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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* v1.22.0 — 2026-09-12
8
9The CLI output sweep (#183). The rules are on the wiki's Users page,
10under "Output rules".
11
12- A bad invocation prints the command's registered usage, the one
13 source of it; the hand-written copies are gone.
14- The =gitbay= CLI pads list rows into aligned columns at a terminal
15 and leaves the tabs alone when piped.
16- An empty list prints nothing on stdout and =nothing to list= on
17 stderr.
18- Every refusal (exit 4) says what to do instead.
19- =status list= and =repo topics= print rows.
20- =admin runners remove=; =forget= stays as an alias until the next
21 release.
22- A missing positional argument prints the hint and the usage line
23 (#215).
24
25* v1.21.0 — 2026-09-12
26
27The web UI/UX sweep (#182).
28
29- Destructive controls ask for the object's name typed beside the
30 button: release delete, snippet delete and file remove, team delete,
31 label remove, and SSH key, email and PGP key removal. Reversible
32 controls keep a plain button.
33- Login returns to the page that asked for it, and says so.
34- One timestamp format everywhere, =2006-01-02 15:04 UTC=.
35- Tags on the refs page and in the release form are in version order,
36 newest first.
37- The file editor explains up front when signed commits or
38 merge-requests-only protection would refuse the commit, answers 404
39 for a branch that does not exist, and says when a path is new.
40- Merge refusals name the strategy rather than the flag; an issue
41 closed by a commit reads "closed by <who> in commit <sha>".
42- Repository settings: every Save names its field. Labels: the colour
43 column appears only when it means something. Sidebars use one shape
44 for empty. List rows show the state only under "all" and say "in
45 <milestone>". Global search counts its results. A merged MR shows
46 its merged head and a deleted source branch. The repository home
47 shows the SSH clone URL beside HTTPS. The settings page names
48 =auth token create=.
49
50* v1.20.1 — 2026-09-11
51
52One config check.
53
54- A negative =limits.max_snippets_per_user= is refused at config load,
55 as =max_repos_per_user= and =max_bytes_per_user= already were; it
56 used to pass validation and read as unlimited (#214).
57
58* v1.20.0 — 2026-09-11
59
60Snippets (#195): named text files a user owns outside any repository,
61shared by URL and edited in place.
62
63- Migration 0054: =snippets= and =snippet_files=.
64- =snippet create|show|list|edit|delete= and =snippet file
65 set|get|remove=. Files are UTF-8 under =limits.max_snippet_bytes=
66 (1MB), at most 64 per snippet; a snippet keeps at least one.
67 =limits.max_snippets_per_user= (0, unlimited) caps how many an
68 account may own, admins included. Visibility =public=, =unlisted=
69 (default) or =private=; a private snippet is not found to everyone
70 but its owner and admins.
71- Web: =/<owner>/-/snippets= lists, each snippet page renders its
72 files with a raw route per file, and the owner creates, edits and
73 deletes from the page through the same commands. The owner page
74 links to the list.
75
76* v1.19.0 — 2026-09-11
77
78Labels and milestones an org defines once for every repository under
79it, and =Closes owner/name#N= acting across repositories (#203).
80
81** Org labels and milestones
82
83- Migration 0052: =labels= and =milestones= rows belong to a
84 repository or to an org, exactly one, with a partial unique index
85 per scope. Existing rows and their memberships keep their ids.
86- A repository owned by an org sees the org's labels and milestones
87 beside its own; =issue label --add=, =issue milestone= and =mr
88 milestone= resolve the org's row first. A repository cannot create,
89 recolour, remove, close or reopen a name its org holds; the refusal
90 names the org command.
91- =org label set|list|remove= and =org milestone
92 create|list|close|reopen=, for org admins. Creating a name that
93 repositories under the org already use folds them in: their issues
94 and merge requests move to the org's row and the repository rows
95 go. =repo transfer= into an org folds the same way. Counts on org
96 rows span the repositories the caller can read.
97- Web: read-only =/<org>/-/labels= and =/<org>/-/milestones=, linked
98 from the org page; an "org" mark on repository label and milestone
99 pages, whose forms act on repository rows only.
100- =label list= and =milestone list= JSON carry =org: true= on an org
101 row.
102
103** Cross-repository closes
104
105- =Closes owner/name#N= in a commit on the default branch, or in a
106 merged merge request's title or body, closes that issue when the
107 actor holds write on the target and the pushing key's scope allows
108 it: a deploy key never acts outside its binding. An unknown or
109 refused target does nothing and logs nothing; the text stays a
110 plain autolink. An archived target is refused. Bare =owner/name#N=
111 without a keyword stays display-only.
112
113** Store
114
115- A migration whose first line is =-- foreign_keys: off= runs on one
116 pinned connection with foreign keys off, re-enabled afterwards and
117 =foreign_key_check= required empty. Rebuilding a table other tables
118 reference loses the children's rows otherwise, even under
119 =legacy_alter_table=.
120
121** Behaviour changes
122
123- =milestone create= exits 1 on a duplicate title, as =org milestone
124 create= does; it exited 2 before.
125
126Upgrade: replace the binary and restart; migration 0052 runs on
127start and copies every label and milestone row once.
128
129* v1.18.1 — 2026-09-11
130
131A runner that cannot hang on a dead connection, SSH keys with names,
132and dependency updates.
133
134** CI runner
135
136- Every ssh invocation carries =ConnectTimeout=10=,
137 =ServerAliveInterval=15= and =ServerAliveCountMax=3=, placed after
138 the identity and the operator's =-ssh-opts= so an operator's value
139 wins. A claim whose TCP session had died under it blocked a laptop
140 runner's poll loop for thirteen hours; it now fails within a minute
141 and the loop resumes.
142- The build comment in =deploy/Containerfile.ci= stages the file in
143 the runner user's home before =podman build=: a login shell under
144 =su= cannot read root's stdin and does not share root's =/tmp=.
145
146** Keys
147
148- SSH keys carry a label (migration 0051). =keys add --label= defaults
149 to the authorized_keys comment; =keys label <fingerprint> [<text>]=
150 renames or clears it. =keys list=, =admin user show=, =repo
151 deploy-key list= and the settings page show it. Deploy, runner and
152 admin-created keys take the comment as their label. Closes #208.
153
154** Web
155
156- Org autolinks stop before trailing punctuation: a bare URL closing a
157 sentence or a parenthesis no longer takes the =.=, =,= or =)= into
158 the href. Closes #209.
159
160** Dependencies
161
162- golang.org/x/crypto 0.57, x/image 0.46, x/net 0.59, x/term 0.46.
163 Closes #205.
164
165* v1.18.0 — 2026-09-10
166
167What the first real job on a user's runner needed. A twice-daily
168archive pull that had run on the server's host moved into a container
169and then onto a laptop, and each hop found a gap.
170
171** CI runner
172
173- A secret with newlines — a private key — reaches the build. An env
174 file has no escape for one, so such values are named on podman's
175 command line with =--env NAME= and valued in the podman process's own
176 environment; the value touches neither argv nor the file.
177- =GITBAY_SSH= in every build's environment: the instance's ssh
178 destination as the build reaches it. Under podman the host's own
179 addresses belong to the container (pasta), so a loopback remote is
180 rewritten to the address pasta exposes the host at. A job that
181 publishes back to the instance uses the variable rather than
182 guessing. Inside a container =ssh= expands =~= from the passwd entry,
183 not =$HOME=; keep a build's ssh config in the workspace and pass =-F=.
184- =-identity= drops the user's =~/.ssh/config= (=-F /dev/null=):
185 =IdentitiesOnly= kept identities the config named, so a laptop runner
186 authenticated as the user's own full-scope key and, on an admin's
187 machine, could claim every repository's builds. A first-seen host key
188 is accepted, since a service cannot answer a prompt.
189- A schedule tick queues nothing while the job's last build is pending
190 or running, matching the push path. A repository no runner served
191 gained one row per tick forever. A finished build does not suppress
192 the tick; a schedule re-runs an unchanged commit on purpose. #206
193- =admin runners forget <fingerprint>= drops a key's heartbeat row; the
194 key stays. =admin runners= rows are the repositories a key may claim.
195- The bay1 unit names no =-repos=: the runner key's attachments are the
196 boundary. =gitbay-ci:2= carries =python3-venv= and =sqlite3=, since
197 it is also the default image for every repository the runner is
198 attached to.
199
200** Decisions
201
202- Claim order stays oldest-first across everything a key may claim; a
203 repository that must never wait on another gets a runner of its own.
204 #207
205- No per-account cap on queued builds and no schedule floor: with the
206 tick dedupe a repository with no runner holds one row per scheduled
207 job, and a busy schedule spends its owner's compute. #206
208- Attaching a runner is =n/a= on iOS: the key lives on the machine that
209 runs builds.
210
211** Documentation
212
213- Users: =GITBAY_SSH=, ssh's home inside a container, the =ci.yml= caps
214 (ten jobs, fifty steps, 4096 bytes a step, 64 KiB a file) and where a
215 broken config shows up. Admin, CI and Threat-Model follow the changes
216 above.
217
218** Upgrading
219
220Replace the binaries and reinstall the CLI. No migration. A runner
221started with =-identity= (every runner =gitbay-runner init= set up) now
222ignores =~/.ssh/config=; a runner that relied on it for a =ProxyJump=
223or an alias passes the equivalent in =-ssh-opts=. Homebrew:
224=brew upgrade krz/tap/gitbay-runner=.
