XLVIII.18 records 2026-11-11: the LFS trim (Captain Bob: "they can be
trimmed out"), version.h untracked and BLOCK_MAP.md without its timestamp
(#145), my put-back error and its fix, the acceptance rulings (never in the
background; all logs and CSVs are evidence), the acceptance of 9415d7ed,
and alpha.4's Gitea release marked final.
README: alpha.4's release is no longer a pre-release.
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Run one stage at a time in the foreground through scripts/nightly.sh:
20261111-185352 amd64 PASS
20261111-185600 aarch64 PASS
20261111-185950 riscv64 PASS
20261111-190128 stick-high PASS
PARITY:V4_POST tests=538 pass=538 fail=0, POST: PASSED, [zuse@Hera] ok>
on every boot; word_count=318 dict_hash=0x8c92508f748f99cf on all three;
test-32 39 programs, 0 failures.
scripts/nightly.sh images -- the stage the version.h put-back had broken --
built PC, RASPI and MILKV and left the tree as committed.
DoE CSVs for every boot (empty, as every v4 acceptance boot's: #141).
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90c5c140 untracked v3/include/version.h, but six places still put it back
with git checkout. Git refuses the whole checkout when one path is unknown:
- scripts/nightly.sh images (set -e): the stage ended there, so the nightly
(images, publish, proofs) and release.yml (images, docs, gitea-release)
would fail. Acceptance does not run images, so it passed.
- scripts/check_images.sh (no -e), demo/build-iso.sh, demo/mint-zuse.sh
(|| true): silently put nothing back, BLOCK_MAP.md and the SBOM included.
- scripts/qemu_session.py: an error after every boot, otherwise harmless.
- boards/BRINGUP.md: the step said to put it back.
BLOCK_MAP.md stays in every put-back: a signed build (CI's) still rewrites
its Signed column. Found while setting up alpha.5; Captain Bob: fix it.
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amd64, aarch64, riscv64 (clean qemu), stick-high, test-32, run one at a
time in the foreground through scripts/nightly.sh:
PARITY:V4_POST tests=538 pass=538 fail=0, POST: PASSED, [zuse@Hera] ok>
on every boot; PARITY:V4_SYSTEM word_count=318
dict_hash=0x8c92508f748f99cf on all three; test-32 39 programs, 0 failures.
No tracked file changed across the five builds.
20261111-170703 amd64 PASS
20261111-170909 aarch64 PASS
20261111-171235 riscv64 PASS
20261111-171410 stick-high PASS
Also kept as evidence:
20261111-170134 amd64 on aec7ddb5 (before the clean-tree fix), PASS
20261111-170544 amd64 on 90c5c140, stopped by me during boot: it had been
started in the background, against the protocol, and was
rerun in the foreground as 20261111-170703
DoE CSVs for every completed boot (experiments/bare_metal/runs).
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v3/include/version.h is written by every build (kernel/Makefile and
v3/Makefile, both FORCE), with a timestamp and the last build's ARCH; the
committed copy was stale (LITHOS_VERSION 2.1.0). Untracked, and .gitignore's
entry corrected: it said include/version.h, the path before the move to v3/,
and matched nothing.
capsules/BLOCK_MAP.md differed on every build only in mkcapsule's
"Generated ... <timestamp>" header. The timestamp is dropped, so the manifest
changes only when the capsules do; two runs are byte-identical.
mkcapsule's warnings unchanged (5, #143).
Captain Bob, 2026-11-11: untrack version.h and fix the ignore; drop the
manifest timestamp.
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Their pointers were committed in a5ed8c3d (2026-08-01) and the objects were
never uploaded: the server answers 404 for all of them, and no copy exists
(Captain Bob, 2026-11-11: "they can be trimmed out").
Removed: 3,827 phase-1 logs (docs/working/archive/legacy/phase-1), 3 in
docs/working/archive/historical, 106 DoE CSVs in experiments/bare_metal/runs,
QEMU_BASELINE.log, docs/SYSTEM_NARRATIVE.log, docs/ontology.log.
Kept: the 5 LaTeX build logs under docs/patent (legal hold) -- excluded from
fetch instead. .lfsconfig excludes every one of these paths, so older commits
check out and LFS fetches run without 404s.
Every LFS pointer left in the tree (1,195) has its object on the server.
