chore(release): cut v2.6.7 "Detent" — the bitstream is published, reproducible, and a one-cycle disagreement is attributed by doublegate · Pull Request #477 · doublegate/RustyNES

doublegate · 2026-08-30T22:47:53Z

v2.6.7 "Detent" — the bitstream becomes a published, reproducible artifact

Companion to RustyNES_MiSTer's v2.6.7. The emulation core is unchanged — no chip-crate source changed since the v2.6.6 tag (verified with git diff --stat, and the only non-documentation changes in the whole release are version metadata and Cargo.lock entries for this project's own crates). AccuracyCoin 141/141 (RAM decoder) and nestest 0-diff therefore hold by construction, and were run anyway because the release makes a user-facing accuracy claim.

What changes

The bitstream is published from this release onward, committed to the sibling's releases/ and attached to the GitHub release on both repositories. This reverses v2.6.6's decision to withhold it. The MiSTer distribution mechanism reads that path out of the repository, so an empty releases/ describes an undistributable core rather than a cautious one; the caution moves from an absence into a disclosure naming what the ladder cannot reach by construction.

v2.6.6's published slack figures are withdrawn. It stated worst setup +0.363 ns / hold +0.245 ns; two compiles of the byte-identical committed configuration — one from scratch, one incremental — produce a byte-identical bitstream and neither reproduces them. The corner hypothesis was checked first and refuted; no corner of the report yields either value. The correct pair is +0.108 ns / +0.042 ns at the binding corner.

The living documents carry the correction with the withdrawn pair still visible inside it. CHANGELOG.md's v2.6.6 entry and .github/release-notes/v2.6.6.md are deliberately not rewritten: they record what was published, and the correction belongs in v2.6.7 rather than in a silent edit to history.

Gates

gate	result
`cargo fmt --all --check`	clean
`cargo clippy --workspace --all-targets -D warnings`	clean
`release_anchor_audit`	11/11
`libretro_info_audit`	3/3
`cosim_manifest_audit`	4/4
AccuracyCoin (RAM decoder)	100.00% over 141 assigned tests
nestest	0-diff

Not closed

Rung 6 stays open — no board is attached to this machine, confirmed by checking rather than assumed. Hardware bring-up moves to the first release after one exists, and the deferral is recorded in the plan, the CHANGELOG and here so it cannot quietly become an omission.

Summary by CodeRabbit

New Features
- RustyNES v2.6.7 “Detent” now publishes a reproducible MiSTer .rbf bitstream with each release.
- Clean and incremental builds produce byte-identical bitstreams.
Documentation
- Updated release, support, roadmap, and platform documentation with corrected timing margins and binding-corner analysis.
- Clarified a remaining one-cycle APU/IRQ discrepancy and checkpoint-gate limitations.
- Disclosed that hardware validation remains outstanding; the bitstream has not yet run on physical hardware.

…verses v2.6.6 Records the maintainer decision of 2026-08-30 on the oracle side, where the MiSTer programme is documented, plus the v2.6.7 plan it changed. The decision: every release from v2.6.7 ships a .rbf, committed to the sibling's releases/ and attached to the GitHub release on both repositories. v2.6.6 produced a bitstream and deliberately withheld it because no hardware had run it. Two things were wrong with that. The MiSTer distribution mechanism reads releases/RustyNES_YYYYMMDD.rbf out of the repository, so an empty releases/ describes an undistributable core rather than a cautious one -- withheld from precisely the people who own the boards this project lacks. And a claim nobody made is not the same as a claim marked unverified; only the second is usable by someone holding a board. So the caution is relocated from an absence into a disclosure, and docs/mister.md now fixes what every release body must state: no hardware has run it, what the ladder does establish, and what it cannot reach by construction -- the palette, the video timing constants, the audio's absolute level and its band-limiting all sit downstream of gates that compare a pre-palette index and per-channel integer levels. The contribution checklist closes the release-artifact item and leaves the Home-folder item open with its evidence rather than guessing. CONF_STR opens "RustyNES;;", the empty-second-field form; the MkDocs conf_str page documents every entry type and says nothing about the first line, and the Main_MiSTer wiki page for it does not render. The obvious empirical route -- reading an existing console core's CONF_STR -- is unavailable for an NES core under ADR 0037. A guessed field on a bitstream users flash is worse than the documented default, so it stays open for v2.7.0 and closes against a source that states the semantics. The plan also records that the artifact is COMMITTED, not merely attached: the two are not interchangeable, since the distribution route reads the repository.

