by parsing the YAML. The teardown helper still returns normally on the passing path: with no cleanup errors it returns and leaves shouldstop false, with cleanup errors it returns and sets the stop reason, and when the test body raises, the original ValueError survives. Deleting both lines of that finally body leaves shouldstop false in all three states, which is the control.

Lane and selection. pr.yaml:959 passes pre_merge and sglang and gpu_0. Over tests/deploy that collects 17 of 196 cases, all 17 from test_n2_compatibility_unit.py, and the image-like tree reports 17 passed, 179 deselected.

Interaction with main. main gained 10 commits since the merge base. One of them, d419abc120, also edits .github/workflows/nightly-ci.yml. It adds efa-deploy-test-sglang and renames a job label. This pull request adds frontend-copy-to-acr and cross-version-compatibility. The two sets touch different jobs and share no needs entry, so the overlap is textual only.

Where I stopped. I did not execute GitHub Actions itself, so I did not prove that step level env on a composite action call reaches the pytest process. That only affects a manual workflow_dispatch that sets the input. The automatic path does not depend on it, because an omitted input gives an empty string and the suite falls back to DEFAULT_RELEASE_LINE. GPU behaviour of the eight deployment cases is still unmeasured, as the description already says.

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Re-review at 039405312b

Approve. My earlier approval named ca94b0c7d5, and the head is now a merge of that commit with main at 38c93190cb. I read the new tree as a new change.

One P2 stays open. The compatibility baseline sits one release behind the workspace, so the matrix never exercises 1.5. See the comment on tests/deploy/n2_utils.py:20.

This round is partly self-review. Commit 42f321d8a0 applied the os.makedirs(self.log_dir, exist_ok=True) suggestion that I wrote on tests/deploy/dgd_utils.py.

What the merge kept, and what it changed by hand

The head keeps ca94b0c7d5 as an ancestor. The last force push was on 2026-09-11, before my last review. The only new work is the merge itself.

I rebuilt the merge with git merge-tree --write-tree. It conflicts in tests/deploy/dgd_utils.py and tests/deploy/test_dgd.py. I rebuilt the three stages for both files and compared each side against the committed result. Everything main brought in survives: _capture_discovery_state, DISCOVERY_SNAPSHOT_TIMEOUT, _cleanup(failed=...), the pending_cancellation re-raise, and the capture_failure parameter on test_deployment. __aenter__ and __aexit__ still pass failed= through _cleanup_preserving_error.

One file changed outside the conflict. tests/deploy/test_dgd_utils.py:280 reads async def delete(*, fail_on_timeout=True) in the head and async def delete() in the auto-merge. That matches the new _delete_deployment(fail_on_timeout=False) call, so the hand edit is right.

The current main tip is 3e486515bc. I merged it locally as well. The one open finding does not depend on any file that drifted.

Image paths: the earlier P1 stays closed, and every new read lands on a copied path

I ran a real sglang-runtime-test image and listed what it holds:

/workspace/.github/scripts/apply_dev_version.py
/workspace/.github/scripts/retry_kubectl.sh
/workspace/.github/scripts/collect_vcluster_diagnostics.sh
ls: cannot access '/workspace/.github/workflows': No such file or directory

No test under tests/ reads .github/workflows at this head. The only .github reads left are the two allowlisted scripts in tests/deploy/test_vcluster_kubectl.py.

Every repository path the new code reads sits under a directory the image copies. /workspace/tests/deploy/ holds non-Python files, which covers n2/releases.json and n2/model-download.yaml. /workspace/examples/backends/sglang/deploy/ holds the manifests, which covers agg_embed.yaml and agg.yaml.

Lane selection and tests, measured with the real marker expressions
file expression collected
test_n2_compatibility_unit.py pre_merge and sglang and gpu_0 17
test_api_checks.py pre_merge and (parallel or defaulted) and not (vllm or sglang or trtllm) and (gpu_0) 21
test_dgd_utils.py pre_merge and not parallel and not defaulted and not (vllm or sglang or trtllm) and (gpu_0) 16
all three pre_merge and trtllm and gpu_0 (negative control) 0

All 54 pass on the merged tree. agg_embed is discovered as a deployment profile, and sglang Deploy Test / agg_embed passed on this head.

