Commit: fd44628
Version: 3.4dev-20260823_142740
Branch: master
Status: pushed to origin/master — security hardening validated; one repository-hygiene follow-up remains.

Why MB696 mattered

MB696 was not a feature round. After MB695 had reconciled the l…

Commit: a191682
Version: 3.4dev-20260823_113810
Branch: master
Status: pushed and synchronized with origin/master

Why MB695 mattered

MB695 was not a feature round. It was a release-hardening round focused on one difficult problem: making a long-lived …

The RSS work in Mediabot v3 is now complete.

What started as a fairly simple idea — “let channels subscribe to RSS feeds” — turned into three deliberately separated rounds:

• MB692 — RSS foundation, persistence and security
• MB693 — native polling, deduplication and delivery
• **M…

Mediabot MB694 real RSS end-to-end validation.

“The owls are not what they seem… but at least these ones validate DNS, preserve UTF-8, and do not flood your IRC channel.” 🪄

A new owl has left the Mediabot tower.

MB692 introduces the foundations of native per-channel RSS/Atom support in Mediabot v3, with a strong focus on security,…

Commit: 2dedea3fa817d36357c1a3975583f819db0a4f50
Version: 3.4dev-20260822_132722
Branch: master

MB688 started as a deployment cleanup and ended up fixing two pieces of infrastructure at once:

1. Mediabot’s updater is now genuinely instance-generic instead of assumin…

Mediabot’s Debian 13 readiness work has now crossed the systemd boundary all the way to a real runtime validation.

MB684 proved the fresh configuration/bootstrap path.

MB685 proved fresh MariaDB installation.

MB686 proved the stable 3.3 → current database migration path.

**MB687 makes …

Mediabot’s Debian 13 readiness work has now crossed the systemd boundary.

MB684 proved the fresh configuration/bootstrap path.

MB685 proved fresh MariaDB installation.

MB686 proved the stable 3.3 → current database migration path.

**MB687 makes the published systemd service contract in…

The Debian 13 readiness work has crossed another important boundary.

MB684 proved that Mediabot could exercise its fresh-install configuration path on Debian 13.

MB685 went further and proved that a fresh MariaDB database could be created with the real installation tooling and then validated a…

MB685 extends the Debian 13 readiness work started in MB684.

MB684 proved that a clean Debian 13 environment could bootstrap Mediabot dependencies and execute the real fresh configuration path.

MB685 moves one boundary further: it makes CI create and validate a real fresh Mediabot database on …