FORGEFIRM_RELEASE = 0.0.5 and the acceptance artifact that authorizes it:
campaign c-20260915231006 on the dev image 20260915225440 (grbl pin
0.1.17, forgefirm 52a9138), authorized, all required tests passed on the
bench reference.
FORGEFIRM_RELEASE 0.0.4. The acceptance record that authorizes this
build: campaign c-20260912182427-e1ee on dev image 20260912180956
(manifest 8bb5b6f3), 85 tests, 85 satisfied, 0 required, exported
2026-09-12T19:21:35Z. The release notes in releases/v0.0.4/notes.md
name this the first public beta; the pipeline takes a release's
notes.md, when it carries one, in place of GitHub's generated notes.
FORGEFIRM_RELEASE takes 0.0.3. The file sits outside the layer content
hash, so the bump changes the version and invalidates no acceptance
result.
releases/v0.0.3 carries the artifact the bench exported for this image:
campaign c-20260911182256-078f on 20260911172215 (dev), manifest identity
fb24c3f4508ae54592f8d0b98ed0b2a07a933274980d8c1e4e5a967618ef9bd8, 83
tests, 83 satisfied (57 inherited), 0 required, release authorized. The
release gate recomputes every catalog test's domain fingerprint from the
manifest inside the release rootfs and signs only when the recorded
results agree.
The release carries, since v0.0.2: the lens frame in one place, so every
Z a commissioning card sends comes from the settings the controller
opens its Z limit from (the tail at the head's reference, the focus
window written before the card's controller starts, every program judged
against the reach before its first line goes out); the commissioning
sheet acceptance test run as a fresh machine's; and the CPU percent on
/status that holds across a status read inside the same scheduler tick
as another reader's. Components: forgectrl 0.1.20, grblhal-glowforge
0.1.11, forgefirm-app 0.1.28+git, kernel-module 0.0.5, meta-openglow
ced2af2.
FORGEFIRM_RELEASE takes 0.0.2. The file sits outside the layer content
hash, so the bump changes the version and invalidates no acceptance
result.
releases/v0.0.2 carries the artifact the bench exported for this image:
campaign c-20260910181641-11a2 on 20260910181308 (dev), manifest identity
a31c820d26d09155d2bf7c629389c5dba5e55d2b52dbbc0ccab5440b187b3b3c, 83
tests, 83 satisfied (57 inherited), 0 required, release authorized. The
release gate recomputes every catalog test's domain fingerprint from the
manifest inside the release rootfs and signs only when the recorded
results agree.
The release carries, since v0.0.1: every machine named after its own MAC
with mDNS dropped, the fan run posture a diagnostic measures, the
hand-back rules the bench now enforces, the flow-load tail ending at the
coolant peak, and the stream flag a dead session leaves behind cleared by
the session that takes the device. Components: forgectrl 0.1.17,
grblhal-glowforge 0.1.11, forgefirm-app 0.1.28+git, kernel-module
0.0.5, meta-openglow ced2af2.
Setting the release number was a platform change. FORGEFIRM_RELEASE sat
in forgefirm-image.bb, the recipe hashes as content of meta-forgefirm,
and a change to the content of a layer invalidates every acceptance
result. So a version bump threw away the campaign that was meant to
authorize that very release, and the number therefore had to be decided
before the image the campaign ran on. Nothing said so: the release-flow
page went straight from the kas configuration to the artifact and the
pipeline, while the gate quietly required the recipe value, the rootfs
stamp, the archive's meta-version and the tag to agree. v0.0.1 was cut
on a tree whose number happened to be right; the next one would have
cost a second campaign to discover the rule.
The number moves to forgefirm-release.inc, which carries it and nothing
else, and the manifest leaves that file out of the layer content hash
exactly as it leaves out the component pin files
(FORGEFIRM_MANIFEST_VERSION_SUFFIX, and the same list in
scripts/manifest-from-tree.py, which computes the identity on a
workstation and must agree byte for byte). release.sh reads the number
from the new file.
The version is metadata, not platform content, and this only makes the
manifest say what it already meant: the version string was already
outside the identity hash, and it was the file carrying it that defeated
that. Nothing is weakened. release.sh still requires the number to equal
the rootfs stamp, the .fw meta-version and the release tag, and
image.health still compares the stamp on the running machine with the
manifest's.
Proven: the tree manifest is byte-identical across a bump from 0.0.1 to
0.0.2 (identity a64e51b8e5ecca0af683d4f0 either way, the meta-forgefirm
layer hash unchanged), where before the two differed. bitbake resolves
FORGEFIRM_RELEASE=0.0.1 and FORGEFIRM_VERSION_STRING=v0.0.1 for the
release image through the new require, and the dev image still overrides
the string with its build timestamp.
ScottW514