fix(net): keep a lite subscription's demand until its groups drain

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Problem

A finite track read through a relay could lose its tail. A publisher declares end 4 and writes groups 0 through 3, but a reader through the relay received only some groups, then stalled or saw cancelled resets. The interop matrix stopped at its first frame and could not catch it.

Two causes, both reproduced deterministically:

1. The relay's moq-lite SubscribeServe dropped its track::Subscriber the moment the live edge reached the declared end, while still draining the group streams it had opened. The relay then cancelled its upstream subscription as idle and the publisher reset every group still on the wire.
2. The hosted Bun -> Rust lane got only group 3: the relay learned the end, then received group 3's stream before groups 0 through 2 (QUIC does not order streams). Its readers end at the boundary even with lower groups missing, so the relay finished the downstream subscription after group 3 alone.

Approach

• rs/moq-net/src/lite/publisher.rs: the Drain state holds the track subscriber until its group streams finish, so a subscription's demand lasts until its FIN.
• Private upstream-tail accounting (rs/moq-net/src/model/track.rs): a wire subscription marks its copy's tail pending from the declared end (lite SUBSCRIBE_END, IETF END_OF_TRACK) until the tail settles. While pending, a reader at the boundary waits only if a group between where the feed starts and the end has not arrived; the last producer going ends it regardless. A local track keeps ending at the boundary with missing lower groups (readers_end_at_the_boundary_with_missing_lower_groups is unchanged).
• rs/moq-net/tests/finite_relay.rs: deterministic mock-time regressions over a relay, across lite 03/05/06/07 and IETF 14/17/22: held tails (cause 1) and newest-header-first delivery after the end (cause 2, new MockSession::release_newest_uni). A model unit test covers the pending tail directly.
• Finite raw-track interop clients (Rust, Node, Bun) and five lanes: Rust-to-Rust, Rust-to-Node/Bun, Node/Bun-to-Rust. Readers verify every byte of four 256 KiB groups and a clean end at 4. just test interop --tail runs only these; --all runs them in the existing Interop CI step.
• Deletes the completed track-tail-interop quest and its references.

Impact

• No public API or wire change.
• Behavior: a moq-lite subscription's demand lasts until its in-flight groups drain. A Rust reader of a session-fed track waits at the declared end for a missing group until the upstream tail settles.
• Behavior on moq-lite 05/06: a lost datagram just below the end is indistinguishable from a reordered group, so its hole now holds readers for the tail grace (it already held the subscription's routability). moq-lite 07's stream count keeps that end prompt. a_lost_datagram_never_delays_the_end became a_lost_datagram_delays_the_end_only_without_a_stream_count; doc/concept/moq-lite.md documents it.
• Test-only: --tail harness option, interop-tail example in moq-cli, native-JS client type check.

Decisions

• Fix at the source (publisher drain keeps demand) (maintainer).
• Keep the five lanes strict, no XFAIL (maintainer).
• No separate CI step: the lanes run inside just test interop --all (maintainer).
• Publisher deadline is 2x the subscriber's (CodeRabbit finding).
• Reordered headers: ✅ private upstream-tail accounting, public reader semantics kept for local tracks (maintainer, 2026-10-07).
• Sub-agent picks (recommended options, flagged for review):
  • The hold applies to every reader of a session-fed copy, not only the relay's forwarding: the end reader's own copy can see the same reorder on the relay -> reader hop, so a forwarding-only hold would still fail the lane.
  • Holes only: with nothing missing below the end, readers end at once, so IETF PUBLISH flows (stream count 0) and complete tracks keep their prompt end.
  • Lite 05/06 lost datagram: lossless over prompt (above). The alternative keeps the old prompt end and leaves reordered groups lost on the default JS version (lite-06).
  • JS readers still end at the boundary with holes (doc/lib/js/net.md); mirroring is a follow-up.

Alternatives

Shrinking payloads, sleeps, or a zero start floor hide the race. Holding the relay's upstream subscription open while any group consumer exists blurs track demand with group reads. Holding readers only until the upstream FIN leaves the acknowledged-but-unread window open. Holding until the tail fully settles even without a hole delays every IETF published track by the grace.

