fix(release): preflight the registry before publishing anything; stop the release commit cancelling main's bench baseline - #93
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A new package cannot be released by CI until a human has published it once: npm's OIDC trusted publishing is configured per package on the registry, so there is nothing to configure until the package exists, and `npm trust` cannot create it (npm/cli#8544). CI holds no other npm credential by design, so its first `npm publish` fails with ENEEDAUTH. codec-libjxl landed in #88 and hit exactly that. Worse, the publish step was a bash loop under `set -e`, so it died where it stood -- and libjxl sits fifth in dependency order, so little-endian, openjpeg, openjph and dicom-codec were never attempted. Four packages that would have published fine sat stranded behind one that could not, for three days, each release leaving main tagged for versions that were not on npm. Resolve every package's registry state before publishing anything, so a release that cannot fully succeed publishes nothing and says what a human has to do. `npm view` reports a missing version and a missing package identically (E404), so the two lookups are separate; a non-zero exit that is NOT a 404 is now an error rather than being read as "brand new", which would turn a network blip into an aborted release. Fail-fast rather than skip-and-continue: publishing dicom-codec while a sibling whose range it carries has just failed is the window publish-order.mjs exists to close. The same check runs on every PR as a warning, which is what was missing when #88 merged -- on the PR that adds a codec, "not on npm yet" is simply true. Also: - Port setup-trusted-publishing.sh to node. It computed the repo root with `cd && pwd` and passed it as argv to node, so under Cygwin a Windows node.exe resolved /cygdrive/z/... against the current drive and the scan died with ENOENT. Nothing crosses a shell boundary now, and npm is spawned by its platform-correct name -- node refuses to spawn a .cmd without a shell since CVE-2024-27980, and passing an args array with shell:true is DEP0190, so npm.mjs handles both in one place. - Drive every release entry point from a root package.json script, so none of them depend on a shell. The publish job still installs no dependencies: `npm run` needs no node_modules, and these scripts import only node builtins. - Give packages/libjxl the repository.directory every sibling carries. - Document the bootstrap procedure in tools/release/README.md. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe release process now uses Node-based scripts for registry preflight, dependency-ordered publishing, and trusted-publisher setup. Workflows call these scripts through root package commands. Benchmark workflows preserve main-branch runs, and documentation covers release and benchmark behavior. ChangesRelease pipeline
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Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to The release tooling improves preflight publication safety, but its trusted-publisher guidance can create an incorrect token-security assumption. Main-branch benchmark runs can also still be dropped while pending, leaving some commits without their expected benchmark baseline. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
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ReleaseWorkflow->>publish.mjs: run release:publish
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publish.mjs->>npm: publish packages in dependency order
npm-->>ReleaseWorkflow: return publish status
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- Around line 6-8: Correct the setup-trusted-publishing.mjs comment so it does
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| // After this runs, the release workflow authenticates to npm with a short-lived | ||
| // OIDC token minted per run and scoped to that workflow -- no NPM_TOKEN, and a | ||
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🔒 Security & Privacy | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win
Security Misconfiguration (CWE-284)
Reachability: External · Exploitability: Moderate
Do not claim that trusted publishing disables token publishing.
npm trust github adds OIDC authorization but does not revoke existing npm token authorization. A leaked publishing token remains usable until each package's Publishing access is set to Require two-factor authentication and disallow tokens. The script only prints this manual step and does not verify completion.
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In `@tools/release/setup-trusted-publishing.mjs` around lines 6 - 8, Correct the
setup-trusted-publishing.mjs comment so it does not claim trusted publishing
disables token-based publishing; state that existing npm tokens remain usable
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| ['trust', 'github', name, '--repo', REPO, '--file', WORKFLOW, '--allow-publish', '--yes'], |
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
Skip matching trusted-publisher configurations before creating them. npm 11.19.0 permits only one configuration per package, so npm trust github returns an error even when the existing repository, file, and createPackage permission match. This call records that nonzero status in failed and exits with status 1 on every rerun. Query npm trust list <name> --json, skip an exact match for REPO, WORKFLOW, and --allow-publish, and retain failures for conflicting configurations.
