fix(release): restore 2.5.21 cross builds

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Follow-up to #1402 and the FastLED artifact-path cascade in FastLED/FastLED#4029.

Failure evidence

Autonomous release run https://github.com/FastLED/fbuild/actions/runs/32825609465 failed before publication:

• both Linux-musl lanes: Zig promoted mimalloc-pprof use of DATE/TIME to an error;
• both Apple lanes: soldr 0.8.23 used retired direct-LFS SDK URLs instead of the available catalogue-v2 multipart assets;
• both Windows MSVC lanes passed.

Exact dry runs then exposed two additional cold-build constraints: concurrent Apple rustc processes exceeded hosted-runner memory, and cargo-zigbuild cleared generic inline CFLAGS before cc-rs built mimalloc-pprof.

Changes

• pin the native release template to fully published soldr 0.9.6, which includes catalogue-v2 multipart support introduced in 0.9.5;
• make SOLDR_TOOLCHAIN_ORIGIN job-scoped so Apple prepare and build use one catalogue;
• bound Cargo/soldr to one worker per release lane to keep cold cross-builds inside hosted-runner memory limits;
• use cc-rs target-specific CFLAGS for all Apple and musl Zig targets so the narrow date-time diagnostic demotion survives cargo-zigbuild;
• retrigger incomplete releases when release-auto.yml or template_native_build.yml changes;
• add regression policy coverage for the toolchain, concurrency, CFLAGS, and trigger contracts;
• include the Ruff-requested all ordering follow-up from feat(python): expose structured firmware artifacts #1402.

No version bump is needed: the repository is already 2.5.21 while PyPI is still 2.5.20, so merging this workflow repair should retry the incomplete 2.5.21 publication.

Validation

• RED: native_release_workflow_uses_current_cross_toolchains failed against soldr 0.8.23.
• GREEN: bash test -p fbuild-python passed 37 unit tests and 2 policy tests after the cross-tool changes.
• Full non-publishing six-target release matrix passed, including native binaries, Python wheels, checksums, attestations, and artifact uploads: https://github.com/FastLED/fbuild/actions/runs/32830942498
• All PR CI checks passed on e044151.
• Ruff passed for python/fbuild/init.py.
• PyYAML parsed both changed workflow files.
• git diff --check
• clud-review: clean

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Build and Release Improvements

  • Release workflows can now be retried automatically when relevant workflow configuration changes.
  • Native builds use updated cross-compilation tooling, shared Apple SDK settings, target-specific compiler diagnostics, and controlled parallelism.

• Tests

  • Added coverage to verify native release workflow configuration and toolchain requirements.

• Maintenance

  • Reordered public package exports without changing functionality.

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

The release workflows now respond to workflow-file changes and use updated Soldr toolchains, shared toolchain settings, bounded concurrency, and target-specific compiler flags. Tests validate these settings. The Python export list was reordered without changing its contents.

Changes

Native release workflow

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Release workflow triggers .github/workflows/release-auto.yml	The release workflow also triggers when either release workflow file changes.
Native build settings .github/workflows/template_native_build.yml	The workflow adds shared concurrency limits, target-specific compiler flags, and a shared Soldr toolchain origin. It updates the setup-soldr pin and removes the redundant step-scoped origin.
Workflow policy validation crates/fbuild-python/tests/pyo3_policy.rs	The test validates the Soldr version, toolchain origin, target flags, concurrency limits, and workflow dependencies.

Python export ordering

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Export list ordering python/fbuild/__init__.py	The __version__ entry moves after the daemon class names. The exported names remain unchanged.

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to e0441

The release workflow changes toolchain, concurrency, and compiler settings, while the added policy test could pass even if those settings are placed incorrectly. This leaves a bounded risk that a future release regression escapes detection; the PR remains mergeable with owner follow-up to make the assertions structure-aware.

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Docstring Coverage	✅ Passed	Docstring coverage is 100.00% which is sufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 2 functions across 2 files. (2 skipped: 2 …
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Inline comments:
In `@crates/fbuild-python/tests/pyo3_policy.rs`:
- Around line 105-138: Replace the broad workflow text contains checks in the
policy test with structure-aware assertions using the existing YAML parser or
helper. Verify version 0.9.6 on the setup-soldr step, and verify
SOLDR_TOOLCHAIN_ORIGIN, each target CFLAGS entry, and both job-limit variables
as job-level env fields; keep the release workflow inclusion checks scoped to
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