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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* v1.22.1 — 2026-09-13
8
9One merge gate fix.
10
11- =require-checks= no longer refuses a merge request head that carries
12 no statuses when nothing was going to report one: a repository with
13 no =.gitbay/ci.yml=, or one whose jobs all wait on a schedule or a
14 tag, had no mergeable merge request and no remedy but turning the
15 setting off. A head whose config carries a job a push runs, and a
16 head in a repository that has recorded a status before — which is
17 what reporting from outside through =status set= looks like — is
18 still refused (#216).
19
20* v1.22.0 — 2026-09-12
21
22The CLI output sweep (#183). The rules are on the wiki's Users page,
23under "Output rules".
24
25- A bad invocation prints the command's registered usage, the one
26 source of it; the hand-written copies are gone.
27- The =gitbay= CLI pads list rows into aligned columns at a terminal
28 and leaves the tabs alone when piped.
29- An empty list prints nothing on stdout and =nothing to list= on
30 stderr.
31- Every refusal (exit 4) says what to do instead.
32- =status list= and =repo topics= print rows.
33- =admin runners remove=; =forget= stays as an alias until the next
34 release.
35- A missing positional argument prints the hint and the usage line
36 (#215).
37
38* v1.21.0 — 2026-09-12
39
40The web UI/UX sweep (#182).
41
42- Destructive controls ask for the object's name typed beside the
43 button: release delete, snippet delete and file remove, team delete,
44 label remove, and SSH key, email and PGP key removal. Reversible
45 controls keep a plain button.
46- Login returns to the page that asked for it, and says so.
47- One timestamp format everywhere, =2006-01-02 15:04 UTC=.
48- Tags on the refs page and in the release form are in version order,
49 newest first.
50- The file editor explains up front when signed commits or
51 merge-requests-only protection would refuse the commit, answers 404
52 for a branch that does not exist, and says when a path is new.
53- Merge refusals name the strategy rather than the flag; an issue
54 closed by a commit reads "closed by <who> in commit <sha>".
55- Repository settings: every Save names its field. Labels: the colour
56 column appears only when it means something. Sidebars use one shape
57 for empty. List rows show the state only under "all" and say "in
58 <milestone>". Global search counts its results. A merged MR shows
59 its merged head and a deleted source branch. The repository home
60 shows the SSH clone URL beside HTTPS. The settings page names
61 =auth token create=.
62
63* v1.20.1 — 2026-09-11
64
65One config check.
66
67- A negative =limits.max_snippets_per_user= is refused at config load,
68 as =max_repos_per_user= and =max_bytes_per_user= already were; it
69 used to pass validation and read as unlimited (#214).
70
71* v1.20.0 — 2026-09-11
72
73Snippets (#195): named text files a user owns outside any repository,
74shared by URL and edited in place.
75
76- Migration 0054: =snippets= and =snippet_files=.
77- =snippet create|show|list|edit|delete= and =snippet file
78 set|get|remove=. Files are UTF-8 under =limits.max_snippet_bytes=
79 (1MB), at most 64 per snippet; a snippet keeps at least one.
80 =limits.max_snippets_per_user= (0, unlimited) caps how many an
81 account may own, admins included. Visibility =public=, =unlisted=
82 (default) or =private=; a private snippet is not found to everyone
83 but its owner and admins.
84- Web: =/<owner>/-/snippets= lists, each snippet page renders its
85 files with a raw route per file, and the owner creates, edits and
86 deletes from the page through the same commands. The owner page
87 links to the list.
88
89* v1.19.0 — 2026-09-11
90
91Labels and milestones an org defines once for every repository under
92it, and =Closes owner/name#N= acting across repositories (#203).
93
94** Org labels and milestones
95
96- Migration 0052: =labels= and =milestones= rows belong to a
97 repository or to an org, exactly one, with a partial unique index
98 per scope. Existing rows and their memberships keep their ids.
99- A repository owned by an org sees the org's labels and milestones
100 beside its own; =issue label --add=, =issue milestone= and =mr
101 milestone= resolve the org's row first. A repository cannot create,
102 recolour, remove, close or reopen a name its org holds; the refusal
103 names the org command.
104- =org label set|list|remove= and =org milestone
105 create|list|close|reopen=, for org admins. Creating a name that
106 repositories under the org already use folds them in: their issues
107 and merge requests move to the org's row and the repository rows
108 go. =repo transfer= into an org folds the same way. Counts on org
109 rows span the repositories the caller can read.
110- Web: read-only =/<org>/-/labels= and =/<org>/-/milestones=, linked
111 from the org page; an "org" mark on repository label and milestone
112 pages, whose forms act on repository rows only.
113- =label list= and =milestone list= JSON carry =org: true= on an org
114 row.
115
116** Cross-repository closes
117
118- =Closes owner/name#N= in a commit on the default branch, or in a
119 merged merge request's title or body, closes that issue when the
120 actor holds write on the target and the pushing key's scope allows
121 it: a deploy key never acts outside its binding. An unknown or
122 refused target does nothing and logs nothing; the text stays a
123 plain autolink. An archived target is refused. Bare =owner/name#N=
124 without a keyword stays display-only.
125
126** Store
127
128- A migration whose first line is =-- foreign_keys: off= runs on one
129 pinned connection with foreign keys off, re-enabled afterwards and
130 =foreign_key_check= required empty. Rebuilding a table other tables
131 reference loses the children's rows otherwise, even under
132 =legacy_alter_table=.
133
134** Behaviour changes
135
136- =milestone create= exits 1 on a duplicate title, as =org milestone
137 create= does; it exited 2 before.
138
139Upgrade: replace the binary and restart; migration 0052 runs on
140start and copies every label and milestone row once.
141
142* v1.18.1 — 2026-09-11
143
144A runner that cannot hang on a dead connection, SSH keys with names,
145and dependency updates.
146
147** CI runner
148
149- Every ssh invocation carries =ConnectTimeout=10=,
150 =ServerAliveInterval=15= and =ServerAliveCountMax=3=, placed after
151 the identity and the operator's =-ssh-opts= so an operator's value
152 wins. A claim whose TCP session had died under it blocked a laptop
153 runner's poll loop for thirteen hours; it now fails within a minute
154 and the loop resumes.
155- The build comment in =deploy/Containerfile.ci= stages the file in
156 the runner user's home before =podman build=: a login shell under
157 =su= cannot read root's stdin and does not share root's =/tmp=.
158
159** Keys
160
161- SSH keys carry a label (migration 0051). =keys add --label= defaults
162 to the authorized_keys comment; =keys label <fingerprint> [<text>]=
163 renames or clears it. =keys list=, =admin user show=, =repo
164 deploy-key list= and the settings page show it. Deploy, runner and
165 admin-created keys take the comment as their label. Closes #208.
166
167** Web
168
169- Org autolinks stop before trailing punctuation: a bare URL closing a
170 sentence or a parenthesis no longer takes the =.=, =,= or =)= into
171 the href. Closes #209.
172
173** Dependencies
174
175- golang.org/x/crypto 0.57, x/image 0.46, x/net 0.59, x/term 0.46.
176 Closes #205.
177
178* v1.18.0 — 2026-09-10
179
180What the first real job on a user's runner needed. A twice-daily
181archive pull that had run on the server's host moved into a container
182and then onto a laptop, and each hop found a gap.
183
184** CI runner
185
186- A secret with newlines — a private key — reaches the build. An env
187 file has no escape for one, so such values are named on podman's
188 command line with =--env NAME= and valued in the podman process's own
189 environment; the value touches neither argv nor the file.
190- =GITBAY_SSH= in every build's environment: the instance's ssh
191 destination as the build reaches it. Under podman the host's own
192 addresses belong to the container (pasta), so a loopback remote is
193 rewritten to the address pasta exposes the host at. A job that
194 publishes back to the instance uses the variable rather than
195 guessing. Inside a container =ssh= expands =~= from the passwd entry,
196 not =$HOME=; keep a build's ssh config in the workspace and pass =-F=.
197- =-identity= drops the user's =~/.ssh/config= (=-F /dev/null=):
198 =IdentitiesOnly= kept identities the config named, so a laptop runner
199 authenticated as the user's own full-scope key and, on an admin's
200 machine, could claim every repository's builds. A first-seen host key
201 is accepted, since a service cannot answer a prompt.
202- A schedule tick queues nothing while the job's last build is pending
203 or running, matching the push path. A repository no runner served
204 gained one row per tick forever. A finished build does not suppress
205 the tick; a schedule re-runs an unchanged commit on purpose. #206
206- =admin runners forget <fingerprint>= drops a key's heartbeat row; the
207 key stays. =admin runners= rows are the repositories a key may claim.
208- The bay1 unit names no =-repos=: the runner key's attachments are the
209 boundary. =gitbay-ci:2= carries =python3-venv= and =sqlite3=, since
210 it is also the default image for every repository the runner is
211 attached to.
212
213** Decisions
214
215- Claim order stays oldest-first across everything a key may claim; a
216 repository that must never wait on another gets a runner of its own.
217 #207
218- No per-account cap on queued builds and no schedule floor: with the
219 tick dedupe a repository with no runner holds one row per scheduled
220 job, and a busy schedule spends its owner's compute. #206
221- Attaching a runner is =n/a= on iOS: the key lives on the machine that
222 runs builds.