225
226* v1.17.0 — 2026-09-09
227
228CI without the operator's compute: a runner anyone installs and
229attaches to their own repositories, and the server rule that makes
230that safe. The rest of the #184 list besides.
231
232** CI
233
234- A runner key claims builds only for the repositories it is attached
235 to. =repo runner add <owner/name> < key.pub= attaches one; a key the
236 server has not seen lands on the caller's account with scope
237 =runner=. =repo runner list= shows each attached key with its last
238 poll and the build it holds; =repo runner remove <fingerprint>=
239 detaches it. All three on the settings page. A runner-scoped key
240 with nothing attached claims nothing, whoever owns it; a full-scope
241 admin key still claims any repository. =runner log= and =runner
242 done= refuse a build outside the key's attachments. #184
243- Closed: any account could add a runner-scoped key, and =runner next=
244 with no arguments handed it the oldest pending build on the
245 instance, secrets included.
246- =runner next --untrusted=: without it a merge request head from a
247 fork is never claimed. The runner passes it when started with
248 =-untrusted=; the bay1 unit does, because it isolates in podman.
249- =gitbay-runner init= generates a key under =~/.config/gitbay-runner/=,
250 writes =config.toml= beside it, and prints the public key with the
251 command that attaches it. The runner reads that file when present
252 and flags override it. =-identity=, defaulting to the generated key,
253 makes ssh and git use the runner's own key and no other. Homebrew:
254 =brew install krz/tap/gitbay-runner=, then =brew services start
255 krz/tap/gitbay-runner=. Releases ship =gitbay-runner= binaries.
256- =admin runners= heads its output with the queue: builds pending now,
257 and over the last day the builds claimed, the wait to claim (average
258 and worst) and the builds the reaper ended instead of a runner
259 reporting them. Rows are per key, with the fingerprint and the
260 repositories the key may claim. Migration 0049. #184
261- Stop tests for the runner's drain: a signal mid-step, the drop-in's
262 =KillMode= and =TimeoutStopSec=, and a transient systemd user unit
263 where one exists. #179
264- The CI wiki page carries every push shape against every job kind and
265 what dedupe, path filters, schedules and the reaper make of it, with
266 a test per row. #176, #177
267
268** Importing
269
270- =import-issues --api-base= reads Forgejo instances: paging by =limit=,
271 oldest first, comments read once, attribution and pull heads taken
272 from the API base rather than github.com. #191
273
274** Documentation
275
276- Users: "Your own runner". Admin, Threat-Model, CI, FAQ and Parity
277 follow the attachment rule.
278
279** Upgrading
280
281Replace the binaries and reinstall the CLI. Migration 0050 (runner
282attachments; the runner heartbeat table is rekeyed by key and
283emptied), applied on start. One behaviour change: a runner polling
284with a key of scope =runner= claims nothing until a repository admin
285attaches it with =repo runner add=. Do that right after the restart.
286A full-scope admin key is unaffected. Merge request heads from forks
287are built only by a runner started with =-untrusted=.
288
289* v1.16.0 — 2026-09-08
290
291What stops a stranger from moving here: the repository plumbing and
292the team gates the #185 walk found missing, twelve merge requests
293merged as one stack.
294
295** Repositories
296
297- =repo settings default-branch <owner/name> <branch>= moves HEAD and
298 the record; a branch that does not exist is refused. A first push of
299 =master= or =trunk= into a fresh repository moves the unborn HEAD to
300 the branch that arrived, so the clone checks something out. Settings
301 page select. #189
302- =repo rename <owner/name> <new-name>=: the row and the directory move
303 together, with transfer's revert on a failed move. Clone URLs change.
304 #190
305- =repo settings require-mr on=: an existing protected branch refuses
306 every direct push in pre-receive, =repo commit-file= and the web
307 editor included; =mr merge= is its only writer. Creating the branch
308 is still a push. #197
309- =repo settings protect-tag <glob>= (and =unprotect-tag=): matching
310 tags are created once and refuse moves and deletion. Separately, a
311 tag a release is anchored to refuses both while the release exists,
312 protected or not; delete the release first. #201
313- =repo access list= reports effective access: one row per account
314 with the highest role and where it comes from (owner, direct, org
315 admin, org member, team). It used to list direct grants only, so a
316 repository reached through teams answered with nothing. #200
317- Removing an org member drops their team memberships in the same
318 transaction. They kept every grant their teams carried, and re-adding
319 them to the org restored nothing because nothing had gone. #196
320- An outsider gets one answer about an org: its existence and members
321 are public, its teams are for members, and =org team list= and =show=
322 refuse a non-member rather than say the org does not exist. Ref #200
323- A repository name may not end in =.atom=, as it may not end in
324 =.git=. Ref #192
325
326** Merge requests
327
328- A push that leaves the merge request's diff unchanged keeps its fresh
329 reviews: the patch-id of each revision against its own merge base is
330 compared, and a rebase onto a target that moved on no longer stales
331 every approval. A push that changes the diff stales them as before.
332 #198
333- The merge gates are one computation shared by =mr show= (a =gates=
334 block: approvals counted and required, owners outstanding per file,
335 open threads, checks, whether a fast-forward is possible), the merge
336 request page, and =mr merge=, which names every unmet gate in one
337 refusal rather than the first. =mr review= reports =counts= and says
338 when a verdict is advisory because the reviewer cannot write. #199
339
340** Notifications
341
342- =@name= in an issue, merge request, comment or diff comment files
343 "mentioned you" in that account's inbox and makes them a participant
344 of the thread, provided they can read the repository and have not
345 muted it. Watchers are not told about a mention addressed to someone
346 else. Migration 0047. #202
347- =notifications settings mail on|off= (and =show=): inbox rows are
348 filed either way, this is the mail half. Login links are not activity
349 and still arrive. The account page carries the same switch.
350 Migration 0048. Ref #194
351
352** Web
353
354- Atom feeds: =/{owner}/{repo}/releases.atom=,
355 =/{owner}/{repo}/log.atom[/{ref}]= and =/{owner}/activity.atom=,
356 rendered over the rows the pages already serve. The owner feed covers
357 public repositories only, since a reader carries no session; a
358 private repository answers 404. The releases, log and owner pages
359 carry the discovery link. #192
360
361** Documentation
362
363- The Users page says what differs over stock ssh: a multi-word value
364 needs a second layer of quotes, and =help <noun>= replaces =--help=.
365 The companion-wiki paragraph #170 made stale now points at
366 =.gitbay/wiki/=. #204
367
368** Upgrading
369
370Replace the binary and reinstall the CLI. Two migrations (0047, the
371mentions table; 0048, the per-account mail switch), applied on start.
372Nothing changes behaviour until a setting is turned on: =require-mr=,
373=protect-tag= and =mail off= are all opt-in.
374
375* v1.15.0 — 2026-09-07
376
377Builds run in containers, a rebase is not rebuilt, and a runner restart
378no longer strands the build it was running.
379
380** CI
381
382- A build's steps run in a rootless podman container, one per job. The
383 runner clones outside the container with its key and bind-mounts the
384 workspace in, so a step cannot reach the key, the runner's environment,
385 or another build's workspace. =image:= is required per job and is
386 validated as a reference, never pulled: an operator provisions images
387 on the host. A runner configured for podman that has none refuses to
388 start rather than fall back to the host. =-isolation none= is the
389 explicit host-execution mode. =-cpus= and =-memory= cap a build's
390 container. #144
391- Builds have a home directory that outlives the build, so the Go module
392 cache and the sonar scanner survive between runs. It is mounted into
393 the container at the same path, and only that directory. Ref #144
394- The host preparation script, the unit drop-in and the weekly image
395 prune ship with =make deploy-runner=; each hardening flag the drop-in
396 relaxes carries the reason in place. Ref #144
397- A nightly canary on the runner host proves the boundary holds:
398 =cmc/ci-smoke= runs a job that tries to read the key and list sibling
399 workspaces, and fails if either succeeds. Ref #144
400- Dedupe keys on the commit's tree, not its sha. A rebase that changes
401 nothing is not rebuilt: the new commit gets the earlier success as its
402 status, naming the build. Scheduled and tag builds carry no tree and
403 are never reused. #177
404- =vuln= and =sonar= run nightly on =main= rather than on every push;
405 neither could inform a merge. Branches run =build= and =test=. #177
406- A rewritten branch is filtered against the merge base rather than the
407 old tip, so a rebased branch whose own commits change code no longer
408 reads as a docs-only push and skips its jobs. #176
409- A build whose runner's log stream ended with no outcome is failed two
410 minutes later, instead of sitting =running= until a fixed deadline.
411 Migration 0046. Ref #179
412- The runner retries reporting a finished build's outcome, four times
413 over about thirty seconds, when the server is unreachable. A gitbayd
414 restart at that moment used to lose the result. Ref #179
415- The runner drains on SIGTERM: it claims nothing more, finishes and
416 reports the build in flight, then exits. A second signal exits at once.
417 The unit allows fifty minutes. #179
418
419** Repositories
420
421- =repo show= reports the caller's watch and bookmark state, and the
422 parent of a fork when the caller can read it. #178
423- =repo unwatch= clears the row from either state; =repo mute= is the
424 explicit silence. Watch then unwatch used to leave an account below
425 the default with no way back. The web header toggle follows. #180
426
427** Upgrading
428
429Replace the binary and reinstall the CLI. One migration (0046, the
430build log's close time), applied on start.
