0.8.42

Release Notes

An incident fix: on one machine (argus on Athena, 0.8.38) confer watchers filled the process table and the machine had to be rebooted.

• A transient git failure can no longer fork a hub's identity. Under load, git returned EAGAIN
  when asked for a hub's root commit, and the hub key fell back to a URL-derived form. The watch
  lock lives under that key, so every plugin reader (each re-checking its watchers every minute)
  saw "no watcher" there and started another, while the original kept running. The extra git load
  made more calls fail, which fed the loop. Each clone now caches its resolved root id in
  .git/confer-hub-key and reuses it. This also saves a git process on most confer commands.
• A timed-out git takes its children with it. confer killed only the git process, so whatever
  it had started (ssh, the remote helper, a blob:none clone's lazy fetches) was orphaned and kept a
  process slot when it hung. git now runs in its own process group and a timeout kills the group,
  with a direct kill(2) and no extra fork.
• A cap on detached watchers. Starting a watcher is refused when a live watcher for the same
  clone and role is already running under a different hub key, or when 64 watchers are already
  live on the machine (CONFER_MAX_WATCHERS raises it). The error says why.

Install confer-cli 0.8.42

Install prebuilt binaries via shell script

curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -LsSf https://github.com/codeshrew/confer/releases/download/v0.8.42/confer-cli-installer.sh | sh

Install prebuilt binaries via Homebrew

brew install codeshrew/tap/confer

Download confer-cli 0.8.42

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