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V4A patch corrupts untouched bytes like OSC/BEL

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Nothing open on GitHub. Fix merged in #124334 on 26 Sep 2026. Check it covers your case.

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A fix was merged to main in PR #124334. Check it covers your case. No release data is tracked.
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The maintainers' tracker marks this resolved, deciding PR #120515. That is separate from the fix event.
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A bug was identified where V4A patch operations strip OSC escape sequences and BEL bytes from lines they never modified. The related items address making raw and fenced reads byte-preserving and ensuring both patch modes write back untouched bytes exactly.

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  • #120515 fix(file-ops): both patch modes write back untouched bytes exactly (OSC/BEL, legacy encodings)

    merged to main

    files: tests/tools/test_file_operations.py, tests/tools/test_file_write_safety.py, tests/tools/test_patch_parser.py, tools/file_operations.py, tools/file_operations_common.py, tools/file_operations_lint.py, tools/patch_parser.py

  • #124334 fix(file-ops): keep fenced byte-exact reads usable under xtrace

    merged to main

    files: tests/tools/test_file_write_safety.py, tools/file_operations.py

1 PR closed without merging

From the close comments: superseded by another PR 1

  • #120559 fix(file-ops): make V4A raw reads byte-preserving · superseded by another PR → #120515, #124334, #105277, #105904, #100275
Closed issues · 1
  • Closed#120514[Bug]: a V4A patch deletes OSC escape sequences and BEL bytes from lines it never touched
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1 PR closed without merging
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26 Sep 2026

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