test: the patreon ingester tests run phase 3's seen-marking before counting post keys (#4436)

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01LVjrnpQjRgHdvq95rASoiR

alembic/versions/0114_fold_misfiled_attachment_posts.py

@@ -0,0 +1,79 @@
+"""Fold the undated shell posts a misfiled attachment created into the real post.
+
+#4435. A non-image file (an archive, a pdf) downloaded for one of an artist's
+Discord channels was filed under the artist's FIRST Discord source: the
+attachment path looked the source up by (artist, platform), which takes the
+lowest id. That created an undated, url-less post there holding only the
+attachment, and the message's real post record then created the dated post
+under the right source. The importer now uses the source it was downloading
+for; this repairs the pairs it left.
+
+A shell is folded only when all of this holds:
+
+* it has no date and no url, and nothing synthesized it;
+* another post of the same artist, platform and external id HAS a date;
+* no image is linked to the shell (it held an attachment and nothing else).
+
+Its attachments move to the dated post, dropping any the dated post already
+has (same sha256, which the per-post unique forbids twice), and the shell is
+deleted. A shell with no dated twin is left alone: which channel it belongs to
+is not recorded anywhere but the file name. The downgrade does nothing.
+
+Revision ID: 0114
+Revises: 0113
+Create Date: 2026-09-25
+
+"""
+import sqlalchemy as sa
+from alembic import op
+
+revision = "0114"
+down_revision = "0113"
+branch_labels = None
+depends_on = None
+
+_PAIRS = """
+    SELECT DISTINCT ON (shell.id) shell.id AS shell_id, real.id AS real_id
+    FROM post shell
+    JOIN source ss ON ss.id = shell.source_id
+    JOIN post real
+      ON real.artist_id = shell.artist_id
+     AND real.external_post_id = shell.external_post_id
+     AND real.id <> shell.id
+     AND real.post_date IS NOT NULL
+    JOIN source rs ON rs.id = real.source_id AND rs.platform = ss.platform
+    WHERE shell.post_date IS NULL
+      AND shell.post_url IS NULL
+      AND shell.synthesized_by IS NULL
+      AND NOT EXISTS (SELECT 1 FROM image_provenance ip WHERE ip.post_id = shell.id)
+    ORDER BY shell.id, real.id
+"""
+
+
+def fold_misfiled_attachment_posts(conn) -> int:
+    """The data step, on a plain connection, so a test can run it directly.
+    Returns how many shells were folded."""
+    pairs = conn.execute(sa.text(_PAIRS)).all()
+    for shell_id, real_id in pairs:
+        conn.execute(sa.text("""
+            DELETE FROM post_attachment pa
+            WHERE pa.post_id = :shell
+              AND EXISTS (
+                SELECT 1 FROM post_attachment keep
+                WHERE keep.post_id = :real AND keep.sha256 = pa.sha256
+              )
+        """), {"shell": shell_id, "real": real_id})
+        conn.execute(
+            sa.text("UPDATE post_attachment SET post_id = :real WHERE post_id = :shell"),
+            {"shell": shell_id, "real": real_id},
+        )
+        conn.execute(sa.text("DELETE FROM post WHERE id = :shell"), {"shell": shell_id})
+    return len(pairs)
+
+
+def upgrade() -> None:
+    fold_misfiled_attachment_posts(op.get_bind())
+
+
+def downgrade() -> None:
+    pass

backend/app/celery_app.py

@@ -69,6 +69,8 @@ def make_celery() -> Celery:
             # up behind it (2026-09-24: 7 waiting, "all workers busy for 18
             # minutes"). An exact name wins over the glob above.
             "backend.app.tasks.maintenance.backfill_phash": {"queue": "maintenance_long"},
+            # Walks a folder tree per artist with undated posts (#4436).
+            "backend.app.tasks.maintenance.date_posts_from_records": {"queue": "maintenance_long"},
             "backend.app.tasks.backup.*": {"queue": "maintenance_long"},
             "backend.app.tasks.admin.*": {"queue": "maintenance_long"},
             "backend.app.tasks.library_audit.*": {"queue": "maintenance_long"},
@@ -156,6 +158,11 @@ def make_celery() -> Celery:
                 "schedule": 86400.0,  # daily — sweep .part/.partial left by a
                 # download/import killed mid-write (graceful-shutdown fallout)
             },
+            "date-posts-from-records-hourly": {
+                "task": "backend.app.tasks.maintenance.date_posts_from_records",
+                "schedule": 3600.0,  # an empty query once every native post is
+                # dated; otherwise upserts the _post.json a killed walk left (#4436)
+            },
             "backfill-phash-daily": {
                 "task": "backend.app.tasks.maintenance.backfill_phash",
                 "schedule": 86400.0,  # daily — NULL-only, so a no-op once the

backend/app/celery_signals.py

@@ -23,7 +23,13 @@ import logging
 from datetime import UTC, datetime
 
 from celery.exceptions import SoftTimeLimitExceeded
-from celery.signals import task_failure, task_postrun, task_prerun, task_retry
+from celery.signals import (
+    task_failure,
+    task_postrun,
+    task_prerun,
+    task_retry,
+    worker_ready,
+)
 
