fix(release): advance the Homebrew formula without a notarized macOS build

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What this changes

The Homebrew tap update no longer waits on Apple. update-homebrew now runs once create-release succeeds and attach-macos has finished, whatever its result, unless the run was cancelled. Linux checksums always come from the release being published. macOS arrives in one of two complete forms:

Release carries	Formula	Cask
The Apple silicon tarball and the DMG	Rendered for every platform, as before	Rendered from the DMG, as before
No macOS assets	Linux advances; macOS keeps the version and checksum already in the tap, pinned by a block-level version inside on_macos	Left untouched
Only one of the two	Job stops before rendering	Untouched

The renderer gains a --carry-macos-from <published formula> mode for the second row and refuses any mix of carry mode with macOS checksums.

Why

Apple has held every app notarization for this team "In Progress" since 2026-09-29. The macOS Notary Status workflow lists 12 such submissions, some older than three days. As a result sign-macos failed on v0.6.0 and v0.6.1, and attach-macos was skipped. Because update-homebrew needed attach-macos, the tap was never touched, so Linux Homebrew users are still on 0.5.1 even though the Linux tarballs shipped normally. The renderer's all-or-nothing rule from #285 would have blocked Linux the same way.

The 0.5.0 and 0.5.1 tap updates already carried macOS forward like this. This change restores that behavior as an explicit mode and keeps the guard against a half-published macOS release.

Verification

• Added or updated tests
• Added or updated docs (README, AGENTS.md, relevant spec, or guide)
• just verify passes locally (Rust fmt + lint + test)
• just deny passes (required for dependency or license changes)
• just ui-test and just ui-build pass (required for crates/hypercolor-ui/)
• just sdk-lint, just sdk-check, and just sdk-build pass (required for sdk/)
• just python-verify passes (required for python/)
• just compat-check passes (required for data/drivers/vendors/*.toml)
• just docs-build passes (required for docs or README changes)
• cd docs && zola check passes (required for docs link/content changes)
• Packaging scripts were syntax-checked (required for scripts/ or packaging/)
• just e2e-build passes with the normal Servo stack (required for daemon/UI/effect integration changes)
• just e2e-build-cpu passes when validating the CPU smoke fallback
• just e2e passes against the Servo stack (required for end-to-end behavior changes; starts daemon/browser)
• Tested on real hardware, simulator, or e2e harness (describe below)

No Rust, UI, SDK or Python files change. The only docs edit is docs/development/RELEASING.md, which sits outside the Zola site.

• Workflow tests: the homebrew-formula, macos-release and macos-ci-coverage suites pass 27 of 27 under node --test. One existing macos-release test calls shasum, which this Linux host lacks. That test fails the same way on main, and passes here with a sha256sum shim. The release tests execute the job's real checksum, render and push shell against fake release asset lists. A full release renders formula and cask with the usual commit body. A release with no macOS assets advances Linux, pins macOS, leaves the cask byte-identical, and says so in the commit body. A one-asset release, or a failed download of either macOS asset, stops before rendering. Reinstating the old echo "...=$(fetch ...)" form makes the failed-download test fail.
• Live tap formula: the renderer reads the tap's current formula as macOS 0.3.2 with checksum fab9e565…, matching what is published. It produced the 0.6.1 formula in chore(hypercolor): update the formula to 0.6.1 on Linux homebrew-tap#4.
• Workflow lint: actionlint reports no new findings. Its one concurrency.queue complaint also appears on main.

Notes for reviewers

• The validation gate still holds. The job's !cancelled() is fenced by needs.create-release.result == 'success', so failed validation still cannot publish, and macos-ci-coverage asserts that pairing along with the prerelease guard.
• Re-runs are safe. A carry-mode attempt uploads the rendered files as an artifact, and a later re-run of sign-macos re-runs this job in the same run, so the upload now sets overwrite: true.
• macOS itself is still blocked on Apple. Once the queue clears, use "Re-run failed jobs" on the v0.6.1 run. That re-signs from the stored unsigned payload, which is kept for seven days. This job then renders the full formula and the cask again.
• Known macOS limitation, unchanged here: the formula's macOS service passes --macos-owner homebrew, which the carried 0.3.2 daemon predates (the flag arrived in 0.4.0), so brew services start on macOS fails until a notarized 0.6.x build replaces 0.3.2. The tap has shipped that combination since its 0.5.0 update, and this change leaves the macOS service block as it is.

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Walkthrough

The Homebrew release workflow now advances the Linux formula when macOS release assets are absent. When both macOS assets are available, it updates the macOS formula stanza and cask. Partial macOS asset sets stop the update.

Changes

Homebrew release publication

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Formula carry-forward mode scripts/homebrew-formula.mjs, scripts/tests/homebrew-formula.test.mjs	The renderer validates and carries forward the published macOS version and checksum while using the current Linux release data. Carry mode writes only the formula. Tests cover valid rendering, invalid metadata, and CLI input rules.
Conditional release workflow .github/workflows/ci.yml, scripts/tests/macos-ci-coverage.test.mjs, scripts/tests/macos-release.test.mjs, docs/development/RELEASING.md, packaging/homebrew/hypercolor.rb	The workflow checks for both macOS assets after release creation. It updates the formula and cask when both are present, carries forward the macOS stanza and leaves the cask unchanged when neither is present, and fails when only one is present.

