- bump release, Docker, and Helm metadata to 6.0.1
- add committed v6.0.1 patch release notes and changelog
- allow stable patch hotfix releases without a fabricated same-version prerelease tag
Docs and frontend half of the licensing-policy client work from the v6
upgrade sweep (license findings 5 and 6); the Go classifier and grant
refresh fix land separately once the shared pre-commit guard unblocks.
A 409 MAX_INSTALLATIONS during v5 key migration rendered as 'another v6
activation handoff is still settling. Retry activation from this
instance.' Retrying can never succeed until a slot is freed server-side,
so that copy stranded users. The notice now says the key is already
active on its maximum number of v6 installations and points at
support@pulserelay.pro to free a slot, via the new
exchange_installation_limit reason and free_installation_slot action.
docs/UPGRADE_v6.md gains a 'Breaking Change: Paid Licensing Requires
Connectivity' section: v5 validated keys fully offline, v6 needs
periodic connectivity to license.pulserelay.pro, with roughly 10 days of
offline tolerance (72 hour grant plus 7 day grace) before paid features
drop to Community, plus air-gap guidance and the migrated-key
installation cap. docs/releases/V6_CHANGELOG.md gains the matching
breaking-change bullet.
Note: the two frontend files also carry two small additive hunks from
the parallel persisted-license-unreadable slice (a copy case and its
test, inert until its Go side lands); they share these files and are
included to avoid splitting them mid-flight.
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Tighten v5-to-v6 upgrade safety, release installability, provider MSP mode handling, AI cost accounting, metrics flushing, and frontend guardrails for the v6.0.0 GA candidate.
Stages the doc-only subset of rc.6 packet prep work on top of
df7934936. Holds VERSION bump and the registry/contract governance
reconciliation back for a focused later pass since the IA revert
created broader subsystem-contract debt than the packet prep can
absorb.
- docs/releases/V6_RC6_OPERATOR_SUPPORT_PACK_DRAFT.md: new 300-line
operator support brief mirroring the rc.5 pack with rc.6 themes:
pre-release for testing framing, platform-shaped frontend revert
explanation, vSphere as a first-class platform, Machines surface,
TrueNAS native detail UX, FilterBar adoption, Patrol capacity-
forecast and PDM bridge, free-first self-hosted posture, install.sh
smoke gate. Carries the rc.5 free-first paid-continuity wording
through unchanged so the operator-support-pack policy test holds.
- docs/releases/RELEASE_NOTES_v6_RC6_DRAFT.md,
docs/releases/V6_CHANGELOG_RC6_DRAFT.md: fill in the SHA audit
numbers (v6.0.0-rc.5..df7934936, 616 commits, 1379 files / 139185
insertions / 67870 deletions). Add the licensing-continuity
paragraph carrying the rc.5 Pulse Mobile pairing for handoff
copy through unchanged so the discovered-packet policy test holds.
- docs/RELEASE_NOTES.md: link the rc.6 draft packet as current, push
rc.5 to historical.
- docs/UPGRADE_v6.md: round out the prerelease packet pointer block
with the rc.6 operator support pack path alongside the release
notes and changelog already pointed at in df7934936.
- docs/releases/V6_PRERELEASE_RUNBOOK.md: add 6.0.0-rc.6 to the
version-examples list and bump the RC_VERSION export shown in the
RC release steps to rc.6.
Out of scope for this commit and intentionally held back until
governance reconciliation can land coherently:
- VERSION bump to 6.0.0-rc.6 (triggers deployment-installability
shape-guard which cascades into registry/contract audits against
72 dead-file references left over from the rc.6 IA revert).
- docs/release-control/v6/internal/status.json,
docs/release-control/v6/internal/subsystems/registry.json, and the
10 subsystem contract .md files that need post-IA-revert cleanup.
- scripts/release_control test fixture refreshes.
- The rc-to-ga-promotion-readiness-blocked record regen (gated on
VERSION bump landing).
Working copies of the held-back files are preserved at
/tmp/rc6-prep-backup-2026-05-27/ with a MANIFEST.md describing each.
rc.1-rc.5 shipped a unified /infrastructure /workloads /storage
/recovery top-level layout; rc.6 reverts the frontend to platform-
shaped pages (Proxmox / Docker / Kubernetes / TrueNAS / vSphere /
Standalone) on the same unified resource backend.
Updates the shipped v6 release docs to match:
- RELEASE_NOTES_v6.md and V6_CHANGELOG.md rewritten to describe the
v6 layout as platform-shaped on a unified backend, with a paragraph
in each explaining the rc.6 revert and the operator feedback that
drove it.
- UPGRADE_v6.md prerelease packet pointer bumped from rc.5 to rc.6.
- MIGRATION_UNIFIED_NAV.md gets a top-of-file revert banner that
redirects bookmarks targeting the unified routes to their platform-
shaped equivalents; the original content is preserved below as a
Historical Context section so the 19 tracked references into that
doc still resolve.
Also adds the rc.6 draft packet:
- docs/releases/RELEASE_NOTES_v6_RC6_DRAFT.md
- docs/releases/V6_CHANGELOG_RC6_DRAFT.md
Validation SHAs in both drafts are left as <populate at packet
finalisation> markers; they fill in when the release-control packet
runs.
rcourtman