 from .models import TaskRun
 from .tasks._sync_engine import sync_session_factory
@@ -213,3 +219,43 @@ def _on_retry(sender=None, request=None, reason=None, einfo=None, **_):
         error_message=str(reason) if reason else None,
         retry_count=getattr(request, "retries", 0),
     )
+
+
+def _consumed_queues(consumer) -> set[str]:
+    """The queue names this worker process consumes (its `-Q`), or empty when
+    they can't be read — which makes the boot hook below a no-op, not a guess."""
+    try:
+        return {q.name for q in consumer.task_consumer.queues}
+    except Exception:  # noqa: BLE001 — shape varies across celery versions
+        return set()
+
+
+@worker_ready.connect
+def _on_worker_ready(sender=None, **_):
+    """The download lane clears what its previous process left behind (#4433).
+
+    A restart SIGKILLs any walk that outlives the stop grace, so its event is
+    never finalized and its platform lock is never released. Both used to wait
+    out timers — a 30-min stall sweep that then blamed the source, and a 27-min
+    lock TTL that stalled every other source on the platform. Only the process
+    consuming `download` does this; the other lanes booting beside it must not.
+    Best-effort: a failure here is logged and the worker still starts.
+    """
+    if "download" not in _consumed_queues(sender):
+        return
+    booted_at = datetime.now(UTC)
+    try:
+        from .services.download_recovery import interrupt_orphaned_download_events
+        from .services.platform_lock import release_all_platform_locks
+
+        with sync_session_factory()() as session:
+            closed = interrupt_orphaned_download_events(session, booted_at=booted_at)
+            session.commit()
+        released = release_all_platform_locks()
+        if closed or released:
+            log.info(
+                "download lane boot: closed %d orphaned download event(s) as "
+                "interrupted, released %d platform lock(s)", closed, released,
+            )
+    except Exception:  # noqa: BLE001 — never block the worker from starting
+        log.exception("download lane boot recovery failed")

backend/app/services/download_recovery.py

@@ -0,0 +1,57 @@
+"""Closing the download runs a worker restart orphaned (#4433).
+
+Its own module, importing nothing but the model, because its caller is the
+worker boot hook in `celery_signals` — which every download task imports via
+`celery_app`. Living in `tasks.maintenance` put the whole maintenance import
+graph, the membership roster included, on the fetch path, which
+`test_gated_reason` forbids.
+"""
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+from datetime import UTC, datetime
+
+from sqlalchemy import literal, update
+from sqlalchemy.dialects.postgresql import JSONB
+
+from ..models import DownloadEvent
+
+DOWNLOAD_INTERRUPTED_MESSAGE = (
+    "interrupted by a worker restart — the next check picks it up where it left off"
+)
+
+
+def interrupt_orphaned_download_events(session, *, booted_at: datetime) -> int:
+    """Close the download events a restart orphaned, without blaming the source.
+
+    Called when the download lane comes up (#4433). Anything still
+    pending/running from before this boot belongs to the previous process:
+    a walk that outlived the 90s stop grace was SIGKILLed, and a queued or
+    serialize-deferred task is held unacked until Redis redelivers it about an
+    hour later. Left alone, the 30-min stall sweep would error each one and
+    bump `consecutive_failures`, backing the source off as if the platform had
+    failed.
+
+    Instead they end as `skipped` (terminal, not a failure) and the source is
+    not touched: `last_checked_at` keeps its old value, so the next tick finds
+    it due and the walk resumes from its checkpoint. A redelivered message
+    that arrives later finds no pending event and opens a fresh one.
+
+    An event promoted to running after the boot has `started_at` reset to its
+    real start (download_service), so it is never caught here. Does NOT commit.
+    """
+    now = datetime.now(UTC)
+    result = session.execute(
+        update(DownloadEvent)
+        .where(DownloadEvent.status.in_(["pending", "running"]))
+        .where(DownloadEvent.started_at < booted_at)
+        .values(
+            status="skipped",
+            finished_at=now,
+            error=DOWNLOAD_INTERRUPTED_MESSAGE,
+            metadata_=DownloadEvent.metadata_.op("||")(
+                literal({"error_type": "interrupted"}, JSONB)
+            ),
+        )
+        .returning(DownloadEvent.id)
+    )
+    return len(result.all())

backend/app/services/importer.py

@@ -426,11 +426,19 @@ class Importer:
         return self._upsert_artist(name) if name else None
 