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the trusted-publishing setup flow around the runNpm call to query npm trust list
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bench.yml groups by `bench-${{ github.head_ref || github.ref }}`, and on
a push head_ref is empty -- so every push to main shared the group
`bench-refs/heads/main`. With cancel-in-progress: true, the release
workflow's version commit (pushed ~5 minutes after the merge that
triggered it, into a bench that takes ~11) entered that group, cancelled
the merge commit's bench, and was then skipped itself by the gate:
21:45 16f50e3 Expand `hrtime` utility... (#70) cancelled
21:50 91d91bc chore(release): publish skipped
16:56 21d4749 fix: consolidated codec fixes (#73) cancelled
17:01 7abaaa9 chore(release): publish skipped
Those merges produced no baseline at all. The gate's guard exists to stop
the version commit seeding a DUPLICATE baseline; paired with
unconditional cancellation it destroyed the real one and put nothing in
its place, so later PRs compared against whatever CodSpeed still held per
benchmark. That is how this very PR -- which changes no runtime code --
drew a two-fold "regression" on two dicom-codec dispatch benches while
charls reported a two-fold improvement against a pre-serialisation value.
Cancel only for pull_request, which was the actual intent: PR churn should
supersede itself, one main push must never cancel another. workflow_dispatch
stops cancelling too, which is right -- that event is CodSpeed's backtest
trigger.
This was masked while releases were broken. A release that dies before the
push cancels nothing, which is the only reason bac71dd kept its baseline.
Fixing the publish path makes the version commit land reliably, so this
would have started firing on most merges.
Also document in BENCHMARKING.md the two things that CANNOT be fixed from
the repo, since both are dashboard-only: archiving the 66 orphaned
benchmark entries (harmless -- a skipped bench reuses its baseline on both
sides, so its delta is always zero), and acknowledging a regression. Note
that neither blocks a merge, because main's ruleset lists no required
status checks at all.
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@jbocce - can you review this before finishing hte other 3 items so that we get updated test results? Otherwise main has stopped publishing the latest test results and you will always have codspeed failrues. |
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- Line 61: Update the workflow concurrency group using the event context so pull
requests retain branch-level grouping, while non-pull-request runs use a
per-commit key such as github.sha; preserve the existing cancel-in-progress
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In `@BENCHMARKING.md`:
- Line 150: Update the sentence in BENCHMARKING.md to replace “The surplus are
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift
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rg -n -C 3 'concurrency|codspeed|benchmark|workflow_dispatch|push:|pull_request:' .github/workflows/bench.yml .github/workflows 2>/dev/null | sed -n '1,220p'Repository: cornerstonejs/codecs
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GitHub Actions workflow concurrency one running and one pending newer pending cancels older pending official documentation
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Yes, it is the standard and default behavior of GitHub Actions concurrency groups that there can be at most one running job or workflow and at most one pending job or workflow in a group at any given time [1][2][3]. When a new workflow run or job is triggered and enters a concurrency group that already has one job running and one job pending, the existing pending job is automatically canceled to make room for the new one [1][2][4]. The newest run then takes the "pending" slot [1][3]. Key behaviors regarding this process include: 1. Pending Slot Limitation: By default, GitHub Actions allows only one pending run per concurrency group. When a new run arrives, any previous pending run in that group is replaced (canceled) by the new one [1][5][2]. 2. Interaction with cancel-in-progress: - When cancel-in-progress: false (the default): The currently running job continues to completion, while the oldest pending job is canceled and replaced by the newly triggered job [6][7]. - When cancel-in-progress: true: The currently running job is immediately canceled, and the new job moves from "pending" to "running" (or takes the pending slot if another is running) [1][7][3]. 3. Avoiding Unintended Cancellations: Because this behavior applies to all runs within the same concurrency group, it is critical to ensure that group names (defined by the group key) are sufficiently specific—typically using dynamic keys like ${{ github.workflow }}-${{ github.ref }}—to avoid canceling workflows from different branches or unrelated tasks [1][2][7][3]. If you need to queue more than one pending job (up to 100), you can use concurrency: { group: '...', max: 100 } instead of the default single-pending configuration [1][6][2].