431
432The runner now defaults to =-isolation podman= and refuses to start
433without a working podman and a named image. Prepare the host with
434=deploy/runner-podman-setup.sh= and build =localhost/gitbay-ci:1= from
435=deploy/Containerfile.ci= before deploying it, or pass =-isolation
436none= to keep running steps on the host. Validate on a scratch
437repository with =-repos= scoped to it first; the wiki's Admin page has
438the procedure.
439
440The runner's unit gains =TimeoutStopSec=50min= and =KillMode=mixed= so
441a stop reaches the runner alone and it can drain; under the default
442kill mode systemd ends the build's container with the runner.
443=make deploy-runner= therefore waits for a build in flight.
444
445* v1.14.0 — 2026-09-06
446
447Logging into the web without an SSH key, wikis inside the repository,
448CI that skips what a change does not touch, and the browser catching up
449with the command line on nine capabilities.
450
451** Accounts and the web
452
453- A browser session can be requested by mail: the login page takes a
454 username or a verified address and sends a link that works once and
455 expires in fifteen minutes. An account with no SSH key had no way into
456 the web at all. The response never says whether the account exists, and
457 the form appears only when the instance has SMTP. #155
458- A login link resolves to any verified address on the account, not only
459 the primary. #158
460- Login mail is queued rather than sent from a goroutine, so a link in
461 flight survives a restart. #159
462- A suspended account cannot mail itself a session, and a link minted
463 before suspension opens nothing. #156
464- The session cookie is =SameSite=Lax=, and a test now walks every
465 mutating route to assert it carries the origin check. #157
466- =POST /register= is reachable on an open instance again.
467
468** Wikis
469
470- A wiki lives at =.gitbay/wiki/= on the default branch, so editing one
471 is editing a file in the repository — a push, or the web editor — and
472 it is cloned, diffed and reviewed like anything else. The companion
473 =<repo>.wiki= is gone. #170
474
475** CI
476
477- Path filters: =paths= and =paths-ignore= per job, so a docs commit
478 does not run the whole suite. #169
479- A branch's first push derives its diff base from the merge base
480 rather than treating every file as changed. #171
481- A job filtered out records a skipped status instead of nothing, so
482 =require_checks= cannot wait forever for a check that will never
483 arrive. #172
484- A force-push no longer leaves queued builds pointing at an object
485 that is gone; the orphan is cancelled when a runner claims it. #152
486- A build step's environment is constructed rather than inherited. It
487 was =os.Environ()= plus the build's variables, which handed repository
488 content everything set on the runner service. A step now gets =PATH=,
489 =HOME=, =LANG=, =CI=, its =GITBAY_*= variables and its secrets. =HOME=
490 is the workspace, so a build cannot read the runner's =.netrc=,
491 =.npmrc= or =.gitconfig=, where tools keep credentials. Ref #144
492- A runner host can be prepared for rootless podman:
493 =deploy/runner-podman-setup.sh=, the systemd changes it needs, and
494 weekly image pruning. Nothing reads them yet; the preparation ships
495 before the runner that requires it, on purpose. Ref #144
496
497** Collaboration
498
499- =mr review request --add <user>= asks a particular person for a
500 review, who then carries it in their queue and is notified;
501 =--remove= withdraws the ask. The queue was computed from involvement
502 alone, so a collaborator who had not touched a thread heard nothing.
503 #145
504- Bookmarks save someone else's repository to come back to, and the
505 count is the instance's only popularity signal. Separate from pins
506 rather than a flag on them: a pin is private quick access to your own
507 work and drives the rail, a bookmark is public and counted. =repo
508 bookmark=, =repo unbookmark=, =repo bookmarks=, a control on the
509 repository header, the count in the facts bar, and =/bookmarks=. Read
510 access is all a bookmark needs, and one made while a repository was
511 public drops out of the listing if it goes private. #146
512
513** The browser catches up
514
515Nine capabilities that were CLI-only and had no reason to be:
516
517- label management — list, create, colour, remove #163
518- dependency status under the toggle that turns checks on #164
519- release delete #165
520- the account export bundle, as a download #166
521- organization create and rename; delete stays CLI-only, wanting a
522 typed confirmation, and the page says so #167
523- opening a merge request from a fork, with a source picker offering
524 the branches of every fork you can push to #168
525- forking a repository #174
526- cancelling a queued or running build #162
527- the profile form #161, and a markup picker on issue and merge
528 request create #160
529- admin table headers align with their columns #151
530
531** CLI
532
533- =gitbay mr rebase <n>= replays a merge request's branch onto its
534 target and re-pushes it. A repository requiring signed commits accepts
535 only fast-forward merges, so a merge request whose target moved had to
536 be rebased by hand; the refusal already named the procedure and this
537 runs it. The git work is local, so the replayed commits carry your
538 signature — the server still holds no key. A branch in a fork is
539 refused, naming the repository to run it in. #175
540
541** Security
542
543- Mutating commands are bounded per account in the dispatcher, so SSH,
544 the JSON API and the web spend one budget and a caller cannot refresh
545 it by changing surface. Authentication failures were throttled;
546 commands were not. #148
547- A dead-lettered mail is logged by its queue row id, not the recipient
548 address, and the relay's error is redacted before logging because a
549 rejection quotes the address it rejected. The address stays on the
550 row, where =/admin= shows it. One rule for every mail type. #173
551- The 2026-09 sweep's coverage — and what it did not reach — is recorded
552 in the wiki's Threat-Model rather than in a closed issue. #149
553
554** Dependencies
555
556- goldmark 1.8.6, sqlite 1.58.0. #140
557
558** Upgrading
559
560Replace the binary and reinstall the CLI. One migration (0043,
561bookmarks), applied on start.
562
563=limits.write_rate= defaults to 60 mutating commands a minute per
564account. A script that writes faster will be refused with exit 4 and a
565retry time; raise it in =[limits]=, or slow the script. Read-only
566commands, the runner protocol and the host CLI are not counted.
567
568A companion =<repo>.wiki= repository is no longer read. Move its pages
569to =.gitbay/wiki/= on the default branch.
570
571Runner isolation is half done. Builds still run as the runner's user
572with no container: the step environment no longer leaks the service's,
573and a host can be prepared for podman, but nothing yet executes a build
574in one. Do not enable CI for repositories you do not trust. #144 stays
575open for the execution half.
576
577* v1.13.3 — 2026-09-05
578
579Only a writer's review decides a merge gate, and a scan of one branch
580stops overwriting another's results.
581
582- =mr review= resolves with =CanRead= and applied no further check, and
583 the merge gates counted every fresh verdict. On a public repository
584 that let anyone with an account satisfy =require_approvals= — defeating
585 four-eyes review by holding two accounts, which on an instance with
586 open registration means defeating it outright — and equally let a
587 passer-by block a merge the owner wanted, with no override and only a
588 force-push to clear it. Both were confirmed against a running instance.
589 Reviewing stays open to every reader, because an outside opinion on a
590 public change is worth having; it no longer decides the gate. What
591 does is write access, the same question the gates already answer. An
592 uncounted review is marked advisory by =mr show= and by the merge
593 request page, both reading the same rule, so the page cannot show an
594 approval the gate ignores. #147
595- The two =git upload-pack= spawns behind the smart HTTP transport now
596 resolve git at start-up like everything else. The v1.13.2 rewrite
597 matched a plain identifier for the context and these pass
598 =r.Context()=, so it skipped them. #153
599- CI analyses each branch as itself. Every scan was recorded against the
600 project's main branch whatever branch produced it, so a feature branch
601 replaced main's results — a branch that removes findings made main look
602 clean before the fix merged, and one that added them made main look
603 broken when it was not. #154
604
605Replace the binary and reinstall the CLI. No migration.
606
607A repository relying on approvals from accounts without write access
608will find those merges now refused. That was the defect: such an approval
609never meant the repository accepted the change. Grant write, or name the
610reviewer in CODEOWNERS and grant write, if their approval is meant to
611count.
612
613* v1.13.2 — 2026-09-04
614
615The first SonarCloud scan's findings: eight fixed, the rest triaged and
616dismissed with reasons.
