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1#+title: gitbay changelog
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3Versioning follows semver from v0.1.0. Database migrations run
4automatically on daemon start; upgrade notes appear per release when
5anything beyond "replace the binary and restart" is needed.
6
7* v1.21.0 — 2026-09-12
8
9The web UI/UX sweep (#182).
10
11- Destructive controls ask for the object's name typed beside the
12 button: release delete, snippet delete and file remove, team delete,
13 label remove, and SSH key, email and PGP key removal. Reversible
14 controls keep a plain button.
15- Login returns to the page that asked for it, and says so.
16- One timestamp format everywhere, =2006-01-02 15:04 UTC=.
17- Tags on the refs page and in the release form are in version order,
18 newest first.
19- The file editor explains up front when signed commits or
20 merge-requests-only protection would refuse the commit, answers 404
21 for a branch that does not exist, and says when a path is new.
22- Merge refusals name the strategy rather than the flag; an issue
23 closed by a commit reads "closed by <who> in commit <sha>".
24- Repository settings: every Save names its field. Labels: the colour
25 column appears only when it means something. Sidebars use one shape
26 for empty. List rows show the state only under "all" and say "in
27 <milestone>". Global search counts its results. A merged MR shows
28 its merged head and a deleted source branch. The repository home
29 shows the SSH clone URL beside HTTPS. The settings page names
30 =auth token create=.
31
32* v1.20.1 — 2026-09-11
33
34One config check.
35
36- A negative =limits.max_snippets_per_user= is refused at config load,
37 as =max_repos_per_user= and =max_bytes_per_user= already were; it
38 used to pass validation and read as unlimited (#214).
39
40* v1.20.0 — 2026-09-11
41
42Snippets (#195): named text files a user owns outside any repository,
43shared by URL and edited in place.
44
45- Migration 0054: =snippets= and =snippet_files=.
46- =snippet create|show|list|edit|delete= and =snippet file
47 set|get|remove=. Files are UTF-8 under =limits.max_snippet_bytes=
48 (1MB), at most 64 per snippet; a snippet keeps at least one.
49 =limits.max_snippets_per_user= (0, unlimited) caps how many an
50 account may own, admins included. Visibility =public=, =unlisted=
51 (default) or =private=; a private snippet is not found to everyone
52 but its owner and admins.
53- Web: =/<owner>/-/snippets= lists, each snippet page renders its
54 files with a raw route per file, and the owner creates, edits and
55 deletes from the page through the same commands. The owner page
56 links to the list.
57
58* v1.19.0 — 2026-09-11
59
60Labels and milestones an org defines once for every repository under
61it, and =Closes owner/name#N= acting across repositories (#203).
62
63** Org labels and milestones
64
65- Migration 0052: =labels= and =milestones= rows belong to a
66 repository or to an org, exactly one, with a partial unique index
67 per scope. Existing rows and their memberships keep their ids.
68- A repository owned by an org sees the org's labels and milestones
69 beside its own; =issue label --add=, =issue milestone= and =mr
70 milestone= resolve the org's row first. A repository cannot create,
71 recolour, remove, close or reopen a name its org holds; the refusal
72 names the org command.
73- =org label set|list|remove= and =org milestone
74 create|list|close|reopen=, for org admins. Creating a name that
75 repositories under the org already use folds them in: their issues
76 and merge requests move to the org's row and the repository rows
77 go. =repo transfer= into an org folds the same way. Counts on org
78 rows span the repositories the caller can read.
79- Web: read-only =/<org>/-/labels= and =/<org>/-/milestones=, linked
80 from the org page; an "org" mark on repository label and milestone
81 pages, whose forms act on repository rows only.
82- =label list= and =milestone list= JSON carry =org: true= on an org
83 row.
84
85** Cross-repository closes
86
87- =Closes owner/name#N= in a commit on the default branch, or in a
88 merged merge request's title or body, closes that issue when the
89 actor holds write on the target and the pushing key's scope allows
90 it: a deploy key never acts outside its binding. An unknown or
91 refused target does nothing and logs nothing; the text stays a
92 plain autolink. An archived target is refused. Bare =owner/name#N=
93 without a keyword stays display-only.
94
95** Store
96
97- A migration whose first line is =-- foreign_keys: off= runs on one
98 pinned connection with foreign keys off, re-enabled afterwards and
99 =foreign_key_check= required empty. Rebuilding a table other tables
100 reference loses the children's rows otherwise, even under
101 =legacy_alter_table=.
102
103** Behaviour changes
104
105- =milestone create= exits 1 on a duplicate title, as =org milestone
106 create= does; it exited 2 before.
107
108Upgrade: replace the binary and restart; migration 0052 runs on
109start and copies every label and milestone row once.
110
111* v1.18.1 — 2026-09-11
112
113A runner that cannot hang on a dead connection, SSH keys with names,
114and dependency updates.
115
116** CI runner
117
118- Every ssh invocation carries =ConnectTimeout=10=,
119 =ServerAliveInterval=15= and =ServerAliveCountMax=3=, placed after
120 the identity and the operator's =-ssh-opts= so an operator's value
121 wins. A claim whose TCP session had died under it blocked a laptop
122 runner's poll loop for thirteen hours; it now fails within a minute
123 and the loop resumes.
124- The build comment in =deploy/Containerfile.ci= stages the file in
125 the runner user's home before =podman build=: a login shell under
126 =su= cannot read root's stdin and does not share root's =/tmp=.
127
128** Keys
129
130- SSH keys carry a label (migration 0051). =keys add --label= defaults
131 to the authorized_keys comment; =keys label <fingerprint> [<text>]=
132 renames or clears it. =keys list=, =admin user show=, =repo
133 deploy-key list= and the settings page show it. Deploy, runner and
134 admin-created keys take the comment as their label. Closes #208.
135
136** Web
137
138- Org autolinks stop before trailing punctuation: a bare URL closing a
139 sentence or a parenthesis no longer takes the =.=, =,= or =)= into
140 the href. Closes #209.
141
142** Dependencies
143
144- golang.org/x/crypto 0.57, x/image 0.46, x/net 0.59, x/term 0.46.
145 Closes #205.
146
147* v1.18.0 — 2026-09-10
148
149What the first real job on a user's runner needed. A twice-daily
150archive pull that had run on the server's host moved into a container
151and then onto a laptop, and each hop found a gap.
152
153** CI runner
154
155- A secret with newlines — a private key — reaches the build. An env
156 file has no escape for one, so such values are named on podman's
157 command line with =--env NAME= and valued in the podman process's own
158 environment; the value touches neither argv nor the file.
159- =GITBAY_SSH= in every build's environment: the instance's ssh
160 destination as the build reaches it. Under podman the host's own
161 addresses belong to the container (pasta), so a loopback remote is
162 rewritten to the address pasta exposes the host at. A job that
163 publishes back to the instance uses the variable rather than
164 guessing. Inside a container =ssh= expands =~= from the passwd entry,
165 not =$HOME=; keep a build's ssh config in the workspace and pass =-F=.
166- =-identity= drops the user's =~/.ssh/config= (=-F /dev/null=):
167 =IdentitiesOnly= kept identities the config named, so a laptop runner
168 authenticated as the user's own full-scope key and, on an admin's
169 machine, could claim every repository's builds. A first-seen host key
170 is accepted, since a service cannot answer a prompt.
171- A schedule tick queues nothing while the job's last build is pending
172 or running, matching the push path. A repository no runner served
173 gained one row per tick forever. A finished build does not suppress
174 the tick; a schedule re-runs an unchanged commit on purpose. #206
175- =admin runners forget <fingerprint>= drops a key's heartbeat row; the
176 key stays. =admin runners= rows are the repositories a key may claim.
177- The bay1 unit names no =-repos=: the runner key's attachments are the
178 boundary. =gitbay-ci:2= carries =python3-venv= and =sqlite3=, since
179 it is also the default image for every repository the runner is
180 attached to.
181
182** Decisions
183
184- Claim order stays oldest-first across everything a key may claim; a
185 repository that must never wait on another gets a runner of its own.
186 #207
187- No per-account cap on queued builds and no schedule floor: with the
188 tick dedupe a repository with no runner holds one row per scheduled
189 job, and a busy schedule spends its owner's compute. #206
190- Attaching a runner is =n/a= on iOS: the key lives on the machine that
191 runs builds.
192
193** Documentation
194
195- Users: =GITBAY_SSH=, ssh's home inside a container, the =ci.yml= caps
196 (ten jobs, fifty steps, 4096 bytes a step, 64 KiB a file) and where a
197 broken config shows up. Admin, CI and Threat-Model follow the changes
198 above.
199
200** Upgrading
201
202Replace the binaries and reinstall the CLI. No migration. A runner
203started with =-identity= (every runner =gitbay-runner init= set up) now
204ignores =~/.ssh/config=; a runner that relied on it for a =ProxyJump=
205or an alias passes the equivalent in =-ssh-opts=. Homebrew:
206=brew upgrade krz/tap/gitbay-runner=.
207
208* v1.17.0 — 2026-09-09
209
210CI without the operator's compute: a runner anyone installs and
211attaches to their own repositories, and the server rule that makes
212that safe. The rest of the #184 list besides.