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- 1: https://docs.github.com/en/actions/how-tos/write-workflows/choose-when-workflows-run/control-workflow-concurrency
- 2: https://docs.github.com/en/enterprise-cloud@latest/actions/how-tos/write-workflows/choose-when-workflows-run/control-workflow-concurrency
- 3: https://runs-on.com/github-actions/concurrency/
- 4: https://latchkey.dev/learn/github-actions/github-actions-concurrency-pending-job-canceled
- 5: https://docs.github.com/en/actions/concepts/workflows-and-actions/concurrency
- 6: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/76096372/how-to-queue-more-than-one-github-action-workflow-run
- 7: https://starsling.dev/best-practices/github-actions/cancel-superseded-runs
Preserve pending main benchmark runs.
github.head_ref || github.ref gives every main push the same concurrency group. With cancel-in-progress: false, a newer main push cancels the older pending run while the active run continues. Use a per-commit group for non-PR events, such as one keyed by github.sha, while retaining branch-level cancellation for pull requests.
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| The CodSpeed project holds more benchmark entries than the repo now | ||
| defines — as of 2026-09-04, 133 registered against 67 that actually run. | ||
| The surplus are orphans left by benches that were renamed or deleted |
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Fix the subject–verb agreement.
Change The surplus are orphans to The surplus entries are orphans for clear technical documentation.
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@cornerstonejs/codec-libjxllanded in #88 and every release for the next three days failed on it, each one leavingmaintagged for versions that were not on npm.A new package cannot be released by CI until a human has published it once. npm's OIDC trusted publishing is configured per package, on the registry, so there is nothing to configure until the package exists — and
npm trustcannot create it (npm/cli#8544, still open). CI holds no other npm credential by design, so its firstnpm publishfailed withENEEDAUTH.The blast radius was the real problem. The publish step was a bash loop under
set -euo pipefail, so it died where it stood — and libjxl sits fifth in dependency order:little-endian,openjpeg,openjphanddicom-codecwere never even attempted. Four packages that were already registered and would have published fine sat stranded behind one that could not, andgithub-releasesnever ran.Already resolved operationally: libjxl@1.1.0 was published by hand,
release:trustregistered it, and run 33879890059 shipped the other four with signed provenance. This PR is so it cannot happen again.What changed
Preflight before any write.
publish.mjsresolves every package's registry state before publishing anything, so a release that cannot fully succeed publishes nothing and prints the exact remediation.npm viewreports a missing version and a missing package identically (E404), so the two lookups are separate.A non-zero exit that is not a 404 is now a hard error rather than being read as "brand new". Without that, a network blip or an expired session would abort a release while claiming nine packages were unpublished — which is precisely what the first draft of this script did, and it looked entirely plausible.
Fail-fast, not skip-and-continue. Publishing
dicom-codecwhile a sibling whose range it carries has just failed is the windowpublish-order.mjsexists to close.A warning on every PR.
