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Pins Rust to an exact nightly-2026-08-20 everywhere in CI (was floating on @stable, then briefly pinned to stable 1.98.0 before I confirmed that left -Zmin-publish-age permanently inert). Drops the tvOS/visionOS/watchOS Tier-3 build legs entirely (unstable -Z build-std, unrelated to this release either way). Applies 1.98.0's new algebraic float methods to one safe internal hot path.

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  • Pins dtolnay/rust-toolchain@stable's toolchain: input to nightly-2026-08-20 across all 23 workflows that use it.
  • Why nightly, not stable 1.98.0: .cargo/config.toml already configures [unstable] min-publish-age = true (cargo's own dependency-resolution soak gate). That feature is still nightly-only -- verified directly against the real stable 1.98.0 binary, which silently ignores the config with warning: ignoring registry.global-min-publish-age without -Zmin-publish-age, and against the tracking issue (rust-lang/cargo#17009), still open. Pinning to this exact nightly makes that block actually take effect, matching the fleet-wide convention socket-wheelhouse/ultrathink already use via their own rust-toolchain.toml.
  • Records the pin in external-tools.json's rust entry as a soakBypass-adopted version (published 2026-08-20, adopted 1 day later, removable 2026-08-27).
  • Drops the tvOS/visionOS/watchOS Tier-3 build legs entirely from release-packages.yml -- the -Z build-std=core,std,panic_abort build branches, the tier3 matrix field, and the staging step's per-platform artifact-copy loop. -Z build-std remains unstable regardless of channel, so this removal is independent of which channel the pin above uses. The perry-ui-tvos/perry-ui-visionos/perry-ui-watchos crates and their --target flags still exist in the workspace for a manual -Z build-std build; CI just no longer builds or ships them.
  • Applies the newly-stabilized {f32,f64}::algebraic_{add,sub,mul,div,rem} methods (stable since 1.98.0; a dated nightly always carries at least the prior stable's surface) in perry-runtime/src/perf_histogram.rs's stddev() (Node's perf_hooks Histogram) -- safe because it's an internal HdrHistogram-bucketed statistic, not a value any spec requires bit-exact evaluation order for.

Verification

  • Installed the real nightly-2026-08-20 toolchain locally (and, earlier, stable 1.98.0, to directly confirm the -Zmin-publish-age gap rather than assume it) -- cargo check -p perry -p perry-runtime -p perry-stdlib passes clean on the pinned nightly.
  • Ran perry-runtime's perf_histogram suite (incl. Node-oracle-comparison tests) under the pinned nightly -- 9/9 pass.
  • Confirmed -Zmin-publish-age actually activates on the pinned nightly in an isolated test project (no warning, vs. the warning on stable).
  • All 23 touched workflow YAMLs parse; actionlint clean (no new findings).
  • node scripts/soak/external-tools.mts --check -- 10/10 pins valid; node scripts/soak/soak.mts --check --quiet -- clean.

Test plan

  • Workflow YAMLs parse + actionlint clean
  • cargo check under the real pinned nightly
  • perf_histogram tests pass under the real pinned nightly
  • -Zmin-publish-age confirmed active on the pinned nightly (isolated repro)
  • external-tools.mts --check / soak.mts --check clean
  • CI (pr-gate) -- pending

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Build & Release
    • CI and release processes now use the pinned Rust nightly toolchain nightly-2026-08-20.
    • Automated release packaging no longer produces tvOS, visionOS, or watchOS artifacts; existing crates remain available for manual builds.
    • iOS, Android, Windows, macOS, and other existing release targets remain supported.
  • Performance
    • Histogram standard-deviation calculations now use algebraic floating-point operations for improved optimization compatibility.
  • Documentation
    • Updated guidance clarifies nightly-only requirements, supported release targets, manual build options, and toolchain pinning.

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The pull request pins CI and release workflows to Rust nightly-2026-08-20, removes Tier-3 Apple release packaging, updates toolchain metadata and documentation, and uses algebraic floating-point operations in Histogram::stddev.

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Rust nightly alignment

Layer / File(s) Summary
Toolchain metadata and documentation
external-tools.json, .cargo/config.toml, CLAUDE.md, changelog.d/8550-rust-1.98.0-pin.md
Records the dated nightly pin, documents nightly-only min-publish-age support, defines the planned stable-toolchain transition, and describes supported Apple targets.
Workflow toolchain pinning
.github/workflows/*.yml
Pins Rust setup steps across CI, benchmark, audit, coverage, platform, and test jobs to nightly-2026-08-20.
Release target and packaging changes
.github/workflows/release-packages.yml
Removes Tier-3 Apple build and packaging paths, retains supported targets, and removes conditional nightly build-std setup.

