The Windows wheel for 0.39.0 exceeded PyPI's 100 MiB file-size limit, preventing the original release upload. Restore the repository's release profile (`fat` LTO, 1 codegen unit) by removing the Windows-only `thin`/16 overrides introduced in #3716. Keep `rust-lld` as the linker. This recovers wheel-size headroom at the cost of the longer fat-LTO build. The already-published 0.39.0 Windows wheel was recovered separately by recompressing the original artifact; this change addresses the build configuration for future releases. Fixes #4239. ### Windows size comparison Built the same v0.38.0 source (`8c68e0c619f2b1febe92e51a29d72c968d24a5c9`) twice on one AWS `m7i.4xlarge` Windows Server 2025 machine, changing only the LTO/codegen-unit overrides: | Artifact | thin LTO / 16 units | fat LTO / 1 unit | | --- | ---: | ---: | | Installable Windows wheel | 104,129,447 bytes (99.31 MiB) | 73,875,399 bytes (70.45 MiB) | | Uncompressed native module | 309,969,408 bytes (295.61 MiB) | 206,609,408 bytes (197.04 MiB) | The thin/16 configuration increased wheel size by **40.95%** and native-module size by **50.03%** relative to fat/1. The compressed native module accounts for all but 3 bytes of the wheel increase. Both builds used Rust 1.97.0, maturin 1.12.4, Python 3.13.5, MSVC 14.44.35207, Windows SDK 10.0.26100.0, rust-lld, static CRT, default features, and `maturin build --release --strip --locked --verbose`. They ran sequentially with separate empty target directories and identical locked third-party dependencies. The tag's stale workspace package versions were normalized once before both builds. This controlled pair used VS2022 Build Tools; the historical GitHub runner used VS2026. Both wheels passed ZIP/RECORD integrity checks and installed successfully. Native smoke checks covered import, database creation, row count, nearest-vector query, and reopening the database. This establishes the combined configuration effect; it does not isolate LTO mode from codegen-unit count or establish a runtime-performance difference. The figures above are the v0.38.0 reproduction, **not measurements of this PR head**. The existing PyPI Publish pull-request workflow rebuilds the current revision without publishing; its result is pending. Workflow validation passed with `actionlint -shellcheck=`. Full actionlint reports the same three pre-existing ShellCheck diagnostics in the unchanged repository-selection step as on `main`.
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