Changelog

All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.

The format is based on Keep a Changelog, and this project adheres to Semantic Versioning.

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• The conformance suite now checks the -01 drafts of the artifact-format, repo-state and sync-protocol specifications (the delta format stays on -00; there is no -01). The -00 errata are folded into -01 and no longer pinned; the six -01 errata are pinned for the fossil 2.28 behavior they record. conformance/rfcs/README.md records the zit check-in each copy came from. New cases cover the date tag's event time, the Julian-day grammar, a delta manifest naming a delta, dropped reserved F cards, the trailing-punctuation retry, truncated payloads, errors N, refused pushes and the private-content gimme answer. No library behavior changes. Where -01 departs from fossil 2.28, the cases follow the draft: a cancelled, unparsable or 0 date tag keeps the D-card time under repo-state-01 §4.2 step 6, where go-libfossil, like fossil, stores no time or a time of 0; those cases are marked as deviations. The draft non-conformances the re-pin exposes are tracked in #370, #371, #372, #373, #374 and #375.
• More conformance cases for the artifact and delta suites: single-name lookup in a delta manifest (8.4), a lowercase K and R card from the writer (4.7.9, 6.3.4), date-only timestamps (4.6.4), mismatching delta checksums beyond the first (3.4), and the 2^32 limit on delta sizes (3.1), checked with an unread 4 GiB mapping (skipped where it cannot be mapped). AF-4.7.9-1, AF-8.4-1, DF-3-2, DF-3.1-6 and DF-3.4-3 are now covered. AF-6.3-5 stays uncovered (go-libfossil does not check the R card at commit, tracked in #387), and so does AF-7.1-2 (no hash-policy value-string surface to drive). Artifact-format-01 Section 4.6.4 lets a reader accept the time-only and now/subsec forms (a reader MAY accept forms 2 through 5), so deck.Parse keeps rejecting them while fossil(1) and the date-tag path (SQLite julianday) accept them.
• The conformance suite covers eleven more sync-protocol-01 rows and part of a twelfth: the peer-lacks gimme filter, the twentieth redirect, VT, FF and server-side token runs, the SHA3 refusal left out of errors N, the Clone, Private and Admin capability checks, the fossilized uvfile NAME, the deferred clone configuration, the well-formed uvigot ban, the private inventory under private sync, the private-igot continuation, the written and kept check-in lock, and a discarded pragma link ARG. Where fossil(1) 2.28 differs (it repeats a gimme for a hash the peer lacks, refuses an escaped uvfile NAME, and sends a well-formed uvigot past max-upload), the cases follow the draft and record fossil's behavior. SP-9.5-4 stays partial: go-libfossil has no share-links mode, so no link is stored.

Fixed

• The sync client answers a server's gimme for content it holds as private, outside a private sync, with igot HASH 1 when the server's pragma server-version dates it 2020-04-13 or later, and with nothing for an older or undated server, as sync-protocol-01 Section 8.6 and fossil's send_file do. Such an answer to the first reply continues the session once (Section 3.7 limb c). It previously sent nothing.
• The uvfile, uvigot and uvgimme NAME is fossilized on the wire, as sync-protocol-01 Section 7.3 and Appendix B require: a name with a space goes out as a\sb.txt, and a received NAME is defossilized before it is checked as a pathname and stored. fossil(1) 2.28 sends the name raw and checks the token as sent, refusing any escape; names that need no escaping are unchanged on the wire, and the code follows -01. A raw backslash escape in a received NAME is now undone, where it was refused. The uv-hash catalog hashes and sorts each name in its fossilized form (Section 8.5.1), which is what fossil(1) hashes for a name it holds as sent.
• The server's check-in locks share fossil's lock table: a lock is the config row ci-lock-HASH holding JSON login and clientid, timed by the row's mtime, where go-libfossil wrote libfossil-ci-lock-HASH, so a repository served by both saw two tables. A live lock is now kept as it is, holder and time, when its own client asks again, where it was refreshed (Section 9.4), and a lock is stale once it is the lock timeout old, not only after. The timeout is the repository's lock-timeout setting, 60 seconds when unset, as in fossil. Rows left under the old libfossil-ci-lock- key are deleted the next time a lock is requested. pragma ci-lock is taken only with exactly a hash and a client id, as in fossil, where it wrote a lock for any two tokens. The server still ignores ci-lock and ci-unlock from a requester without Write capability, where Section 9.4 applies them to any (#392).
• The sync client's unversioned-file session now stops after request 3 when that request's uvgimme brings back no uvfile, as Section 3.7(d) and fossil's nCycle<3 do; it ran one request more.
• Looking up one file in a delta manifest follows artifact-format-01 Section 8.4: the delta's own F cards are searched first, and a delete marker answers not-found without reading the baseline, so a deleted name no longer fails when the baseline is missing. A name the delta does not mention still needs the baseline and fails without it. The new manifest.LookupFile serves Repo.ReadFile, manifest.FileAt, annotate, the merge resolver and conflict-file reads, and no longer lists the whole file set for one name.
• deck.Deck.Marshal writes the K card's ticket ID (Section 4.7.9) and the R card's checksum (Section 6.3.4) in lowercase, as those sections require of a writer, even when the deck came from an artifact whose parser-accepted card was uppercase.
• The sync server handles request cards in request order, as fossil's page_xfer does (#385). Before this, the login card was verified first and every control card was handled ahead of the data cards. So a file card sent before its push card was stored, and cards sent before a successful login got the login's capabilities. Now that file card is refused with not authorized to write, and cards before the login get nobody's capabilities. fossil rolls back the whole request when it reaches an invalid clone sequence (sync-protocol-01 Section 8.1). Here a request that holds such a clone card is first walked without side effects, so no earlier card writes before the fatal.
• A push refused without an earlier pull now resets the reply and is answered error not authorized to write, and card processing continues. A refused pull resets, is answered error not authorized to read and ends card processing. These are the sync-protocol-01 Section 6.6 texts. They replace push denied: insufficient capabilities and pull denied: insufficient capabilities, which neither reset nor stopped (#385).
• After an accepted push the server now asks for its own phantoms, as fossil's request_phantoms(&xfer, 500) does. It sends at most 500 gimme cards, ahead of a pull's igot inventory, and also after a broken card loop (Section 6.4). Phantoms the client asked for this round, shunned names and private ones outside a private sync are left out. A pushed igot now makes a phantom, as Section 8.5 says, instead of drawing a gimme on the spot. So a file card later in the same request fills the phantom without being asked for. An igot or gimme whose name is not an artifact name is a bad command, as in fossil (#385). Unlike fossil's validate16, an uppercase hex name is refused too, since the blob table only holds lowercase names. A run of igot cards stores its phantoms in one transaction. Still open: #389, #390, #391.
• A clone no longer aborts on a reply card it cannot read (Sections 5.2 and 10.1). An unknown or malformed card ends the reply-card loop, and the cards before it are kept. The session continues, including the mandatory second clone round, and then fails naming the card, as the pull path already does after #373 (#385).
• deck.Parse accepts every Julian-day spelling artifact-format-01 Section 4.6.4 form 5 allows: a sign, an exponent, a leading point and a trailing point. Hex, inf, nan and _ stay rejected, and the bound is now checked after rounding to the millisecond, so 5373484.4999999999 and 1e-10 are rejected as in fossil (#370).
• manifest.ListFiles and crosslink accept a delta manifest whose B card names another delta manifest, as artifact-format-01 Section 4.7.3 requires and fossil's manifest_get does. The file set is the named delta's own F cards overlaid by this manifest's, one level, without following the named delta's B card. This reverses the refusal added for #275; -00 forbade it and -01 reverses that, so the code follows -01. The named delta's delete markers are dropped from the set, and the commit writer never emits a B card naming a delta manifest (#371).
• A check-in's event time now follows repo-state-01 §4.2 step 6 whatever order the check-in and its date tags arrive in (#372). Crosslinking a check-in read its date tagxref row whatever its source, so re-crosslinking after a propagating date tag retimed every descendant that had inherited it; only a tag applied directly to the check-in now sets its time. A cancelled date tag now restores the D-card time, and a value that does not parse, or parses (by SQLite julianday) to a time that is not positive, is ignored and keeps the D-card time, where go-libfossil, like fossil 2.28, stored no time or a time of 0. The rule lives in one place, tag.RefreshEventTime, which both tag application and crosslinking call; event.omtime still keeps the D-card time. This departs from fossil 2.28, whose result for these cases depends on arrival order. The date-tag-cancel, -unparsable and -zero conformance cases are no longer marked as deviations, and new -before-checkin cases check the same three with the tags arriving while the check-in is a phantom.
• The sync client no longer sends an unversioned file named by SHA3 to a server whose pragma server-version predates SHA3 support (#303). It sends error Fossil\sversion\s2.0\sor\slater\srequired. in its place, as sync-protocol-01 Section 7.6 and fossil's send_unversioned_file do, whether the card would carry content or not; a deletion tombstone names no hash and still goes. Artifacts were already gated this way.
• Outside a private sync, the sync server answers a gimme for private content with igot HASH 1 when the peer's pragma client-version dates it 2020-04-13 or later, and with nothing for an earlier or missing date, as sync-protocol-01 Section 8.6 and fossil's send_file do (#375). It used to send nothing whatever the date. The server now records the peer's check-in date from the pragma.
• The sync server's refusals now follow sync-protocol-01 Sections 5.3, 6.4 and 6.6 (#374). A file or cfile card sent without an accepted push resets the reply, is refused with error not\sauthorized\sto\swrite and ends card processing, where it used to be refused alone (file HASH rejected: no push card) and the cards after it still ran. A refused login (a wrong password, or a second login card) ends card processing at its own position instead of ending the request: the cards before it keep their effect, the igot inventory of an accepted pull still follows the error, and the reply ends with the timestamp comment. errors N in that comment now counts the errors raised, including those a later reset discarded, and leaves out the bad-command error, the private-content refusal and the SHA3 refusal, as fossil's nErr does.
• A file, cfile or uvfile payload cut short by the end of the body is now the card's handler failure, as sync-protocol-01 Section 5.1 requires (#373). The decoder used to fail the whole message, so a server answered HTTP 400 and a client dropped the reply. It now yields the card as a malformed line and stops: a server answers 200 with error malformed\sfile\sline (or the cfile or uvfile text) and keeps the effect of the cards before it, and a client keeps the prefix it has processed and records the error. The short payload is never stored. This follows -01, not fossil 2.28, which stores the bytes present.
• Tests that run fossil server no longer flake with "directory not empty" during temp-dir cleanup (#352). Fossil forks a child per connection, and killing only the parent let a child write into the directory while it was being removed. They now share testutil.StartServer, which puts the server in its own process group and kills the whole group before reaping it.
• A check-in's event.bgcolor, euser and ecomment now follow its bgcolor, user and comment tags as fossil's tag_insert and manifest_crosslink do (#343). tag.ApplyTagWithTx set event.bgcolor only for a propagating bgcolor tag, so a singleton one did nothing and a cancel left the colour in place, and it never touched euser or ecomment. It now sets all three for every tag type, writing NULL for a cancel, and crosslinking a check-in reads the three values back from tagxref, so a tag that reached the check-in while it was a phantom takes effect.

