chore(release): v1.28.27 — runs on CPUs without AVX2

The bundled Skia x64 build (document thumbnails, scanned-PDF rasterization)
uses AVX2 instructions; on an x86-64 host without them — Celeron/Atom-class
NAS CPUs, pre-2013 Xeons, VMs masking CPU flags — the first canvas call is an
uncatchable SIGILL that kills the process and crash-loops the container (live
incident: a Synology DS1520+, exit 132 ~18 s after every boot, reported with
kernel traps and the correct root cause in hand).

The renderer is now gated on a one-time CPU-feature check before the module
ever loads: linux/x64 requires the avx2 cpuinfo flag; arm64 and non-Linux are
unaffected; unreadable cpuinfo fails open. Behind a closed gate, thumbnail
generation and PDF rasterization take their existing fail-soft paths (vault
shows type icons; PDFs read as text) and the boot-time thumbnail backfill
skips enqueueing. NATIVE_CANVAS=off|on overrides detection, documented in the
env example and whitelisted in compose.

.env.production.example

@@ -270,3 +270,12 @@ API_TOKEN_HMAC_KEY="<openssl rand -hex 32>"
 # force the public-host guard, so an internal instance is not blocked).
 # OPENMETEO_BASE_URL="https://archive-api.open-meteo.com"
 # OPENMETEO_GEOCODING_URL="https://geocoding-api.open-meteo.com"
+
+# ── Native canvas renderer (document thumbnails, scanned-PDF rasterization) ──
+# The bundled renderer's x64 build uses AVX2 CPU instructions. On x86-64 hosts
+# WITHOUT AVX2 (Celeron/Atom-class NAS CPUs) it is disabled automatically and
+# those features degrade cleanly (no thumbnails; scanned PDFs read as text
+# only). Override only if auto-detection misfires:
+#   off — force-disable the renderer
+#   on  — force-enable (crashes the container if the CPU truly lacks AVX2)
+# NATIVE_CANVAS="off"

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -2,6 +2,19 @@
 
 ## [Unreleased]
 
+## [1.28.27] — 2026-07-11 — Runs on CPUs without AVX2
+
+Self-hosts on older x86-64 CPUs — Celeron/Atom-class NAS boxes, pre-2013
+Xeons, and VMs that mask newer CPU flags — crashed in a restart loop since the
+document renderer arrived: the bundled rasterizer uses AVX2 instructions, and
+a CPU without them kills the whole process the first time a thumbnail or a
+scanned-PDF render runs. The renderer is now gated on a one-time CPU-feature
+check: on unsupported hardware, thumbnails and scanned-PDF rasterization
+simply switch off (the vault shows type icons; PDFs are read as text) while
+everything else runs normally. `NATIVE_CANVAS=off|on` overrides the detection
+if ever needed. Reported by a self-hoster with kernel traps in hand — thanks,
+that made it a same-day fix.
+
 ## [1.28.26] — 2026-07-11 — Internal restructuring for maintainability
 
 No user-facing change. Eight of the largest source files were split along

docker-compose.yml

@@ -80,6 +80,7 @@ services:
       # whitelist — vars not listed here don't propagate even though
       # docker-compose reads .env for `${VAR}` substitution at compose-up time).
       SESSION_COOKIE_SECURE: "${SESSION_COOKIE_SECURE:-}"
+      NATIVE_CANVAS: "${NATIVE_CANVAS:-}"
       # v1.18.11 (W3) — client-IP resolution + geo lookup. Behind Cloudflare
       # the real visitor IP is in `cf-connecting-ip`; set
       # TRUST_CF_CONNECTING_IP=1 ONLY when Cloudflare is in front (off by

docs/api/openapi.yaml

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 openapi: 3.1.0
 info:
   title: HealthLog API
-  version: 1.28.26
+  version: 1.28.27
   description: >-
     Self-hosted personal-health-tracking PWA — public API surface for the iOS native client and external ingest.
 

