ConnectOnion 1.9.0a42 (preview)

Install this preview

Stable remains 1.8.10. Install the opt-in preview by exact pin:

python -m pip install --upgrade 'connectonion==1.9.0a42'

Reach the contacts found by historical init

The a41 historical scan could discover old correspondents and put them in a searchable People directory. On a large notebook, the directory came after hundreds of mapped People rows. This preview brings the directory above the roster. A 390px phone keeps its summary and search in reach; the mapped table and its sort controls remain available below it.

In a private reader generated from one owner's real metadata, the collapsed directory entrance moved from y=1314 to y=515 on a 390px phone, and from y=1067 to y=249 on a 1440px desktop. No real contact details were published. The design review and release image set use invented contacts and show the before and after states in both themes.

Keep completed mail years after a connection failure

A public a41 wheel trial of co rem init --investigate-all --estimate-only ran 3h 47m. Its private inventory recorded 15,551 observed mail headers, but later Gmail SSLError and Outlook ConnectError left the final People map with only the owner. The report correctly marked both sources incomplete. This preview keeps correspondents from completed yearly windows when a later request fails, and marks the failed remainder incomplete. It continues the other mailbox and keeps the resulting estimate labelled as a lower bound. The failure analysis explains the decision. Durable checkpoints and retrying only failed ranges remain in #2298.

This is a reachability fix, not a claim that all historical correspondents have verified memory pages. The a41 release notes describe the metadata-only full-history estimate, first-run scheduling, and default runner. Its missing visual evidence manifest is added here as an append-only documentation repair.

Verification and limits

The reader browser suite passed 57 tests and the focused reader/store suite passed 30 tests. The large-roster browser test opens the directory by keyboard, searches a contact, and checks the mapped table still sorts. The partial-scan regression passed on all four Python CI versions. The release matrix, wheel installation, and public-wheel real-data reader trial are recorded in the release PR. Full all-person model investigation remains unverified until it runs within the user's available model allowance.