213
214** CI
215
216- A runner key claims builds only for the repositories it is attached
217 to. =repo runner add <owner/name> < key.pub= attaches one; a key the
218 server has not seen lands on the caller's account with scope
219 =runner=. =repo runner list= shows each attached key with its last
220 poll and the build it holds; =repo runner remove <fingerprint>=
221 detaches it. All three on the settings page. A runner-scoped key
222 with nothing attached claims nothing, whoever owns it; a full-scope
223 admin key still claims any repository. =runner log= and =runner
224 done= refuse a build outside the key's attachments. #184
225- Closed: any account could add a runner-scoped key, and =runner next=
226 with no arguments handed it the oldest pending build on the
227 instance, secrets included.
228- =runner next --untrusted=: without it a merge request head from a
229 fork is never claimed. The runner passes it when started with
230 =-untrusted=; the bay1 unit does, because it isolates in podman.
231- =gitbay-runner init= generates a key under =~/.config/gitbay-runner/=,
232 writes =config.toml= beside it, and prints the public key with the
233 command that attaches it. The runner reads that file when present
234 and flags override it. =-identity=, defaulting to the generated key,
235 makes ssh and git use the runner's own key and no other. Homebrew:
236 =brew install krz/tap/gitbay-runner=, then =brew services start
237 krz/tap/gitbay-runner=. Releases ship =gitbay-runner= binaries.
238- =admin runners= heads its output with the queue: builds pending now,
239 and over the last day the builds claimed, the wait to claim (average
240 and worst) and the builds the reaper ended instead of a runner
241 reporting them. Rows are per key, with the fingerprint and the
242 repositories the key may claim. Migration 0049. #184
243- Stop tests for the runner's drain: a signal mid-step, the drop-in's
244 =KillMode= and =TimeoutStopSec=, and a transient systemd user unit
245 where one exists. #179
246- The CI wiki page carries every push shape against every job kind and
247 what dedupe, path filters, schedules and the reaper make of it, with
248 a test per row. #176, #177
249
250** Importing
251
252- =import-issues --api-base= reads Forgejo instances: paging by =limit=,
253 oldest first, comments read once, attribution and pull heads taken
254 from the API base rather than github.com. #191
255
256** Documentation
257
258- Users: "Your own runner". Admin, Threat-Model, CI, FAQ and Parity
259 follow the attachment rule.
260
261** Upgrading
262
263Replace the binaries and reinstall the CLI. Migration 0050 (runner
264attachments; the runner heartbeat table is rekeyed by key and
265emptied), applied on start. One behaviour change: a runner polling
266with a key of scope =runner= claims nothing until a repository admin
267attaches it with =repo runner add=. Do that right after the restart.
268A full-scope admin key is unaffected. Merge request heads from forks
269are built only by a runner started with =-untrusted=.
270
271* v1.16.0 — 2026-09-08
272
273What stops a stranger from moving here: the repository plumbing and
274the team gates the #185 walk found missing, twelve merge requests
275merged as one stack.
276
277** Repositories
278
279- =repo settings default-branch <owner/name> <branch>= moves HEAD and
280 the record; a branch that does not exist is refused. A first push of
281 =master= or =trunk= into a fresh repository moves the unborn HEAD to
282 the branch that arrived, so the clone checks something out. Settings
283 page select. #189
284- =repo rename <owner/name> <new-name>=: the row and the directory move
285 together, with transfer's revert on a failed move. Clone URLs change.
286 #190
287- =repo settings require-mr on=: an existing protected branch refuses
288 every direct push in pre-receive, =repo commit-file= and the web
289 editor included; =mr merge= is its only writer. Creating the branch
290 is still a push. #197
291- =repo settings protect-tag <glob>= (and =unprotect-tag=): matching
292 tags are created once and refuse moves and deletion. Separately, a
293 tag a release is anchored to refuses both while the release exists,
294 protected or not; delete the release first. #201
295- =repo access list= reports effective access: one row per account
296 with the highest role and where it comes from (owner, direct, org
297 admin, org member, team). It used to list direct grants only, so a
298 repository reached through teams answered with nothing. #200
299- Removing an org member drops their team memberships in the same
300 transaction. They kept every grant their teams carried, and re-adding
301 them to the org restored nothing because nothing had gone. #196
302- An outsider gets one answer about an org: its existence and members
303 are public, its teams are for members, and =org team list= and =show=
304 refuse a non-member rather than say the org does not exist. Ref #200
305- A repository name may not end in =.atom=, as it may not end in
306 =.git=. Ref #192
307
308** Merge requests
309
310- A push that leaves the merge request's diff unchanged keeps its fresh
311 reviews: the patch-id of each revision against its own merge base is
312 compared, and a rebase onto a target that moved on no longer stales
313 every approval. A push that changes the diff stales them as before.
314 #198
315- The merge gates are one computation shared by =mr show= (a =gates=
316 block: approvals counted and required, owners outstanding per file,
317 open threads, checks, whether a fast-forward is possible), the merge
318 request page, and =mr merge=, which names every unmet gate in one
319 refusal rather than the first. =mr review= reports =counts= and says
320 when a verdict is advisory because the reviewer cannot write. #199
321
322** Notifications
323
324- =@name= in an issue, merge request, comment or diff comment files
325 "mentioned you" in that account's inbox and makes them a participant
326 of the thread, provided they can read the repository and have not
327 muted it. Watchers are not told about a mention addressed to someone
328 else. Migration 0047. #202
329- =notifications settings mail on|off= (and =show=): inbox rows are
330 filed either way, this is the mail half. Login links are not activity
331 and still arrive. The account page carries the same switch.
332 Migration 0048. Ref #194
333
334** Web
335
336- Atom feeds: =/{owner}/{repo}/releases.atom=,
337 =/{owner}/{repo}/log.atom[/{ref}]= and =/{owner}/activity.atom=,
338 rendered over the rows the pages already serve. The owner feed covers
339 public repositories only, since a reader carries no session; a
340 private repository answers 404. The releases, log and owner pages
341 carry the discovery link. #192
342
343** Documentation
344
345- The Users page says what differs over stock ssh: a multi-word value
346 needs a second layer of quotes, and =help <noun>= replaces =--help=.
347 The companion-wiki paragraph #170 made stale now points at
348 =.gitbay/wiki/=. #204
349
350** Upgrading
351
352Replace the binary and reinstall the CLI. Two migrations (0047, the
353mentions table; 0048, the per-account mail switch), applied on start.
354Nothing changes behaviour until a setting is turned on: =require-mr=,
355=protect-tag= and =mail off= are all opt-in.
356
357* v1.15.0 — 2026-09-07
358
359Builds run in containers, a rebase is not rebuilt, and a runner restart
360no longer strands the build it was running.
361
362** CI
363
364- A build's steps run in a rootless podman container, one per job. The
365 runner clones outside the container with its key and bind-mounts the
366 workspace in, so a step cannot reach the key, the runner's environment,
367 or another build's workspace. =image:= is required per job and is
368 validated as a reference, never pulled: an operator provisions images
369 on the host. A runner configured for podman that has none refuses to
370 start rather than fall back to the host. =-isolation none= is the
371 explicit host-execution mode. =-cpus= and =-memory= cap a build's
372 container. #144
373- Builds have a home directory that outlives the build, so the Go module
374 cache and the sonar scanner survive between runs. It is mounted into
375 the container at the same path, and only that directory. Ref #144
376- The host preparation script, the unit drop-in and the weekly image
377 prune ship with =make deploy-runner=; each hardening flag the drop-in
378 relaxes carries the reason in place. Ref #144
379- A nightly canary on the runner host proves the boundary holds:
380 =cmc/ci-smoke= runs a job that tries to read the key and list sibling
381 workspaces, and fails if either succeeds. Ref #144
382- Dedupe keys on the commit's tree, not its sha. A rebase that changes
383 nothing is not rebuilt: the new commit gets the earlier success as its
384 status, naming the build. Scheduled and tag builds carry no tree and
385 are never reused. #177
386- =vuln= and =sonar= run nightly on =main= rather than on every push;
387 neither could inform a merge. Branches run =build= and =test=. #177
388- A rewritten branch is filtered against the merge base rather than the
389 old tip, so a rebased branch whose own commits change code no longer
390 reads as a docs-only push and skips its jobs. #176
391- A build whose runner's log stream ended with no outcome is failed two
392 minutes later, instead of sitting =running= until a fixed deadline.
393 Migration 0046. Ref #179
394- The runner retries reporting a finished build's outcome, four times
395 over about thirty seconds, when the server is unreachable. A gitbayd
396 restart at that moment used to lose the result. Ref #179
397- The runner drains on SIGTERM: it claims nothing more, finishes and
398 reports the build in flight, then exits. A second signal exits at once.
399 The unit allows fifty minutes. #179
400
401** Repositories
402
403- =repo show= reports the caller's watch and bookmark state, and the
404 parent of a fork when the caller can read it. #178
405- =repo unwatch= clears the row from either state; =repo mute= is the
406 explicit silence. Watch then unwatch used to leave an account below
407 the default with no way back. The web header toggle follows. #180
408
409** Upgrading
410
411Replace the binary and reinstall the CLI. One migration (0046, the
412build log's close time), applied on start.