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These logs/ files were committed as plain text even though
.gitattributes routes logs/**/*.log through the LFS filter, so every
fresh clone showed them all as modified. Renormalize them so they are
stored as LFS pointers. File contents are unchanged.
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PublicInquiry files the inquiry as before, then mails it through the wiki's mail service: plain text, the subject fixed but for the topic (line breaks removed), Reply-To the visitor's checked address, a link to the filed entry. If it is not sent the inquiry is filed all the same; a new class field, mailed (E-mailed to Captain Bob), says which, shown on the entry's sheet. Installed on the .org; a guest's test inquiry filed and thanked, mailed 0 -- the wiki has no SMTP account yet (Mail.MailConfig: no host), which Captain Bob sets in Administration > Email.
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The design canvas (v17) gains the Documents artboard -- the Book of Fabric and
the Dictionary of v4 first, then the book, the three volumes and the API
reference, each with its SHA-256, and the SSRN paper -- and Downloads and
Documents in every .com nav; Downloads' reading list becomes a pointer to
Documents. site/com/canvas/ copied from it.
site/com/build.py --release TAG --sums SHA256SUMS builds Downloads and
Documents from the release ([TAG], [RELEASE]/<file>, [SHA:<file>]; a file the
release's SHA256SUMS lacks fails the build). Without a release it builds Home,
Try it and Inquiries exactly as before -- byte for byte -- with no link to the
two pages, so they go live only with alpha.4. install.sh installs them when
built.
scripts/nightly.sh gitea-release: the release's SHA256SUMS now covers every
file it attaches -- the images' sums, then the PDFs and the Root CA's
certificate -- so `sha256sum -c SHA256SUMS` checks all of it and Documents
finds each sum. The Nexus artifacts keep their own.
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make dictionary -> build/docs/Dictionary.pdf (20 pages): mkdictionary.py checks docs/reference/v4-dictionary.tsv against the booted system's words first, so a stale dictionary fails the build; then Markdown, pandoc, docs/book/dictionary.tex (the books' preamble, its own title page: version and commit). Quoted FORTH tokens set as code, so their quotes print straight. The nightly's docs stage builds it; publish sends classifier dictionary; the Gitea release attaches it.
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The names from the system itself (the hosted v4's WORDS, plus the kernel's sk_v4_words[]); the stack notation and description in docs/reference/v4-dictionary.tsv, drafted from the source where it says (54 stacks, 105 descriptions), the rest to write. check refuses a missing, unfinished or stale entry.
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`make fabric` -> build/docs/BookOfFabric.pdf (722 pages): Part I the living
record (FABRIC-3), Part II the closed documents in the order written, Part
III the forward-looking notes; its title page carries the version (git
describe --tags: a release's tag) and the commit. Built from the same pandoc
fragments as the book; the book's preamble moved into docs/book/preamble.tex,
shared by both (the book builds as before, 821 pages).
scripts/nightly.sh: the docs stage builds it ($DOCS/fabric.pdf); publish
sends it as classifier `fabric`; gitea-release attaches every PDF in $DOCS,
so every release carries it. Progress for the rest of alpha.4's documents:
docs/v4.0.0/plans/2026-11-10-alpha4-documents.md.
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Task 5 of plan 2026-10-29-stick-5, accepted in full, and with it #92:
- amd64, aarch64, riscv64: PARITY:V4_POST tests=538 pass=538 fail=0,
POST: PASSED; word_count=318 dict_hash=0x8c92508f748f99cf on the three
- the PC stick as built, loaded high: 538/538, the prompt
- make -C v4 test-32: 39 programs, 0 failures
Sessions: fallback, replace, mint_fail, system_pull_real; regressions:
every Task 4 session, genesis, stick_genesis, screen_dark_until_login,
screen_dark_after_logout, kbd_typeahead, emergency. Verdicts in
logs/20261110-075036/verdicts/. The plan's Task 5 ticked; STICK.md 11
increment 5a done; FABRIC-3 XLVIII.17; the SER5 bench steps in
boards/BRINGUP.md 4.2.
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First boot (genesis, growth, the time to the prompt), the second boot, MINT-ZUSE onto a second stick, the system stick alone (the fixed screen), both sticks at power-on -- each rehearsed first in QEMU by the qemu_session.py mode named. 3.2's 'boots headless' corrected: the stick's first boot now mints its Zuse.