The four pinned baseline tags are real. Each answers 200 on the registry manifest endpoint, and a tag that cannot exist answers 404.

I retracted one hypothesis. I expected N2_RELEASE_LINE to be lost between the workflow step and pytest, because the variable sits on a step that calls a composite action. The dynamo-deploy-test action runs python -m pytest on the runner and not in a container, so the step-level env reaches the process.

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I was thinking about generalizing this mechanism into a multi-backend framework, which I wouldn't do in this PR, but a few seams are worth tightening:

  1. version_matrix() derives predecessors with same-major minor arithmetic. This will fail at a major-version boundary such as 2.0 → 1.9/1.8. Release ordering should eventually be explicit in the catalog.
  2. Scenario knowledge is distributed across MODELS, manifest selection, endpoint selection, readiness payloads, validators, embedding dimensions, and the download Job. A typed ScenarioSpec would give chat, embedding, and future reranking scenarios one source of truth.
  3. The test parameterizes pair_index and maintains IDs separately from the generated pairs. Parameterizing complete CompatibilityCase objects would remove that positional coupling and produce clearer IDs such as frontend-current__worker-1.5__embedding.
  4. Models and revisions are duplicated between Python and embedded Python in model-download.yaml; parsing the embedded program with ast to verify synchronization is a sign that this data should be shared or used to render the Job.
  5. compatibility_spec() still manipulates raw DGD dictionaries for annotations, node selectors, and init containers. If this grows, those should become focused DeploymentSpec operations so CRD structure does not leak into the compatibility policy.
  6. Runtime versions are inferred from image-tag syntax. Storing {image, runtime_version} explicitly would support digests and alternative tag conventions.
  7. Before adding more releases or features, define how unsupported or newly introduced capabilities are represented. Required compatibility, unavailable features, and known incompatibilities should be explicit; any expected failure should be strict and tied to an issue so it cannot become a permanent silent exclusion.

The design I would aim for is:
release/capability policy → typed case generation → backend deployment adapter → shared API contracts

I would treat most of the above as follow-up design work, with explicit release ordering, typed cases, and a single scenario/model registry being the highest-value changes before adding another backend or topology.

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Re-approval at 083420b9ed

The one new commit advances the compatibility baseline to the 1.5 and 1.4 release lines, and it is correct. I re-read the four files it changes and I carry the other 18 files on my approval at 039405312b. One P3 stays open on tests/deploy/n2/README.md, and it asks for a documentation change only.

What I re-read, and what I carry forward

083420b9ed sits directly on 039405312b with a single parent. The branch had no force push since 2026-09-11, so both of my approved commits are still ancestors of the head. The commit changes 4 files, 15 insertions and 14 deletions.

I re-read these four files in full:

  1. tests/deploy/n2/releases.json
  2. tests/deploy/n2_utils.py
  3. tests/deploy/test_n2_compatibility_unit.py
  4. tests/deploy/n2/README.md

I carry the other 18 files on the approval at 039405312b. That set holds the workflows, the shared deploy helpers and the new example manifest. The current main tip is 6e21a3a646. I merged it into the head myself. The merge is clean and none of the drifted files is one of the 22 files of this pull request.

Both new image tags exist, with a control tag that does not

The commit adds a 1.5 entry to the catalog. I asked the nvcr.io manifest endpoint for each tag by name.

repository tag HTTP
nvidia/ai-dynamo/dynamo-frontend 1.5.0 200
nvidia/ai-dynamo/sglang-runtime 1.5.0 200
nvidia/ai-dynamo/dynamo-frontend 9.9.9 404
nvidia/ai-dynamo/sglang-runtime 9.9.9 404
both 1.5.1 404

The 404 rows show that the query separates a real tag from an absent one. 1.5.1 does not exist, so 1.5.0 is the newest patch on the 1.5 line. That matches 1.3.1 and 1.4.2 for the older lines.

Declared cases equal executed cases

version_matrix returns 4 version pairs and the test declares 2 scenarios, so the matrix declares 8 cases. The workflow runs the file with -m k8s -n 0 at cross-version-compatibility.yml:154.

selection cases
test_n2_compatibility.py, no marker filter 8
test_n2_compatibility.py, -m k8s 8
test_n2_compatibility_unit.py, no marker filter 17
test_n2_compatibility_unit.py, -m "unit and pre_merge and gpu_0" 17
test_n2_compatibility_unit.py, -m "e2e and gpu_8" 0 of 17, 17 deselected

The last row is the wrong-lane control, so the marker filter does discriminate. Nothing in the matrix is declared and then dropped.