release:preflightruns inpr-checks.ymland warns when a package is not on npm yet — the signal that was missing when #88 merged. It warns rather than fails, because on the PR that adds a codec that is simply true.Everything driven from root
package.jsonscripts, so no release entry point depends on a shell:release:planrelease:orderrelease:preflightrelease:publishrelease:trustThe publish job still installs no dependencies —
npm runneeds nonode_modules, and these scripts import only node builtins, so the OIDC token still has no third-party code beside it.setup-trusted-publishing.sh→.mjs. The bash version computed the repo root withcd && pwdand passed it as argv to node; under Cygwin a Windowsnode.exeresolved/cygdrive/z/...against the current drive and the scan died withENOENT: scandir 'Z:\cygdrive\z\src\codecs\packages'. Nothing crosses a shell boundary now.npm.mjscentralises spawning npm, which needs care twice on Windows: node refuses to spawn a.cmdwithout a shell since CVE-2024-27980, and passing an args array withshell: trueis DEP0190.Also:
packages/libjxlgets therepository.directoryevery sibling carries;tools/release/README.mddocuments the bootstrap procedure under "Adding a new package".Also: the release commit was destroying main's bench baseline
Investigating the CodSpeed failure on this PR turned up a second bug, fixed in
5100e93.bench.ymlgroups bybench-${{ github.head_ref || github.ref }}, and on a pushhead_refis empty — so every push to main shared one group. Withcancel-in-progress: true, the release workflow's version commit (pushed ~5 min after the merge that triggered it, into a bench that takes ~11) entered that group, cancelled the merge commit's bench, and was then skipped itself by the gate:16f50e3Expandhrtimeutility… (#70)91d91bc chore(release): publish21d4749fix: consolidated codec fixes (#73)7abaaa9 chore(release): publishThose merges produced no baseline at all. The gate's guard exists to stop the version commit seeding a duplicate baseline; paired with unconditional cancellation it destroyed the real one and supplied nothing in its place, so later PRs compared against whatever CodSpeed still held per benchmark.
That is why this PR — which changes no runtime code — drew a two-fold "regression" on two
dicom-codecdispatch benches, while charls reported a two-fold improvement against a pre-serialisation value (BASE 37.8ms → HEAD 19.1ms, against the 37.9ms contended / 19.8ms true figures recorded inbench.yml's own comment on--workspace-concurrency=1).The fix cancels only for
pull_request, which was the actual intent — PR churn should supersede itself, one main push must never cancel another.workflow_dispatchstops cancelling too, which is correct: that event is CodSpeed's backtest trigger.This was masked while releases were broken. A release that dies before the push cancels nothing, which is the only reason
bac71ddstill has a baseline. Fixing the publish path in this same PR makes the version commit land reliably — so without this second commit, the first one would have made the bug fire on most merges.What could not be fixed here
Two things are dashboard-only in CodSpeed, with no repo config, config file or code annotation equivalent:
libjpeg-turbo-12bit, whosebenchscript is deliberately a no-op (.51disabled). Harmless: a skipped benchmark reuses its baseline on both sides, so its delta is always zero and it cannot trigger a regression — it only inflates the count.Neither blocks anything: main's ruleset lists no required status checks (only 1 approving review + code-owner review), and classic branch protection returns 404, so a red CodSpeed check never gates a merge. Both are now documented in
BENCHMARKING.mdso the next person doesn't have to re-derive it.The live benchmarks re-seed on their own: once this lands, the push to main runs a full sweep and refreshes the baseline for all 67 without anyone touching the dashboard.
Testing
pnpm exec vitest run— 281 passed, 27 skipped, 29 files.(6 openjpeg failures locally first turned out to be a stale local dist predating fix(openjpeg): correct the buffer-stream skip signature and decoded image dimensions #63; refreshing it from the CI artifact cleared them.)
release:orderoutput unchanged from before the refactor, all 9 packages in the same order.release:preflightagainst the live registry:0 to publish, 9 already on npm, 0 awaiting a first manual publish.--outwrites the samepublish-order.txtthegithub-releasesjob consumes.node --check.pnpm csp:sourceclean.One thing this PR does not fix: libjxl@1.1.0 has no provenance attestation, because there was no trusted publisher to key the bootstrap publish to. Every version after it does. That is inherent to npm's bootstrap gap, not to this change.
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