ci: catch release-bump dependency rebinds on the PR that causes them

[nikw9944]

#4219 fixes the immediate cause of the v0.37.0 testnet release failure, but nothing would have caught it on the PR that introduced it.

To be fair to #4213: it wasn't malformed. reqwest = "0" already existed — #4213 just became the first crate to want reqwest 0.13 alongside Solana's 0.12, which gave cargo update --workspace something to rebind onto. The breakage then sat dormant until release time, a week later.

Proposal — run the guard on every PR:

1. Dry-run the release bump in PR CI. Run scripts/release/bump-version.sh against a throwaway version, assert the Cargo.lock diff is only member version lines, discard the result. This is the check that would actually have failed ip-verifier: add the IP ownership verification service #4213, because it exercises the same re-resolution path the release does.
2. Lint [workspace.dependencies] for bare "0" requirements. Cheap, but only stops new instances of the declaration pattern, and needs the remaining 27 pinned first (see the audit in deps: pin reqwest and tokio-util to their locked 0.x minors #4219).

(1) is the one worth having.

[nikw9944]

System Prompt

Roadbike Assignment

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Assignment

Issue #4220: ci: catch release-bump dependency rebinds on the PR that causes them
Repository: malbeclabs/doublezero
Branch: nikw9944/doublezero-4220 (created for you, or create it if it doesn't exist)
URL: #4220
Labels: dependencies, tech-debt

Issue Description

#4219 fixes the immediate cause of the v0.37.0 testnet release failure, but nothing would have caught it on the PR that introduced it.

To be fair to #4213: it wasn't malformed. reqwest = "0" already existed — #4213 just became the first crate to want reqwest 0.13 alongside Solana's 0.12, which gave cargo update --workspace something to rebind onto. The breakage then sat dormant until release time, a week later.

Proposal — run the guard on every PR:

1. Dry-run the release bump in PR CI. Run scripts/release/bump-version.sh against a throwaway version, assert the Cargo.lock diff is only member version lines, discard the result. This is the check that would actually have failed ip-verifier: add the IP ownership verification service #4213, because it exercises the same re-resolution path the release does.
2. Lint [workspace.dependencies] for bare "0" requirements. Cheap, but only stops new instances of the declaration pattern, and needs the remaining 27 pinned first (see the audit in deps: pin reqwest and tokio-util to their locked 0.x minors #4219).

(1) is the one worth having.

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[nikw9944]

Work Plan (Revision 0)

Work Plan (Revision 0)

Work Plan — #4220: catch release-bump dependency rebinds on the PR that causes them

Summary

The v0.37.0 testnet release failed because cargo update --workspace — which the
release's version bump runs — silently rebound workspace members from reqwest
0.13.4 to 0.12.28 and tokio-util 0.7.18 to 0.6.10. scripts/release/bump-version.sh
already has a guard that catches this (added in #4041), but it only runs at release
time, so the breakage introduced by #4213 sat dormant for a week. This plan adds a
release-bump-dry-run job to .github/workflows/rust.yml that runs the real bump
script against a throwaway next-minor version on every PR and every push to main,
then discards the result. The failure surfaces on the PR that causes it instead of on
release day.

I verified the premise locally before writing this plan (see Testing Strategy): on
today's main, the dry-run reproduces the exact release failure; with #4219's two
pins applied, it passes clean.

Approach

Run the real script, unchanged. The job invokes
./scripts/release/bump-version.sh <next-minor> exactly as release.testnet.yml
does. No new guard logic, no --check flag, no duplicated diff-parsing — the check
is valuable precisely because it exercises the same re-resolution path the release
takes, and a second implementation of the guard would be free to drift from the
one that matters. The result is discarded by not committing it; the runner is
throwaway.

Throwaway version = current minor + 1. Read PREV from Cargo.toml the same
way the script and release.testnet.yml preflight do, then compute X.(Y+1).0.
A fixed sentinel like 999.0.0 would work today because every intra-workspace
dependency in [workspace.dependencies] is path-only (verified — no version
requirements), so the number itself is inert and only the change drives
re-resolution. Computing the next minor costs one awk line and stays correct if
someone later adds a versioned intra-workspace dependency, where a fake major
would fail resolution with a confusing error unrelated to the thing being guarded.

Where it lives: a job in rust.yml, not a new workflow. rust.yml already
carries the exact trigger set this needs (push: [main, hotfix/**] +
pull_request) and is where Cargo-level checks belong. A separate path-filtered
workflow would be marginally cheaper but reintroduces the required-status-check
footgun: a path-filtered workflow that does not run never reports, so a PR that
does not touch Cargo.toml blocks forever on a required check that will never
arrive. Per-job path filters are not native to Actions. The job is cheap enough
(checkout + toolchain + cargo update, no compilation, no Solana tools, ~1–2 min)
that filtering is not worth the complexity.

Actionable failure output. The script prints the offending lock lines to
stderr, which is a cryptic red X for anyone who has not read bump-version.sh.
The job wraps the call and, on failure, emits a ::error:: annotation naming the
cause and the fix: pin the offending [workspace.dependencies] requirement to its
locked minor. That turns the check from "something is wrong with the lockfile" into
"pin this requirement".

No Swatinem/rust-cache. The job compiles nothing. The sparse crates.io index
fetch is a few seconds, and rust-cache keys off Cargo.lock — the very file the job
mutates — so caching buys nothing and adds a confusing interaction.

The bare-"0" lint (item 2 in the issue) is out of scope. The issue itself
says item 1 is the one worth having, and item 2 only stops new instances of the
declaration pattern and needs the remaining 27 bare requirements pinned first.
I confirmed the count: Cargo.toml has 29 bare "0" requirements, of which #4219
pins 2, leaving exactly 27. Adding a lint that fails on 27 existing lines requires
pinning all 27 first — a separate change with real resolution risk per crate, and
the dry-run guard already catches the consequence regardless of how the requirement
is spelled. I recommend a follow-up issue for the pinning sweep + lint; the operator
can file it. Do not bundle it here.

Files to Change

File	Change
.github/workflows/rust.yml	Add a release-bump-dry-run job: checkout, dtolnay/rust-toolchain@1.97.1, then compute the next minor from Cargo.toml and run scripts/release/bump-version.sh against it, failing with a ::error:: annotation that names the remediation. ~25 lines.
docs/testnet-release.md	Add a short paragraph (near the open-prs stage row or as its own subsection) noting that PR CI dry-runs the same bump, so open-prs failing on the lock guard should be a surprise, and pointing at the release-bump-dry-run job.
CHANGELOG.md	Entry under ## Unreleased → ### Changes → - CI, following the existing prose style (see the v0.36.0 CloudSmith entry): state what broke, what the job does, and reference #4213/#4219. Required by changelog-reminder.yml unless the PR carries skip-changelog; this change warrants an entry.

No changes to scripts/release/bump-version.sh, release.testnet.yml, Cargo.toml,
or Cargo.lock — except possibly the two pins, see Open Questions.

README.md and CLAUDE.md need no changes: neither documents CI jobs or the release
bump, and CLAUDE.md's build-commands section covers make targets, which this does
not add to.

Risks & Considerations

This job is red until #4219 merges. This is the significant one. On today's
main the dry-run fails — that is the whole point, but it means the PR for #4220
will show its own new job failing unless #4219's pins are present. See Open
Questions.

The check depends on crates.io state, so it can go red for reasons unrelated to
the PR. cargo update --workspace re-resolves against the live index, so a newly
published third-party version could change unification and trip the guard on an
unrelated PR — and would then be red on main too until someone pins. This is not
a new risk: it is exactly the release-day flakiness this moves earlier, where it is
cheap to fix. Worth stating in the PR description so the first such failure is not
mistaken for a broken check. Mitigation if it becomes noisy: the guard's remediation
is always the same (pin the requirement), so the fix is mechanical.