• The sync server's xtable-hash now needs a direction card (#351), not Read alone. Read is derived for a Clone-only requester (#312), which then received an inventory of table keys and mtimes it can neither pull (xgimme needs a pull card) nor push against. The gate is Read plus an accepted pull or push card: a push-only table-sync client still gets the inventory it uses to queue newer local rows. Table sync is a go-libfossil extension with no fossil counterpart. The private-clone card order the issue also raised needs no change: the clone client has no private mode and never sent pragma send-private; a comment records fossil's order for when one is added.

• The sync client's per-request gimme limit now follows fossil's mxPhantomReq exactly (#350). The cap itself (200, or twice the files the last round received) was already in place, but it was recomputed every round; fossil assigns it only when a round continues for its phantoms and otherwise keeps the earlier value, so a round that continues to send files no longer drops a raised limit back to 200. Tests pin the 200 start and the growth rule.

• The sync server no longer asks for a shunned artifact (#349). handleIGot answered an igot for a shunned hash with gimme; fossil's content_new returns 0 for a shunned name, so it makes no phantom and requests nothing. Private igot emission is deliberately unchanged: fossil's send_private has no shun filter, so a shunned private artifact is still announced (contrary to what #349 proposed); a conformance case pins this.

• Tests that run the fossil binary no longer write into the developer's global fossil config (~/.fossil or ~/.config/fossil.db) (#284). Each fossil new, open, clone and serve on a temporary repository left a repo: or ckout: row there that was never removed, and parallel package runs contended for that file's lock. testutil.RequireFossilBin now points HOME, FOSSIL_HOME and XDG_CONFIG_HOME at a per-test directory through the new testutil.IsolateFossilHome, and the tests that resolved fossil with exec.LookPath use it. TestFossilInvocationsIsolateHome fails when a Go file runs exec.Command without one of these.

• Checkout.WouldFork again reports a fork when the checkout's version already has a child on its own branch (#347), as after a pull brings in a child of the checked-out version. Since #291 it was fossil's leaf-ambiguity test, which answers no for a version that is not a leaf, so a commit there created a fork. It is now fossil's commit-time "Would fork" check (!is_a_leaf); another open leaf elsewhere on the branch no longer counts, since a commit extends the checkout's own leaf. The repo-state §7.5 ambiguity test is checkout.LeafAmbiguous.

• branch.Create refuses an open branch name inside the check-in's own transaction (#316). The check ran before manifest.Checkin opened its transaction, and the branch tags were applied in further transactions after it committed, so concurrent creates of one name could all pass the check and all commit. manifest.Checkin now applies its inline tags, parent tag propagation and leaf state inside its transaction, and takes a Precheck that runs first in it; branch.Create checks the name there, so exactly one of several concurrent creates commits.

• verify.Rebuild is atomic again (#335). Since #285 it committed the emptied derived tables before the crosslink sweep ran, so a sweep that failed partway left event, plink, mlink, tagxref, leaf and the rest empty until a later rebuild succeeded. It now empties, re-derives and refills the bookkeeping tables in one transaction, as fossil's rebuild_db does, and a failed rebuild rolls back to the state it found. manifest.CrosslinkRebuild now takes the caller's transaction and runs candidate discovery, linking and the leaf and tag repair inside it; the incremental Crosslink path is unchanged.

• A check-in's event.mtime now follows its newest date tag, the one-shot tag fossil amend --date writes, as fossil's manifest_crosslink and tag_insert do (#334). Crosslink used the manifest's D-card time and never applied the override, so every date-amended check-in sorted at its original time in the timeline, tip and branch listings. Crosslinking a check-in now reads a date tag already recorded for it, and applying a date tag later moves the check-in's event.mtime, keeping the original in omtime. tag.AddTag now derives its tag through the same path crosslink uses, so it moves event.mtime and event.bgcolor too.

• verify.Rebuild now derives repository state through the crosslink sweep rather than its own partial derivation (#285). It kept a second derivation that wrote rows only for check-ins and control artifacts: no cluster, wiki, ticket, technote or forum events, applied tags from artifacts the crosslink would refuse, skipped absent tag targets and parents instead of reserving phantoms, wrote no plink baseid, and computed leaves by "no child at all" regardless of branch. Rebuild now empties the derived tables and runs the same sweep a clone runs, so derived state has one owner and matches fossil rebuild in event, plink, mlink, tagxref, leaf and phantom. A new manifest.CrosslinkRebuild runs that sweep in a terminal mode that links a check-in whose content is absent with phantoms rather than deferring it for a blob that will never arrive, as fossil rebuild does. Its branch-aware leaf rule now follows fossil, so an untagged parentless check-in is no longer a leaf (the §7.3 erratum the sweep already observed).

• The sync server lets Clone imply Read at its read gates, as fossil's trunk page_xfer and the §7.3 erratum do (#312). This is an access change: a requester whose anonymous (nobody) capabilities include Clone (g) now receives unversioned files (the catalog, uvgimme answers, and the catalog sent with a clone), the xtable-hash inventory and read-gated configuration from reqconfig. As in fossil, a Clone granted by a login card does not imply Read. Pull still needs Read itself (o): fossil trunk's derived Read also lets a Clone-only nobody pull, and this server deliberately does not. One handler check, canRead, now decides every read gate; auth.CanRead is unchanged.

