Outcome A, qualified. Not B and not C. It does not degrade: 5 of 5 restarts of 12.3 on an 11.6 datadir, readback passed every time, mariadb_upgrade_info unchanged, the entrypoint line never escalated past [Note]. It also never heals - the engine answers 'Major version upgrade detected from 11.6.2-MariaDB to 12.3.3-MariaDB. Check required!' on every start and will forever. The trade R-459 was expected to produce is not real. Converting properly SUCCEEDS across the multi-major jump, takes 7 seconds, backs up the system database unasked - and putting 11.6 back afterwards STILL starts and serves the data. So the operator is being handed a cheap correction, not a choice between a correct engine and a reversible one. The exit-code polarity was measured rather than read: 0 means the upgrade IS needed, 1 means it is not. Assuming either the flag name or the polarity would have inverted the headline. And run without credentials the same command returns a confident-looking FATAL ERROR that is an auth failure. R-464: after converting and going back, the entrypoint prints 'MariaDB upgrade not required' on a state the same engine calls an unsupported downgrade. The obvious cheap instrument for R-459 would have been to grep for that line, and it would have reported fine for the broken case. R-463: the PostgreSQL analogue, deliberately NOT measured here. 11 templates, 8 on postgres:16-alpine, register grep for pg_upgrade returns zero. The two engines fail in OPPOSITE directions - MariaDB skips quietly, Postgres refuses to start - so that one cannot hide; it presents as eight apps down at once. No template changed. Teardown all three layers, hub checked rather than asserted, local-lvm 30.53 percent before and after.
documentation/backlog/
OPEN-ITEMS.md is the register of open work and the file to read first — it holds only what is
open, one row per item, every row with a state and an owner. ROADMAP.md is the full history and
reasoning behind the R-n IDs, including shipped and killed items; an ID is minted there, and a new
instance of an existing item attaches to that ID rather than getting its own.
The rest of this folder: verified-LIVE findings with implementable fix plans that are not yet
implemented. Preserved here
(instead of on git branches) per the trunk-based, no-branches rule — the fix itself is implemented later
directly on main, during a normal/supervised session.
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FIX-M18-NOTES.md — dump re-validation runs every 5 min (perf). FIXED in controller v0.62.0 @
f8afe5c(2026-06-14). (was on the deletedfelhom-controllerbranchfix/m18-dump-validation-cache.) -
FIX-M19-NOTES.md —
deriveStackNamemisattribution edge (low-incidence correctness). FIXED in controller v0.62.0 @6bab68b(2026-06-14). (was on the deleted branchfix/m19-stackname-crossref.) -
FOLLOWUP-golden-default-controller-tag.md — the golden bakes a stale controller (
:0.43.0when queued; had rotted again to:0.85.1by resolution). FIXED in felhom-agent @ceca355(2026-07-03):build-golden.shv2.0.0 makes the controller tag a MANDATORY argument (a required arg cannot rot) and golden 0.98.3 was baked + clean-room-validated (bake → first-boot-current → self-manage → app deploy, on the drill VM — no supervised touch of live guests needed) + published + vouched. Evidence:../audits/DRILL-golden-098-2026-07-03.md.
Related: the live-drive fixspec (../audits/live-drive-fixspec-2026-06-14.md) carries the deferred
supervised items F9 (HDD provisioning/guest-attach), F20-BUG2 (durable_id scheme), F20-BUG3 (async
mkfs) — to be implemented in the agent/golden supervised session.