The merge brought Cyd's cockpit refit into the build testers will run tonight,
so the question that decides the evening is whether a 554 client can still join.
Rather than reason about it, tested it: extracted the real BT411_4.11.554.zip
and ran ONE 554 pod and ONE 584 pod against the same relay through a real
launch.
WIRE-COMPATIBLE. Both staged, both REGISTERED, the relay launched the mixed
round, and 30s in both were still registered AND still on the UDP fast path
(registered [2, 3] udp-known [2, 3]), zero drops, both processes alive.
=> NOBODY HAS TO UPDATE TONIGHT. The new zip is an upgrade, not a
flag day (unlike 554, which changed the scoreboard wire format).
Supporting evidence for why that held: the merge did NOT change the attribute
table's shape -- 36 ATTRIBUTE_ENTRY(Mech,...) rows before and after. Cyd's
crouch work POPULATED an existing pad slot (0x37 DuckState, previously
attrPad), so no index shifted.
The zip itself (dist/BT411_4.11.584.zip, 47.0 MB):
* built clean at HEAD 2b0506d, 0 compile errors, the 40 /FORCE-tolerated
externs byte-identical to every prior build;
* 34-check document audit passes, now including "the README does NOT
advertise the RGB keylight" since that feature was unshipped today;
* CLEAN-EXTRACT BOOT from the packaged zip: 0 faults, GLASS profile with the
cockpit surround, environ.ini written, 74-key board loaded, and
content\bindings.txt generated carrying the "# bindings-board 2" marker --
i.e. a fresh install lands on the new board with the migration armed;
* the zip ships NEITHER bindings.txt NOR operator_secret.txt (verified) --
player files and a live credential both stay out;
* screenshot from the extracted build confirms the refit renders: under-glass
buttons, corrected hat labels, both weapon columns, radar centred.
One harness bug fixed here: the drop check matched a bare "dropped", which also
matches the stats line's own counter -- "(dropped 0, tcp-fallback 0)" -- and the
operator's control socket closing normally. It reported a compatibility FAILURE
on a perfectly healthy mixed round. Now matches real pod drops only.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
