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Summary

Region retirement removes a far region some fifteen seconds after a teleport, rather than keeping it until its simulator sends DisableSimulator about a minute later, and it closed the region's circuit on the viewer alone. Before the circuit fixes in #617 that close did nothing. With them it does, and the simulator, not told, resent every reliable packet that went unacked and pinged until it timed the circuit out: some 35 seconds of packets dropped as off-circuit, each one logged, in a session on a live grid.

• The circuit is now left for the simulator to close with DisableSimulator, as it would be without retirement. Until then the viewer acks what the simulator sends and answers its pings. Its messages for the region that is gone are dropped as before.
• The object updates and layer data among those messages now warn once for each region or simulator rather than once each. A DisableSimulator for a region already retired closes the circuit without warning that the region is missing.
• AlchemyRetireDepartedRegionsCloseCircuit, off by default, closes the circuit at once instead, through the new LLMessageSystem::closeCircuit. It sends the simulator CloseCircuit once, unreliably, then disables the circuit.

Test plan

• Rebased onto develop with the patch unchanged. Develop's changes to message.* since its old base include The reliable UDP circuit times its resends and acks as meant, and closes and dedupes as meant #617, which this builds on.
• CI build and tests on this base, including message_test's new closeCircuit cases. It has not been rebuilt locally since the rebase.
• In world: teleport far, wait past retirement, and check the log has no run of off-circuit packets from the old simulator.
• In world, with AlchemyRetireDepartedRegionsCloseCircuit on: how a simulator takes the viewer's CloseCircuit on a circuit the agent has left is not yet seen.

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Summary

Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features
  • Added an option to close a retired region’s connection immediately and notify the simulator. This option is off by default; normally, the simulator closes the connection.
• Bug Fixes
  • Improved handling of simulator disconnects when no matching region is present.
  • Reduced repeated warnings for invalid region data and updates from unknown regions.

Region retirement now leaves circuits open for DisableSimulator by default, with an optional setting for immediate CloseCircuit messages. Unknown-region warnings are limited, and simulator removal checks for an existing region.

Changes: Circuit Closure During Region Retirement

Layer / File(s)	Summary
CloseCircuit API and packet tests indra/llmessage/message.h, indra/llmessage/message.cpp, indra/llmessage/tests/message_test.cpp	LLMessageSystem adds closeCircuit. It sends a CloseCircuit packet when circuit data exists, then disables the circuit. Tests cover packet contents and closing a host with no circuit.
Region retirement circuit policy indra/newview/app_settings/settings_alchemy.xml, indra/newview/alregionretirement.cpp, indra/newview/alregionretirement.h	Retirement leaves the circuit open by default for the simulator’s DisableSimulator. The new AlchemyRetireDepartedRegionsCloseCircuit setting enables immediate closure with CloseCircuit.

Unknown Region Handling

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Unknown-region updates and simulator removal indra/newview/llworld.cpp, indra/newview/llviewermessage.cpp, indra/newview/llviewerobjectlist.cpp	DisableSimulator removes a region only if one exists for the sender host. Warnings for layer and object updates from unknown regions are emitted once per call site.

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~15 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant ALRegionRetirement
  participant LLMessageSystem
  participant Simulator
  participant LLWorld
  alt Immediate closure is enabled
    ALRegionRetirement->>LLMessageSystem: closeCircuit(host)
    LLMessageSystem->>Simulator: Send CloseCircuit
    LLMessageSystem->>LLMessageSystem: disableCircuit(host)
  else Immediate closure is disabled
    Simulator->>LLWorld: Send DisableSimulator
    LLWorld->>LLWorld: Remove region if present
    LLWorld->>LLMessageSystem: Disable circuit
  end

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Possibly related PRs

• AlchemyViewer/Alchemy#617: Changes circuit timing and removal behavior that PR #623 relies on.
• AlchemyViewer/Alchemy#601: Introduces the region-retirement flow that this change updates.

Suggested labels: c/cpp, llmessage, viewer

Suggested reviewers: taylnos

Merge Risk: Minimal · up to d7286

No concrete merge-blocking issue remains. The suggested assertions would strengthen regression coverage for circuit closure.

Pre-merge checks: 4 · 1

Failed checks: 1 warning

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Docstring Coverage		Docstring coverage is 30.00% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff with cyclomatic complexity of at least 2. Documenta…	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

Passed checks: 4 passed

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check		The title clearly describes the primary behavior change: leaving a retired region's circuit for the simulator to close.
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_{A rabbit checks the circuit gate,
Then sends a close note, neat and straight.
If none is there, it skips the call,
The region waits for sim’s word,
While quiet logs record it all.}

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Follow-up Comments

Assert that closeCircuit removes the existing circuit.

266-276: Trivial · Maintainability & Code Quality · Quick win

Assert that closeCircuit removes the existing circuit.

The new positive test checks only the CloseCircuit packet bytes after system.closeCircuit(peer.host()). An implementation that sends the packet but skips disableCircuit still passes this test. No other test calls closeCircuit on a host that has an existing circuit, so the local removal is not covered.

🧪 Suggested fix

         system.closeCircuit(peer.host());
+        CHECK(system.mCircuitInfo.findCircuit(peer.host()) == nullptr);
 
         // The six-byte header, then CloseCircuit's number as a Fixed

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Review comment at @indra/llmessage/tests/message_test.cpp around lines 266 -
276:
Extend the positive closeCircuit test to verify that the existing circuit for
peer.host() is removed from system.mCircuitInfo after
system.closeCircuit(peer.host()), while retaining the existing packet-byte
checks.

Assert that CloseCircuit is sent unreliably.

270-276: Trivial · Maintainability & Code Quality · Quick win

Assert that CloseCircuit is sent unreliably.

The closeCircuit test reads the extra-header length and message number bytes (packet[5] through packet[9]). It does not read the flags byte at packet[0]. closeCircuit sends the message with sendMessage, which is unreliable. A change that sent CloseCircuit reliably would set LL_RELIABLE_FLAG in packet[0] and leave the checked bytes unchanged, so this test would still pass. Add a check on that flag:

🧪 Suggested test assertion

         REQUIRE(packet.size() >= 10);
+        CHECK((packet[0] & LL_RELIABLE_FLAG) == 0);
         CHECK(packet[5] == 0);

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Review comment at @indra/llmessage/tests/message_test.cpp around lines 270 -
276:
Update the closeCircuit test to assert that packet[0] does not contain
LL_RELIABLE_FLAG, while preserving the existing packet-size and header-byte
checks.

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