synartesis 0.5.0 → 0.5.1

package/CHANGELOG.md

@@ -2,6 +2,37 @@
 
 What changed, and why it mattered. Dates are release dates.
 
+## 0.5.1 — 2026-09-10
+
+### Changed
+
+- **The journal is back to `synchronous = NORMAL`, reverting 0.5.0.** The
+  argument for FULL was right and the measurement behind it was taken on the
+  wrong machine.
+
+  This proxy commits three times per tool call — the pending row, the snapshot,
+  and the outcome — and under FULL each commit is an fsync that has to reach the
+  platter. On the NVMe it was benchmarked on, that is microseconds, and the
+  change looked free: 0.0246 ms per write against 0.0594. On a CI runner, a
+  container, or anything with networked storage an fsync is tens of
+  milliseconds, and three of them put the proxy's p95 overhead at **132 ms
+  against a 10 ms budget**. CI caught it on the release that shipped it, having
+  been green on every commit before.
+
+  The three commits cannot be collapsed into one: the snapshot has to be durable
+  *before* the call goes out, which is the entire point of taking it. So the
+  cost is structural, and the default returns to the setting whose cost is
+  predictable. `SYNARTESIS_SYNC=full` asks for the fsync where it is cheap or
+  where the tail of the log matters more than latency.
+
+  What is given up is stated plainly: under NORMAL, a crash of the process or of
+  the CLI mid-undo still loses nothing, but the machine losing power can cost
+  the tail of the write-ahead log — and what is at that tail is the record of
+  calls that really happened.
+
+  The performance thresholds that caught this were left exactly where they were.
+  A 10 ms budget that fails at 132 ms is a budget doing its job.
+
 ## 0.5.0 — 2026-09-10
 
 A safety release. Two more races of the same family as 0.4.2's, one structural

package/dist/{chunk-CACV6R74.js → chunk-DRDKIFD3.js}

@@ -340,7 +340,7 @@ function openDatabase(path) {
     db.pragma("foreign_keys = ON");
     db.pragma("busy_timeout = 5000");
     db.pragma(
-      process.env["SYNARTESIS_SYNC"]?.toLowerCase() === "normal" ? "synchronous = NORMAL" : "synchronous = FULL"
+      process.env["SYNARTESIS_SYNC"]?.toLowerCase() === "full" ? "synchronous = FULL" : "synchronous = NORMAL"
     );
     if (path !== ":memory:") {
       restrictToOwner(path);
@@ -1580,4 +1580,4 @@ export {
   observeState,
   connectStdioUpstream
 };
-//# sourceMappingURL=chunk-CACV6R74.js.map
+//# sourceMappingURL=chunk-DRDKIFD3.js.map

package/dist/cli.js

@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ import {
   toResolvedRead,
   verifyAgainstServers,
   wasRefused
-} from "./chunk-CACV6R74.js";
+} from "./chunk-DRDKIFD3.js";
 import {
   DriftConflict,
   ManifestError,

package/dist/proxy.js

@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ import {
   runRead,
   toPayload,
   verifyAgainstServers
-} from "./chunk-CACV6R74.js";
+} from "./chunk-DRDKIFD3.js";
 import {
   SnapshotError,
   UpstreamError,

package/package.json

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "synartesis",
-  "version": "0.5.0",
+  "version": "0.5.1",
   "description": "An undo layer for AI agents.",
   "type": "module",
   "private": false,