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feat(release): J5 versions are dates, and a stable release is a promoted nightly - #537
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…ted nightly J5's 0.0.x numbers looked like upstream's and were read as upstream's. A version is now <yyyymm>.<d>.<n>: the UTC day of the build and a counter for that day's stable releases. J5 Nightly names its build for the day it runs, and the new J5 Stable workflow promotes a published nightly's commit to the same version without the nightly suffix. Nothing is committed for either, so the version bump after a release goes away. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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The PR implements the date-based version helpers, nightly stamping, stable promotion, release validation, workflow changes, tests, and runbook updates required by #527. The test covers semver ordering… |
Provide reviewable evidence for the Mac updater/feed and update-track behavior, plus the old-version migration behavior, or state that these checks are intentionally deferred before deciding whether #527 is complete. |
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Check name Status Explanation Title check The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: date-based J5 versions and stable releases promoted from nightlies. Description check The description is detailed and covers the problem, proposed design, implementation changes, testing, known gaps, upstream impact, and checklist. It includes the required problem and change sections, … Out of Scope Changes check The changed workflows, scripts/j5/release-version.tsand its tests,FORK.md, and the packaging runbook directly support#527. The changes keepJ5_UPSTREAM_T3_CODE_VERSIONand upstream-owned file…
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The PR implements the date-based version helpers, nightly stamping, stable promotion, release validation, workflow changes, tests, and runbook updates required by
#527. The test covers semver ordering and installer-related ordering. The available evidence does not establish behavior in the Mac updater feeds or the Mac update track, and it does not establish migration from an installed0.0.xor old-form nightly. The PR also reports that no workflow or Mac build has run.
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- Line 466: Update the remaining release-flow description in FORK.md to remove
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Nice, the scheme holds up. The ordering is right through same-day hotfixes and the year rollover, the stable and nightly feeds stay apart, downgrades get refused, and the token permissions look tight. release-version.test.ts passes locally.
One I'd want fixed before this merges, and it's not on a line this PR touched. The publish step in j5-release.yml reuses an existing draft for the tag without checking what commit it targets. The commits/$tag check doesn't catch it, because a draft doesn't have a tag yet. So say J5 Stable promotes nightly A, the release job dies after gh release create --draft --target A, and someone then promotes nightly B from the same day. That publishes B's binaries under a tag at commit A, with notes saying "Built from A". Fix is small: if the draft exists, check gh release view "$tag" --json targetCommitish -q .targetCommitish equals $RELEASE_SHA and fail if it doesn't. This PR is what makes that path reachable for stables.
Also maybe worth a line under the consequences: Windows version fields cap at 65535, so 202610.x.y wouldn't work if we ever ship upstream's Windows desktop.
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These two have separate concurrency groups, so they can overlap. A nightly picks its n in resolve, then spends an hour or so on the signed mac build. If J5 Stable publishes a stable for the same UTC day in that window, the nightly comes out sorting below the stable, and then it can't be promoted either. Sharing one group (j5-publish or similar) would close it.
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Small one. This only checks "older than latest". If v$version already exists at a different commit, that only shows up in J5 Release's resolve, after we've paid for a full signed and notarized build. Could check commits/v$version here and fail early with "Promote a newer nightly".
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nit: for a stable this is the day its nightly was built, not the day of the stable build. A nightly from the 15th promoted on the 17th is still 202610.15.0.
Problem
J5's version numbers (0.0.48, nightlies
0.0.49-nightly.*) look like upstream's (T3 Code 0.0.45, nightlies0.0.46-nightly.*), so a number cannot be told apart by sight. That confusion already produced one bug (#526). Stable releases also have no path from a tested nightly: they are cut from a throwaway branch with a committed version, which is #507's open step 5. Closes #527.This PR is the proposal. Do not merge before Jackson has read it.
Proposal
A J5 version is a date:
<yyyymm>.<d>.<n>.yyyymm202610d15n0202610.15.0is the first stable release of 15 October 2026;202610.15.1is a second one that day.202610.15.0-nightly.20261015.12. The number before the suffix is the next one no stable release of that day has taken. The suffix is unchanged from today, so the installer's and updater's patterns need no edit.How the versions sort, which is what every installer and updater relies on:
0.0.480.0.49-nightly.20261010.3202610.15.0-nightly.20261015.12202610.15.0202610.15.1-nightly.20261015.13202610.15.1202610.16.0-nightly.20261016.14What changes for the person releasing
J5 Nightly, as today.J5 Stable. With no input it promotes the newest nightly; give a tag to promote another.Released pin:line in FORK.md is still updated by a PR after a stable release.J5 Releaseis run by hand.Refusals
J5 Stablerefuses a nightly older than the current stable release, which would offer every stable install an older build.J5 Stablerefuses a nightly whose number an earlier promotion already took. Two nightlies built on one day before any stable release share a number, and only one can become it.J5 Releaserun by hand publishes only a preview. A stable release comes only fromJ5 Stable.0.0.49-nightly.*) cannot be promoted. The first stable release under this scheme needs a date nightly first.Consequences to accept
J5_UPSTREAM_T3_CODE_VERSION(FORK.md case 59) still says which T3 Code release J5 is built on.What changed
scripts/j5/release-version.ts(J5-owned, with tests) computes a nightly's version from the build date and that day's stable tags, and the stable version a nightly is promoted to.J5 Nightlyuses it in place of upstream'sscripts/resolve-nightly-release.ts, which is left untouched and unused.J5 Stable(new) resolves the nightly, then calls the same signed macOS build and release workflows the nightly uses.J5 Releaseaccepts a stable or nightly date version from a calling workflow, and only a preview from a manual run.J5 CIno longer runs onj5/release-*branches, which the old stable flow used.Verified
j5 updateand the server, and the installer's tag patterns against a sample release index.J5 Release's rules were run against ten kinds of call with a stubbed GitHub client: date nightly and stable accepted; old-form versions, called previews, manual stable and manual nightly refused; a stable tag at another commit refused with "Promote a newer nightly".Not verified
J5 NightlyandJ5 Stablerun only onj5/main, so the first real run is after merge.0.0.49-nightly.*to a date nightly on a real install, for the server and for the Mac app's nightly track.Suggested order after merge: publish one date nightly, move the server and the Mac app to it, then promote it with
J5 Stablewhen it has been used.Upstream impact
No upstream-owned file is edited. The four workflows and the script are J5's. FORK.md's CI section and the
Released pin:note are updated.Checklist
FORK.md(case text and file-table row) in this PR. None edited.docs/j5/product/upstream.md. None.AGENTS.md). Release tooling only; mobile keeps its own version.docs/j5/product/and user docs rewritten where this changes them. The packaging runbook; no user doc describes the number's form.Claude Opus 5.5, Claude Code.
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