     def _post_for_sidecar(
-        self, source: Path, artist: Artist | None
+        self, source: Path, artist: Artist | None,
+        *, source_row: Source | None = None,
     ) -> Post | None:
         """If a sidecar sits next to `source`, ensure its Source+Post
         exist (idempotent) and return the Post — so attachments can link
-        to the same Post the per-member _apply_sidecar will reuse."""
+        to the same Post the per-member _apply_sidecar will reuse.
+
+        `source_row` is the subscription being downloaded, when there is one,
+        and wins over the (artist, platform) lookup — as it does in
+        `upsert_post_record`. The lookup takes the artist's FIRST source on the
+        platform, which is right only while an artist has one: a Discord artist
+        has one per channel, and every non-image file from a later channel was
+        filed under the first as an undated second post (#4435)."""
         sc = find_sidecar(source)
         if sc is None or artist is None:
             return None
@@ -442,6 +450,9 @@ class Importer:
             log.warning("sidecar parse failed for %s: %s", sc, exc)
             return None
         sd = parse_sidecar(data)
+        if source_row is not None:
+            src = source_row
+        else:
             platform = sd.platform or "unknown"
             src = self._lookup_source_for_sidecar(
                 artist_id=artist.id, platform=platform,
@@ -543,7 +554,7 @@ class Importer:
             # nothing silently vanishes, matching extract_archive's
             # fail-soft contract.
             artist_use = artist if artist is not None else self._resolve_artist(source)
-            post = self._post_for_sidecar(source, artist_use)
+            post = self._post_for_sidecar(source, artist_use, source_row=source_row)
             self._capture_attachment(
                 source, post=post, artist=artist_use, resolved=True,
             )
@@ -552,7 +563,7 @@ class Importer:
             return ImportResult(status="attached", error=reason)
 
         artist_use = artist if artist is not None else self._resolve_artist(source)
-        post = self._post_for_sidecar(source, artist_use)
+        post = self._post_for_sidecar(source, artist_use, source_row=source_row)
         member_ids: list[int] = []
         # Every member image touched (new + superseded + deduped), so the
         # from_attachment_id stamp below covers files that already existed in the
@@ -1218,7 +1229,10 @@ class Importer:
                 path, artist=artist, source_row=source,
             )
         if not is_supported(path):
-            post = self._post_for_sidecar(path, artist) if artist else None
+            post = (
+                self._post_for_sidecar(path, artist, source_row=source)
+                if artist else None
+            )
             return self._capture_attachment(
                 path, post=post, artist=artist, resolved=True,
             )

backend/app/services/ingest_core.py

@@ -289,6 +289,11 @@ class Ingester:
         # Media handed to phase 3 for import. Marked seen by phase 3 once the
         # import has run (`mark_seen_after_import`), not here — see there.
         fetched: list[tuple[str, str]] = []
+        # Post-record keys written this walk. Marked with the media, after
+        # phase 3 has upserted the records — marking them at write time left a
+        # walk killed before phase 3 with posts the ledger calls recorded that
+        # the database never dated, and no later tick walks back to them (#4436).
+        recorded: list[tuple[str, str]] = []
         downloaded = 0
         errors = 0
         quarantined = 0
@@ -342,7 +347,9 @@ class Ingester:
                 written_paths=written,
                 post_record_paths=list(post_records),
                 relink_source_paths=list(relink),
-                mark_seen_after_import=lambda: self._mark_seen(source_id, fetched),
+                mark_seen_after_import=lambda: self._mark_seen(
+                    source_id, fetched + recorded,
+                ),
                 stdout="\n".join(log_lines),
                 stderr="",
                 return_code=return_code,
@@ -511,7 +518,7 @@ class Ingester:
                                     posts_with_body += 1
                             if rec.path is not None:
                                 post_records.append(str(rec.path))
-                                self._mark_seen(source_id, [(pkey, ppid)])
+                                recorded.append((pkey, ppid))
                             # Per-post handling line in the run stdout (the existing
                             # "Raw stdout" panel) — the downloader already read the
                             # post; we only format its outcome here. post_type beside

backend/app/services/platform_lock.py

@@ -60,3 +60,22 @@ def platform_lock(platform: str, *, ttl_seconds: int):
     except redis.RedisError as exc:  # pragma: no cover - broker outage
         log.warning("platform_lock unavailable for %s: %s", platform, exc)
         return None
+
+
+def release_all_platform_locks() -> int:
+    """Drop every serialized platform's lock. Returns how many were held.
+
+    Only for the download lane's boot (#4433). A worker that restarts mid-walk
+    is SIGKILLed past its stop grace, so its `finally` never releases the lock,
+    and the TTL keeps every other source on that platform bouncing for up to
+    27 minutes after the new worker is ready. At boot no walk of ours can be
+    running, so a held lock names a dead one. Assumes one download consumer —
+    the only shape FC deploys; a second replica booting would free a live
+    walk's lock (not corrupt it: the walk runs on, a second walk may overlap it).
+    """
+    try:
+        client = _redis()
+        return int(client.delete(*(f"{_LOCK_PREFIX}{p}" for p in SERIALIZED_PLATFORMS)))
+    except redis.RedisError as exc:  # pragma: no cover - broker outage
+        log.warning("could not release platform locks at boot: %s", exc)
+        return 0

