fix: filecoin chain notify API and tests

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Summary of changes

Changes introduced in this pull request:

• In lotus Filecoin.ChainNotify cancels the subscription if the receiver lags, now forest matches the behaviour
• Added the tests for the local implementation of jsonrpcsee channels (xrpc)
• Added unit tests for the Filecoin.ChainNotify notify API.
• There are couple of more fixes required .i.e. xrpc.cancel response shape diverges from lotus. Will be raising them separately to reduce LOC in current PR.

Reference issue to close (if applicable)

Partially Closes #5795

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• Bug Fixes

  • Filecoin.ChainNotify subscriptions now close when clients fall too far behind, helping them detect missed events and resubscribe.
  • Notifications terminate correctly when event sources close or events are lost.
  • Improved handling of chain reorganizations, rewinds, gaps, and finality edge cases.
  • Chain updates are delivered with correct ordering and notification framing.
  • Improved beacon entry retrieval timing.

• Documentation

  • Added changelog entries describing the updated subscription behavior and beacon retrieval fixes.

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Walkthrough

ChainNotify subscriptions now close when their source ends or clients fall behind. Tests cover channel closure, notification ordering, chain reorganizations, null rounds, over-finality, and WebSocket framing.

Changes

ChainNotify subscription handling

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Channel closure behavior src/rpc/channel.rs	The channel pump sends xrpc.ch.close when the source closes or a subscriber lags. It logs lagged receivers and terminates them. Tests cover framing, cancellation, fan-out, source closure, and lag handling.
ChainNotify notification sequences src/rpc/methods/chain.rs	Shared helpers and tests cover current-head delivery, ordered applies, fork reverts and applies, rewinds, null-round gaps, and over-finality fallback behavior.
WebSocket framing validation and release notes src/rpc/methods/chain.rs, CHANGELOG.md	An end-to-end test validates subscription responses, channel IDs, positional xrpc.ch.val framing, and fork-switch notifications. The changelog records the subscription-gap fix and v0.36.0 release entries.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to efe5f

When a ChainNotify subscriber falls behind, the subscription can terminate while its registry entry and stream state remain until the connection closes, allowing repeated subscriptions to accumulate; the WebSocket test may also be flaky under load because of its tight timeout. The PR is mergeable with explicit owner awareness and follow-up on cleanup and test timing.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant ChainNotify
  participant ChannelPump
  participant WebSocketClient
  ChainNotify->>ChannelPump: publish current, apply, or revert notification
  ChannelPump->>WebSocketClient: send xrpc.ch.val frame
  ChainNotify->>ChannelPump: source closes or subscriber lags
  ChannelPump->>WebSocketClient: send xrpc.ch.close frame
  ChannelPump->>ChannelPump: terminate subscription pump

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Possibly related PRs

• ChainSafe/forest#7462: Both changes cover subscriber lag and stream closure in ChainNotify.
• ChainSafe/forest#7485: Both changes modify src/rpc/methods/chain.rs and test ChainNotify delivery.

Suggested reviewers: eclesiomelojunior, sudo-shashank

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4 | ❌ 1

❌ Failed checks (1 warning)

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Out of Scope Changes check	⚠️ Warning	The changelog includes unrelated beacon retrieval and release-note changes outside the ChainNotify testing objectives.	Remove unrelated beacon retrieval and release-note edits, or move them to a separate pull request.

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Check name	Status	Explanation
Description Check	✅ Passed	Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled.
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly identifies the Filecoin.ChainNotify fix and its tests, which are the primary changes.
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	For issue #5795, the PR adds channel lifecycle, fan-out, current, apply, revert, reorg, and WebSocket notification tests.
Docstring Coverage	✅ Passed	Docstring coverage is 100.00% which is sufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%.

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In `@src/rpc/channel.rs`:
- Around line 398-407: Update the terminal pump-exit cleanup, including the
RecvError::Lagged path and the logic around RpcModule::channels, to remove the
subscription entry only when its stored channel_id matches sink.channel_id().
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In `@src/rpc/methods/chain.rs`:
- Line 2431: Introduce a separate, longer timeout constant for WebSocket reads
used by next_ws_json in ws_weld_end_to_end, while retaining BATCH_TIMEOUT for
in-process subscriber receives. Update only the WebSocket read timeout usage so
server scheduling and socket I/O can exceed one second.

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