The job mutates the working tree. It rewrites Cargo.toml, Cargo.lock, and
CHANGELOG.md in the runner. Because it is its own job with its own checkout, no
other job sees it. Do not fold this step into an existing job (rust-build,
rust-lint) — a bumped version and a re-resolved lock would silently change what
those jobs compile.

The dry-run also asserts CHANGELOG structure. The script requires a
## Unreleased heading and warns if it is empty. That coupling is a bonus (a
CHANGELOG whose structure the promotion regex cannot handle now fails on the PR
rather than at release time), but it means a PR that removes or renames
## Unreleased fails this job with a CHANGELOG error rather than a lock error.
Acceptable — that would also break the release.

Interaction with the release PR itself. On release/vX.Y.Z, Cargo.toml is
already at the new version and the CHANGELOG is already promoted. The dry-run
computes X.(Y+1).0 from the checked-out file, so PREV != NEW still holds and the
guard re-runs on top of the already-bumped lock. Traced through: the second bump
adds only member version lines, so it passes. No special-casing needed.

Branch protection. Adding a job does not automatically make it a required
check. If the team wants it blocking, someone with repo admin has to add
release-bump-dry-run to main's required checks — a settings change outside this
PR. Flag it in the PR description.

Testing Strategy

Already verified locally, both directions, before writing this plan:

1. Reproduces the failure on today's main (95336a3). Set the workspace version
   to a throwaway value and ran cargo update --workspace. It rebound members onto
   reqwest 0.12.28 and tokio-util 0.6.10 and pulled in hyper-tls,
   native-tls, and tokio-native-tls. Applying the script's BAD_LINES filter to
   the resulting Cargo.lock diff produced the added + "reqwest 0.12.28",
   + "tokio-util 0.6.10" and the three new [[package]] blocks — i.e. the guard
   fires, and the dry-run job would have failed ip-verifier: add the IP ownership verification service #4213. This is the same failure the
   v0.37.0 release hit.
2. Passes with deps: pin reqwest and tokio-util to their locked 0.x minors #4219's pins. With reqwest = "0.13" and tokio-util = "0.7"
   applied, the same procedure yields a Cargo.lock diff containing only member
   version lines: both guard filters (added non-version lines, removed
   non-PREV-version lines) come back empty. So the job goes green once deps: pin reqwest and tokio-util to their locked 0.x minors #4219 lands.
3. Working tree restored to clean afterwards (git status --porcelain empty,
   Cargo.toml back to 0.36.0).

At implementation time:

4. Re-run the full ./scripts/release/bump-version.sh <next-minor> end to end
   locally (not just the cargo update portion) to confirm the CHANGELOG promotion
   path also succeeds, then restore the tree.
5. Confirm the new job passes on the PR in CI, and check its wall-clock time to
   confirm the ~1–2 min estimate.

No unit tests: the change is a CI job whose entire behavior is "run the existing
script". A test double for it would test the double.

Estimated Scope

~25 lines added (the rust.yml job), excluding docs and CHANGELOG. Well under the
500-line threshold. Single PR, no decomposition needed.

Open Questions

1. deps: pin reqwest and tokio-util to their locked 0.x minors #4219 sequencing. deps: pin reqwest and tokio-util to their locked 0.x minors #4219 (deps: pin reqwest and tokio-util to their locked 0.x minors) is still open. Until it merges, this new job is red on main and on this PR. Preferred option: merge deps: pin reqwest and tokio-util to their locked 0.x minors #4219 first, then rebase this PR — the job is then green with zero overlap. Fallback if deps: pin reqwest and tokio-util to their locked 0.x minors #4219 stalls: include its two-line pin in this PR so its own CI is green (a rebase after deps: pin reqwest and tokio-util to their locked 0.x minors #4219 merges resolves the identical change trivially), and note the overlap in the PR body. Which do you want? Default if you do not answer: check deps: pin reqwest and tokio-util to their locked 0.x minors #4219's state at implementation time — merged, rebase onto it; still open, include the two pins and flag the overlap.
2. Should release-bump-dry-run become a required status check on main? Adding the job does not make it blocking. Making it required needs a branch-protection settings change that I cannot make and that does not belong in this PR. Want it required, and will you make that change, or should the job stay advisory for now?
3. Follow-up issue for the bare-"0" sweep + lint (item 2 in the issue). I recommend filing it separately: pin the remaining 27 bare requirements in [workspace.dependencies] to their locked minors, then add the lint that keeps new ones out. Should I draft that issue body for you, and what metadata (milestone, labels, assignee) should it carry?

[nikw9944]

Work Log — waiting_review

I'll start by reading the project docs and understanding the release/CI setup.

Let me validate the core premise: would a dry-run bump actually have caught #4213?

Plan written to docs/work-plan-4220.md. Working tree is clean (the plan file is git-excluded).

---

Work Plan — #4220: catch release-bump dependency rebinds on the PR that causes them

Summary

The v0.37.0 testnet release failed because cargo update --workspace — which the release's version bump runs — silently rebound workspace members from reqwest 0.13.4 to 0.12.28 and tokio-util 0.7.18 to 0.6.10. scripts/release/bump-version.sh already has a guard that catches this (added in #4041), but it only runs at release time, so the breakage introduced by #4213 sat dormant for a week. This plan adds a release-bump-dry-run job to .github/workflows/rust.yml that runs the real bump script against a throwaway next-minor version on every PR and every push to main, then discards the result. The failure surfaces on the PR that causes it instead of on release day.

I verified the premise locally before writing this plan (see Testing Strategy): on today's main, the dry-run reproduces the exact release failure; with #4219's two pins applied, it passes clean.

Approach

Run the real script, unchanged. The job invokes ./scripts/release/bump-version.sh <next-minor> exactly as release.testnet.yml does. No new guard logic, no --check flag, no duplicated diff-parsing — the check is valuable precisely because it exercises the same re-resolution path the release takes, and a second implementation of the guard would be free to drift from the one that matters. The result is discarded by not committing it; the runner is throwaway.

Throwaway version = current minor + 1. Read PREV from Cargo.toml the same way the script and release.testnet.yml preflight do, then compute X.(Y+1).0. A fixed sentinel like 999.0.0 would work today because every intra-workspace dependency in [workspace.dependencies] is path-only (verified — no version requirements), so the number itself is inert and only the change drives re-resolution. Computing the next minor costs one awk line and stays correct if someone later adds a versioned intra-workspace dependency, where a fake major would fail resolution with a confusing error unrelated to the thing being guarded.

Where it lives: a job in rust.yml, not a new workflow. rust.yml already carries the exact trigger set this needs (push: [main, hotfix/**] + pull_request) and is where Cargo-level checks belong. A separate path-filtered workflow would be marginally cheaper but reintroduces the required-status-check footgun: a path-filtered workflow that does not run never reports, so a PR that does not touch Cargo.toml blocks forever on a required check that will never arrive. Per-job path filters are not native to Actions. The job is cheap enough (checkout + toolchain + cargo update, no compilation, no Solana tools, ~1–2 min) that filtering is not worth the complexity.

Actionable failure output. The script prints the offending lock lines to stderr, which is a cryptic red X for anyone who has not read bump-version.sh. The job wraps the call and, on failure, emits a ::error:: annotation naming the cause and the fix: pin the offending [workspace.dependencies] requirement to its locked minor. That turns the check from "something is wrong with the lockfile" into "pin this requirement".

No Swatinem/rust-cache. The job compiles nothing. The sparse crates.io index fetch is a few seconds, and rust-cache keys off Cargo.lock — the very file the job mutates — so caching buys nothing and adds a confusing interaction.