Validation

• relay_waits_for_reordered_upstream_headers fails without the fix (lite-05 reads [3]; with the lite gate restored but the IETF one removed, moq-transport-14 reads [3]) and passes with it; relay_keeps_groups_in_flight_past_the_end still passes.
• just check: lint, docs, JS, and 6,093 Rust tests pass; the only failures were moq-uring worker tests hitting the host's shared 8 MiB MEMLOCK limit. Re-run excluding moq-uring: 5,810 passed, 11 skipped.
• just test interop --all: all 32 cells, the refused-session case, and all five finite-tail lanes pass locally. The hosted Bun -> Rust lane is the remaining confirmation.

Follow-ups

• Mirror the pending-tail reader hold in @moq/net so JS readers of session-fed tracks also keep reordered groups.
• The lite-07 SUBSCRIBE_DROP case can extend this harness, tracked in quest/m1/subscribe-drop.md.

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The change adds Rust and native JavaScript clients that publish and subscribe to finite raw tracks. The clients validate groups 0–3 and a clean end at group 4. The interop harness adds tail checks for Rust-to-Rust and, when selected, both directions between Rust and Node or Bun. The harness checks subscriber results and publisher acknowledgments. The change also adds Rust example registration, a TypeScript check for the native JavaScript clients, and documentation for the checks and --tail option.

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The normal interop check includes a reported failing lane. Tail-only checks can also be blocked by an unnecessary prerequisite or report a verified read as failed. Resolve these issues before merging.

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No additional harness-correctness finding from the full nine-file review. The raw clients check exact payloads, every group, and end 4; keeping publishers alive until the reader's acknowledgement is a focused way to distinguish transport loss from premature publisher shutdown. The five lanes and existing harness reuse are proportionate. No production API/wire change.

The existing merge blocker is confirmed, not new: test/interop/interop.sh:743-752 adds known-failing tail lanes to normal --all. In the exact-head Interop run, four tail lanes passed but Bun-to-Rust received only [1, 3]; the resulting failure also skipped the later negative-control/media/TS/EIT steps. This supports the existing finding.

Recommendation: keep the strict regression and land it with the source-declared-start fix before enabling it in the normal gate. Blanket XFAIL would also hide unrelated missing-group failures and is weaker than fixing the tracked relay behavior. The retained quest correctly separates that fix from CLI drain design.

Verification: inspected the full diff, harness lifecycle, CI wiring and failure log. Exact-head Check passed; Interop failed as above. I did not run the matrix or reproduce the zero-floor diagnostic locally. The PR currently also reports merge conflicts.

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1. High — Default Interop CI is red by design. Current checks: Interop fail. Log shows FAIL tail js-native-bun -> rust with wrong groups: [1, 3] (Rust←Bun), while Rust↔Rust and Rust→JS pass. The PR body intends that as the regression, and interop.sh runs the finite-tail lanes whenever --negative/--media are off — including the normal CI just test interop --all path. Landing this on main keeps the required Interop job failing until the relay start/floor fix lands.

   Fix: Keep --tail for local/quest reproduction, but do not fail the default matrix yet — e.g. only run the known-red lanes under an explicit flag / expected-fail annotation, or gate them behind the track-tail quest until the production fix merges. A diagnostic red lane is valuable; a permanently red required check is not.

2. Low — PR description vs CI. Body says Node/Bun→Rust both fail; this head’s CI run had js-native-node -> rust PASS and only Bun→Rust fail. Update the quest/PR text so the retained bug claim matches what CI actually reproduces (reorder-sensitive; may be intermittent).

Assessment

Harness shape is good: finite 256 KiB groups, declared end 4, stdin ack so the publisher does not tear down early, and no sleep standing in for drain. As a non-draft PR into main it still needs a green (or explicitly waived) Interop path.

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Compared f0e73a3d29841b727dedaefe31f4fdacf1375b1d → 298e8826f19cb49a4ac49cc8932338edd39dbed8 (excluding the origin/main merge). Push-only delta: JS track.used → track.demand().used, Rust broadcast.finish() → broadcast.close() so the harness compiles against the post-merge APIs. That rename adapt looks correct and does not change harness intent.

Findings

1. High — still open — Default Interop CI is red by design. interop.sh still runs the finite-tail block whenever --negative/--media are off (including just test interop --all). Known-red Node/Bun→Rust lanes will keep the required Interop job failing until the relay start/floor fix lands.

   Fix: Keep --tail for local/quest reproduction; do not fail the default matrix yet (explicit flag / expected-fail / gate behind the track-tail quest).