The 17 unit cases also ran for real on this head. In sglang-runtime / Test cuda13.0, amd64 the log records 17 PASSED for this file and no skip. One of those cases opens tests/deploy/n2/releases.json and another one opens examples/backends/sglang/deploy/agg_embed.yaml, so both files reach the inside of the runtime image.

The red N-2 job is a cluster fault, not a version fault

SGLang N-2 compatibility / compatibility reports 7 passed and 1 error. The error is old-worker-1-embedding, which pairs the candidate frontend with sglang-runtime:1.5.0. Setup took 1228.68s against a 1200s readiness limit. The other three embedding cases took 143.78s, 154.16s and 284.25s.

The failing Pod carries an event that no other Pod in the run carries:

FailedMount - MountVolume.SetUp failed for volume "kube-api-access-ls4gh" :
failed to sync configmap cache: timed out waiting for the condition

That event repeats 77 times from 01:55:08 to 02:30:37. SyncError also appears, but it appears on two passing deployments as well, so it is background noise. The projected service account token volume never settled for that one Pod. The check-model-snapshot init container exited 0 and the main container stayed Running with a 503 health endpoint the whole time.

I first read this red as proof that the new 1.5 baseline cannot serve embeddings. The mount evidence retracts that. The 1.5.0 image serves the frontend role in the same run without trouble, and the older 1.4.2 worker serves embeddings in 284.25s. One case out of eight therefore has no compatibility evidence on this head, and a re-run will settle it.

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@julienmancuso These are the right seams to address before adding another backend or topology. I kept this PR focused on the SGLang N-2 matrix and clarified its current same-major release ordering and baseline update steps in b5d80d0.

I recorded the broader follow-up in DEP #14685: explicit release ordering, typed cases, a shared scenario/model registry, capability policy, and the deployment/image metadata changes. A separate linked DEP can define the multi-backend scope when that extension is planned.

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Re-approving at b5d80d096c. The README now names the baseline constant, and its other new claims are correct. I also correct my last approval: the red N-2 case is a real version incompatibility, not a cluster fault.

  • [P3] Following the new update procedure fails two unit tests that pin the current versions. tests/deploy/n2/README.md:51-52.
  • Open item outside this diff: this PR must not merge until old-worker-1-embedding passes. #15159 at d0a446d1ae does not yet add its payload to this worker.
What I verified at b5d80d0

The push is one commit, b5d80d096c, directly on 083420b9ed, which I approved. It changes only tests/deploy/n2/README.md, with 8 insertions and 5 deletions. The branch had no force push since 2026-09-11. I carry the other 21 files on my approval at 083420b9ed.

I ran each new claim in the README against the code:

claim result
The default baseline is DEFAULT_RELEASE_LINE in tests/deploy/n2_utils.py "1.6" at line 20
1.6 tests the published 1.5 and 1.4 lines version_matrix returns pairs with 1.5.0 and 1.4.2
N2_RELEASE_LINE overrides the default for one run the version_pairs fixture body gives 1.5.0 and 1.4.2 when the variable is unset or empty, and 1.4.2 and 1.3.1 for 1.5
A major-version boundary needs explicit ordering 2.0 and 2.1 raise ValueError: N-2 requires two preceding minor versions in the same major

In CI, the pytest step of the N-2 job lists N2_RELEASE_LINE in its environment, so the workflow input reaches the fixture. The unit file passed 17 of 17 locally and in sglang-runtime / Test cuda13.0, amd64 on this head. I merged the current main tip a83ba19b4e into the head. The merge is clean, no file of this PR changed on main, and the unit file still passes 17 of 17.

Correction: the red N-2 case is a version incompatibility, not a cluster fault

In my approval at 083420b9ed, I wrote that a volume mount fault caused the old-worker-1-embedding failure, and that a re-run was enough. That was wrong. The case failed again at this head, with setup at 1254.08s against a 1200s limit. This run has no FailedMount event.