617
618- A pages directory redirect could leave the site. Both redirects passed
619 the raw request path to =http.Redirect= while the cleaned path sat a
620 line above; =net/url= keeps a leading =//=, and Go emits
621 =Location: //evil.example/= unchanged, which a browser reads as
622 protocol-relative. Reaching it needed a public repository named like a
623 host under the subdomain's own owner — repository names permit dots —
624 so it was narrow rather than impossible. The destination is built from
625 the cleaned path through =url.URL= now, which also settles the two
626 spellings the first fix missed: a =..= that escapes to the root, and a
627 backslash, which browsers following the WHATWG rules treat as a
628 separator. #153
629- The runner's default workspace was =<tmp>/gitbay-runner=: a fixed name
630 in a world-writable directory, created with =MkdirAll=, which succeeds
631 against a directory whoever already owns it. bay1 was never exposed —
632 its unit names a workspace — but the default is what anyone running the
633 binary by hand gets, and this is the process that clones repositories
634 and exports build secrets. The default moves under the user's cache
635 directory, the workspace is created 0700, and a symlink or a directory
636 owned by someone else is refused. One we own that is merely too
637 permissive is tightened rather than refused, since every runner before
638 this one made it 0755 and refusing would take the runner down on
639 upgrade. #153
640- Logout and flash consumption expire their cookies with the attributes
641 the setting calls used. Deletion worked either way; the difference was
642 a reviewer's puzzle, and four findings. #153
643- The topics-remove field has a label. A placeholder is not an accessible
644 name. TestEveryInputHasAnAccessibleName is the guard that was missing,
645 and it knows both associations — six inputs use
646 =<label>Name <input></label>=, which is as good as for/id. #153
647- git and ssh are resolved once at start-up rather than searched on every
648 spawn, and gitbayd refuses to start when one is absent instead of
649 failing on whichever request first needed it. This was 74 of the 118
650 findings; a dashboard that is mostly permanent noise is one nobody
651 reads. #153
652
653Also: SQLite migrations are excluded from analysis. They were read as
654PL/SQL, where ='' is NULL=, so =WHERE col = ''= on a =NOT NULL DEFAULT ''=
655column — correct SQLite, and the shape used throughout — read as a
656null-comparison bug.
657
658Replace the binary and reinstall the CLI. No migration. A runner whose
659workspace is group- or world-readable will have it tightened to 0700 on
660next start, and will refuse to start if that workspace is a symlink or
661belongs to another user.
662
663* v1.13.1 — 2026-09-04
664
665A command that reads its payload from stdin says so, and SonarCloud runs
666alongside the vulnerability scan.
667
668- =repo secret set= blocked with nothing printed, which is
669 indistinguishable from a hung connection, and pressing Enter did not
670 end it because the server reads to EOF — so it looked the same before
671 and after the value had been typed, and the secret echoed into the
672 scrollback on the way. A terminal is now told what is wanted and that
673 Ctrl-D ends it; a secret is read without echo and takes one line, so
674 Enter is enough. Piped input is unchanged, byte for byte: =printf %s
675 "$TOKEN" | gitbay repo secret set ...= still sends exactly the token.
676 Applies to =keys add=, =auth pgp add=, =repo deploy-key add= and
677 =release asset add= as well; public keys keep echoing, since they are
678 public. #150
679- A =sonar= CI job reports to SonarCloud, alongside =vuln=. Report-only:
680 it does not gate a build, unlike the vulnerability scan. A merge
681 request from a fork builds without secrets by design, so the job says
682 why it is skipping there rather than failing on a missing credential.
683 Only =SONAR_TOKEN= is secret and it is a build secret; the
684 organization, project key and host are checked in. Ref #149
685
686Replace the binary and reinstall the CLI. No migration.
687
688* v1.13.0 — 2026-09-04
689
690Collaboration. A review is composed and submitted as one thing, a merge
691request can say it is not asking yet and can show what changed since you
692last looked, issues are searched by their text, and the events half the
693mutations never recorded now exist.
694
695- A review is composed as a unit. =mr diff-comment --pending= holds a
696 comment back; =mr review= publishes the batch with the verdict and says
697 how many went with it; =mr review --discard= throws away what was never
698 submitted. A pending comment notifies nobody when written — the review
699 is the announcement, and it names its own size — and does not gate a
700 merge, since a thread only its author can see is one nobody else could
701 resolve. #111
702- =mr create --draft=, =mr draft=, =mr ready=. A draft does not merge and
703 does not appear in anyone's review queue; marking it ready is the
704 request for review. Draft is a flag rather than a fifth state, so every
705 =state = 'open'= rule still means what it did, and the merge refusal is
706 unconditional: every other gate is a setting an admin turns on, and
707 this one is the author's own statement about their own work. #111
708- =mr range-diff= shows what changed between two revisions of a merge
709 request, and =mr revisions= lists them. A push stales every review and
710 nothing said what had moved; a diff of the two heads cannot answer it,
711 and the previous head was overwritten in place. Each side of the
712 comparison carries the merge base it had at the time, since measuring
713 both against today's would attribute every commit that landed on the
714 target in between to this merge request's author. #111
715- Issues and merge requests are searched by their title and body, over
716 FTS5. =issue list --search= and =mr list --search= narrow one
717 repository; the instance-wide =search= reaches bodies now, and both
718 list pages carry a search box. What someone types is quoted term by
719 term, so an FTS5 operator — =c++=, =AND=, a lone quote — is a word to
720 match rather than a syntax error. #114
721- Ten mutations that changed a repository silently now record an event:
722 =mr.closed=, =mr.reviewed=, =mr.edited=, =mr.retargeted=, =mr.draft=,
723 =issue.edited=, =issue.labeled=, =issue.assigned=, =issue.milestoned=,
724 =mr.milestoned=, =release.deleted=. =mr close= and =issue edit= also
725 notify participants, which they did not. The full list is on the API
726 wiki page and =webhook add --events= refuses a name that is not on it,
727 since a subscription to a typo would never fire and nothing would say
728 so. #112
729- =gitbay-runner -jobs N= runs N builds at once. Claiming was always a
730 single transaction that selects and updates, and each build already
731 worked in its own directory, so several workers were safe the whole
732 time; the runner never used more than one. #115
733- A merge request replayed from a migration bundle has a diff. The bundle
734 carried no head at all, and =mr diff= resolves through the head ref, so
735 a merged merge request — which has no source branch left — could only
736 fail. Re-running an import after the git push sets the head it could
737 not set the first time. The GitHub import fetches =refs/pull/*/head=,
738 which a mirror made with the default refspecs does not carry. #128
739- The review loop is driven end to end by three accounts in the test
740 suite: draft, ready, thread, approval, resolve, merge, with approvals,
741 CODEOWNERS and require-resolved all on at once. Every one of those had
742 its own test and none of them met. #139
743- A bare =go test ./...= says the timeout is too short instead of
744 panicking eleven minutes in and blaming whichever test was running.
745 =make test= is what CONTRIBUTING asks for now. #143
746
747Migrations 0036 through 0039 add the search index, the draft flag,
748pending review comments and merge request head history; 0036 and 0039
749backfill from what is already there. They run on daemon start.
750
751Two things this does not do. There is still no way to ask a particular
752person for a review — the queue is computed from involvement, so a
753collaborator with write access who has not touched a thread hears nothing
754(krz/gitbay#145). And a CI build still runs as the runner's own user with
755no container; the runner on this instance is scoped to one repository,
756which is what keeps that narrow (krz/gitbay#144). Both are v1.14.0.
757
758* v1.12.0 — 2026-09-04
759
760The store and the push path. Dashboard queries walk an index instead of
761sorting the table, concurrent writers wait instead of failing, expired
762rows are swept, and a large first push no longer forks a process per
763commit.
764
765- Every dashboard list scanned its table and sorted the result to take
766 fifty rows. Reachability is correlated subqueries and cannot be
767 indexed; the index supplies the =ORDER BY= instead, so the walk stops
768 at =LIMIT=. On 20k issues and 20k merge requests: open issues 11.8ms
769 to 0.8ms, open merge requests 12.1ms to 0.8ms, the review queue 15.5ms
770 to 0.3ms, assigned issues 10.6ms to 0.04ms. The last of those also
771 drives from =issue_assignees= rather than testing =EXISTS= against
772 every issue. #137
773- Concurrent writers serialise rather than failing. Every transaction in
774 the store writes, and a deferred one takes the write lock at its first
775 write, by which point another may hold it; SQLite answers
776 =SQLITE_BUSY= and does not run the busy handler for that case, so
777 =busy_timeout= could not help. Measured with eight concurrent
778 read-then-write transactions, 44% of them failed. Beginning immediate
779 takes the lock up front, where the timeout applies. #121
780- =repo settings= updates no longer overwrite each other.
781 =settings_json= is one blob, and every caller read it off a repository
782 loaded earlier, changed a field and wrote it all back; two admins at
783 once and the later write put back what it had read for the other's
784 field. The read and the write happen together now, under one
785 immediate transaction. #123
786- Expired sessions and tokens are swept, and =[retention]= caps how long
787 the audit log, the activity feed, webhook deliveries and the mail
788 queue keep a row. Unset means forever, which is what every existing
789 instance gets. #122
790- The audit entry records flag names without their values. Secrets never
791 reached argv — they travel on stdin — but prose did: =--body <the
792 whole issue>= was stored verbatim, in a table nothing pruned, for a
793 repository that may be private. Identifiers are positional and
794 survive. #122
795- pre-receive on a require-signed repository forked a =cat-file= per
796 incoming commit and built one JSON message holding the whole push. A
797 50k-commit first push forked 50k processes and held the history in
798 memory twice. One =cat-file --batch= serves the push now, and the
799 daemon verifies each commit as it arrives. #100
800- The payloads other surfaces decode are named types in =control=. httpd
801 had its own copies of what the build, profile and dashboard commands
802 emit, so a field added to a command was silently absent on the page.
803 #126
804
805Migration 0035 adds three indexes; it runs on daemon start.
806
807Two changes in behaviour rather than configuration. A heavily contended
808write now blocks for up to =busy_timeout= (five seconds) instead of
809returning an error immediately — waiting is the point, but a caller that
810treated the error as normal will see a pause instead. And anything
811parsing =audit --json= for command arguments will find flag values gone;
812the flag names and the positional arguments are still there.
