cast/CHANGELOG.md

Changelog

History before 0.1.0 lives in git — cast has said 0.1.0 in package.json since its first commit, but grew its release surface (this file, cast --version, tagged releases with a prebuilt asset) on the way to actually cutting it, and this file starts there.

Unreleased

Fixed

• The release ceremony re-arms the changelog, and CI notices when it doesn't (#113) — stamping ## Unreleased into ## X.Y.Z — DATE is done by hand in the ceremony PR; no workflow writes this file, and nothing put the heading back. So main sat with the shipped section on top and no ## Unreleased above it — this repo's state from 0.1.0 until this entry. A PR authored before a release and merged after has its entry land under whatever heading now occupies that position: the release that already shipped. Git does that cleanly. The stamped heading and the incoming entry never overlap textually, so the one signal an author trusts — "git told me to look" — is missing exactly when the result is wrong. rig watched it happen (heavy-duty/rig#66, the origin of this fix): an entry landed inside published ## 0.1.0 an hour after 0.1.0 shipped, and was caught only because someone was reading. The published release body is never at risk — release.yml extracts notes from the tree at the tag, before anything late can merge — which is also why nobody notices: the file that drifts is the one only maintainers read. Three moves. ## Unreleased is back above ## 0.1.0 (this entry re-creating it is the repair). CONTRIBUTING's ceremony step now re-arms in the same diff that stamps. And test/release.test.ts keys the rule to package.json: a stamped top section is legal while the version is bare — the ceremony's own tree, and main until the -dev bump — but once the version says -dev, the top section must be ## Unreleased. That is the distinction #108 had to collapse to make the ceremony shippable at all, recovered rather than reverted: the ceremony stays green at every step, and a disarmed dev main goes red. The re-arm also forced the older extraction guard to move. It asserted that the top section extracts non-empty, which the re-armed ceremony tree — a deliberately empty ## Unreleased above the stamp — makes false by construction: the re-arm and the guard would have contradicted each other, and the next release PR would have been unshippable for a second time, the way #108 was. Keying to the top section was only ever a stand-in for "the section release.yml will publish", so the assert now names that section directly — on a bare version the ## X.Y.Z being shipped, on a -dev tree the newest stamped one. Existence is checked with it: a bare version with no matching section is a bump that never stamped, which used to pass every test and fail only after the merge, in release.yml's notes step, past the ship decision and leaving main with a minted, unreleased version to repair by hand. A double re-arm — two ## Unreleased headings, the extracted section silently the empty one — is red too. box and rig carry the same fix (heavy-duty/box#110, heavy-duty/rig#67); rig#67 retargeted the identical assert for the identical reason.

0.1.0 — 2026-07-19

Fixed

• The release suite accepts the ceremony's own tree (#108) — test/release.test.ts demanded the real CHANGELOG.md's literal Unreleased section extract non-empty and contain #96: false by construction on the release: X.Y.Z tree the ceremony's own PR produces (it stamps that heading into ## X.Y.Z — date), so the first real release PR turned CI red and the flow blocked itself — invisible to the fork rehearsals, which tag a branch (release.yml runs; ci.yml never does). The guard now asserts its actual purpose: whatever the TOP ## section is — Unreleased between releases, the stamped version on and right after one — the exact release-notes.sh the workflow runs extracts it non-empty. rig's twin is heavy-duty/rig#44.

• apply no longer demands a GitHub App for a manifest that declares no applications (#103) — found live in the 2026-07-19 release drill, where a databases-only manifest (applications: {}) rendered its plan of two creates and then died in preflight on no GitHub App bound, over a binding nothing in the run would ever have used: a GitHub App exists to clone application source, cast reads it in exactly one call (the application create), and databases and services never touch it. That unconditional resolution gated infra-only projects — the databases a fleet's other projects share — behind the GitHub-App browser-registration ceremony for no reason. apply now resolves the App only when the desired state actually contains an application; a manifest that does declare one still refuses on a missing binding exactly as before, clean plan or not, because that binding is state the next create will need.