223
224** Documentation
225
226- Users: =GITBAY_SSH=, ssh's home inside a container, the =ci.yml= caps
227 (ten jobs, fifty steps, 4096 bytes a step, 64 KiB a file) and where a
228 broken config shows up. Admin, CI and Threat-Model follow the changes
229 above.
230
231** Upgrading
232
233Replace the binaries and reinstall the CLI. No migration. A runner
234started with =-identity= (every runner =gitbay-runner init= set up) now
235ignores =~/.ssh/config=; a runner that relied on it for a =ProxyJump=
236or an alias passes the equivalent in =-ssh-opts=. Homebrew:
237=brew upgrade krz/tap/gitbay-runner=.
238
239* v1.17.0 — 2026-09-09
240
241CI without the operator's compute: a runner anyone installs and
242attaches to their own repositories, and the server rule that makes
243that safe. The rest of the #184 list besides.
244
245** CI
246
247- A runner key claims builds only for the repositories it is attached
248 to. =repo runner add <owner/name> < key.pub= attaches one; a key the
249 server has not seen lands on the caller's account with scope
250 =runner=. =repo runner list= shows each attached key with its last
251 poll and the build it holds; =repo runner remove <fingerprint>=
252 detaches it. All three on the settings page. A runner-scoped key
253 with nothing attached claims nothing, whoever owns it; a full-scope
254 admin key still claims any repository. =runner log= and =runner
255 done= refuse a build outside the key's attachments. #184
256- Closed: any account could add a runner-scoped key, and =runner next=
257 with no arguments handed it the oldest pending build on the
258 instance, secrets included.
259- =runner next --untrusted=: without it a merge request head from a
260 fork is never claimed. The runner passes it when started with
261 =-untrusted=; the bay1 unit does, because it isolates in podman.
262- =gitbay-runner init= generates a key under =~/.config/gitbay-runner/=,
263 writes =config.toml= beside it, and prints the public key with the
264 command that attaches it. The runner reads that file when present
265 and flags override it. =-identity=, defaulting to the generated key,
266 makes ssh and git use the runner's own key and no other. Homebrew:
267 =brew install krz/tap/gitbay-runner=, then =brew services start
268 krz/tap/gitbay-runner=. Releases ship =gitbay-runner= binaries.
269- =admin runners= heads its output with the queue: builds pending now,
270 and over the last day the builds claimed, the wait to claim (average
271 and worst) and the builds the reaper ended instead of a runner
272 reporting them. Rows are per key, with the fingerprint and the
273 repositories the key may claim. Migration 0049. #184
274- Stop tests for the runner's drain: a signal mid-step, the drop-in's
275 =KillMode= and =TimeoutStopSec=, and a transient systemd user unit
276 where one exists. #179
277- The CI wiki page carries every push shape against every job kind and
278 what dedupe, path filters, schedules and the reaper make of it, with
279 a test per row. #176, #177
280
281** Importing
282
283- =import-issues --api-base= reads Forgejo instances: paging by =limit=,
284 oldest first, comments read once, attribution and pull heads taken
285 from the API base rather than github.com. #191
286
287** Documentation
288
289- Users: "Your own runner". Admin, Threat-Model, CI, FAQ and Parity
290 follow the attachment rule.
291
292** Upgrading
293
294Replace the binaries and reinstall the CLI. Migration 0050 (runner
295attachments; the runner heartbeat table is rekeyed by key and
296emptied), applied on start. One behaviour change: a runner polling
297with a key of scope =runner= claims nothing until a repository admin
298attaches it with =repo runner add=. Do that right after the restart.
299A full-scope admin key is unaffected. Merge request heads from forks
300are built only by a runner started with =-untrusted=.
301
302* v1.16.0 — 2026-09-08
303
304What stops a stranger from moving here: the repository plumbing and
305the team gates the #185 walk found missing, twelve merge requests
306merged as one stack.
307
308** Repositories
309
310- =repo settings default-branch <owner/name> <branch>= moves HEAD and
311 the record; a branch that does not exist is refused. A first push of
312 =master= or =trunk= into a fresh repository moves the unborn HEAD to
313 the branch that arrived, so the clone checks something out. Settings
314 page select. #189
315- =repo rename <owner/name> <new-name>=: the row and the directory move
316 together, with transfer's revert on a failed move. Clone URLs change.
317 #190
318- =repo settings require-mr on=: an existing protected branch refuses
319 every direct push in pre-receive, =repo commit-file= and the web
320 editor included; =mr merge= is its only writer. Creating the branch
321 is still a push. #197
322- =repo settings protect-tag <glob>= (and =unprotect-tag=): matching
323 tags are created once and refuse moves and deletion. Separately, a
324 tag a release is anchored to refuses both while the release exists,
325 protected or not; delete the release first. #201
326- =repo access list= reports effective access: one row per account
327 with the highest role and where it comes from (owner, direct, org
328 admin, org member, team). It used to list direct grants only, so a
329 repository reached through teams answered with nothing. #200
330- Removing an org member drops their team memberships in the same
331 transaction. They kept every grant their teams carried, and re-adding
332 them to the org restored nothing because nothing had gone. #196
333- An outsider gets one answer about an org: its existence and members
334 are public, its teams are for members, and =org team list= and =show=
335 refuse a non-member rather than say the org does not exist. Ref #200
336- A repository name may not end in =.atom=, as it may not end in
337 =.git=. Ref #192
338
339** Merge requests
340
341- A push that leaves the merge request's diff unchanged keeps its fresh
342 reviews: the patch-id of each revision against its own merge base is
343 compared, and a rebase onto a target that moved on no longer stales
344 every approval. A push that changes the diff stales them as before.
345 #198
346- The merge gates are one computation shared by =mr show= (a =gates=
347 block: approvals counted and required, owners outstanding per file,
348 open threads, checks, whether a fast-forward is possible), the merge
349 request page, and =mr merge=, which names every unmet gate in one
350 refusal rather than the first. =mr review= reports =counts= and says
351 when a verdict is advisory because the reviewer cannot write. #199
352
353** Notifications
354
355- =@name= in an issue, merge request, comment or diff comment files
356 "mentioned you" in that account's inbox and makes them a participant
357 of the thread, provided they can read the repository and have not
358 muted it. Watchers are not told about a mention addressed to someone
359 else. Migration 0047. #202
360- =notifications settings mail on|off= (and =show=): inbox rows are
361 filed either way, this is the mail half. Login links are not activity
362 and still arrive. The account page carries the same switch.
363 Migration 0048. Ref #194
364
365** Web
366
367- Atom feeds: =/{owner}/{repo}/releases.atom=,
368 =/{owner}/{repo}/log.atom[/{ref}]= and =/{owner}/activity.atom=,
369 rendered over the rows the pages already serve. The owner feed covers
370 public repositories only, since a reader carries no session; a
371 private repository answers 404. The releases, log and owner pages
372 carry the discovery link. #192
373
374** Documentation
375
376- The Users page says what differs over stock ssh: a multi-word value
377 needs a second layer of quotes, and =help <noun>= replaces =--help=.
378 The companion-wiki paragraph #170 made stale now points at
379 =.gitbay/wiki/=. #204
380
381** Upgrading
382
383Replace the binary and reinstall the CLI. Two migrations (0047, the
384mentions table; 0048, the per-account mail switch), applied on start.
385Nothing changes behaviour until a setting is turned on: =require-mr=,
386=protect-tag= and =mail off= are all opt-in.
387
388* v1.15.0 — 2026-09-07
389
390Builds run in containers, a rebase is not rebuilt, and a runner restart
391no longer strands the build it was running.
392
393** CI
394
395- A build's steps run in a rootless podman container, one per job. The
396 runner clones outside the container with its key and bind-mounts the
397 workspace in, so a step cannot reach the key, the runner's environment,
398 or another build's workspace. =image:= is required per job and is
399 validated as a reference, never pulled: an operator provisions images
400 on the host. A runner configured for podman that has none refuses to
401 start rather than fall back to the host. =-isolation none= is the
402 explicit host-execution mode. =-cpus= and =-memory= cap a build's
403 container. #144
404- Builds have a home directory that outlives the build, so the Go module
405 cache and the sonar scanner survive between runs. It is mounted into
406 the container at the same path, and only that directory. Ref #144
407- The host preparation script, the unit drop-in and the weekly image
408 prune ship with =make deploy-runner=; each hardening flag the drop-in
409 relaxes carries the reason in place. Ref #144
410- A nightly canary on the runner host proves the boundary holds:
411 =cmc/ci-smoke= runs a job that tries to read the key and list sibling
412 workspaces, and fails if either succeeds. Ref #144
413- Dedupe keys on the commit's tree, not its sha. A rebase that changes
414 nothing is not rebuilt: the new commit gets the earlier success as its
415 status, naming the build. Scheduled and tag builds carry no tree and
416 are never reused. #177
417- =vuln= and =sonar= run nightly on =main= rather than on every push;
418 neither could inform a merge. Branches run =build= and =test=. #177
419- A rewritten branch is filtered against the merge base rather than the
420 old tip, so a rebased branch whose own commits change code no longer
421 reads as a docs-only push and skips its jobs. #176
422- A build whose runner's log stream ended with no outcome is failed two
423 minutes later, instead of sitting =running= until a fixed deadline.
424 Migration 0046. Ref #179
425- The runner retries reporting a finished build's outcome, four times
426 over about thirty seconds, when the server is unreachable. A gitbayd
427 restart at that moment used to lose the result. Ref #179
428- The runner drains on SIGTERM: it claims nothing more, finishes and
429 reports the build in flight, then exits. A second signal exits at once.