413
414The runner now defaults to =-isolation podman= and refuses to start
415without a working podman and a named image. Prepare the host with
416=deploy/runner-podman-setup.sh= and build =localhost/gitbay-ci:1= from
417=deploy/Containerfile.ci= before deploying it, or pass =-isolation
418none= to keep running steps on the host. Validate on a scratch
419repository with =-repos= scoped to it first; the wiki's Admin page has
420the procedure.
421
422The runner's unit gains =TimeoutStopSec=50min= and =KillMode=mixed= so
423a stop reaches the runner alone and it can drain; under the default
424kill mode systemd ends the build's container with the runner.
425=make deploy-runner= therefore waits for a build in flight.
426
427* v1.14.0 — 2026-09-06
428
429Logging into the web without an SSH key, wikis inside the repository,
430CI that skips what a change does not touch, and the browser catching up
431with the command line on nine capabilities.
432
433** Accounts and the web
434
435- A browser session can be requested by mail: the login page takes a
436 username or a verified address and sends a link that works once and
437 expires in fifteen minutes. An account with no SSH key had no way into
438 the web at all. The response never says whether the account exists, and
439 the form appears only when the instance has SMTP. #155
440- A login link resolves to any verified address on the account, not only
441 the primary. #158
442- Login mail is queued rather than sent from a goroutine, so a link in
443 flight survives a restart. #159
444- A suspended account cannot mail itself a session, and a link minted
445 before suspension opens nothing. #156
446- The session cookie is =SameSite=Lax=, and a test now walks every
447 mutating route to assert it carries the origin check. #157
448- =POST /register= is reachable on an open instance again.
449
450** Wikis
451
452- A wiki lives at =.gitbay/wiki/= on the default branch, so editing one
453 is editing a file in the repository — a push, or the web editor — and
454 it is cloned, diffed and reviewed like anything else. The companion
455 =<repo>.wiki= is gone. #170
456
457** CI
458
459- Path filters: =paths= and =paths-ignore= per job, so a docs commit
460 does not run the whole suite. #169
461- A branch's first push derives its diff base from the merge base
462 rather than treating every file as changed. #171
463- A job filtered out records a skipped status instead of nothing, so
464 =require_checks= cannot wait forever for a check that will never
465 arrive. #172
466- A force-push no longer leaves queued builds pointing at an object
467 that is gone; the orphan is cancelled when a runner claims it. #152
468- A build step's environment is constructed rather than inherited. It
469 was =os.Environ()= plus the build's variables, which handed repository
470 content everything set on the runner service. A step now gets =PATH=,
471 =HOME=, =LANG=, =CI=, its =GITBAY_*= variables and its secrets. =HOME=
472 is the workspace, so a build cannot read the runner's =.netrc=,
473 =.npmrc= or =.gitconfig=, where tools keep credentials. Ref #144
474- A runner host can be prepared for rootless podman:
475 =deploy/runner-podman-setup.sh=, the systemd changes it needs, and
476 weekly image pruning. Nothing reads them yet; the preparation ships
477 before the runner that requires it, on purpose. Ref #144
478
479** Collaboration
480
481- =mr review request --add <user>= asks a particular person for a
482 review, who then carries it in their queue and is notified;
483 =--remove= withdraws the ask. The queue was computed from involvement
484 alone, so a collaborator who had not touched a thread heard nothing.
485 #145
486- Bookmarks save someone else's repository to come back to, and the
487 count is the instance's only popularity signal. Separate from pins
488 rather than a flag on them: a pin is private quick access to your own
489 work and drives the rail, a bookmark is public and counted. =repo
490 bookmark=, =repo unbookmark=, =repo bookmarks=, a control on the
491 repository header, the count in the facts bar, and =/bookmarks=. Read
492 access is all a bookmark needs, and one made while a repository was
493 public drops out of the listing if it goes private. #146
494
495** The browser catches up
496
497Nine capabilities that were CLI-only and had no reason to be:
498
499- label management — list, create, colour, remove #163
500- dependency status under the toggle that turns checks on #164
501- release delete #165
502- the account export bundle, as a download #166
503- organization create and rename; delete stays CLI-only, wanting a
504 typed confirmation, and the page says so #167
505- opening a merge request from a fork, with a source picker offering
506 the branches of every fork you can push to #168
507- forking a repository #174
508- cancelling a queued or running build #162
509- the profile form #161, and a markup picker on issue and merge
510 request create #160
511- admin table headers align with their columns #151
512
513** CLI
514
515- =gitbay mr rebase <n>= replays a merge request's branch onto its
516 target and re-pushes it. A repository requiring signed commits accepts
517 only fast-forward merges, so a merge request whose target moved had to
518 be rebased by hand; the refusal already named the procedure and this
519 runs it. The git work is local, so the replayed commits carry your
520 signature — the server still holds no key. A branch in a fork is
521 refused, naming the repository to run it in. #175
522
523** Security
524
525- Mutating commands are bounded per account in the dispatcher, so SSH,
526 the JSON API and the web spend one budget and a caller cannot refresh
527 it by changing surface. Authentication failures were throttled;
528 commands were not. #148
529- A dead-lettered mail is logged by its queue row id, not the recipient
530 address, and the relay's error is redacted before logging because a
531 rejection quotes the address it rejected. The address stays on the
532 row, where =/admin= shows it. One rule for every mail type. #173
533- The 2026-09 sweep's coverage — and what it did not reach — is recorded
534 in the wiki's Threat-Model rather than in a closed issue. #149
535
536** Dependencies
537
538- goldmark 1.8.6, sqlite 1.58.0. #140
539
540** Upgrading
541
542Replace the binary and reinstall the CLI. One migration (0043,
543bookmarks), applied on start.
544
545=limits.write_rate= defaults to 60 mutating commands a minute per
546account. A script that writes faster will be refused with exit 4 and a
547retry time; raise it in =[limits]=, or slow the script. Read-only
548commands, the runner protocol and the host CLI are not counted.
549
550A companion =<repo>.wiki= repository is no longer read. Move its pages
551to =.gitbay/wiki/= on the default branch.
552
553Runner isolation is half done. Builds still run as the runner's user
554with no container: the step environment no longer leaks the service's,
555and a host can be prepared for podman, but nothing yet executes a build
556in one. Do not enable CI for repositories you do not trust. #144 stays
557open for the execution half.
558
559* v1.13.3 — 2026-09-05
560
561Only a writer's review decides a merge gate, and a scan of one branch
562stops overwriting another's results.
563
564- =mr review= resolves with =CanRead= and applied no further check, and
565 the merge gates counted every fresh verdict. On a public repository
566 that let anyone with an account satisfy =require_approvals= — defeating
567 four-eyes review by holding two accounts, which on an instance with
568 open registration means defeating it outright — and equally let a
569 passer-by block a merge the owner wanted, with no override and only a
570 force-push to clear it. Both were confirmed against a running instance.
571 Reviewing stays open to every reader, because an outside opinion on a
572 public change is worth having; it no longer decides the gate. What
573 does is write access, the same question the gates already answer. An
574 uncounted review is marked advisory by =mr show= and by the merge
575 request page, both reading the same rule, so the page cannot show an
576 approval the gate ignores. #147
577- The two =git upload-pack= spawns behind the smart HTTP transport now
578 resolve git at start-up like everything else. The v1.13.2 rewrite
579 matched a plain identifier for the context and these pass
580 =r.Context()=, so it skipped them. #153
581- CI analyses each branch as itself. Every scan was recorded against the
582 project's main branch whatever branch produced it, so a feature branch
583 replaced main's results — a branch that removes findings made main look
584 clean before the fix merged, and one that added them made main look
585 broken when it was not. #154
586
587Replace the binary and reinstall the CLI. No migration.
588
589A repository relying on approvals from accounts without write access
590will find those merges now refused. That was the defect: such an approval
591never meant the repository accepted the change. Grant write, or name the
592reviewer in CODEOWNERS and grant write, if their approval is meant to
593count.
594
595* v1.13.2 — 2026-09-04
596
597The first SonarCloud scan's findings: eight fixed, the rest triaged and
598dismissed with reasons.
599
600- A pages directory redirect could leave the site. Both redirects passed
601 the raw request path to =http.Redirect= while the cleaned path sat a
602 line above; =net/url= keeps a leading =//=, and Go emits
603 =Location: //evil.example/= unchanged, which a browser reads as
604 protocol-relative. Reaching it needed a public repository named like a
605 host under the subdomain's own owner — repository names permit dots —
606 so it was narrow rather than impossible. The destination is built from
607 the cleaned path through =url.URL= now, which also settles the two
608 spellings the first fix missed: a =..= that escapes to the root, and a
609 backslash, which browsers following the WHATWG rules treat as a
610 separator. #153
611- The runner's default workspace was =<tmp>/gitbay-runner=: a fixed name
612 in a world-writable directory, created with =MkdirAll=, which succeeds
613 against a directory whoever already owns it. bay1 was never exposed —
614 its unit names a workspace — but the default is what anyone running the
615 binary by hand gets, and this is the process that clones repositories
616 and exports build secrets. The default moves under the user's cache
617 directory, the workspace is created 0700, and a symlink or a directory
618 owned by someone else is refused. One we own that is merely too
619 permissive is tightened rather than refused, since every runner before
620 this one made it 0755 and refusing would take the runner down on
621 upgrade. #153
622- Logout and flash consumption expire their cookies with the attributes
623 the setting calls used. Deletion worked either way; the difference was
624 a reviewer's puzzle, and four findings. #153
625- The topics-remove field has a label. A placeholder is not an accessible
626 name. TestEveryInputHasAnAccessibleName is the guard that was missing,
627 and it knows both associations — six inputs use
628 =<label>Name <input></label>=, which is as good as for/id. #153
629- git and ssh are resolved once at start-up rather than searched on every
630 spawn, and gitbayd refuses to start when one is absent instead of
631 failing on whichever request first needed it. This was 74 of the 118
632 findings; a dashboard that is mostly permanent noise is one nobody
633 reads. #153
634
635Also: SQLite migrations are excluded from analysis. They were read as
636PL/SQL, where ='' is NULL=, so =WHERE col = ''= on a =NOT NULL DEFAULT ''=
637column — correct SQLite, and the shape used throughout — read as a
638null-comparison bug.
