* docs(security): add the antivirus clearance path for future releases
Every AV false positive here has been handled one vendor and one shipped
version at a time. Document the programs that clear future releases instead --
signer and product enrollment rather than per-build sample submission -- and add
a script that reports an RC's current detection state by hash, so a verdict is
found before users meet it in an issue report.
Hash lookup only by default; --upload transmits the artifact and stays manual.
* fix(windows): replace the managed CLI launcher with a native one
resources\bin\orca.exe was a csc-compiled MSIL assembly: a small, freshly
compiled .NET image in a user-writable directory that mutates environment
variables and proxies a child process. That is the shape .NET dropper
heuristics are trained on, and every verdict against it named the family --
MSILHeracles from two vendors, Wacatac!ml from a third. Signing the file does
not change its shape, so signing never cleared it.
Rebuild it in Rust. Same resolution, same environment contract, same argv
passthrough that keeps newline-bearing orchestration bodies intact (#8374), and
the child still inherits our environment block rather than an explicit map, so
a block carrying both PATH and Path survives (#12046). The PE now carries
publisher, version, icon and an asInvoker manifest from build.rs.
Refs #23383
* ci(windows): install the Rust toolchain before building the CLI launcher
The hosted runners happen to ship cargo, but a real Windows dev box does not --
verified on our own Windows QA host, where cargo and rustc were both absent.
Relying on the image means a future image change fails deep inside
electron-builder's native hook instead of at an obvious step.
* Speed up PR CI with per-job path skips and native caches
Skip git-compat, xterm, packaging, and shell jobs when their inputs are
unchanged, reuse the composite install action (including Windows node-pty
cache), skip compiling the Windows CLI launcher on a cache hit, and cut the
test matrix from 16x2 to 8x2 shards without dropping coverage.
* Widen PR job skip prefixes for orcad browser and live shells
Chrome session/tab modules and zsh/fish wrapper templates are inputs to
required jobs the classifier previously skipped. Include that implementation
graph so those jobs still run when the files they load change.
* Fix CI cache safety and required gates
* Build scriptless Windows addons explicitly
* Preserve node-pty Windows support prebuild
* Remove duplicated Windows launcher unit lane
Enable eleven oxlint rules that simplify code without changing behavior, and fix
every existing violation. Each candidate was gated on measured cost rather than
assumption, so rules that regressed runtime performance or type checking were
dropped instead of suppressed.
typescript/no-redundant-type-constituents is the largest addition: 113 sites, no
autofix. Dead constituents are deleted. Where the redundant literal existed to
document intent (`string | 'all'`), it is preserved as `(string & {})`, which
keeps the autocomplete hint the original code was reaching for instead of
flattening it away. The rule also caught a broken import —
remote-shared-control-retirement-probe.ts pulled RuntimeStatus from
src/shared/types, which does not export it, so the type silently degraded to
`any`; no tsconfig covers that file, so tsc never saw it.
oxlint stays at 1.77.0 rather than 1.78.0 because .npmrc sets
minimum-release-age=4320 and 1.78.0 is younger than that window.
Rules evaluated and rejected, with what disqualified each:
- prefer-string-raw: String.raw is a runtime call, not a literal (184x slower)
- prefer-string-replace-all: 26% slower
- text-encoding-identifier-case: ~5% slower, reproducible
- prefer-spread: [...str] is 110% slower than split('') and differs on surrogates
- no-implicit-coercion: `!!x` narrows types and `Boolean(x)` does not (22 tsc errors)
- prefer-arrow-callback: arrows are not constructible, breaking `new` on mocks
- object-shorthand: rewrites source text asserted by a tracked reliability gate
- switch-case-braces: pushes ten files past max-lines, which cannot be suppressed
- no-useless-switch-case: drops `case undefined:` that switch-exhaustiveness-check needs
- arrow-body-style: 115 violations have no fix, and it breaks max-lines
- newline-after-import: false-positives on the leading-semicolon ASI idiom
electron-vite-output-contract asserted on the literal
Object.prototype.hasOwnProperty.call text; retarget it to Object.hasOwn, which
rejects inherited keys identically.
* fix(cli): harden Windows launcher transports
* Fix csc.exe compile failures on space-bearing Windows install paths
- Legacy csc.exe mangles absolute paths containing spaces, so the
compile step now cd's into the bin directory and passes bare
file names for /out and the source file instead of full paths
Neil
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