2. Low — still open — PR text drift. Body still says the PR “remains a draft” and that Node/Bun→Rust both fail; the PR is ready (isDraft=false), and earlier CI only consistently failed Bun→Rust. Align description with current status and what CI actually reproduces.

Assessment

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No new actionable bugs found in the update. test/interop/clients/js-native/tail.ts:26-27 now waits through the current track.demand() API; test/interop/clients/rust/tail.rs:52 uses the current broadcast close() API after the reader acknowledgement. Both adaptations match the current implementations and preserve the strict four-group/clean-end assertions.

The earlier review recorded failing JS-to-Rust tail lanes in the normal gate. That gating and the assertions are unchanged; these API repairs do not themselves establish that the underlying loss is fixed. The current-head Interop run is queued at review time, so the old failure is not evidence of a failure on this head. Use the new run to establish whether the earlier finding is cleared; retain the strict regression rather than hiding arbitrary loss with blanket XFAIL.

Direction remains worthwhile: exact payload/end checks plus a reader acknowledgement isolate finite-tail behavior without inventing a CLI drain API. Verification was static review of the delta and current API definitions; no tests or matrix run locally. Rechecked open/non-draft state, head, and review history before submission.

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Do not require ffmpeg for --tail.

When ffmpeg is absent, require_tools exits before a tail-only run starts. Tail-only mode uses raw-track clients and skips the media matrix. Require ffmpeg only for modes that run media publishers.

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Re-review after push

Compared 298e8826f19cb49a4ac49cc8932338edd39dbed8 → a231756bb2f15e74d8cd478e4af06cca962c637e, leaving out the origin/main merge 1fd7ef3e24. This push is the actual fix. SubscribeServe::Drain now holds the track::Subscriber until the in-flight GroupServe children finish (rs/moq-net/src/lite/publisher.rs:1226-1232, :1357-1372), so the relay's downstream demand lasts until FIN and the relay stops idle-cancelling upstream mid-drain. The push also adds a deterministic mock-transport regression test (rs/moq-net/tests/finite_relay.rs), gives the tail publisher 2× the subscriber's timeout, drops the ffmpeg requirement for --tail, and deletes the track-tail-interop quest.

The fix looks right to me. The state handoff only builds Drain { _track: Some(..) } from Run, and the Confirm placeholder _track: None gets overwritten before it can be polled. An error from poll_step returns through ? before the transition, so it can't leave a half-built state. Holding the subscriber also keeps the egress _stats_sub viewer count up through the drain, which is the right accounting.

Earlier findings

1. Default Interop red by design: fixed in code, not yet shown in CI. With the fix, the lanes are meant to pass strictly instead of reproducing a known bug. But Interop has not run on this head: the only checks are Quest (queued) and Auto-merge (skipped), because the PR is CONFLICTING. The last Interop run on this branch (298e8826, 2026-10-03) failed.
2. PR text drift: fixed. The body was rewritten to match the fix and the current status.

Findings

1. Blocking: merge conflict with main, so CI can't run. The branch is 6 commits behind. test(interop): a browser reads a refused session's close code #4819 (browser close code) added a close-code block to the end of the default matrix in test/interop/interop.sh and edited test/interop/README.md, test/justfile, and quest/m1/README.md, all of which this PR also touches. When you resolve it, put the close-code block inside the elif [[ "$TAIL_ONLY" -eq 0 ]] branch (around interop.sh:751) so --tail still runs only the five tail lanes and doesn't need Chromium. Then confirm the five finite track tails lanes pass in Interop.
2. Low: the "Interop on main is red independently" follow-up doesn't match the nightly. The PR body blames max_age_relay_javascript and the Python/Go publisher rows since nightly 11b28de07. But the scheduled Interop run on main at 11b28de0 (2026-10-05) concluded success, as did the four nightlies before it. If this PR's Interop goes red after the rebase, don't wave it off as a pre-existing failure without a failing main run to point to.
3. Low: test structure. relay_keeps_groups_in_flight_past_the_end loops over all seven versions in one #[tokio::test]. The first failing version hides the rest, and each round leaves its three origin drivers spawned for the rest of the test. A per-version test, or collecting failures and asserting once, would report the full matrix. Also, a group that ends cleanly with fewer than 2 frames is silently left out of seen instead of being reported. The final assert_eq! still catches it, but the message won't say which group was short.
4. Nit: no direct assertion on the root cause. The test catches the bug through a hang or a reset. A check that the relay's upstream subscription stays active, or that track.demand() stays used until the tails are written, would point at the regression directly if it comes back as something other than a hang.

