The image creates DB_BACKUP_DIR owned by the app user, so an install that
runs it without the backups volume could write there, and every nightly and
pre-migration dump landed in the container's own layer. The next update
threw them away while the admin page, the boot line and the readiness card
called them kept on this server.
A dump directory now counts as kept only when it survives the container:
inside a container (Docker, Podman, Kubernetes, a container cgroup or an
overlay root) the directory must sit on a mount of its own that is not a
tmpfs, read from /proc/self/mountinfo with a device-number fallback;
outside one, a writable directory is a disk. Otherwise no dump is written
there: the nightly run uploads off-host only and records not_persistent,
the pre-migration dump is skipped with a warning, the boot line says the
directory is inside the container, the backups page stops promising local
dumps and ignores local-only ledger rows, and readiness fails with no
bucket and notes the bucket-only setup otherwise.
The Unraid template gains a path for the dumps, the Unraid and TrueNAS
pages say why it is needed, and the restore drill first runs the stack
without the volume and checks that nothing is kept or claimed.
The per-account copies roll one account back on the same server; nothing
the app made could rebuild a lost one. A scheduled job now runs pg_dump
over the whole database (every schema, pg-boss included) into
DB_BACKUP_DIR as healthlog-<UTC time>-daily.dump, with a manifest beside
it: app version and build, newest migration, Postgres version, size and
SHA-256, exact row counts of every table, and the fingerprints of the
keys the database needs.
The counts read the same exported snapshot pg_dump reads, so a dump
taken while the app writes still matches its manifest. The archive is
written as .partial, listed back with pg_restore --list, and renamed
after its manifest; a failed run leaves nothing named like a good dump.
Retention removes only files this job wrote, oldest first, and never
the newest good one (DB_BACKUP_KEEP, default 7; two pre-migration dumps).
With the off-host bucket configured, each dump and its manifest go up
under database/ in the envelope the account copies use, streamed. Every
run lands in the new database_backup_runs ledger (migration 0486), and
getDatabaseBackupHealth() answers the last good dump, the last failure,
whether the directory is writable and whether off-host is configured.
The boot readiness summary says where dumps go, or that none can be kept.
The dump, naming, retention and restore rules live in one plain ESM
module so the image's own scripts can share them without tsx.
The event-loop monitor starts first in register(), so loading the
database client and the worker graph is inside its view, and a stall line
now carries the process uptime, the startup phase, the boot step running
at the time and the oldest work in flight. Each boot step is timed, and
the boot ends with one boot.steps line.
The five registrars and the lifecycle helpers are imported one at a time
after boss.start(), with a turn of the event loop in between, instead of
all at once when the worker module loads. The longest stall is then the
largest registrar graph rather than the sum of all five.
Migration 0434 turns the route opt-in on for every account that already
holds a stored workout track, so its tracks keep arriving after the
upgrade; only accounts without one start off.
Workouts stored before this release with a track but no elevation get
their metres climbed written into Workout.elevationM by a one-time
background pass. It runs detached at worker boot, reads one track at a
time with a pause between batches of 100, and keeps its position in
app_settings, so a restart resumes and a finished pass ends at once.
The "starting" health reason is bounded: after five minutes the probe
says plain degraded and the process logs one line, and the time the
background role took to come up is logged either way. The compose
healthcheck's ten-minute start period already keeps those probes from
counting; its comment now says so.
POST /api/measurements/batch ran one interactive reconciler transaction
per fresh sample: a savepoint, three advisory locks, two candidate reads
and the insert, about ten round trips. A 500-entry upload of new samples
was 500 of those, the 2 to 15 second outliers. Fresh samples now land
through INSERT ... ON CONFLICT DO NOTHING under the same per-account
advisory lock. Both measurement identities are full unique indexes, so
the statement inserts exactly what the reconciler would have inserted,
and every skipped row still goes through the reconciler for its own
verdict. Only rows whose external and natural keys each occur once in
the batch are buffered, and the buffer is flushed before any other row
is reconciled, so the order of effects stays the sequential one. The
contract and every per-entry status are unchanged; a golden test runs
each batch through both paths against the same table.
/api/health took seconds after a start because register() awaited the
whole pg-boss worker start (queues, schedules, boot discovery) before
the server took a request. The worker, or a web process's producer, now
starts in the background after the blocking boot checks; the probe
answers at once with reason "starting" until it is up, and gives the
database two seconds before calling it not answering.
Stored times are UTC in timestamp columns without a zone, and Postgres
reads now(), CURRENT_TIMESTAMP and offset-free timestamptz parameters
through the session time zone. On a database whose default is not UTC
every expiry check ran off by the offset. The Prisma pool, pg-boss, the
lock and the maintenance connections now send TimeZone=UTC as a startup
option, or SET it on connect when the startup options are disabled for
a pooler. A boot check reads SHOW TimeZone and warns on anything else.
The probe decided on the eight oldest values alone. An install
reinstalled under a fresh key long ago holds old rows sealed under a key
that is gone and all current data under the key it runs with; it works
today, and the check would refuse it with 503 on every request.
When every oldest value fails, the newest values of the same columns are
now sampled in reverse order. One that opens makes the verdict
inconclusive (mixed): the process serves, warns and probes again at the
next start. Only old and newest values that all fail are a mismatch. A
newest-only open never seals; sealing stays with the oldest-first rule.
Every probe query now runs in its own transaction under a
transaction-local statement_timeout (2 s), so a large or locked table
ends that column with an error and the probe as incomplete instead of
holding up the boot. The newest order is the exact mirror of the oldest,
so an index on the timestamp serves both directions.
The module comment lists the three conditions that still yield a
mismatch.
