#+title: gitbay changelog

Versioning follows semver from v0.1.0. Database migrations run
automatically on daemon start; upgrade notes appear per release when
anything beyond "replace the binary and restart" is needed.

* v1.6.1 — 2026-09-02

A cancel reaches a build in its clone.

- The runner honoured a cancel only in its step loop; a build cancelled
  during its clone or checkout ran git to completion first, which on a
  loaded host was long enough for the v1.6.0 test to fail on the CI
  host while passing locally. One =runStep= now drives the clone, the
  checkout and each step with the cancel signal and the deadline, and
  checks the signal before starting at all. The runner logs how its log
  session ended when that was not a cancel.

Replace the runner: =make deploy-runner=. The daemon is unchanged from
v1.6.0.

* v1.6.0 — 2026-09-02

The v1.4.0 admin surface answered questions about accounts. This one
answers questions about the machinery: which runner is alive, what is
stuck, whether last night's backup exists, and it lets an operator stop
a build instead of waiting it out.

- A build a runner claimed and never reported is failed by the
  scheduler's minute tick, with no runner involved. It used to happen
  only when some runner polled again, so a dead sole runner left its
  builds running forever. =GITBAY_STALE_BUILD_DEADLINE= shortens the
  deadline for tests. #75
- Runners are visible. Migration 0030 adds =runner_seen=: one row per
  runner account with its last poll, the =-repos= scope it asked for,
  and the build it holds. =admin runners= lists them, over SSH and on
  the host. #76
- =GET /healthz=: whether the database answers and which commit serves,
  no auth, no repository data, 503 when the database does not answer.
  =healthz= joins the reserved names. #77
- The host monitor's hourly reading carries the age of the newest full
  backup and database snapshot, alerting at 25 and 2 hours, and the
  daemon's own =/healthz= answer read through =site_url=. Both ride the
  journald line and the webhook body. #78
- =admin stats= reports =lfs_bytes=. =admin gc --lfs= scans every
  repository's objects for LFS pointers and removes stored objects none
  names, keeping anything younger than a day since git lfs uploads
  before it pushes. #79
- =admin backup --verify <archive>= reads an archive back: SQLite's
  integrity check on the snapshot, and the repositories it names against
  the archive's. A database-only archive says so. Damage or a missing
  repository exits non-zero. #80
- A commit that already passed a job on another branch is not built
  again when a fast-forward lands it. Merging the six-layer v1.6.0 stack
  had queued eighteen jobs for commits that had each just gone green.
  Failed or abandoned builds still re-queue. #90
- =build cancel <owner/name> <n>= withdraws a queued build or ends a
  running one. For a running build the server closes the runner's log
  session, the runner kills the step within seconds, and its late report
  changes nothing. The commit status goes back to the passed result from
  another build of the same commit when one exists, else reads
  =cancelled=. Needs write access.
- Deploys copy with =rsync --partial=, so a transfer the host's load
  stalled resumes, and =make deploy-runner= installs a systemd drop-in
  (=Nice=10=, =CPUWeight=30=, =IOWeight=30=) so a build never starves the
  host's sshd again.

Replace both binaries and restart: =make deploy= for the daemon, then
=make deploy-runner= for the runner, which carries its half of running-
build cancellation and installs the drop-in. Migration 0030 adds the
=runner_seen= table on start. The monitor change ships in
=deploy/cloud-init.yaml=; an existing host takes it by hand.

* v1.5.0 — 2026-09-02

Merge requests stack.

- A merge request whose target is the source branch of another open
  merge request in the same repository is stacked on it. Nothing is
  stored and no flag exists; the forge reads the stack from the
  branches. =mr create= says =stacked on !A= when it applies, =mr show=
  carries =stacked_on= and =stacked=, =mr list= rows carry =stacked_on=,
  and the page says both directions in the header. #87
- When the lower merge request merges, everything stacked on it is
  retargeted onto what it merged into, with a system comment naming the
  merge and its reviews kept: after a fast-forward or merge commit the
  diff against the new target is the diff they were of. A squash or
  rebase merge under a stack is refused, naming the stack, since it
  would rewrite the commits the stack builds on.
- The first stack merged on gitbay.org was the six merge requests of
  v1.6.0, bottom-up, with no =mr retarget= typed. The wiki's
  Stacked-MRs page walks through it.

Replace the binary and restart. No migration.

* v1.4.0 — 2026-09-01

Until now the instance had one operator surface: root on the host. Every
question about the instance itself — who is on it, what is stuck, what a
spam repository is doing — needed a shell on port 2222. This release
gives an instance admin the same answers over SSH, and one page on the
web.