Recommendation: MERGE after the rebase, once the five tail lanes pass in Interop.
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Iterated on this PR after merging main (post #4741).

• The tail lanes still failed on merged main: Rust-publisher lanes stalled and Node-to-Rust lost groups. The relay log showed subscribe canceled (idle) 17 ms after the upstream subscribe.
• Root cause: the moq-lite SubscribeServe dropped its track::Subscriber when the live edge reached the declared end, while it was still draining the open group streams. The relay then saw no demand, cancelled upstream, and the publisher reset the groups still in flight. The Drain state now holds the subscriber until its groups finish. IETF already did this.
• Regression: rs/moq-net/tests/finite_relay.rs over the mock transport and a relay. It hangs without the fix and passes on every lite and IETF version with it. All five just test interop --tail lanes pass locally, run twice.
• CodeRabbit: --tail no longer requires ffmpeg. The tail publisher gets twice the subscriber's deadline. XFAIL is declined because the lanes pass now.
• Deleted the completed track-tail-interop quest.

CI: Interop is red from main, not from this PR. max_age_relay_javascript fails in the "Optional publisher retention" step, which skips the full matrix and its tail lanes. The Python/Go publisher rows have also been failing since nightly 11b28de. Another PR owns both. Check and Test are still queued. Local just check passes.

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Reviewed commit: 368a8fc.

The substantive change since my 298e882 review is a231756, separate from inherited main updates. rs/moq-net/src/lite/publisher.rs:1357–1377 moves the actual track subscriber into Drain together with its group tasks, retaining upstream demand until those tasks complete. This directly addresses the premature idle cancellation rather than hiding the tail-lane failure. The new finite_relay.rs regression holds group tails across the declared end and checks all four groups plus clean completion. The harness also removes tail-only ffmpeg dependence and extends publisher lifetime. No new actionable correctness finding in this focused follow-up.

Direction: source-level lifetime repair with strict interop assertions is the right correction. The old failing run is no longer evidence that this head loses tails. Conversely, the claimed local five-lane pass is not independently reproduced here: exact-head Interop run https://github.com/moq-dev/moq/actions/runs/37431880215 failed at Optional publisher retention and skipped the full matrix. Obtain a completed tail run on the eventual conflict-resolved head before treating cross-language verification as complete.

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Re-review after push

Compared the last reviewed head 491aef5b0227eeaf308984f7d6c5b64e9da14f7a → b6f7c1879675b849c8e3f62511db702a3a6f52af, leaving out the two origin/main merges (3c7d007d, d00cb6a6). The real delta is 76a922c5 (readers hold at a hole until the upstream tail settles, plus the newest-first relay regression) and b6f7c187 (box the drained subscriber, try_recv in the test, a moq-lite.md note). This is the fix for the reordered-header blocker the PR body describes.

The mechanism looks right for the case it targets. Lite sets tail_pending only after a SUBSCRIBE_END that finish_at accepted (lite/subscriber.rs:4294) and clears it on ServeEnd::Finished before finish() (:3947). IETF sets it in end_track (ietf/subscriber.rs:2772) and clears it after poll_settled (:2150). Local tracks never set it, so readers_end_at_the_boundary_with_missing_lower_groups still holds for them. The Idle, GiveBack and IETF error exits all abort, so a stuck flag can't leave a reader parked on those paths.

Findings

No blocking issues.

1. Medium: awaits_tail counts holes in the cache, not in what arrived (rs/moq-net/src/model/track.rs:1226-1241). lookup.range(floor..fin).count() treats three kinds of sequence as "still owed" even though nothing is on the wire for them:

   • groups that arrived but were already expired or evicted (lookup.remove in evict_expired_scan / pay_debt), which is normal for a long finite track on a relay;
   • datagram sequences, which live in datagrams and never in lookup;
   • with no declared start, fetched backfill below the live feed, which pulls floor down to lookup.keys().next() and opens a fake gap up to the feed start.