• Sync login follows §6.4 and §6.5 (#304). Once a server's server-version names a release that reads it (2.27, built 2025-07-27 11:05 or later), the client's HTTP transports send the login card in the x-f-l-c cookie, urlencoded, instead of the body, as fossil's client does; other transports keep it in the body. The server, when a user's stored password is not a 40-character shared secret, checks the signature again against the secret that password derives, as fossil's check_login does for a password stored in clear. A new HandleOpts.LoginCookie field carries the cookie to HandleSyncWithOpts for an embedder that serves sync over its own HTTP handler; without it, a client's cookie login reaches such a server as nobody. XferHandler and ServeHTTP read the cookie themselves.

• Unversioned sync applies a received uvfile as fossil's xfer_accept_unversioned_file does, on both sides (§7.3, #308). The row keeps the HASH the card gave rather than one the repository's hash policy computes, so both catalogs agree; the same content at a later mtime (status 2) moves only the mtime, where it was dropped; and a card that omits its content stores the row with NULL content and size 0, where it changed nothing. The server answers a uvgimme for a name it does not hold with no card, where it sent a tombstone. The client no longer seeds its send table with tombstones (§8.5.1). A received deletion of a name the repository does not hold changes nothing, as fossil's update does. A uvfile line whose HASH is neither an artifact name nor -, or whose NAME is not a strict simple pathname, is malformed and refused, where its HASH was stored as given; and only a card that carries content has its HASH checked, so a deletion or a row stored without content relays.

• Clone replies follow fossil's page_xfer (#306). Each cfile carries the artifact as the blob table stores it, verbatim, followed by an LF when its payload does not end in one (§5.1, §7.2), where the server recompressed it and never padded. Over HTTP a version 3 clone's reply is application/x-fossil-uncompressed (§4.1). With the uv-sync setting on, a clone reply carries the unversioned catalog under pragma uv-pull-only for a requester with Read (§8.4). A clone refused for want of Clone resets the reply and sends the repository's push card ahead of error not authorized to clone (§8.2, §10.1), where the error was appended to what the reply held. A clone whose SEQNO is negative gets no content and clone_seqno 0, where it restarted at the first artifact.

• The sync server answers three more cards as fossil does (#305). A pushed config card from a requester without Admin is refused with error not authorized to push configuration, reset and break (§9.3); one from an Admin is refused as unsupported, since this server does not apply pushed configuration, where both were silently ignored. pragma ci-unlock releases the client's check-in locks (§9.4), for writers, as ci-lock is taken. pragma req-clusters is answered with the cluster igot cards between # sending-clusters and # end-of-clusters (§5.3); it was recorded and never answered. This is an access change: as in fossil, any requester, one without Read included, is sent the names of the public cluster artifacts. Their content still needs Read to fetch.

• Sync exchanges releases and withholds SHA3 content from older peers, as fossil does (§7.6, §9.1, #303). The server answers a pragma client-version that carries DATE and TIME with its own pragma server-version, ahead of any content. Both sides now record the peer's release, and where they would send content named by SHA3 to a peer older than fossil 2.0 (a client that announces no release counts as one), they send error Fossil version 2.0 or later required. in its place: the server for gimme, clone and uvgimme, the client for gimme. Because a server-version from a current release has fossil's client log in through the x-f-l-c cookie, the HTTP server now reads that cookie's login card, its nonce covering the whole body (§6.5).

• The sync client ends a session by §3.7's rules, as fossil's client_sync does (#301). Stored content or a new phantom continues it only while the phantom table is not empty, so neither received content alone nor phantoms the server cannot supply keep it going; a phantom used to be asked for until it had aged three rounds. A gimme for content the client does not hold, or may not send, is dropped where it stayed queued and held the session open until MaxRounds. An igot for a missing artifact now records a phantom in the phantom table, so a later session still asks for it. After a clone's first round, a server error ends that reply and the clone continues as the draft says, with a cleanup round, and Clone then fails naming the error. Phantoms a pull fills are crosslinked once per reply instead of in one transaction each.

• The sync client places pragma send-private where fossil's client_sync does (§3.2, #307): first in its first request and right after client-version in later ones, where it trailed the content cards. A delta's missing basis received under a private card becomes a private phantom, as fossil's content_new makes it, where it became public.

• Sync honors the shun list as fossil does (§3.3, §7.7, #302). A received file or cfile whose hash is shunned is dropped without an error and not counted as received, by the server and the sync client, where each stored it; a clone drops a shunned cfile but keeps a shunned file, as fossil's !cloneFlag exemption does. The client no longer asks for a shunned phantom: the phantom scan, an igot and a clone's delta basis all leave shunned names out, so a delta whose basis is shunned is kept and the basis is never requested. shun.IsShunned now reports a failed lookup as an error instead of "not shunned".

• The sync server stores a uvfile sent without a push card, as fossil uv sync sends it (§7.3, #296). It answered each one with rejected: no push card, so pushing unversioned files from fossil failed. This is an access change: a user with only the unversioned-write capability y can now push unversioned files, as in fossil; Write is no longer also required. A refused uvfile (no y, or a HASH that does not match its content) now resets the reply and ends the card loop, as fossil does.

• The sync server refuses a push or pull card naming another project with error wrong project, as fossil's page_xfer does (§8.5, #309). It accepted either whatever its project code, so a client of an unrelated repository could pull its artifacts or push into it. The refusal comes before any capability check, resets the reply and ends card processing.

• Sync HTTP framing now follows §4 (#310). The server dispatches a request typed application/x-fossil-debug, which it refused with HTTP 415. The client takes only HTTP 200 as a sync reply, so a 201 or other 2xx is an error, and reads a reply's framing as fossil's http.c does: no Content-Type is the compressed container, an x-fossil-debug or x-fossil-uncompressed prefix is plain cards, any other x-fossil prefix is compressed, and a foreign type such as a proxy's HTML page is refused rather than read as cards. A server that writes HandleSync's reply over HTTP must type it application/x-fossil.

• Unknown, wrong-direction and error cards now follow §5.2 and §10 on both sides of a sync (#300). The server answers a client-sent error or message card — reply-only cards fossil's page_xfer has no branch for — with bad command, resetting the reply, rather than ignoring it. The client ends its reply-card loop on an error card, keeping the cards before it, as fossil's client_sync does. A message pull only ... from the server (§10.2) now stops the client pushing: it keeps pulling but answers no further gimme and drops its push card one request later, matching fossil's clearing of SYNC_PUSH. To make that reachable, the client now sends its pull card before its push card (fossil's order), and the server answers a push from a requester who may read but not write with message pull only - not authorized to push instead of an error, so the pull still proceeds.

• The xfer card decoder now follows the draft's card grammar instead of failing a whole message on one bad card (#299). A line no card rule accepts (an unknown operator, a bare pragma, a gimme with a surplus token, a config with a signed size) decodes to a bad-command card: the server resets its reply, answers error bad command: <LINE> and parses on, and the client ends the reply-card loop keeping the cards before it. A file, cfile or uvfile line that cannot be framed decodes to a bad-file card: the receiver emits the handler's message (malformed file line and the like) and stops, as fossil's page_xfer breaks. Tokens are now split on ASCII whitespace only, within fossil's six-token window, so a no-break space no longer separates tokens and a seventh token is ignored rather than rejected; igot and private tolerate a surplus token. A full cfile's USIZE is treated as metadata, not checked against the inflated size, and the byte after a config payload is consumed whatever it is, both matching fossil.

• Repo.ResolveVersion now follows fossil's symbolic_name_to_rid name resolution (src/name.c): it chooses a tag by the carrying check-in's event.mtime rather than tagxref.mtime, no longer falls back to the tip when no check-in carries sym-trunk, tries an artifact-hash prefix before a plain tag, and accepts the rid:, tag:, root:, start:, merge-in: and NAME:TIMESTAMP forms plus a trailing-punctuation retry. A hex prefix now must be 4–64 characters, as fossil requires (#290).

• branch.Create now refuses a name an open branch already carries, as fossil branch new does, and stores no artifact when it refuses. branch.List now reports a branch closed only when its newest check-in carries a closed tag (fossil's branch-list rule), not when any check-in on the branch does (#292).

• checkout.BranchLeaves now returns only the open leaves of a branch, skipping any leaf that carries a closed tag, as fossil's leaves lists them (#291).

• A repository with no hash-policy row names new content as fossil's hname_default_policy does (#274): SHA3 when it is empty or holds a SHA3 artifact, SHA1 (policy auto) otherwise. It used to name an empty repository's first artifact with SHA1. And when an auto repository takes in its first SHA3-named artifact, the promotion is written to the hash-policy setting, as fossil's content_put does, so fossil opening the repository agrees. It used to be derived from the stored names only.

