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Release v1.26.3 RC1#84

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Summary

  • Cut RC1 for v1.26.3 from release/v1.26.3-rc1 and publish tag v1.26.3-rc1.
  • Include merged changes since v1.26.1, with configuration/security hardening, binlog/config stability fixes, test and workflow improvements, and documentation updates.
  • Add release management artifacts for this cycle: RC plan, RC checklist/status tracker, and release notes draft/template.

Test plan

  • Validate CI is green on release/v1.26.3-rc1
  • Run core plugin build/load and functional regression checks
  • Run online index update validation flow
  • Complete performance smoke checks (startup/query/memory sanity)
  • Review release/RELEASE_NOTES_DRAFT.md and CHANGELOG.md
  • Confirm documentation updates are complete for user-visible changes

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Moderate risk: changes touch GitHub Actions build/publish flow and remove/adjust Windows-specific code paths, which can impact release automation and cross-platform builds. Core plugin logic changes are limited to portability wrappers and file deletion calls.

Overview
Cuts the v1.26.3 RC by adding release artifacts (RC plan/checklists/status, draft/template release notes) and updating CHANGELOG.md/docs to reflect the release scope and that Windows is not supported.

CI/workflows are reworked: linter.yml now runs actionlint only (download script; no Super-Linter), and docker-publish.yml splits multi-arch plugin builds into per-arch native runners, uploads the .so artifacts, and then assembles/publishes multi-arch images from those artifacts.

Code/build portability is tightened by removing Win32-specific config-file handling in myvector_binlog.cc, dropping WIN32 branches in include/hnswdisk.h, and introducing small _WIN32 wrappers in myvector.cc (e.g., myvector_unlink, myvector_strcasecmp, time formatting). Adds scripts/smoke-published-images.sh plus release docs to standardize post-publish GHCR smoke testing.

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This captures the RC plan, checklist, status tracker, and draft notes required to run RC1 with explicit scope and documentation gates.

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askdba commented Mar 19, 2026

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Documentation-only change that adds release/RC tracking artifacts and updates release notes; no product code paths are modified.

Overview
Prepares the v1.26.3 RC1 by adding release-management documentation: an RC process plan, an RC1 checklist and status tracker, and release notes draft/template under release/.

Updates CHANGELOG.md with a new 1.26.3 entry (and compare link) summarizing the planned additions/changes/fixes and noting that no schema migration is required and Component PRs are excluded by RC policy.

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# Last released tag (most recent reachable tag)
LAST_TAG="$(git describe --tags --abbrev=0)"

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P2 Badge Filter out RC tags when selecting LAST_TAG

LAST_TAG="$(git describe --tags --abbrev=0)" can pick the most recent pre-release tag (for example v1.26.3-rc1) rather than the previous stable release, and every later step in this runbook (git log/diff "${LAST_TAG}..HEAD") will then omit most of the intended release scope. git describe -h documents --tags as "use any tag, even unannotated", so this range is unstable once RC tags exist; please constrain the match to stable tags (or explicitly exclude *-rc*) so RC2/final notes are generated from the correct baseline.

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Addressed in commit 5f18540. Updated LAST_TAG selection to stable semantic tags only (--match "v[0-9]*.[0-9]*.[0-9]*") so RC tags are not used as release baseline.

This resolves duplicate markdown headings and terminology linting so the RC1 lint workflow can pass.

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This updates LAST_TAG selection to match stable version tags and fixes the RC status branch field to the release branch.

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Addressed bot feedback in commit 5f18540:

1 Updated RC runbook selection to match only stable semantic tags (ignores ).
2) Updated RC1 status tracker to .
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askdba commented Mar 19, 2026

Addressed bot feedback in commit 5f18540:

  1. Updated RC runbook LAST_TAG selection to match only stable semantic tags (ignores -rc tags).
  2. Updated RC1 status tracker Working branch now to release/v1.26.3-rc1.

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This adds --exclude '*-rc*' so release baseline selection remains on the latest stable tag.

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Documents GHCR publish timing, tags to pull, and optional online-updates test.
RC1 checklist links to the plan; smoke-published-images.sh pulls mysql8.0/8.4/9.6 and runs smoke-readme.sh.