   On the happy path this only delays the reader's end until the session settles, since the session's own Tail accounting does know what arrived. On IETF that wait lasts until PUBLISH_DONE plus settle, not just END_OF_TRACK. The sharper effect is on aborts: commit_abort computes settled = is_settled() (:1420), and is_settled now goes through is_complete and awaits_tail. So if the upstream session drops, or a lite route gives back, during that window, a reader that has every group gets Dropped or the abort error instead of the clean end it got before this push. Suggested fix: decide holes from arrivals, not the cache. One way is to keep a received-sequence record in TrackState that eviction doesn't touch and that datagrams and live-feed groups both mark. Another is to let the session clear tail_pending as soon as its own Tail says nothing in owed is missing, rather than only at ServeEnd::Finished. A unit test that evicts group 0, declares finish_at, then aborts, and asserts a clean end would pin this.

2. Low: PR body is stale. It still names 3c7d007d as the final head, keeps a "Remaining merge blocker" section saying the reordered-header case needs a transport/model decision and that the exploratory test is held back locally, and says auto-merge stays disabled. This push implements that decision and adds the test as relay_waits_for_reordered_upstream_headers. The body should also mention the behavior change on lite-05/06: a lost datagram's hole now delays a wire reader's end by the grace (the track_tail.rs rename and doc/concept/moq-lite.md say so, but Impact still says nothing changes beyond the drain).

3. Low (open from last review): failure diagnostics. finite_relay.rs:97 still does .unwrap().expect("head frame") inside the reader task, so a reset before the head turns into a 10 s head timeout in the main task instead of the real error. The new NewestFirst path reads opened.try_recv() and would report it as "no group reached the subscriber", which is just as misleading.

Earlier findings

• Cross-language tail lanes not proven in CI (Low): still open. Every check on b6f7c187 is queued. Before merging, confirm Interop reaches and passes all five tail lanes, especially js-native-bun -> rust, which is the lane this push targets.
• Failure diagnostics (Low): still open, see 3.

Recommendation: MERGE once CI is green and Interop shows all five tail lanes passing. Item 1 is worth fixing here or right after, since it trades the old early-end bug for a wrong-error-on-abort edge case.
Reviewed head: b6f7c1879675b849c8e3f62511db702a3a6f52af

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Automated review by review (OpenAI)

Reviewed commit: b6f7c18; follow-up to 3c7d007, separating the main merge from both tail-fix commits.

[P2] Publish the wire end and pending-tail hold atomically. rs/moq-net/src/lite/subscriber.rs:4280–4294 calls finish_at before set_tail_pending(true); ietf/subscriber.rs:2766–2772 does the same. model/track.rs:1695–1711 performs these as separate shared-state mutations. If the last group's header already arrived but lower groups have not, a reader on another worker can observe final_sequence with tail_pending=false between those calls, return None, and move the relay's serving loop into Drain. Setting the flag afterward cannot reopen that loop, so the original dropped-lower-groups failure remains possible. Set both fields under one model write after validating the boundary, and add a regression with the highest group arriving before the end while a reader polls concurrently. The new newest-first test delivers the end first, so it does not exercise this ordering.

The previously discussed cache-versus-arrival hole accounting at model/track.rs:1226–1241 also remains: eviction/datagrams can make an already-received tail appear incomplete and alter clean-end behavior on abort. That is existing feedback, not a new duplicate finding.

Direction: explicit tail settlement and the strict reordered-header regression address the right cause; close the publication race before treating the blocker as resolved. Hosted Interop is still running the full matrix on this head (run 37693944902), so all five tail lanes, especially Bun→Rust, are not yet independently confirmed.

Verification: GitHub-only static meaningful delta, model/receiver/drain context and tests, plus current CI status; no local tests or concurrent reproduction run. Exact head, open state and prior reviews rechecked before posting.

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Re the OpenAI review of b6f7c187 [P2], publishing the end and the pending tail atomically: fixed in 38bf64e0. track::Producer::finish_at_pending (crate-private) sets the final sequence and tail_pending under a single model write. Both wire sites (lite SUBSCRIBE_END and IETF END_OF_TRACK) now use it, so no reader can see the end without the tail. an_end_after_the_highest_group_holds_the_reader covers the reported order: the highest group arrives, the reader takes it, then the end lands. The interleaving across workers is ruled out by construction; a unit test can't reproduce it deterministically.

The cache-vs-arrival hole accounting note (eviction and datagrams) is still recorded as existing feedback and is not addressed here. On the previous head, hosted Interop passed all five tail lanes. Only the known-flaky python -> js and go -> js browser cells failed.