430 The unit allows fifty minutes. #179
431
432** Repositories
433
434- =repo show= reports the caller's watch and bookmark state, and the
435 parent of a fork when the caller can read it. #178
436- =repo unwatch= clears the row from either state; =repo mute= is the
437 explicit silence. Watch then unwatch used to leave an account below
438 the default with no way back. The web header toggle follows. #180
439
440** Upgrading
441
442Replace the binary and reinstall the CLI. One migration (0046, the
443build log's close time), applied on start.
444
445The runner now defaults to =-isolation podman= and refuses to start
446without a working podman and a named image. Prepare the host with
447=deploy/runner-podman-setup.sh= and build =localhost/gitbay-ci:1= from
448=deploy/Containerfile.ci= before deploying it, or pass =-isolation
449none= to keep running steps on the host. Validate on a scratch
450repository with =-repos= scoped to it first; the wiki's Admin page has
451the procedure.
452
453The runner's unit gains =TimeoutStopSec=50min= and =KillMode=mixed= so
454a stop reaches the runner alone and it can drain; under the default
455kill mode systemd ends the build's container with the runner.
456=make deploy-runner= therefore waits for a build in flight.
457
458* v1.14.0 — 2026-09-06
459
460Logging into the web without an SSH key, wikis inside the repository,
461CI that skips what a change does not touch, and the browser catching up
462with the command line on nine capabilities.
463
464** Accounts and the web
465
466- A browser session can be requested by mail: the login page takes a
467 username or a verified address and sends a link that works once and
468 expires in fifteen minutes. An account with no SSH key had no way into
469 the web at all. The response never says whether the account exists, and
470 the form appears only when the instance has SMTP. #155
471- A login link resolves to any verified address on the account, not only
472 the primary. #158
473- Login mail is queued rather than sent from a goroutine, so a link in
474 flight survives a restart. #159
475- A suspended account cannot mail itself a session, and a link minted
476 before suspension opens nothing. #156
477- The session cookie is =SameSite=Lax=, and a test now walks every
478 mutating route to assert it carries the origin check. #157
479- =POST /register= is reachable on an open instance again.
480
481** Wikis
482
483- A wiki lives at =.gitbay/wiki/= on the default branch, so editing one
484 is editing a file in the repository — a push, or the web editor — and
485 it is cloned, diffed and reviewed like anything else. The companion
486 =<repo>.wiki= is gone. #170
487
488** CI
489
490- Path filters: =paths= and =paths-ignore= per job, so a docs commit
491 does not run the whole suite. #169
492- A branch's first push derives its diff base from the merge base
493 rather than treating every file as changed. #171
494- A job filtered out records a skipped status instead of nothing, so
495 =require_checks= cannot wait forever for a check that will never
496 arrive. #172
497- A force-push no longer leaves queued builds pointing at an object
498 that is gone; the orphan is cancelled when a runner claims it. #152
499- A build step's environment is constructed rather than inherited. It
500 was =os.Environ()= plus the build's variables, which handed repository
501 content everything set on the runner service. A step now gets =PATH=,
502 =HOME=, =LANG=, =CI=, its =GITBAY_*= variables and its secrets. =HOME=
503 is the workspace, so a build cannot read the runner's =.netrc=,
504 =.npmrc= or =.gitconfig=, where tools keep credentials. Ref #144
505- A runner host can be prepared for rootless podman:
506 =deploy/runner-podman-setup.sh=, the systemd changes it needs, and
507 weekly image pruning. Nothing reads them yet; the preparation ships
508 before the runner that requires it, on purpose. Ref #144
509
510** Collaboration
511
512- =mr review request --add <user>= asks a particular person for a
513 review, who then carries it in their queue and is notified;
514 =--remove= withdraws the ask. The queue was computed from involvement
515 alone, so a collaborator who had not touched a thread heard nothing.
516 #145
517- Bookmarks save someone else's repository to come back to, and the
518 count is the instance's only popularity signal. Separate from pins
519 rather than a flag on them: a pin is private quick access to your own
520 work and drives the rail, a bookmark is public and counted. =repo
521 bookmark=, =repo unbookmark=, =repo bookmarks=, a control on the
522 repository header, the count in the facts bar, and =/bookmarks=. Read
523 access is all a bookmark needs, and one made while a repository was
524 public drops out of the listing if it goes private. #146
525
526** The browser catches up
527
528Nine capabilities that were CLI-only and had no reason to be:
529
530- label management — list, create, colour, remove #163
531- dependency status under the toggle that turns checks on #164
532- release delete #165
533- the account export bundle, as a download #166
534- organization create and rename; delete stays CLI-only, wanting a
535 typed confirmation, and the page says so #167
536- opening a merge request from a fork, with a source picker offering
537 the branches of every fork you can push to #168
538- forking a repository #174
539- cancelling a queued or running build #162
540- the profile form #161, and a markup picker on issue and merge
541 request create #160
542- admin table headers align with their columns #151
543
544** CLI
545
546- =gitbay mr rebase <n>= replays a merge request's branch onto its
547 target and re-pushes it. A repository requiring signed commits accepts
548 only fast-forward merges, so a merge request whose target moved had to
549 be rebased by hand; the refusal already named the procedure and this
550 runs it. The git work is local, so the replayed commits carry your
551 signature — the server still holds no key. A branch in a fork is
552 refused, naming the repository to run it in. #175
553
554** Security
555
556- Mutating commands are bounded per account in the dispatcher, so SSH,
557 the JSON API and the web spend one budget and a caller cannot refresh
558 it by changing surface. Authentication failures were throttled;
559 commands were not. #148
560- A dead-lettered mail is logged by its queue row id, not the recipient
561 address, and the relay's error is redacted before logging because a
562 rejection quotes the address it rejected. The address stays on the
563 row, where =/admin= shows it. One rule for every mail type. #173
564- The 2026-09 sweep's coverage — and what it did not reach — is recorded
565 in the wiki's Threat-Model rather than in a closed issue. #149
566
567** Dependencies
568
569- goldmark 1.8.6, sqlite 1.58.0. #140
570
571** Upgrading
572
573Replace the binary and reinstall the CLI. One migration (0043,
574bookmarks), applied on start.
575
576=limits.write_rate= defaults to 60 mutating commands a minute per
577account. A script that writes faster will be refused with exit 4 and a
578retry time; raise it in =[limits]=, or slow the script. Read-only
579commands, the runner protocol and the host CLI are not counted.
580
581A companion =<repo>.wiki= repository is no longer read. Move its pages
582to =.gitbay/wiki/= on the default branch.
583
584Runner isolation is half done. Builds still run as the runner's user
585with no container: the step environment no longer leaks the service's,
586and a host can be prepared for podman, but nothing yet executes a build
587in one. Do not enable CI for repositories you do not trust. #144 stays
588open for the execution half.
589
590* v1.13.3 — 2026-09-05
591
592Only a writer's review decides a merge gate, and a scan of one branch
593stops overwriting another's results.
594
595- =mr review= resolves with =CanRead= and applied no further check, and
596 the merge gates counted every fresh verdict. On a public repository
597 that let anyone with an account satisfy =require_approvals= — defeating
598 four-eyes review by holding two accounts, which on an instance with
599 open registration means defeating it outright — and equally let a
600 passer-by block a merge the owner wanted, with no override and only a
601 force-push to clear it. Both were confirmed against a running instance.
602 Reviewing stays open to every reader, because an outside opinion on a
603 public change is worth having; it no longer decides the gate. What
604 does is write access, the same question the gates already answer. An
605 uncounted review is marked advisory by =mr show= and by the merge
606 request page, both reading the same rule, so the page cannot show an
607 approval the gate ignores. #147
608- The two =git upload-pack= spawns behind the smart HTTP transport now
609 resolve git at start-up like everything else. The v1.13.2 rewrite
610 matched a plain identifier for the context and these pass
611 =r.Context()=, so it skipped them. #153
612- CI analyses each branch as itself. Every scan was recorded against the
613 project's main branch whatever branch produced it, so a feature branch
614 replaced main's results — a branch that removes findings made main look
615 clean before the fix merged, and one that added them made main look
616 broken when it was not. #154
617
618Replace the binary and reinstall the CLI. No migration.
619
620A repository relying on approvals from accounts without write access
621will find those merges now refused. That was the defect: such an approval
622never meant the repository accepted the change. Grant write, or name the
623reviewer in CODEOWNERS and grant write, if their approval is meant to
624count.
625
626* v1.13.2 — 2026-09-04
627
628The first SonarCloud scan's findings: eight fixed, the rest triaged and
629dismissed with reasons.
