Release 0.3.45

A mail stream that cannot be created at boot is a warning, not a
failed start.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -4,6 +4,10 @@ One line per change, grouped by the release that shipped it. Newest
 first. A release is a Cargo.toml bump plus a `v<version>` tag; the
 content repos pin the tag they run (see the end of this file).
 
+## 0.3.45 (2026-09-23)
+
+- A mail stream that cannot be created at boot (subjects owned by an older stream) is a warning, not a failed start; 0.3.44 took the kasse sites down for two minutes on the rename.
+
 ## 0.3.44 (2026-09-23)
 
 - The mail stream is named `mail` (was `WORMHOLE`); gdo 0.1.2 matches. Delete the old stream on each NATS after upgrading both.

Cargo.lock

@@ -3265,7 +3265,7 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "portal"
-version = "0.3.44"
+version = "0.3.45"
 dependencies = [
  "anyhow",
  "arc-swap",

Cargo.toml

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [package]
 name = "portal"
-version = "0.3.44"
+version = "0.3.45"
 edition = "2021"
 
 [lib]

src/main.rs

@@ -62,7 +62,12 @@ async fn main() -> anyhow::Result<()> {
     portal::events::store::ensure_stream(&jetstream).await?;
     // Outgoing mail waits here for gdo; a mail is never lost to gdo
     // being down, and never sent by portal itself.
-    portal::mail::ensure_stream(&jetstream).await?;
+    // Best-effort: a stream that already owns these subjects under an
+    // older name (a rename mid-upgrade) must not keep a site from
+    // booting; mail waits until the old stream is removed.
+    if let Err(e) = portal::mail::ensure_stream(&jetstream).await {
+        tracing::warn!("the mail stream could not be created: {e} - outgoing mail is off until a stream owns portal.mail.>");
+    }
 
     let oidc_state = Arc::new(oidc::Oidc::from_env().await?);