At a first start there is no recorded key yet, so an operator facing a
refusal they are certain is false has no row to delete. With
ENCRYPTION_KEY_CHECK=warn (default enforce) the check still runs and logs
its full outcome, /api/health names a mismatch as a warning field without
failing, requests are served, and no key is recorded unless every key id
passes.
The variable is on the compose whitelist, in both example files, the env
manifest, the Unraid and Portainer templates and the published-env guard.
The log block, the mismatch page and the self-hosting pages offer it as the
last resort after the three real fixes, and say that it disables a safety
check.
apiHandler answers 503 encryption.key_mismatch before auth, but the remote
MCP endpoint and the OAuth authorize, token and register routes wrap in
withBackgroundEvent instead and never checked. An MCP write tool could seal
new rows under the wrong key, and those rows would open under it at the
next boot.
The refusal moves into one helper used by apiHandler, /mcp (same envelope)
and the OAuth routes (RFC 6749 temporarily_unavailable with the error code
as an extension member). A structural test fails when a route outside
apiHandler, or a server action, lacks the refusal in every exported handler
and is not on a short allowlist of routes that never touch the database.
The boot key check recorded whatever key was configured whenever its probe
found nothing to try. It only read string columns, so an install whose
ciphertext sat in Bytes columns (notes, documents, ECG, symptoms) read as
empty; a probe that ran out of time did the same; and rows written by a
process that served under a wrong key could open on the next boot and get
that key recorded as the right one.
The probe now reads every registered column, string and Bytes, in all four
stored layouts, and tries the oldest values first, ordered by the row's
updatedAt (else createdAt, else primary key). A key is recorded only when
the oldest value that opens is preceded by at most one that does not, or
when no column holds a single value under the key id. A time-out, an
unreadable table, oversized values or mixed results are inconclusive: the
process serves, records nothing and checks again at the next start.
When the first insert loses a race, the stored record is read back and must
open under this process's key, else the outcome is a mismatch.
A rotation that walked every column without errors removes the record of
each previous key id that no longer holds any value. The refusal log block
and the self-hosting pages explain how to reset the check for a key id.
The boot check decided on the first value it found under a key id, so
one damaged or foreign-sealed row could take a correctly keyed server
down with 503 on every request. The probe now samples up to five
values, one per column first. One value that opens clears the key; a
mismatch needs at least two values and none opening. A single value
that does not open is inconclusive: the server keeps serving, writes no
canary, logs a warning and probes again at the next start.
Integration setup truncates encryption_key_canaries between tests.
Every configured key id now has a canary in encryption_key_canaries,
checked at boot. A key that cannot open its canary, or existing data
written before the canary existed, puts the process in a refusal state:
every API route answers 503 encryption.key_mismatch, /api/health reports
reason encryption_key_mismatch, the pages render one explanation, and
neither the queue producer nor the worker starts. The process stays up
so the reason is visible instead of hiding in a crash loop.
The admin Encryption page gains a "Back up your encryption key" step:
key id and fingerprint (never the key), where the key lives per
platform, a check of a pasted copy that is compared and discarded, and
a confirmation bound to the active key id and fingerprint. The overview
gets a tile and admins get a dashboard banner while it is due.
HEALTHLOG_PLATFORM picks the platform the step opens on. Adds the
TrueNAS self-hosting page and key backup sections in the docs.
Making `=true` grant nothing would stop a single-user self-host's local
model on a patch update. It is deprecated for one release cycle instead,
in a narrowed and safe form: it still grants a private host, but only to
the operator's own configurations (the instance-wide admin provider and
AI settings saved on an admin account), and only through the pinned
operator-approved dispatcher, so redirects stay forbidden and metadata,
link-local and unspecified addresses stay refused. A non-admin account's
own base URL needs an exact origin in AI_PRIVATE_ORIGINS.
Provider resolution passes the owning account's role to the client
(`operatorTrusted`); the save route and the connection test apply the
same rule to the account being configured. The boot summary now says the
setting is deprecated and names the replacement, and the admin AI
settings page shows the exact AI_PRIVATE_ORIGINS line for the private
origins saved on the instance (every account's Local and gateway URL and
the admin base URL, scheme, host and port only), so the operator can copy
it and drop the old setting.
ALLOW_LOCAL_AI_PRIVATE_HOSTS=true let any user of the instance point the
Local provider or the OpenAI-compatible gateway at any private address
the server could reach, the metadata range included, and a granted host
was dialled with no connect-time pin at all.
AI_PRIVATE_ORIGINS grants a private AI endpoint with the exact-origin
grammar NOTIFICATION_PRIVATE_ORIGINS and NIGHTSCOUT_PRIVATE_ORIGINS use.
A granted call goes through the pinned operator-approved dispatcher:
redirects forbidden, and metadata, link-local and unspecified answers
dropped at dial time even for a granted name. Everything else stays on
the public pin. The Local client (buffered and streaming) and the
gateway and admin-key tags of the OpenAI client all take their policy
from one function.
The host-list form of ALLOW_LOCAL_AI_PRIVATE_HOSTS keeps working with the
same pinning; a never-grantable literal or a host:port entry is refused
with a one-time warning. Its "true" form grants nothing any more and is
reported in the boot readiness summary with the replacement.
A failed lab-report scan no longer puts the endpoint's response body into
the wide event; status and model stay. The response to the caller never
carried it.
The fail-closed crypto loader throws a stack trace on a missing/short
ENCRYPTION_KEY rather than a sentence an operator can act on, and
check-env is a dev/CI tool the image operator never runs. Add a boot-time
readiness summary (instrumentation register) that prints a clear line per
core secret — with the exact openssl fix on a bad one — before anything
throws, plus a one-glance status of the optional channels and the
Secure-cookie transport hint. Never logs secret values; never throws.
Marc-André Bombeck