- =admin user list= pages accounts by username with
  =--state active|pending|disabled|admin=, each row carrying its state
  and =last_seen=, the newest use of any of its SSH keys or API tokens.
  =admin user show <name>= adds the keys with their last use, each
  address with how it was verified, PGP keys, org roles, owned
  repository count, API token names and live browser sessions. Both are
  SSH-only and refused to non-admins, like =audit=. #69
- =admin user promote|demote=. The only way to admin was
  =admin user create --admin=; an existing account could not be raised
  and an admin could not step down. Demoting the last admin is refused
  inside the transaction that counts them. The host-local twin is the
  recovery path when no admin key is reachable. #70
- Repository overrides for moderation: =admin repo list= with size and
  last push, and =admin repo archive|unarchive|visibility|delete=. Policy
  still knows nothing about instance admin — a private repository
  answers not-found to an admin as before — so each override skips the
  access check explicitly and writes its own =admin repo.<action>= audit
  row. #71
- =gitbayd admin= dispatches into the registry. User create, disable,
  enable and delete, email verify, invite and stats were reimplemented on
  the host; they now live in the registry, SSH-only and admin-gated, and
  the host binary runs them as the host — an admin context with no
  account behind it, so its audit rows say =source: host= where a
  session says the key fingerprint. Invite and stats gain an SSH twin by
  the same move. =backup=, =gc= and the backfills stay host-local. #72
- =audit= filters: =--actor <user>= or =--actor -= for actorless rows,
  =--action <prefix>=, and =--since= as a duration (=30m=, =24h=, =7d=)
  or a date. =gitbayd admin audit= takes the same flags and =--json=. #73
- =dashboard= carries a =queues= block for admins: per worker —
  webhooks, mail, mirrors, builds, dependency checks — the pending,
  retrying and dead-lettered counts, the oldest pending age, and the
  retrying or failed rows themselves, capped at twenty each. The mail
  queue was readable nowhere before. =/admin= renders the block by
  dispatching =dashboard=; non-admins get a 404 and no rail link. #74
- =gitbayd admin config show= prints the configuration in effect as
  TOML, defaults filled in and =smtp_pass= redacted, so a support
  question starts from what runs rather than what was written. #81
- Build badges are served as PNG at =badge/build.png= as well as SVG,
  for places that will not render SVG.
- Host monitoring writes its reading to journald on every run and exits
  non-zero on an alert, so an unset webhook no longer looks like a
  healthy host; it reads the ACME cache where it actually lives and
  reports the soonest expiry. govulncheck runs as its own CI job. The
  database is snapshotted hourly by =gitbay-db-backup.timer=, keeping 48,
  alongside the nightly full archive; archives inherit the database's
  mode rather than the umask default. #28
- A runner whose log stream drops no longer fails the build it was
  recording. #67
- =go.yaml.in/yaml/v3= and =golang.org/x/net= bumped. #60

Replace the binary and restart. No migration. The =gitbay-db-backup=
timer and the monitor changes ship in =deploy/cloud-init.yaml= for new
hosts; an existing host takes them from there by hand.

* v1.3.0 — 2026-08-31

A runner took every repository's work, which decided where you could run
one.

- =runner next= takes optional =owner/name= arguments and =gitbay-runner=
  takes =-repos=, so a runner claims builds only for the repositories it
  names. Naming none is the old behaviour, so an existing runner is
  unaffected. This is what makes a runner outside the server practical: one
  on a machine that should build a single project no longer picks up a
  build belonging to someone else, which with open registration need not be
  anyone the operator knows. The scoping is what the runner asks for rather
  than an ACL the server holds over it — a runner account is admin by
  necessity, so the boundary is the operator choosing how to start it. #66

Replace the binary and restart. Runners want the new binary too, though an
old one keeps working unscoped.

* v1.2.1 — 2026-08-31

Merging landed commits without running anything.

- A merge moves the target ref with a direct ref update, so it never
  reached post-receive and none of the ref-update work fired: no =push=
  event for webhooks to subscribe to, and no builds. Pushing a commit to a
  branch ran the whole =.gitbay/ci.yml=; merging the identical commit ran
  nothing. Both now happen in the merge path, with the build queueing
  shared between it and post-receive rather than living in one of them.
  #65

Replace the binary and restart.

* v1.2.0 — 2026-08-31

A merge request said what its state was and almost nothing about when it
got there. It now keeps time.

