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Commits on Feb 14, 2026

  1. ✨ feat(soft): detect and break stale locks (#476) 

    SoftFileLock leaves orphaned lock files when the holding process
crashes. Other processes then block forever waiting for a lock that
will never be released.

Now the lock file stores the holder's PID and hostname. On contention,
if the holder is on the same host and its PID no longer exists, the
stale lock is atomically renamed away and removed, allowing acquisition
to proceed on the next retry. All detection errors are suppressed to
preserve backward compatibility with empty or foreign lock files.
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    gaborbernat authored Feb 14, 2026
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  2. 🐛 fix(soft): skip stale detection on Windows (#477) 

    Python's _wopen() cannot set FILE_SHARE_DELETE, so any read handle on
the lock file blocks DeleteFileW in _release, causing a livelock under
threaded contention. On Windows EACCES already signals the holder is
alive (fd still open) and EEXIST means the releasing thread will clean
up shortly, so stale detection adds no value there.

Removes the CreateFileW/FILE_SHARE_DELETE read path and the mtime-based
threshold, both of which were insufficient. Stale detection now runs
only on Unix/macOS where unlink succeeds regardless of open handles.
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  3. Release 3.22.0

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    gaborbernat committed Feb 14, 2026
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