backend/app/services/post_record_repair.py

@@ -0,0 +1,86 @@
+"""Date the posts whose record reached the disk but never the database (#4436).
+
+A native walk writes each post's record (`_post.json`, or Discord's
+`<day>_<message id>_post.json`) as it goes, and phase 3 upserts those records
+after the walk — which is when the post, and through it its images, get their
+date. Until #4436 the walk marked a record's post key seen at write time, so a
+walk killed before phase 3 (a restart, a stall) left the post undated with the
+ledger saying it was done, and no later tick walked back that far to fix it.
+
+The record files are still on disk. This finds each undated native post's
+record under its artist's folder and upserts it with the post's OWN source —
+never the (artist, platform) lookup, which picks the artist's first source and
+would misfile a Discord channel's post (#4435). Idempotent: a post that is
+already dated is never looked at, and upserting a record twice changes nothing.
+"""
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+import logging
+from collections import defaultdict
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from sqlalchemy import select
+from sqlalchemy.orm import Session
+
+from ..models import Artist, Post, Source
+from ..utils.sidecar import parse_sidecar
+from .download_backends import NATIVE_INGESTER_PLATFORMS
+
+log = logging.getLogger(__name__)
+
+
+def _is_record(path: Path) -> bool:
+    return path.name == "_post.json" or path.name.endswith("_post.json")
+
+
+def _record_id(path: Path) -> str | None:
+    try:
+        data = json.loads(path.read_text("utf-8"))
+    except (OSError, ValueError):
+        return None
+    if not isinstance(data, dict):
+        return None
+    return parse_sidecar(data).external_post_id
+
+
+def date_posts_from_records(session: Session, importer, images_root: Path) -> dict:
+    """Upsert the on-disk record of every undated native post. Returns counts."""
+    rows = session.execute(
+        select(Post.external_post_id, Post.source_id, Post.artist_id, Source.platform)
+        .join(Source, Source.id == Post.source_id)
+        .where(
+            Post.post_date.is_(None),
+            Post.synthesized_by.is_(None),
+            Source.platform.in_(NATIVE_INGESTER_PLATFORMS),
+        )
+    ).all()
+    wanted: dict[tuple[int, str], dict[str, int]] = defaultdict(dict)
+    for epid, source_id, artist_id, platform in rows:
+        wanted[(artist_id, platform)][epid] = source_id
+
+    summary = {"undated": len(rows), "dated": 0, "no_record": 0}
+    for (artist_id, platform), by_epid in wanted.items():
+        artist = session.get(Artist, artist_id)
+        root = Path(images_root) / artist.slug / platform if artist else None
+        if root is None or not root.is_dir():
+            summary["no_record"] += len(by_epid)
+            continue
+        found = 0
+        for record in root.rglob("*post.json"):
+            if not _is_record(record):
+                continue
+            epid = _record_id(record)
+            source_id = by_epid.pop(epid, None) if epid else None
+            if source_id is None:
+                continue
+            source = session.get(Source, source_id)
+            if importer.upsert_post_record(record, artist=artist, source=source):
+                found += 1
+            if not by_epid:
+                break
+        summary["dated"] += found
+        summary["no_record"] += len(by_epid)
+    if summary["undated"]:
+        log.info("date_posts_from_records: %s", summary)
+    return summary

backend/app/tasks/maintenance.py

@@ -731,6 +731,32 @@ def recover_stalled_download_events() -> int:
         return events_recovered
 
 
+@celery.task(
+    name="backend.app.tasks.maintenance.date_posts_from_records",
+    soft_time_limit=1500,
+    time_limit=1800,
+)
+def date_posts_from_records() -> dict:
+    """Date undated native posts from the records their walk left on disk
+    (#4436). Hourly and self-limiting: once every post is dated it is one
+    empty query."""
+    from ..services.importer import Importer
+    from ..services.post_record_repair import date_posts_from_records as _repair
+    from ..services.thumbnailer import Thumbnailer
+
+    images_root = IMAGES_ROOT
+    SessionLocal = _sync_session_factory()
+    with SessionLocal() as session:
+        importer = Importer(
+            session=session,
+            images_root=images_root,
+            import_root=images_root,
+            thumbnailer=Thumbnailer(images_root=images_root),
+            settings=ImportSettings.load_sync(session),
+        )
+        return _repair(session, importer, images_root)
+
+
 @celery.task(name="backend.app.tasks.maintenance.recover_stalled_backup_runs")
 def recover_stalled_backup_runs() -> int:
     """Flip BackupRun rows stuck in running/restoring past the hard limit

scripts/release_notes.py

@@ -210,8 +210,8 @@ def render(
         )
 
     parts.append(
-        f"Built from `{short}`. The rollback unit is the immutable `:c-` tag "
+        f"Built from `{short}`. To roll back to this release, pull these "
-        f"(rule 145) — these three move together:\n\n```\n"
+        f"immutable `:c-` tags — the images move together:\n\n```\n"
         + "\n".join(f"{image}:c-{short}" for image in IMAGES)
         + "\n```"
     )
@@ -221,10 +221,10 @@ def render(
         # truncated to MAX_COMMITS, which is 200 lines of internal build-out
         # presented to someone who has never seen this project.
         parts.append(
-            "---\n\n_First release under rule 148's `vYYYY.MM.DD.HHMM` shape, so "
+            "---\n\n_The first release, so there is no earlier one to diff "
-            "there is no predecessor to diff against and no changelog to derive. "
+            "against and no changelog to derive. The description above is "
-            "The description above is README.md's, quoted at publish time. Later "
+            "README.md's, quoted at publish time. Later releases carry the "
-            "releases carry the commits since the previous one._"
+            "commits since the previous one._"
         )
         return "\n\n".join(parts)
 
