BLOODBORNE EXPERIMENTAL LINUX STANDALONE — 1.0.1-rc.1
10 October 2026

This replaces the withdrawn Linux 94de759 playtest. It is a fresh Linux build
of the repaired standalone application. It remains experimental; no live
Bloodborne/shadPS4 gameplay acceptance is claimed.

GAME DATA
The old archive contained the native event catalog. The replacement omits the
original event catalog, original event bodies and game input databases. Enemy
and boss randomization reads the player's unpacked game data locally. The known
game-payload distribution audit passes. Private validation fixtures were kept
outside the release package.

LICENSES AND SOURCE
BBStandaloneItemWriter and BBStandaloneEnemyWriter link SoulsFormatsNEXT and
are distributed under GPLv3, with their corresponding source, upstream changes,
dependency sources, build recipe, license and source/binary hashes. The Python
app retains MIT. The root MIT grant does not relicense the native executables.

ZstdNet and libzstd are built from the included reviewed sources. The Linux
profile removes Windows DLL-copy rules and uses libzstd.so. .NET 9.0.20 is
self-contained; its Linux package's repository revision matches the included
exact runtime source. Original .NET and dependency notices accompany it.

53 frozen ELF runtime files were matched byte-for-byte to their Ubuntu package
files, spanning 29 binary packages and 27 source packages. Original copyright
notices, referenced common license texts and the matching source-package
archives are included. PyInstaller's original license exception and exact
version source archive are included. Editable Python source and a Docker build
recipe are under source-app. No source download from the author's GitHub is
needed to obtain these materials; rebuilding still uses normal toolchain and
NuGet downloads.

LINUX REPAIRS AND REQUIREMENTS
Native-writer lookup and frozen-executable recognition now support extensionless
Linux executable names. The archive preserves executable permissions. Both CLI
and GUI share the same runtime. Python and .NET installations are not required.

This replacement targets Ubuntu 24.04 / glibc 2.39 or newer, rather than the old
playtest's glibc 2.35 baseline. It needs system OpenSSL 3, ICU, zlib and an X11
or XWayland display. Read README-Linux.txt before running. BBLauncher and shadPS4
are separate applications.

VERIFICATION
44 app tests pass on Linux (and on Windows for the shared filename changes).
The actual final archive was extracted and tested with an empty executable
PATH and Python/.NET environment variables removed. CLI/GUI executable startup,
version reporting, every bundled JSON/TSV file, reviewed/expanded enemy planning
(308 / 1,605 swaps), boss planning, real item generation, same-seed repeatability,
different-seed output, export/verification and refusal checks pass.

A GUI window opened under a virtual X display. The source-built libzstd reports
1.4.5 and passes compression/decompression round-trip validation. Every archive
member matches the packaged file hash, and executable permissions are checked.
RELEASE-VERIFICATION.json records these results and the archive checksum.

LIMITS
No live gameplay, Steam Deck or older-distribution acceptance is claimed. These
are engineering/source/package checks, not legal certification or a universal
copyright detector. The old Linux archive stays withdrawn. The Linux AP launcher
is a separate product and is not restored by this release.