630
631- A pages directory redirect could leave the site. Both redirects passed
632 the raw request path to =http.Redirect= while the cleaned path sat a
633 line above; =net/url= keeps a leading =//=, and Go emits
634 =Location: //evil.example/= unchanged, which a browser reads as
635 protocol-relative. Reaching it needed a public repository named like a
636 host under the subdomain's own owner — repository names permit dots —
637 so it was narrow rather than impossible. The destination is built from
638 the cleaned path through =url.URL= now, which also settles the two
639 spellings the first fix missed: a =..= that escapes to the root, and a
640 backslash, which browsers following the WHATWG rules treat as a
641 separator. #153
642- The runner's default workspace was =<tmp>/gitbay-runner=: a fixed name
643 in a world-writable directory, created with =MkdirAll=, which succeeds
644 against a directory whoever already owns it. bay1 was never exposed —
645 its unit names a workspace — but the default is what anyone running the
646 binary by hand gets, and this is the process that clones repositories
647 and exports build secrets. The default moves under the user's cache
648 directory, the workspace is created 0700, and a symlink or a directory
649 owned by someone else is refused. One we own that is merely too
650 permissive is tightened rather than refused, since every runner before
651 this one made it 0755 and refusing would take the runner down on
652 upgrade. #153
653- Logout and flash consumption expire their cookies with the attributes
654 the setting calls used. Deletion worked either way; the difference was
655 a reviewer's puzzle, and four findings. #153
656- The topics-remove field has a label. A placeholder is not an accessible
657 name. TestEveryInputHasAnAccessibleName is the guard that was missing,
658 and it knows both associations — six inputs use
659 =<label>Name <input></label>=, which is as good as for/id. #153
660- git and ssh are resolved once at start-up rather than searched on every
661 spawn, and gitbayd refuses to start when one is absent instead of
662 failing on whichever request first needed it. This was 74 of the 118
663 findings; a dashboard that is mostly permanent noise is one nobody
664 reads. #153
665
666Also: SQLite migrations are excluded from analysis. They were read as
667PL/SQL, where ='' is NULL=, so =WHERE col = ''= on a =NOT NULL DEFAULT ''=
668column — correct SQLite, and the shape used throughout — read as a
669null-comparison bug.
670
671Replace the binary and reinstall the CLI. No migration. A runner whose
672workspace is group- or world-readable will have it tightened to 0700 on
673next start, and will refuse to start if that workspace is a symlink or
674belongs to another user.
675
676* v1.13.1 — 2026-09-04
677
678A command that reads its payload from stdin says so, and SonarCloud runs
679alongside the vulnerability scan.
680
681- =repo secret set= blocked with nothing printed, which is
682 indistinguishable from a hung connection, and pressing Enter did not
683 end it because the server reads to EOF — so it looked the same before
684 and after the value had been typed, and the secret echoed into the
685 scrollback on the way. A terminal is now told what is wanted and that
686 Ctrl-D ends it; a secret is read without echo and takes one line, so
687 Enter is enough. Piped input is unchanged, byte for byte: =printf %s
688 "$TOKEN" | gitbay repo secret set ...= still sends exactly the token.
689 Applies to =keys add=, =auth pgp add=, =repo deploy-key add= and
690 =release asset add= as well; public keys keep echoing, since they are
691 public. #150
692- A =sonar= CI job reports to SonarCloud, alongside =vuln=. Report-only:
693 it does not gate a build, unlike the vulnerability scan. A merge
694 request from a fork builds without secrets by design, so the job says
695 why it is skipping there rather than failing on a missing credential.
696 Only =SONAR_TOKEN= is secret and it is a build secret; the
697 organization, project key and host are checked in. Ref #149
698
699Replace the binary and reinstall the CLI. No migration.
700
701* v1.13.0 — 2026-09-04
702
703Collaboration. A review is composed and submitted as one thing, a merge
704request can say it is not asking yet and can show what changed since you
705last looked, issues are searched by their text, and the events half the
706mutations never recorded now exist.
707
708- A review is composed as a unit. =mr diff-comment --pending= holds a
709 comment back; =mr review= publishes the batch with the verdict and says
710 how many went with it; =mr review --discard= throws away what was never
711 submitted. A pending comment notifies nobody when written — the review
712 is the announcement, and it names its own size — and does not gate a
713 merge, since a thread only its author can see is one nobody else could
714 resolve. #111
715- =mr create --draft=, =mr draft=, =mr ready=. A draft does not merge and
716 does not appear in anyone's review queue; marking it ready is the
717 request for review. Draft is a flag rather than a fifth state, so every
718 =state = 'open'= rule still means what it did, and the merge refusal is
719 unconditional: every other gate is a setting an admin turns on, and
720 this one is the author's own statement about their own work. #111
721- =mr range-diff= shows what changed between two revisions of a merge
722 request, and =mr revisions= lists them. A push stales every review and
723 nothing said what had moved; a diff of the two heads cannot answer it,
724 and the previous head was overwritten in place. Each side of the
725 comparison carries the merge base it had at the time, since measuring
726 both against today's would attribute every commit that landed on the
727 target in between to this merge request's author. #111
728- Issues and merge requests are searched by their title and body, over
729 FTS5. =issue list --search= and =mr list --search= narrow one
730 repository; the instance-wide =search= reaches bodies now, and both
731 list pages carry a search box. What someone types is quoted term by
732 term, so an FTS5 operator — =c++=, =AND=, a lone quote — is a word to
733 match rather than a syntax error. #114
734- Ten mutations that changed a repository silently now record an event:
735 =mr.closed=, =mr.reviewed=, =mr.edited=, =mr.retargeted=, =mr.draft=,
736 =issue.edited=, =issue.labeled=, =issue.assigned=, =issue.milestoned=,
737 =mr.milestoned=, =release.deleted=. =mr close= and =issue edit= also
738 notify participants, which they did not. The full list is on the API
739 wiki page and =webhook add --events= refuses a name that is not on it,
740 since a subscription to a typo would never fire and nothing would say
741 so. #112
742- =gitbay-runner -jobs N= runs N builds at once. Claiming was always a
743 single transaction that selects and updates, and each build already
744 worked in its own directory, so several workers were safe the whole
745 time; the runner never used more than one. #115
746- A merge request replayed from a migration bundle has a diff. The bundle
747 carried no head at all, and =mr diff= resolves through the head ref, so
748 a merged merge request — which has no source branch left — could only
749 fail. Re-running an import after the git push sets the head it could
750 not set the first time. The GitHub import fetches =refs/pull/*/head=,
751 which a mirror made with the default refspecs does not carry. #128
752- The review loop is driven end to end by three accounts in the test
753 suite: draft, ready, thread, approval, resolve, merge, with approvals,
754 CODEOWNERS and require-resolved all on at once. Every one of those had
755 its own test and none of them met. #139
756- A bare =go test ./...= says the timeout is too short instead of
757 panicking eleven minutes in and blaming whichever test was running.
758 =make test= is what CONTRIBUTING asks for now. #143
759
760Migrations 0036 through 0039 add the search index, the draft flag,
761pending review comments and merge request head history; 0036 and 0039
762backfill from what is already there. They run on daemon start.
763
764Two things this does not do. There is still no way to ask a particular
765person for a review — the queue is computed from involvement, so a
766collaborator with write access who has not touched a thread hears nothing
767(krz/gitbay#145). And a CI build still runs as the runner's own user with
768no container; the runner on this instance is scoped to one repository,
769which is what keeps that narrow (krz/gitbay#144). Both are v1.14.0.
770
771* v1.12.0 — 2026-09-04
772
773The store and the push path. Dashboard queries walk an index instead of
774sorting the table, concurrent writers wait instead of failing, expired
775rows are swept, and a large first push no longer forks a process per
776commit.
777
778- Every dashboard list scanned its table and sorted the result to take
779 fifty rows. Reachability is correlated subqueries and cannot be
780 indexed; the index supplies the =ORDER BY= instead, so the walk stops
781 at =LIMIT=. On 20k issues and 20k merge requests: open issues 11.8ms
782 to 0.8ms, open merge requests 12.1ms to 0.8ms, the review queue 15.5ms
783 to 0.3ms, assigned issues 10.6ms to 0.04ms. The last of those also
784 drives from =issue_assignees= rather than testing =EXISTS= against
785 every issue. #137
786- Concurrent writers serialise rather than failing. Every transaction in
787 the store writes, and a deferred one takes the write lock at its first
788 write, by which point another may hold it; SQLite answers
789 =SQLITE_BUSY= and does not run the busy handler for that case, so
790 =busy_timeout= could not help. Measured with eight concurrent
791 read-then-write transactions, 44% of them failed. Beginning immediate
792 takes the lock up front, where the timeout applies. #121
793- =repo settings= updates no longer overwrite each other.
794 =settings_json= is one blob, and every caller read it off a repository
795 loaded earlier, changed a field and wrote it all back; two admins at
796 once and the later write put back what it had read for the other's
797 field. The read and the write happen together now, under one
798 immediate transaction. #123
799- Expired sessions and tokens are swept, and =[retention]= caps how long
800 the audit log, the activity feed, webhook deliveries and the mail
801 queue keep a row. Unset means forever, which is what every existing
802 instance gets. #122
803- The audit entry records flag names without their values. Secrets never
804 reached argv — they travel on stdin — but prose did: =--body <the
805 whole issue>= was stored verbatim, in a table nothing pruned, for a
806 repository that may be private. Identifiers are positional and
807 survive. #122
808- pre-receive on a require-signed repository forked a =cat-file= per
809 incoming commit and built one JSON message holding the whole push. A
810 50k-commit first push forked 50k processes and held the history in
811 memory twice. One =cat-file --batch= serves the push now, and the
812 daemon verifies each commit as it arrives. #100
813- The payloads other surfaces decode are named types in =control=. httpd
814 had its own copies of what the build, profile and dashboard commands
815 emit, so a field added to a command was silently absent on the page.
816 #126
817
818Migration 0035 adds three indexes; it runs on daemon start.