The bare-"0" lint (item 2 in the issue) is out of scope. The issue itself says item 1 is the one worth having, and item 2 only stops new instances of the declaration pattern and needs the remaining 27 bare requirements pinned first. I confirmed the count: Cargo.toml has 29 bare "0" requirements, of which #4219 pins 2, leaving exactly 27. Adding a lint that fails on 27 existing lines requires pinning all 27 first — a separate change with real resolution risk per crate, and the dry-run guard already catches the consequence regardless of how the requirement is spelled. I recommend a follow-up issue for the pinning sweep + lint; the operator can file it. Do not bundle it here.

Files to Change

File	Change
.github/workflows/rust.yml	Add a release-bump-dry-run job: checkout, dtolnay/rust-toolchain@1.97.1, then compute the next minor from Cargo.toml and run scripts/release/bump-version.sh against it, failing with a ::error:: annotation that names the remediation. ~25 lines.
docs/testnet-release.md	Add a short paragraph (near the open-prs stage row or as its own subsection) noting that PR CI dry-runs the same bump, so open-prs failing on the lock guard should be a surprise, and pointing at the release-bump-dry-run job.
CHANGELOG.md	Entry under ## Unreleased → ### Changes → - CI, following the existing prose style (see the v0.36.0 CloudSmith entry): state what broke, what the job does, and reference #4213/#4219. Required by changelog-reminder.yml unless the PR carries skip-changelog; this change warrants an entry.

No changes to scripts/release/bump-version.sh, release.testnet.yml, Cargo.toml, or Cargo.lock — except possibly the two pins, see Open Questions.

README.md and CLAUDE.md need no changes: neither documents CI jobs or the release bump, and CLAUDE.md's build-commands section covers make targets, which this does not add to.

Risks & Considerations

This job is red until #4219 merges. This is the significant one. On today's main the dry-run fails — that is the whole point, but it means the PR for #4220 will show its own new job failing unless #4219's pins are present. See Open Questions.

The check depends on crates.io state, so it can go red for reasons unrelated to the PR. cargo update --workspace re-resolves against the live index, so a newly published third-party version could change unification and trip the guard on an unrelated PR — and would then be red on main too until someone pins. This is not a new risk: it is exactly the release-day flakiness this moves earlier, where it is cheap to fix. Worth stating in the PR description so the first such failure is not mistaken for a broken check. Mitigation if it becomes noisy: the guard's remediation is always the same (pin the requirement), so the fix is mechanical.

The job mutates the working tree. It rewrites Cargo.toml, Cargo.lock, and CHANGELOG.md in the runner. Because it is its own job with its own checkout, no other job sees it. Do not fold this step into an existing job (rust-build, rust-lint) — a bumped version and a re-resolved lock would silently change what those jobs compile.

The dry-run also asserts CHANGELOG structure. The script requires a ## Unreleased heading and warns if it is empty. That coupling is a bonus (a CHANGELOG whose structure the promotion regex cannot handle now fails on the PR rather than at release time), but it means a PR that removes or renames ## Unreleased fails this job with a CHANGELOG error rather than a lock error. Acceptable — that would also break the release.

Interaction with the release PR itself. On release/vX.Y.Z, Cargo.toml is already at the new version and the CHANGELOG is already promoted. The dry-run computes X.(Y+1).0 from the checked-out file, so PREV != NEW still holds and the guard re-runs on top of the already-bumped lock. Traced through: the second bump adds only member version lines, so it passes. No special-casing needed.

Branch protection. Adding a job does not automatically make it a required check. If the team wants it blocking, someone with repo admin has to add release-bump-dry-run to main's required checks — a settings change outside this PR. Flag it in the PR description.

Testing Strategy

Already verified locally, both directions, before writing this plan:

1. Reproduces the failure on today's main (95336a3). Set the workspace version to a throwaway value and ran cargo update --workspace. It rebound members onto reqwest 0.12.28 and tokio-util 0.6.10 and pulled in hyper-tls, native-tls, and tokio-native-tls. Applying the script's BAD_LINES filter to the resulting Cargo.lock diff produced the added + "reqwest 0.12.28", + "tokio-util 0.6.10" and the three new [[package]] blocks — i.e. the guard fires, and the dry-run job would have failed ip-verifier: add the IP ownership verification service #4213. This is the same failure the v0.37.0 release hit.
2. Passes with deps: pin reqwest and tokio-util to their locked 0.x minors #4219's pins. With reqwest = "0.13" and tokio-util = "0.7" applied, the same procedure yields a Cargo.lock diff containing only member version lines: both guard filters (added non-version lines, removed non-PREV-version lines) come back empty. So the job goes green once deps: pin reqwest and tokio-util to their locked 0.x minors #4219 lands.
3. Working tree restored to clean afterwards (git status --porcelain empty, Cargo.toml back to 0.36.0).

At implementation time:

4. Re-run the full ./scripts/release/bump-version.sh <next-minor> end to end locally (not just the cargo update portion) to confirm the CHANGELOG promotion path also succeeds, then restore the tree.
5. Confirm the new job passes on the PR in CI, and check its wall-clock time to confirm the ~1–2 min estimate.

No unit tests: the change is a CI job whose entire behavior is "run the existing script". A test double for it would test the double.

Estimated Scope

~25 lines added (the rust.yml job), excluding docs and CHANGELOG. Well under the 500-line threshold. Single PR, no decomposition needed.

Open Questions

1. deps: pin reqwest and tokio-util to their locked 0.x minors #4219 sequencing. deps: pin reqwest and tokio-util to their locked 0.x minors #4219 (deps: pin reqwest and tokio-util to their locked 0.x minors) is still open. Until it merges, this new job is red on main and on this PR. Preferred option: merge deps: pin reqwest and tokio-util to their locked 0.x minors #4219 first, then rebase this PR — the job is then green with zero overlap. Fallback if deps: pin reqwest and tokio-util to their locked 0.x minors #4219 stalls: include its two-line pin in this PR so its own CI is green (a rebase after deps: pin reqwest and tokio-util to their locked 0.x minors #4219 merges resolves the identical change trivially), and note the overlap in the PR body. Which do you want? Default if you do not answer: check deps: pin reqwest and tokio-util to their locked 0.x minors #4219's state at implementation time — merged, rebase onto it; still open, include the two pins and flag the overlap.
2. Should release-bump-dry-run become a required status check on main? Adding the job does not make it blocking. Making it required needs a branch-protection settings change that I cannot make and that does not belong in this PR. Want it required, and will you make that change, or should the job stay advisory for now?
3. Follow-up issue for the bare-"0" sweep + lint (item 2 in the issue). I recommend filing it separately: pin the remaining 27 bare requirements in [workspace.dependencies] to their locked minors, then add the lint that keeps new ones out. Should I draft that issue body for you, and what metadata (milestone, labels, assignee) should it carry?

STATUS: COMPLETE

--- Result: success | Session cost: $1.6199 | Turns: 27 | Tokens: 38 in / 19779 out | 2026-08-21 16:32:16 UTC ---

[nikw9944]

Roadbike Operator Feedback

Action: Plan revision requested (Revision 1)
Instance: #287

Answers to open questions

Q1: #4219 sequencing. #4219 (deps: pin reqwest and tokio-util to their locked 0.x minors) is still open. Until it merges, this new job is red on main and on this PR. Preferred option: merge #4219 first, then rebase this PR — the job is then green with zero overlap. Fallback if #4219 stalls: include its two-line pin in this PR so its own CI is green (a rebase after #4219 merges resolves the identical change trivially), and note the overlap in the PR body. Which do you want? Default if you do not answer: check #4219's state at implementation time — merged, rebase onto it; still open, include the two pins and flag the overlap.
It's merged now

Q2: Should release-bump-dry-run become a required status check on main? Adding the job does not make it blocking. Making it required needs a branch-protection settings change that I cannot make and that does not belong in this PR. Want it required, and will you make that change, or should the job stay advisory for now?
Didn't we decide to include it in the rust check, which is already blocking?