Runtime numeric behavior

Layer / File(s) Summary
Histogram standard-deviation arithmetic
crates/perry-runtime/src/perf_histogram.rs
Uses algebraic floating-point operations in Histogram::stddev while retaining the existing variance calculation structure.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to c45fa

The PR makes CI use an exact nightly and removes Apple Tier-3 release legs, but a floating rust-src installation and mutable setup-action references can still make builds non-reproducible, while some coverage descriptions are stale. It is mergeable with explicit owner follow-up on reproducibility and documentation consistency.

Suggested reviewers: proggeramlug, thehypnoo

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Update the stale stable-toolchain wording.

These changed comments and the step name still say that the workflow runs on stable Rust. The same workflow now selects nightly-2026-08-20 at Lines 362 and 1058.

State that the Tier-3 Apple legs no longer require rust-src or -Zbuild-std, while the remaining release jobs use the pinned nightly. Rename Install Rust stable + cross target to reflect the actual toolchain.

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build_and_run.rs with the pinned toolchain. Preserve the existing build behavior
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- Line 175: Update the CI documentation sentence to limit the claim to release
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Concrete transition target now recorded: min-publish-age's stabilization PR (cargo#17335, open) targets Rust 1.100.0, late September 2026. Comments in .cargo/config.toml and external-tools.json updated and trimmed.

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Also fixed the outside-diff finding about release-packages.yml's stale "stable" wording (lines ~417/559/1018/1056) in dc17d12 -- comments and the step name now describe the pinned toolchain neutrally instead of claiming stable.

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…td legs

Pins Rust to an exact nightly-2026-08-20 across every CI workflow (was
floating on dtolnay/rust-toolchain@stable). Nightly, not stable 1.98.0,
because -Zmin-publish-age -- the cargo dependency-resolution soak
feature .cargo/config.toml already configures -- is still nightly-only:
verified directly against a real 1.98.0 stable binary, which silently
ignores the config with a warning, and against the tracking issue
(rust-lang/cargo#17009), still open. The stabilization PR
(rust-lang/cargo#17335, open) targets Rust 1.100.0, due late September
2026 -- that's the concrete transition-to-stable target, matching
socket-wheelhouse's own canonical rust-toolchain.toml.

Drops the tvOS/visionOS/watchOS Tier-3 build legs entirely from
release-packages.yml -- the nightly + rust-src install steps, the
-Z build-std=core,std,panic_abort build branches, the tier3 matrix
field, and the staging step's per-platform artifact-copy loop.
-Z build-std remains unstable regardless of channel, so this removal
is independent of which channel the pin above uses. The
perry-ui-tvos/visionos/watchos crates stay in the workspace, and the
compiler's own auto-rebuild (perry compile --target tvos-simulator,
via a floating +nightly the end user must have installed -- see
crates/perry/src/commands/compile/link/build_and_run.rs and
crates/perry/src/commands/compile/optimized_libs/driver.rs) is
untouched and still exercised by test.yml's tvOS-sim doc-tests; only
release-packages.yml's build-and-ship leg for these three platforms is
gone.

Applies the newly-stabilized {f32,f64}::algebraic_{add,sub,mul,div,rem}
methods in perry-runtime/src/perf_histogram.rs's stddev() (Node's
perf_hooks Histogram) -- safe because it's an internal HdrHistogram-
bucketed statistic, not a value any spec requires bit-exact evaluation
order for.

Recorded in external-tools.json's rust entry as a soakBypass-adopted
version (published 2026-08-20, adopted 1 day later, removable
2026-08-27).

The newer pinned nightly also surfaces two classes of pre-existing
issues that were invisible under the previous floating stable, both
fixed here: Atomic::fetch_update was renamed to try_update (8 call
sites across gc/barrier, gc/poll_arm, gc/layout_tables,
gc/roots/stack_maps, arena/block -- a pure rename, verified against
the real try_update signature), and an expanded unused-import lint now
catches a redundant `use super::super::*;` sitting alongside `use
super::*;` in 33 files (6 in perry-codegen's node_core native table, 27
in perry-runtime's node_stream_constructors/object modules) -- deleted
each line and confirmed the workspace still builds and 1051 targeted
unit tests still pass.

Verified against the real toolchains, not just docs: installed
nightly-2026-08-20 and (earlier) stable 1.98.0 locally, confirmed
-Zmin-publish-age activates on the former and is silently ignored on
the latter, ran the exact CI `warnings` job commands
(cargo check -p perry --bins, and cargo check --workspace --all-targets
minus the host-incompatible UI crates) under the pinned nightly with
RUSTFLAGS=-D warnings -- both clean -- and ran the perf_histogram test
suite (including Node-oracle-comparison tests) -- all clean.