819
820Two changes in behaviour rather than configuration. A heavily contended
821write now blocks for up to =busy_timeout= (five seconds) instead of
822returning an error immediately — waiting is the point, but a caller that
823treated the error as normal will see a pause instead. And anything
824parsing =audit --json= for command arguments will find flag values gone;
825the flag names and the positional arguments are still there.
826
827* v1.11.0 — 2026-09-04
828
829The web catches up with the rest of the forge: search across the
830instance, a notification inbox, a compare view, linkable diff lines,
831and a pass over contrast, heading structure and the stylesheet.
832
833- Notifications are no longer mail or nothing. An =inbox= table holds a
834 row per recipient whether or not the instance has SMTP;
835 =notifications list= reads it, unread by default, and =notifications
836 read <id>... | --all= clears it. =repo watch= adds you to a
837 repository's notifications and =repo unwatch= mutes it, with a mute
838 beating every other reason to be told, including owning the
839 repository or having written the thread. The unread count rides on
840 =dashboard= and in the web rail. #113
841- =search= matches repository paths, descriptions and topics, and issue
842 and merge request titles, across everything the caller can read;
843 =/search= renders it with a field in the rail on every page, and an
844 anonymous visitor gets the public rows from the same query. Titles
845 only — body search is #114. #118
846- =/{owner}/{repo}/compare/{a}...{b}= shows what one ref adds on top of
847 another. Diff rows, files and review threads carry ids, so a line can
848 be linked to. The issue and merge request lists page at fifty with
849 the cursors the commands already emit. #118
850- CODEOWNERS gating is a setting rather than a file that happens to
851 exist: =repo settings require-codeowners <owner/name> on|off=, off by
852 default, still independent of =require-approvals=. A repository can
853 carry the file as documentation of who to ask without it gating
854 merges. #142
855- A failed form action's reason rides a one-shot cookie instead of
856 =?e=<message>=, so it no longer survives a reload or lands in
857 history. #119
858- A diff cut at 4 MiB cuts on a line boundary and says so, the
859 diffstat says its counts are partial, and a merge request's commit
860 list says "first 100 of N". #117
861- Page templates parse once with the layout at start-up, so a template
862 that does not parse fails the process rather than the first visit to
863 its page. #116
864- Markdown headings carry ids, matching org pages, and the stylesheet
865 serves a hash ETag with a day's lifetime and answers a matching
866 =If-None-Match= with 304. #132
867- Dark-mode buttons carry a visible edge (a 1 px border was 1.3:1
868 against the 3:1 non-text contrast floor), and a stored label colour
869 is held between 0.12 and 0.28 relative luminance so it clears 3:1 on
870 both grounds while keeping its hue. #120
871- Accessibility: the pin star is decoration and the word carries the
872 meaning, the refs and release asset tables have scoped column
873 headers, state filters carry =aria-current= rather than marking the
874 active one by colour alone, and a rendered README or wiki page's
875 headings move down one level so they sit under the page's own. #133
876- The stylesheet drops rules no template reaches, folds two off-scale
877 values onto the type scale, and resolves the classes templates asked
878 for and it never defined. #131
879- On a phone the tab bar wraps to a second row instead of scrolling
880 sideways with its scrollbar hidden, and the landing page says in
881 three sections what a reader, a writer and a reviewer can do. #134
882
883Migration 0034 adds =inbox= and =repo_watchers=; it runs on daemon
884start. Reinstall the CLI for =search=, =notifications= and =repo
885watch/unwatch=.
886
887Two upgrade notes beyond replacing the binary. A repository that
888relied on a CODEOWNERS file gating merges by its presence alone loses
889that gate until =require-codeowners= is set: nothing back-fills it,
890since the database cannot say which branches carry the file. And
891=search= and =notifications= are now reserved top-level routes, so a
892user or organization already holding either name keeps it but its
893profile page is shadowed by the route.
894
895* v1.10.0 — 2026-09-04
896
897Every command parses its arguments the same way, the web answers by
898exit code, and a restart no longer waits on idle connections.
899
900- One flag parser for every command: an unknown flag, a missing value or
901 too many arguments is exit 2 with the command's usage, everywhere.
902 =mr review --approve --bogus= used to report repository =--bogus= as
903 not found. #96
904- =--json= is honoured by the dispatcher's own refusals, so a script told
905 no gets the envelope. #109
906- A store failure is exit 1 and not-found is exit 3; both used to be
907 usage errors. #107
908- Web form actions answer by exit code: the 404 page for a thing that
909 does not exist, the page with the message for anything else. #106
910- Inside a clone, =gitbay mr create= takes the checked-out branch as
911 =--source=; =gitbay <noun> --help= is the server's reference for the
912 noun, flags included. #101 #130
913- Shutdown closes idle SSH connections at once and drains only sessions
914 mid-command; a store failure during key lookup no longer counts as a
915 bad key against the auth limiter; the CLI says on ssh's exit 255 that
916 a burst may have tripped it. #141
917- A merge request head the target already contains is recorded as
918 merged instead of refused; a fork is created with its parent in one
919 insert; a failed transfer revert is reported; the repository quota is
920 checked under a lock. #108
921- Issues and merge requests share their comment, reference and
922 author-or-write code. #110
923- The payloads the web and clients decode are named types: =Created=,
924 =MRCreated=, =IssueShow=, =MRShow=. JSON unchanged. #126
925- Tests: parse failures per command, non-ASCII paths (which found
926 =ls-tree= returning octal escapes, fixed with =core.quotepath=off= for
927 every git the server runs), concurrent pushes. #129
928
929Replace the binary and restart, and reinstall the CLI. No migration.
930
931* v1.9.0 — 2026-09-03
932
933The runner is no longer an admin, the web no longer reaches around the
934registry, and the CLI stops paying a handshake per command.
935
936- =keys add --scope runner= confines a key to =runner next/log/done= and
937 read-only git; the runner commands accept that scope or an admin. The
938 systemd drop-in sandboxes the runner process. gitbay.org's runner now
939 polls as a non-admin =ci= account scoped to one repository. #92
940- The web's repo create, issue create and edit, MR edit and both comment
941 forms dispatch the command the CLI runs, so the repository quota, the
942 archived-repository refusal, notifications, the body format and the
943 audit entry hold from a browser. #93
944- The CLI shares one SSH connection per instance (=ControlMaster=, five
945 minutes idle): a command costs a round trip instead of a handshake,
946 0.4 s instead of 4 s from a distant laptop. =no_multiplex = true= on
947 an instance opts out. #94
948- A disabled account is refused on every surface, and disabling revokes
949 its API tokens along with its sessions. #95
950- CODEOWNERS gates whenever the file exists on the target branch, not
951 only under =require-approvals=. #99
952- The HTTP listeners have header and idle timeouts, and SIGTERM drains
953 in-flight requests and SSH sessions before exit. #104 #105
954- =git archive= runs under a two-minute deadline and a 512 MiB cap. #124
955- Every git invocation ends option parsing before the ref, so a ref
956 shaped like an option is a bad revision and never a flag. #135
957- The admin noun is gated in the dispatcher as well as in each handler;
958 registry tests cover that and =ReadsStdin=. #127
959- An e2e test runs every =ReadOnly= command against a populated instance
960 and fails on any row it changes. #97
961- =http.trusted_proxies= attributes proxied API requests to the last
962 untrusted =X-Forwarded-For= hop for rate limiting; =email add= is
963 capped at five codes an hour per account. #136
964- A merge request head is built in the target repository, at
965 =refs/merge-requests/<n>/head=, so a fork's merge request has
966 =ci/<job>= statuses for =require-checks= to gate on. A head from
967 another repository is built without the target's secrets. #98
968- Triggers refuse deleting a user or organization that still owns
969 repositories, whatever path the delete takes. #136
970- The stylesheet's fonts are served again, and directory crumbs on blob
971 and blame pages link to the tree. #102 #103
972- The Threat-Model wiki page covers the runner. #138
973
974Replace the binary and restart, reinstall the CLI, and =make
975deploy-runner=: the runner fetches merge request refs before checkout.
976Migrations 0032 and 0033 run on start. The daemon host needs git 2.24
977or newer for =--end-of-options=.
978Operators running =gitbay-runner=: give it a non-admin account with a
979key added by =keys add --scope runner=, remove the admin key it held,
980and =make deploy-runner= to install the sandboxed unit drop-in; an
981admin key keeps working meanwhile.
982
983* v1.8.1 — 2026-09-03
984
985Markdown and org files render when opened.
986
987- A =.md=, =.markdown= or =.org= file renders on its page the way a
988 README does on the directory page, through the same renderer with
989 relative links resolved against the file's directory. =source= in the
990 action bar, or =?view=source=, shows the text as before. Every other
991 file is unchanged. #88
992- The e2e harness waits for the HTTP and git listeners as well as SSH
993 before a test starts; a test whose first act was an HTTP request could
994 be refused, which failed two otherwise green runs. #91
995
996Replace the binary and restart. No migration.
997
998* v1.8.0 — 2026-09-03
999
1000The tracker's lists narrow, labels have colours you set, and the CLI's
1001help is the server's.
1002
1003- =issue list= takes =--label=, =--assignee=, =--author= and
1004 =--milestone= (a title, or =none= for issues with no milestone);
1005 =mr list= takes =--author= and =--milestone=. The store narrows in
1006 SQL, and the web lists take the same names as query parameters and
1007 show each active filter with a link that drops it and keeps the rest.