@@ -257,8 +257,8 @@ def cross_checks(tag: str, sha: str) -> list[str]:
 
     if not RULE_148.match(tag):
         notes.append(
-            f"`{tag}` is not rule 148's `vYYYY.MM.DD.HHMM` shape. Published "
+            f"`{tag}` is not the `vYYYY.MM.DD.HHMM` release-tag shape. "
-            f"anyway — the old `v26.*` tags predate the rule."
+            f"Published anyway — the old `v26.*` tags predate it."
         )
     else:
         derived = artifact_version("web")

tests/test_celery_routing.py

@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@ def test_quick_maintenance_stays_on_maintenance():
     ("backend.app.tasks.translation.translate_posts", "maintenance_long"),
     ("backend.app.tasks.gpu_queue.enqueue_gpu_backfill", "maintenance"),
     ("backend.app.tasks.maintenance.backfill_phash", "maintenance_long"),
+    ("backend.app.tasks.maintenance.date_posts_from_records", "maintenance_long"),
     ("backend.app.tasks.admin.normalize_tags_task", "maintenance_long"),
     ("backend.app.tasks.backup.backup_db_task", "maintenance_long"),
     ("backend.app.tasks.maintenance.vacuum_analyze", "maintenance"),

tests/test_download_lane_boot.py

@@ -0,0 +1,71 @@
+"""#4433: only the process consuming `download` clears a restart's leftovers.
+
+The consolidated container boots four lanes side by side. If the scheduler or
+ml lane ran this too, a lane restarting on its own (supervisord restarts a
+crashed program) would close the events of walks that are still running.
+"""
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+from types import SimpleNamespace
+
+import pytest
+
+from backend.app import celery_signals
+
+
+def _consumer(*queues: str):
+    return SimpleNamespace(
+        task_consumer=SimpleNamespace(queues=[SimpleNamespace(name=q) for q in queues])
+    )
+
+
+@pytest.fixture
+def calls(monkeypatch):
+    seen: list[str] = []
+
+    class _Session:
+        def __enter__(self):
+            return self
+
+        def __exit__(self, *exc):
+            return False
+
+        def commit(self):
+            seen.append("commit")
+
+    monkeypatch.setattr(celery_signals, "sync_session_factory", lambda: _Session)
+    monkeypatch.setattr(
+        "backend.app.services.download_recovery.interrupt_orphaned_download_events",
+        lambda session, *, booted_at: seen.append("interrupt") or 0,
+    )
+    monkeypatch.setattr(
+        "backend.app.services.platform_lock.release_all_platform_locks",
+        lambda: seen.append("release") or 0,
+    )
+    return seen
+
+
+def test_the_download_lane_clears_orphans_and_locks(calls):
+    celery_signals._on_worker_ready(sender=_consumer("default", "download", "import"))
+    assert calls == ["interrupt", "commit", "release"]
+
+
+@pytest.mark.parametrize("queues", [("maintenance", "scan"), ("ml",), ("maintenance_long",)])
+def test_other_lanes_leave_downloads_alone(calls, queues):
+    celery_signals._on_worker_ready(sender=_consumer(*queues))
+    assert calls == []
+
+
+def test_unreadable_queues_do_nothing_rather_than_guess(calls):
+    celery_signals._on_worker_ready(sender=SimpleNamespace())
+    assert calls == []
+
+
+def test_a_failure_does_not_stop_the_worker_starting(monkeypatch, calls):
+    def boom(session, *, booted_at):
+        raise RuntimeError("db down")
+
+    monkeypatch.setattr(
+        "backend.app.services.download_recovery.interrupt_orphaned_download_events", boom
+    )
+    celery_signals._on_worker_ready(sender=_consumer("download"))  # must not raise

