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Makes the release pipeline deterministic after the issues that surfaced cutting the stable 0.7.59. No security gate is relaxed — OIDC provenance attestation, SPDX SBOM, reproducible double-build with identical SHA-256, committed-reproducible-assets check, the Node-22 pin, the source policy, and the dependency/secret/vuln audits are all untouched.

Flaky "Browser regression shard 4/4" (failed on two code-free PRs)

  • email-notifications › B.13 contact form: clearMailpit()'s DELETE-all was still settling and swallowed a message the test had just sent (a race the helper's own comment already flagged; its two-empty-snapshots guard proves the listing is empty, not that the purge stopped eating new arrivals). Now it stores a sentinel via Mailpit's /api/v1/send, requires it retained across two reads, then deletes only that sentinel by id — no second full purge.
  • full-test › 2.2 dashboard: FullCalendar's module-load stylesheet injection read cssRules on a document detached mid-evaluation (2.1 ended at waitForURL/navigation-commit while the post-login dashboard was still running scripts). One line: waitForLoadState('load') at the end of 2.1.

Both fixes are event-based — no added retries, no weakened assertions, the strict flake/skip audit gate is untouched.

Changelog extraction robustness

The ## [X.Y.Z] section is now bounded by the next second-level version heading in either format (## [X.Y.Z] or the legacy ## What's New in vX.Y.Z). A legacy-formatted neighbour used to make awk capture the entire rest of the file; today that had to be worked around by hand. Verified: 0.7.59 → 30 lines; a legacy neighbour → bounded correctly; the empty-section guard is intact.

Prerelease source-policy gate (breaks a self-deadlock)

ci-verify-release-source.sh: the tag-triggered "Verified Release" workflow's own check attaches to the tagged commit (== the release PR head), so while it runs the PR is UNSTABLE and can never reach CLEAN. It now accepts UNSTABLE alongside CLEAN (BLOCKED/DIRTY/BEHIND/unknown stay fatal) and computes the required-checks verdict from a set that excludes the release workflow's own check. head == tag, "exactly one internal open release/* PR targeting main", and the mandatory passing CodeRabbit check are all still enforced.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Bug Fix

    • Migliorata l’estrazione delle sezioni del changelog, evitando di includere contenuti appartenenti a versioni successive.
    • Resi più affidabili i controlli di prerelease e la verifica degli aggiornamenti richiesti.
  • Test

    • Rafforzata la verifica della pulizia delle notifiche email.
    • Migliorata la stabilità dei test attendendo il completo caricamento della dashboard prima di procedere.

…source gate)

Three determinism fixes from investigating the stable 0.7.59 release; every
security gate (OIDC attestation, SBOM, reproducible double-build, committed-asset
check, Node-22 pin, source policy, audits) is unchanged.

- Flaky "Browser regression shard 4/4" (failed on two code-free PRs):
  - email-notifications B.13 contact-form: clearMailpit's DELETE-all was still
    settling and swallowed a just-sent message. After the empty-stable check,
    store a sentinel via Mailpit's API, require it retained across two reads, then
    delete only that sentinel by id — no second full purge to re-open the race.
  - full-test 2.2 dashboard: FullCalendar's stylesheet injection read cssRules on
    a document detached mid-evaluation. Await waitForLoadState('load') at the end
    of 2.1 so the post-login dashboard finishes evaluating before 2.2 navigates.
- Changelog extraction: bound the section on the next second-level version
  heading in EITHER format (## [X.Y.Z] or the legacy ## What's New in vX.Y.Z), so
  a legacy neighbour no longer makes awk capture the whole file.
- Prerelease source gate (ci-verify-release-source.sh): the tag-triggered release
  workflow's own check attaches to the PR head, so the PR is UNSTABLE while it
  runs and mergeStateStatus can never reach CLEAN. Accept UNSTABLE alongside CLEAN
  (BLOCKED/DIRTY/BEHIND stay fatal), and compute the required-checks verdict from
  a filtered set that excludes the release workflow's own check. Head==tag, the
  exactly-one-internal-open-release-PR rule, and the mandatory CodeRabbit check
  are all still enforced.
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Il PR aggiorna l’estrazione del changelog e la verifica delle prerelease. Inoltre, rende più stabili la pulizia di Mailpit e il test di login amministrativo.

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Automazione release

Layer / File(s) Summary
Estrazione della sezione changelog
.github/workflows/release.yml
L’estrazione termina al successivo titolo di versione nei formati ## [X.Y.Z] e ## What's New in vX.Y.Z.
Validazione prerelease e required check
scripts/ci-verify-release-source.sh
La verifica accetta CLEAN e UNSTABLE. Include il workflow nei required check, esclude Verified Release e valuta gli altri check in base al relativo stato.

Stabilità dei test

Layer / File(s) Summary
Pulizia stabile di Mailpit
tests/email-notifications.spec.js
clearMailpit verifica due letture consecutive dell’inbox vuota, controlla la persistenza del sentinel e lo elimina con una cancellazione mirata.
Attesa del caricamento dashboard
tests/full-test.spec.js
Il test attende l’evento load della dashboard dopo il login amministrativo.

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Mergeability Score: 🟡 Moderate · up to e2cec

The PR improves test and release determinism, but the sentinel-message cleanup can block E2E execution if its deletion request stalls, and the prerelease path can report CLEAN while accepting UNSTABLE, which may mislead release diagnosis. These bounded issues should be fixed or explicitly accepted before merge.

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In `@scripts/ci-verify-release-source.sh`:
- Around line 75-78: Update the prerelease outcome log near the existing
merge-state validation to report the actual ${merge_state} value, or use neutral
“merge-ready” wording instead of always recording CLEAN; preserve acceptance of
both CLEAN and UNSTABLE in the merge_state check.

In `@tests/email-notifications.spec.js`:
- Around line 176-180: Update the final sentinel deletion fetch in clearMailpit
to use the existing Mailpit AbortController configured with a 5000 ms timeout,
matching the other Mailpit requests and ensuring the cleanup cannot remain
pending indefinitely.
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Comment thread tests/email-notifications.spec.js Outdated
Two review follow-ups on the determinism changes:
- ci-verify-release-source.sh: the success line hard-coded "is CLEAN" even though
  the gate now also accepts UNSTABLE — report the real mergeStateStatus so the log
  never claims an unverified state.
- email-notifications clearMailpit: the sentinel-delete fetch had no AbortSignal,
  so a hung Mailpit could keep it pending until the global test timeout. Wrap it
  in the same 5000ms AbortController + finally-clear pattern the other Mailpit
  requests use.
release.yml replaced create-release.sh, which fired a repository_dispatch to
pinakes-docker so the Docker image rebuilt on every stable release. That step was
dropped in the move, so the stable 0.7.59 published here never reached Docker Hub
until pinakes-docker's daily poller would have caught it. Re-add the dispatch as a
release step (stable tags only, matching create-release.sh), gated on a
PINAKES_DOCKER_DISPATCH_TOKEN secret because the default GITHUB_TOKEN cannot
dispatch across repositories; a missing token or a failed dispatch is non-fatal
since the daily poller remains the backstop.
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