The pure swap is gone: a reload restarts every live object of a changed plugin
(documents and tables kept). Calls running at the commit and every call they cause
(the ctx call chain; an old flag on call from trusted links) run on the open old
attempt, which seals once its work drained and its successor's recorded requests are
ready, bounded by reloadDrainTimeout (5 s); then the successor's factory runs. New work
waits at the gate; same-host consumers see the draining object live; a reload cycle
fails at once with unavailable/reload_cycle. Example 64, design section 21 rewritten.
buildWorkerBase bundles with esbuild code splitting into one private directory: the entry
and its static chunks load at each fork, a lazily imported module and the packages it
imports only when imported. @earendil-works/chord/workers/child exports the worker's side
(workerMain, processLock) without esbuild.
createWorkers bundles the worker entry once (esbuild, Node builtins and installed
packages external) and forks every worker from that snapshot, so an edit of the
app's source while the server runs reaches workers only through a restart. The kit
watches the bundle's inputs as base code. p2 creates its session workers with
SessionWorkers.create and keeps the worker base's inputs as a dev restart baseline.
The heartbeat no longer counts time the process did not run (a laptop's sleep, a blocked event loop) as silence: after such a pause each open link pings at once and closes only if its peer stays silent for close - ping.
A running worker's lost link is now a stop instead of a failure: worker_link_lost is reported and the held route starts a new worker. A second lost link within a minute of the last recovery still fails the address.
A worker killed by a signal left its lock's socket file, and every later start of its address failed closed on it, retry too. The workers component now removes a lock socket file nobody accepts on before each start and after a child's exit by a signal, in the address's queue. processLock also treats ENOTSOCK as stale instead of retrying until its context ended.
src/next is src (the main export), src/next-node is src/node with short subpaths (/http, /workers, /plugins,
/plugins/runtime, /app, /surfaces, /web, /react, /tui, /tui/launcher); the foundations get /json and /watch;
Chord v1 moves to src/old (/old, /old/node) until p2 runs on v2; tests and docs move likewise (test/, docs/,
test/old, docs/old). Durable and env import the foundations from their subpaths.