tests/test_fold_misfiled_attachment_posts_migration.py

@@ -0,0 +1,106 @@
+"""Migration 0114 (#4435): the undated shell post a misfiled attachment made on
+the artist's first Discord source is folded into the real, dated post."""
+import importlib.util
+from datetime import UTC, datetime
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import pytest
+from sqlalchemy import select
+
+from backend.app.models import (
+    Artist,
+    ImageProvenance,
+    Post,
+    PostAttachment,
+    Source,
+)
+from tests.factories import make_image as _img
+
+pytestmark = pytest.mark.integration
+
+_MIGRATION = (
+    Path(__file__).resolve().parents[1]
+    / "alembic" / "versions" / "0114_fold_misfiled_attachment_posts.py"
+)
+
+
+def _fold():
+    spec = importlib.util.spec_from_file_location("m0114", _MIGRATION)
+    mod = importlib.util.module_from_spec(spec)
+    spec.loader.exec_module(mod)
+    return mod.fold_misfiled_attachment_posts
+
+
+def _source(db, artist, channel):
+    s = Source(
+        artist_id=artist.id, platform="discord",
+        url=f"https://discord.com/channels/1/{channel}",
+    )
+    db.add(s)
+    db.flush()
+    return s
+
+
+def _post(db, artist, source, epid, when=None):
+    p = Post(
+        artist_id=artist.id, source_id=source.id, external_post_id=epid,
+        post_date=when,
+        post_url=f"https://discord.com/channels/1/x/{epid}" if when else None,
+    )
+    db.add(p)
+    db.flush()
+    return p
+
+
+def _attach(db, post, sha, name):
+    db.add(PostAttachment(
+        post_id=post.id, artist_id=post.artist_id, sha256=sha,
+        path=f"/att/{sha}", original_filename=name, ext=".rar", size_bytes=1,
+    ))
+    db.flush()
+
+
+def test_shells_fold_into_their_dated_twin_and_nothing_else_moves(db_sync):
+    sent = datetime(2024, 12, 26, 1, 42, tzinfo=UTC)
+    artist = Artist(name="Yellow", slug="yellow")
+    db_sync.add(artist)
+    db_sync.flush()
+    first = _source(db_sync, artist, 100)
+    second = _source(db_sync, artist, 200)
+
+    # The #4435 shape: shell on the first source, real post on the second.
+    shell = _post(db_sync, artist, first, "555")
+    real = _post(db_sync, artist, second, "555", sent)
+    _attach(db_sync, shell, "a" * 64, "pack.rar")
+    # A shell whose attachment the real post already has: dropped, not doubled.
+    shell2 = _post(db_sync, artist, first, "556")
+    real2 = _post(db_sync, artist, second, "556", sent)
+    _attach(db_sync, shell2, "b" * 64, "same.rar")
+    _attach(db_sync, real2, "b" * 64, "same.rar")
+    # Left alone: no dated twin, and an undated post that holds an image.
+    lonely = _post(db_sync, artist, first, "557")
+    _attach(db_sync, lonely, "c" * 64, "lonely.rar")
+    with_image = _post(db_sync, artist, first, "558")
+    _post(db_sync, artist, second, "558", sent)
+    img = _img(db_sync, "d" * 64)
+    db_sync.add(ImageProvenance(image_record_id=img.id, post_id=with_image.id))
+    db_sync.flush()
+    shell_id, shell2_id = shell.id, shell2.id
+
+    folded = _fold()(db_sync.connection())
+    db_sync.expire_all()
+
+    assert folded == 2
+    assert db_sync.get(Post, shell_id) is None
+    assert db_sync.get(Post, shell2_id) is None
+    owners = dict(db_sync.execute(
+        select(PostAttachment.original_filename, PostAttachment.post_id)
+    ).all())
+    assert owners["pack.rar"] == real.id
+    assert owners["lonely.rar"] == lonely.id
+    kept = db_sync.execute(
+        select(PostAttachment.id).where(PostAttachment.post_id == real2.id)
+    ).scalars().all()
+    assert len(kept) == 1
+    assert db_sync.get(Post, lonely.id) is not None
+    assert db_sync.get(Post, with_image.id) is not None

tests/test_importer_attach_in_place.py

@@ -435,3 +435,48 @@ def test_attach_in_place_non_media_routes_to_attachment(importer, db_sync):
     ).scalar_one()
     assert row.ext == ".txt"
     assert row.artist_id == artist.id
+
+
+def test_a_non_media_file_lands_on_the_source_being_downloaded(importer, db_sync):
+    """#4435: a Discord artist has one source per channel. A non-media file
+    downloaded for the SECOND channel was filed under the artist's first
+    Discord source (the (artist, platform) lookup takes the lowest id), as an
+    undated shell post; the real post record then made a second post under
+    the right source. The attachment must follow the source it was fetched for."""
+    from backend.app.models import Post, PostAttachment, Source
+
+    images_root = importer.images_root
+    artist = Artist(name="Yara", slug="yara")
+    db_sync.add(artist)
+    db_sync.flush()
+    first = Source(
+        artist_id=artist.id, platform="discord",
+        url="https://discord.com/channels/1/100",
+    )
+    second = Source(
+        artist_id=artist.id, platform="discord",
+        url="https://discord.com/channels/1/200",
+    )
+    db_sync.add_all([first, second])
+    db_sync.flush()
+
+    rar = images_root / "yara" / "discord" / "rewards" / "20241226_555_01_pack.rar"
+    rar.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    rar.write_bytes(b"not a real archive, so it is kept as an attachment")
+    rar.with_suffix(rar.suffix + ".json").write_text(
+        '{"category": "discord", "id": "555", "message_id": "555"}'
+    )
+
+    result = importer.attach_in_place(rar, artist=artist, source=second)
+    assert result.status == "attached"
+
+    owner = db_sync.execute(
+        select(Post.source_id, Post.external_post_id)
+        .join(PostAttachment, PostAttachment.post_id == Post.id)
+        .where(PostAttachment.original_filename == rar.name)
+    ).one()
+    assert owner.source_id == second.id
+    assert owner.external_post_id == "555"
+    assert db_sync.execute(
+        select(func.count()).select_from(Post).where(Post.source_id == first.id)
+    ).scalar_one() == 0

tests/test_maintenance.py

@@ -718,6 +718,57 @@ def test_recover_stalled_download_skips_fresh(db_sync):
     assert failures == 0
 