- Reviews and checks carry the moment they last said something, on the
  merge request page and in =mr show=. A =ci/<job>= check also reports how
  long its build ran, so the timing of a run is readable without opening
  it. Checks posted through =status set= have no build and report only the
  time. !137
- A merged or closed merge request names who resolved it and when. The
  header stated "X wants to merge" whatever the state; it now says "X
  merged A into main on <date>", or "closed this without merging", and
  drops the claim entirely for a row that carries no stamp rather than
  inventing a time.
- =mr show= gains =merged_at=/=merged_by= and =closed_at=/=closed_by=, a
  =created_at= per review, and =updated_at= plus =duration= per check, in
  both JSON and text. Additive: nothing existing changed shape.
- The iOS client renders all of it as of krz/gitbay-ios!37.

Replace the binary and restart. Migration 0029 adds four columns to
=merge_requests= and backfills the merge stamp for merge requests already
merged, reading the =mr.merged= events. A merge with no such event to read
— an import, or a row older than its events — keeps no stamp, and every
surface says nothing about when it happened rather than guessing.

* v1.1.0 — 2026-08-31

Every release until now answered questions. This one notices something
on its own: that a repository's dependencies have moved, and says so
without being asked.

- Dependency update checks, opt-in per repository. A daemon worker reads
  the manifests on the default branch, asks the ecosystem's registry what
  the current release is, and maintains one issue per repository — opened
  when something falls behind, rewritten when the set changes, closed once
  nothing is behind. No package manager runs, so it needs no CI runner and
  no configuration beyond turning it on. #58
  - =go.mod= against proxy.golang.org, =package.json= with
    =package-lock.json= against npm, =Cargo.toml= with =Cargo.lock=
    against crates.io, =requirements.txt= and =pyproject.toml= against
    PyPI. A lockfile wins where both exist. A requirement naming a set
    rather than a release — a range, a wildcard, a git or path source — is
    skipped, since a range that already admits the newest release is not
    news.
  - =repo deps enable|disable|status=, a toggle on the repository settings
    page, and the same three over the JSON API.
  - Off by default, because checking a private repository tells a public
    registry what it depends on. That is the owner's disclosure to make.
    =[deps] check_interval_hours= sets the cadence, default 24.
  - The issue is authored by a =gitbay-bot= account, so the existing
    notification mail reaches the repository's owner rather than excluding
    them as the actor. Its table is padded to its columns, which a
    renderer ignores and a mail client needs. #61
- =help= takes a prefix — =help mr= narrows the registry to one noun — and
  every command now documents its arguments, so the server answers "what
  are the flags" instead of being guessed at. #57
- Web: settings rows end in one column of controls, checkboxes drawn at
  the height of the inputs and buttons they sit beside #59; an added line
  keeps its leading dash in the diff; a contributor's several verified
  addresses collapse to one row #56.

Replace the binary and restart. Migration 0028 adds two tables and, when
the name is free, the =gitbay-bot= account. An instance already using that
name for a user or an org keeps what it has: the account is not created,
and dependency checks report that as the reason they cannot open an issue
rather than the migration failing and the daemon not starting. #64

* v1.0.1 — 2026-08-30

Two CI fixes found by running orgo's release pipeline on this instance.

- A runner killed between claiming a build and reporting it left the build
  =running= forever, and the commit's =ci/<job>= status pending with it.
  =runner next= now fails builds past a 90-minute deadline — longer than the
  runner's own =-timeout= — and resolves their commit status. #53
- =gitbay keys add= and =gitbay repo deploy-key add= take stdin as a bare
  =< key.pub=, but only forwarded it when =--file -= appeared in the
  arguments, so both sent an empty body and rejected input the SSH API
  accepts. #55

Replace the binary and restart.

* v1.0.0 — 2026-08-26

The web finishes the job #35 set it: reading, reviewing and responding,
with the CLI still the complete interface. Every capability exists over
SSH, every web write dispatches the same control command, and anything
whose input is a credential stays on the command line. The [[https://gitbay.org/krz/gitbay/wiki/Parity][Parity]] page in
the wiki is the maintained matrix and says which rows are deliberately
CLI-only.

