The integrated V3-to-V4 records contain the header increase that authorizes
their breaking changes. Leaving those terminal records editable would let a
later change reuse that already accepted 3-to-4 increase, so version 4 would
not establish a stable compatibility baseline for persisted user data.
Capture the accepted root classifications and semantic record digests in a
separate finalization checkpoint. Validate that checkpoint before rendering
or writing acknowledgement artifacts, and preserve its accepted records even
after the current writer advances. Keep publication evidence independent:
the verified released version remains 3 until a release establishes otherwise.
Compare future writer-4 schemas with the accepted baseline using the existing
compatibility classifier. Compatible additions remain permitted through new
same-version acknowledgement records. Breaking changes require a higher
writer and their own header transition; comments, aliases and source-location
changes do not alter the accepted semantics. Later unaccepted compatible
records retain the existing update workflow.
Document the distinction between finalization, publication and compatible
evolution, with regression coverage for locked records, incomplete or
inconsistent checkpoints, additive changes and future-version transitions.
Traversal ordinals and first-owner paths gave shared persistence types
unstable display names. Keep authored names and source locations as metadata,
use structural digests for identity, and render complete kind/form groups
with bounded array labels. Preserve historical rendering and stored graphs.
Record supported source compatibility promises with their property binding,
policy version, discriminator, preservation rule, and qualified kind set.
The extractor and classifier require explicit opt-ins in both compared
schemas; ordinary or unsupported changes retain strict classification.
Policy-bearing graphs use the format-2 fingerprint domain while unannotated
graphs keep their format-1 fingerprints. Runtime owners activate bindings
only with the corresponding reader behavior; this tooling layer activates
none and changes no package source or Session generation.
Provide a read-only before/after review command that groups shared structural
evidence without replacing authoritative compatibility diagnostics. Match
changed alternatives only through unique literal discriminators and retain
ambiguous additions and removals as independent facts.
At the X baseline, all 61 roots and 472 schemas, digests, and source fields
are unchanged. The inventory remains format 1 and removes only 296 synthetic
names. Existing acknowledgement history still matches every root. All 195
focused tooling tests, Host build/full lint, and bilingual pairing pass.
Dudu-0223