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The Python cell of the Cache stampede prevention row read "✅ Async decorators via backend lock; sync path none by design". That has been stale since cachekit 0.23.0 (PyPI, 2026-10-18), the first release carrying the in-process single-flight from cachekit-py#547: its merge commit is an ancestor of the v0.23.0 tag and not of v0.22.0.

The cell now states in-process single-flight with a 0.23.0+ floor, for the async path with a backend, @cache(backend=None) and @cache.local(), and for the sync path with @cache(backend=None) and @cache.local(). The async path coalesces per event loop, not per process: a caller on another thread's loop runs its own call (test_a_caller_on_another_event_loop_runs_its_own_call), so the cell says so. It keeps the remaining gap visible: the sync path with a backend takes no lock and does not coalesce, so every concurrent miss there runs the function. That gap is why the rating moves from ✅ to ⚠️, the convention the row group already uses for a mode-partial capability (the Python client-L1 SWR cell). The async backed sharing is qualified to a result that serializes. A joined caller that gets no envelope it can decode takes its own trip, so an unserializable result runs once per caller. In multi-tenant encryption, a caller whose tenant cannot be extracted never joins a flight (async_wrapper in decorators/wrapper.py of the 0.24.1 wheel). The L1-only and @cache.local() modes share an unserializable result unchanged. No other cell or row changes.

Re-check against the latest published wheel

On 2026-10-24, PyPI's latest cachekit is 0.24.1 (published 2026-10-21). Each install came straight from PyPI (uv run --no-project --isolated --python 3.12 --with "cachekit==<v>"), with no source tree on the import path.

  • tests/unit/test_single_flight.py from the v0.24.1 tag: 67 passed against the 0.24.1 wheel. The same file from the v0.23.0 tag: 67 passed against the 0.23.0 wheel. Its module docstring states the scope: "the sync backed path takes no lock and is not coalesced".
  • A cold herd of 20 concurrent calls on one key in one process:
Mode 0.24.1 0.23.0 0.22.0
async, lockable backend: runs 1 1 20
async, lockable backend: backend requests 2 GET, 1 lock, 1 SET (one lone call's) same 40 GET, 20 lock, 20 SET
async, backend without a lock: runs 1 1 20
async, lockable backend, result the serializer rejects (object()) 20 runs; 40 GET, 20 lock, 0 SET same same
async @cache(backend=None) / @cache.local() 1 run each, same object to every caller same 20 runs each
sync @cache(backend=None) / @cache.local(), 20 threads 1 run each, same object to every caller same 20 runs each
sync, lockable backend, 20 threads 20 runs, 0 locks same same

The backends are in-memory counting doubles modelled on the one in tests/unit/test_single_flight.py; no remote backend was used.

docs.cachekit.io already gives the 0.23.0 floor (cachekit-io/docs#161), so no docs-site change is needed. No changelog fragment: like #207, this is a one-cell rating correction with no spec change.

Checks: every step of verify.yml passes locally, including tools/test_check_version_floors.py, tools/check-version-floors.py and tools/conformance.py check --base origin/main.

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The Python cell of the Cache stampede prevention row still described the
pre-0.23.0 behaviour. cachekit 0.23.0 ships in-process single-flight
(cachekit-py#547) for the async path in every mode and for the sync path
without a backend. The sync path with a backend still does not coalesce,
so the cell moves to a partial rating and states that gap.
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    • Updated the Python cache guidance: async cold misses coalesce per event loop with or without a backend; sync misses coalesce per process only with backend=None or local().
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A joined caller that gets no decodable envelope takes its own trip, so a
herd whose result the serializer rejects runs once per caller, and a caller
whose tenant cannot be extracted shares nothing.
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