fix: clear TLS and GC-spill release blockers

[proggeramlug]

Summary

• keep the stdlib TLS server/preflight provider when net, http, https, or http2 routes to the optimized external wrappers
• split bundled and external js_tls_connect adapters so the external path does not reintroduce duplicate net symbols
• root all external TLS connect inputs across user-replaced createSecureContext and preflight callbacks
• accept the enriched root-spill diagnostic in the mixed-frame cargo integration test
• cover both feature-selection routes and both Node tls.connect overloads

Release blockers

This fixes the _js_tls_client_preflight undefined-symbol compile failures in the gap and GC-stress suites, including test_gap_gc_http2_pending_event_callback_rooting, plus the cargo integration test that rejected the current root-spill diagnostic despite observing the expected spills.

Local verification

• cargo fmt --all -- --check
• cargo check -p perry-stdlib --no-default-features --features external-net-tls
• cargo check -p perry-stdlib --no-default-features --features tls
• focused perry tests for external and direct TLS feature selection
• cargo check -p perry-ext-net
• cargo test -p perry-ext-net --lib (30 passed)
• Node oracle for the new options/positional TLS rooting parity fixture
• test-registration checker and self-test
• clean-runner evidence for the root-spill diagnostic from CI run 32739246257

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

The optimized library compiler now separates shared TLS runtime support from bundled networking. External net and HTTP modules use external TLS transport, while direct TLS imports retain bundled TLS behavior.

Changes

External TLS transport

Layer / File(s)	Summary
TLS transport feature finalization crates/perry-stdlib/Cargo.toml, crates/perry/src/commands/compile/optimized_libs/..., crates/perry/src/commands/compile/optimized_libs/tests.rs, changelog.d/...	The compiler selects external-net-tls for external net and HTTP transport. Bundled TLS features are removed. Direct TLS imports retain tls. Regression tests cover both configurations.
Shared TLS runtime dispatch crates/perry-stdlib/src/common/..., crates/perry-stdlib/src/lib.rs, crates/perry-stdlib/src/tls/module_api.rs	TLS runtime gates use tls-runtime. TLS connect dispatch selects bundled networking, external TLS FFI, or an unavailable implementation.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟠 High · up to b9bf0

The external TLS path can lose request options or callbacks during garbage collection before the connection is dispatched, risking incorrect behavior or crashes in affected HTTP/TLS builds. The PR is not merge-ready until the arguments are rooted and the release metadata is updated.

Suggested reviewers: jdalton, thehypnoo

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant OptimizedLibDriver
  participant PerryStdlibFeatures
  participant TLSModuleAPI
  participant ExternalTLSFFI
  OptimizedLibDriver->>PerryStdlibFeatures: enable external-net-tls and remove bundled features
  PerryStdlibFeatures->>TLSModuleAPI: compile external TLS dispatch
  TLSModuleAPI->>ExternalTLSFFI: call external TLS connect symbol

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🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 5

✅ Passed checks (5 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Docstring Coverage	✅ Passed	Docstring check was indeterminate for this PR — some files could not be analyzed in time. Not blocking.
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly identifies the TLS and GC-spill release blockers addressed by the pull request.
Description check	✅ Passed	The description provides a clear summary, concrete changes, release-blocker context, and detailed local verification, although it omits template headings and checklist items.

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Inline comments:
In `@crates/perry-stdlib/Cargo.toml`:
- Around line 203-212: Update the workspace package release version to 0.5.1520
and synchronize the corresponding version reference in CLAUDE.md, preserving all
other dependency feature configuration unchanged.

Apply the same fix in `@crates/perry-stdlib/Cargo.toml` around lines 209 - 212.

In `@crates/perry-stdlib/src/tls/module_api.rs`:
- Around line 20-31: Update the external TLS dispatch path around js_tls_connect
and js_tls_prepare_connect to create a perry_ffi::TransientRootScope, root
metadata_options, callback, and all derived GC-managed arguments before
allocating runtime calls, then re-read each rooted value with .get() before
every subsequent use. Add GC-stress coverage for both the options-object
overload and the (port, host, options, callback) overload.

Apply the same fix in `@crates/perry-stdlib/src/tls/module_api.rs` around lines 25
- 31.

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• changelog.d/8754-external-http-tls-preflight.md
• crates/perry-stdlib/Cargo.toml
• crates/perry-stdlib/src/common/async_bridge.rs
• crates/perry-stdlib/src/common/dispatch/init.rs
• crates/perry-stdlib/src/common/dispatch/method_dispatch.rs
• crates/perry-stdlib/src/common/dispatch/property_dispatch.rs
• crates/perry-stdlib/src/lib.rs
• crates/perry-stdlib/src/tls/module_api.rs
• crates/perry/src/commands/compile/optimized_libs/driver.rs
• crates/perry/src/commands/compile/optimized_libs/tests.rs

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[proggeramlug]

Landed on main via #8759 (squash 8922c4245), with #8757. Release blockers cleared.

I verified the rooting rather than taking it from the summary — root_scope.root_nanbox(arg1..arg4) covers all four connect inputs, and the gap fixture plus expected output (test_issue_8754_tls_connect_args_gc_rooting) back it. Rooting across createSecureContext and the preflight callback matters precisely because both can run arbitrary user JS.

I also checked the one change that could have been a quiet weakening: the mixed-frame integration test now matches "in a shadow frame instead of statepoints" rather than "GC roots in a shadow frame". That's a more specific substring and still requires the spill to have happened, so it's a tightening. Good.

Validated on the merged result: all 30 lint checkers, runtime 2673/0 at RUST_TEST_THREADS=1, codegen 1229/0, stdlib 120/0.