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FTS probe Unicode errors and state corruption handling

Cluster 98924. Data as of

Nothing open on GitHub. Fix merged in #99513 on 31 Aug 2026. Check it covers your case.

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A fix was merged to main in PR #99513. Check it covers your case. No release data is tracked.
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These issues and PRs concern UnicodeDecodeError failures in the FTS table probe during SessionDB initialization, and related state corruption detection and healing logic including decode errors, zero-byte quarantine races, and CJK edge cases.

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  • #99513 fix(state): corruption detection & heal cluster — 0-byte quarantine race, decode-error probe/heal, CJK never-raises

    merged to main

    files: contributors/emails/[redacted:email], hermes_cli/backup.py, hermes_cli/web_server.py, hermes_state.py, hermes_state_schema.py, tests/hermes_cli/test_web_server.py, tests/test_98924_readonly_fts_decode_error.py, tests/test_fts_update_of_narrowing.py, tests/test_state_db_malformed_repair.py, tests/test_tui_gateway_server.py, tests/test_zeroed_state_db.py, tui_gateway/methods_prompt.py, tui_gateway/server.py

2 PRs closed without merging

From the close comments: merged via another change 2

  • #98935 fix(state): _fts_table_probe catches UnicodeDecodeError (#98924) · merged via another change → #99513, #98948, #98947, #97580
  • #98948 fix(state): decode errors now reach the heal path and fail loud in TUI (residual #98924 surfaces) · merged via another change → #99513, #98935, #98947
Closed issues · 1
  • Closed#98924read-only SessionDB init dies on UnicodeDecodeError inside _fts_table_probe — breaks all non-FTS read paths + TUI silently drops messages
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31 Aug 2026

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