…s at no corner v2.6.6 published "worst setup +0.363 ns, worst hold +0.245 ns" and that pair is withdrawn. Two independent compiles of the byte-identical committed configuration -- one from scratch with db/, incremental_db/ and output_files/ removed, one incremental -- produce a BYTE-IDENTICAL bitstream (md5 445eb579...) and identical slack, and it is not those numbers. The corner hypothesis was checked before the figures were touched, because it was the likeliest innocent explanation: Quartus reports four corners and quoting the wrong one would explain everything. It does not. No corner produces either value: Slow 100C setup +0.385 hold +0.166 Slow -40C setup +0.108 hold +0.046 Fast 100C setup +3.106 hold +0.096 Fast -40C setup +3.543 hold +0.042 So the published pair came from a build that is not the committed configuration -- almost certainly one made before SEED 2 was pinned, recorded, and never re-measured afterwards. The build IS reproducible; the recorded numbers were simply not of it. The living documents now carry the honest figure, which is the worst ACROSS corners rather than the corner the project had been quoting: setup +0.108 ns (Slow -40C), hold +0.042 ns (Fast -40C). Timing closes everywhere, with TNS 0.000 on all 56 rows -- checked, since that claim sat beside the wrong one -- but with roughly a third of the margin the 100C pair implies, and the binding corner was not the one being reported. CHANGELOG's v2.6.6 entry and .github/release-notes/v2.6.6.md are NOT rewritten. They record what was published, and the correction belongs in v2.6.7 rather than in a silent edit to history. The living documents keep the withdrawn pair visible inside the correction for the same reason: deleting it would erase the record that it was ever claimed. Note for the release cut: these figures are properties of the committed RTL. If v2.6.7 changes rtl/, the compile must be re-run and the numbers re-read before they are published again.

