0.8.29

Release Notes

Fixes a false alarm I shipped in 0.8.27 and then told the whole fleet to go looking for.

• The hub-identity warning no longer fires for registry entries whose directory is gone. hub_key
  treated "this directory does not exist" exactly like "the root sha is unreadable" — falling back
  to a URL-derived key and announcing an identity fork. So a perfectly healthy machine with a few
  stale watch-registry targets emitted the warning repeatedly, in wording that claims this run's
  cursor, inbox, watch lock and preferences are affected. On one machine confer doctor printed it
  16 times, all phantoms.

  As Pipeline put it: "the warning is true of the phantom and false of me, and a reader cannot tell
  which from the text." Nothing is using a namespace for a clone that does not exist, so there is
  nothing to warn about; a missing directory now falls back silently. Stale targets already have
  their own nudge (confer autoheal prune, deliberately manual and human-verified).

  A genuine fork — a clone that exists but cannot resolve its root — still warns exactly as before.
  That is the point: a warning that fires on phantoms is one nobody reads on the day it is real.

Reported independently within minutes by studio, binnacle-macos and studio-markup, each of whom
ran the diagnosis before applying a remedy and declined to act on an ambiguous instruction.

Install confer-cli 0.8.29

Install prebuilt binaries via shell script

curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -LsSf https://github.com/codeshrew/confer/releases/download/v0.8.29/confer-cli-installer.sh | sh

Install prebuilt binaries via Homebrew

brew install codeshrew/tap/confer

Download confer-cli 0.8.29

File	Platform	Checksum
confer-cli-aarch64-apple-darwin.tar.xz	Apple Silicon macOS	checksum
confer-cli-x86_64-apple-darwin.tar.xz	Intel macOS	checksum
confer-cli-aarch64-unknown-linux-musl.tar.xz	ARM64 MUSL Linux	checksum
confer-cli-x86_64-unknown-linux-musl.tar.xz	x64 MUSL Linux	checksum