639
640Replace the binary and reinstall the CLI. No migration. A runner whose
641workspace is group- or world-readable will have it tightened to 0700 on
642next start, and will refuse to start if that workspace is a symlink or
643belongs to another user.
644
645* v1.13.1 — 2026-09-04
646
647A command that reads its payload from stdin says so, and SonarCloud runs
648alongside the vulnerability scan.
649
650- =repo secret set= blocked with nothing printed, which is
651 indistinguishable from a hung connection, and pressing Enter did not
652 end it because the server reads to EOF — so it looked the same before
653 and after the value had been typed, and the secret echoed into the
654 scrollback on the way. A terminal is now told what is wanted and that
655 Ctrl-D ends it; a secret is read without echo and takes one line, so
656 Enter is enough. Piped input is unchanged, byte for byte: =printf %s
657 "$TOKEN" | gitbay repo secret set ...= still sends exactly the token.
658 Applies to =keys add=, =auth pgp add=, =repo deploy-key add= and
659 =release asset add= as well; public keys keep echoing, since they are
660 public. #150
661- A =sonar= CI job reports to SonarCloud, alongside =vuln=. Report-only:
662 it does not gate a build, unlike the vulnerability scan. A merge
663 request from a fork builds without secrets by design, so the job says
664 why it is skipping there rather than failing on a missing credential.
665 Only =SONAR_TOKEN= is secret and it is a build secret; the
666 organization, project key and host are checked in. Ref #149
667
668Replace the binary and reinstall the CLI. No migration.
669
670* v1.13.0 — 2026-09-04
671
672Collaboration. A review is composed and submitted as one thing, a merge
673request can say it is not asking yet and can show what changed since you
674last looked, issues are searched by their text, and the events half the
675mutations never recorded now exist.
676
677- A review is composed as a unit. =mr diff-comment --pending= holds a
678 comment back; =mr review= publishes the batch with the verdict and says
679 how many went with it; =mr review --discard= throws away what was never
680 submitted. A pending comment notifies nobody when written — the review
681 is the announcement, and it names its own size — and does not gate a
682 merge, since a thread only its author can see is one nobody else could
683 resolve. #111
684- =mr create --draft=, =mr draft=, =mr ready=. A draft does not merge and
685 does not appear in anyone's review queue; marking it ready is the
686 request for review. Draft is a flag rather than a fifth state, so every
687 =state = 'open'= rule still means what it did, and the merge refusal is
688 unconditional: every other gate is a setting an admin turns on, and
689 this one is the author's own statement about their own work. #111
690- =mr range-diff= shows what changed between two revisions of a merge
691 request, and =mr revisions= lists them. A push stales every review and
692 nothing said what had moved; a diff of the two heads cannot answer it,
693 and the previous head was overwritten in place. Each side of the
694 comparison carries the merge base it had at the time, since measuring
695 both against today's would attribute every commit that landed on the
696 target in between to this merge request's author. #111
697- Issues and merge requests are searched by their title and body, over
698 FTS5. =issue list --search= and =mr list --search= narrow one
699 repository; the instance-wide =search= reaches bodies now, and both
700 list pages carry a search box. What someone types is quoted term by
701 term, so an FTS5 operator — =c++=, =AND=, a lone quote — is a word to
702 match rather than a syntax error. #114
703- Ten mutations that changed a repository silently now record an event:
704 =mr.closed=, =mr.reviewed=, =mr.edited=, =mr.retargeted=, =mr.draft=,
705 =issue.edited=, =issue.labeled=, =issue.assigned=, =issue.milestoned=,
706 =mr.milestoned=, =release.deleted=. =mr close= and =issue edit= also
707 notify participants, which they did not. The full list is on the API
708 wiki page and =webhook add --events= refuses a name that is not on it,
709 since a subscription to a typo would never fire and nothing would say
710 so. #112
711- =gitbay-runner -jobs N= runs N builds at once. Claiming was always a
712 single transaction that selects and updates, and each build already
713 worked in its own directory, so several workers were safe the whole
714 time; the runner never used more than one. #115
715- A merge request replayed from a migration bundle has a diff. The bundle
716 carried no head at all, and =mr diff= resolves through the head ref, so
717 a merged merge request — which has no source branch left — could only
718 fail. Re-running an import after the git push sets the head it could
719 not set the first time. The GitHub import fetches =refs/pull/*/head=,
720 which a mirror made with the default refspecs does not carry. #128
721- The review loop is driven end to end by three accounts in the test
722 suite: draft, ready, thread, approval, resolve, merge, with approvals,
723 CODEOWNERS and require-resolved all on at once. Every one of those had
724 its own test and none of them met. #139
725- A bare =go test ./...= says the timeout is too short instead of
726 panicking eleven minutes in and blaming whichever test was running.
727 =make test= is what CONTRIBUTING asks for now. #143
728
729Migrations 0036 through 0039 add the search index, the draft flag,
730pending review comments and merge request head history; 0036 and 0039
731backfill from what is already there. They run on daemon start.
732
733Two things this does not do. There is still no way to ask a particular
734person for a review — the queue is computed from involvement, so a
735collaborator with write access who has not touched a thread hears nothing
736(krz/gitbay#145). And a CI build still runs as the runner's own user with
737no container; the runner on this instance is scoped to one repository,
738which is what keeps that narrow (krz/gitbay#144). Both are v1.14.0.
739
740* v1.12.0 — 2026-09-04
741
742The store and the push path. Dashboard queries walk an index instead of
743sorting the table, concurrent writers wait instead of failing, expired
744rows are swept, and a large first push no longer forks a process per
745commit.
746
747- Every dashboard list scanned its table and sorted the result to take
748 fifty rows. Reachability is correlated subqueries and cannot be
749 indexed; the index supplies the =ORDER BY= instead, so the walk stops
750 at =LIMIT=. On 20k issues and 20k merge requests: open issues 11.8ms
751 to 0.8ms, open merge requests 12.1ms to 0.8ms, the review queue 15.5ms
752 to 0.3ms, assigned issues 10.6ms to 0.04ms. The last of those also
753 drives from =issue_assignees= rather than testing =EXISTS= against
754 every issue. #137
755- Concurrent writers serialise rather than failing. Every transaction in
756 the store writes, and a deferred one takes the write lock at its first
757 write, by which point another may hold it; SQLite answers
758 =SQLITE_BUSY= and does not run the busy handler for that case, so
759 =busy_timeout= could not help. Measured with eight concurrent
760 read-then-write transactions, 44% of them failed. Beginning immediate
761 takes the lock up front, where the timeout applies. #121
762- =repo settings= updates no longer overwrite each other.
763 =settings_json= is one blob, and every caller read it off a repository
764 loaded earlier, changed a field and wrote it all back; two admins at
765 once and the later write put back what it had read for the other's
766 field. The read and the write happen together now, under one
767 immediate transaction. #123
768- Expired sessions and tokens are swept, and =[retention]= caps how long
769 the audit log, the activity feed, webhook deliveries and the mail
770 queue keep a row. Unset means forever, which is what every existing
771 instance gets. #122
772- The audit entry records flag names without their values. Secrets never
773 reached argv — they travel on stdin — but prose did: =--body <the
774 whole issue>= was stored verbatim, in a table nothing pruned, for a
775 repository that may be private. Identifiers are positional and
776 survive. #122
777- pre-receive on a require-signed repository forked a =cat-file= per
778 incoming commit and built one JSON message holding the whole push. A
779 50k-commit first push forked 50k processes and held the history in
780 memory twice. One =cat-file --batch= serves the push now, and the
781 daemon verifies each commit as it arrives. #100
782- The payloads other surfaces decode are named types in =control=. httpd
783 had its own copies of what the build, profile and dashboard commands
784 emit, so a field added to a command was silently absent on the page.
785 #126
786
787Migration 0035 adds three indexes; it runs on daemon start.
788
789Two changes in behaviour rather than configuration. A heavily contended
790write now blocks for up to =busy_timeout= (five seconds) instead of
791returning an error immediately — waiting is the point, but a caller that
792treated the error as normal will see a pause instead. And anything
793parsing =audit --json= for command arguments will find flag values gone;
794the flag names and the positional arguments are still there.
795
796* v1.11.0 — 2026-09-04
797
798The web catches up with the rest of the forge: search across the
799instance, a notification inbox, a compare view, linkable diff lines,
800and a pass over contrast, heading structure and the stylesheet.