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Re-review after push

Compared the last reviewed head b6f7c1879675b849c8e3f62511db702a3a6f52af → 38bf64e00fc64d4fb6f65362d6d1ad0173b932c6. The only new commit is 38bf64e0, which publishes the declared end and tail_pending in one state write.

The fix is right. Before this push, lite and IETF called finish_at(end) and then set_tail_pending(true) as two separate writes, so a reader polling on another worker could see final_sequence with tail_pending == false, pass is_complete, and end at a hole the wire was still filling. The new Producer::finish_at_pending (rs/moq-net/src/model/track.rs:1703-1708) does set_final and sets the flag under the same kio::Mut, so that window is gone. Error behavior is unchanged: set_final returns before mutating, so a rejected end (Closed, ProtocolViolation) still leaves tail_pending unset, which keeps the lite-05 inclusive-end warn path (lite/subscriber.rs:4284) and the IETF ProtocolViolation abort (ietf/subscriber.rs:2767) the same as before. No caller sets the flag to true separately any more, and both clear paths are untouched.

Findings

No blocking issues in this push.

1. Low: the new test doesn't check what its message claims. an_end_after_the_highest_group_holds_the_reader (track.rs:7154-7160) asserts that a second finish_at_pending(2) returns Err(Closed) "without touching the first", but the rest of the test passes the same way whether the end is 2 or 3: group 2 is already delivered, and the reader ends after 0 and 1 either way. Adding assert_eq!(producer.final_sequence(), Some(3)) (or creating a group 2-but-below-3 case) would make that real. The test also can't exercise the cross-worker race the commit fixes. That's fine since the API now makes the split write impossible, but it's worth knowing the test is pinning the API, not the race.

Earlier findings

• Medium: awaits_tail counts cache holes, not arrival holes: still open. track.rs:1226-1241 is unchanged, so evicted groups, datagram sequences, and backfill below the live feed still count as owed. A reader that has every group can still get Dropped or the abort error instead of a clean end if the upstream drops during the tail window, because commit_abort uses is_settled, which goes through awaits_tail. The suggested fix stands: track received sequences separately from the cache, or clear tail_pending as soon as the session's own Tail says nothing owed is missing.
• Low: stale PR body: fixed. The body now describes the pending-tail mechanism, the new regression, and the lite-05/06 lost-datagram behavior change.
• Low: failure diagnostics in finite_relay.rs: still open (the .unwrap().expect("head frame") in the reader task and the try_recv "no group reached the subscriber" message).
• Cross-language tail lanes: fixed on b6f7c187. Interop on that head passed all five tail lanes, including js-native-bun -> rust. But that Interop job still failed overall on two browser cells, python -> js (121 s of 30 s) and go -> js (33 s of 30 s), both timing out on "waiting for browser audio" while every other -> js cell passed. Those are live hang broadcasts with no declared end, so the tail hold shouldn't apply. It looks like flakiness, but both cells go through the Rust relay this PR changes, so confirm they pass on 38bf64e0 (or on a rerun) before merging. All checks on 38bf64e0 are still pending.

Recommendation: MERGE once CI is green on 38bf64e0, including the two browser Interop cells above. The awaits_tail cache-hole item is still worth fixing here or right after.
Reviewed head: 38bf64e00fc64d4fb6f65362d6d1ad0173b932c6

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Re-review after push

Compared the last reviewed head 38bf64e00fc64d4fb6f65362d6d1ad0173b932c6 → 270332814eabd6de5d1e1b1dc390ad1a93a0d464. Three of the new commits are origin/main merges; the PR's own diff against main is unchanged apart from the request_broadcast("bcast", None) adapt in rs/moq-net/tests/finite_relay.rs for main's new epoch argument. The only PR change is 27033281, which adds one assertion to an_end_after_the_highest_group_holds_the_reader.

Findings

No issues in this push. assert_eq!(producer.final_sequence(), Some(3), "the first end stands") (rs/moq-net/src/model/track.rs:7424) now checks that the refused finish_at_pending(2) left the first end at 3, which the old test passed either way.