• A manifest with no ${…} refs applies without a store (#104) — the greenfield manifest-first bootstrap was a chicken-and-egg with no exit, found by the 2026-07-19 release drill against two fresh Coolify 4.1.2 instances: a registered project whose manifest declared databases only (zero ${…} refs) could not take its first apply — apply refused with no secret store for <org>/<repo> in <env>, and capture, the documented way to get a store, rightly refuses a project that is absent on the box, because apply is the verb that would create it. The drill unblocked with a hand-rolled empty store (printf '' | age -r … -o secrets/….env.age), documented nowhere. Now diff/apply gate that refusal on the manifest actually referencing a secret, asked via the same parser resolution uses: when the templates resolve zero ${…} refs, an absent store is treated as empty and the run proceeds, printing a loud one-line note naming the path the store would live at — and since there is nothing to decrypt, the age key is not demanded either. The moment any template gains a ${…} ref, the refusal returns byte-identical to before. capture and destroy are untouched.

• CAST_AGE_KEY_FILE_<ENV> is now settable for every environment name (#102) — <ENV> was the name uppercased verbatim, so env drill-b advertised CAST_AGE_KEY_FILE_DRILL-B: a variable no POSIX shell can export, which walled off the injected-key channel (and its process-substitution trick) for every hyphenated environment. Found live in the 2026-07-19 release drill. Characters outside [A-Z0-9] now map to _ — env drill-b reads CAST_AGE_KEY_FILE_DRILL_B — and the refusal advertises the mapped name. The standing-key path keeps the exact environment name, so two names that collide on the variable still resolve their own keys on disk.

Added

• Merging a release-labeled PR is the release — and the release re-arms main itself (#111; box#96's design) — release.yml now also fires on pushes to main (not pull_request events: fork-sourced ceremony PRs get a read-only token there — the round-1 catch). A decide step reads the version transition from the push (event.before → the pushed head) and answers four states: release-flow work merged under the release label — -dev endstates, and the post-release window — no-ops green with a NOTICE; the two genuinely ambiguous bare states refuse loudly; a true transition then requires a merged, release-labeled PR behind the commit (read via the API — the label is the operator's declared intent) before the door opens. It then tags the merge commit, builds the cast-X.Y.Z.tgz asset once, publishes — and bumps main to X.Y.(Z+1)-dev itself, direct push with a loud open-a-PR fallback, so no follow-up bump PR exists on the paved road. The tag-push path stays as the documented fallback and backfill, and both paths run the same steps so they cannot drift. First-release edge: 0.1.0 never carried -dev, so its ceremony (#110) ships by manual tag; the automation applies from 0.1.1 on.

• Tagged releases with a prebuilt dist asset, and an installer that installs them (#96) — the cast half of the flow designed in heavy-duty/box#83, plus the piece unique to cast: a prebuilt asset, because cast is the one repo where the source tarball is not the package. A release is a PR, then a tag: the release: X.Y.Z PR bumps package.json (and package-lock.json) and stamps this file's Unreleased section with version + date; the merge commit is tagged bare X.Y.Z (box's tag scheme — no v prefix). release.yml turns the tag into the GitHub release — after asserting tag == package.json version (a mismatch fails loudly and creates nothing) — with that version's section of this file as the body, extracted by the same .github/scripts/release-notes.sh the test harness drives, and with the runnable tree attached as cast-X.Y.Z.tgz: bin/, compiled dist/, production node_modules/, package.json, built once in CI (npm ci && npm run build && npm prune --omit=dev). install.sh now defaults to the latest release: the tag is resolved by following the releases/latest redirect and reading the Location header — no API, no token — and the download is that release's asset, so no npm ci, no tsc, no devDependencies ever run on the operator's machine. CAST_REF picks the other two channels: a tag pins a release (its asset first, source as the fallback for a ref that has none — refs/tags outranks a same-named branch), a branch (CAST_REF=main) tracks the development tree and is the one channel that still builds from source, the only place npm is required. Until 0.1.0 is cut the default channel has nothing to resolve and dies saying exactly that, naming CAST_REF=main as the way to install today — it never falls back to main silently, because "I installed the latest release" must not quietly mean "I installed whatever main was that second". The channel only decides which tree arrives and whether it is built here — whatever it fetched lands in the versioned layout (versions/<package.json version>, current flipped atomically) like any other install.