801
802- Notifications are no longer mail or nothing. An =inbox= table holds a
803 row per recipient whether or not the instance has SMTP;
804 =notifications list= reads it, unread by default, and =notifications
805 read <id>... | --all= clears it. =repo watch= adds you to a
806 repository's notifications and =repo unwatch= mutes it, with a mute
807 beating every other reason to be told, including owning the
808 repository or having written the thread. The unread count rides on
809 =dashboard= and in the web rail. #113
810- =search= matches repository paths, descriptions and topics, and issue
811 and merge request titles, across everything the caller can read;
812 =/search= renders it with a field in the rail on every page, and an
813 anonymous visitor gets the public rows from the same query. Titles
814 only — body search is #114. #118
815- =/{owner}/{repo}/compare/{a}...{b}= shows what one ref adds on top of
816 another. Diff rows, files and review threads carry ids, so a line can
817 be linked to. The issue and merge request lists page at fifty with
818 the cursors the commands already emit. #118
819- CODEOWNERS gating is a setting rather than a file that happens to
820 exist: =repo settings require-codeowners <owner/name> on|off=, off by
821 default, still independent of =require-approvals=. A repository can
822 carry the file as documentation of who to ask without it gating
823 merges. #142
824- A failed form action's reason rides a one-shot cookie instead of
825 =?e=<message>=, so it no longer survives a reload or lands in
826 history. #119
827- A diff cut at 4 MiB cuts on a line boundary and says so, the
828 diffstat says its counts are partial, and a merge request's commit
829 list says "first 100 of N". #117
830- Page templates parse once with the layout at start-up, so a template
831 that does not parse fails the process rather than the first visit to
832 its page. #116
833- Markdown headings carry ids, matching org pages, and the stylesheet
834 serves a hash ETag with a day's lifetime and answers a matching
835 =If-None-Match= with 304. #132
836- Dark-mode buttons carry a visible edge (a 1 px border was 1.3:1
837 against the 3:1 non-text contrast floor), and a stored label colour
838 is held between 0.12 and 0.28 relative luminance so it clears 3:1 on
839 both grounds while keeping its hue. #120
840- Accessibility: the pin star is decoration and the word carries the
841 meaning, the refs and release asset tables have scoped column
842 headers, state filters carry =aria-current= rather than marking the
843 active one by colour alone, and a rendered README or wiki page's
844 headings move down one level so they sit under the page's own. #133
845- The stylesheet drops rules no template reaches, folds two off-scale
846 values onto the type scale, and resolves the classes templates asked
847 for and it never defined. #131
848- On a phone the tab bar wraps to a second row instead of scrolling
849 sideways with its scrollbar hidden, and the landing page says in
850 three sections what a reader, a writer and a reviewer can do. #134
851
852Migration 0034 adds =inbox= and =repo_watchers=; it runs on daemon
853start. Reinstall the CLI for =search=, =notifications= and =repo
854watch/unwatch=.
855
856Two upgrade notes beyond replacing the binary. A repository that
857relied on a CODEOWNERS file gating merges by its presence alone loses
858that gate until =require-codeowners= is set: nothing back-fills it,
859since the database cannot say which branches carry the file. And
860=search= and =notifications= are now reserved top-level routes, so a
861user or organization already holding either name keeps it but its
862profile page is shadowed by the route.
863
864* v1.10.0 — 2026-09-04
865
866Every command parses its arguments the same way, the web answers by
867exit code, and a restart no longer waits on idle connections.
868
869- One flag parser for every command: an unknown flag, a missing value or
870 too many arguments is exit 2 with the command's usage, everywhere.
871 =mr review --approve --bogus= used to report repository =--bogus= as
872 not found. #96
873- =--json= is honoured by the dispatcher's own refusals, so a script told
874 no gets the envelope. #109
875- A store failure is exit 1 and not-found is exit 3; both used to be
876 usage errors. #107
877- Web form actions answer by exit code: the 404 page for a thing that
878 does not exist, the page with the message for anything else. #106
879- Inside a clone, =gitbay mr create= takes the checked-out branch as
880 =--source=; =gitbay <noun> --help= is the server's reference for the
881 noun, flags included. #101 #130
882- Shutdown closes idle SSH connections at once and drains only sessions
883 mid-command; a store failure during key lookup no longer counts as a
884 bad key against the auth limiter; the CLI says on ssh's exit 255 that
885 a burst may have tripped it. #141
886- A merge request head the target already contains is recorded as
887 merged instead of refused; a fork is created with its parent in one
888 insert; a failed transfer revert is reported; the repository quota is
889 checked under a lock. #108
890- Issues and merge requests share their comment, reference and
891 author-or-write code. #110
892- The payloads the web and clients decode are named types: =Created=,
893 =MRCreated=, =IssueShow=, =MRShow=. JSON unchanged. #126
894- Tests: parse failures per command, non-ASCII paths (which found
895 =ls-tree= returning octal escapes, fixed with =core.quotepath=off= for
896 every git the server runs), concurrent pushes. #129
897
898Replace the binary and restart, and reinstall the CLI. No migration.
899
900* v1.9.0 — 2026-09-03
901
902The runner is no longer an admin, the web no longer reaches around the
903registry, and the CLI stops paying a handshake per command.
904
905- =keys add --scope runner= confines a key to =runner next/log/done= and
906 read-only git; the runner commands accept that scope or an admin. The
907 systemd drop-in sandboxes the runner process. gitbay.org's runner now
908 polls as a non-admin =ci= account scoped to one repository. #92
909- The web's repo create, issue create and edit, MR edit and both comment
910 forms dispatch the command the CLI runs, so the repository quota, the
911 archived-repository refusal, notifications, the body format and the
912 audit entry hold from a browser. #93
913- The CLI shares one SSH connection per instance (=ControlMaster=, five
914 minutes idle): a command costs a round trip instead of a handshake,
915 0.4 s instead of 4 s from a distant laptop. =no_multiplex = true= on
916 an instance opts out. #94
917- A disabled account is refused on every surface, and disabling revokes
918 its API tokens along with its sessions. #95
919- CODEOWNERS gates whenever the file exists on the target branch, not
920 only under =require-approvals=. #99
921- The HTTP listeners have header and idle timeouts, and SIGTERM drains
922 in-flight requests and SSH sessions before exit. #104 #105
923- =git archive= runs under a two-minute deadline and a 512 MiB cap. #124
924- Every git invocation ends option parsing before the ref, so a ref
925 shaped like an option is a bad revision and never a flag. #135
926- The admin noun is gated in the dispatcher as well as in each handler;
927 registry tests cover that and =ReadsStdin=. #127
928- An e2e test runs every =ReadOnly= command against a populated instance
929 and fails on any row it changes. #97
930- =http.trusted_proxies= attributes proxied API requests to the last
931 untrusted =X-Forwarded-For= hop for rate limiting; =email add= is
932 capped at five codes an hour per account. #136
933- A merge request head is built in the target repository, at
934 =refs/merge-requests/<n>/head=, so a fork's merge request has
935 =ci/<job>= statuses for =require-checks= to gate on. A head from
936 another repository is built without the target's secrets. #98
937- Triggers refuse deleting a user or organization that still owns
938 repositories, whatever path the delete takes. #136
939- The stylesheet's fonts are served again, and directory crumbs on blob
940 and blame pages link to the tree. #102 #103
941- The Threat-Model wiki page covers the runner. #138
942
943Replace the binary and restart, reinstall the CLI, and =make
944deploy-runner=: the runner fetches merge request refs before checkout.
945Migrations 0032 and 0033 run on start. The daemon host needs git 2.24
946or newer for =--end-of-options=.
947Operators running =gitbay-runner=: give it a non-admin account with a
948key added by =keys add --scope runner=, remove the admin key it held,
949and =make deploy-runner= to install the sandboxed unit drop-in; an
950admin key keeps working meanwhile.
951
952* v1.8.1 — 2026-09-03
953
954Markdown and org files render when opened.
955
956- A =.md=, =.markdown= or =.org= file renders on its page the way a
957 README does on the directory page, through the same renderer with
958 relative links resolved against the file's directory. =source= in the
959 action bar, or =?view=source=, shows the text as before. Every other
960 file is unchanged. #88
961- The e2e harness waits for the HTTP and git listeners as well as SSH
962 before a test starts; a test whose first act was an HTTP request could
963 be refused, which failed two otherwise green runs. #91
964
965Replace the binary and restart. No migration.
966
967* v1.8.0 — 2026-09-03
968
969The tracker's lists narrow, labels have colours you set, and the CLI's
970help is the server's.
971
972- =issue list= takes =--label=, =--assignee=, =--author= and
973 =--milestone= (a title, or =none= for issues with no milestone);
974 =mr list= takes =--author= and =--milestone=. The store narrows in
975 SQL, and the web lists take the same names as query parameters and
976 show each active filter with a link that drops it and keeps the rest.
