SpaceWorks 0.8.2 — permanent release history

[Shaan-Shoukath]

Releases 0.8.2, whose one substantive change is that GitHub Release history is now permanent.

The fix

release.yml kept only the current and immediately previous release, deleting every older release and its Git tag on every run. That is why the Releases page never showed any history.

Neither is deleted any more, and docs/INVARIANTS.md records the decision so it does not get "restored" later.

Container versions are still pruned — deliberately kept as a separate concern:

• images consume real registry storage while a release row does not;
• the digest-based retention rules there exist because of a real manifest unknown outage, and are unchanged.

The loop still computes previous_version, because ghcr-retention.py needs it to keep the previous version's images for the installer's rollback-to-previous-release path. So deleting releases would eventually have stranded that rollback, not merely lost history. Verified by simulation that previous_version resolves the same value as before while older releases survive.

The step is renamed to "Prune superseded container versions (release history is kept forever)" to keep the two concerns apart.

Version

0.8.1.1 was requested but is unusable, in three independent places:

1. test_version_consistency.py:50 — re.fullmatch(r"\d+\.\d+\.\d+", ...) fails.
2. release.yml:38 — exit 1 on a non MAJOR.MINOR.PATCH VERSION, before building anything, so no release would publish.
3. series="${base%.*}" would derive 0.8.1, colliding with a real base-version string in the container tag scheme.

0.8.2 ships the same change with no pipeline surgery. VERSION and SPECTACULAR_SETTINGS are bumped together as the guard requires, and both frontend artifacts are regenerated — only the version string changed in each, so there is no route drift.

Also included

6bba83d1, a no-content merge absorbing the PR #17 merge commit so dev and main share history. Verified to change zero file content.

Verification

Check	Result
Version guard	2 passed
netlify.toml / workflow YAML	parse clean
Modified shell block	bash -n clean; previous_version resolution simulated
Frontend	240 tests, tsc clean

Note that CI here runs only pip-audit; the suite evidence is from local runs (Docker round-trips 1517/0, host 5960 passed with 17 environment-only failures that pass in Docker).

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