0.5.0

12th November, 2026

Improved

• Hosts can maintain file names incrementally and reuse path-identity candidates
  without enumerating every file and its metadata after content-only changes.
  • The optional file-system adapter lookup preserves original spellings and
    all collision candidates. Hosts without it retain the listing fallback.
    Fresh reads use each host's existing listing authority.

Fixed

• An unanswered P2P change notification no longer prevents later notifications
  from reaching following peers.
  • Notifications wait for transport sending without creating response waits.
    Ordinary RPC calls and Chunk acknowledgements retain their existing
    completion rules. A lost final notification still needs another change or
    explicit synchronisation.

Compatibility

• Direct implementations of StorageAccess must provide
  findPathIdentityCandidates(). Implementations based on
  ServiceFileAccessBase inherit the new method and its fallback.
• P2P client access represents a closed session explicitly: remoteDB is
  undefined, and getRemoteDB() throws Error('Not connected to any room').
  Integrations which inspect the client's _server directly must handle its
  optional state.

Personal note

'Drastic'… That is quite a nice way of putting it. Simply the artificial intelligence is painstakingly reconstructing the software that one used to write on a whim, isn’t it? There are a great many line changes, but essentially they have been just allocated according to their responsibility. Essentially.

One of the benefits is that several potential issues have also been resolved, apart from the main fixes.

Please rest assured. I spent quite a long time guiding the work, keeping it on track, and reviewing the changes. We had no choice but to update the minor version, though.