977 Both lists had taken =--state= and nothing else, so the web's
978 filtering could never match the CLI's. #84
979- =label list= shows a repository's labels with their colour and how
980 many issues carry each; =label set <label> [--color rrggbb|'']=
981 creates a label or sets its colour; =label remove= takes it off every
982 issue. The colour column had existed since labels did and nothing
983 wrote it. The hash is optional because over bare ssh a bare =#= starts
984 a comment for the tokenizer. =issue label --add= still creates a
985 colourless label on the fly. #85
986- =gitbay help= with a prefix or =--json= runs the server's help, the
987 only place flags are written down and whose JSON is the contract;
988 bare =gitbay help= is still the local tree. Cobra's built-in help had
989 owned the word, so =gitbay help --json= failed on an unknown flag. #86
990
991Replace the binary and restart, and reinstall the CLI for the help
992change. No migration.
993
994* v1.7.0 — 2026-09-02
995
996What an open instance needs before it is open: a cap on what one
997account can take, a way out of a browser session you no longer hold,
998and accounts that never verified do not stay forever.
999
1000- =limits.max_repos_per_user= caps the repositories an account owns
1001 directly; =repo create=, =fork= and =import= refuse past it with the
1002 numbers. =limits.max_bytes_per_user= caps their disk: a push may be no
1003 larger than what the owner has left, riding the same
1004 =receive.maxInputSize= as the pack cap, and is refused outright when
1005 nothing is left. Organizations are not capped. Migration 0031 adds
1006 per-account overrides, set with =admin user limits <name> [--repos
1007 n|default] [--bytes n|default]= and shown by =admin user show=. Both
1008 default to 0, unlimited, so nothing changes until set. #82
1009- =registration.pending_expiry=, a duration, removes self-registered
1010 accounts still unverified after that long, hourly and once at start,
1011 audited as =pending.expired=. Empty keeps them, as before. #82
1012- =web sessions list= shows each unexpired browser session by a short id
1013 with its creation and expiry; =web sessions revoke <id>= ends one and
1014 =--all= ends every one. SSH-only, matching the token commands, and
1015 scoped to the caller. #83
1016- A step runs in its own process group and a cancel or timeout kills the
1017 group. On a host whose =/bin/sh= is dash, killing the shell alone left
1018 its child holding the log pipe, so a cancelled build held the runner
1019 until the child finished on its own, minutes for a test suite. The
1020 wait after a kill is capped at ten seconds besides.
1021- A commit with a build still queued or running is not queued again
1022 when a fast-forward lands it; the v1.6.0 skip counted only a finished
1023 success. #90
1024
1025- =golang.org/x/crypto= v0.56.0: GO-2026-6354 and GO-2026-6355 in its
1026 =ssh= package, both reached through =ssh.NewServerConn= in the
1027 embedded SSH server; one is a denial of service on a deadlocked
1028 undecided channel.
1029
1030Replace both binaries and restart: =make deploy= for the daemon
1031(migration 0031 adds two columns to =users= on start), then
1032=make deploy-runner= for the process-group kill.
1033
1034* v1.6.1 — 2026-09-02
1035
1036A cancel reaches a build in its clone.
1037
1038- The runner honoured a cancel only in its step loop; a build cancelled
1039 during its clone or checkout ran git to completion first, which on a
1040 loaded host was long enough for the v1.6.0 test to fail on the CI
1041 host while passing locally. One =runStep= now drives the clone, the
1042 checkout and each step with the cancel signal and the deadline, and
1043 checks the signal before starting at all. The runner logs how its log
1044 session ended when that was not a cancel.
1045
1046Replace the runner: =make deploy-runner=. The daemon is unchanged from
1047v1.6.0.
1048
1049* v1.6.0 — 2026-09-02
1050
1051The v1.4.0 admin surface answered questions about accounts. This one
1052answers questions about the machinery: which runner is alive, what is
1053stuck, whether last night's backup exists, and it lets an operator stop
1054a build instead of waiting it out.
1055
1056- A build a runner claimed and never reported is failed by the
1057 scheduler's minute tick, with no runner involved. It used to happen
1058 only when some runner polled again, so a dead sole runner left its
1059 builds running forever. =GITBAY_STALE_BUILD_DEADLINE= shortens the
1060 deadline for tests. #75
1061- Runners are visible. Migration 0030 adds =runner_seen=: one row per
1062 runner account with its last poll, the =-repos= scope it asked for,
1063 and the build it holds. =admin runners= lists them, over SSH and on
1064 the host. #76
1065- =GET /healthz=: whether the database answers and which commit serves,
1066 no auth, no repository data, 503 when the database does not answer.
1067 =healthz= joins the reserved names. #77
1068- The host monitor's hourly reading carries the age of the newest full
1069 backup and database snapshot, alerting at 25 and 2 hours, and the
1070 daemon's own =/healthz= answer read through =site_url=. Both ride the
1071 journald line and the webhook body. #78
1072- =admin stats= reports =lfs_bytes=. =admin gc --lfs= scans every
1073 repository's objects for LFS pointers and removes stored objects none
1074 names, keeping anything younger than a day since git lfs uploads
1075 before it pushes. #79
1076- =admin backup --verify <archive>= reads an archive back: SQLite's
1077 integrity check on the snapshot, and the repositories it names against
1078 the archive's. A database-only archive says so. Damage or a missing
1079 repository exits non-zero. #80
1080- A commit that already passed a job on another branch is not built
1081 again when a fast-forward lands it. Merging the six-layer v1.6.0 stack
1082 had queued eighteen jobs for commits that had each just gone green.
1083 Failed or abandoned builds still re-queue. #90
1084- =build cancel <owner/name> <n>= withdraws a queued build or ends a
1085 running one. For a running build the server closes the runner's log
1086 session, the runner kills the step within seconds, and its late report
1087 changes nothing. The commit status goes back to the passed result from
1088 another build of the same commit when one exists, else reads
1089 =cancelled=. Needs write access.
1090- Deploys copy with =rsync --partial=, so a transfer the host's load
1091 stalled resumes, and =make deploy-runner= installs a systemd drop-in
1092 (=Nice=10=, =CPUWeight=30=, =IOWeight=30=) so a build never starves the
1093 host's sshd again.
1094
1095Replace both binaries and restart: =make deploy= for the daemon, then
1096=make deploy-runner= for the runner, which carries its half of running-
1097build cancellation and installs the drop-in. Migration 0030 adds the
1098=runner_seen= table on start. The monitor change ships in
1099=deploy/cloud-init.yaml=; an existing host takes it by hand.
1100
1101* v1.5.0 — 2026-09-02
1102
1103Merge requests stack.
1104
1105- A merge request whose target is the source branch of another open
1106 merge request in the same repository is stacked on it. Nothing is
1107 stored and no flag exists; the forge reads the stack from the
1108 branches. =mr create= says =stacked on !A= when it applies, =mr show=
1109 carries =stacked_on= and =stacked=, =mr list= rows carry =stacked_on=,
1110 and the page says both directions in the header. #87
1111- When the lower merge request merges, everything stacked on it is
1112 retargeted onto what it merged into, with a system comment naming the
1113 merge and its reviews kept: after a fast-forward or merge commit the
1114 diff against the new target is the diff they were of. A squash or
1115 rebase merge under a stack is refused, naming the stack, since it
1116 would rewrite the commits the stack builds on.
1117- The first stack merged on gitbay.org was the six merge requests of
1118 v1.6.0, bottom-up, with no =mr retarget= typed. The wiki's
1119 Stacked-MRs page walks through it.
1120
1121Replace the binary and restart. No migration.
1122
1123* v1.4.0 — 2026-09-01
1124
1125Until now the instance had one operator surface: root on the host. Every
1126question about the instance itself — who is on it, what is stuck, what a
1127spam repository is doing — needed a shell on port 2222. This release
1128gives an instance admin the same answers over SSH, and one page on the
1129web.
1130
1131- =admin user list= pages accounts by username with
1132 =--state active|pending|disabled|admin=, each row carrying its state
1133 and =last_seen=, the newest use of any of its SSH keys or API tokens.
1134 =admin user show <name>= adds the keys with their last use, each
1135 address with how it was verified, PGP keys, org roles, owned
1136 repository count, API token names and live browser sessions. Both are
1137 SSH-only and refused to non-admins, like =audit=. #69
1138- =admin user promote|demote=. The only way to admin was
1139 =admin user create --admin=; an existing account could not be raised
1140 and an admin could not step down. Demoting the last admin is refused
1141 inside the transaction that counts them. The host-local twin is the
1142 recovery path when no admin key is reachable. #70
1143- Repository overrides for moderation: =admin repo list= with size and
1144 last push, and =admin repo archive|unarchive|visibility|delete=. Policy
1145 still knows nothing about instance admin — a private repository
1146 answers not-found to an admin as before — so each override skips the
1147 access check explicitly and writes its own =admin repo.<action>= audit
1148 row. #71
1149- =gitbayd admin= dispatches into the registry. User create, disable,
1150 enable and delete, email verify, invite and stats were reimplemented on
1151 the host; they now live in the registry, SSH-only and admin-gated, and
1152 the host binary runs them as the host — an admin context with no
1153 account behind it, so its audit rows say =source: host= where a
1154 session says the key fingerprint. Invite and stats gain an SSH twin by
1155 the same move. =backup=, =gc= and the backfills stay host-local. #72
1156- =audit= filters: =--actor <user>= or =--actor -= for actorless rows,
1157 =--action <prefix>=, and =--since= as a duration (=30m=, =24h=, =7d=)
1158 or a date. =gitbayd admin audit= takes the same flags and =--json=. #73
1159- =dashboard= carries a =queues= block for admins: per worker —
1160 webhooks, mail, mirrors, builds, dependency checks — the pending,
1161 retrying and dead-lettered counts, the oldest pending age, and the
1162 retrying or failed rows themselves, capped at twenty each. The mail
1163 queue was readable nowhere before. =/admin= renders the block by
1164 dispatching =dashboard=; non-admins get a 404 and no rail link. #74
1165- =gitbayd admin config show= prints the configuration in effect as
1166 TOML, defaults filled in and =smtp_pass= redacted, so a support
1167 question starts from what runs rather than what was written. #81
1168- Build badges are served as PNG at =badge/build.png= as well as SVG,
1169 for places that will not render SVG.