• ListFiles and crosslink reject a B card whose target is not a baseline manifest (#275): a delta manifest or a control artifact used to be accepted as the baseline, giving a partial or empty file set instead of an error.

• Checkin refuses a filename the artifact format's writer profile forbids (#270): one containing a backslash, or that is not valid UTF-8 (surrogates and overlong forms included). It used to write a manifest naming it. fossil's own add refuses such names, so fossil never creates that manifest, but its reader still accepts one that arrives from elsewhere. The draft's writer profile also bars characters above U+FFFF, private-use characters and noncharacters; those are not enforced here.

• delta.Create refuses a source or target of 2^32 bytes or more with delta.ErrTooLarge (#279), as the delta format's producer bound requires; it used to write header and copy integers of 2^32 or more. Create now returns an error, and Deltify stores such content whole, as fossil does when a delta is not worthwhile. Apply now rejects a header naming exactly 2^32 as well (the draft leaves that limit implementation-defined), so what Create writes and Apply reads agree.

• Storing content whose name is a phantom fills the phantom in place, as fossil's content_put does (#278). blob.Store used to return the phantom's rid and leave it empty, so a check-in of a file matching a known phantom recorded a manifest pointing at content that was never stored.

• Repo.Tag now places a tag name in the symbolic namespace with a sym- prefix and refuses the reserved wiki-, tkt- and event- prefixes, as fossil tag add does for a check-in. It used to store the name verbatim, so the tag did not resolve as a branch/tag name. Callers pass the bare name.

• Cancelling a propagated tag no longer deletes an inherited row that is newer than the cancellation. The cancel walk carried no mtime guard (COALESCE(srcid=0, 0)); it now matches fossil's tag_propagate (srcid=0 AND tagxref.mtime < ?), removing an inherited row only when it is older and halting the descent at a newer one (#288).

• The singleton parent (reparent) tag is now applied: the tagged check-in's plink and mlink rows are rewritten to the parents the tag names, and the affected leaves are recomputed, as fossil's manifest_crosslink_end does. An old parent left without a child becomes a leaf, matching fossil rebuild. Both the crosslink sweep and verify.Rebuild apply it (#286).

• A technote whose T-card names another artifact, or propagates or cancels, is now refused at crosslink time and applies none of its tags, as fossil refuses it at parse time. A technote may only carry + (singleton) tags on itself (#287).

• Crosslinking a root check-in a second time no longer duplicates its mlink rows. The root-file path inserted each row with no "already derived" guard, so a re-crosslink (as the relink path does after clearing event/tagxref) doubled them; it now skips the block when the rows are already present, as manifest_crosslink is idempotent (#294).

• The first check-in's sym-trunk tag is now propagating (*sym-trunk), matching fossil new and repo-state §6.1, so the trunk alias descends to every check-in on the branch. It used to be written as a singleton (+sym-trunk), which stopped at the root (#289).

• deck.Parse applies the §5 structural-type rules once a type is determined: the §5.2 card-legality table (each type's allowed and required cards, from fossil's manifestCardTypes), so a card the type disallows or a required card left out is rejected, and the §5.4 semantic checks -- a control artifact's tags may not target itself, a technote's tags are all self-referential singletons, a forum post carries at most one of an H or I card and at most one parent. Type determination now falls back to a control artifact (not an empty check-in) when no card sets a type and there is no comment, file or parent, matching fossil. This also makes a missing Z card a required-card rejection rather than a special case (#273).

• deck.Marshal re-encodes what deck.Parse read, so Marshal(Parse(x)) == x for a canonical artifact. A present-but-empty C comment, N mimetype or T value, and a bare P card, are kept distinct from an absent one and re-emitted (an empty W body already was, now via nil versus a non-nil empty slice); the distinction is carried in unexported Deck/TagCard fields, so a caller that builds a deck and sets a non-empty value still has it marshalled and the public API is unchanged. The D and E timestamps are written at their writer precision -- millisecond for D, second for E -- extended to keep any finer fraction the parser read, so a sub-second timestamp round-trips instead of being truncated (#272).

• deck.Parse parses D and E timestamps with the §4.6.4 grammar (as amended by the §4.6.4 erratum) instead of two fixed time.Parse layouts. It accepts the date-time form with HH:MM, HH:MM:SS or a fractional second, a Z, z, +HH:MM or -HH:MM timezone, one or more whitespace-or-T separators, the hour 24 and an unchecked day (2024-02-31 rolls forward, as SQLite's julianday() does), and a date at or after -4713-11-25; it applies the exact-digit field ranges (year 4 digits, month 01-12, day 01-31, hour 00-24, minute and second 00-59) and rejects a lowercase t separator rather than silently rewriting it to T (#271).

• deck.Parse applies fossil's §4.6 name predicates. An F-card filename and old-name, and an A-card filename, must be simple pathnames (§4.6.1): no leading or doubled or trailing slash and no "." or ".." path element, the non-strict form fossil uses, which still admits a backslash or non-UTF-8 byte. An L-card title and an A-card target (when not a hash) must be well-formed wiki names (§4.6.2): 1 to 100 bytes, no leading, trailing or doubled space and no control byte. A reserved repository filename (_FOSSIL_, .fslckout, in either case, with an optional -wal/-shm/-journal suffix, at the root or as a path's last component) is silently dropped from an F-card list after the sort-order check, exactly as fossil does (#269).

• deck.Parse validates every artifact-hash position against the §4.7.1 map: the A source, B, the E identifier, each F hash, G, I, M, every P token, both Q tokens, and the T target must be 40 or 64 case-insensitive hexadecimal characters; the K ticket id is pinned to 40; the R checksum to 32. A hash is required on every F card of a baseline manifest (only a delta manifest may carry a hashless deletion card). The A target and the N mimetype are now escape-decoded on parse and re-encoded on marshal, matching §4.3.1, while the other hash tokens stay raw; the A filename keeps only its final path component. The Q sign must be + or -, a tag name that is entirely hexadecimal (either case) is rejected, and these checks reject malformed tokens fossil also rejects, such as a hash carrying a stray carriage return (#268).

• deck.Parse tokenizes artifact cards the way fossil does (its next_token/next_card): tokens are separated by a single space, a card ends at LF, and tab and CR are ordinary token bytes rather than whitespace to split or trim on. A blank line, an empty token between two others (two spaces in a row), a bare card where a value is required, and trailing residue after the last card are each rejected; a line that ends in a space still carries a present-but-empty last value. The W card's size is read as fossil reads it -- leading decimal digits, with an overflow guard -- and the body must be followed by a newline. The clearsign armor trailer is matched on 29 bytes, as fossil matches it, so a mangled final dash no longer hides the signature. Each card is also held to its exact §4.2.1 arity: a card with more tokens than Table 2 allows is rejected (#266, #267).

• deck.Parse and deck.VerifyZ judge an artifact's framing by the rule it breaks. The Z-card check now mirrors fossil's verify_z_card: it locates the Z card as the last 35 bytes beginning Z, never reads the final byte, treats a body too short or without a trailing Z card as "Z card absent", and reports only a present-but-wrong checksum. Parse gained the §4.1 framing gates fossil applies up front -- a non-empty blob ending in LF, checked on the raw bytes before the signature wrapper is stripped, and a first card that is an upper-case letter followed by a space -- and a missing Z card is now rejected by the required-card rule rather than by the checksum. Artifacts rejected for a missing final LF, residue after the Z card, or a bad first line are no longer blamed on the checksum (#265).

[0.11.1] - 2026-10-11

Security

• The sync server sends repository content only to a requester allowed to read it (GHSA-mvx3-6793-8x4r). It used to answer gimme HASH with the artifact whether or not a pull was accepted, and pragma uv-hash, uvgimme and uvigot with the unversioned catalog and files, to any requester, anonymous ones included. As in fossil's page_xfer, gimme is now answered only in a session whose pull card was accepted, or in a clone, and the unversioned catalog and files go only to a requester with Read (o, i, or Admin). uv-push-ok is sent only to a requester who may write unversioned files (y); a reader without it gets uv-pull-only, as fossil sends. The same rules apply to table sync: xgimme needs an accepted pull and pragma xtable-hash needs Read. A uvigot no longer updates an unversioned file's mtime for a requester without y, and pragma ci-lock takes or reports a check-in lock only for a requester with Write (i), so an anonymous requester can no longer learn who holds a lock. This is a deliberate departure from fossil, which takes a lock for any requester; fossil's own client asks for one only before a commit, which needs Write.
• The HTTP sync transports follow redirects as fossil does rather than as Go's net/http does (GHSA-3f8x-8fr5-mr98). They used to follow a redirect from HTTPS to plain HTTP, which resent the request, login card included, in cleartext. They now refuse it, and follow a 301, 302, 307 or 308 by re-POSTing the same body and Content-Type, with one trailing /xfer stripped from the new location, failing on the twentieth redirect. A 301 or 302 used to become a GET without the body, and a chain stopped after 10. This applies to NewHTTPTransport, whatever http.Client it is given.