Q3: Follow-up issue for the bare-"0" sweep + lint (item 2 in the issue). I recommend filing it separately: pin the remaining 27 bare requirements in [workspace.dependencies] to their locked minors, then add the lint that keeps new ones out. Should I draft that issue body for you, and what metadata (milestone, labels, assignee) should it carry?
Don't file it, I'll take care of it

[nikw9944]

Work Plan (Revision 1)

Work Plan (Revision 1)

Work Plan — #4220: catch release-bump dependency rebinds on the PR that causes them

Summary

The v0.37.0 testnet release failed because cargo update --workspace — which the
release's version bump runs — silently rebound workspace members from reqwest
0.13.4 to 0.12.28 and tokio-util 0.7.18 to 0.6.10. scripts/release/bump-version.sh
already has a guard that catches this (added in #4041), but it only runs at release
time, so the breakage introduced by #4213 sat dormant for a week. This plan adds a
release-bump-dry-run job to .github/workflows/rust.yml that runs the real bump
script against a throwaway next-minor version on every PR and every push to main,
then discards the result. The failure surfaces on the PR that causes it instead of on
release day.

I verified the premise locally before writing this plan (see Testing Strategy): on
today's main, the dry-run reproduces the exact release failure; with #4219's two
pins applied, it passes clean.

Approach

Run the real script, unchanged. The job invokes
./scripts/release/bump-version.sh <next-minor> exactly as release.testnet.yml
does. No new guard logic, no --check flag, no duplicated diff-parsing — the check
is valuable precisely because it exercises the same re-resolution path the release
takes, and a second implementation of the guard would be free to drift from the
one that matters. The result is discarded by not committing it; the runner is
throwaway.

Throwaway version = current minor + 1. Read PREV from Cargo.toml the same
way the script and release.testnet.yml preflight do, then compute X.(Y+1).0.
A fixed sentinel like 999.0.0 would work today because every intra-workspace
dependency in [workspace.dependencies] is path-only (verified — no version
requirements), so the number itself is inert and only the change drives
re-resolution. Computing the next minor costs one awk line and stays correct if
someone later adds a versioned intra-workspace dependency, where a fake major
would fail resolution with a confusing error unrelated to the thing being guarded.

Where it lives: a job in rust.yml, not a new workflow. rust.yml already
carries the exact trigger set this needs (push: [main, hotfix/**] +
pull_request) and is where Cargo-level checks belong. A separate path-filtered
workflow would be marginally cheaper but reintroduces the required-status-check
footgun: a path-filtered workflow that does not run never reports, so a PR that
does not touch Cargo.toml blocks forever on a required check that will never
arrive. Per-job path filters are not native to Actions. The job is cheap enough
(checkout + toolchain + cargo update, no compilation, no Solana tools, ~1–2 min)
that filtering is not worth the complexity.

Actionable failure output. The script prints the offending lock lines to
stderr, which is a cryptic red X for anyone who has not read bump-version.sh.
The job wraps the call and, on failure, emits a ::error:: annotation naming the
cause and the fix: pin the offending [workspace.dependencies] requirement to its
locked minor. That turns the check from "something is wrong with the lockfile" into
"pin this requirement".

No Swatinem/rust-cache. The job compiles nothing. The sparse crates.io index
fetch is a few seconds, and rust-cache keys off Cargo.lock — the very file the job
mutates — so caching buys nothing and adds a confusing interaction.

The bare-"0" lint (item 2 in the issue) is out of scope. The issue itself
says item 1 is the one worth having, and item 2 only stops new instances of the
declaration pattern and needs the remaining 27 bare requirements pinned first.
I confirmed the count: Cargo.toml has 29 bare "0" requirements, of which #4219
pins 2, leaving exactly 27. Adding a lint that fails on 27 existing lines requires
pinning all 27 first — a separate change with real resolution risk per crate, and
the dry-run guard already catches the consequence regardless of how the requirement
is spelled. I recommend a follow-up issue for the pinning sweep + lint; the operator
can file it. Do not bundle it here.

Files to Change

File	Change
.github/workflows/rust.yml	Add a release-bump-dry-run job: checkout, dtolnay/rust-toolchain@1.97.1, then compute the next minor from Cargo.toml and run scripts/release/bump-version.sh against it, failing with a ::error:: annotation that names the remediation. ~25 lines.
docs/testnet-release.md	Add a short paragraph (near the open-prs stage row or as its own subsection) noting that PR CI dry-runs the same bump, so open-prs failing on the lock guard should be a surprise, and pointing at the release-bump-dry-run job.
CHANGELOG.md	Entry under ## Unreleased → ### Changes → - CI, following the existing prose style (see the v0.36.0 CloudSmith entry): state what broke, what the job does, and reference #4213/#4219. Required by changelog-reminder.yml unless the PR carries skip-changelog; this change warrants an entry.

No changes to scripts/release/bump-version.sh, release.testnet.yml, Cargo.toml,
or Cargo.lock — except possibly the two pins, see Open Questions.

README.md and CLAUDE.md need no changes: neither documents CI jobs or the release
bump, and CLAUDE.md's build-commands section covers make targets, which this does
not add to.

Risks & Considerations

This job is red until #4219 merges. This is the significant one. On today's
main the dry-run fails — that is the whole point, but it means the PR for #4220
will show its own new job failing unless #4219's pins are present. See Open
Questions.

The check depends on crates.io state, so it can go red for reasons unrelated to
the PR. cargo update --workspace re-resolves against the live index, so a newly
published third-party version could change unification and trip the guard on an
unrelated PR — and would then be red on main too until someone pins. This is not
a new risk: it is exactly the release-day flakiness this moves earlier, where it is
cheap to fix. Worth stating in the PR description so the first such failure is not
mistaken for a broken check. Mitigation if it becomes noisy: the guard's remediation
is always the same (pin the requirement), so the fix is mechanical.

The job mutates the working tree. It rewrites Cargo.toml, Cargo.lock, and
CHANGELOG.md in the runner. Because it is its own job with its own checkout, no
other job sees it. Do not fold this step into an existing job (rust-build,
rust-lint) — a bumped version and a re-resolved lock would silently change what
those jobs compile.

The dry-run also asserts CHANGELOG structure. The script requires a
## Unreleased heading and warns if it is empty. That coupling is a bonus (a
CHANGELOG whose structure the promotion regex cannot handle now fails on the PR
rather than at release time), but it means a PR that removes or renames
## Unreleased fails this job with a CHANGELOG error rather than a lock error.
Acceptable — that would also break the release.

Interaction with the release PR itself. On release/vX.Y.Z, Cargo.toml is
already at the new version and the CHANGELOG is already promoted. The dry-run
computes X.(Y+1).0 from the checked-out file, so PREV != NEW still holds and the
guard re-runs on top of the already-bumped lock. Traced through: the second bump
adds only member version lines, so it passes. No special-casing needed.

Branch protection. Adding a job does not automatically make it a required
check. If the team wants it blocking, someone with repo admin has to add
release-bump-dry-run to main's required checks — a settings change outside this
PR. Flag it in the PR description.

Testing Strategy

Already verified locally, both directions, before writing this plan:

1. Reproduces the failure on today's main (95336a3). Set the workspace version
   to a throwaway value and ran cargo update --workspace. It rebound members onto
   reqwest 0.12.28 and tokio-util 0.6.10 and pulled in hyper-tls,
   native-tls, and tokio-native-tls. Applying the script's BAD_LINES filter to
   the resulting Cargo.lock diff produced the added + "reqwest 0.12.28",
   + "tokio-util 0.6.10" and the three new [[package]] blocks — i.e. the guard
   fires, and the dry-run job would have failed ip-verifier: add the IP ownership verification service #4213. This is the same failure the
   v0.37.0 release hit.
2. Passes with deps: pin reqwest and tokio-util to their locked 0.x minors #4219's pins. With reqwest = "0.13" and tokio-util = "0.7"
   applied, the same procedure yields a Cargo.lock diff containing only member
   version lines: both guard filters (added non-version lines, removed
   non-PREV-version lines) come back empty. So the job goes green once deps: pin reqwest and tokio-util to their locked 0.x minors #4219 lands.
3. Working tree restored to clean afterwards (git status --porcelain empty,
   Cargo.toml back to 0.36.0).