 
+def test_download_lane_boot_closes_pre_boot_events_without_blaming_the_source(db_sync):
+    """#4433: a restart SIGKILLs a walk past its stop grace and strands queued
+    ones. At the download lane's boot, everything pending/running from before
+    it ends as `skipped`/interrupted — and the source is left as it was, so it
+    is due on the next tick instead of backed off as a failure."""
+    from sqlalchemy import select
+
+    from backend.app.models import DownloadEvent, Source
+    from backend.app.services.download_recovery import (
+        DOWNLOAD_INTERRUPTED_MESSAGE,
+        interrupt_orphaned_download_events,
+    )
+
+    sid = _make_source(db_sync, slug="rebooted")
+    booted_at = datetime.now(UTC)
+    before = booted_at - timedelta(minutes=5)
+    walking = DownloadEvent(
+        source_id=sid, status="running", started_at=before,
+        metadata_={"live": {"downloaded": 3}},
+    )
+    queued = DownloadEvent(source_id=sid, status="pending", started_at=before)
+    finished = DownloadEvent(source_id=sid, status="ok", started_at=before)
+    # Promoted to running after the boot: download_service resets started_at.
+    fresh = DownloadEvent(
+        source_id=sid, status="running", started_at=booted_at + timedelta(seconds=5),
+    )
+    db_sync.add_all([walking, queued, finished, fresh])
+    db_sync.commit()
+
+    closed = interrupt_orphaned_download_events(db_sync, booted_at=booted_at)
+    db_sync.commit()
+
+    assert closed == 2
+    db_sync.expire_all()
+    for ev in (walking, queued):
+        assert ev.status == "skipped"
+        assert ev.error == DOWNLOAD_INTERRUPTED_MESSAGE
+        assert ev.finished_at is not None
+        assert ev.metadata_["error_type"] == "interrupted"
+    assert walking.metadata_["live"] == {"downloaded": 3}
+    assert finished.status == "ok"
+    assert fresh.status == "running"
+    src = db_sync.execute(
+        select(Source.consecutive_failures, Source.last_error, Source.last_checked_at)
+        .where(Source.id == sid)
+    ).one()
+    assert src.consecutive_failures == 0
+    assert src.last_error is None
+    assert src.last_checked_at is None
+
+
 def test_recover_stalled_download_flips_stale_pending(db_sync):
     """A 2-hour-old pending event flips to error AND the source is bumped
     (consecutive_failures, last_error, last_checked_at) so the next scan

tests/test_patreon_ingester.py

@@ -239,8 +239,8 @@ async def test_tick_downloads_unseen_and_marks_seen(source_id, sync_engine, tmp_
     # plan #704: structured run_stats carry the real counts.
     assert result.run_stats["downloaded_count"] == 2
     assert result.posts_processed == 1
-    # The media wait for phase 3 to import them; only the post key is in yet.
+    # The media and the post record both wait for phase 3 to import them (#4436).
-    assert _count_ledger(sync_engine, source_id) == 1
+    assert _count_ledger(sync_engine, source_id) == 0
     result.mark_seen_after_import()
     # 2 media keys + 1 synthetic post key (body/links recaptured per post).
     assert _count_ledger(sync_engine, source_id) == 3
@@ -648,8 +648,10 @@ async def test_recovery_tier2_disk_still_skips(source_id, sync_engine, tmp_path)
     assert result.files_downloaded == 0
     assert downloader.download_calls == 0
     assert result.written_paths == []
-    # Disk-skip reconciles the media key + the synthetic post key (recovery
+    # Disk-skip reconciles the media key at once; the synthetic post key
-    # recaptures the body/links per post) = 2.
+    # (recovery recaptures the body/links per post) waits for phase 3 (#4436).
+    assert _count_ledger(sync_engine, source_id) == 1
+    result.mark_seen_after_import()
     assert _count_ledger(sync_engine, source_id) == 2
 
 
@@ -943,8 +945,10 @@ async def test_a_run_that_dies_before_import_leaves_its_media_unmarked(
                     _FakeDownloader(tmp_path))
     ing.run(source_id=source_id, campaign_id="c1", artist_slug="ingest",
             url="https://patreon.com/ingest", mode="tick")
-    # Phase 3 never ran, so `mark_seen_after_import` never did: only the post key.
+    # Phase 3 never ran, so `mark_seen_after_import` never did: neither the
-    assert _count_ledger(sync_engine, source_id) == 1
+    # media nor the post record is marked (#4436 — the record, marked at write
+    # time, left the post undated for good once the run died before phase 3).
+    assert _count_ledger(sync_engine, source_id) == 0
 