[0.11.0] - 2026-10-10

Added

• Checkout.Merge merges another checkin into the checkout, as fossil's merge does, and Checkout.Conflicts lists the files left in conflict (#244). The merge is recorded the way fossil records one, so fossil reads it and commits it, and the next Checkin records the merged-in checkin as a merge parent. A file edited here but deleted in the merged-in version is kept rather than deleted, and a merge that would overwrite an untracked file is refused: go-libfossil has no undo copy to recover them from. A change the merged-in version made to a file's executable bit is taken. Renames are not followed yet.
• CheckoutCommitOpts.Files commits only the named files, and CheckoutCommitOpts.AllowConflict commits files that still hold conflict markers (#244).

Changed

• Merge conflicts use fossil's conflict markers, with the common ancestor shown between the two sides, so fossil sees a conflict go-libfossil wrote, and the other way round (#244). This applies to Update as well as Merge. A file is in conflict while it holds markers; there is no separate conflict state to clear.
• The CLI's merge command calls Checkout.Merge (#244). It merges into the checked-out version; it used to merge against the repository's newest checkin, which made merging a branch that is the newest checkin a no-op. It no longer writes .LOCAL, .BASELINE and .MERGE files beside a conflicted file, since the markers now include the common ancestor. mark-resolved refuses a file that still holds markers, and conflicts lists the files that hold them.
• Breaking (CLI): repo ci commits the checkout, as fossil commit does (#244). It used to commit the named files straight to the repository on top of its newest checkin, ignoring the checkout, so it could not record a merge and left the checkout behind. Run it in a checkout (or pass -d); with no files named it commits every change. The --parent flag is gone, since a checkout always commits onto its own version. --allow-conflict commits files that still hold conflict markers, and --allow-empty commits when nothing has changed.
• Checkout.Checkin refuses files that still hold merge conflict markers, as fossil's commit does, unless AllowConflict is set (#244).
• Breaking: Checkout.Checkin refuses a commit with nothing changed and no merge pending ("nothing has changed"), as fossil's commit does, unless CheckoutCommitOpts.AllowEmpty is set (#244). It used to record a checkin identical to its parent. A named file the checkout does not track is refused too; a named directory selects the tracked files under it.
• stash.Save refuses while a merge is pending (#244). A cleanly merged file looks like a plain edit; stashing it left the merge record naming content that was no longer in the checkout.

Fixed

• A pull-only Sync converges when the client holds artifacts the server lacks (#277). The server used to answer the client's igot cards with gimme for them even though the client was not pushing, so the client never satisfied the request and the pull ran to exceeded 100 rounds. The server now asks only a pushing client, as fossil does, and a client that is not pushing ignores any gimme it receives.

• Repo.Annotate credits each line to the right check-in when edits shift line positions between versions (#253). Past the first parent it used to write each line's attribution by its position in an older version, so lines were credited to the wrong check-in, and an older version with more lines than the starting one panicked with an index out of range.

• Check-in, parent-link and tag rows store the values fossil stores (#258), whether written by a commit, a crosslink or verify.Rebuild. Times match bit for bit: tag times are SQLite's julianday(), and event, plink, attachment and forumpost times are that value as fossil writes it into SQL text, which keeps 16 digits; they used to differ in the last digits. Fossil's own text conversion depends on the platform it was built for, and this follows the macOS and Windows builds. A check-in's omtime is recorded (it was NULL), and a tag without a value is stored as NULL rather than an empty string. The CLI's repo tag ls reads such tags, which it used to misprint.

• Clone and sync exchanges follow draft-fossil-sync-protocol-00 (#255). A clone reply sends an artifact stored as a delta as a cfile naming its source, as fossil does in a version-3 clone; it used to send a file card. A clone session stops asking once the server sends clone_seqno 0, sending at most one cleanup request with no operation; it used to switch to pull to fetch missing artifacts, which the draft forbids. Clone now fetches any artifact still missing with a separate pull session afterwards, and still fails if one cannot be had: unlike the draft, which ends a clone with phantoms left, Clone returns only a complete repository. A clone the server stops before clone_seqno 0 fails rather than returning part of a repository. A sync now asks once, in its first round, for the phantoms a repository already holds, as fossil's does, without letting one the server lacks hold it open. Every request ends with a random comment, not only those with a login, and every completed reply ends with fossil's timestamp comment.

• Repo.Annotate credits lines the way fossil annotate does (#256, #257). It now uses a port of fossil's own line diff and, like fossil, diffs each older version against the starting one. Where a line repeats (blank lines, braces), which copy counts as new depends on the diff's tie-breaking, and go-libfossil's diff used to pick differently, crediting such lines to other check-ins. Trailing blank lines are no longer dropped from the result. On the RFC, althttpd, pikchr and wapp repositories every annotated file now matches fossil annotate line for line. A line's text no longer includes a trailing carriage return, a leading byte-order mark is ignored, and a file fossil will not diff (one with a NUL byte, or a line over 32,767 bytes) returns an error. Annotate no longer allocates a table the size of both versions at every step.

• Checkout.Checkin records pending merges as merge parents, including merges made by the fossil binary (#244). It used to drop them, so a merge committed through go-libfossil looked like an ordinary commit. Committing only some files of a merge is refused, as fossil refuses it.

• Checkout.Checkin of a checkout with no version and nothing added returns an error instead of panicking (#244).

• The CLI's merge recorded a conflict as chnged=5, which fossil reads as "added by integrate", and recorded no merge parent (#244).

Security

• A sync card whose size is not a plain decimal is a decoding error. A negative size, as in file HASH -1, used to panic the client or server reading the message, and a signed size such as +5 was read as a size. Sizes follow draft-fossil-sync-protocol-00's decimal grammar and fossil's 32-bit limit, and a uvfile's FLAGS take the same rule, so negative FLAGS are rejected as the draft requires. A declared size no longer sets how much memory is allocated before the payload arrives: the buffer grows with the bytes read, so a large size over a short message fails without allocating it. A cfile payload may inflate only to its USIZE, or to a margin above USIZE for a delta, and not past its 4-byte size prefix, and all cfile payloads in one message may inflate to at most MaxCFileInflateBytes (1 GiB) together; a few megabytes of zlib could otherwise inflate to tens of gigabytes. A single artifact larger than that cannot be received as a cfile (GHSA-j99p-mw22-69c8).

• An xrow payload or xdelete PKData must be one JSON object whose values are scalars and whose primary-key values have the column's type; anything else is refused with an error, on the client and the server. JSON null used to panic the process, as did a primary-key value of the wrong type or a nested value. A client refuses an xrow for a table it has not registered (GHSA-j99p-mw22-69c8).

• A synced table's row can no longer rewrite the SQL that stores it. Keys of an xrow payload or xdelete PKData were written into UpsertXRow's INSERT as column names unchecked, so a peer could choose the statement's columns and values, or select from other tables into a synced one. A peer's row must now use exactly the table's declared columns, and UpsertXRow refuses any key the table's registered schema does not declare. Every other function that writes a synced table or column name into SQL validates it first (GHSA-9fq6-h6xw-274g).

• The HTTP transports read at most xfer.MaxBodyBytes (65 MiB) of a reply and return xfer.ErrBodyTooLarge past it; a server streaming an endless reply used to be read into memory whole (GHSA-j99p-mw22-69c8).

• The sync server answered reqconfig NAME with any row of the config table, to any requester, including one with no capabilities, so it disclosed project-code, server-code and every local setting. It now answers as fossil does: only a /GROUP request, only for a requester with Read, and only with the names fossil transfers in that group. The user and subscriber tables also need Admin, which counts only for a verified login, and concealed addresses need RdAddr (e). A refused request gets no cards and no error, so the rest of the exchange goes on. Groups are sent in fossil's encoding, so fossil clone and fossil config pull against this server now receive the skin, project, ticket, shun and alias settings (GHSA-p6w4-4xqc-jhq2).

