Three defects the 8.0.0-rc.4 release exposed - #195
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The release published correctly but the run went red and needed hands to finish, which is not a release process. 1. The GitHub Release step raced itself. It created a draft with the CLI, then searched the releases listing for it by tag a second later. That listing is eventually consistent and had not caught up, so the step exited 1 and left v8.0.0-rc.4 sitting as a draft. It now creates the release through the API and keeps the id from the response, so there is nothing to search for. 2. Nothing checked that a published version could be resolved. `pnpm publish` printed a success line for prisma@8.0.0-rc.4 while the version stayed unresolvable for several minutes, and no one could say from the run whether the release had shipped. A verification step now polls the registry for each published version and fails the run if one never appears. 3. A release commit never reached the dev channel. `determine-version.ts` treats release and dev as alternatives, so the release commit is the one merge to `main` that publishes no dev build, and `dev` keeps naming an older version than the release until an unrelated commit lands. It now publishes a dev build too — a real one, with the product pins moved to their dev builds and conformance run against it, as a second publish rather than a dist-tag move, because OIDC authorises `npm publish` and nothing else. Signed-off-by: willbot <w.a.madden+machine@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Will Madden <madden@prisma.io>
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Operator ruling 2026-08-18. `determine-version.ts` treated dev and release as alternatives, which made the release commit the one merge to `main` that never reached the dev channel — so `dev` named an older version than the release until an unrelated commit landed. The previous attempt at this bolted a second dev publish onto the end of the release path, which was more machinery to express a worse idea. Now the workflow reads as two halves. The dev half has no conditions: stamp the version and the products' dev builds, build, check, publish, verify. The release half runs when the committed version changed: restore the committed tree, build, check on the release channel, publish, verify, create the GitHub Release. `determine-version.ts` emits both versions rather than choosing between them. Also in this change, both found by the 8.0.0-rc.4 release: - The Release step searched the releases listing for the draft it had just created, by tag, a second later. That listing is eventually consistent; when it had not caught up the step failed and left v8.0.0-rc.4 sitting as a draft. It now creates the release through the API and keeps the id from the response. - Nothing checked that a published version could be resolved. `pnpm publish` printed a success line for prisma@8.0.0-rc.4 while the version stayed unresolvable for minutes. scripts/verify-published.mjs polls the registry and fails the run if a version never appears; the lookup and the clock are injected so its tests need neither. Signed-off-by: willbot <w.a.madden+machine@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Will Madden <madden@prisma.io>
publish.yml carried 127 comment lines; most narrated the incidents that motivated each step, restated the line below them, or cited rulings that docs/oss/versioning.md already records. It has 27 now, and the file is 71 lines shorter than it was on main. What survives is the traps: NODE_AUTH_TOKEN blocking OIDC, `pnpm publish` rewriting `workspace:` specifiers, assets before publish because releases are immutable, `||` not `??` on an empty dist-tag input, and why the lockfile refresh belongs to the stamp. The incident history is in git and in the pull request, which is where it can be read once rather than every time someone opens the file. Signed-off-by: willbot <w.a.madden+machine@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Will Madden <madden@prisma.io>
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In @.github/workflows/publish.yml:
- Around line 97-104: The dev publish step should tolerate packages that were
already published during an earlier attempt of the same workflow run. Update the
publish loop for `@prisma/cli-engine`, `@prisma/cli`, and prisma to use the same
already-published E409 handling as the release publish logic, while preserving
failures for other errors so subsequent release steps can proceed only when
appropriate.
- Around line 80-84: Update the “Stamp the dev version” workflow step to pass
steps.version.outputs.devVersion through the step environment, then reference
that environment variable in the node scripts/set-version.ts invocation instead
of interpolating the GitHub expression directly in the shell command.
- Around line 188-191: Update the existing release-existence check to inspect
the release’s isDraft status and exit only for non-draft releases; for drafts,
repair by release ID or fail with an explicit delete-and-rerun message. Replace
tag-based gh release upload usage with direct POST requests to the release
assets endpoint using the release_id, tarball bytes, and Content-Type
application/gzip.
In `@scripts/determine-version.ts`:
- Around line 104-111: Validate inputDistTag in the workflow_dispatch branch
against the release-tag contract before assigning it to release.tag or emitting
workflow outputs. Reject values containing newline or other disallowed
characters, including delimiter-injection content, while preserving the fallback
to releaseDistTag for empty input; ensure invalid input cannot reach publishing
or GITHUB_OUTPUT.