813
814* v1.11.0 — 2026-09-04
815
816The web catches up with the rest of the forge: search across the
817instance, a notification inbox, a compare view, linkable diff lines,
818and a pass over contrast, heading structure and the stylesheet.
819
820- Notifications are no longer mail or nothing. An =inbox= table holds a
821 row per recipient whether or not the instance has SMTP;
822 =notifications list= reads it, unread by default, and =notifications
823 read <id>... | --all= clears it. =repo watch= adds you to a
824 repository's notifications and =repo unwatch= mutes it, with a mute
825 beating every other reason to be told, including owning the
826 repository or having written the thread. The unread count rides on
827 =dashboard= and in the web rail. #113
828- =search= matches repository paths, descriptions and topics, and issue
829 and merge request titles, across everything the caller can read;
830 =/search= renders it with a field in the rail on every page, and an
831 anonymous visitor gets the public rows from the same query. Titles
832 only — body search is #114. #118
833- =/{owner}/{repo}/compare/{a}...{b}= shows what one ref adds on top of
834 another. Diff rows, files and review threads carry ids, so a line can
835 be linked to. The issue and merge request lists page at fifty with
836 the cursors the commands already emit. #118
837- CODEOWNERS gating is a setting rather than a file that happens to
838 exist: =repo settings require-codeowners <owner/name> on|off=, off by
839 default, still independent of =require-approvals=. A repository can
840 carry the file as documentation of who to ask without it gating
841 merges. #142
842- A failed form action's reason rides a one-shot cookie instead of
843 =?e=<message>=, so it no longer survives a reload or lands in
844 history. #119
845- A diff cut at 4 MiB cuts on a line boundary and says so, the
846 diffstat says its counts are partial, and a merge request's commit
847 list says "first 100 of N". #117
848- Page templates parse once with the layout at start-up, so a template
849 that does not parse fails the process rather than the first visit to
850 its page. #116
851- Markdown headings carry ids, matching org pages, and the stylesheet
852 serves a hash ETag with a day's lifetime and answers a matching
853 =If-None-Match= with 304. #132
854- Dark-mode buttons carry a visible edge (a 1 px border was 1.3:1
855 against the 3:1 non-text contrast floor), and a stored label colour
856 is held between 0.12 and 0.28 relative luminance so it clears 3:1 on
857 both grounds while keeping its hue. #120
858- Accessibility: the pin star is decoration and the word carries the
859 meaning, the refs and release asset tables have scoped column
860 headers, state filters carry =aria-current= rather than marking the
861 active one by colour alone, and a rendered README or wiki page's
862 headings move down one level so they sit under the page's own. #133
863- The stylesheet drops rules no template reaches, folds two off-scale
864 values onto the type scale, and resolves the classes templates asked
865 for and it never defined. #131
866- On a phone the tab bar wraps to a second row instead of scrolling
867 sideways with its scrollbar hidden, and the landing page says in
868 three sections what a reader, a writer and a reviewer can do. #134
869
870Migration 0034 adds =inbox= and =repo_watchers=; it runs on daemon
871start. Reinstall the CLI for =search=, =notifications= and =repo
872watch/unwatch=.
873
874Two upgrade notes beyond replacing the binary. A repository that
875relied on a CODEOWNERS file gating merges by its presence alone loses
876that gate until =require-codeowners= is set: nothing back-fills it,
877since the database cannot say which branches carry the file. And
878=search= and =notifications= are now reserved top-level routes, so a
879user or organization already holding either name keeps it but its
880profile page is shadowed by the route.
881
882* v1.10.0 — 2026-09-04
883
884Every command parses its arguments the same way, the web answers by
885exit code, and a restart no longer waits on idle connections.
886
887- One flag parser for every command: an unknown flag, a missing value or
888 too many arguments is exit 2 with the command's usage, everywhere.
889 =mr review --approve --bogus= used to report repository =--bogus= as
890 not found. #96
891- =--json= is honoured by the dispatcher's own refusals, so a script told
892 no gets the envelope. #109
893- A store failure is exit 1 and not-found is exit 3; both used to be
894 usage errors. #107
895- Web form actions answer by exit code: the 404 page for a thing that
896 does not exist, the page with the message for anything else. #106
897- Inside a clone, =gitbay mr create= takes the checked-out branch as
898 =--source=; =gitbay <noun> --help= is the server's reference for the
899 noun, flags included. #101 #130
900- Shutdown closes idle SSH connections at once and drains only sessions
901 mid-command; a store failure during key lookup no longer counts as a
902 bad key against the auth limiter; the CLI says on ssh's exit 255 that
903 a burst may have tripped it. #141
904- A merge request head the target already contains is recorded as
905 merged instead of refused; a fork is created with its parent in one
906 insert; a failed transfer revert is reported; the repository quota is
907 checked under a lock. #108
908- Issues and merge requests share their comment, reference and
909 author-or-write code. #110
910- The payloads the web and clients decode are named types: =Created=,
911 =MRCreated=, =IssueShow=, =MRShow=. JSON unchanged. #126
912- Tests: parse failures per command, non-ASCII paths (which found
913 =ls-tree= returning octal escapes, fixed with =core.quotepath=off= for
914 every git the server runs), concurrent pushes. #129
915
916Replace the binary and restart, and reinstall the CLI. No migration.
917
918* v1.9.0 — 2026-09-03
919
920The runner is no longer an admin, the web no longer reaches around the
921registry, and the CLI stops paying a handshake per command.
922
923- =keys add --scope runner= confines a key to =runner next/log/done= and
924 read-only git; the runner commands accept that scope or an admin. The
925 systemd drop-in sandboxes the runner process. gitbay.org's runner now
926 polls as a non-admin =ci= account scoped to one repository. #92
927- The web's repo create, issue create and edit, MR edit and both comment
928 forms dispatch the command the CLI runs, so the repository quota, the
929 archived-repository refusal, notifications, the body format and the
930 audit entry hold from a browser. #93
931- The CLI shares one SSH connection per instance (=ControlMaster=, five
932 minutes idle): a command costs a round trip instead of a handshake,
933 0.4 s instead of 4 s from a distant laptop. =no_multiplex = true= on
934 an instance opts out. #94
935- A disabled account is refused on every surface, and disabling revokes
936 its API tokens along with its sessions. #95
937- CODEOWNERS gates whenever the file exists on the target branch, not
938 only under =require-approvals=. #99
939- The HTTP listeners have header and idle timeouts, and SIGTERM drains
940 in-flight requests and SSH sessions before exit. #104 #105
941- =git archive= runs under a two-minute deadline and a 512 MiB cap. #124
942- Every git invocation ends option parsing before the ref, so a ref
943 shaped like an option is a bad revision and never a flag. #135
944- The admin noun is gated in the dispatcher as well as in each handler;
945 registry tests cover that and =ReadsStdin=. #127
946- An e2e test runs every =ReadOnly= command against a populated instance
947 and fails on any row it changes. #97
948- =http.trusted_proxies= attributes proxied API requests to the last
949 untrusted =X-Forwarded-For= hop for rate limiting; =email add= is
950 capped at five codes an hour per account. #136
951- A merge request head is built in the target repository, at
952 =refs/merge-requests/<n>/head=, so a fork's merge request has
953 =ci/<job>= statuses for =require-checks= to gate on. A head from
954 another repository is built without the target's secrets. #98
955- Triggers refuse deleting a user or organization that still owns
956 repositories, whatever path the delete takes. #136
957- The stylesheet's fonts are served again, and directory crumbs on blob
958 and blame pages link to the tree. #102 #103
959- The Threat-Model wiki page covers the runner. #138
960
961Replace the binary and restart, reinstall the CLI, and =make
962deploy-runner=: the runner fetches merge request refs before checkout.
963Migrations 0032 and 0033 run on start. The daemon host needs git 2.24
964or newer for =--end-of-options=.
965Operators running =gitbay-runner=: give it a non-admin account with a
966key added by =keys add --scope runner=, remove the admin key it held,
967and =make deploy-runner= to install the sandboxed unit drop-in; an
968admin key keeps working meanwhile.
969
970* v1.8.1 — 2026-09-03
971
972Markdown and org files render when opened.
973
974- A =.md=, =.markdown= or =.org= file renders on its page the way a
975 README does on the directory page, through the same renderer with
976 relative links resolved against the file's directory. =source= in the
977 action bar, or =?view=source=, shows the text as before. Every other
978 file is unchanged. #88
979- The e2e harness waits for the HTTP and git listeners as well as SSH
980 before a test starts; a test whose first act was an HTTP request could
981 be refused, which failed two otherwise green runs. #91
982
983Replace the binary and restart. No migration.
984
985* v1.8.0 — 2026-09-03
986
987The tracker's lists narrow, labels have colours you set, and the CLI's
988help is the server's.
989
990- =issue list= takes =--label=, =--assignee=, =--author= and
991 =--milestone= (a title, or =none= for issues with no milestone);
992 =mr list= takes =--author= and =--milestone=. The store narrows in
993 SQL, and the web lists take the same names as query parameters and
994 show each active filter with a link that drops it and keeps the rest.
