release: v4.0.0-alpha.4 #163

2026-11-10T15:20:07Z

rajames commented

2026-11-10 15:20:07 +00:00

LithosAnanke v4.0.0-alpha.4 — the plug-and-play stick

Bumps LITHOS_VERSION to 4.0.0-alpha.4, updates README and CHANGELOG.

What is in this release

The plug-and-play stick (#92)
The BAM flush (#155)
The Book of Fabric (#138)
The Dictionary of v4 (#157)
The .com Downloads and Documents pages (#126, #161)

## LithosAnanke v4.0.0-alpha.4 — the plug-and-play stick Bumps `LITHOS_VERSION` to `4.0.0-alpha.4`, updates README and CHANGELOG. ### What is in this release - The plug-and-play stick (#92) - The BAM flush (#155) - The Book of Fabric (#138) - The Dictionary of v4 (#157) - The .com Downloads and Documents pages (#126, #161)

rajames added 10 commits 2026-11-10 15:20:10 +00:00

docs: The Book of Fabric -- the FABRIC design record as one book, built and published with every release (#138 ) [skip ci] 41abad0159

`make fabric` -> build/docs/BookOfFabric.pdf (722 pages): Part I the living
record (FABRIC-3), Part II the closed documents in the order written, Part
III the forward-looking notes; its title page carries the version (git
describe --tags: a release's tag) and the commit. Built from the same pandoc
fragments as the book; the book's preamble moved into docs/book/preamble.tex,
shared by both (the book builds as before, 821 pages).

scripts/nightly.sh: the docs stage builds it ($DOCS/fabric.pdf); publish
sends it as classifier `fabric`; gitea-release attaches every PDF in $DOCS,
so every release carries it. Progress for the rest of alpha.4's documents:
docs/v4.0.0/plans/2026-11-10-alpha4-documents.md.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01GE3SDvQn5EoxdGufk84zz2

docs(dictionary): mkdictionary.py and the draft table -- every live v4 word, 318 (#157 ) [skip ci] a53cc82dd5

The names from the system itself (the hosted v4's WORDS, plus the kernel's sk_v4_words[]); the stack notation and description in docs/reference/v4-dictionary.tsv, drafted from the source where it says (54 stacks, 105 descriptions), the rest to write. check refuses a missing, unfinished or stale entry.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01GE3SDvQn5EoxdGufk84zz2

docs(dictionary): batch 1 -- the symbols, the digits, A..C (#157 ) [skip ci] 1c9a65c970

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01GE3SDvQn5EoxdGufk84zz2

docs(dictionary): batch 2 -- D..P (#157 ) [skip ci] e3fc57fb17

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01GE3SDvQn5EoxdGufk84zz2

docs(dictionary): batch 3 -- Q..Z and the brackets; every one of the 318 live words has its entry (#157 ) [skip ci] 135cccb37d

LSHIFT corrected (a count out of range is error 9, as DECOMPOSITION.md says, not 0). mkdictionary.py check: covers all 318 live words.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01GE3SDvQn5EoxdGufk84zz2

docs: The Dictionary of v4 -- every live word, alphabetical, its stack notation and description; built and published with every release (#157 ) [skip ci] 1a9b142d80

make dictionary -> build/docs/Dictionary.pdf (20 pages): mkdictionary.py checks docs/reference/v4-dictionary.tsv against the booted system's words first, so a stale dictionary fails the build; then Markdown, pandoc, docs/book/dictionary.tex (the books' preamble, its own title page: version and commit). Quoted FORTH tokens set as code, so their quotes print straight. The nightly's docs stage builds it; publish sends classifier dictionary; the Gitea release attaches it.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01GE3SDvQn5EoxdGufk84zz2

site(com): Downloads and Documents, built from a release; the nav links; the release's SHA256SUMS covers every file (#126 , #157 ) [skip ci] be2c204d56

The design canvas (v17) gains the Documents artboard -- the Book of Fabric and
the Dictionary of v4 first, then the book, the three volumes and the API
reference, each with its SHA-256, and the SSRN paper -- and Downloads and
Documents in every .com nav; Downloads' reading list becomes a pointer to
Documents. site/com/canvas/ copied from it.

site/com/build.py --release TAG --sums SHA256SUMS builds Downloads and
Documents from the release ([TAG], [RELEASE]/<file>, [SHA:<file>]; a file the
release's SHA256SUMS lacks fails the build). Without a release it builds Home,
Try it and Inquiries exactly as before -- byte for byte -- with no link to the
two pages, so they go live only with alpha.4. install.sh installs them when
built.

scripts/nightly.sh gitea-release: the release's SHA256SUMS now covers every
file it attaches -- the images' sums, then the PDFs and the Root CA's
certificate -- so `sha256sum -c SHA256SUMS` checks all of it and Documents
finds each sum. The Nexus artifacts keep their own.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01GE3SDvQn5EoxdGufk84zz2

site(com): every email address to rajames440@gmail.com (#161 ) [skip ci] da14d9afc6

Home's footer and announcements form, and the four addresses of Inquiries' 'Or write directly' (info@, licensing@, press@starshipos.com, security@starshipos.org): all rajames440@gmail.com (Captain Bob, 2026-11-10). On the design canvas (v18) and in site/com; the pages rebuilt. Installed on the .com with site/com/install.sh.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01GE3SDvQn5EoxdGufk84zz2

site(org): each .com inquiry also e-mailed to rajames440@gmail.com, Reply-To the visitor (#161 ) [skip ci] 468b03a093

PublicInquiry files the inquiry as before, then mails it through the wiki's mail service: plain text, the subject fixed but for the topic (line breaks removed), Reply-To the visitor's checked address, a link to the filed entry. If it is not sent the inquiry is filed all the same; a new class field, mailed (E-mailed to Captain Bob), says which, shown on the entry's sheet. Installed on the .org; a guest's test inquiry filed and thanked, mailed 0 -- the wiki has no SMTP account yet (Mail.MailConfig: no host), which Captain Bob sets in Administration > Email.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01GE3SDvQn5EoxdGufk84zz2

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