…d a one-cycle disagreement is attributed Two halves, and both are about making a position repeatable, which is what a detent is. THE BITSTREAM BECOMES A RELEASE ARTIFACT. Every release from here ships a .rbf, committed to the sibling's releases/ and attached to the GitHub release on BOTH repositories. This reverses v2.6.6, which produced one and withheld it because no hardware had run it. The MiSTer distribution mechanism reads that path out of the REPOSITORY, so an empty releases/ describes an undistributable core rather than a cautious one -- withheld from precisely the people who own the boards this project does not have. The caution moves from an absence into a disclosure that names what the ladder cannot reach by construction: the PPU gate compares the pre-palette index and the APU gate per-channel integer levels, so the palette, the video timing constants, the audio's absolute level and its band-limiting all sit downstream of every gate. REPRODUCIBILITY IS MEASURED, not argued. A from-scratch compile with db/, incremental_db/ and output_files/ deleted, and an incremental one, produce a byte-identical bitstream and identical slack at every corner. The pinned SEED 2 and NUM_PARALLEL_PROCESSORS 4 do their job. The same measurement WITHDREW v2.6.6's published slack figures. No corner of a clean rebuild reproduces +0.363/+0.245; the innocent explanation -- Quartus reports four corners and quoting the wrong one would explain everything -- was checked first and refuted. The correct pair is +0.108 ns setup and +0.042 ns hold at the binding corner, with End Point TNS 0.000 on all 56 rows, checked because that claim sat beside the wrong one. The CHANGELOG's v2.6.6 entry and its release notes are NOT rewritten, and the withdrawn pair stays visible inside the correction: deleting it would erase the record that it was claimed. THE RELEASE GATE WAS READING THE WRONG CORNER. Slow 100C is not the binding one on this design, so a bitstream failing at Slow -40C would have passed while the gate reported three times the real margin. And the checker was wrong twice before mutation found both: it first extracted ZERO rows from both summary tables and reported "no negative slack", then, once fixed, reported FOURTEEN clocks from a report emptied of its data by running past the closing rule into the next tables. CAVEAT C2 SPLITS IN TWO. The first residual was a trace observation point: the harness built its record after eight of a CPU cycle's twelve master clocks while the oracle reads its _at_high at end-of-cycle, and the frame-counter interrupt asserts on the final edge. Closing it took checkpoint comparisons from 3 to 11. The second is real and its fix is REFUTED -- moving the frame-counter reset one cycle to match the oracle drops blargg from 11/11 to 4 of 11, and one of the seven that break is 04.clock_jitter, the ROM written to probe exactly that timing. So it is ATTRIBUTED rather than fixed: one cycle, on the exported interrupt line only, with the bus matching on all 2,680,239 overlapping cycles, and neither instrument able to adjudicate the absolute cycle since both consoles pass blargg 11/11 while disagreeing by it. The checkpoint gate is registered over ten goldens and STATES ITS BLIND SPOT: not one of them ever raises an NMI, so it cannot catch an nmi_line defect. The attempt to close that hole found a fourth divergence cluster three goldens had been hiding inside a "26 skipped" tally line. The emulation core is unchanged, so AccuracyCoin 141/141 (RAM decoder) and nestest 0-diff hold by construction. RUNG 6 DOES NOT CLOSE. No DE10-Nano and no SuperStation One are attached to this machine -- confirmed by checking the USB bus, serial devices, block devices and mounts rather than assumed. Hardware bring-up moves to the first release after a board exists, and the deferral is recorded in the plan, the CHANGELOG and here so it cannot quietly become an omission.

…0 failed The suite is re-run with the ten checkpoint gates registered and reports 97 passed, 0 failed, up from 87 at v2.6.6. Clause 6 of the release gate, measured. The number had been drafted into the sibling README before the suite reported it and was parked until it did. It turned out correct, which is the reason the parking mattered rather than a reason it did not: a number that happens to be right is indistinguishable from one that was measured.

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RustyNES v2.6.7 documentation defines published reproducible bitstreams, corrected timing and co-simulation findings, known validation limits, deferred hardware bring-up, and updated release metadata.

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v2.6.7 release update

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Published bitstream and release scope `.github/release-notes/v2.6.7.md`, `docs/mister.md`, `to-dos/plans/*`, `to-dos/mister/contribution-checklist.md`	The release documentation defines `.rbf` publication, reproducibility checks, required disclosures, release scope, and deferred hardware bring-up.
Timing and co-simulation findings `CHANGELOG.md`, `docs/STATUS.md`, `to-dos/ROADMAP.md`	The release records corrected timing-corner handling, end-of-cycle IRQ sampling, checkpoint-gate coverage, attributed residual behavior, and known validation gaps.
Version metadata and release references `Cargo.toml`, `crates/*`, `ARCHITECTURE.md`, `OVERVIEW.md`, `README.md`, `ROADMAP.md`, `SECURITY.md`, `SUPPORT.md`, `VERSION-PLAN.md`	Project, package, core metadata, support, roadmap, security, and release-history references are updated to v2.6.7. `rustynes_libretro.info` changes `display_version` to `v22.66.7`.

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The release publishes a reproducible bitstream and updates its validation records, but the current documentation still contains conflicting test counts, an incorrect hardware-validation history, and stale or ambiguous release metadata. Merge should wait for these release-facing correctness issues to be corrected.

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Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Changelog Entry For User-Visible Changes	⚠️ Warning	The PR introduces a user-facing distribution feature: v2.6.7 publishes the MiSTer `.rbf` artifact. `CHANGELOG.md` adds extensive notes under `## [2.6.7]`, but `## [Unreleased]` remains empty. The requ…	Add a changelog entry under `## [Unreleased]` that describes the published bitstream and other user-facing v2.6.7 changes, or move the entry there until the release is formally cut.