• The sync server checks a login card's nonce against the request body, as fossil does (GHSA-2g5p-q5f3-477p). The nonce must be the SHA-1 of the decompressed bytes after the login line; it was never checked, so a login card captured from one request authenticated any other request body. A refused login now ends the exchange with fossil's error login failed instead of carrying on as nobody, and a second login card is refused. A successful login adds the user's capabilities to nobody's instead of replacing them. As in fossil, nobody and anonymous log in without a password, and accounts with no stored password, developer and reader cannot be logged into.

• Breaking: A new repository gives its built-in users the capabilities fossil new gives them. nobody, whose capabilities every request without credentials gets, may now clone, read and download (gjorz); it used to be granted cghijknorswy, which let anyone push check-ins and unversioned files, write wiki pages and tickets, and act with Setup. The repository also gets fossil's anonymous, developer and reader users. The creating user, who holds Setup, can now push and pull once given a password, as Setup includes those rights in fossil. A login is refused for any account with no password stored, as fossil refuses it (GHSA-44p2-whvx-9gwq).

Migration: new repositories no longer let anonymous users push. To allow it, grant it explicitly, for example r.SetCaps("nobody", "gijoryz"), or give clients an account with a password. Existing repositories keep the capabilities already stored in them.

[0.10.0] - 2026-10-03

Changed

• Checkout.Revert keeps a never-committed file on disk when it reverts the add (#234). It used to delete the file, destroying the only copy. It now un-manages it and leaves it in place, as fossil's revert does. Revert also checks the disk first, so an edit that no scan has recorded yet is reverted instead of silently skipped; restores a file that is missing from disk; and, when reverting everything, drops a pending merge completely (merged-in versions and the merge record), as fossil does.
• Checkout.Rename refuses to move a file onto one that already exists on disk, as fossil mv --hard does, before changing anything. It used to overwrite it.

Fixed

• Checkout.Revert undoes a pending rename, as fossil's revert does (#242). It used to leave a rename made with fossil mv in place, and restored a renamed, edited file's content under its new name. The file now goes back to its old name with its committed content, and either name can be given. When undoing a rename would land on a name another file now holds (a swap, a new file added under the old name, or an untracked file there), Revert refuses and changes nothing rather than overwrite it: go-libfossil has no undo copy to recover it from (#248). Naming several files reverts them as one: if one is refused, none is reverted.

• A dry-run Extract or Update no longer changes the checkout (#236). Both used to replace the checkout's file list and move its version to the target, losing pending adds, renames and merge state, even though no file was written. Switching versions with Extract now also ends any pending merge, as fossil's checkout does, so a forced switch can't leave a merge record behind to give the next commit a bogus merge parent; re-extracting the current version without Force keeps it. A forced Extract starts the checkout's file list fresh, as fossil checkout --force does, so a pending rename or removal no longer survives it.

• A database fault while checking whether content is present no longer reads as "content missing" where missing content is tolerated (#239). Since #231, CreateCheckout on a partly synced tip leaves the checkout's file list empty instead of failing; a busy or failed database during that check was treated the same way, so Create quietly succeeded with an empty checkout. The fault is now reported. New content.CheckAvailableByUUID returns the error; the existing boolean checks still treat one as unavailable.

• The CLI's add, rm, rename and revert commands call the library instead of writing the checkout database with raw SQL (#234). rename now moves the file, like fossil mv --hard, instead of leaving it under its old name where the next commit couldn't find it. revert restores committed content instead of only clearing change flags. Errors, including from closing the checkout, are reported instead of ignored. Without -R they find the repository the checkout records, including a relative path as fossil open stores it.

• The internal stash no longer drops files changed by a merge (#233). It selected only chnged=1, leaving out fossil's merge states, and stashed a rename as a plain edit. It now selects changes the same way Status does, and refuses a pending merge, a permission change or a rename by name, since it can't yet stash those faithfully. The stash isn't reachable through the public API yet. Checkin and stash now read the checkout through one internal package, internal/vfile, which is the only place fossil's checkout encoding is interpreted.

• Status reports tracked files that are gone from disk as missing, as fossil's changes command reports MISSING (#232). They used to be left out, or shown as added or modified. HasChanges now sees a pending add made by the fossil binary without a scan first. Both now share one classifier, so they can no longer disagree about what counts as a change, and Status lists files by name. A directory where a tracked file belongs is reported as missing rather than failing the scan. A checkout written by an older go-libfossil may still hold rid=0 rows for content that was missing from the repository (see #231); HasChanges now counts those, and Extract of a complete version replaces them.

• Checking out a version whose content is partly missing, as a partial sync leaves it, is now refused up front with an error naming the files (#231). go-libfossil used to record such files with rid=0, which in fossil's checkout format means "added", and Extract then panicked trying to read them. This matches fossil, which refuses with "missing content". A CreateCheckout whose tip is still partly synced no longer loads the tip's files, so extracting an older, complete version still works.

• A non-forced Extract now checks before it changes anything (#230). It used to replace the checkout's file list first, so a refusal lost pending adds, renames and merge state and left Status seeing an empty checkout. It also compared disk with the target version, so a clean checkout could not switch to a version that changed a file. Extract now follows fossil's checkout: it refuses while the current version has unsaved changes that the switch would lose, or when an untracked file sits where the target would write different content. A tracked file that is missing from disk no longer blocks a switch, as in fossil.

• Reading a stored artifact could return compressed bytes (#235). blob.Load treated a row as stored uncompressed whenever its stored length equalled blob.size. For a delta row those are different things (the compressed delta and the full artifact's length) and can be equal by chance, so the delta step then failed. Fossil always inflates blob.content, and so does go-libfossil now. Go 1.27's new compressor made one test fixture hit the case, but any repository could.

• Checkouts created by the fossil binary (fossil open) now work through OpenCheckout (#228). Status failed outright with converting NULL to string on vfile.mhash, because go-libfossil judged every file against that column, which fossil only fills while a merge is pending. Change detection now follows fossil's own scan: a file is compared with the artifact vfile.mrid names, adds and merge states move through the same chnged transitions, and fossil adds, renames and origname==pathname rows are classified the way fossil classifies them.

• A non-forced Extract no longer overwrites uncommitted work in a fossil-made checkout. The local-edit guard swallowed the same NULL scan error and skipped its check, and it never considered a merge that fossil had applied but not yet committed; both now refuse unless Force is set.

• Add writes vfile.islink, which fossil's checkout schema declares with no default, so a file added by go-libfossil to a fossil-made checkout reads back cleanly in both tools. New rows no longer populate mhash.

[0.9.0] - 2026-08-07

Fixed

• New artifacts are named with the algorithm the repository's hash-policy selects, rather than always SHA1. Committing into a repository whose policy is sha3 -- the fossil init default since 2.10 -- wrote SHA1 artifact IDs, so every F-card in the new manifest carried a differently-derived hash from the one already in the parent manifest and fossil diff reported every tracked file as CHANGED even when one file had been edited. Repository integrity was never affected and canonical fossil could always read the result; the damage was unreadable diffs and a permanently mixed-hash repository, plus artifacts a shun-sha1 peer would reject.

Content already stored under the other algorithm's name is reused rather than stored a second time, unless the policy forbids it (sha3-only, shun-sha1). Without that, a repository holding SHA1 artifacts under a sha3 policy would churn every F-card on its next commit -- the same every-file-CHANGED symptom, mirrored. Only a stored blob qualifies: a phantom is a name the repository knows of but has no content for.

checkout.Manage and uv.Write read the same policy instead of each guessing from the width of an existing name. uv.Write's guess read project-code, which is 40 hex characters in every repository whatever the policy, so it could only ever choose SHA1.

• Repositories created by this library are seeded with hash-policy, so they name artifacts the way fossil init does. Without the row, naming derived the algorithm from the repository's own artifacts, and a repository with no artifacts yet settled on SHA1 -- then stayed there permanently, because the first artifact it wrote was SHA1 too.

A clone is the exception and keeps no seeded policy: it adopts its source's, which the absent row expresses by deriving the algorithm from the artifacts the clone actually receives. Canonical fossil propagates the source's policy value into a clone; the sync protocol carries no configuration, so this reaches the same answer by inference. The two differ only for a source explicitly set to sha1 that nonetheless holds a SHA3 artifact.

