Pulse v6.4.0-rc.11

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Status: Ready for publication ✅
Validated: 2026-08-28 12:38:14 UTC
Workflow: Pulse Release Pipeline #386

Validation Summary

• All required assets present ✓
• Checksums verified ✓
• Version strings correct ✓
• Binary architectures validated ✓

Pulse v6.4.0-rc.11 Release Notes

v6.4.0-rc.11 follows the alerting improvements in rc.10 with corrective reliability work for credentials, AI cost controls, storage identity, and everyday investigation controls.

What's improved

• Atomic credential lifecycle - API token creation, agent enrollment, and agent removal now roll back live state when durable persistence fails, preventing undisclosed credentials, accidental eviction, or revocations that reverse after restart.
• Accurate Anthropic budgets - Current Opus and Haiku versions use version-specific first-party rates, so stale estimates no longer stop Patrol early or understate current Haiku usage.
• Stronger disk identity and risk - PVE and agent observations of the same RAID volume merge across normalized serial/WWN forms, while dismissed TrueNAS SMART alerts continue to flag uniquely identified disks with critical hardware evidence.
• Safer recovery and watchdog isolation - Alert lifecycle failures retain a crash-safe restart snapshot until SQLite is durably repaired, and external dead-man targets fail closed when any address points to a Pulse host interface.
• More stable incident investigation - Mobile-width alert timelines keep context and actions together, history charts expose readable axes and synchronized hover times, and View preferences expand inline without covering tables.
• Durable alert lifecycles - Alert history and active state now rebuild from the event log after restarts, with persisted identities migrated automatically and false all-clear states prevented during hydration.
• Better notification control - Alerts can be snoozed individually, maintenance can recur by scope, escalation repeats can target specific destinations, delivery routes can filter by severity, and informational events remain distinct from warnings.
• Earlier capacity warnings - Rolling metric windows and predictive storage forecasts surface sustained pressure and likely exhaustion before a single threshold breach becomes an outage.
• More accurate host disk health - SMART sector, media, endurance, spare, and CRC thresholds can be tuned per host, while empty Unraid slots remain neutral and Proxmox-linked agents avoid duplicate disk-risk alerts.
• External availability monitoring - Dead-man checks can notify when an expected external signal stops arriving, with configuration and recovery state persisted.
• Clearer infrastructure details - Resource drawers, backup views, and alert timelines present fuller context, while phone Settings use a searchable index, sticky section title, compact controls, and full-size touch targets.
• Safer governed actions - Docker action results now carry independently observed post-action state, while deployment enrollment and credential changes persist atomically.

Before you upgrade

• This is a release candidate. Stable installations remain on v6.3.2 unless an operator explicitly selects this version.
• Existing configurations remain valid. Alert identity and history migrations run automatically, with no manual data migration required.
• Existing Pulse Mobile iOS build 12 and Android versionCode 9 remain compatible. The new alert_fired push uses the already-supported view_alert action and existing informational severity presentation, so no companion update is required for this candidate.
• Windows Unified Agent binaries are checksum- and detached-signature-verified but are not Authenticode-signed, so Windows may show an Unknown Publisher warning.

Known issues

• Windows Authenticode signing remains unavailable for this candidate. Use the published checksum and detached signature when verifying Windows agent downloads.

See the difference

View preferences stay with the table

Remembered display choices now expand in the page instead of covering the resources being adjusted.

Before	Now

Settings built for a phone

Phone settings now keep the current section clear and put dense preferences into compact touch-friendly rows.

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Install

docker pull rcourtman/pulse:6.4.0-rc.11

For Docker Compose, update the image to rcourtman/pulse:6.4.0-rc.11 and recreate the container.

Pulse Pro and Relay customers should continue using the private download page and private runtime image for paid features.

Roll back

The rollback target is v6.3.2:

./scripts/install.sh --version v6.3.2