package.json

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "healthlog",
-  "version": "1.28.26",
+  "version": "1.28.27",
   "description": "Self-hosted personal-health-tracking PWA with Withings integration, AI insights, and doctor-report PDF export.",
   "license": "PolyForm-Noncommercial-1.0.0",
   "homepage": "https://healthlog.dev",

public/sw.js

@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ try {
 // v1.4.38.4 → v1.4.42. Do not hand-edit; bump `package.json` and rebuild.
 const CACHE_VERSION =
   (typeof self !== "undefined" && self.__APP_VERSION__) ||
-  /* @sw-version-fallback */ "v1.28.26";
+  /* @sw-version-fallback */ "v1.28.27";
 const STATIC_CACHE = `healthlog-static-${CACHE_VERSION}`;
 const PAGE_CACHE = `healthlog-pages-${CACHE_VERSION}`;
 // v1.18.6 — read-only data cache for a curated allowlist of safe GET `/api/*`

src/lib/documents/__tests__/native-canvas-support.test.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,120 @@
+/**
+ * Pins the CPU-feature gate for the native canvas renderer: the bundled Skia
+ * x64 build uses AVX2, and loading it on a CPU without AVX2 is an uncatchable
+ * SIGILL that crash-loops the whole container (live incident on a Celeron
+ * NAS). The gate must (a) close on linux/x64 without the avx2 flag, (b) stay
+ * open everywhere else, (c) honour the NATIVE_CANVAS override in both
+ * directions, and (d) make generateThumbnail fail soft without ever loading
+ * the module.
+ */
+import { afterEach, beforeEach, describe, expect, it, vi } from "vitest";
+
+const { readFileSyncMock } = vi.hoisted(() => ({
+  readFileSyncMock: vi.fn(),
+}));
+vi.mock("node:fs", () => ({ readFileSync: readFileSyncMock }));
+
+import {
+  nativeCanvasSupported,
+  __resetNativeCanvasSupportForTests,
+} from "../native-canvas-support";
+
+const FLAGS_WITH_AVX2 =
+  "flags\t\t: fpu vme sse sse2 ssse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 avx avx2 bmi1\n";
+const FLAGS_WITHOUT_AVX2 =
+  "flags\t\t: fpu vme sse sse2 ssse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 rdrand\n";
+
+function onLinuxX64(fn: () => void): void {
+  const platform = Object.getOwnPropertyDescriptor(process, "platform")!;
+  const arch = Object.getOwnPropertyDescriptor(process, "arch")!;
+  Object.defineProperty(process, "platform", { value: "linux" });
+  Object.defineProperty(process, "arch", { value: "x64" });
+  try {
+    fn();
+  } finally {
+    Object.defineProperty(process, "platform", platform);
+    Object.defineProperty(process, "arch", arch);
+  }
+}
+
+beforeEach(() => {
+  __resetNativeCanvasSupportForTests();
+  readFileSyncMock.mockReset();
+  delete process.env.NATIVE_CANVAS;
+});
+
+afterEach(() => {
+  delete process.env.NATIVE_CANVAS;
+});
+
+describe("nativeCanvasSupported", () => {
+  it("closes on linux/x64 when /proc/cpuinfo lacks the avx2 flag", () => {
+    readFileSyncMock.mockReturnValue(`processor: 0\n${FLAGS_WITHOUT_AVX2}`);
+    onLinuxX64(() => {
+      expect(nativeCanvasSupported()).toBe(false);
+    });
+  });
+
+  it("stays open on linux/x64 with avx2 present", () => {
+    readFileSyncMock.mockReturnValue(`processor: 0\n${FLAGS_WITH_AVX2}`);
+    onLinuxX64(() => {
+      expect(nativeCanvasSupported()).toBe(true);
+    });
+  });
+
+  it("fails OPEN when cpuinfo is unreadable (exotic surface, keep today's behavior)", () => {
+    readFileSyncMock.mockImplementation(() => {
+      throw new Error("EACCES");
+    });
+    onLinuxX64(() => {
+      expect(nativeCanvasSupported()).toBe(true);
+    });
+  });
+
+  it("is always open off linux/x64 — AVX is an x86 concept", () => {
+    // The test process itself (darwin/arm64 or linux CI x64 WITH avx2) must
+    // never read cpuinfo on non-x64; simulate arm64 explicitly.
+    const arch = Object.getOwnPropertyDescriptor(process, "arch")!;
+    Object.defineProperty(process, "arch", { value: "arm64" });
+    try {
+      expect(nativeCanvasSupported()).toBe(true);
+      expect(readFileSyncMock).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
+    } finally {
+      Object.defineProperty(process, "arch", arch);
+    }
+  });
+
+  it("honours NATIVE_CANVAS=off and =on over detection", () => {
+    process.env.NATIVE_CANVAS = "off";
+    expect(nativeCanvasSupported()).toBe(false);
+
+    __resetNativeCanvasSupportForTests();
+    process.env.NATIVE_CANVAS = "on";
+    readFileSyncMock.mockReturnValue(FLAGS_WITHOUT_AVX2);
+    onLinuxX64(() => {
+      expect(nativeCanvasSupported()).toBe(true);
+    });
+  });
+
+  it("caches the verdict per process", () => {
+    readFileSyncMock.mockReturnValue(`processor: 0\n${FLAGS_WITH_AVX2}`);
+    onLinuxX64(() => {
+      nativeCanvasSupported();
+      nativeCanvasSupported();
+    });
+    expect(readFileSyncMock).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(1);
+  });
+});
+
+describe("generateThumbnail behind a closed gate", () => {
+  it("fails soft without loading the canvas module", async () => {
+    process.env.NATIVE_CANVAS = "off";
+    __resetNativeCanvasSupportForTests();
+    const { generateThumbnail } = await import("../thumbnail");
+    const result = await generateThumbnail(
+      Buffer.from([0xff, 0xd8, 0xff]),
+      "image/jpeg",
+    );
+    expect(result).toEqual({ ok: false });
+  });
+});