Added

• db.HashPolicySHA1, db.HashPolicyAuto, db.HashPolicySHA3, db.HashPolicySHA3Only and db.HashPolicyShunSHA1 name Fossil's hash-policy values, so the seed path and the naming path read one definition instead of each carrying its own copy of the enum.

Changed

• Repositories created by this library now name their artifacts SHA3 rather than SHA1. No API changed, but the same content committed into a newly created repository produces a different artifact ID than it did in 0.8.1. Existing repositories are unaffected: their artifacts keep their names, and their own hash-policy continues to decide how new ones are named.

[0.8.1] - 2026-07-30

Fixed

• Crosslink reports the underlying cause when it fails, instead of replacing it with a generic message.
• Test fossil servers are reaped before their temporary directories are removed, and the unit-test timeout was raised; leftover servers holding files open made teardown flaky.

Changed

• Generated and local-only files are no longer tracked.

[0.8.0] - 2026-07-29

Fixed

• mlink, plink, tagxref and leaf are derived the way canonical fossil derives them, in both the sweep and the commit path, including deriving leaf by canonical's branch rule. mlink derivation, previously duplicated, is now unified in one place.
• Tag propagation stops at branch boundaries instead of crossing them, and the three tag-apply paths share one propagation helper.
• Authenticated sync interoperates with canonical fossil.
• Clone retries a dropped exchange round instead of aborting.
• The project code is derived, and artifact visibility is written inside the storing transaction rather than after it.
• Ticket artifacts are crosslinked, and ordinary file blobs no longer emit a warning.
• Checkins cascade-linked while referencing unavailable blobs are deferred until those blobs arrive.
• Submodules are pinned to v0.7.0 rather than an orphaned pseudo-version.

Added

• The CLI selects its SQLite driver by build tag.

Performance

• Clone no longer re-seeks blob.uuid per F-card, and no longer over-allocates delta output.
• The post-sync crosslink sweep no longer re-examines the whole repository.
• Content received during sync is reused in crosslink instead of being read back.

[0.7.0] - 2026-07-27

Added

• libfossil version prints a single, stable, machine-parseable build identifier -- module version (or a -ldflags -X github.com/danmestas/go-libfossil/cli.buildVersion=... override for release builds), Go toolchain version, and platform -- and exits 0. Previously version was not a recognized command at all and fell through to the unrecognized-argument path. There is no global --version flag: repo extract already owns --version as a command-scoped flag (the source version to extract), and kong's global flags are visible in every subcommand's context, so a root-level --version would collide with it.
• libfossil repo serve CLI command wires the already-public Repo.ServeHTTP xfer HTTP server into the command surface. A repository created or cloned with this tool can now be served to a peer -- including a stock fossil clone -- without writing Go. Binds to 127.0.0.1:8080 by default; override with --addr host:port. Process interrupt (Ctrl-C/SIGTERM) cancels the same context ServeHTTP already shuts down on; no new shutdown mechanism was introduced.

Fixed

• The xfer HTTP server now sends an explicit Content-Length on every clone and sync reply. The full response is already materialised by Encode before the first byte is written, so its exact length is known for free; setting the header keeps net/http from silently switching to Transfer-Encoding: chunked once the buffered body passes its internal flush threshold. Release-tagged fossil ≤2.23 reads the reply length only from Content-Length (src/http.c leaves its iLength negative otherwise) and aborts with "server did not reply" on any chunked reply above ~256KB, so those clients could not clone a repository larger than that from a libfossil server. No buffering was introduced — the response was always fully in memory — so #88's per-clone bound (DefaultCloneBatchBytes) still caps each reply. The fix is unconditional rather than negotiated: because the server never streams, chunked framing offers no memory saving over Content-Length, and Content-Length is what canonical fossil's own server emits, so it is strictly the more compatible framing for every client (issue #101).
• The message decoder now selects a body's framing from its §4 Content-Type rather than by trying each framing and seeing which parses. A body sent as application/x-fossil is decoded as the §4.1 compressed container; every other type, including application/x-fossil-uncompressed (used by clone-v3 replies), is decoded as plain card text — the same rule canonical fossil applies. Trial-based dispatch made a decompression failure indistinguishable from "wrong framing"; a compressed body that now fails to inflate is reported as the fault it is and never re-fed to the card parser. The former unprefixed raw-zlib framing was removed: it was checked before the prefixed container on the belief that real fossil emits it, but a fossil 2.28 server never does — its pull replies are the prefixed container and its clone replies are plain text — so the framing was only ever right by accident. Removing it also retires the length-prefix/zlib-header aliasing guard, which existed solely to disambiguate the two compressed framings that trial-dispatch conflated. xfer.Decode now takes the Content-Type; call sites that carry no header (the byte-oriented NATS transport, both ends libfossil) pass the compressed type explicitly, matching what they always emit. The HTTP server rejects a request body whose Content-Type is absent or neither §4 type with 415 Unsupported Media Type instead of decoding it as plain card text: bodies come from untrusted peers, and without a framing signal decoding either way is a guess. Real fossil always sets the header, so no conforming peer is affected. (#106)
• A large artifact now clones regardless of its position within a clone round. The server charged its batch budget before each artifact and sent the one that crossed it whole, so a round carried budget + one whole artifact — and when ordinary sub-budget filler preceded a large artifact, that sum exceeded what the client could decode (xfer.MaxDecompressedBytes), failing the clone with a spurious "declared container length exceeds" error. The size at which a clone failed depended on incidental filler: 8–15 MB of filler ahead of a 58.7 MB artifact all failed, while 17 MB passed by pushing the artifact into a round of its own. emitCloneBatch now flushes the round and sends an over-bound artifact alone when adding it would cross the client's decode bound, so the ceiling is a property of the artifact alone. The 2 * budget compile-time guard now certifies what it appears to: filler plus one budget-sized artifact always fits in a decodable round. (#109)
• A clone from a libfossil server could fail with a card-syntax error (decode card 16303: empty line after split) naming a card the response never contained. The message decoder tried three body framings in order and treated any decompression failure as "not this framing", so a well-formed compressed body that exceeded the decoder's own size bound fell through to the uncompressed branch and the still-compressed bytes were parsed as card text — thousands of nonsense cards until one split into no fields. Worse than the misleading error, an oversize or truncated compressed body was accepted: the garbage cards decoded without error and the artifacts they carried failed their hash check downstream. A body recognizable as zlib is now decompressed or reported, never reparsed. The bound is also raised to 64 MiB, since it sat below what this implementation's own server emits in a single clone round — two libfossil peers could not reliably clone from each other even though each could clone from fossil. A compile-time guard keeps the bound at least twice the server's clone batch budget, so filler plus one budget-sized artifact always fits in a round the client can decode. (#104)
• Committing a file with zero-length content panicked in blob.Store, which treated an empty artifact -- a normal, well-known Fossil blob -- as invalid input; the panic then triggered manifest.Checkin's postcondition defer, which re-panicked with an unrelated "manifestRid must be positive" message that masked the real cause. blob.Store now accepts zero-length (and nil) content, and Checkin's defer re-panics with the original panic value instead of asserting a postcondition that was never going to hold mid-unwind (#68).
• A commit no longer silently carries a tracked file's last-committed content forward when that file has been deleted from disk without Unmanage/Remove -- it now fails clearly, naming the file, matching fossil's own behavior for a missing file that is in scope for the commit being made. A missing file outside the commit's scope (relevant only to an explicit Enqueue) is left untouched exactly as before (#79).
• Clone deadline now interrupts the mid-round phantom-fill crosslink cascade, ensuring the clone does not stall with phantoms outstanding. The same deadline is now threaded into the general push/pull phantom-fill cascade for consistency.
• Sync replies are now decoded by their wire's real Content-Type instead of a hardcoded assumption. The HTTP server sends the correct type on each response; call sites receiving frames without a header (the byte-oriented NATS transport) pass the type explicitly.
• PGP/SSH clearsigned manifests are now accepted: the deck module strips the clearsign framing before verification.
• Manifest now emits delete rows for files omitted by the check-in, matching fossil's own behavior. Renames now resolve their parent blob from the pre-rename path to ensure the rename-source blob exists and is reachable.