At implementation time:

4. Re-run the full ./scripts/release/bump-version.sh <next-minor> end to end
   locally (not just the cargo update portion) to confirm the CHANGELOG promotion
   path also succeeds, then restore the tree.
5. Confirm the new job passes on the PR in CI, and check its wall-clock time to
   confirm the ~1–2 min estimate.

No unit tests: the change is a CI job whose entire behavior is "run the existing
script". A test double for it would test the double.

Estimated Scope

~25 lines added (the rust.yml job), excluding docs and CHANGELOG. Well under the
500-line threshold. Single PR, no decomposition needed.

Open Questions

1. deps: pin reqwest and tokio-util to their locked 0.x minors #4219 sequencing. deps: pin reqwest and tokio-util to their locked 0.x minors #4219 (deps: pin reqwest and tokio-util to their locked 0.x minors) is still open. Until it merges, this new job is red on main and on this PR. Preferred option: merge deps: pin reqwest and tokio-util to their locked 0.x minors #4219 first, then rebase this PR — the job is then green with zero overlap. Fallback if deps: pin reqwest and tokio-util to their locked 0.x minors #4219 stalls: include its two-line pin in this PR so its own CI is green (a rebase after deps: pin reqwest and tokio-util to their locked 0.x minors #4219 merges resolves the identical change trivially), and note the overlap in the PR body. Which do you want? Default if you do not answer: check deps: pin reqwest and tokio-util to their locked 0.x minors #4219's state at implementation time — merged, rebase onto it; still open, include the two pins and flag the overlap.
2. Should release-bump-dry-run become a required status check on main? Adding the job does not make it blocking. Making it required needs a branch-protection settings change that I cannot make and that does not belong in this PR. Want it required, and will you make that change, or should the job stay advisory for now?
3. Follow-up issue for the bare-"0" sweep + lint (item 2 in the issue). I recommend filing it separately: pin the remaining 27 bare requirements in [workspace.dependencies] to their locked minors, then add the lint that keeps new ones out. Should I draft that issue body for you, and what metadata (milestone, labels, assignee) should it carry?

[nikw9944]

Work Log — waiting_review

Verifying the check against the new origin/main (which now includes #4219 and the 0.37.0 bump):

Plan revised at docs/work-plan-4220.md. Tree clean, nothing staged.

---

Work Plan — #4220: catch release-bump dependency rebinds on the PR that causes them

Revision 1 — resolves Q1 (#4219 merged, no pins in this PR) and Q3 (no follow-up issue filed). Q2 needs one correction from the operator's assumption, restated below.

Summary

The v0.37.0 testnet release failed because cargo update --workspace — which the release's version bump runs — silently rebound workspace members from reqwest 0.13.4 to 0.12.28 and tokio-util 0.7.18 to 0.6.10. scripts/release/bump-version.sh already has a guard that catches this (added in #4041), but it only runs at release time, so the breakage introduced by #4213 sat dormant for a week. This plan adds a release-bump-dry-run job to .github/workflows/rust.yml that runs the real bump script against a throwaway next-minor version on every PR and every push to main, then discards the result. The failure surfaces on the PR that causes it instead of on release day.

Verified against the current origin/main (b066b188, which now carries both #4219's pins and the 0.37.0 bump from #4221): the dry-run passes clean. Verified against 95336a36 (the pre-#4219 tree that broke the release): it fails exactly as the release did. Details in Testing Strategy.

Approach

Run the real script, unchanged. The job invokes ./scripts/release/bump-version.sh <next-minor> exactly as release.testnet.yml does. No new guard logic, no --check flag, no duplicated diff-parsing — the check is valuable precisely because it exercises the same re-resolution path the release takes, and a second implementation of the guard would be free to drift from the one that matters. The result is discarded by not committing it; the runner is throwaway.

Throwaway version = current minor + 1. Read PREV from Cargo.toml the same way the script and release.testnet.yml preflight do, then compute X.(Y+1).0. A fixed sentinel like 999.0.0 would work today because every intra-workspace dependency in [workspace.dependencies] is path-only (verified — no version requirements), so the number itself is inert and only the change drives re-resolution. Computing the next minor costs one awk line and stays correct if someone later adds a versioned intra-workspace dependency, where a fake major would fail resolution with a confusing error unrelated to the thing being guarded.

Where it lives: a job in rust.yml, not a new workflow. rust.yml already carries the exact trigger set this needs (push: [main, hotfix/**] + pull_request) and is where Cargo-level checks belong. A separate path-filtered workflow would be marginally cheaper but reintroduces the required-status-check footgun: a path-filtered workflow that does not run never reports, so a PR that does not touch Cargo.toml blocks forever on a required check that will never arrive. Per-job path filters are not native to Actions. The job is cheap enough (checkout + toolchain + cargo update, no compilation, no Solana tools, ~1–2 min) that filtering is not worth the complexity.

Actionable failure output. The script prints the offending lock lines to stderr, which is a cryptic red X for anyone who has not read bump-version.sh. The job wraps the call and, on failure, emits a ::error:: annotation naming the cause and the fix: pin the offending [workspace.dependencies] requirement to its locked minor. That turns the check from "something is wrong with the lockfile" into "pin this requirement".

No Swatinem/rust-cache. The job compiles nothing. The sparse crates.io index fetch is a few seconds, and rust-cache keys off Cargo.lock — the very file the job mutates — so caching buys nothing and adds a confusing interaction.

The bare-"0" lint (item 2 in the issue) is out of scope, and per operator feedback no follow-up issue will be filed from here — the operator owns it. For the record: Cargo.toml now has 27 bare "0" requirements, and a lint would have to pin all 27 first. The dry-run guard catches the consequence regardless of how the requirement is spelled, which is why item 1 is the one worth having.

Branch state

The branch nikw9944/doublezero-4220 sits at 95336a36, two commits behind origin/main (e0dac37c #4219, b066b188 #4221). Rebase onto origin/main before implementing — otherwise the new job runs against the pre-#4219 tree and fails on this PR for a cause that is already fixed. No Cargo.toml pins in this PR; #4219 landed them.

Files to Change

File	Change
.github/workflows/rust.yml	Add a release-bump-dry-run job: checkout, dtolnay/rust-toolchain@1.97.1, then compute the next minor from Cargo.toml and run scripts/release/bump-version.sh against it, failing with a ::error:: annotation that names the remediation. ~25 lines.
docs/testnet-release.md	Add a short paragraph (near the open-prs stage row or as its own subsection) noting that PR CI dry-runs the same bump, so open-prs failing on the lock guard should be a surprise, and pointing at the release-bump-dry-run job.
CHANGELOG.md	Entry under ## Unreleased → ### Changes → - CI, following the existing prose style (see the v0.36.0 CloudSmith entry): what the job does and why, referencing #4213/#4219. Required by changelog-reminder.yml unless the PR carries skip-changelog; this change warrants an entry.

No changes to scripts/release/bump-version.sh, release.testnet.yml, Cargo.toml, or Cargo.lock.

README.md and CLAUDE.md need no changes: neither documents CI jobs or the release bump, and CLAUDE.md's build-commands section covers make targets, which this does not add to.

Risks & Considerations

Adding the job to rust.yml does not make it blocking — see Open Questions. This corrects an assumption in the feedback. main is protected by repository ruleset 3777660, whose required_status_checks rule lists individual job contexts, not workflows: rust-build, rust-lint, rust-test, the four go-*, three release-validation-*, and the e2e shards. rust.yml already contains two jobs that are not in that list — rust-validator-test and rust-cli-static — which is direct evidence that living in rust.yml confers nothing. A new release-bump-dry-run job will show red on the PR (visible to reviewers) but will not block merge until its context is added to the ruleset.