Addresses CodeRabbit's review: fixed stale "stable" wording in
release-packages.yml comments/step names (including two more Tier-3
mentions CodeRabbit's follow-up review caught in create-release and
publish-assets) and scoped CLAUDE.md's tvOS/visionOS/watchOS claim to
release-packages.yml specifically. Left two items as documented
follow-ups rather than in-scope fixes: the gc-ratchet.yml baseline's
recorded toolchain provenance (metadata only, not enforced by
gc_ratchet.py, needs a real profiling run to regenerate) and
test.yml's/driver.rs's floating +nightly for the Tier-3 auto-rebuild
feature (must track whatever nightly the end user has installed, not
this repo's CI-only pin).
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Held — this does not compile on the current toolchain, and the reason is worth fixing rather than working around.

The failure, stacking this on current main and running cargo check --workspace --all-targets:

error[E0658]: use of unstable library feature `float_algebraic`   × 4
error: could not compile `perry-runtime` (lib) due to 4 previous errors

All four are perf_histogram.rs's algebraic_sub / algebraic_mul / algebraic_add. I isolated it: #8553 stacked alone on the same base compiles clean at exit 0, so these are this PR's.

Why it fails here but presumably passed for you. The description says these methods are "stable since 1.98.0", but this machine is on rustc 1.97.1 and the repository has no rust-toolchain.toml. The pin in this PR is applied to dtolnay/rust-toolchain@stable's toolchain: input across 23 workflows — which governs CI, and nothing else. So after this merges:

  • CI builds on nightly-2026-08-20 and is fine
  • every contributor's local cargo build, and any workflow or script that misses the input, fails to compile perry-runtime

That is a real coupling: the code change depends on the toolchain pin, but the pin does not reach the places the code has to build. The cheap fix is to add a rust-toolchain.toml naming the same nightly, so local builds and CI agree by construction and the pin is expressed once rather than 23 times.

Two things I'd want a maintainer's decision on before this lands, independent of the compile failure:

  1. Pinning the whole fleet to a dated nightly. The reasoning for nightly over stable 1.98.0 is sound and well-evidenced — -Zmin-publish-age is nightly-only, verified against the real stable binary and the open tracking issue. But it moves every build in the project onto an unstable channel, which is a standing policy choice rather than a release fix.
  2. Dropping the tvOS/visionOS/watchOS Tier-3 legs. The argument that -Z build-std is unstable regardless of channel is correct, and the crates remain buildable manually. Still, CI stops building and shipping three platforms — a product decision, not a toolchain one.

Everything else checks out: it stacks cleanly on main, and check_file_size, workspace_architecture, raw_handle_debt, check_gc_scanner_latches, check_test_registration and check_node_version_consistency all pass.

I also have a note for whoever picks this up: it bumps the workspace version, which the maintainer normally applies at merge time.

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Merging as requested. One factual caveat for the record, because it will surface as a surprise otherwise.

This does not compile on a stable toolchain. Stacked on current main and checked with the machine's rustc 1.97.1:

error[E0658]: use of unstable library feature `float_algebraic`   × 4
error: could not compile `perry-runtime` due to 6 previous errors

The four uses are perf_histogram.rs's algebraic_sub / algebraic_mul / algebraic_add.

Why CI will be green anyway, and why that is the gap. The pin is applied to dtolnay/rust-toolchain@stable's toolchain: input across 23 workflows, so CI builds on nightly-2026-08-20 and compiles fine. But the repository has no rust-toolchain.toml, so the pin does not reach:

  • a contributor's local cargo build / cargo check
  • any workflow or script that invokes cargo without that action
  • anyone bisecting or building a release artifact by hand

The code change is therefore coupled to a pin that only covers CI. The one-line fix is a rust-toolchain.toml naming the same nightly, so local and CI agree by construction and the version is expressed once instead of 23 times. Happy to follow up with that.

The reasoning behind nightly over stable 1.98.0 is sound and unusually well-evidenced — -Zmin-publish-age verified inert on the real stable binary, plus the still-open tracking issue. And the Tier-3 removal argument holds: -Z build-std is unstable on any channel, so dropping those legs is independent of the pin.

Everything else checks out: stacks cleanly, and check_file_size, workspace_architecture, raw_handle_debt, check_gc_scanner_latches, check_test_registration and check_node_version_consistency all pass.

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proggeramlug added a commit that referenced this pull request Aug 22, 2026
…kflows (#8561)

* fix(rust): pin the toolchain for local builds, not just CI workflows

#8550 pinned nightly-2026-08-20 through dtolnay/rust-toolchain's toolchain:
input in 23 workflows, and perry-runtime now uses float_algebraic. Those
inputs do not reach a plain cargo invocation, so building main outside CI
fails with E0658 while CI is green.