The worker log in the pod-logs-n2-compatibility-* artifact shows the cause. The sglang-runtime:1.5.0 worker rejects every health-check canary, because its embedding handler receives a generation-shaped payload:

pydantic_core._pydantic_core.ValidationError: 2 validation errors for EmbeddingRequest
model
  Field required [type=missing, input_value={'stop_conditions': {'max...': [], 'prompt': 'Test'}, input_type=dict]
worker DYN_HEALTH_CHECK_ENABLED rejected canaries
1.5.0 embedding (old-worker-1-embedding), this head true 112
1.5.0 embedding, the run at 083420b9ed true 108
1.5.0 chat (old-worker-1-chat) true 0
1.4.2 embedding and chat false 0
candidate worker, 4 cases true 0

The worker never reports healthy, so its Pod never becomes ready. This matches the cause that #15159 names.

#15159 at d0a446d does not add its payload to this worker

The worker in examples/backends/sglang/deploy/agg_embed.yaml gets envFrom from the hf-token-secret Secret, with no prefix. The sglangEnvFromMaySet guard in #15159 treats a source with no prefix as a possible source of DYN_HEALTH_CHECK_PAYLOAD, so the shim skips this worker. I rendered the worker through GenerateBasePodSpec with the image, arguments and runtimeVersionOverride of the N-2 manifest:

case main at a83ba19b4e #15159 at d0a446d1ae
N-2 worker as rendered: 1.5.0, envFrom with no prefix no payload no payload
control: the same worker without envFrom no payload payload set
control: envFrom with the prefix HF_ no payload payload set
control: a 1.6.0 worker without envFrom no payload no payload

So #15159 in its current form will not make this case pass. If this PR merges while the case fails, the required deploy-status-check fails on every PR that runs this lane, as it did on this head. It needs cross-version-compatibility at .github/workflows/pr.yaml:182. The merge order in the description also lists #14680, which closed without a merge, and does not list #15159.

I did not run the GPU matrix myself. The #15159 result comes from rendering the Pod spec, not from a cluster run.

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Withdrawing my approval because new commits landed after it. I will review the new commits before I approve again.

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Approving at 15d820c64d. The new commit fixes my last P3 and keeps every guard that I tested, except the version pin that I asked to remove. No finding is open.

  • Fixed: [P3] the update procedure in tests/deploy/n2/README.md:51-52 no longer fails the unit file. The evidence is on that thread.
  • Open item outside this diff: this PR must not merge until old-worker-1-embedding passes. It failed again on this head, in run 35947278112. #15159 at d0a446d1ae does not yet fix it. The description now names this gate.
What I verified at 15d820c.

The push is one commit, 15d820c64d, directly on b5d80d096c, which I approved. It changes only tests/deploy/test_n2_compatibility_unit.py, with 12 insertions and 7 deletions. The branch had no force push since 2026-09-11. The other 21 files are the same as at b5d80d096c.

The author took the option that my last comment offered, so I am partly reviewing my own ask.

The commit does not touch the guard for my earlier P1, which requires the catalog to cover the configured release line. tests/deploy/n2_utils.py, releases.json and test_release_catalog_covers_configured_n_minus_one_and_two did not change. I broke the code or the catalog in one way at a time. Then I ran the full unit file with the old tests and with the new tests:

mutation tests at b5d80d096c tests at 15d820c64d
none 17 passed 17 passed
version_matrix skips the catalog guard 1 failed 1 failed
version_matrix selects ages 1 and 3 5 failed 5 failed
old-frontend pairs are built like old-worker pairs 3 failed 3 failed
the error message drops the release line 1 failed 1 failed
the catalog guard covers N-2 only 1 failed 1 failed
releases.json loses 1.5 2 failed 3 failed
releases.json loses 1.4 4 failed 4 failed
DEFAULT_RELEASE_LINE goes back to 1.5 1 failed 17 passed

The new tests catch every mutation that the old tests caught, except the last row. That row is the trade that my comment offered: the old pin failed on every change of the constant, correct or not. A stale baseline still has no test, as I measured at 083420b9ed, and the README names the constant.

In CI on this head, the unit file passed 17 of 17 in sglang-runtime / Test cuda13.0, amd64 and in arm64, with no FileNotFoundError. The commit reads no new file. I merged the current main tip 563d3d0665 into the head. The merge is clean, and no file of this PR changed on main. On the merge, the new tests give the same result for every row above.

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