Priority: ➖ Normal

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

Change: Bug fix

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant CreateRelease as create-release
  participant AttachMacos as attach-macos
  participant UpdateHomebrew as update-homebrew
  participant FormulaScript as homebrew-formula.mjs
  participant HomebrewTap as Homebrew tap
  CreateRelease-->>UpdateHomebrew: successful release enables the job
  AttachMacos-->>UpdateHomebrew: job waits for attachment to finish
  UpdateHomebrew->>UpdateHomebrew: collect Linux checksums and inspect macOS assets
  UpdateHomebrew->>FormulaScript: render with release assets or carried macOS metadata
  FormulaScript-->>UpdateHomebrew: return formula and optional cask output
  UpdateHomebrew->>HomebrewTap: publish generated tap changes

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Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 3f5f5

The release guide could mislead maintainers about Linux-only Homebrew updates. Correct the paragraph; the remaining merge risk is low.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to 3f5f5

The new publication modes preserve paired macOS asset checks, validate carried versions and checksums, and leave the cask unchanged when macOS assets are absent. No introduced security concern was established. Live tap state, credential restrictions, and repository-side protections were not independently verified.

Retained concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.

Security review details

Security Blast Radius

• inferred — The sensitive outcome is package distribution through the shared Homebrew tap, affecting consumers of its Hypercolor formula and cask. The configured publisher stages those two package files. The publishing credential's maximum repository or organization authority cannot be determined from this workflow.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

• observed — The newly consumed tap formula is read as text, not evaluated. Only a validated numeric version and lowercase hexadecimal checksum enter the repository-owned template; published URLs and other Ruby code are not copied. Download URLs remain fixed to the Hypercolor release repository.
• observed — Publication remains restricted to stable-tag push or manual runs with successful release creation. The job's GitHub token has contents-read permission; tap mutation uses the separate Homebrew credential, whose authentication and target-repository push permission are checked before checkout and publication.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

• observed — Missing macOS blocks, invalid metadata, multiple macOS checksums, mixed carry/full inputs, and incomplete full-mode options are rejected. These checks prevent malformed carried state from silently becoming published package metadata, although compatibility with the live tap's formatting was not independently verified.

Hardening Proposals

• proposed — As separate hardening for the pre-existing publication-order limitation, serialize all tap publishers and reject obsolete release updates before pushing, so delayed runs cannot regress distributed package versions.

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Docstring Coverage	⚠️ Warning	Docstring coverage is 42.86% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 7 functions across 5 files. (2 skipped: 2…	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

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Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly summarizes the main change: allowing the Homebrew formula to advance without a notarized macOS build.

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🟡 Minor · Replace the whole stale Homebrew paragraph. · RELEASING.md:54-56

docs/development/RELEASING.md:54-56
📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Replace the whole stale Homebrew paragraph.

The paragraph still says every run fills the macOS formula stanza and cask from the current release. The workflow carries both forward when no notarized macOS build exists, leaves the cask unchanged, and stops when only one macOS asset is present.

📝 Suggested fix

-The tag lane also updates the Homebrew tap: `update-homebrew` renders
-`packaging/homebrew/hypercolor.rb` and `packaging/homebrew/hypercolor-app.rb`
-with `scripts/homebrew-formula.mjs`, filling the Linux amd64 and arm64
-stanzas, the Apple silicon macOS stanza, and the Apple silicon cask from the
-tarballs and DMG the release just published. It runs after the macOS
-artifacts are attached, because the formula and cask need the macOS
-checksums.
+The tag lane also updates the Homebrew tap. On stable tags, `update-homebrew`
+advances the Linux amd64 and arm64 stanzas. When the signed Apple silicon
+tarball and DMG are attached, it also updates the macOS stanza and cask from
+the current release. Without a notarized macOS build, it carries the
+published macOS stanza forward and leaves the cask unchanged. If only one
+macOS asset is present, the job stops.

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Review comment at @docs/development/RELEASING.md around lines 54 - 56:
Replace the stale Homebrew paragraph in the release documentation to describe
the actual `update-homebrew` behavior: stable tags advance the Linux amd64 and
arm64 stanzas; signed Apple silicon tarball and DMG assets update the macOS
stanza and cask; without a notarized macOS build, the published macOS stanza is
carried forward and the cask remains unchanged; and the job stops if only one
macOS asset is present.

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Review comments at @docs/development/RELEASING.md:
- Around line 54-56: Replace the stale Homebrew paragraph in the release
documentation to describe the actual `update-homebrew` behavior: stable tags
advance the Linux amd64 and arm64 stanzas; signed Apple silicon tarball and DMG
assets update the macOS stanza and cask; without a notarized macOS build, the
published macOS stanza is carried forward and the cask remains unchanged; and
the job stops if only one macOS asset is present.

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