src/lib/documents/native-canvas-support.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,79 @@
+/**
+ * v1.28.27 — CPU-feature gate for the native canvas renderer.
+ *
+ * The bundled `@napi-rs/canvas` (Skia) x64 builds use AVX2 instructions. On an
+ * x86-64 host WITHOUT AVX2 — Celeron/Atom-class NAS CPUs (Goldmont Plus and
+ * older) are the common self-hosting case — the first canvas call dies with
+ * SIGILL (`trap invalid opcode … in skia.linux-x64-musl.node`), which kills the
+ * whole Node process and puts the container into an infinite restart loop
+ * (live incident: a Synology DS1520+ self-host, exit code 132 ~18 s after
+ * every boot once the thumbnail backfill touched Skia).
+ *
+ * A SIGILL cannot be caught in-process, so the only safe posture is to never
+ * load the module on an unsupported CPU. Every canvas consumer (document
+ * thumbnails, scanned-PDF rasterization) already has a fail-soft path — with
+ * the gate closed those features degrade cleanly (no thumbnails, PDFs read as
+ * text/native only) while the rest of the app runs normally.
+ *
+ * Detection: Linux x64 reads `/proc/cpuinfo` once and requires the `avx2`
+ * flag. Non-x64 (the arm64 image) and non-Linux (dev machines) are always
+ * supported — AVX is an x86 concept. The optional `NATIVE_CANVAS` env var
+ * overrides: `off` force-disables (e.g. to rule the renderer out while
+ * debugging), `on` force-enables (only sensible if detection misfires; on a
+ * CPU that truly lacks AVX2 this WILL crash the process). Unset or any other
+ * value → auto-detection.
+ */
+import { readFileSync } from "node:fs";
+
+import { annotate } from "@/lib/logging/context";
+
+let cached: boolean | null = null;
+let announced = false;
+
+/** Read the gate once per process; logs a single annotation when closed. */
+export function nativeCanvasSupported(): boolean {
+  if (cached === null) {
+    cached = detect();
+  }
+  if (!cached && !announced) {
+    announced = true;
+    annotate({
+      action: { name: "documents.nativeCanvas.unsupported" },
+      meta: {
+        reason: "cpu_missing_avx2",
+        arch: process.arch,
+        platform: process.platform,
+      },
+    });
+  }
+  return cached;
+}
+
+function detect(): boolean {
+  const override = process.env.NATIVE_CANVAS?.trim().toLowerCase();
+  if (override === "off") return false;
+  if (override === "on") return true;
+
+  // AVX is an x86 instruction-set concept; the arm64 image and non-Linux dev
+  // hosts never hit the SIGILL class.
+  if (process.platform !== "linux" || process.arch !== "x64") return true;
+
+  try {
+    const cpuinfo = readFileSync("/proc/cpuinfo", "utf8");
+    const flagsLine = cpuinfo
+      .split("\n")
+      .find((line) => line.startsWith("flags"));
+    // No flags line = exotic kernel surface; fail OPEN to today's behavior
+    // rather than silently disabling a working renderer.
+    if (!flagsLine) return true;
+    return /\bavx2\b/.test(flagsLine);
+  } catch {
+    return true;
+  }
+}
+
+/** Test hook — the gate is process-cached by design. */
+export function __resetNativeCanvasSupportForTests(): void {
+  cached = null;
+  announced = false;
+}

