Require a real raw-table save for same-value channel SETs. This repairs the false acknowledgement after successful constructor recovery of an older backup followed by a failed candidate write.
Keep resolved alias keys, raw AUTO policy and runtime generation untouched. Preserve GET and unchanged contact behavior, changed-policy validation and indeterminate-publication quarantine.
Cover real stale-backup creation, failure/retry, reboot and exact old-skip controls. Add actual alias/BaseChatMesh and raw app-key regression tests on all four backends. Verified 117 related host tests, 16 final caller rechecks, four firmware qualifications and linked nRF52 crypto checks.
Latch only channel storage on Indeterminate writer outcomes, including failed transaction setup. Preserve ordinary failure retries, confirmed rollback, contacts and the live accepted channel keys.
Exercise actual CLI and binary callers with all four storage backends, reboot behavior and exact missing-latch negative controls. Share TX storage failure diagnostics to retain the strict Wio-E5 Mini flash gate.
Verified 103 related host tests, four platform firmware qualifications and linked nRF52 crypto/stack checks. A separate stale-backup constructor/no-op acknowledgement case remains under audit.
Extract the production contact flush, retry and UI shutdown helpers instead of leaving stale fixture-only methods. Keep rollover negative controls and cover volatile contacts, accepted dirty work, authoritative repair and rebuild failures.
Recheck cached immutable paths before resetting the live table after raw I/O failure. Keep accepted RAM mutations, current jobs and save deadlines when reads recover; stronger source or publication uncertainty still forces full recovery. Use the existing recovery byte and a fixed scratch buffer, with no cache allocation or eviction.
Cover full-cache transient recovery, persistent I/O and checksum failures, nRF unread-scope restoration, active ESP jobs, real uncertain publication and unchanged lazy deadlines with sanitizer tests and restored-reset negative controls.
Do not classify legacy or page-name stat errors as unread payloads. Keep candidate contact files unchanged, retry source selection, and use bounded volatile operation if authority remains unknown. Cover legacy absence, downgrade leftovers, cleanup-time metadata recovery and persistent faults with actual-source sanitizer tests and restored-bug negative controls.
Verify fallback namespace moves before accepting publication or rollback. Reload readable contact images at a safe host boundary, discard only unreadable contact data after bounded retries, and permit volatile operation when storage cannot recover. Preserve unrelated stores and fail explicit durability requests truthfully.
Keep existing flash, RAM, OTA and capability limits by streaming nRF52 preferences through the validated wire table and sharing identical contact deadline resets. Add fault-injection, sanitizer, legacy-image parity and CLI lifecycle regressions.
Verify public images after every rename attempt, expose publication outcomes, and use an independent CRC32C fingerprint so valid IEEE-CRC-tailed images cannot mask a stale target. Preserve persistent formats and reject directories for empty images.
Reconcile uncertain migration journals before choosing filesystem authority. Preserve retained contact snapshots when page publication is unconfirmed without clearing dirty state or acknowledging the new page generation.
Add readback, rename, CRC-tail, migration reboot/quarantine, and snapshot eviction regressions. Keep complete RAK Full Companion within the unchanged OTA ceiling through equivalent code compaction, with no feature or validation cuts.
Run DHCP and renewal in a cooperative worker, bound socket commands, and retain SPI ownership until cleanup is safe. Preserve framing deadlines, response ownership and whole-frame replay, including pending-ACK queue pinning.
Budget the worker additively and retain all OTA names with an exact-checked Full-only compact index. Add full-driver, sanitizer, queue, shutdown, storage and memory regression coverage.
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