PR #1933 failed paired normalization benchmarks despite unchanged hot-path source. Preserve actual checkout identities, selected toolchains and sample order so investigation does not confuse PR head metadata with measured source. Keep thresholds and sample collection unchanged.
Change-source: pulse-maintainer
(cherry picked from commit cbfe0d8eac)
Release-line proposals were receiving documentation and boundary checks while Build and Test and Core E2E excluded release/v* targets. Apply the reviewed branch-admission contract to the active train before publishing further alert regression coverage, without changing existing path or job gates.
Change-source: pulse-maintainer
Issue #1890 reports macOS agent updates stopping because the root group does not exist. Use numeric superuser ownership in the two shared lifecycle writes without relaxing failure handling or the least-privilege group boundary. Add a regression fixture that rejects named root ownership and checks that chown failures still prevent replacement.
Change-source: pulse-maintainer
(cherry picked from commit 19c2b6a925)
agent_state_dir_lifecycle_test.go calls syscall.Mkfifo, which does not
exist on Windows, so scripts/installtests has failed to compile in the
Windows leg of Unified Agent Native Verification since 53267e149d and the
install.ps1 contract tests there have not run. Every test in the file
drives install.sh through bash and systemd, so tag the file unix-only,
matching the other lifecycle lab files. GOOS=windows go vet now passes.
install.sh refuses connection state, token, and lifecycle files whose
parent directory is group- or world-writable. The fixtures build those
parents with t.TempDir, which inherits the process umask, so on a worker
with umask 002 the state directory came out 775 and seven TestInstallSH
cases failed on the pulse-dev release preflight while passing on GitHub
runners and macOS. Set umask 022 for the package on unix so the tests
prove the installer contract rather than the host's umask.
Open the v6.4.3 candidate line from main. The v6.4.2 tag was staged on
2026-08-31 but never activated: its release run was cancelled after the
private Pro build failed the compiler memory gate, so the latest published
stable is still v6.4.1. This candidate carries the complete v6.4.2 change
set plus the corrections landed since that tag, including the stale PBS
Backup Running state (#1815), the Windows Unified Agent auto-update 404
(#1820), and shared-token same-hostname agent identity collapse (#1753).
Packet: VERSION, compose and install-docker defaults, Helm chart metadata,
release notes with a declined visual plan, changelog, pointer docs and
the shipped docs mirror, and the deployment-installability cutoff note.
Rollback target is v6.4.1 and the mobile decision is no-mobile-impact.
Tests: the packet tests now describe the 6.4.3 train, v6.4.2 is recorded
as an unpublished stable so it is never derived as the previous stable or
rollback target, and the Python v6.4.2 notes expectation matches the
phrase the notes actually use.