     # The next walk finds the file on disk with no record, and imports it.
     ing2 = _ingester(sync_engine, tmp_path, _FakeClient([(None, [("p1", [m1])])]),
@@ -954,6 +958,7 @@ async def test_a_run_that_dies_before_import_leaves_its_media_unmarked(
     assert result.written_paths == [str(tmp_path / "p1_1.jpg")]
     assert result.files_downloaded == 0          # not fetched again
     assert "on disk but never imported: p1_1.jpg" in result.stdout
+    assert len(result.post_record_paths) == 1    # the record is written again
     result.mark_seen_after_import()
     assert _count_ledger(sync_engine, source_id) == 2
 
@@ -1200,7 +1205,10 @@ async def test_tick_captures_media_less_post_once(source_id, sync_engine, tmp_pa
     assert result.success is True
     assert len(result.post_record_paths) == 1
     assert downloader.post_records == 1
-    # The synthetic `post:ptext` key was marked seen (gates re-capture).
+    # The synthetic `post:ptext` key is marked once phase 3 has upserted the
+    # record (#4436), and then gates re-capture.
+    assert _count_ledger(sync_engine, source_id) == 0
+    result.mark_seen_after_import()
     assert _count_ledger(sync_engine, source_id) == 1
 
     # Second walk: already recorded → gated, no re-write, no new ledger row.
@@ -1540,6 +1548,7 @@ async def test_revisits_do_not_feed_the_body_drift_canary(
         url="https://patreon.com/ingest", mode="tick", revisit_days=30,
     )
     assert first.success is True
+    first.mark_seen_after_import()  # phase 3 ran
 
     # Second walk: every post is a revisit, and every body comes back empty.
     client2 = _FakeClient([(None, posts)], published=published, empty_body=True)

tests/test_release_notes.py

@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ re-implementation of it.
 """
 from __future__ import annotations
 
+import re
 import subprocess
 from pathlib import Path
 
@@ -162,6 +163,15 @@ def test_the_first_release_describes_the_product_instead_of_diffing(shaped_histo
     assert not [ln for ln in body.split("\n") if ln.startswith("- work landing")]
 
 
+@pytest.mark.parametrize("tag", ["v2026.08.28.2208", "v2026.08.29.1000"])
+def test_the_release_page_cites_no_internal_rule_numbers(shaped_history, tag):
+    """The release page is read by strangers. "rule 145" names a record in the
+    operator's own notes, which a reader cannot open — say what the rule means
+    instead. Covers the first-release overview and the changelog body."""
+    body = body_of(notes(tag, cwd=shaped_history))
+    assert not re.search(r"\brule\s+\d+", body, re.IGNORECASE), body
+
+
 def test_the_overview_is_readmes_words_not_a_second_copy(shaped_history):
     """Two hand-maintained descriptions of one product drift and nothing
     catches it. The release page quotes README.md so there is one source."""

tests/test_sidecar_import.py

@@ -415,3 +415,51 @@ def test_post_record_redates_images_linked_before_it(importer, import_layout):
     assert post.post_date != download_time
     assert rec.effective_date == post.post_date
     assert rec.earliest_post_date == post.post_date
+
+
+def test_an_undated_post_is_dated_from_the_record_its_walk_left_on_disk(
+    importer, import_layout,
+):
+    """#4436: a walk killed before phase 3 wrote the message's record to disk
+    but never upserted it, and marked it seen, so no later tick fixed it. The
+    repair finds the record under the artist's folder and dates the post — and
+    its images — under the post's own source."""
+    from backend.app.services.post_record_repair import date_posts_from_records
+
+    import_root, images_root = import_layout
+    artist = Artist(name="Alice", slug="alice")
+    importer.session.add(artist)
+    importer.session.flush()
+    importer.session.add(Source(
+        artist_id=artist.id, platform="discord",
+        url="https://discord.com/channels/1/100",
+    ))
+    importer.session.flush()
+    m = import_root / "Alice" / "20240301_123_01_art.jpg"
+    _split(m, "v")
+    _sidecar(m, {"category": "discord", "message_id": "123"})
+    r = importer.import_one(m)
+    assert r.status == "imported"
+    post = importer.session.execute(select(Post)).scalar_one()
+    assert post.post_date is None and post.source_id is not None
+
+    channel = images_root / "alice" / "discord" / "rewards"
+    channel.mkdir(parents=True)
+    (channel / "20240301_123_post.json").write_text(json.dumps({
+        "category": "discord", "message_id": "123", "message": "",
+        "date": "2024-03-01T18:30:00.000000+00:00",
+    }))
+    (channel / "20240301_999_post.json").write_text("not json")  # skipped, not fatal
+
+    summary = date_posts_from_records(importer.session, importer, images_root)
+
+    assert summary == {"undated": 1, "dated": 1, "no_record": 0}
+    importer.session.expire_all()
+    post = importer.session.execute(select(Post)).scalar_one()
+    rec = importer.session.get(ImageRecord, r.image_id)
+    assert post.post_date is not None
+    assert rec.earliest_post_date == post.post_date
+    # Nothing left undated: the next sweep is an empty query.
+    assert date_posts_from_records(importer.session, importer, images_root) == {
+        "undated": 0, "dated": 0, "no_record": 0,
+    }