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- Open config with CreateFile; ACL check via GetSecurityInfo on same HANDLE
- Capture GetLastError immediately on open failure
- Treat GetAclInformation failure as insecure; log with warning_print

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Remove WIN32 branches from myvector.cc, myvector_binlog.cc, and hnswdisk.h.
Unix/Linux/macOS only: POSIX config load, PLUGIN_EXPORT, Hamming popcount.
Document that Windows is not a supported build target in CONFIGURATION.md.

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- tasks/PLANNING.md: plan defaults, subagents, verification, lessons loop
- tasks/todo.md, tasks/lessons.md: templates
- .cursor/rules/agent-workflow.mdc: alwaysApply summary
- docs/STRUCTURE.md: document tasks/ directory

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- POST_RC_DOCKER_SMOKE_PLAN: next steps after CI complete
- RC1 checklist §9: ordered gates including Publish Docker Image
- tasks/PLANNING: verification reminder for registry smoke

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…y in myvector.cc

- Split docker-publish: build plugins per-arch (ubuntu-24.04-arm for arm64)
  to avoid QEMU/apt segfaults; merge artifacts before smoke/push
- Restore PLUGIN_EXPORT dllexport on Windows; portable unlink/strcasecmp/time

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- Delegate exploration/research to subagents when it keeps context clean.
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Cursor IDE config committed in release candidate

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The .cursor/rules/agent-workflow.mdc file is Cursor IDE-specific agent configuration being committed as part of a release candidate. The .dockerignore already lists .cursor, indicating awareness this directory is tool-specific and shouldn't be distributed. This IDE configuration with alwaysApply: true doesn't belong in a versioned release artifact — it's personal/team tooling that could affect other Cursor users who clone the repo.

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New unreachable _WIN32 code added despite Windows removal

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New #ifdef _WIN32 code blocks are added in myvector.cc (time formatting at line 2222, macros at line 50) while hnswdisk.h and myvector_binlog.cc now unconditionally include Unix-only headers like <unistd.h> and <sys/time.h>. Any Windows build fails at include time, making these new _WIN32 blocks unreachable dead code. The release notes and changelog explicitly state Win32 code paths were removed, contradicting the addition.

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askdba added 7 commits March 20, 2026 21:55
- Bump softprops/action-gh-release v1 -> v2 (actionlint: outdated runner)
- Set VALIDATE_NATURAL_LANGUAGE false (empty textlint config exits 1)
- Tweak DOCKER_IMAGES and tasks/lessons wording

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SHA-pinned actions and flags GHCR/read-all permissions. Configure ref-pin
for all actions and ignore repo-specific permission/checkout findings.

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Super-linter resolves config under LINTER_RULES_PATH (default .github/linters),
not .github/. Move zizmor.yaml there and set LINTER_RULES_PATH in linter.yml
so GITHUB_ACTIONS_ZIZMOR picks up the config on CI.

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- VALIDATE_GITHUB_ACTIONS_ZIZMOR=false keeps actionlint-only for workflows (zizmor
  caused CI-only failures vs local actionlint)
- FORCE_JAVASCRIPT_ACTIONS_TO_NODE24 for checkout/super-linter JS actions
- lessons: stop/re-plan after lint failures; optional local zizmor

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Super-linter (zizmor + others) caused repeated CI-only failures. PR lint now
runs rhysd/actionlint in Docker on .github/workflows/*.yml only; verified locally.

- Drop super-linter-specific env/permissions
- Document in lessons + .linter.yaml legacy note

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- Avoid Docker on GHA (Hub pulls / setup); use rhysd download script per docs
- actionlint v1.7+ requires -shellcheck <path>; use default shellcheck via -color only
- gitignore /actionlint from local download; update lessons

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Cross-version CI coupling blocks unrelated Docker publishes

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The build-and-publish job uses needs: build-plugin which creates a monolithic dependency on all six build-plugin matrix entries. If any single entry fails (e.g., arm64 build for MySQL 8.0), all three build-and-publish jobs are skipped — including MySQL 8.4 and 9.6 whose builds may have succeeded for both architectures. The previous workflow had each MySQL version fully independent, so a failure in one version never blocked others from building, smoke-testing, or publishing.

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