GitHub's releases page sorts a day's tags as text, so v2026.10.15.9 showed
above v2026.10.15.18 (reported by rdbt on Discord). Tags now count .01, .02...
Every reader (release_train.tag_key, the launcher's compare_versions) compares
the parts as integers, so older unpadded tags still order correctly.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Releases now ship as often as changes land, so nothing they leave behind may
grow without bound. Workflow uploads keep 3 days (nightly parity logs 7); the
releases carry their own assets.
tools/ci/runner-gc.sh, run every 6 hours by launchd on the Mac mini from a copy
of main, skips a runner in a job, removes a checkout's cargo build folders past
12 GB and harness work folders under .local/ untouched for 3 days, and keeps the
2 newest shared preparations while no runner works. The runners build through
the machine's sccache, so what it removes comes back from the cache.
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Ludovic wants releases as often as changes land. A kind now releases when
player-facing pull requests merged since its last release and the newest of
them merged 15 minutes ago (a burst of merges becomes one release), or the
oldest an hour ago when merges never pause; release-now still ships at once.
There is no minimum time between releases. The scheduled checks run every 10
minutes (game at :02, launcher at :07) so a settled release goes out without
another merge.
Release titles keep proper nouns (Horizon's mark, Microsoft, LAN, ...) when
they lowercase the clauses after the first.
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nightly.yml runs every harness from scratch on main at 03:00 Paris time on the Mac mini's runner, after
preparing the resources again if the preparer changed. tools/ci/parity_issues.py compares the results with
the previous audit: a harness that passed and now fails gets one issue labelled parity-regression (an open
one is commented on), and an issue closes when its harness passes again. The bugs session picks them up.
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launcher.yml releases the launcher by itself: after a push to main that changes launcher/,
crates/horizon-prepare or crates/horizon-theme, hourly, and by hand, with the game's rules
(tools/release_train.py decide --kind launcher: player-facing pull requests and a 3-hour cooldown,
release-now, skip-release, RELEASES_PAUSED). launcher-vX.Y.Z is the next patch, or the next minor after a
pull request labelled feature. Linux on ubuntu-22.04, Windows on GitHub, macOS on the Mac mini's runner;
published with --latest=false.
No version-bump commits: VERSION reads HORIZON_LAUNCHER_VERSION with option_env!, falling back to
Cargo.toml's, and --version, the User-Agent and the self-update comparison use it; each build checks
--version says the release's version.
With several game releases a day, the newest launcher release soon falls out of the newest 100 (launcher)
or 30 (website) releases: both now look the newest launcher-v tags up one by one when the list has none.
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Checked on the Mac mini: 1500 offscreen frames in 12 s, 81 chunks generated, 4153 sections meshed, a player.
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release.yml now releases the game by itself: after every green checks run of a push to main, every hour
(a release the cooldown held goes out without another merge) and by hand. tools/release_train.py decides
from the pull requests merged since the last published game release: a release when one changed what
players run and the last release is 3 hours old, at once for a pull request labelled release-now;
skip-release pull requests don't count. RELEASES_PAUSED=1 stops it. Tags vYYYY.MM.DD, then .1, .2 the
same UTC day.
Linux (ubuntu-22.04) and Windows build on GitHub with Cargo caches, macOS on the Mac mini's runner
(MAC_RUNNER=macos-latest sends it to GitHub). Each builds horizon-client, horizon-ctl and horizon-prepare
(all three named: --bin selects only the named binaries), checks all three exist, checks their libraries,
starts each one, packages with xtask and archives; the Mac also runs the game offscreen for 300 frames on
a new world with resources prepared from its own Minecraft. The notes: New (label feature), Fixed (the
rest), Known issues (docs/known-issues.md). A hand-started run off main, or with dry_run, builds
everything and writes the notes but publishes nothing.
docs/release-flow.md describes the flow, the labels, pausing and rolling back; the launcher gets a test
that a release turned back into a draft is never offered.
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Vanilla's resource packs refuse symbolic links inside a pack: with linked sounds the vanilla sound oracles found
no sound files while Rust did (sound_event, sound_engine on #133's parity run).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The first audit on the Mac mini failed 7 audio harnesses (no sounds in the prepared resources: the Mac mini has
no official launcher for horizon-prepare sounds to copy from) and save_roundtrip (it needs vscreen). The
sounds depend only on the Minecraft version: kept once in shared-local/sounds/<version>/ and linked into each
preparation.
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A second runner (ludovics-mac-mini-2, same labels) shares the first one's vanilla data through a link, so
vanilla-data.sh prepares under a lock; a 30-minute audit no longer holds a release's macOS build back.
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verify keeps its dependencies and workspace build in a cache saved by main's runs (Swatinem/rust-cache).
The new parity job runs on the Mac mini's self-hosted runner (label horizon-game), which holds the
maintainer's own Minecraft files: tools/ci/vanilla-data.sh links .local/ to the runner's copy and prepares
the resources with the pull request's own horizon-prepare, once per preparer version; then
tools/parity.py --changed <base> runs only the harnesses whose traced dependencies changed since the merge
base and that have no pass for their current inputs. A fork's pull request runs it only when a maintainer
adds run-parity, once per label, on the commit it had then.
parity.py: --changed REF, and linux_only in tools/parity_hosts.json for harnesses that differ on other
platforms for a reason that is not a Horizon bug (skipped there with the reason, unless named).
docs/release-flow.md starts with the pull request checks and merging.
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Ludovic Marie