The check depends on crates.io state, so it can go red for reasons unrelated to the PR. cargo update --workspace re-resolves against the live index, so a newly published third-party version could change unification and trip the guard on an unrelated PR — and would then be red on main too until someone pins. This is not a new risk: it is exactly the release-day flakiness this moves earlier, where it is cheap to fix. Worth stating in the PR description so the first such failure is not mistaken for a broken check. The remediation is always the same (pin the requirement), so the fix is mechanical.

The job mutates the working tree. It rewrites Cargo.toml, Cargo.lock, and CHANGELOG.md in the runner. Because it is its own job with its own checkout, no other job sees it. This is the main reason not to fold the step into an existing job: a bumped version and a re-resolved lock would silently change what rust-build or rust-lint compiles.

The dry-run also asserts CHANGELOG structure. The script requires a ## Unreleased heading and warns if it is empty. That coupling is a bonus (a CHANGELOG whose structure the promotion regex cannot handle now fails on the PR rather than at release time), but it means a PR that removes or renames ## Unreleased fails this job with a CHANGELOG error rather than a lock error. Acceptable — that would also break the release.

Interaction with the release PR itself. On release/vX.Y.Z, Cargo.toml is already at the new version and the CHANGELOG is already promoted. The dry-run computes X.(Y+1).0 from the checked-out file, so PREV != NEW still holds and the guard re-runs on top of the already-bumped lock. Traced through: the second bump adds only member version lines, so it passes. No special-casing needed.

Testing Strategy

Verified locally in both directions before writing this plan.

1. Green on current origin/main (b066b188, version 0.37.0). Ran the bump's cargo update --workspace against a 0.38.0 throwaway and applied both of the script's guard filters to the Cargo.lock diff. Added non-member-version lines: none. Removed non-PREV-version lines: none. The new job is green on main today.
2. Red on 95336a36 (the tree that broke the release). The same procedure rebound members onto reqwest 0.12.28 and tokio-util 0.6.10 and pulled in hyper-tls, native-tls, and tokio-native-tls. The guard's BAD_LINES filter returned the added + "reqwest 0.12.28", + "tokio-util 0.6.10" and the three new [[package]] blocks — so the dry-run job would have failed ip-verifier: add the IP ownership verification service #4213 with the same diagnosis the v0.37.0 release produced a week later.
3. Working tree restored to clean after each run (git status --porcelain empty).

At implementation time:

4. Run the full ./scripts/release/bump-version.sh 0.38.0 end to end on the rebased branch (not just the cargo update portion) to confirm the CHANGELOG promotion path also succeeds, then restore the tree.
5. Confirm the new job passes on the PR in CI and check its wall-clock time against the ~1–2 min estimate.

No unit tests: the change is a CI job whose entire behavior is "run the existing script". A test double for it would test the double.

Estimated Scope

~25 lines added (the rust.yml job), excluding docs and CHANGELOG. Well under the 500-line threshold. Single PR, no decomposition needed.

Open Questions

1. Making the check blocking needs a ruleset change — do you want it, and will you make it? Your Q2 answer assumed that living in rust.yml makes the job blocking. It does not: ruleset 3777660 requires individual job contexts (rust-build, rust-lint, rust-test, …), and rust.yml's own rust-validator-test and rust-cli-static jobs are not required — proof that workflow membership confers nothing. Recommendation: ship the standalone release-bump-dry-run job as planned, then add its context to the ruleset yourself once it is green on main (gh api -X PUT repos/malbeclabs/doublezero/rulesets/3777660, appending {"context":"release-bump-dry-run"} to the required_status_checks array — I cannot make this change). Until then it is advisory but still a visible red X on the PR, which is most of the value. The alternative — appending the dry-run as the last step of the already-required rust-lint job — is blocking with no settings change, but it mislabels the failure as a lint failure and depends on nothing ever being added after it in that job (the step mutates Cargo.toml/Cargo.lock, so any later step would run against a bumped, re-resolved tree). I recommend against it. Default if you do not answer: standalone job, and I will note the ruleset addition as a follow-up action in the PR description.

STATUS: COMPLETE

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[nikw9944]

Approved Work Plan (Revision 1)

Approved Work Plan (Revision 1)

Work Plan — #4220: catch release-bump dependency rebinds on the PR that causes them

Revision 1 — resolves Q1 (#4219 merged, no pins in this PR) and Q3 (no follow-up issue
filed). Q2 needs one correction from the operator's assumption, restated below.

Summary

The v0.37.0 testnet release failed because cargo update --workspace — which the
release's version bump runs — silently rebound workspace members from reqwest
0.13.4 to 0.12.28 and tokio-util 0.7.18 to 0.6.10. scripts/release/bump-version.sh
already has a guard that catches this (added in #4041), but it only runs at release
time, so the breakage introduced by #4213 sat dormant for a week. This plan adds a
release-bump-dry-run job to .github/workflows/rust.yml that runs the real bump
script against a throwaway next-minor version on every PR and every push to main,
then discards the result. The failure surfaces on the PR that causes it instead of on
release day.

Verified against the current origin/main (b066b188, which now carries both #4219's
pins and the 0.37.0 bump from #4221): the dry-run passes clean. Verified against
95336a36 (the pre-#4219 tree that broke the release): it fails exactly as the release
did. Details in Testing Strategy.

Approach

Run the real script, unchanged. The job invokes
./scripts/release/bump-version.sh <next-minor> exactly as release.testnet.yml
does. No new guard logic, no --check flag, no duplicated diff-parsing — the check
is valuable precisely because it exercises the same re-resolution path the release
takes, and a second implementation of the guard would be free to drift from the
one that matters. The result is discarded by not committing it; the runner is
throwaway.

Throwaway version = current minor + 1. Read PREV from Cargo.toml the same
way the script and release.testnet.yml preflight do, then compute X.(Y+1).0.
A fixed sentinel like 999.0.0 would work today because every intra-workspace
dependency in [workspace.dependencies] is path-only (verified — no version
requirements), so the number itself is inert and only the change drives
re-resolution. Computing the next minor costs one awk line and stays correct if
someone later adds a versioned intra-workspace dependency, where a fake major
would fail resolution with a confusing error unrelated to the thing being guarded.

Where it lives: a job in rust.yml, not a new workflow. rust.yml already
carries the exact trigger set this needs (push: [main, hotfix/**] +
pull_request) and is where Cargo-level checks belong. A separate path-filtered
workflow would be marginally cheaper but reintroduces the required-status-check
footgun: a path-filtered workflow that does not run never reports, so a PR that
does not touch Cargo.toml blocks forever on a required check that will never
arrive. Per-job path filters are not native to Actions. The job is cheap enough
(checkout + toolchain + cargo update, no compilation, no Solana tools, ~1–2 min)
that filtering is not worth the complexity.

Actionable failure output. The script prints the offending lock lines to
stderr, which is a cryptic red X for anyone who has not read bump-version.sh.
The job wraps the call and, on failure, emits a ::error:: annotation naming the
cause and the fix: pin the offending [workspace.dependencies] requirement to its
locked minor. That turns the check from "something is wrong with the lockfile" into
"pin this requirement".

No Swatinem/rust-cache. The job compiles nothing. The sparse crates.io index
fetch is a few seconds, and rust-cache keys off Cargo.lock — the very file the job
mutates — so caching buys nothing and adds a confusing interaction.

The bare-"0" lint (item 2 in the issue) is out of scope, and per operator
feedback no follow-up issue will be filed from here — the operator owns it. For the
record: Cargo.toml now has 27 bare "0" requirements, and a lint would have to
pin all 27 first. The dry-run guard catches the consequence regardless of how the
requirement is spelled, which is why item 1 is the one worth having.