1008 Both lists had taken =--state= and nothing else, so the web's
1009 filtering could never match the CLI's. #84
1010- =label list= shows a repository's labels with their colour and how
1011 many issues carry each; =label set <label> [--color rrggbb|'']=
1012 creates a label or sets its colour; =label remove= takes it off every
1013 issue. The colour column had existed since labels did and nothing
1014 wrote it. The hash is optional because over bare ssh a bare =#= starts
1015 a comment for the tokenizer. =issue label --add= still creates a
1016 colourless label on the fly. #85
1017- =gitbay help= with a prefix or =--json= runs the server's help, the
1018 only place flags are written down and whose JSON is the contract;
1019 bare =gitbay help= is still the local tree. Cobra's built-in help had
1020 owned the word, so =gitbay help --json= failed on an unknown flag. #86
1021
1022Replace the binary and restart, and reinstall the CLI for the help
1023change. No migration.
1024
1025* v1.7.0 — 2026-09-02
1026
1027What an open instance needs before it is open: a cap on what one
1028account can take, a way out of a browser session you no longer hold,
1029and accounts that never verified do not stay forever.
1030
1031- =limits.max_repos_per_user= caps the repositories an account owns
1032 directly; =repo create=, =fork= and =import= refuse past it with the
1033 numbers. =limits.max_bytes_per_user= caps their disk: a push may be no
1034 larger than what the owner has left, riding the same
1035 =receive.maxInputSize= as the pack cap, and is refused outright when
1036 nothing is left. Organizations are not capped. Migration 0031 adds
1037 per-account overrides, set with =admin user limits <name> [--repos
1038 n|default] [--bytes n|default]= and shown by =admin user show=. Both
1039 default to 0, unlimited, so nothing changes until set. #82
1040- =registration.pending_expiry=, a duration, removes self-registered
1041 accounts still unverified after that long, hourly and once at start,
1042 audited as =pending.expired=. Empty keeps them, as before. #82
1043- =web sessions list= shows each unexpired browser session by a short id
1044 with its creation and expiry; =web sessions revoke <id>= ends one and
1045 =--all= ends every one. SSH-only, matching the token commands, and
1046 scoped to the caller. #83
1047- A step runs in its own process group and a cancel or timeout kills the
1048 group. On a host whose =/bin/sh= is dash, killing the shell alone left
1049 its child holding the log pipe, so a cancelled build held the runner
1050 until the child finished on its own, minutes for a test suite. The
1051 wait after a kill is capped at ten seconds besides.
1052- A commit with a build still queued or running is not queued again
1053 when a fast-forward lands it; the v1.6.0 skip counted only a finished
1054 success. #90
1055
1056- =golang.org/x/crypto= v0.56.0: GO-2026-6354 and GO-2026-6355 in its
1057 =ssh= package, both reached through =ssh.NewServerConn= in the
1058 embedded SSH server; one is a denial of service on a deadlocked
1059 undecided channel.
1060
1061Replace both binaries and restart: =make deploy= for the daemon
1062(migration 0031 adds two columns to =users= on start), then
1063=make deploy-runner= for the process-group kill.
1064
1065* v1.6.1 — 2026-09-02
1066
1067A cancel reaches a build in its clone.
1068
1069- The runner honoured a cancel only in its step loop; a build cancelled
1070 during its clone or checkout ran git to completion first, which on a
1071 loaded host was long enough for the v1.6.0 test to fail on the CI
1072 host while passing locally. One =runStep= now drives the clone, the
1073 checkout and each step with the cancel signal and the deadline, and
1074 checks the signal before starting at all. The runner logs how its log
1075 session ended when that was not a cancel.
1076
1077Replace the runner: =make deploy-runner=. The daemon is unchanged from
1078v1.6.0.
1079
1080* v1.6.0 — 2026-09-02
1081
1082The v1.4.0 admin surface answered questions about accounts. This one
1083answers questions about the machinery: which runner is alive, what is
1084stuck, whether last night's backup exists, and it lets an operator stop
1085a build instead of waiting it out.
1086
1087- A build a runner claimed and never reported is failed by the
1088 scheduler's minute tick, with no runner involved. It used to happen
1089 only when some runner polled again, so a dead sole runner left its
1090 builds running forever. =GITBAY_STALE_BUILD_DEADLINE= shortens the
1091 deadline for tests. #75
1092- Runners are visible. Migration 0030 adds =runner_seen=: one row per
1093 runner account with its last poll, the =-repos= scope it asked for,
1094 and the build it holds. =admin runners= lists them, over SSH and on
1095 the host. #76
1096- =GET /healthz=: whether the database answers and which commit serves,
1097 no auth, no repository data, 503 when the database does not answer.
1098 =healthz= joins the reserved names. #77
1099- The host monitor's hourly reading carries the age of the newest full
1100 backup and database snapshot, alerting at 25 and 2 hours, and the
1101 daemon's own =/healthz= answer read through =site_url=. Both ride the
1102 journald line and the webhook body. #78
1103- =admin stats= reports =lfs_bytes=. =admin gc --lfs= scans every
1104 repository's objects for LFS pointers and removes stored objects none
1105 names, keeping anything younger than a day since git lfs uploads
1106 before it pushes. #79
1107- =admin backup --verify <archive>= reads an archive back: SQLite's
1108 integrity check on the snapshot, and the repositories it names against
1109 the archive's. A database-only archive says so. Damage or a missing
1110 repository exits non-zero. #80
1111- A commit that already passed a job on another branch is not built
1112 again when a fast-forward lands it. Merging the six-layer v1.6.0 stack
1113 had queued eighteen jobs for commits that had each just gone green.
1114 Failed or abandoned builds still re-queue. #90
1115- =build cancel <owner/name> <n>= withdraws a queued build or ends a
1116 running one. For a running build the server closes the runner's log
1117 session, the runner kills the step within seconds, and its late report
1118 changes nothing. The commit status goes back to the passed result from
1119 another build of the same commit when one exists, else reads
1120 =cancelled=. Needs write access.
1121- Deploys copy with =rsync --partial=, so a transfer the host's load
1122 stalled resumes, and =make deploy-runner= installs a systemd drop-in
1123 (=Nice=10=, =CPUWeight=30=, =IOWeight=30=) so a build never starves the
1124 host's sshd again.
1125
1126Replace both binaries and restart: =make deploy= for the daemon, then
1127=make deploy-runner= for the runner, which carries its half of running-
1128build cancellation and installs the drop-in. Migration 0030 adds the
1129=runner_seen= table on start. The monitor change ships in
1130=deploy/cloud-init.yaml=; an existing host takes it by hand.
1131
1132* v1.5.0 — 2026-09-02
1133
1134Merge requests stack.
1135
1136- A merge request whose target is the source branch of another open
1137 merge request in the same repository is stacked on it. Nothing is
1138 stored and no flag exists; the forge reads the stack from the
1139 branches. =mr create= says =stacked on !A= when it applies, =mr show=
1140 carries =stacked_on= and =stacked=, =mr list= rows carry =stacked_on=,
1141 and the page says both directions in the header. #87
1142- When the lower merge request merges, everything stacked on it is
1143 retargeted onto what it merged into, with a system comment naming the
1144 merge and its reviews kept: after a fast-forward or merge commit the
1145 diff against the new target is the diff they were of. A squash or
1146 rebase merge under a stack is refused, naming the stack, since it
1147 would rewrite the commits the stack builds on.
1148- The first stack merged on gitbay.org was the six merge requests of
1149 v1.6.0, bottom-up, with no =mr retarget= typed. The wiki's
1150 Stacked-MRs page walks through it.
1151
1152Replace the binary and restart. No migration.
1153
1154* v1.4.0 — 2026-09-01
1155
1156Until now the instance had one operator surface: root on the host. Every
1157question about the instance itself — who is on it, what is stuck, what a
1158spam repository is doing — needed a shell on port 2222. This release
1159gives an instance admin the same answers over SSH, and one page on the
1160web.
1161
1162- =admin user list= pages accounts by username with
1163 =--state active|pending|disabled|admin=, each row carrying its state
1164 and =last_seen=, the newest use of any of its SSH keys or API tokens.
1165 =admin user show <name>= adds the keys with their last use, each
1166 address with how it was verified, PGP keys, org roles, owned
1167 repository count, API token names and live browser sessions. Both are
1168 SSH-only and refused to non-admins, like =audit=. #69
1169- =admin user promote|demote=. The only way to admin was
1170 =admin user create --admin=; an existing account could not be raised
1171 and an admin could not step down. Demoting the last admin is refused
1172 inside the transaction that counts them. The host-local twin is the
1173 recovery path when no admin key is reachable. #70
1174- Repository overrides for moderation: =admin repo list= with size and
1175 last push, and =admin repo archive|unarchive|visibility|delete=. Policy
1176 still knows nothing about instance admin — a private repository
1177 answers not-found to an admin as before — so each override skips the
1178 access check explicitly and writes its own =admin repo.<action>= audit
1179 row. #71
1180- =gitbayd admin= dispatches into the registry. User create, disable,
1181 enable and delete, email verify, invite and stats were reimplemented on
1182 the host; they now live in the registry, SSH-only and admin-gated, and
1183 the host binary runs them as the host — an admin context with no
1184 account behind it, so its audit rows say =source: host= where a
1185 session says the key fingerprint. Invite and stats gain an SSH twin by
1186 the same move. =backup=, =gc= and the backfills stay host-local. #72
1187- =audit= filters: =--actor <user>= or =--actor -= for actorless rows,
1188 =--action <prefix>=, and =--since= as a duration (=30m=, =24h=, =7d=)
1189 or a date. =gitbayd admin audit= takes the same flags and =--json=. #73
1190- =dashboard= carries a =queues= block for admins: per worker —
1191 webhooks, mail, mirrors, builds, dependency checks — the pending,
1192 retrying and dead-lettered counts, the oldest pending age, and the
1193 retrying or failed rows themselves, capped at twenty each. The mail
1194 queue was readable nowhere before. =/admin= renders the block by
1195 dispatching =dashboard=; non-admins get a 404 and no rail link. #74
1196- =gitbayd admin config show= prints the configuration in effect as
1197 TOML, defaults filled in and =smtp_pass= redacted, so a support
1198 question starts from what runs rather than what was written. #81
1199- Build badges are served as PNG at =badge/build.png= as well as SVG,
1200 for places that will not render SVG.