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The exhaustive, multi-paragraph release summary for v2.6.7 is duplicated verbatim across numerous files (e.g., AGENTS.md, README.md, STATUS.md, SUPPORT.md, VERSION-PLAN.md). Centralize this detailed history in CHANGELOG.md and use a terse one-line summary with a link in the other files to improve document structure and reduce maintenance overhead.

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38-38: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Update the scheduler description for v2.6.7.

The description still claims a “strict, lockstep master-clock scheduler at PPU-dot resolution.” The current documentation says v2.0.0 replaced that retired dot-lockstep model with one canonical cycle counter and split-around-access PPU catch-up. Because Line 8 now labels this metadata v2.6.7, libretro users will receive a stale architecture claim. Update the description to match the current scheduler.
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In `@crates/rustynes-libretro/rustynes_libretro.info` at line 38, Update the
description metadata to replace the retired “strict, lockstep master-clock
scheduler at PPU-dot resolution” claim with the current v2.6.7 scheduler
architecture: one canonical cycle counter with split-around-access PPU catch-up.
Preserve the remaining compatibility and feature details.
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Synchronize the roadmap status with v2.6.7.

The v2.6.7 release entry at Line 677 reports 97 passed and 0 failed checks. This roadmap block still reports 72 gates green and the older rung-5 status. Update these lines to the v2.6.7 state, or mark the block as historical. Otherwise, the README exposes conflicting current validation data.

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In `@README.md` around lines 904 - 910, Update the roadmap block describing
hardware bring-up and rung 5 to align with the v2.6.7 status: replace the stale
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Inline comments:
In `@SUPPORT.md`:
- Line 97: Clarify the release-history boundary after the v2.6.7 statement
ending with “Rung 6 does NOT close” by starting the v2.6.6 “Chassis” history
with “Built on” and separating it into a new paragraph or sentence. Keep all
existing release claims unchanged while making the hardware-validation details
clearly belong to v2.6.6.

In `@to-dos/mister/contribution-checklist.md`:
- Around line 51-61: Update the checklist header to reflect that the list is not
yet fully checked at v2.7.0, or resolve the unchecked Home folder item so the
existing completion claim becomes accurate. Keep the checklist status internally
consistent with the deliberately unresolved item.

In `@to-dos/plans/v2.6.7-detent-plan.md`:
- Line 92: Update the “no co-simulation regression” criterion to distinguish the
97 total checks (87 existing checks plus 10 checkpoint gates) from the
AccuracyCoin result of 141/141 over the 146-entry catalog, using the
authoritative release records.

In `@VERSION-PLAN.md`:
- Line 114: Update the v2.6.6 history entry so rung 6 is explicitly described as
remaining open, not closing at v2.6.7; state that completion moved to the first
release with a supported hardware board available, while preserving the rest of
the validation details.

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Outside diff comments:
In `@crates/rustynes-libretro/rustynes_libretro.info`:
- Line 38: Update the description metadata to replace the retired “strict,
lockstep master-clock scheduler at PPU-dot resolution” claim with the current
v2.6.7 scheduler architecture: one canonical cycle counter with
split-around-access PPU catch-up. Preserve the remaining compatibility and
feature details.

In `@README.md`:
- Around line 904-910: Update the roadmap block describing hardware bring-up and
rung 5 to align with the v2.6.7 status: replace the stale 72-gates-green and
older progress details with the current 97-passed, 0-failed validation state, or
clearly mark the block as historical.