Branch state

The branch nikw9944/doublezero-4220 sits at 95336a36, two commits behind
origin/main (e0dac37c #4219, b066b188 #4221). Rebase onto origin/main
before implementing — otherwise the new job runs against the pre-#4219 tree and
fails on this PR for a cause that is already fixed. No Cargo.toml pins in this
PR; #4219 landed them.

Files to Change

File	Change
.github/workflows/rust.yml	Add a release-bump-dry-run job: checkout, dtolnay/rust-toolchain@1.97.1, then compute the next minor from Cargo.toml and run scripts/release/bump-version.sh against it, failing with a ::error:: annotation that names the remediation. ~25 lines.
docs/testnet-release.md	Add a short paragraph (near the open-prs stage row or as its own subsection) noting that PR CI dry-runs the same bump, so open-prs failing on the lock guard should be a surprise, and pointing at the release-bump-dry-run job.
CHANGELOG.md	Entry under ## Unreleased → ### Changes → - CI, following the existing prose style (see the v0.36.0 CloudSmith entry): what the job does and why, referencing #4213/#4219. Required by changelog-reminder.yml unless the PR carries skip-changelog; this change warrants an entry.

No changes to scripts/release/bump-version.sh, release.testnet.yml, Cargo.toml,
or Cargo.lock.

README.md and CLAUDE.md need no changes: neither documents CI jobs or the release
bump, and CLAUDE.md's build-commands section covers make targets, which this does
not add to.

Risks & Considerations

Adding the job to rust.yml does not make it blocking — see Open Questions.
This corrects an assumption in the feedback. main is protected by repository
ruleset 3777660, whose required_status_checks rule lists individual job
contexts, not workflows: rust-build, rust-lint, rust-test, the four
go-*, three release-validation-*, and the e2e shards. rust.yml already
contains two jobs that are not in that list — rust-validator-test and
rust-cli-static — which is direct evidence that living in rust.yml confers
nothing. A new release-bump-dry-run job will show red on the PR (visible to
reviewers) but will not block merge until its context is added to the ruleset.

The check depends on crates.io state, so it can go red for reasons unrelated to
the PR. cargo update --workspace re-resolves against the live index, so a newly
published third-party version could change unification and trip the guard on an
unrelated PR — and would then be red on main too until someone pins. This is not
a new risk: it is exactly the release-day flakiness this moves earlier, where it is
cheap to fix. Worth stating in the PR description so the first such failure is not
mistaken for a broken check. The remediation is always the same (pin the
requirement), so the fix is mechanical.

The job mutates the working tree. It rewrites Cargo.toml, Cargo.lock, and
CHANGELOG.md in the runner. Because it is its own job with its own checkout, no
other job sees it. This is the main reason not to fold the step into an existing
job: a bumped version and a re-resolved lock would silently change what rust-build
or rust-lint compiles.

The dry-run also asserts CHANGELOG structure. The script requires a
## Unreleased heading and warns if it is empty. That coupling is a bonus (a
CHANGELOG whose structure the promotion regex cannot handle now fails on the PR
rather than at release time), but it means a PR that removes or renames
## Unreleased fails this job with a CHANGELOG error rather than a lock error.
Acceptable — that would also break the release.

Interaction with the release PR itself. On release/vX.Y.Z, Cargo.toml is
already at the new version and the CHANGELOG is already promoted. The dry-run
computes X.(Y+1).0 from the checked-out file, so PREV != NEW still holds and the
guard re-runs on top of the already-bumped lock. Traced through: the second bump
adds only member version lines, so it passes. No special-casing needed.

Testing Strategy

Verified locally in both directions before writing this plan.

1. Green on current origin/main (b066b188, version 0.37.0). Ran the bump's
   cargo update --workspace against a 0.38.0 throwaway and applied both of the
   script's guard filters to the Cargo.lock diff. Added non-member-version lines:
   none. Removed non-PREV-version lines: none. The new job is green on main today.
2. Red on 95336a36 (the tree that broke the release). The same procedure
   rebound members onto reqwest 0.12.28 and tokio-util 0.6.10 and pulled in
   hyper-tls, native-tls, and tokio-native-tls. The guard's BAD_LINES filter
   returned the added + "reqwest 0.12.28", + "tokio-util 0.6.10" and the three
   new [[package]] blocks — so the dry-run job would have failed ip-verifier: add the IP ownership verification service #4213 with the
   same diagnosis the v0.37.0 release produced a week later.
3. Working tree restored to clean after each run (git status --porcelain empty).

At implementation time:

4. Run the full ./scripts/release/bump-version.sh 0.38.0 end to end on the rebased
   branch (not just the cargo update portion) to confirm the CHANGELOG promotion
   path also succeeds, then restore the tree.
5. Confirm the new job passes on the PR in CI and check its wall-clock time against
   the ~1–2 min estimate.

No unit tests: the change is a CI job whose entire behavior is "run the existing
script". A test double for it would test the double.

Estimated Scope

~25 lines added (the rust.yml job), excluding docs and CHANGELOG. Well under the
500-line threshold. Single PR, no decomposition needed.

Open Questions

1. Making the check blocking needs a ruleset change — do you want it, and will you make it? Your Q2 answer assumed that living in rust.yml makes the job blocking. It does not: ruleset 3777660 requires individual job contexts (rust-build, rust-lint, rust-test, …), and rust.yml's own rust-validator-test and rust-cli-static jobs are not required — proof that workflow membership confers nothing. Recommendation: ship the standalone release-bump-dry-run job as planned, then add its context to the ruleset yourself once it is green on main (gh api -X PUT repos/malbeclabs/doublezero/rulesets/3777660, appending {"context":"release-bump-dry-run"} to the required_status_checks array — I cannot make this change). Until then it is advisory but still a visible red X on the PR, which is most of the value. The alternative — appending the dry-run as the last step of the already-required rust-lint job — is blocking with no settings change, but it mislabels the failure as a lint failure and depends on nothing ever being added after it in that job (the step mutates Cargo.toml/Cargo.lock, so any later step would run against a bumped, re-resolved tree). I recommend against it. Default if you do not answer: standalone job, and I will note the ruleset addition as a follow-up action in the PR description.

[nikw9944]

architecture review findings:

• Critical: 0
• High: 1
• Medium: 1
• Low: 2

Architecture Review

Critical

• None

High

• [Correctness / effectiveness]: The job is not a required status check, so it cannot do the thing the change claims. main is protected by ruleset 3777660, whose required_status_checks lists individual job contexts (rust-build, rust-lint, rust-test, go-*, release-validation-*, e2e shards) — rust.yml's own rust-validator-test and rust-cli-static are not in it, so workflow membership confers nothing. release-bump-dry-run will be a red X that is fully mergeable. The shipped prose asserts the guarantee without that caveat: CHANGELOG.md:12 says "that PR now fails this job instead" and docs/testnet-release.md:91 tells the release engineer that an open-prs guard failure "should be a surprise." A reviewer merges past an advisory red X, the rebind lands on main, the next release fails exactly as v0.37.0 did, and the runbook now says that cannot happen. Nothing in the diff records the ruleset follow-up.
  • Location: .github/workflows/rust.yml:86, docs/testnet-release.md:91
  • Recommendation: Add {"context":"release-bump-dry-run"} to ruleset 3777660's required_status_checks once green on main (gh api -X PUT repos/malbeclabs/doublezero/rulesets/3777660), and until then say "advisory" in the docs paragraph rather than implying the failure is blocked at the PR.

Medium

• [Failure-mode clarity]: The ::error:: annotation asserts the PR is the cause and offers exactly one remedy. Because cargo update --workspace re-resolves against the live index and a rebind can pre-exist on main (or be introduced by an upstream yank), an unrelated PR — this very docs+YAML PR included — gets "pin the offending requirement in [workspace.dependencies]." It is also one ~430-char line, so GitHub truncates it in the Annotations panel where the remedy sits last.
  • Location: .github/workflows/rust.yml:98
  • Recommendation: Keep ::error:: to one short sentence; echo the remedy and "check the latest main run — a pre-existing rebind is not yours to pin" as plain log lines above it.

