Protocol 4 shipped on 2026-08-19 as sidecar v2.0.0 and overlay v1.0.0,
paired in bundle 2026.08.19. Three documents still said 3.
INTEGRATION.md contradicted itself: its event catalog fully documents the
protocol-4 kinds, including a subsection headed "On Protocol 4", while
its normative section 2 still declared X-UOLink-Version: 3, "protocol": 3
in /health and ws.hello, and a worked JS client sending "3". That is the
contract a third-party integrator implements against, so it mattered
most. Section 2 now states the current version and what shipped it, and
gains a v4 paragraph alongside v2 and v3. The "(Protocol 3.0)" markers on
individual features are left alone - those record which version
introduced a kind and are correct.
Two stale examples the audit had not spotted: the --print-config sample
reported version 0.1.0, and the minimal browser client told readers to
check ev.protocol === 1, a leftover from protocol 1.
INSTALL.md is the one that actively misconfigured a real install. Line
413 is the "Protocol version" value an operator pastes into Admin ->
Shard, and the document's own troubleshooting table says a stale number
comes back as a 409 that "looks exactly like your shard going offline".
Corrected along with the stale bundle, overlay and sidecar versions
throughout, including Appendix A's copy-pasteable curl commands, which
pointed at overlay v0.1.1 and sidecar v1.1.0.
v4.md still said the cutover had not happened. It has. Its outstanding-
work note said the five-rung shard visibility walk was "outstanding for
the cutover", which is now self-contradictory - so it says plainly that
the cutover shipped without it and no result is recorded anywhere.
guild.roster carries actor objects for every member of every guild, the
widest surface any protocol version has added to that check, so it is
worth walking against the released pair.
No code or contract changes. Every value verified against the Gitea API:
link main sidecar/src/main.rs PROTOCOL_VERSION, servuo-plugins
overlay.toml, and current.json on the installer bundles branch.
Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
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