1201- Host monitoring writes its reading to journald on every run and exits
1202 non-zero on an alert, so an unset webhook no longer looks like a
1203 healthy host; it reads the ACME cache where it actually lives and
1204 reports the soonest expiry. govulncheck runs as its own CI job. The
1205 database is snapshotted hourly by =gitbay-db-backup.timer=, keeping 48,
1206 alongside the nightly full archive; archives inherit the database's
1207 mode rather than the umask default. #28
1208- A runner whose log stream drops no longer fails the build it was
1209 recording. #67
1210- =go.yaml.in/yaml/v3= and =golang.org/x/net= bumped. #60
1211
1212Replace the binary and restart. No migration. The =gitbay-db-backup=
1213timer and the monitor changes ship in =deploy/cloud-init.yaml= for new
1214hosts; an existing host takes them from there by hand.
1215
1216* v1.3.0 — 2026-08-31
1217
1218A runner took every repository's work, which decided where you could run
1219one.
1220
1221- =runner next= takes optional =owner/name= arguments and =gitbay-runner=
1222 takes =-repos=, so a runner claims builds only for the repositories it
1223 names. Naming none is the old behaviour, so an existing runner is
1224 unaffected. This is what makes a runner outside the server practical: one
1225 on a machine that should build a single project no longer picks up a
1226 build belonging to someone else, which with open registration need not be
1227 anyone the operator knows. The scoping is what the runner asks for rather
1228 than an ACL the server holds over it — a runner account is admin by
1229 necessity, so the boundary is the operator choosing how to start it. #66
1230
1231Replace the binary and restart. Runners want the new binary too, though an
1232old one keeps working unscoped.
1233
1234* v1.2.1 — 2026-08-31
1235
1236Merging landed commits without running anything.
1237
1238- A merge moves the target ref with a direct ref update, so it never
1239 reached post-receive and none of the ref-update work fired: no =push=
1240 event for webhooks to subscribe to, and no builds. Pushing a commit to a
1241 branch ran the whole =.gitbay/ci.yml=; merging the identical commit ran
1242 nothing. Both now happen in the merge path, with the build queueing
1243 shared between it and post-receive rather than living in one of them.
1244 #65
1245
1246Replace the binary and restart.
1247
1248* v1.2.0 — 2026-08-31
1249
1250A merge request said what its state was and almost nothing about when it
1251got there. It now keeps time.
1252
1253- Reviews and checks carry the moment they last said something, on the
1254 merge request page and in =mr show=. A =ci/<job>= check also reports how
1255 long its build ran, so the timing of a run is readable without opening
1256 it. Checks posted through =status set= have no build and report only the
1257 time. !137
1258- A merged or closed merge request names who resolved it and when. The
1259 header stated "X wants to merge" whatever the state; it now says "X
1260 merged A into main on <date>", or "closed this without merging", and
1261 drops the claim entirely for a row that carries no stamp rather than
1262 inventing a time.
1263- =mr show= gains =merged_at=/=merged_by= and =closed_at=/=closed_by=, a
1264 =created_at= per review, and =updated_at= plus =duration= per check, in
1265 both JSON and text. Additive: nothing existing changed shape.
1266- The iOS client renders all of it as of krz/gitbay-ios!37.
1267
1268Replace the binary and restart. Migration 0029 adds four columns to
1269=merge_requests= and backfills the merge stamp for merge requests already
1270merged, reading the =mr.merged= events. A merge with no such event to read
1271— an import, or a row older than its events — keeps no stamp, and every
1272surface says nothing about when it happened rather than guessing.
1273
1274* v1.1.0 — 2026-08-31
1275
1276Every release until now answered questions. This one notices something
1277on its own: that a repository's dependencies have moved, and says so
1278without being asked.
1279
1280- Dependency update checks, opt-in per repository. A daemon worker reads
1281 the manifests on the default branch, asks the ecosystem's registry what
1282 the current release is, and maintains one issue per repository — opened
1283 when something falls behind, rewritten when the set changes, closed once
1284 nothing is behind. No package manager runs, so it needs no CI runner and
1285 no configuration beyond turning it on. #58
1286 - =go.mod= against proxy.golang.org, =package.json= with
1287 =package-lock.json= against npm, =Cargo.toml= with =Cargo.lock=
1288 against crates.io, =requirements.txt= and =pyproject.toml= against
1289 PyPI. A lockfile wins where both exist. A requirement naming a set
1290 rather than a release — a range, a wildcard, a git or path source — is
1291 skipped, since a range that already admits the newest release is not
1292 news.
1293 - =repo deps enable|disable|status=, a toggle on the repository settings
1294 page, and the same three over the JSON API.
1295 - Off by default, because checking a private repository tells a public
1296 registry what it depends on. That is the owner's disclosure to make.
1297 =[deps] check_interval_hours= sets the cadence, default 24.
1298 - The issue is authored by a =gitbay-bot= account, so the existing
1299 notification mail reaches the repository's owner rather than excluding
1300 them as the actor. Its table is padded to its columns, which a
1301 renderer ignores and a mail client needs. #61
1302- =help= takes a prefix — =help mr= narrows the registry to one noun — and
1303 every command now documents its arguments, so the server answers "what
1304 are the flags" instead of being guessed at. #57
1305- Web: settings rows end in one column of controls, checkboxes drawn at
1306 the height of the inputs and buttons they sit beside #59; an added line
1307 keeps its leading dash in the diff; a contributor's several verified
1308 addresses collapse to one row #56.
1309
1310Replace the binary and restart. Migration 0028 adds two tables and, when
1311the name is free, the =gitbay-bot= account. An instance already using that
1312name for a user or an org keeps what it has: the account is not created,
1313and dependency checks report that as the reason they cannot open an issue
1314rather than the migration failing and the daemon not starting. #64
1315
1316* v1.0.1 — 2026-08-30
1317
1318Two CI fixes found by running orgo's release pipeline on this instance.
1319
1320- A runner killed between claiming a build and reporting it left the build
1321 =running= forever, and the commit's =ci/<job>= status pending with it.
1322 =runner next= now fails builds past a 90-minute deadline — longer than the
1323 runner's own =-timeout= — and resolves their commit status. #53
1324- =gitbay keys add= and =gitbay repo deploy-key add= take stdin as a bare
1325 =< key.pub=, but only forwarded it when =--file -= appeared in the
1326 arguments, so both sent an empty body and rejected input the SSH API
1327 accepts. #55
1328
1329Replace the binary and restart.
1330
1331* v1.0.0 — 2026-08-26
1332
1333The web finishes the job #35 set it: reading, reviewing and responding,
1334with the CLI still the complete interface. Every capability exists over
1335SSH, every web write dispatches the same control command, and anything
1336whose input is a credential stays on the command line. The [[https://gitbay.org/krz/gitbay/wiki/Parity][Parity]] page in
1337the wiki is the maintained matrix and says which rows are deliberately
1338CLI-only.
1339
1340- Diff view: one foldable section per file with line-number gutters,
1341 per-file stats, rename and binary handling, and syntax highlighting
1342 run per hunk per side so multi-line constructs lex as real code.
1343 Commit and merge request pages share it; review threads anchor
1344 inline.
1345- Repository facts on the code page: commit, branch and tag counts,
1346 detected license, latest release, build status, a language census by
1347 tracked bytes, and contributors resolved to accounts by verified
1348 email. All derived from git at render time.
1349- Account settings on the web: SSH keys with scope, OpenPGP keys, and
1350 email addresses. Public keys are the only credential-shaped input the
1351 web accepts — they are not secret, and a new user needs one
1352 registered before the CLI is reachable to them. Token minting and
1353 account export stay SSH-only.
1354- Organizations are run from their page: membership and roles, teams,
1355 team members, and team repository grants, for org admins.
1356- Commit log shows each commit's combined check status and gains a path
1357 filter, so per-file history is reachable without editing the URL.
1358- Issue references from commit messages read "referenced in commit
1359 <sha> by <author>", linking the author when their email is verified
1360 here.
1361- The rail's focus ring uses the shell's own mark: the light scheme's
1362 accent was a dark blue ring on a black rail.
1363
1364No migrations. No new config.
1365
1366Upgrading from v0.5.0 is replace-the-binary-and-restart.
1367
1368* v0.5.0 — 2026-08-26
1369
1370A design pass and a parity pass. The web stops being a read-only
1371mirror of the CLI without becoming the place you are expected to work.