src/lib/documents/rasterize-pdf.ts

@@ -34,6 +34,8 @@ import { Buffer } from "node:buffer";
 
 import { annotate } from "@/lib/logging/context";
 
+import { nativeCanvasSupported } from "./native-canvas-support";
+
 /**
  * Whether the PDF rasterizer is available in this build. The native
  * `@napi-rs/canvas` binary is compiled in and traced into the standalone image
@@ -123,6 +125,17 @@ export async function rasterizePdf(
   maxPages: number = RASTER_MAX_PAGES,
 ): Promise<RasterResult> {
   let doc: PdfDocument | null = null;
+  // CPU-feature gate: pdfjs renders through @napi-rs/canvas (Skia), whose x64
+  // build uses AVX2 — an unsupported CPU dies with an uncatchable SIGILL on
+  // the first render. Degrade to the existing no-raster path instead (scanned
+  // PDFs stay unreadable for image-only providers; everything else works).
+  if (!nativeCanvasSupported()) {
+    annotate({
+      action: { name: "documents.rasterize.failed" },
+      meta: { reason: "native_canvas_unsupported" },
+    });
+    return { ok: false };
+  }
   try {
     // Lazy import: keeps pdfjs (DOMMatrix) + @napi-rs/canvas out of the eager
     // server chunk. Resolved at first rasterization, then module-cached.

src/lib/documents/thumbnail.ts

@@ -28,6 +28,8 @@
  */
 import { Buffer } from "node:buffer";
 
+import { nativeCanvasSupported } from "./native-canvas-support";
+
 import { rasterizePdf } from "@/lib/documents/rasterize-pdf";
 import { annotate } from "@/lib/logging/context";
 
@@ -217,6 +219,18 @@ export async function generateThumbnail(
   mimeType: string,
 ): Promise<ThumbnailResult> {
   try {
+    // CPU-feature gate BEFORE the module ever loads: the bundled Skia x64
+    // build uses AVX2, and on a CPU without it the first canvas call is an
+    // uncatchable SIGILL that kills the whole process (crash-loop incident on
+    // a Celeron NAS). With the gate closed, thumbnails simply do not exist —
+    // the vault falls back to kind icons.
+    if (!nativeCanvasSupported()) {
+      annotate({
+        action: { name: "documents.thumbnail.rejected" },
+        meta: { reason: "native_canvas_unsupported" },
+      });
+      return { ok: false };
+    }
     // Lazy import: keeps @napi-rs/canvas (+ transitively pdfjs on the PDF path)
     // out of the eager server chunk. Resolved on first generation, then cached.
     const napi =

src/lib/jobs/document-thumbnail-backfill.ts

@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@
  * (`src/lib/jobs/reminder/register-maintenance.ts`) so pg-boss provisions it.
  */
 import { prisma } from "@/lib/db";
+import { nativeCanvasSupported } from "@/lib/documents/native-canvas-support";
 import { getGlobalBoss } from "@/lib/jobs/boss-instance";
 import { enqueueDocumentThumbnail } from "@/lib/jobs/document-thumbnail";
 import { annotate } from "@/lib/logging/context";
@@ -107,6 +108,10 @@ export async function enqueueBootTimeThumbnailBackfill(): Promise<{
   const boss = getGlobalBoss();
   if (!boss) return { enqueued: 0 };
 
+  // On a CPU the bundled Skia build cannot run on (no AVX2), thumbnail jobs
+  // would only churn the queue — every generation no-ops behind the gate.
+  if (!nativeCanvasSupported()) return { enqueued: 0 };
+
   // Distinct users with at least one thumbnailable, not-yet-thumbnailed doc.
   const rows = await prisma.inboundDocument.findMany({
     where: {