feat: new-release detector tools + missing 25H2 V2 China catalog entries #36

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starkSV merged 2 commits from feat/check-new-releases-script into main 2026-07-14 11:29:25 +05:30

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Shekhar Vaidya
c30c2d2b3b docs: finish check-new-releases README rewrite
Prior commit staged an intermediate version of this file. Completes
the Method 1 / Method 2 writeup with usage examples, the comparison
table, and the field-name bug/session-permit history.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-14 11:10:11 +05:30
Shekhar Vaidya
da8787e93a feat: add check-new-releases tools; fix msdls_v3.py; add missing 25H2 V2 China variants
Moves msdls_v3.py from repo root into scripts/check-new-releases/,
alongside a new Go tool, documented as Method 1 (Python brute-force
range scan, can write results to a catalog-shaped JSON) and Method 2
(Go auto-discovery via page-scrape + bounded adjacent-ID probe, no
range-guessing needed). Only Windows 11 is checked -- 8.1 is fully
frozen and Windows 10 is past end-of-life, so neither will produce a
new consumer ISO again.

Fixed msdls_v3.py's release-name extraction: it checked EditionName/
ReleaseName/FriendlyName, none of which exist in the real API
response -- the actual field is ProductDisplayName, confirmed live.
Also added the vlscppe session-permit call to setup_session(), which
was skipped entirely; higher-risk gap for this script's brute-force
range-scan usage pattern than for a single lookup.

Both tools' live runs surfaced a real catalog gap: product IDs
3322/3323/3325/3326 (Home/Pro China variants of the 25H2 "V2" refresh)
exist on Microsoft's side but weren't in our catalog. Added them to
cli/catalog.go, products.json, validContributeProducts, and
sitemap.xml, and renamed 3321/3324 from our own guessed "(Updated
Oct)" label to Microsoft's actual name for this refresh, "(V2)"
(their internal name is "Windows 11 25H2__V2"; cleaned up the
double-underscore for user-facing display).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-14 11:07:45 +05:30