995 Both lists had taken =--state= and nothing else, so the web's
996 filtering could never match the CLI's. #84
997- =label list= shows a repository's labels with their colour and how
998 many issues carry each; =label set <label> [--color rrggbb|'']=
999 creates a label or sets its colour; =label remove= takes it off every
1000 issue. The colour column had existed since labels did and nothing
1001 wrote it. The hash is optional because over bare ssh a bare =#= starts
1002 a comment for the tokenizer. =issue label --add= still creates a
1003 colourless label on the fly. #85
1004- =gitbay help= with a prefix or =--json= runs the server's help, the
1005 only place flags are written down and whose JSON is the contract;
1006 bare =gitbay help= is still the local tree. Cobra's built-in help had
1007 owned the word, so =gitbay help --json= failed on an unknown flag. #86
1008
1009Replace the binary and restart, and reinstall the CLI for the help
1010change. No migration.
1011
1012* v1.7.0 — 2026-09-02
1013
1014What an open instance needs before it is open: a cap on what one
1015account can take, a way out of a browser session you no longer hold,
1016and accounts that never verified do not stay forever.
1017
1018- =limits.max_repos_per_user= caps the repositories an account owns
1019 directly; =repo create=, =fork= and =import= refuse past it with the
1020 numbers. =limits.max_bytes_per_user= caps their disk: a push may be no
1021 larger than what the owner has left, riding the same
1022 =receive.maxInputSize= as the pack cap, and is refused outright when
1023 nothing is left. Organizations are not capped. Migration 0031 adds
1024 per-account overrides, set with =admin user limits <name> [--repos
1025 n|default] [--bytes n|default]= and shown by =admin user show=. Both
1026 default to 0, unlimited, so nothing changes until set. #82
1027- =registration.pending_expiry=, a duration, removes self-registered
1028 accounts still unverified after that long, hourly and once at start,
1029 audited as =pending.expired=. Empty keeps them, as before. #82
1030- =web sessions list= shows each unexpired browser session by a short id
1031 with its creation and expiry; =web sessions revoke <id>= ends one and
1032 =--all= ends every one. SSH-only, matching the token commands, and
1033 scoped to the caller. #83
1034- A step runs in its own process group and a cancel or timeout kills the
1035 group. On a host whose =/bin/sh= is dash, killing the shell alone left
1036 its child holding the log pipe, so a cancelled build held the runner
1037 until the child finished on its own, minutes for a test suite. The
1038 wait after a kill is capped at ten seconds besides.
1039- A commit with a build still queued or running is not queued again
1040 when a fast-forward lands it; the v1.6.0 skip counted only a finished
1041 success. #90
1042
1043- =golang.org/x/crypto= v0.56.0: GO-2026-6354 and GO-2026-6355 in its
1044 =ssh= package, both reached through =ssh.NewServerConn= in the
1045 embedded SSH server; one is a denial of service on a deadlocked
1046 undecided channel.
1047
1048Replace both binaries and restart: =make deploy= for the daemon
1049(migration 0031 adds two columns to =users= on start), then
1050=make deploy-runner= for the process-group kill.
1051
1052* v1.6.1 — 2026-09-02
1053
1054A cancel reaches a build in its clone.
1055
1056- The runner honoured a cancel only in its step loop; a build cancelled
1057 during its clone or checkout ran git to completion first, which on a
1058 loaded host was long enough for the v1.6.0 test to fail on the CI
1059 host while passing locally. One =runStep= now drives the clone, the
1060 checkout and each step with the cancel signal and the deadline, and
1061 checks the signal before starting at all. The runner logs how its log
1062 session ended when that was not a cancel.
1063
1064Replace the runner: =make deploy-runner=. The daemon is unchanged from
1065v1.6.0.
1066
1067* v1.6.0 — 2026-09-02
1068
1069The v1.4.0 admin surface answered questions about accounts. This one
1070answers questions about the machinery: which runner is alive, what is
1071stuck, whether last night's backup exists, and it lets an operator stop
1072a build instead of waiting it out.
1073
1074- A build a runner claimed and never reported is failed by the
1075 scheduler's minute tick, with no runner involved. It used to happen
1076 only when some runner polled again, so a dead sole runner left its
1077 builds running forever. =GITBAY_STALE_BUILD_DEADLINE= shortens the
1078 deadline for tests. #75
1079- Runners are visible. Migration 0030 adds =runner_seen=: one row per
1080 runner account with its last poll, the =-repos= scope it asked for,
1081 and the build it holds. =admin runners= lists them, over SSH and on
1082 the host. #76
1083- =GET /healthz=: whether the database answers and which commit serves,
1084 no auth, no repository data, 503 when the database does not answer.
1085 =healthz= joins the reserved names. #77
1086- The host monitor's hourly reading carries the age of the newest full
1087 backup and database snapshot, alerting at 25 and 2 hours, and the
1088 daemon's own =/healthz= answer read through =site_url=. Both ride the
1089 journald line and the webhook body. #78
1090- =admin stats= reports =lfs_bytes=. =admin gc --lfs= scans every
1091 repository's objects for LFS pointers and removes stored objects none
1092 names, keeping anything younger than a day since git lfs uploads
1093 before it pushes. #79
1094- =admin backup --verify <archive>= reads an archive back: SQLite's
1095 integrity check on the snapshot, and the repositories it names against
1096 the archive's. A database-only archive says so. Damage or a missing
1097 repository exits non-zero. #80
1098- A commit that already passed a job on another branch is not built
1099 again when a fast-forward lands it. Merging the six-layer v1.6.0 stack
1100 had queued eighteen jobs for commits that had each just gone green.
1101 Failed or abandoned builds still re-queue. #90
1102- =build cancel <owner/name> <n>= withdraws a queued build or ends a
1103 running one. For a running build the server closes the runner's log
1104 session, the runner kills the step within seconds, and its late report
1105 changes nothing. The commit status goes back to the passed result from
1106 another build of the same commit when one exists, else reads
1107 =cancelled=. Needs write access.
1108- Deploys copy with =rsync --partial=, so a transfer the host's load
1109 stalled resumes, and =make deploy-runner= installs a systemd drop-in
1110 (=Nice=10=, =CPUWeight=30=, =IOWeight=30=) so a build never starves the
1111 host's sshd again.
1112
1113Replace both binaries and restart: =make deploy= for the daemon, then
1114=make deploy-runner= for the runner, which carries its half of running-
1115build cancellation and installs the drop-in. Migration 0030 adds the
1116=runner_seen= table on start. The monitor change ships in
1117=deploy/cloud-init.yaml=; an existing host takes it by hand.
1118
1119* v1.5.0 — 2026-09-02
1120
1121Merge requests stack.
1122
1123- A merge request whose target is the source branch of another open
1124 merge request in the same repository is stacked on it. Nothing is
1125 stored and no flag exists; the forge reads the stack from the
1126 branches. =mr create= says =stacked on !A= when it applies, =mr show=
1127 carries =stacked_on= and =stacked=, =mr list= rows carry =stacked_on=,
1128 and the page says both directions in the header. #87
1129- When the lower merge request merges, everything stacked on it is
1130 retargeted onto what it merged into, with a system comment naming the
1131 merge and its reviews kept: after a fast-forward or merge commit the
1132 diff against the new target is the diff they were of. A squash or
1133 rebase merge under a stack is refused, naming the stack, since it
1134 would rewrite the commits the stack builds on.
1135- The first stack merged on gitbay.org was the six merge requests of
1136 v1.6.0, bottom-up, with no =mr retarget= typed. The wiki's
1137 Stacked-MRs page walks through it.
1138
1139Replace the binary and restart. No migration.
1140
1141* v1.4.0 — 2026-09-01
1142
1143Until now the instance had one operator surface: root on the host. Every
1144question about the instance itself — who is on it, what is stuck, what a
1145spam repository is doing — needed a shell on port 2222. This release
1146gives an instance admin the same answers over SSH, and one page on the
1147web.
1148
1149- =admin user list= pages accounts by username with
1150 =--state active|pending|disabled|admin=, each row carrying its state
1151 and =last_seen=, the newest use of any of its SSH keys or API tokens.
1152 =admin user show <name>= adds the keys with their last use, each
1153 address with how it was verified, PGP keys, org roles, owned
1154 repository count, API token names and live browser sessions. Both are
1155 SSH-only and refused to non-admins, like =audit=. #69
1156- =admin user promote|demote=. The only way to admin was
1157 =admin user create --admin=; an existing account could not be raised
1158 and an admin could not step down. Demoting the last admin is refused
1159 inside the transaction that counts them. The host-local twin is the
1160 recovery path when no admin key is reachable. #70
1161- Repository overrides for moderation: =admin repo list= with size and
1162 last push, and =admin repo archive|unarchive|visibility|delete=. Policy
1163 still knows nothing about instance admin — a private repository
1164 answers not-found to an admin as before — so each override skips the
1165 access check explicitly and writes its own =admin repo.<action>= audit
1166 row. #71
1167- =gitbayd admin= dispatches into the registry. User create, disable,
1168 enable and delete, email verify, invite and stats were reimplemented on
1169 the host; they now live in the registry, SSH-only and admin-gated, and
1170 the host binary runs them as the host — an admin context with no
1171 account behind it, so its audit rows say =source: host= where a
1172 session says the key fingerprint. Invite and stats gain an SSH twin by
1173 the same move. =backup=, =gc= and the backfills stay host-local. #72
1174- =audit= filters: =--actor <user>= or =--actor -= for actorless rows,
1175 =--action <prefix>=, and =--since= as a duration (=30m=, =24h=, =7d=)
1176 or a date. =gitbayd admin audit= takes the same flags and =--json=. #73
1177- =dashboard= carries a =queues= block for admins: per worker —
1178 webhooks, mail, mirrors, builds, dependency checks — the pending,
1179 retrying and dead-lettered counts, the oldest pending age, and the
1180 retrying or failed rows themselves, capped at twenty each. The mail
1181 queue was readable nowhere before. =/admin= renders the block by
1182 dispatching =dashboard=; non-admins get a 404 and no rail link. #74
1183- =gitbayd admin config show= prints the configuration in effect as
1184 TOML, defaults filled in and =smtp_pass= redacted, so a support
1185 question starts from what runs rather than what was written. #81
1186- Build badges are served as PNG at =badge/build.png= as well as SVG,
1187 for places that will not render SVG.
