Published October 18, 2026 UTC on GitHub and the signed pilot channel (metadata sequence 15). The paired central hub is upgraded. The owner controller is queued; independent hosts receive the signed offer through their saved policy. Each controller waits for all configured rooms on that host to empty naturally. No occupied-room restart was requested by publication. Opt-outs, paused policies and deliberately stopped rooms remain effective. A signed offer, local queue and confirmed activation are separate events.
.stats replies use the familiar concise presentation, without backend/overlap explanations.173 affected checks passed against the frozen runtime; a broader 222-test related regression batch also passed (overlapping cases). Qualification includes protected full-catalog upgrade preservation, root/service-user guards, mixed-version HTTPS checks, complete replica import at the actual CPU limit, shared CPU probes and standalone protected hub startup/shutdown. Source audit has no unresolved findings; installer extraction/checksum/tamper checks passed. Whole-repository discovery, unchanged long gameplay suites and new actual-provider gameplay tests were not repeated.
Use the installer asset from the release, not GitHub's source ZIP. Existing healthy opted-in hosts use their signed updater. Preserve state on an uncertain outcome and use the protected status/support/ownership tools. The release's V7_1_11_OPERATOR_GUIDE.md explains fresh installations, supported predecessors and recovery. Publication does not require a new OAuth sign-in or catalog rebuild.
Runtime SHA256: 9750a3ee044db4aa852c4d3dfecb48838281ad237cad2e96d112983ea4ad8149.
Installer SHA256: 95b88ba3c1a6ca4e54481e7c2b4ae90a0d7aa440d3c7e00c206aef02bcdbbf3f.