Earlier findings

• Low: the second-end test didn't check what it claimed: fixed by the assertion above.
• Medium: awaits_tail counts cache holes, not arrival holes: still open. track.rs:1255 is unchanged, so evicted groups, datagram sequences, and backfill below the live feed still count as owed, and an upstream drop during the tail window can give a reader that has every group Dropped or the abort error instead of a clean end.
• Low: failure diagnostics in finite_relay.rs: still open (.unwrap().expect("head frame") at line 97 and the try_recv "no group reached the subscriber" message at line 170).
• Browser Interop cells: still worth confirming python -> js and go -> js pass. All checks on 27033281 are pending.

Recommendation: MERGE once CI is green on 27033281, including Interop's tail lanes and those two browser cells.
Reviewed head: 270332814eabd6de5d1e1b1dc390ad1a93a0d464

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Merge attempt status on 41f98d3918fc236326915bfb98db01a6ab88574b: holding off on auto-merge.

Pushed since the last OpenAI review (b6f7c187):

• Two clean origin/main merges. The second pulls in fix(net): pass the epoch to request_broadcast in dial_split_horizon #5045, which fixes the dial_split_horizon compile error behind every red Check/Test/Windows/macOS/Interop job on 00d1bf82.
• test(net): an_end_after_the_highest_group_holds_the_reader now asserts final_sequence() == Some(3) after the refused second end. This was the Low finding on 38bf64e0.
• test(interop): tail.ts publishes untimed frames. Since feat(js/net)!: carry untimed frames faithfully #4968, a timestamped frame on a track without a timescale throws TimestampMismatch, which broke both js-native-* -> rust tail lanes. All five tail lanes now pass in CI and locally.

Blocker: on hosted Interop, every go -> * lane except go -> go fails. Subscribers get the catalog and subscribe to media, then about 10 to 13 s later they get internal error / RESET_STREAM: 0. This failed 3 of 3 attempts on this head and also on 5abb1d1c (the first head with the 2026-10-07 main merge). It passed on 38bf64e0 and b6f7c187. Other PRs on similar main show only a 10 to 11 s go -> rust / go -> gst stall that still passes, plus the known go -> js / python -> js browser flake. I can't reproduce it locally: just test interop --all and repeated go-publisher runs (including pinned to 2 CPUs) pass every go lane. The 150-line relay log tail doesn't cover the go round. The interop-failure artifact should have the go publisher and relay logs.

just check passes locally.

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Root cause of the hosted go -> * Interop failures: it's a main-side bug, not this PR.

• The go interop publisher encodes its tone as 2.5 ms Opus frames. moq_audio::encode::Options::group_duration defaults to zero and moq-ffi never sets it, so every packet becomes its own group: about 400 groups/s.
• When the relay subscribes to tone, the publisher's lite RequestServe::poll_serve / TrackRun::poll_step loop keeps returning Continue. New groups arrive about as fast as it serves them, so a single poll never returns Pending. Instrumented, one poll ran 4096+ iterations chasing latest across thousands of sequences.
• moq-ffi runs on a current-thread tokio runtime, so that poll starves the QUIC driver. The relay times the session out after 10 s, the publisher reconnects, and the next tone subscribe does it again. gdb samples of the moq-ffi thread during the stall all sit inside TrackRun::poll_step / GroupServe.
• I reproduced it on plain main (9f4e51d8, without this PR) by pinning the go lanes to one CPU: the go publisher's session times out on every tone subscribe. This is also the 10 to 11 s go -> rust / go -> gst stall other PRs show. Whether a lane then passes or fails depends on how the reconnects line up with each subscriber's 30 s budget.
• A rough per-poll yield (wake and return Pending after 64 iterations) let every go lane pass on one CPU. The publisher session still timed out twice in that run, so a yield alone may not be the whole fix.

Nothing in this PR's diff touches that loop. The fix belongs in its own PR.

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Re-review (2703328 → 41f98d3)

The new push merges main (which brings in #5045) and has one commit of its own, test(interop): publish the JS tail frames untimed. test/interop/clients/js-native/tail.ts now writes tail frames with no timestamp, where before it stamped them with fromMillis(0). That fits #5070's "publishing never invents a timestamp" direction, and it stops the tail lane from claiming a fake zero timestamp.

Still blocking: the hosted Interop check fails on this head (job). Earlier notes on this PR tied the go -> * lane failures to the serve-loop stall that #5088 (kio cooperative budget) targets. If that's still the failure, this PR should wait for #5088 to land and then rerun Interop, rather than merge red. If the failure is in the tail lane this commit touched, it needs a fix here.