1188- Host monitoring writes its reading to journald on every run and exits
1189 non-zero on an alert, so an unset webhook no longer looks like a
1190 healthy host; it reads the ACME cache where it actually lives and
1191 reports the soonest expiry. govulncheck runs as its own CI job. The
1192 database is snapshotted hourly by =gitbay-db-backup.timer=, keeping 48,
1193 alongside the nightly full archive; archives inherit the database's
1194 mode rather than the umask default. #28
1195- A runner whose log stream drops no longer fails the build it was
1196 recording. #67
1197- =go.yaml.in/yaml/v3= and =golang.org/x/net= bumped. #60
1198
1199Replace the binary and restart. No migration. The =gitbay-db-backup=
1200timer and the monitor changes ship in =deploy/cloud-init.yaml= for new
1201hosts; an existing host takes them from there by hand.
1202
1203* v1.3.0 — 2026-08-31
1204
1205A runner took every repository's work, which decided where you could run
1206one.
1207
1208- =runner next= takes optional =owner/name= arguments and =gitbay-runner=
1209 takes =-repos=, so a runner claims builds only for the repositories it
1210 names. Naming none is the old behaviour, so an existing runner is
1211 unaffected. This is what makes a runner outside the server practical: one
1212 on a machine that should build a single project no longer picks up a
1213 build belonging to someone else, which with open registration need not be
1214 anyone the operator knows. The scoping is what the runner asks for rather
1215 than an ACL the server holds over it — a runner account is admin by
1216 necessity, so the boundary is the operator choosing how to start it. #66
1217
1218Replace the binary and restart. Runners want the new binary too, though an
1219old one keeps working unscoped.
1220
1221* v1.2.1 — 2026-08-31
1222
1223Merging landed commits without running anything.
1224
1225- A merge moves the target ref with a direct ref update, so it never
1226 reached post-receive and none of the ref-update work fired: no =push=
1227 event for webhooks to subscribe to, and no builds. Pushing a commit to a
1228 branch ran the whole =.gitbay/ci.yml=; merging the identical commit ran
1229 nothing. Both now happen in the merge path, with the build queueing
1230 shared between it and post-receive rather than living in one of them.
1231 #65
1232
1233Replace the binary and restart.
1234
1235* v1.2.0 — 2026-08-31
1236
1237A merge request said what its state was and almost nothing about when it
1238got there. It now keeps time.
1239
1240- Reviews and checks carry the moment they last said something, on the
1241 merge request page and in =mr show=. A =ci/<job>= check also reports how
1242 long its build ran, so the timing of a run is readable without opening
1243 it. Checks posted through =status set= have no build and report only the
1244 time. !137
1245- A merged or closed merge request names who resolved it and when. The
1246 header stated "X wants to merge" whatever the state; it now says "X
1247 merged A into main on <date>", or "closed this without merging", and
1248 drops the claim entirely for a row that carries no stamp rather than
1249 inventing a time.
1250- =mr show= gains =merged_at=/=merged_by= and =closed_at=/=closed_by=, a
1251 =created_at= per review, and =updated_at= plus =duration= per check, in
1252 both JSON and text. Additive: nothing existing changed shape.
1253- The iOS client renders all of it as of krz/gitbay-ios!37.
1254
1255Replace the binary and restart. Migration 0029 adds four columns to
1256=merge_requests= and backfills the merge stamp for merge requests already
1257merged, reading the =mr.merged= events. A merge with no such event to read
1258— an import, or a row older than its events — keeps no stamp, and every
1259surface says nothing about when it happened rather than guessing.
1260
1261* v1.1.0 — 2026-08-31
1262
1263Every release until now answered questions. This one notices something
1264on its own: that a repository's dependencies have moved, and says so
1265without being asked.
1266
1267- Dependency update checks, opt-in per repository. A daemon worker reads
1268 the manifests on the default branch, asks the ecosystem's registry what
1269 the current release is, and maintains one issue per repository — opened
1270 when something falls behind, rewritten when the set changes, closed once
1271 nothing is behind. No package manager runs, so it needs no CI runner and
1272 no configuration beyond turning it on. #58
1273 - =go.mod= against proxy.golang.org, =package.json= with
1274 =package-lock.json= against npm, =Cargo.toml= with =Cargo.lock=
1275 against crates.io, =requirements.txt= and =pyproject.toml= against
1276 PyPI. A lockfile wins where both exist. A requirement naming a set
1277 rather than a release — a range, a wildcard, a git or path source — is
1278 skipped, since a range that already admits the newest release is not
1279 news.
1280 - =repo deps enable|disable|status=, a toggle on the repository settings
1281 page, and the same three over the JSON API.
1282 - Off by default, because checking a private repository tells a public
1283 registry what it depends on. That is the owner's disclosure to make.
1284 =[deps] check_interval_hours= sets the cadence, default 24.
1285 - The issue is authored by a =gitbay-bot= account, so the existing
1286 notification mail reaches the repository's owner rather than excluding
1287 them as the actor. Its table is padded to its columns, which a
1288 renderer ignores and a mail client needs. #61
1289- =help= takes a prefix — =help mr= narrows the registry to one noun — and
1290 every command now documents its arguments, so the server answers "what
1291 are the flags" instead of being guessed at. #57
1292- Web: settings rows end in one column of controls, checkboxes drawn at
1293 the height of the inputs and buttons they sit beside #59; an added line
1294 keeps its leading dash in the diff; a contributor's several verified
1295 addresses collapse to one row #56.
1296
1297Replace the binary and restart. Migration 0028 adds two tables and, when
1298the name is free, the =gitbay-bot= account. An instance already using that
1299name for a user or an org keeps what it has: the account is not created,
1300and dependency checks report that as the reason they cannot open an issue
1301rather than the migration failing and the daemon not starting. #64
1302
1303* v1.0.1 — 2026-08-30
1304
1305Two CI fixes found by running orgo's release pipeline on this instance.
1306
1307- A runner killed between claiming a build and reporting it left the build
1308 =running= forever, and the commit's =ci/<job>= status pending with it.
1309 =runner next= now fails builds past a 90-minute deadline — longer than the
1310 runner's own =-timeout= — and resolves their commit status. #53
1311- =gitbay keys add= and =gitbay repo deploy-key add= take stdin as a bare
1312 =< key.pub=, but only forwarded it when =--file -= appeared in the
1313 arguments, so both sent an empty body and rejected input the SSH API
1314 accepts. #55
1315
1316Replace the binary and restart.
1317
1318* v1.0.0 — 2026-08-26
1319
1320The web finishes the job #35 set it: reading, reviewing and responding,
1321with the CLI still the complete interface. Every capability exists over
1322SSH, every web write dispatches the same control command, and anything
1323whose input is a credential stays on the command line. The [[https://gitbay.org/krz/gitbay/wiki/Parity][Parity]] page in
1324the wiki is the maintained matrix and says which rows are deliberately
1325CLI-only.
1326
1327- Diff view: one foldable section per file with line-number gutters,
1328 per-file stats, rename and binary handling, and syntax highlighting
1329 run per hunk per side so multi-line constructs lex as real code.
1330 Commit and merge request pages share it; review threads anchor
1331 inline.
1332- Repository facts on the code page: commit, branch and tag counts,
1333 detected license, latest release, build status, a language census by
1334 tracked bytes, and contributors resolved to accounts by verified
1335 email. All derived from git at render time.
1336- Account settings on the web: SSH keys with scope, OpenPGP keys, and
1337 email addresses. Public keys are the only credential-shaped input the
1338 web accepts — they are not secret, and a new user needs one
1339 registered before the CLI is reachable to them. Token minting and
1340 account export stay SSH-only.
1341- Organizations are run from their page: membership and roles, teams,
1342 team members, and team repository grants, for org admins.
1343- Commit log shows each commit's combined check status and gains a path
1344 filter, so per-file history is reachable without editing the URL.
1345- Issue references from commit messages read "referenced in commit
1346 <sha> by <author>", linking the author when their email is verified
1347 here.
1348- The rail's focus ring uses the shell's own mark: the light scheme's
1349 accent was a dark blue ring on a black rail.
1350
1351No migrations. No new config.
1352
1353Upgrading from v0.5.0 is replace-the-binary-and-restart.
1354
1355* v0.5.0 — 2026-08-26
1356
1357A design pass and a parity pass. The web stops being a read-only
1358mirror of the CLI without becoming the place you are expected to work.
