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