Changed

• Breaking: The module path has changed from github.com/danmestas/libfossil to github.com/danmestas/go-libfossil. All replace directives in go.mod have been dropped. Consumers must update their imports and remove any replace directives pointing to the old path.
• Breaking: StatusOpts, MergeOpts, and CheckoutOpts have been removed. No function anywhere accepted any of the three, and nothing constructed one: Checkout.Status() takes zero arguments, Repo.Merge takes positional string arguments, and CheckoutOpts had no construction site at all. A public type with no call site documents a capability that does not exist — a consumer reading MergeOpts{Strategy: ...} in the docs could reasonably conclude a strategy-selecting merge API exists; it never did. Repo.Merge and Checkout.Status keep their current signatures — an options-struct refactor for Merge was considered and declined. CheckoutOpts.Force was also a third same-named Force field in this package, alongside the already-removed UpdateOpts.Force and the real, fully-wired ExtractOpts.Force; removing it also removes that readability hazard. ExtractOpts.Force is unrelated and unaffected.
• Breaking: CloneOpts.ProjectCode and CloneOpts.ServerCode have been removed. Neither was ever wired to anything — Clone accepted both fields but never forwarded them to the internal clone path, so setting either had no effect and gave no error. The internal clone options struct has no matching fields at all, so wiring them would mean designing semantics first (is a caller-supplied code a validation assertion or an identity override?) and no caller has asked for that. CloneResult.ProjectCode and CloneResult.ServerCode are unrelated and unaffected — they continue to report both, populated from the remote via the clone protocol negotiation, which is the only place they meaningfully originate.
• Breaking: UpdateOpts.Force has been removed. It was never wired to anything — Checkout.Update accepted the field but never forwarded it to the internal update path, so setting it had no effect and gave no error. Deleting it is honest about what the API actually does; real forcing semantics for Update can be designed and added later as a new, deliberately-wired field if a caller needs them. ExtractOpts.Force is unrelated and unaffected — it is fully wired and unchanged.
• Breaking: Checkout.Update now returns (UpdateResult, error) instead of a bare error. The internal 3-way merge already tracked which files were written, removed, and left with conflict markers; the old signature discarded all of it, so a caller could not tell a clean update from one that silently wrote <<<<<<< conflict markers into working-tree files. UpdateResult.Conflicted lists the paths that were merged but not cleanly — this is a successful update (err == nil), not an error; a genuine failure still returns a non-nil error with a zero-value UpdateResult. Checkout.Extract is unchanged.
• Breaking: Repo.Timeline now enumerates the repository's event table newest-first (every event kind by default, or a single kind via TimelineOpts.Type), matching canonical fossil timeline. The previous behavior — a first-parent walk from a required start rid — is preserved under a new, honestly-named method, Repo.Ancestry(LogOpts). The old Repo.Timeline(LogOpts) was actually an ancestry walk masquerading as an enumeration: it never visited a second parent or a sibling branch head, so it silently omitted any check-in that wasn't a first-parent ancestor of the given start rid. There is no deprecated shim; callers of the old Timeline should switch to Ancestry if they want the walk, or adopt the new Timeline(TimelineOpts) if they want a full enumeration.
• LogEntry gains a Kind field (EventKind) identifying which of event.type's six kinds (ci, e, f, g, t, w) an entry is. Parents is only populated for Kind == EventKindCheckin.
• Breaking: Repo.Timeline orders by (mtime DESC, rid DESC), a total order with rid as a true tie-break at exact mtime equality — a deliberate improvement over canonical fossil's bare mtime DESC with no tie-break, which can repeat or skip rows at a page boundary. Pagination uses a new opaque Cursor type: take one from a returned LogEntry.Cursor and pass it back as TimelineOpts.After to resume immediately after that entry. TimelineOpts.Before time.Time and TimelineOpts.After FslID are deleted, not deprecated — callers constructing either field will fail to compile. Cursor's representation is intentionally hidden — it can only be obtained from a LogEntry, never built from a timestamp and a rid by hand, because a hand-built cursor derived from a rounded time.Time is not guaranteed to match its row exactly, which is what reintroduces skipped or duplicated rows at a page boundary in the first place.
• Breaking: LogEntry no longer has a Cursor field, and Repo.Timeline now returns []TimelineEntry instead of []LogEntry. LogEntry is Repo.Ancestry's result type; its cursor was always the zero value, which is structurally identical to a legitimate Timeline first-page call — so feeding an Ancestry entry's cursor into TimelineOpts.After silently paginated from page one forever with no error, and documenting the field as invalid on Ancestry entries did nothing to stop it. TimelineEntry (which embeds LogEntry and adds Cursor Cursor) is now Repo.Timeline's result type, so the cursor lives only on the type that has one to give. Callers that read entry.Cursor, entry.UUID, entry.User, etc. off a Repo.Timeline result need no source change — those fields are still reachable through TimelineEntry's embedded LogEntry. Callers that stored a Repo.Timeline result as []LogEntry (rather than letting := infer the type, or using []TimelineEntry) will fail to compile.
• Performance improvements throughout the sync and manifest subsystems: the phantom-fill crosslink cascade now batches onto a shared content cache, db.Querier caches prepared statements to stop per-call SQL re-parse overhead, and delta-chain walks bound their hash-collision chain to prevent quadratic behavior on low-entropy input. History-walking expansions are routed through the content cache, cutting sub-64KiB delta-chain expansion allocation ~18x and bounding Apply growth per-command to cut ~5x allocation overhead.

[0.6.3] - 2026-05-13

Fixed

• The SQLite DSN now sets _txlock=immediate, so writers serialize at BEGIN rather than discovering the conflict partway through a transaction (#33).

[0.6.2] - 2026-05-12

Fixed

• Repo.Commit now preserves the parent check-in's tracked files, instead of dropping files the commit did not itself touch (#30).

[0.6.1] - 2026-05-12

Added

• CreateOpts.ProjectCode accepts an explicit project code when creating a repository, rather than always generating one (#31).

[0.6.0] - 2026-05-05

Fixed

• The WAL is checkpointed on Close, so a repository written by this library is readable by canonical fossil without a recovery pass (#28).

[0.5.0] - 2026-05-04

• Added support for whole-checkin diff via empty filePath parameter.
• Added Repo.UUIDFromRID for public rid-to-uuid lookup.
• Added cross-repo release automation specification and implementation.
• Added release workflow with downstream dispatch for automated releases.

[0.4.5] - 2026-04-30

Fixed

• A clone against a hub that is being written to concurrently now converges, instead of looping without making progress (#17).

[0.4.4] - 2026-04-27

Fixed

• A partial xfer no longer panics with rid=0; the incomplete transfer is handled rather than dereferenced (#14).

[0.4.3] - 2026-04-26

• Stabilized xfer encoder and multi-round sync with deferred manifest crosslink.
• Added libfossil version command to print build identifier including module version, Go toolchain version, and platform.
• Wired live documentation URL into README and hugo baseURL.
• Added SVG architecture diagram and SDK refresh.
• Launched documentation site and Cloudflare auto-deploy.

[0.4.2] - 2026-04-26

• Fixed manifest crosslink deferral to handle referenced blobs arriving later.

[0.4.1] - 2026-04-25

• Implemented xfer encoder and multi-round sync foundation with manifest crosslink.

[0.4.0] - 2026-04-25

• Added Repo.Pull public wrapper with HTTP transport and hostile-input assertions.
• Added Tiger Style test coverage for Checkout.Update.
• Improved documentation and test coverage for Repo.Pull.

[0.3.0] - 2026-04-21

• Added Repo.ReadFile for reading tracked file content from the repository at any version.

[0.2.0] - 2026-04-20

• Added Repo.Merge for branch-to-branch 3-way merge operations.
• Added Repo.Diff for computing diffs between tree states.

[0.1.0] - 2026-04-20

Initial open-source release of libfossil, a pure-Go implementation of the Fossil SCM that reads and writes the same .fossil SQLite repository format.

Added

• Repository lifecycle: create new repos and clone from existing ones.
• Working-tree operations: checkout and checkin.
• Timeline traversal over commits and events.
• Merge and rebase primitives.
• Diff and annotate (blame) over tracked content.
• Manifest parsing and content-addressed blob storage.
• Sync protocol client/server for pulling and pushing between repos.
• Observer interfaces for sync and checkout, allowing external hooks into both network sync events and working-tree state transitions.
• SQLite driver abstraction with support for both modernc.org/sqlite (pure Go) and ncruces/go-sqlite3 (cgo-free, wasm-based) backends.
• Deterministic simulation test harness with BUGGIFY-style fault injection for exercising concurrency and failure paths.
• OpenTelemetry observer provided as a separate submodule to keep the core dependency footprint small.
• wasip1/wasm build target for running libfossil under WASI runtimes.