1359
1360- New design: a black shell with a persistent left rail carrying
1361 cross-repo state (pinned repos, review queue), the repo header
1362 rendered identically on every tab so navigation never moves, sharp
1363 lines, self-hosted IBM Plex, and code blocks that read against both
1364 color schemes. Tree listings sort directories first and carry each
1365 file's last commit; diffs, inputs and controls were reworked to
1366 match.
1367- Web parity with the CLI, dispatched through the same command
1368 registry the CLI and JSON API use — every web write is the
1369 equivalent =gitbay= command with =--source web=:
1370 - merge requests: review, resolve threads, merge, close, and open a
1371 new MR from the browser
1372 - issues: state, labels, assignees, milestones
1373 - repositories: settings, branch protection, visibility
1374 - releases: create and edit; builds: trigger a job
1375 Commands marked SSH-only still refuse over the web: build secrets,
1376 mirror tokens, domain claims, token minting, deletion and transfer.
1377- A dashboard that answers "what needs me": review queue, assigned
1378 issues, pinned repos, and an activity feed. Author names resolve to
1379 accounts and link to profiles wherever commits appear.
1380- Build status badges at =/{owner}/{repo}/badge/build.svg= for public
1381 repos.
1382- =[web] title= sets the instance's display name, separate from the
1383 hostname commands are pasted with.
1384- =make build/test/deploy= targets.
1385- Fixes: the mobile tab strip scrolls sideways only, long commit
1386 subjects no longer overflow on narrow screens, the shell fills the
1387 viewport with the line-length cap moved onto prose, and the account
1388 cell lines up with the page footer.
1389
1390No migrations. New config: =[web] title=.
1391
1392* v0.4.0 — 2026-08-25
1393
1394- Git LFS: standard clients work over both transports.
1395 =git-lfs-authenticate= joins the SSH dispatcher (deploy keys
1396 included; download needs read, upload write), minting stateless
1397 repo- and operation-scoped tokens for the batch API and basic
1398 transfers. Anonymous HTTPS downloads for public repos; uploads
1399 verified against size and sha256 before landing. Storage is
1400 content-addressed under =[lfs] root= behind a small interface an
1401 S3-compatible backend can drop into; =[lfs] max_object_bytes= caps
1402 objects (512MB default).
1403- Build failures mail the repo's notify targets with the log tail and
1404 build link — failed scheduled jobs reach an inbox.
1405- =release edit= updates a release's title and notes (absent flags
1406 keep their field); omaha-style CI note rebuilds work again.
1407- Syntax highlighting follows the color scheme: class-based chroma
1408 with light and dark palettes, the light-pinned code background is
1409 gone, and markdown fences and org src blocks highlight too. The UGC
1410 sanitizer admits only chroma's token-code classes.
1411
1412No migrations. New config: =[lfs] root=, =[lfs] max_object_bytes=.
1413
1414* v0.3.0 — 2026-08-25
1415
1416- CI: =.gitbay/ci.yml= jobs run as builds claimed by =gitbay-runner=
1417 over SSH (admin-only runner protocol; statuses feed =require-checks=).
1418 Per-repo secrets set over stdin and injected into build environments;
1419 cron schedules (server-local time) and tag-glob triggers, mutually
1420 exclusive per job; =build list/show/log/trigger= and a builds tab.
1421- Pages: public repos' =pages= branches served on =<owner>.<domain>=
1422 (=[pages] domain=), custom domains with DNS TXT ownership challenges
1423 and 7-day expiry for pending claims, per-subdomain on-demand ACME.
1424- Wikis (=.wiki= companion repos, access mirrors the parent) and teams
1425 within orgs (members-role scoping, per-repo team grants).
1426- Activity graphs on user and org pages, backfillable
1427 (=admin backfill-activity=); commits attributed by verified author
1428 email, deduped by sha.
1429- MR pages list the commits the MR carries; =mr show= gains a commits
1430 section.
1431- Per-file history: =?path== on the web log, =--path= on =repo log=,
1432 history link on blob pages.
1433- Mirror status surfaced in =repo show= and the repo header
1434 (admin-only), with sync errors visible; tag-only pushes now schedule
1435 mirror syncs.
1436- Rendering: GFM tables/strikethrough/autolinks/task lists, blob image
1437 previews, raw serves images with real content types (README images
1438 render under nosniff), 0BSD license recognition, repo website links,
1439 compact dashboard pins.
1440- =admin user delete= for accounts that anchor nothing, with named
1441 blockers otherwise.
1442- Fixes: wiki pages no longer overflow on mobile (iOS font-inflation
1443 trigger), GHSA-free deps, secret values pipe correctly through the
1444 CLI.
1445
1446Migrations 0020-0025 apply on start. New config: =[pages] domain=.
1447The runner is a new binary (=gitbay-runner=); see the wiki's Admin
1448guide for setup. Stress-tested against an import of git.git (82k
1449commits): see the wiki's Performance page.
1450
1451* v0.2.0 — 2026-08-24
1452
1453- Deploy keys: repo-bound CI keys (=repo deploy-key=), ro/rw, rename- and
1454 transfer-proof.
1455- Commit statuses (=status set/list=), combined state on MR pages, and a
1456 =require-checks= merge gate.
1457- Email notifications for issue and MR activity (participants with
1458 verified addresses; never the actor).
1459- Inline review threads on MR diffs (=mr diff-comment/threads/resolve=),
1460 stale on force-push, =require-resolved= merge gate.
1461- Required approvals with CODEOWNERS (=require-approvals=; latest review
1462 wins, author excluded) and a =require-resolved= gate; merge gate order
1463 is checks → approvals → CODEOWNERS → resolved threads → signatures.
1464- Web design revamp: token-based stylesheet (light+dark), wordmark and
1465 favicon, aligned layout grid, card-based listings, designed 404,
1466 mobile pass.
1467- Cross-references and mentions: =#N=, =!N=, =owner/name#N=, =@user=
1468 autolink in issue/MR text, viewer-aware for private repos.
1469- Archived repositories (read-only with badge) and repo topics.
1470- Blame view with signature-aware attribution and 1000-line pages.
1471- Repository search (name/description/topic) and per-repo code search
1472 (=repo grep=, web search tab); blob line anchors.
1473- Homepage: dashboard for logged-in users (pinned repos via =repo pin=,
1474 open MRs and issues involving you), landing page for visitors, full
1475 public listing at =/explore=; MR diffs collapsed by default.
1476- Milestones (=milestone create/list/close=, =issue/mr milestone=) with
1477 web progress; issue templates from =.gitbay/issue-template*.md=
1478 (CLI =$EDITOR= prefill and web form).
1479- Issue actions from commit messages landing on the default branch:
1480 =closes/fixes/resolves #N= closes, bare =#N= leaves a reference
1481 comment; once per issue+commit.
1482- Vanity Go imports: =[go_import]= config serves go-import meta tags, so
1483 =go install gitbay.org/gitbay/cmd/...@latest= works.
1484- Release script: =deploy/release.sh <tag>= builds reproducible
1485 linux/amd64, linux/arm64, and darwin/arm64 binaries with SHA256SUMS.
1486- Repository maintenance: =admin gc= (repack/prune, per-repo sizes),
1487 =admin stats= (counts + disk usage), weekly =gitbay-gc.timer=.
1488- Releases: tag-anchored notes and binary assets (=release= commands,
1489 assets over SSH stdin/stdout, web releases tab with downloads).
1490- GitHub history import: =repo import-issues= brings issues and PRs
1491 (as merged/closed MRs) with comments, labels, and state, attributed
1492 inline and resumable.
1493- Push and pull mirroring (=repo mirror=): background sync, read-only
1494 pull mirrors, per-mirror status; credentials server-side, SSRF-guarded.
1495- Web signup at =/register= for open and invite instances.
1496- Audit log (=audit=, =gitbayd admin audit=): every mutating command
1497 with source key fingerprint, registrations, force-pushes, auth
1498 failures. Hardening: per-IP auth-failure throttling
1499 (=ssh_auth_rate=), =max_pack_bytes= enforced, =admin user
1500 disable/enable=.
1501- Account migration: =gitbay migrate --from <host>= (bundle
1502 export/replay + client-side git mirror); =gitbay auth export= as a
1503 user-level backup.
1504- Editable issues and MRs (=issue edit=, =mr edit=, web forms).
1505- Commit references appear as system messages with linked shas.
1506- Design: top nav, repo listing rows (topics, license, last updated),
1507 file table headers, README relative-link resolution, branch
1508 dropdown, web pinning, org owner picker, label filters, linked
1509 usernames and commit parents, =/privacy= page, blue accent.
1510
1511Upgrade notes: migrations 0006–0019 apply on start. No config changes
1512required; =[go_import]=, =[mirrors]=, =web.privacy_notice=, and
1513=web.mode = "accounts"= are opt-in.
1514
1515* v0.1.0 — 2026-08-24
1516
1517First tagged release: the complete CLI-first forge. SSH control plane
1518(bare-OpenSSH usable), git over SSH/HTTPS/git-daemon, repos, issues,
1519merge requests (ff/merge/squash/rebase with signature policy), OpenPGP
1520and SSHSIG verification with retroactive re-verification, orgs, repo
1521import, web UI (view-only or accounts mode), registration with invites
1522and SMTP, HTTPS/JSON API with SSH-minted tokens, webhooks, backups,
1523ACME TLS, systemd deployment.