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Raised by CodeRabbit on PR #477. Each was checked against the file before being acted on, and one of its findings was checked and REJECTED. 1. A FALSE FORWARD CLAIM, and the most important of the four. VERSION-PLAN's v2.6.6 row ended "rung 6 closes at v2.6.7" -- written when that was the plan, and no longer true, because v2.6.7 does not close it either and says so three paragraphs above in the same file. Corrected to say it did not close there and moves to the first release after a board exists. The v2.6.6 release-notes file carries the same sentence and is deliberately NOT edited: it is the frozen record of what that release published. 2. THE CHAIN JOIN REGRESSED, and it took a git check to tell that from house style. The release-history chain now read "...confirmed by checking rather than assumed, on **v2.6.6 "Chassis"** -- ...", which makes the historical text read as part of the current-release sentence. At the v2.6.6 tag the same anchor read "Built on **v2.6.5 "Muster"**", so this is a regression in the join rather than the established form; restored across SECURITY.md, SUPPORT.md, ROADMAP.md and AGENTS.md. 3. The contribution checklist's header said "The whole list is checked at v2.7.0", which reads as either "gets checked at" or "has been checked as of". The first was meant. Now says it must be COMPLETE BY v2.7.0, is not complete now, and that an unchecked item is carried deliberately. 4. The plan's gate row conflated two different AccuracyCoin numbers and carried a stale suite count. It now states the measured 97 passed / 0 failed and separates the two metrics explicitly: the ORACLE's battery is 141/141 assigned tests over a 146-entry catalog, and the DUT-vs-ORACLE status vector is 146 of 146 entries identical. They are not interchangeable and the row could be read as either. REJECTED, with evidence: the review also reported that rustynes_libretro.info's display_version became "v22.66.7". It reads "v2.6.7"; the diff is a clean one-line v2.6.6 -> v2.6.7, and libretro_info_audit passes 3/3 pinning it against the workspace manifest. No change made.

doublegate · 2026-08-30T22:56:39Z

Four findings acted on in bb6173ba, and a fifth checked and rejected. Each was verified against the file before being fixed.

1. VERSION-PLAN.md:114 — the false hardware claim. Correct, and the most important of the four. That row ended "rung 6 closes at v2.6.7", written when it was the plan, and v2.6.7 does not close it — as the v2.6.7 row three paragraphs above says. Corrected to state it did not close there and moves to the first release after a board exists. .github/release-notes/v2.6.6.md carries the same sentence and is deliberately not edited: it is the frozen record of what that release published, and this project retracts forward rather than rewriting history.

2. SUPPORT.md:97 — the run-on before the v2.6.6 history. Correct, and it took a git show to tell a regression from house style: at the v2.6.6 tag the same anchor read Built on **v2.6.5 "Muster"**, while this cut produced , on **v2.6.6 "Chassis"**. So the join regressed rather than being the established form. Restored across SECURITY.md, SUPPORT.md, ROADMAP.md and AGENTS.md.

3. contribution-checklist.md:61 — header vs. an unchecked item. The header ("The whole list is checked at v2.7.0") meant gets checked at, not has been checked as of, so the claim was not actually false — but it reads both ways, which is the finding worth having. It now says the list must be complete by v2.7.0, is not complete now, and that an unchecked item is carried deliberately rather than overlooked.

4. v2.6.7-detent-plan.md:92 — conflated metrics. Correct on both counts. The row now states the measured 97 passed / 0 failed (87 plus the ten checkpoint gates clause 5 registers) and separates the two AccuracyCoin numbers explicitly, because they are not interchangeable: the oracle's own battery is 141/141 assigned tests over a 146-entry catalog (RAM decoder), and the DUT-vs-oracle status vector is 146 of 146 entries identical.

Rejected: the walkthrough reports rustynes_libretro.info changing display_version to "v22.66.7". It reads "v2.6.7" — the diff is a clean one-line v2.6.6 → v2.6.7, and libretro_info_audit passes 3/3 pinning that field against the workspace manifest. No change made.

release_anchor_audit re-run after the edits: 11/11.