Verdict: ITERATE. Land #5088 and get Interop green, then this is ready. Reviewed head: 41f98d39.

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Merged main (54dfe98) into this branch as cabc22e. Conflicts were mechanical: quest files, plus doc/concept/moq-lite.md, which takes main's trimmed page (#5033 removed the sections this PR edited). quest/m1/js-pending-tail.md now points at #4225 instead of the deleted quest. No code conflicts.

Not merging yet. Two blockers:

1. Behavior conflict with feat(moq-mux): import ts --passthrough carries the multiplex whole #5003/feat(mux)!: importers shift onto a catalog clock already in use #5082 (lite-05/06). moq-cli publish::tests::ts_passthrough_crosses_a_relay_through_a_flagged_jump now fails. TS passthrough marks a discontinuity by skipping a group sequence. On lite-06 that gap below the declared end looks like a reordered group, so the pending-tail hold keeps the reader waiting for the full tail grace, which is the subscription's max age (30 s in that test). Measured: lite-06 ends 30.0 s after finish(), moq-transport-14 ends in 5 ms. It passes on main. lite-05/06 have no signal for a deliberate skip until publishers send SUBSCRIBE_DROP (quest/m1/subscribe-drop.md).
2. JS -> Rust tail lanes fail after the merge (tail js-native-node -> rust, tail js-native-bun -> rust). They pass on 41f98d3 and fail every time on cabc22e. The relay forwards SUBSCRIBE_END downstream before START and before any group. Its downstream subscription then ends after zero or one group, or its upstream copy is cancelled as idle in tail mode. I could not reproduce this in mock time with a Rust publisher, even with the end arriving first or link latency added, so the root cause is still open.

Everything else in just test interop --all passes, including all go -> * cells, so #5088 fixed the original Interop blocker.

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Re-review after push

Compared 298e8826 → cabc22e2 (PR-only commits, excluding the origin/main merges). This push turns the PR from a repro into a fix: lite/publisher.rs keeps the track::Subscriber alive in Drain until the group streams finish, and model/track.rs adds a private tail_pending flag (finish_at_pending / set_tail_pending) so readers of a session-fed copy wait at a hole below a wire-declared end instead of ending early. Both lite and IETF subscribers set it on the declared end and clear it when the tail settles. It also adds finish_at_pending unit tests, the finite_relay.rs mock-time regressions across lite 03/05/06/07 and IETF 14/17/22, and untimed JS tail frames.

Earlier findings

1. Default Interop red by design: addressed. With the fix in, the five tail lanes should pass, and keeping them strict inside --all is now a recorded maintainer decision. CI is still pending on cabc22e2, so confirm Interop goes green.
2. PR text drift: fixed. The body now describes the fix and the current status.

New findings (non-blocking)

1. A tail that never settles can hold readers indefinitely. tail_pending is cleared only on the clean paths: lite ServeEnd::Finished (lite/subscriber.rs ~4259) and the IETF settled-tail branch (ietf/subscriber.rs ~2244). If the upstream subscription ends some other way (ServeEnd::GiveBack, a reset, or a session drop) while a relay or warm copy still keeps a producer alive, then awaits_tail stays true and a reader parked at a hole never sees the end. The body says "the last producer going ends it regardless," but that only helps when the producer actually goes away. Suggested fix: clear tail_pending (or abort) on every terminal serve path, and add a finite_relay case where upstream errors after SUBSCRIBE_END with a hole still open.
2. awaits_tail is O(groups) inside reached. self.lookup.range(floor..fin).count() runs on every end check while the tail is pending. That's cheap for short finite tracks, but a long finite track (a VOD-style end far from its start) pays a linear scan on each poll. Caching a missing-group count, or checking only floor..fin against lookup.len() when the cache is contiguous, would keep it O(1).
3. Evicted lower groups look like holes. If cache expiry removes a group below fin before the end is reached, awaits_tail treats it as still owed and holds readers until the tail settles. That's probably acceptable, but worth a comment or a test so it isn't mistaken for a hang later.
4. JS readers still end at the boundary with holes. The body flags this as a follow-up. A quest file or a linked issue would keep it from getting lost.

The Drain transition through mem::replace plus unreachable!() is sound, because it's only reached from the matched Run arm.

Verdict: MERGE once CI is green (no blocking issues; finding 1 is worth a follow-up).
Reviewed head: cabc22e2238c55108382b98d9d4313424b74dd1c

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