v1.69.0-beta.1 shipped at 255 993 B gzip against a 256 000 B ceiling —
seven bytes of headroom turned the gate into a lottery where the unlucky
last commit goes red, not the one that grew the bundle (5740324b was
exactly that fix; and today's dev already measures 256 012 B, so the old
ceiling would be red right now on an untouched tree).
The ceiling moves to 282 000 B — a deliberate ~10% allowance over the
calibration fact, recorded next to the constant: the budget guards the
CLASS of regression (tens of kilobytes from an accidental dependency or an
eager dictionary), not every byte. Every run now prints the fact, the
budget and the headroom, and CI adds the same row to the step summary so
the trend is visible long before the wall.
The lazy-ru idea from the issue (biggest single cut, ~25 KB gzip) is left
out deliberately: it changes what Russian users see on first paint and
deserves its own decision, not a ride-along.
Issue: #352
User-Visible: no
Add Deutsch across all card surfaces and backend flows, backed by the language registry introduced in #62. German loads as a fingerprint-checked page-shared locale chunk so EN/RU remain synchronous and the initial View budget stays intact. Root render gates prevent mixed-language flashes, retry once, and fail open to English. Extend parity, runtime, bundle, browser and visual coverage, plus contributor and user documentation.
Issue: #348
User-Visible: yes
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