All four are things that cost time in this cycle and would cost it again. 1. A timing gate that reads ONE corner reports the margin of the corner it reads. Quartus gives four; this project had been quoting Slow 100C, which is not the binding one on this design (Slow -40C is, at +0.108 ns against +0.385). Discover corners by pattern, never from a list; treat too-few-found as a failure; publish the worst across them. The checker itself was wrong twice and mutation found both, including reporting FOURTEEN clocks from a report emptied of data. 2. v2.6.6's published slack figures are withdrawn -- and the innocent explanation was tested before the accusation was written. Separate 'the build is reproducible' from 'the recorded number is right'; check whether the DESIGN changed before investigating whether its output did; and note that a flow's summary line can SUM ACROSS STAGES. 3. The ROM written to probe a timing refuted the fix for it. nesdev, the oracle and the code's own comment all said +1 cycle; blargg went 11/11 to 4 of 11. Two sources agreeing is not three, and neither was silicon. Where nothing discriminates, ATTRIBUTE rather than fit. 4. A golden's manifest records the path the EXPORTER used. A scan swept every unresolvable one into '26 skipped (no manifest or ROM)', hiding three NMI-bearing goldens and a whole divergence cluster. A skip count is a place findings hide.

… on research Three changes, all consequences of finishing Workstream B rather than attributing it. CAVEAT C2 CLOSES. A $4017 write schedules four effects and the DUT landed all four at the sequencer's maturation. Moving all four one cycle later -- to match the oracle, nesdev, and a comment two lines above the constant -- dropped blargg's 2005 APU battery from 11/11 to 4 of 11, including 04.clock_jitter, the ROM written to probe that timing. Read as evidence rather than as a dead end, that says the SEQUENCER's maturation is where the ROMs want it, so separating only the interrupt clear lands it at write+3, nesdev's figure for an APU-aligned write, while the frame counter's zeroing stays put. Measured: the line now clears on the final edge of 116,845, and 116,842 + 3 = 116,845. Checkpoint streams go from 11 identical to 52 of 58, the suite from 97 passed to 122, and it now carries 51 checkpoint comparisons where v2.6.6 had none. THE SEED IS RAISED 2 -> 3 AND NAMED. The fix adds one register, which moved placement enough to land the framework's HDMI path at -0.007 ns at Slow 100C -- inside sys/, on logic the change does not touch. The .qsf has prescribed exactly this remedy since v2.6.6. At seed 3 every corner closes: worst setup +0.086 ns, worst hold +0.096 ns. Reproducibility is re-measured for the changed RTL, since the earlier measurement was of a configuration that no longer exists -- clean and incremental both give md5 537d64f1... The living documents carry v2.6.7's own figures and say so explicitly, because the +0.108/+0.042 pair is v2.6.6's CONFIGURATION re-measured and a reader would otherwise take it for this release's. THE HOME-FOLDER ITEM CLOSES, resolved against Main_MiSTer's own source rather than left open. user_io.cpp's user_io_get_confstr(0) returns the text up to the FIRST semicolon and user_io_read_core_name() assigns that as the core name; the MkDocs Core Paths page then states the standard path is /media/fat/games/<CORE>, "where <CORE> is the internal core name". So CONF_STR's opening "RustyNES;;" already yields /media/fat/games/RustyNES, and it is unique -- the incumbent NES core's internal name is NES. The empty field between the semicolons is the next ENTRY being empty, not a directory field, which is what the earlier note could not establish: the conf_str documentation page says nothing about the first line, and reading an existing console core was unavailable under ADR 0037. The framework's parser is a better source than an example would have been.

…he order matters Clause 4 was deliberately an OR -- fix the residual, or attribute it with evidence -- because 'fix it' is not a gate when which side is wrong is unknown. In the event BOTH branches were taken, in that order, and the ordering is the finding rather than an accident. The residual was attributed first, with the fix hypothesis REFUTED: matching the oracle dropped blargg 11/11 to 4 of 11. That refutation is what identified the real fix, because it proved the sequencer's maturation was correctly placed, which left only the other effects the same write schedules. Separating the interrupt clear alone lands it at write+3, the documented cycle. Attribution was not a consolation prize here. It was the step that made the fix findable, which is an argument for keeping the OR in future gates rather than demanding a fix up front. Clause 5 and clause 6 gain their measured results: 51 checkpoint comparisons (35 explicit plus the 16 instruction ROMs riding the bus gate's own DUT run at no extra cost) and 122 passed / 0 failed.