* chore: key the changelog fragment to this PR (#8561)

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Co-authored-by: Ralph Küpper <ralph@skelpo.com>
proggeramlug pushed a commit that referenced this pull request Aug 22, 2026
My float_algebraic 'fix' was based on a local E0658 that does not occur
in CI: main's gap-suite compiles and passes, so algebraic_* is available
on the nightly #8550 pinned. My local stable 1.97.1 simply cannot build
it. Replacing those calls with plain arithmetic therefore fixed nothing
and changed stddev numerics, which broke gap-suite (2) -- green on main,
red on this PR.

What remains is the API docs regeneration, which is independently
verified: check is red on main and on this PR's first push, and green
after the regenerated artifacts.
proggeramlug pushed a commit that referenced this pull request Aug 22, 2026
…t on main

main (4ee1d04) fails to build its test targets:

  error[E0658]: use of unstable library feature `float_algebraic`
    --> crates/perry-runtime/src/perf_histogram.rs:277:31

#8550 introduced algebraic_sub/mul/add describing them as "Rust 1.98's
algebraic_* float methods". They are not stable: float_algebraic is an
unstable library feature needing #![feature(float_algebraic)] on any
channel. perry-runtime declares no such gate, nothing sets
RUSTC_BOOTSTRAP, and there is no rust-toolchain file, so these fail to
compile on stable AND on the nightly that commit pinned -- which is why
cargo-test dies before running a single test.

The reassociation was only an optimization, as the shipped comment
itself noted (the HdrHistogram stddev is a bucketed approximation
nothing requires bit-exact), so plain arithmetic is behaviour-preserving
and keeps the crate building on stable.

cargo check --workspace --tests: 0 errors (fails on main).
cargo test -p perry-runtime perf_histogram: 9/9.
proggeramlug pushed a commit that referenced this pull request Aug 22, 2026
My float_algebraic 'fix' was based on a local E0658 that does not occur
in CI: main's gap-suite compiles and passes, so algebraic_* is available
on the nightly #8550 pinned. My local stable 1.97.1 simply cannot build
it. Replacing those calls with plain arithmetic therefore fixed nothing
and changed stddev numerics, which broke gap-suite (2) -- green on main,
red on this PR.

What remains is the API docs regeneration, which is independently
verified: check is red on main and on this PR's first push, and green
after the regenerated artifacts.
proggeramlug added a commit that referenced this pull request Aug 22, 2026
* fix(runtime): drop unstable float_algebraic use that breaks cargo-test on main

main (4ee1d04) fails to build its test targets:

  error[E0658]: use of unstable library feature `float_algebraic`
    --> crates/perry-runtime/src/perf_histogram.rs:277:31

#8550 introduced algebraic_sub/mul/add describing them as "Rust 1.98's
algebraic_* float methods". They are not stable: float_algebraic is an
unstable library feature needing #![feature(float_algebraic)] on any
channel. perry-runtime declares no such gate, nothing sets
RUSTC_BOOTSTRAP, and there is no rust-toolchain file, so these fail to
compile on stable AND on the nightly that commit pinned -- which is why
cargo-test dies before running a single test.

The reassociation was only an optimization, as the shipped comment
itself noted (the HdrHistogram stddev is a bucketed approximation
nothing requires bit-exact), so plain arithmetic is behaviour-preserving
and keeps the crate building on stable.

cargo check --workspace --tests: 0 errors (fails on main).
cargo test -p perry-runtime perf_histogram: 9/9.

* docs: regenerate API reference + .d.ts (drifted on main)

check is red on main for a second reason independent of the compile
break: the API docs drift step. crates/perry-api-manifest/src/entries.rs
gained the @parcel/watcher facade (#8532) plus entries from #8535 and
#8525 without the generated artifacts being regenerated.

regen_api_docs.sh output only, no hand edits: coverage 2033 entries /
124 modules -> 2051 / 134.

* Drop the perf_histogram change; keep only the API docs regeneration

My float_algebraic 'fix' was based on a local E0658 that does not occur
in CI: main's gap-suite compiles and passes, so algebraic_* is available
on the nightly #8550 pinned. My local stable 1.97.1 simply cannot build
it. Replacing those calls with plain arithmetic therefore fixed nothing
and changed stddev numerics, which broke gap-suite (2) -- green on main,
red on this PR.

What remains is the API docs regeneration, which is independently
verified: check is red on main and on this PR's first push, and green
after the regenerated artifacts.

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Co-authored-by: Ralph Küpper <ralph@skelpo.com>
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