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The four lines on the screen and serial while the proxy is recognised and her stick is not here; R runs sk_v4_mint_zuse(), every other key is dropped. Her stick pulled: the screen again. The system stick pulled while hers is in: hers let go first (the block chain's tail), remembered for the system stick's return. Builds on three ISAs; fallback running.
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Task 4 of plan 2026-10-29-stick-5, accepted in full:
- amd64, aarch64, riscv64: PARITY:V4_POST tests=538 pass=538 fail=0,
POST: PASSED; PARITY:V4_SYSTEM word_count=318 dict_hash=0x8c92508f748f99cf
on the three (MINT-ZUSE, the lone node's second word)
- the PC stick as built, loaded high: 538/538, the prompt
- make -C v4 test-32: 39 programs, 0 failures
Sessions: mint_zuse on the three; mint_zuse_refuse, mint_small,
mint_zuse_used, mint_pull_system, zuse_stick_first; regressions genesis,
two_sticks, hotplug, midpull, typeahead. Verdicts in
logs/20261110-051726/verdicts/. The plan's Task 4 ticked; FABRIC-3 XLVIII.16.
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A GPT stick with an identity partition and no Artemis, the system stick in and its marker naming a real Zuse: checked against the real key; a match attached and logged in (a running session moves to her); no match: 'not this system's Zuse stick -- not used'. Arriving first, it is remembered and checked when the marker is read. Builds on three ISAs; mint_zuse running.
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The header scan (Captain Bob, 2026-11-10): 788 source files -- 351 with the
SL-1.0 header, 12 with the old name (docs/working/experiments, kept by
ruling), 31 under someone else's licence (tools/kconfig, Linux's, GPL-2.0:
kept), and 394 with none. Ruled: the SPDX form; capsules (.4th, .f18) and
proofs (.thy) left for a ruling of their own (mkcapsule's 64x16 block format,
content-addressed capsules).
253 files now begin
SPDX-License-Identifier: LicenseRef-Starship-1.0
Copyright (c) 2023-2026 Robert A. James
as a /* */ block (C, headers, assembly, linker scripts) or # lines (scripts,
Makefiles, Kconfig; below a shebang or a coding line); tools/mkcapsule.c,
which had the copyright line, gets the SPDX line only.
Not touched: docs/working/ (archive and old campaign material, as the
ruling kept the experiments); v4/system/post_cases.c (generated by
v4/tools/mkpost.py, "do not edit" -- the generator has the header).
Comments only: the kernel builds on amd64, aarch64, riscv64; make -C v4
test-32: 39 programs, 0 failures; every changed script parses.
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Asks for a stick, shows its size, writes nothing until YES; then gpt_write_one, the partition's first devblocks zeroed, a fresh Zuse minted, read back, and only then the marker's real key. Any failure before the marker: 'failed -- nothing changed'. The gate remembers the last stick it turned away as a spare, offered first by the next mint. Builds on three ISAs; not yet called.
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sk_v4_identity_offer_wait() beats until a stick that is not this system's arrives (offered), a key is pressed, or the system stick leaves; sk_v4_identity_recheck_offered() runs the arrival check again once the mint has written it. Builds on three ISAs; not yet called.
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The old MBR zeroed first, the backup header and entries, the primary, the protective MBR last: a write torn anywhere leaves no table. Builds clean on amd64, aarch64, riscv64; checked on the host against blank 600 MiB and 32 MiB images and a used Zuse stick (sfdisk --verify clean, gpt_read reads it back). Not yet called.
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347 headers said "Licensed under the StarForth License, Version 1.0" -- a
shortening (Captain Bob, 2026-11-08: "License file SL I think I shortened
accidently"); LICENSE is, and has been since the first commit, the
Starship License 1.0 (SL-1.0, SPDX LicenseRef-Starship-1.0). 349 files,
566 occurrences, now "Starship License, Version 1.0 (SL-1.0)".
Left as they are, pending a ruling: docs/patent/ (the patent figures),
docs/formal/ (the citable volumes) and the generated reports under
docs/working/experiments/ (32 files). Comments and license text only:
the amd64 kernel builds, every changed script parses.
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