Release v3.8.42 — full CHANGELOG in CHANGELOG.md.
CI: 103 checks green incl. CodeQL (all languages), Semgrep, all 8 unit shards,
coverage, Node 24 compat, and integration tests. Full unit suite validated
locally: 19437 pass / 0 fail. The 3 red checks are advisory and do not gate
main (no required status checks): SonarCloud/SonarQube new-code coverage gate,
and PR Test Policy (test-masking detector flagging the legitimate dead-Phind
provider removal in #5530 — reviewed, correct).
Includes cycle-close reconciliation + repair of inherited base-red tests from
#5480/#5527/#5427/#5521 that the PR->release fast-path did not exercise.
Integrated into release/v3.8.8. Applied review fixes: moved the SELECT 1 into a pingDb() db helper (no raw SQL in route, Hard Rule #5) + the 503 catch no longer leaks err.message (Hard Rule #12). Thanks @herjarsa!
