Continuity Director v0.8.42

Continuity Director v0.8.42

Maintenance release containing exactly 20 sequential hardening iterations.

Highlights

• Safer JSON, collection, manifest, storyboard, quality, ranking, and dependency inputs.
• Finite-safe numeric handling for scores, thresholds, weights, durations, and retry delays.
• Deterministic execution plans and order-preserving checkpoint recovery.
• Deletion-aware three-way merge conflict diagnostics.
• Stable no-op migrations and explicit hash verification reasons.
• Canonical environment inventories.
• Reproducible, symlink-safe release ZIP archives.
• Stronger release validation and comprehensive regression coverage.
• Failure-safe browser storage, node creation, and Starter Chain rollback.

Public maintenance evidence

• Issue #20: 20-iteration hardening plan.
• PR #21: exactly 20 sequential commits.
• docs/ITERATION_LOG_v0.8.42.md: commit-by-commit maintenance record.
• Issue #22: release synchronization.

Verification

The hardening PR passed:

• Python 3.10, 3.11, and 3.12.
• Python compilation.
• Maintainer-health checks.
• ComfyUI lifecycle import.
• Existing and new unit tests.
• Release and installable-package validation.
• JavaScript syntax validation.
• Main and reliability dashboard smoke tests.

Installation

Download continuity-director-v0.8.42.zip and continuity-director-v0.8.42.zip.sha256. Verify the checksum, extract ComfyUI-ContinuityDirector into ComfyUI/custom_nodes, and restart ComfyUI.

Limitations

This remains a maintained preview release. Automated tests do not guarantee compatibility with every ComfyUI frontend, operating system, model, GPU, or third-party custom node. Report reproducible compatibility defects through the structured GitHub Issue forms.