In `@scripts/verify-published.mjs`:
- Around line 42-49: Update resolvesOnRegistry to distinguish an npm E404
response from other execFileAsync failures: return false only when the error
output indicates E404, and rethrow non-404 failures such as missing npm,
authentication, or network errors so polling stops and the real cause is
reported.
- Around line 29-37: Update the retry loop around io.check in the verification
flow to call io.sleep(DELAY_MS) only when another attempt remains, while
preserving the existing immediate break on success and unresolved result
handling.
- Around line 74-77: Update the isDirectRun check to convert process.argv[1]
with pathToFileURL instead of manually constructing a file URL, preserving the
comparison with import.meta.url and ensuring paths containing # or ? still
invoke main().
- Around line 30-35: Extend the existing noAwaitInLoops suppression in the retry
loop to also cover await io.sleep(DELAY_MS), while preserving the current retry
and delay behavior.
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…inputs The dev publish now tolerates already-published versions the same way the release publish does (scripts/publish-packages.sh, shared by both), so a re-run of the same workflow run reaches the release steps instead of failing on its own earlier success. The Release step no longer mistakes a leftover draft for a published release: it searches the listing (the by-tag endpoints do not see drafts), deletes a stale draft, and uploads assets by release id so a fresh draft cannot race the by-tag lookup. determine-version refuses a dispatch dist-tag that is not a plain lowercase word, so nothing with a newline or a leading dash reaches pnpm publish or GITHUB_OUTPUT. verify-published treats only E404 as "not published yet" and stops on real npm failures, skips the sleep after the final attempt, and uses pathToFileURL for the direct-run check. The stamped dev version reaches its step through the environment, not inline expansion. Signed-off-by: willbot <w.a.madden+machine@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Will Madden <madden@prisma.io>
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8.0.0-rc.4published correctly, then the run went red and needed hands to finish. Three defects, all in the publish path.1. Dev and release were alternatives
determine-version.tschose one: version changed means release, unchanged means dev. So the release commit was the one merge tomainthat published no dev build, anddevkept naming the last routine push — an older version than the release — until an unrelated commit landed.That isn't cosmetic here. This repository reads the products'
devtags to build the CLI's dev channel, so while adevtag lags, every dev build tests older product code than the release carries, and nothing fails. Composer is in that state now:latest: 0.7.0,dev: 0.6.0-dev.23.The dev publish is now unconditional and the release publish is the conditional half. The workflow reads as two blocks:
determine-version.tsemitsdevVersionalongsiderelease/releaseVersion/releaseTaginstead of picking one. The invariant is now structural:devcannot name an older version than the release tag, because the release commit gets a dev build like every other build ofmain.An earlier revision of this PR bolted a second dev publish onto the end of the release path. That was more machinery to express a worse idea, and it's gone.
2. The Release step raced itself
It created the draft with
gh release create, then searched the releases listing for it by tag a second later:That listing is eventually consistent. It hadn't caught up, the step exited 1, and
v8.0.0-rc.4sat as a draft — with the tarballs attached and everything else green — until it was published by hand (run 32104368661).It now creates the release through the API and keeps the id from the response. Nothing to search for, nothing to race.
3. Nothing checked that a publish could be resolved
The run trusted
pnpm publish's own success line. It printed one forprisma@8.0.0-rc.4while the version stayed unresolvable for several minutes —npm view404ing even with--prefer-online. Nobody could tell from the run whether the release had shipped.scripts/verify-published.mjspolls the registry for each published version and fails the run if one never appears. The registry lookup and the clock are injected, so its five tests need neither network nor waiting.On not using
npm dist-tag addThe obvious fix for a lagging
devtag is to move it. That is not available: npm's documentation states OIDC trusted publishing authorisesnpm publishandnpm stage publishonly, and other commands still require traditional authentication. Introducing a long-lived npm token to move a tag would give up the property that makes trusted publishing worth having. Publishing a version needs no new credential. The same constraint applies to composer and prisma/prisma, whose brief is #194.Verification
pnpm lintclean;pnpm test:scripts73 passing, including 5 new forwaitForAlland 30 for the version helpers.run:block parses underbash -n.if:— the dev half has none.What this cannot prove is the publish path end to end, which only runs on
main. Aworkflow_dispatchdry-run exercises everything except the registry writes and the Release step, and is worth running before merge.