The resolver refused a stable promotion until its candidate had soaked for
72 hours, or 168 for a minor. Few installs run previews: 35 of about 7,900
active installs ran v6.4.5-rc.3 in the week to 2026-09-28, so a longer
soak saw little the first day did not, while 75 percent of installs sat on
a stable build a month old. Richard set a 24 hour soak for every release
on 2026-09-28.
The minimums drop to 24 hours for minor and patch alike, the error text
reads the constants instead of repeating numbers, and the workflow and
trigger prompts, the promotion policy and the deployment contract say the
same. The content-drift check and the hotfix exception are unchanged.
A workflow dispatch by branch can resolve after that branch moves, allowing an unreviewed tip to enter the release pipeline. Require every publishing dispatch to name its expected source SHA and make the workflow reject a different source or workflow commit before checkout.
Change-source: pulse-maintainer
(cherry picked from commit a461fc9c0a)
- Replace unreliable git fetch --dry-run check
- Use git rev-parse to compare local and remote commits
- Prevents false warnings about diverged branches
- Check VERSION file matches before triggering workflow
- Validate working directory is clean
- Confirm on main branch and up to date
- Load release notes from /tmp/release_notes_X.Y.Z.md
- Prevents wasting CI time on misconfigured releases
Richard Courtman