flake.nix fetches the release tarballs and carries their SRI hashes in a generated block. The cut tool builds the release locally with the toolchain gates.yml pins, in a normalized nine-variable environment, writes the hashes into flake.nix, and commits it with build.zig.zon as the single bump commit. The package job verifies the pins on the bump commit and the publish job verifies them again on the tag, before anything is uploaded.
The tarballs are written by dist_stage (std.tar.Writer, flate gzip) instead of the runner's tar and gzip, and -ffile-prefix-map keeps checkout paths out of the C objects; two checkouts at different absolute paths produce byte-identical archives. nxdns version, /api/version and the admin footer report the version only: the bump commit cannot know its own sha.
settings and upstream writes now follow a prepare, commit, publish, retire
contract: candidates are built and validated before the database transaction,
published as infallible pointer swaps, and old generations retire after their
readers drain. per-query policy values snapshot once per query; upstream pool,
cache, rate limiter, sessions, api limiter, log sink, blocklist scheduler and
the query-log queue each gained one named live operation. restart_required
shrinks from every scalar key to the bind keys and web.enabled; the admin ui
drops its restart notices for everything else. file mode is unchanged.
query rows gain qclass, rcode, group, policy action and reason, the
matched rule or list entry with its source, cname and safe-search
targets, route kind, forward zone, and the resolver that actually
answered — the pool and local markers die. servfails are logged and
name the resolver that lost; post-parse protocol refusals become rows.
a detail page at /queries/:id renders the ordered explanation, and
coverage watermarks distinguish an empty history from a missing one.
the schema fingerprint changes: existing query history is recreated
with the old file kept aside and the reset filed as a resolved
diagnostic. fixes an oversized udp reply being rebuilt as noerror,
which handed clients a truncated nxdomain as success.
mokhtar