1372
1373- New design: a black shell with a persistent left rail carrying
1374 cross-repo state (pinned repos, review queue), the repo header
1375 rendered identically on every tab so navigation never moves, sharp
1376 lines, self-hosted IBM Plex, and code blocks that read against both
1377 color schemes. Tree listings sort directories first and carry each
1378 file's last commit; diffs, inputs and controls were reworked to
1379 match.
1380- Web parity with the CLI, dispatched through the same command
1381 registry the CLI and JSON API use — every web write is the
1382 equivalent =gitbay= command with =--source web=:
1383 - merge requests: review, resolve threads, merge, close, and open a
1384 new MR from the browser
1385 - issues: state, labels, assignees, milestones
1386 - repositories: settings, branch protection, visibility
1387 - releases: create and edit; builds: trigger a job
1388 Commands marked SSH-only still refuse over the web: build secrets,
1389 mirror tokens, domain claims, token minting, deletion and transfer.
1390- A dashboard that answers "what needs me": review queue, assigned
1391 issues, pinned repos, and an activity feed. Author names resolve to
1392 accounts and link to profiles wherever commits appear.
1393- Build status badges at =/{owner}/{repo}/badge/build.svg= for public
1394 repos.
1395- =[web] title= sets the instance's display name, separate from the
1396 hostname commands are pasted with.
1397- =make build/test/deploy= targets.
1398- Fixes: the mobile tab strip scrolls sideways only, long commit
1399 subjects no longer overflow on narrow screens, the shell fills the
1400 viewport with the line-length cap moved onto prose, and the account
1401 cell lines up with the page footer.
1402
1403No migrations. New config: =[web] title=.
1404
1405* v0.4.0 — 2026-08-25
1406
1407- Git LFS: standard clients work over both transports.
1408 =git-lfs-authenticate= joins the SSH dispatcher (deploy keys
1409 included; download needs read, upload write), minting stateless
1410 repo- and operation-scoped tokens for the batch API and basic
1411 transfers. Anonymous HTTPS downloads for public repos; uploads
1412 verified against size and sha256 before landing. Storage is
1413 content-addressed under =[lfs] root= behind a small interface an
1414 S3-compatible backend can drop into; =[lfs] max_object_bytes= caps
1415 objects (512MB default).
1416- Build failures mail the repo's notify targets with the log tail and
1417 build link — failed scheduled jobs reach an inbox.
1418- =release edit= updates a release's title and notes (absent flags
1419 keep their field); omaha-style CI note rebuilds work again.
1420- Syntax highlighting follows the color scheme: class-based chroma
1421 with light and dark palettes, the light-pinned code background is
1422 gone, and markdown fences and org src blocks highlight too. The UGC
1423 sanitizer admits only chroma's token-code classes.
1424
1425No migrations. New config: =[lfs] root=, =[lfs] max_object_bytes=.
1426
1427* v0.3.0 — 2026-08-25
1428
1429- CI: =.gitbay/ci.yml= jobs run as builds claimed by =gitbay-runner=
1430 over SSH (admin-only runner protocol; statuses feed =require-checks=).
1431 Per-repo secrets set over stdin and injected into build environments;
1432 cron schedules (server-local time) and tag-glob triggers, mutually
1433 exclusive per job; =build list/show/log/trigger= and a builds tab.
1434- Pages: public repos' =pages= branches served on =<owner>.<domain>=
1435 (=[pages] domain=), custom domains with DNS TXT ownership challenges
1436 and 7-day expiry for pending claims, per-subdomain on-demand ACME.
1437- Wikis (=.wiki= companion repos, access mirrors the parent) and teams
1438 within orgs (members-role scoping, per-repo team grants).
1439- Activity graphs on user and org pages, backfillable
1440 (=admin backfill-activity=); commits attributed by verified author
1441 email, deduped by sha.
1442- MR pages list the commits the MR carries; =mr show= gains a commits
1443 section.
1444- Per-file history: =?path== on the web log, =--path= on =repo log=,
1445 history link on blob pages.
1446- Mirror status surfaced in =repo show= and the repo header
1447 (admin-only), with sync errors visible; tag-only pushes now schedule
1448 mirror syncs.
1449- Rendering: GFM tables/strikethrough/autolinks/task lists, blob image
1450 previews, raw serves images with real content types (README images
1451 render under nosniff), 0BSD license recognition, repo website links,
1452 compact dashboard pins.
1453- =admin user delete= for accounts that anchor nothing, with named
1454 blockers otherwise.
1455- Fixes: wiki pages no longer overflow on mobile (iOS font-inflation
1456 trigger), GHSA-free deps, secret values pipe correctly through the
1457 CLI.
1458
1459Migrations 0020-0025 apply on start. New config: =[pages] domain=.
1460The runner is a new binary (=gitbay-runner=); see the wiki's Admin
1461guide for setup. Stress-tested against an import of git.git (82k
1462commits): see the wiki's Performance page.
1463
1464* v0.2.0 — 2026-08-24
1465
1466- Deploy keys: repo-bound CI keys (=repo deploy-key=), ro/rw, rename- and
1467 transfer-proof.
1468- Commit statuses (=status set/list=), combined state on MR pages, and a
1469 =require-checks= merge gate.
1470- Email notifications for issue and MR activity (participants with
1471 verified addresses; never the actor).
1472- Inline review threads on MR diffs (=mr diff-comment/threads/resolve=),
1473 stale on force-push, =require-resolved= merge gate.
1474- Required approvals with CODEOWNERS (=require-approvals=; latest review
1475 wins, author excluded) and a =require-resolved= gate; merge gate order
1476 is checks → approvals → CODEOWNERS → resolved threads → signatures.
1477- Web design revamp: token-based stylesheet (light+dark), wordmark and
1478 favicon, aligned layout grid, card-based listings, designed 404,
1479 mobile pass.
1480- Cross-references and mentions: =#N=, =!N=, =owner/name#N=, =@user=
1481 autolink in issue/MR text, viewer-aware for private repos.
1482- Archived repositories (read-only with badge) and repo topics.
1483- Blame view with signature-aware attribution and 1000-line pages.
1484- Repository search (name/description/topic) and per-repo code search
1485 (=repo grep=, web search tab); blob line anchors.
1486- Homepage: dashboard for logged-in users (pinned repos via =repo pin=,
1487 open MRs and issues involving you), landing page for visitors, full
1488 public listing at =/explore=; MR diffs collapsed by default.
1489- Milestones (=milestone create/list/close=, =issue/mr milestone=) with
1490 web progress; issue templates from =.gitbay/issue-template*.md=
1491 (CLI =$EDITOR= prefill and web form).
1492- Issue actions from commit messages landing on the default branch:
1493 =closes/fixes/resolves #N= closes, bare =#N= leaves a reference
1494 comment; once per issue+commit.
1495- Vanity Go imports: =[go_import]= config serves go-import meta tags, so
1496 =go install gitbay.org/gitbay/cmd/...@latest= works.
1497- Release script: =deploy/release.sh <tag>= builds reproducible
1498 linux/amd64, linux/arm64, and darwin/arm64 binaries with SHA256SUMS.
1499- Repository maintenance: =admin gc= (repack/prune, per-repo sizes),
1500 =admin stats= (counts + disk usage), weekly =gitbay-gc.timer=.
1501- Releases: tag-anchored notes and binary assets (=release= commands,
1502 assets over SSH stdin/stdout, web releases tab with downloads).
1503- GitHub history import: =repo import-issues= brings issues and PRs
1504 (as merged/closed MRs) with comments, labels, and state, attributed
1505 inline and resumable.
1506- Push and pull mirroring (=repo mirror=): background sync, read-only
1507 pull mirrors, per-mirror status; credentials server-side, SSRF-guarded.
1508- Web signup at =/register= for open and invite instances.
1509- Audit log (=audit=, =gitbayd admin audit=): every mutating command
1510 with source key fingerprint, registrations, force-pushes, auth
1511 failures. Hardening: per-IP auth-failure throttling
1512 (=ssh_auth_rate=), =max_pack_bytes= enforced, =admin user
1513 disable/enable=.
1514- Account migration: =gitbay migrate --from <host>= (bundle
1515 export/replay + client-side git mirror); =gitbay auth export= as a
1516 user-level backup.
1517- Editable issues and MRs (=issue edit=, =mr edit=, web forms).
1518- Commit references appear as system messages with linked shas.
1519- Design: top nav, repo listing rows (topics, license, last updated),
1520 file table headers, README relative-link resolution, branch
1521 dropdown, web pinning, org owner picker, label filters, linked
1522 usernames and commit parents, =/privacy= page, blue accent.
1523
1524Upgrade notes: migrations 0006–0019 apply on start. No config changes
1525required; =[go_import]=, =[mirrors]=, =web.privacy_notice=, and
1526=web.mode = "accounts"= are opt-in.
1527
1528* v0.1.0 — 2026-08-24
1529
1530First tagged release: the complete CLI-first forge. SSH control plane
1531(bare-OpenSSH usable), git over SSH/HTTPS/git-daemon, repos, issues,
1532merge requests (ff/merge/squash/rebase with signature policy), OpenPGP
1533and SSHSIG verification with retroactive re-verification, orgs, repo
1534import, web UI (view-only or accounts mode), registration with invites
1535and SMTP, HTTPS/JSON API with SSH-minted tokens, webhooks, backups,
1536ACME TLS, systemd deployment.