Each release chunk is a release inserted once: release_key the SHA-1 of
the identity, the owner group and the first article (deterministic; no
numbering under a group lock), identity_key the identity's SHA-1 bytes,
poster_id and group_set_id through catalog_refs (cached per process),
source as a code (weak-stem added), the name into release_texts. A
finished release's candidates are claimable at once; a provisional tail
release is finished by a later chunk of its key, a finished one sent again
is left alone. Gone: joins into earlier releases and across groups, key
numbering, the group lock, the fragment merger. Interim: chunks, counts
and samples keyed by ranges.block_id, a range without a block gets one.
Readers follow: search (posters and group_sets joined, words through
release_texts, posters by id, source by code), the par2 merger, the
sidecar folder, the judge's scraped rule, the spot inspector, the spotter,
the NZB service, releases:regroup, edge:bench. Tests insert fixtures
through tests/functional/helpers/releases.ts; the suites pass again.
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The name pass put every holder of a set into its merge: a par2 posted
again years later ("Auto Bild Klassik Februar 02-2014", held by a 2014
and a 2026 release) would have joined the repost to the old upload. Now
the newest holder anchors it and only holders in its group within 12
hours take part. Every round, three sets failed on the probe candidates'
unique key: a member held a candidate of an article the target had.
merge() now drops such a candidate (the target's, or a lower member's,
stays), as it already does for par2 sets.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The files of one upload often became several releases whose names
differ slightly: scene tracks apart from their album's nfo/sfv/par2,
"Vermaechtnis" beside a garbled "Vermächtnis", an index named
Die.Bergretter.S18E05... beside its video wishtv-diebergretter-s18e05.
The par2 merge joined releases only by first-16-KiB hashes, which
readable files never get. A name pass now looks, for every set the
merger finds, at the set poster's releases in its group posted within
12 hours: those whose files the set all names (without case or
punctuation, Latin-1-read UTF-8 read back; sidecars, par2 and images
aside) join the set's release, within the hash pass's file bound.
Merges are kept in release_merges as via 'name'. releases:merge-names
runs it over the sets found before; on 300 recent sets 22 merges of 147
releases, all one upload each.
Also: volumes split after .wmv, .mov, .mpg and other video extensions
share a stem ("Morning Lovers.wmv.001" to ".058" were 58 releases), in
the Rust edge and the TypeScript identity.
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