1170- Host monitoring writes its reading to journald on every run and exits
1171 non-zero on an alert, so an unset webhook no longer looks like a
1172 healthy host; it reads the ACME cache where it actually lives and
1173 reports the soonest expiry. govulncheck runs as its own CI job. The
1174 database is snapshotted hourly by =gitbay-db-backup.timer=, keeping 48,
1175 alongside the nightly full archive; archives inherit the database's
1176 mode rather than the umask default. #28
1177- A runner whose log stream drops no longer fails the build it was
1178 recording. #67
1179- =go.yaml.in/yaml/v3= and =golang.org/x/net= bumped. #60
1180
1181Replace the binary and restart. No migration. The =gitbay-db-backup=
1182timer and the monitor changes ship in =deploy/cloud-init.yaml= for new
1183hosts; an existing host takes them from there by hand.
1184
1185* v1.3.0 — 2026-08-31
1186
1187A runner took every repository's work, which decided where you could run
1188one.
1189
1190- =runner next= takes optional =owner/name= arguments and =gitbay-runner=
1191 takes =-repos=, so a runner claims builds only for the repositories it
1192 names. Naming none is the old behaviour, so an existing runner is
1193 unaffected. This is what makes a runner outside the server practical: one
1194 on a machine that should build a single project no longer picks up a
1195 build belonging to someone else, which with open registration need not be
1196 anyone the operator knows. The scoping is what the runner asks for rather
1197 than an ACL the server holds over it — a runner account is admin by
1198 necessity, so the boundary is the operator choosing how to start it. #66
1199
1200Replace the binary and restart. Runners want the new binary too, though an
1201old one keeps working unscoped.
1202
1203* v1.2.1 — 2026-08-31
1204
1205Merging landed commits without running anything.
1206
1207- A merge moves the target ref with a direct ref update, so it never
1208 reached post-receive and none of the ref-update work fired: no =push=
1209 event for webhooks to subscribe to, and no builds. Pushing a commit to a
1210 branch ran the whole =.gitbay/ci.yml=; merging the identical commit ran
1211 nothing. Both now happen in the merge path, with the build queueing
1212 shared between it and post-receive rather than living in one of them.
1213 #65
1214
1215Replace the binary and restart.
1216
1217* v1.2.0 — 2026-08-31
1218
1219A merge request said what its state was and almost nothing about when it
1220got there. It now keeps time.
1221
1222- Reviews and checks carry the moment they last said something, on the
1223 merge request page and in =mr show=. A =ci/<job>= check also reports how
1224 long its build ran, so the timing of a run is readable without opening
1225 it. Checks posted through =status set= have no build and report only the
1226 time. !137
1227- A merged or closed merge request names who resolved it and when. The
1228 header stated "X wants to merge" whatever the state; it now says "X
1229 merged A into main on <date>", or "closed this without merging", and
1230 drops the claim entirely for a row that carries no stamp rather than
1231 inventing a time.
1232- =mr show= gains =merged_at=/=merged_by= and =closed_at=/=closed_by=, a
1233 =created_at= per review, and =updated_at= plus =duration= per check, in
1234 both JSON and text. Additive: nothing existing changed shape.
1235- The iOS client renders all of it as of krz/gitbay-ios!37.
1236
1237Replace the binary and restart. Migration 0029 adds four columns to
1238=merge_requests= and backfills the merge stamp for merge requests already
1239merged, reading the =mr.merged= events. A merge with no such event to read
1240— an import, or a row older than its events — keeps no stamp, and every
1241surface says nothing about when it happened rather than guessing.
1242
1243* v1.1.0 — 2026-08-31
1244
1245Every release until now answered questions. This one notices something
1246on its own: that a repository's dependencies have moved, and says so
1247without being asked.
1248
1249- Dependency update checks, opt-in per repository. A daemon worker reads
1250 the manifests on the default branch, asks the ecosystem's registry what
1251 the current release is, and maintains one issue per repository — opened
1252 when something falls behind, rewritten when the set changes, closed once
1253 nothing is behind. No package manager runs, so it needs no CI runner and
1254 no configuration beyond turning it on. #58
1255 - =go.mod= against proxy.golang.org, =package.json= with
1256 =package-lock.json= against npm, =Cargo.toml= with =Cargo.lock=
1257 against crates.io, =requirements.txt= and =pyproject.toml= against
1258 PyPI. A lockfile wins where both exist. A requirement naming a set
1259 rather than a release — a range, a wildcard, a git or path source — is
1260 skipped, since a range that already admits the newest release is not
1261 news.
1262 - =repo deps enable|disable|status=, a toggle on the repository settings
1263 page, and the same three over the JSON API.
1264 - Off by default, because checking a private repository tells a public
1265 registry what it depends on. That is the owner's disclosure to make.
1266 =[deps] check_interval_hours= sets the cadence, default 24.
1267 - The issue is authored by a =gitbay-bot= account, so the existing
1268 notification mail reaches the repository's owner rather than excluding
1269 them as the actor. Its table is padded to its columns, which a
1270 renderer ignores and a mail client needs. #61
1271- =help= takes a prefix — =help mr= narrows the registry to one noun — and
1272 every command now documents its arguments, so the server answers "what
1273 are the flags" instead of being guessed at. #57
1274- Web: settings rows end in one column of controls, checkboxes drawn at
1275 the height of the inputs and buttons they sit beside #59; an added line
1276 keeps its leading dash in the diff; a contributor's several verified
1277 addresses collapse to one row #56.
1278
1279Replace the binary and restart. Migration 0028 adds two tables and, when
1280the name is free, the =gitbay-bot= account. An instance already using that
1281name for a user or an org keeps what it has: the account is not created,
1282and dependency checks report that as the reason they cannot open an issue
1283rather than the migration failing and the daemon not starting. #64
1284
1285* v1.0.1 — 2026-08-30
1286
1287Two CI fixes found by running orgo's release pipeline on this instance.
1288
1289- A runner killed between claiming a build and reporting it left the build
1290 =running= forever, and the commit's =ci/<job>= status pending with it.
1291 =runner next= now fails builds past a 90-minute deadline — longer than the
1292 runner's own =-timeout= — and resolves their commit status. #53
1293- =gitbay keys add= and =gitbay repo deploy-key add= take stdin as a bare
1294 =< key.pub=, but only forwarded it when =--file -= appeared in the
1295 arguments, so both sent an empty body and rejected input the SSH API
1296 accepts. #55
1297
1298Replace the binary and restart.
1299
1300* v1.0.0 — 2026-08-26
1301
1302The web finishes the job #35 set it: reading, reviewing and responding,
1303with the CLI still the complete interface. Every capability exists over
1304SSH, every web write dispatches the same control command, and anything
1305whose input is a credential stays on the command line. The [[https://gitbay.org/krz/gitbay/wiki/Parity][Parity]] page in
1306the wiki is the maintained matrix and says which rows are deliberately
1307CLI-only.
1308
1309- Diff view: one foldable section per file with line-number gutters,
1310 per-file stats, rename and binary handling, and syntax highlighting
1311 run per hunk per side so multi-line constructs lex as real code.
1312 Commit and merge request pages share it; review threads anchor
1313 inline.
1314- Repository facts on the code page: commit, branch and tag counts,
1315 detected license, latest release, build status, a language census by
1316 tracked bytes, and contributors resolved to accounts by verified
1317 email. All derived from git at render time.
1318- Account settings on the web: SSH keys with scope, OpenPGP keys, and
1319 email addresses. Public keys are the only credential-shaped input the
1320 web accepts — they are not secret, and a new user needs one
1321 registered before the CLI is reachable to them. Token minting and
1322 account export stay SSH-only.
1323- Organizations are run from their page: membership and roles, teams,
1324 team members, and team repository grants, for org admins.
1325- Commit log shows each commit's combined check status and gains a path
1326 filter, so per-file history is reachable without editing the URL.
1327- Issue references from commit messages read "referenced in commit
1328 <sha> by <author>", linking the author when their email is verified
1329 here.
1330- The rail's focus ring uses the shell's own mark: the light scheme's
1331 accent was a dark blue ring on a black rail.
1332
1333No migrations. No new config.
1334
1335Upgrading from v0.5.0 is replace-the-binary-and-restart.
1336
1337* v0.5.0 — 2026-08-26
1338
1339A design pass and a parity pass. The web stops being a read-only
1340mirror of the CLI without becoming the place you are expected to work.