Low

• [Simplification]: PREV/NEXT parsing is dead weight. All internal deps in Cargo.toml:124-153 are path-only with no version requirement, so a member's version number is inert to resolution; the guard's regex is version-agnostic. Verified: bump-version.sh 0.38.0 and 0.39.0 produce identical guard outcomes. These three lines duplicate bump-version.sh:9 and add a failure mode (a reformatted version line) in a job about something else.
  • Location: .github/workflows/rust.yml:94
  • Recommendation: Call ./scripts/release/bump-version.sh 999.0.0 and drop the grep/sed/awk; the script already logs Bumped $PREV -> $NEW.
• [Docs accuracy]: "If it does fail here, main is red on that job too" is not guaranteed — two individually-green PRs can combine into a rebind, and a release dispatched before main's run completes sees green. With the check non-blocking (H1), a merged-past red X gives the same outcome. The engineer hunts a CI bug instead of reading the guard output.
  • Location: docs/testnet-release.md:95
  • Recommendation: Qualify: "…assuming main's rust run for the dispatched sha completed and was not merged past."

Summary

The mechanism is correct and I verified it empirically: on 95336a3 (#4213) the dry-run fails and names reqwest 0.12.28 / tokio-util 0.6.10 in the first two lines of guard output; on its parent it passes; on branch HEAD (post-#4219) it passes; and on a simulated release/vX.Y.Z tree (already bumped, CHANGELOG already promoted) it passes cleanly. The shell is sound — set -euo pipefail does not defeat if !, the job's own checkout keeps the mutated tree invisible to other jobs, and the guard's baseline is the PR's committed lock so legitimate dep-update PRs don't false-positive. The one substantive gap is that the check is advisory, which the shipped docs and CHANGELOG do not admit.

[nikw9944]

security review findings:

• Critical: 0
• High: 0
• Medium: 0
• Low: 2

Security Review

Critical

• None

High

• None

Medium

• None

Low

• command-injection (contained): PREV is read from the PR-controlled Cargo.toml and flows unsanitized into sed/grep inside bump-version.sh (lines 11, 14). I attempted exploitation: the workflow's awk -F. '{print $1"."$2+1".0"}' numerically coerces the passed NEXT to X.Y.Z (so the replacement side is always safe), and the script's fixed s/…/…/ template supplies the closing delimiters, so any / injected via PREV produces only a sed syntax error (unknown option to 's', exit 1) — never a valid e-flagged command. Both empirical payloads failed to execute. Worst case: a crafted Cargo.toml reddens the fork's own dry-run job. On pull_request (not pull_request_target) the GITHUB_TOKEN is read-only with no secrets, and the sibling rust-build/rust-test jobs already compile attacker build.rs, so no privilege beyond baseline.
  • Location: scripts/release/bump-version.sh:14; .github/workflows/rust.yml:97-99
  • Recommendation: No change required for security. Optionally validate PREV against ^[0-9]+\.[0-9]+\.[0-9]+$ in the script for robustness.
• least-privilege: rust.yml declares no permissions: block (workflow or job), so the job inherits the repo/org default token. For fork PRs GitHub forces read-only regardless; for same-repo PRs the token may be write, but this job makes no authenticated API calls and uploads nothing, so exposure is negligible.
  • Location: .github/workflows/rust.yml:1-6
  • Recommendation: Optionally add permissions: contents: read at workflow level.

Summary

No exploitable vulnerability. The theoretical Cargo.toml→sed injection is blocked by the awk numeric coercion, the X.Y.Z regex guard, and the fixed sed template; the job uses pull_request (fork = read-only token, no secrets), takes its own checkout, uses no shared rust-cache, and uploads no artifacts, so it cannot exfiltrate secrets or poison other jobs. cargo update --workspace only re-resolves Cargo.lock and does not run build scripts, so it adds no code-execution surface beyond the existing build/test jobs. Action pinning (@v4, @1.97.1) matches every other job in the file. The only real cost is CI flakiness: live crates.io re-resolution on every PR can fail unrelated PRs when an upstream publish triggers the guard, which is a reliability, not security, concern.

[nikw9944]

Work Log — waiting_review

Now committing and launching the two required reviews in parallel.

Now applying the review fixes (H1, M1, L2; disputing arch L1 and both security Lows).

PR: #4223 (draft, branch nikw9944/doublezero-4220, rebased onto origin/main @ b066b188)

What landed — a release-bump-dry-run job in .github/workflows/rust.yml (~27 lines) that runs the real scripts/release/bump-version.sh against a throwaway next-minor version on every PR and push to main and discards the result, plus a paragraph in docs/testnet-release.md and a CHANGELOG entry. No changes to the script, the release workflow, Cargo.toml, or Cargo.lock.

Verification (ran the job's step verbatim, not a reimplementation):

• Current tree: passes; lock diff is member version lines only.
• 95336a36 (ip-verifier: add the IP ownership verification service #4213 as merged, pre-deps: pin reqwest and tokio-util to their locked 0.x minors #4219): fails, naming reqwest 0.12.28 / tokio-util 0.6.10 and the three new TLS packages — the same diagnosis the v0.37.0 release produced a week later.
• Failure path exercised end to end (annotation + exit 1). YAML parses; bash -n clean on the step. Working tree restored after each run.

Reviews — architecture and security sub-agents ran in parallel; both posted to issue #4220 (architecture, security). Security found nothing above Low.

Fixed: the architecture High (docs and CHANGELOG implied the check blocks merge — it does not; ruleset 3777660 requires individual job contexts, and rust.yml's own rust-validator-test/rust-cli-static are not required), the Medium (over-long ::error:: that blamed the PR for what can be an upstream rebind — remedy moved to plain log lines), and the docs-accuracy Low.

Disputed, all Low:

• Replace the next-minor computation with a fixed 999.0.0. The reviewer is right that every intra-workspace dep is path-only today, so the number is inert. Three lines of grep/awk reusing the script's own parse buy correctness if a versioned intra-workspace dependency is ever added, where a fake major fails resolution with an error unrelated to the thing being guarded.
• Validate PREV against X.Y.Z in bump-version.sh. The reviewer's own conclusion is "no change required for security" — the injection attempts produced a sed syntax error, and the script already validates the version it is handed.
• Add permissions: contents: read to rust.yml. Would rescope the token for five pre-existing jobs this PR does not touch; the reviewer rated exposure negligible (pull_request, no API calls, no artifacts).

Operator action: the job is advisory until you append {"context":"release-bump-dry-run"} to ruleset 3777660's required_status_checks — I cannot make that change. It's called out in the PR body, the docs, and the CHANGELOG.

STATUS: COMPLETE

--- Result: success | Session cost: $5.0035 | Turns: 38 | Tokens: 64 in / 22385 out | 2026-08-21 17:43:38 UTC ---

[nikw9944]

Work Log — waiting_review

Pushed as 05362ab9; PR body replaced (Fixes #4220 carried over).

Changed

• CHANGELOG entry — cut the mechanism narration; kept what/why plus the advisory caveat.
• docs/testnet-release.md paragraph — 9 lines → 8, tighter; both caveats (advisory, live index) and the remedy kept.
• The release-bump-dry-run comment in .github/workflows/rust.yml — 9 lines → 6.
• PR body — dropped the diff narration and the duplicated pass-case detail; both operator callouts and the 95336a36 repro kept.

Left alone

• The three echo lines in the job's failure branch — output text carrying the remediation, already at minimum.
• README — untouched by this change.

--- Result: success | Session cost: $1.1644 | Turns: 5 | Tokens: 10 in / 4146 out | 2026-08-21 17:46:52 UTC ---