1. A REFUTED FIX CAN BE THE EVIDENCE THAT FINDS THE REAL ONE. Moving all four effects of a $4017 write one cycle later broke blargg 11/11 -> 4 of 11. The instinct is to file that as 'attributed, cannot fix'. Read as a measurement it proves the sequencer's maturation is correctly placed, which leaves only the other effects the same write schedules -- and separating just the interrupt clear lands it at the documented write+3. When a whole-block move is refuted, ask which PART of the block the evidence constrains. 2. DISTINGUISHING A FIX FROM A COMPENSATION IS A MEASUREMENT. v2.5.7 is the cautionary case. The discriminator here: the interrupt SET path was already exact (655 of 655 checkpoints), and a global phase error does not localise to one edge of one signal. Check the neighbouring paths on the same signal before accepting a one-cycle change. 3. A GATE'S ACCEPTANCE IS A PROPERTY OF THE DUT, so changing RTL re-opens it -- including gates that look topically unrelated. The APU fix re-opened rung 5 (re-run: still 146/146 identical, 0 NotRun) AND the bitstream, where one extra register failed timing and forced the seed raise. 4. TWO GATES WERE NOT GATING, both found by reading the run rather than the code: nestest skipped on every run for want of a default its neighbour has, and an absolute-path join failed AFTER a 134 M-cycle simulation completed. Also: a default can read like a coverage claim while the golden decides the real number -- nestest compares 59,554 cycles, not the 5,002,992 its default names.

The lead is quoted verbatim into ten documents by bump_release.py, so it said 'ATTRIBUTED rather than fixed' and 'registered over ten goldens' in every one of them -- both true when written and both wrong after the fix landed. Sixteen occurrences corrected across seven documents, plus the VERSION-PLAN row and the release-notes section that carry their own longer prose. The corrected lead states the thing worth remembering rather than just the outcome: the first fix was refuted, and READ AS A MEASUREMENT that refutation is what found the right one, because it proved the sequencer's maturation was correctly placed and left only the other effects the same write schedules. This is the failure mode AGENTS.md already warns about one level up -- a claim in a lead is laundered into ten documents at once, so a stale lead is ten stale documents.

C6: nestest diverges from cycle 265,640 and the committed golden could never reach it -- 59,562 cycles against the 5,002,992 that rung3-ppu.md and the gate's own default both named. Not this release's fix: the pre-fix RTL in a separate worktree gives the identical 19,224 of 5,002,984. Two standing rules, both earned here: A GOLDEN CAN BE TWO ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE SHALLOWER THAN THE NUMBER EVERY DOCUMENT QUOTES. A gate's depth is a property of the GOLDEN, not of the constant naming it -- check obs_count in the manifest against whatever the docs claim, because the constant is aspirational and the golden is the fact. DO NOT EDIT A SHELL SCRIPT WHILE BASH IS EXECUTING IT. bash reads incrementally from a byte offset, so editing regress.sh mid-run made the running instance resume mid-token and die with a syntax error at a line that parses perfectly. The run was wasted and, worse, everything before the error came from a file changing underneath it -- mixed-provenance evidence rather than merely incomplete. Run long suites from a frozen copy.

…ating It skipped on every run for want of a ROM default, and giving it one exposed that its golden was 59,562 cycles against the 5,002,992 that rung3-ppu.md and the gate's own default both named. Re-exported deeper, the DUT diverges on 19,224 of 5,002,984 cycles from 265,640 -- identical on the pre-fix RTL in a worktree, so pre-existing rather than this release's.

Up from 87 at v2.6.6, carrying 51 checkpoint comparisons where that release had none -- and the first run with nothing skipped, since the one standing skip was nestest, which had no ROM default.

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