v1.0.0-rc.6

Blockingmachine v1.0.0-rc.6

Sixth release candidate for Blockingmachine 1.0, focused on rule engine correctness, deduplication precision, and publishing hygiene. This release resolves a long-standing tie-breaking flaw in the rule selection engine, closes a canonical key collision in scriptlet deduplication, and eliminates duplicate package listings on GitHub Packages. All 565 automated tests pass.

Highlights since RC 5

• Rule Engine: selectBestRule — $important Priority Fix (@blockingmachine/core):

  • RuleDeduplicator.selectBestRule previously failed to prefer $important-flagged rules over equivalent non-$important variants when provenance scores were equal, causing the wrong representative rule to be selected during deduplication.
  • Added an explicit $important priority check before suffix-pattern and score comparisons, ensuring ||domain.com^$important always wins over ||domain.com^ in a merge group.

• Rule Engine: Scriptlet Whitespace Normalization (@blockingmachine/core):

  • RuleDeduplicator.stripRule previously generated distinct canonical keys for identical scriptlet rules that differed only in internal whitespace (e.g., ##+js(set, admiral, noopfn) vs ##+js(set, admiral, noopfn)), causing functionally-duplicate scriptlet rules to survive deduplication.
  • Scriptlet payloads are now collapsed to a single canonical whitespace form (payload.replace(/\s+/g, ' ').trim()) before key generation, correctly deduplicating all equivalent scriptlet variants.

• Duplicate Package Fix — GitHub Packages Publishing:

  • scripts/publish-gpr.mjs previously published each package under three separate names (@greigh/blockingmachine-core, @greigh/core, @blockingmachine/core), resulting in four package listings on GitHub Packages instead of the expected two.
  • Simplified to publish only under the canonical @blockingmachine/core and @blockingmachine/cli names, matching the package scope declared in each workspace package.json.

• CI: Release Notes Lookup Fix (.github/workflows/publish.yml):

  • Replaced the fragile string-manipulation release notes filename derivation with a robust grep -oP pattern that correctly maps any v1.0.0-rc.N tag to scripts/release-notes-rcN.md.
  • Updated the workflow fallback tag from the stale v1.0.0-rc.4 to v1.0.0-rc.6.

• Test Suite Expansion:

  • Added regression coverage for selectBestRule $important tie-breaking.
  • Added regression coverage for scriptlet canonical key whitespace equivalence.
  • 565 automated tests passing across 23 test suites (100% pass rate).
  • Zero TypeScript diagnostics, zero ESLint errors.

Downloads & Assets

Asset	Description
Blockingmachine-1.0.0-rc.6-arm64.dmg	macOS Apple Silicon installer
Blockingmachine-darwin-arm64-1.0.0-rc.6.zip	macOS Apple Silicon standalone app
blockingmachine-core-1.0.0-rc.6.tgz	Core library NPM package
blockingmachine-cli-1.0.0-rc.6.tgz	CLI executable NPM package
blockingmachine-chrome-mv3-v1.0.0.zip	Chrome Manifest V3 extension
blockingmachine-firefox-mv3-v1.0.0.zip	Firefox Manifest V3 extension
SHA256SUMS.txt	SHA-256 verification checksums