1341
1342- New design: a black shell with a persistent left rail carrying
1343 cross-repo state (pinned repos, review queue), the repo header
1344 rendered identically on every tab so navigation never moves, sharp
1345 lines, self-hosted IBM Plex, and code blocks that read against both
1346 color schemes. Tree listings sort directories first and carry each
1347 file's last commit; diffs, inputs and controls were reworked to
1348 match.
1349- Web parity with the CLI, dispatched through the same command
1350 registry the CLI and JSON API use — every web write is the
1351 equivalent =gitbay= command with =--source web=:
1352 - merge requests: review, resolve threads, merge, close, and open a
1353 new MR from the browser
1354 - issues: state, labels, assignees, milestones
1355 - repositories: settings, branch protection, visibility
1356 - releases: create and edit; builds: trigger a job
1357 Commands marked SSH-only still refuse over the web: build secrets,
1358 mirror tokens, domain claims, token minting, deletion and transfer.
1359- A dashboard that answers "what needs me": review queue, assigned
1360 issues, pinned repos, and an activity feed. Author names resolve to
1361 accounts and link to profiles wherever commits appear.
1362- Build status badges at =/{owner}/{repo}/badge/build.svg= for public
1363 repos.
1364- =[web] title= sets the instance's display name, separate from the
1365 hostname commands are pasted with.
1366- =make build/test/deploy= targets.
1367- Fixes: the mobile tab strip scrolls sideways only, long commit
1368 subjects no longer overflow on narrow screens, the shell fills the
1369 viewport with the line-length cap moved onto prose, and the account
1370 cell lines up with the page footer.
1371
1372No migrations. New config: =[web] title=.
1373
1374* v0.4.0 — 2026-08-25
1375
1376- Git LFS: standard clients work over both transports.
1377 =git-lfs-authenticate= joins the SSH dispatcher (deploy keys
1378 included; download needs read, upload write), minting stateless
1379 repo- and operation-scoped tokens for the batch API and basic
1380 transfers. Anonymous HTTPS downloads for public repos; uploads
1381 verified against size and sha256 before landing. Storage is
1382 content-addressed under =[lfs] root= behind a small interface an
1383 S3-compatible backend can drop into; =[lfs] max_object_bytes= caps
1384 objects (512MB default).
1385- Build failures mail the repo's notify targets with the log tail and
1386 build link — failed scheduled jobs reach an inbox.
1387- =release edit= updates a release's title and notes (absent flags
1388 keep their field); omaha-style CI note rebuilds work again.
1389- Syntax highlighting follows the color scheme: class-based chroma
1390 with light and dark palettes, the light-pinned code background is
1391 gone, and markdown fences and org src blocks highlight too. The UGC
1392 sanitizer admits only chroma's token-code classes.
1393
1394No migrations. New config: =[lfs] root=, =[lfs] max_object_bytes=.
1395
1396* v0.3.0 — 2026-08-25
1397
1398- CI: =.gitbay/ci.yml= jobs run as builds claimed by =gitbay-runner=
1399 over SSH (admin-only runner protocol; statuses feed =require-checks=).
1400 Per-repo secrets set over stdin and injected into build environments;
1401 cron schedules (server-local time) and tag-glob triggers, mutually
1402 exclusive per job; =build list/show/log/trigger= and a builds tab.
1403- Pages: public repos' =pages= branches served on =<owner>.<domain>=
1404 (=[pages] domain=), custom domains with DNS TXT ownership challenges
1405 and 7-day expiry for pending claims, per-subdomain on-demand ACME.
1406- Wikis (=.wiki= companion repos, access mirrors the parent) and teams
1407 within orgs (members-role scoping, per-repo team grants).
1408- Activity graphs on user and org pages, backfillable
1409 (=admin backfill-activity=); commits attributed by verified author
1410 email, deduped by sha.
1411- MR pages list the commits the MR carries; =mr show= gains a commits
1412 section.
1413- Per-file history: =?path== on the web log, =--path= on =repo log=,
1414 history link on blob pages.
1415- Mirror status surfaced in =repo show= and the repo header
1416 (admin-only), with sync errors visible; tag-only pushes now schedule
1417 mirror syncs.
1418- Rendering: GFM tables/strikethrough/autolinks/task lists, blob image
1419 previews, raw serves images with real content types (README images
1420 render under nosniff), 0BSD license recognition, repo website links,
1421 compact dashboard pins.
1422- =admin user delete= for accounts that anchor nothing, with named
1423 blockers otherwise.
1424- Fixes: wiki pages no longer overflow on mobile (iOS font-inflation
1425 trigger), GHSA-free deps, secret values pipe correctly through the
1426 CLI.
1427
1428Migrations 0020-0025 apply on start. New config: =[pages] domain=.
1429The runner is a new binary (=gitbay-runner=); see the wiki's Admin
1430guide for setup. Stress-tested against an import of git.git (82k
1431commits): see the wiki's Performance page.
1432
1433* v0.2.0 — 2026-08-24
1434
1435- Deploy keys: repo-bound CI keys (=repo deploy-key=), ro/rw, rename- and
1436 transfer-proof.
1437- Commit statuses (=status set/list=), combined state on MR pages, and a
1438 =require-checks= merge gate.
1439- Email notifications for issue and MR activity (participants with
1440 verified addresses; never the actor).
1441- Inline review threads on MR diffs (=mr diff-comment/threads/resolve=),
1442 stale on force-push, =require-resolved= merge gate.
1443- Required approvals with CODEOWNERS (=require-approvals=; latest review
1444 wins, author excluded) and a =require-resolved= gate; merge gate order
1445 is checks → approvals → CODEOWNERS → resolved threads → signatures.
1446- Web design revamp: token-based stylesheet (light+dark), wordmark and
1447 favicon, aligned layout grid, card-based listings, designed 404,
1448 mobile pass.
1449- Cross-references and mentions: =#N=, =!N=, =owner/name#N=, =@user=
1450 autolink in issue/MR text, viewer-aware for private repos.
1451- Archived repositories (read-only with badge) and repo topics.
1452- Blame view with signature-aware attribution and 1000-line pages.
1453- Repository search (name/description/topic) and per-repo code search
1454 (=repo grep=, web search tab); blob line anchors.
1455- Homepage: dashboard for logged-in users (pinned repos via =repo pin=,
1456 open MRs and issues involving you), landing page for visitors, full
1457 public listing at =/explore=; MR diffs collapsed by default.
1458- Milestones (=milestone create/list/close=, =issue/mr milestone=) with
1459 web progress; issue templates from =.gitbay/issue-template*.md=
1460 (CLI =$EDITOR= prefill and web form).
1461- Issue actions from commit messages landing on the default branch:
1462 =closes/fixes/resolves #N= closes, bare =#N= leaves a reference
1463 comment; once per issue+commit.
1464- Vanity Go imports: =[go_import]= config serves go-import meta tags, so
1465 =go install gitbay.org/gitbay/cmd/...@latest= works.
1466- Release script: =deploy/release.sh <tag>= builds reproducible
1467 linux/amd64, linux/arm64, and darwin/arm64 binaries with SHA256SUMS.
1468- Repository maintenance: =admin gc= (repack/prune, per-repo sizes),
1469 =admin stats= (counts + disk usage), weekly =gitbay-gc.timer=.
1470- Releases: tag-anchored notes and binary assets (=release= commands,
1471 assets over SSH stdin/stdout, web releases tab with downloads).
1472- GitHub history import: =repo import-issues= brings issues and PRs
1473 (as merged/closed MRs) with comments, labels, and state, attributed
1474 inline and resumable.
1475- Push and pull mirroring (=repo mirror=): background sync, read-only
1476 pull mirrors, per-mirror status; credentials server-side, SSRF-guarded.
1477- Web signup at =/register= for open and invite instances.
1478- Audit log (=audit=, =gitbayd admin audit=): every mutating command
1479 with source key fingerprint, registrations, force-pushes, auth
1480 failures. Hardening: per-IP auth-failure throttling
1481 (=ssh_auth_rate=), =max_pack_bytes= enforced, =admin user
1482 disable/enable=.
1483- Account migration: =gitbay migrate --from <host>= (bundle
1484 export/replay + client-side git mirror); =gitbay auth export= as a
1485 user-level backup.
1486- Editable issues and MRs (=issue edit=, =mr edit=, web forms).
1487- Commit references appear as system messages with linked shas.
1488- Design: top nav, repo listing rows (topics, license, last updated),
1489 file table headers, README relative-link resolution, branch
1490 dropdown, web pinning, org owner picker, label filters, linked
1491 usernames and commit parents, =/privacy= page, blue accent.
1492
1493Upgrade notes: migrations 0006–0019 apply on start. No config changes
1494required; =[go_import]=, =[mirrors]=, =web.privacy_notice=, and
1495=web.mode = "accounts"= are opt-in.
1496
1497* v0.1.0 — 2026-08-24
1498
1499First tagged release: the complete CLI-first forge. SSH control plane
1500(bare-OpenSSH usable), git over SSH/HTTPS/git-daemon, repos, issues,
1501merge requests (ff/merge/squash/rebase with signature policy), OpenPGP
1502and SSHSIG verification with retroactive re-verification, orgs, repo
1503import, web UI (view-only or accounts mode), registration with invites
1504and SMTP, HTTPS/JSON API with SSH-minted tokens, webhooks, backups,
1505ACME TLS, systemd deployment.