Balls 0.1.0-alpha.2 — Open and Fast Foundation
Pre-releaseOpen and Fast Foundation
This Alpha establishes the public, protected, fast, and reproducible delivery foundation for Balls while preserving the implemented Windows Circle/Node checkpoint.
Verified outcome
- focused Windows feedback: 6.03 seconds
- complete local fast gate: 33.69 seconds
- fixed Windows 2025 and Ubuntu 24.04 pull-request lanes under five minutes
- dependency review, C# CodeQL, OpenSSF Scorecard, Dependabot, and full action-SHA enforcement
- every successful
maincommit publishes deterministic, checksummed Canary artifacts - exact release commit:
66b94a3fce9485ce448736f3dc996f6611f1e742
Assets
The Windows archive is a runnable development Canary. Install-BallsCanary.ps1 verifies the external archive checksum and every internal packaged-file checksum, installs to isolated state, starts ballsd, and confirms readiness with balls status.
The Linux archive is build/test evidence only. Linux runtime remains unsupported until 0.2.0-alpha.1; its manifest reports runtimeSupported: false.
The SPDX 2.3 SBOM is exported from GitHub's dependency graph for the accepted default-branch state. The binaries are unsigned prerelease artifacts. No artifact-attestation or Stable-support claim is made.
Evidence
- Milestone evidence: https://github.com/scwlkr/balls/blob/66b94a3fce9485ce448736f3dc996f6611f1e742/docs/verification/2026-08-19-open-fast-foundation.md
- Accepted-main CI: https://github.com/scwlkr/balls/actions/runs/32302751491
- CodeQL: https://github.com/scwlkr/balls/actions/runs/32302751503
- Scorecard: https://github.com/scwlkr/balls/actions/runs/32302751590