- Diff view: one foldable section per file with line-number gutters,
  per-file stats, rename and binary handling, and syntax highlighting
  run per hunk per side so multi-line constructs lex as real code.
  Commit and merge request pages share it; review threads anchor
  inline.
- Repository facts on the code page: commit, branch and tag counts,
  detected license, latest release, build status, a language census by
  tracked bytes, and contributors resolved to accounts by verified
  email. All derived from git at render time.
- Account settings on the web: SSH keys with scope, OpenPGP keys, and
  email addresses. Public keys are the only credential-shaped input the
  web accepts — they are not secret, and a new user needs one
  registered before the CLI is reachable to them. Token minting and
  account export stay SSH-only.
- Organizations are run from their page: membership and roles, teams,
  team members, and team repository grants, for org admins.
- Commit log shows each commit's combined check status and gains a path
  filter, so per-file history is reachable without editing the URL.
- Issue references from commit messages read "referenced in commit
  <sha> by <author>", linking the author when their email is verified
  here.
- The rail's focus ring uses the shell's own mark: the light scheme's
  accent was a dark blue ring on a black rail.

No migrations. No new config.

Upgrading from v0.5.0 is replace-the-binary-and-restart.

* v0.5.0 — 2026-08-26

A design pass and a parity pass. The web stops being a read-only
mirror of the CLI without becoming the place you are expected to work.

- New design: a black shell with a persistent left rail carrying
  cross-repo state (pinned repos, review queue), the repo header
  rendered identically on every tab so navigation never moves, sharp
  lines, self-hosted IBM Plex, and code blocks that read against both
  color schemes. Tree listings sort directories first and carry each
  file's last commit; diffs, inputs and controls were reworked to
  match.
- Web parity with the CLI, dispatched through the same command
  registry the CLI and JSON API use — every web write is the
  equivalent =gitbay= command with =--source web=:
  - merge requests: review, resolve threads, merge, close, and open a
    new MR from the browser
  - issues: state, labels, assignees, milestones
  - repositories: settings, branch protection, visibility
  - releases: create and edit; builds: trigger a job
  Commands marked SSH-only still refuse over the web: build secrets,
  mirror tokens, domain claims, token minting, deletion and transfer.
- A dashboard that answers "what needs me": review queue, assigned
  issues, pinned repos, and an activity feed. Author names resolve to
  accounts and link to profiles wherever commits appear.
- Build status badges at =/{owner}/{repo}/badge/build.svg= for public
  repos.
- =[web] title= sets the instance's display name, separate from the
  hostname commands are pasted with.
- =make build/test/deploy= targets.
- Fixes: the mobile tab strip scrolls sideways only, long commit
  subjects no longer overflow on narrow screens, the shell fills the
  viewport with the line-length cap moved onto prose, and the account
  cell lines up with the page footer.

No migrations. New config: =[web] title=.

* v0.4.0 — 2026-08-25

- Git LFS: standard clients work over both transports.
  =git-lfs-authenticate= joins the SSH dispatcher (deploy keys
  included; download needs read, upload write), minting stateless
  repo- and operation-scoped tokens for the batch API and basic
  transfers. Anonymous HTTPS downloads for public repos; uploads
  verified against size and sha256 before landing. Storage is
  content-addressed under =[lfs] root= behind a small interface an
  S3-compatible backend can drop into; =[lfs] max_object_bytes= caps
  objects (512MB default).
- Build failures mail the repo's notify targets with the log tail and
  build link — failed scheduled jobs reach an inbox.
- =release edit= updates a release's title and notes (absent flags
  keep their field); omaha-style CI note rebuilds work again.
- Syntax highlighting follows the color scheme: class-based chroma
  with light and dark palettes, the light-pinned code background is
  gone, and markdown fences and org src blocks highlight too. The UGC
  sanitizer admits only chroma's token-code classes.

No migrations. New config: =[lfs] root=, =[lfs] max_object_bytes=.

* v0.3.0 — 2026-08-25

- CI: =.gitbay/ci.yml= jobs run as builds claimed by =gitbay-runner=
  over SSH (admin-only runner protocol; statuses feed =require-checks=).
  Per-repo secrets set over stdin and injected into build environments;
  cron schedules (server-local time) and tag-glob triggers, mutually
  exclusive per job; =build list/show/log/trigger= and a builds tab.
- Pages: public repos' =pages= branches served on =<owner>.<domain>=
  (=[pages] domain=), custom domains with DNS TXT ownership challenges
  and 7-day expiry for pending claims, per-subdomain on-demand ACME.
- Wikis (=.wiki= companion repos, access mirrors the parent) and teams
  within orgs (members-role scoping, per-repo team grants).
- Activity graphs on user and org pages, backfillable
  (=admin backfill-activity=); commits attributed by verified author
  email, deduped by sha.
- MR pages list the commits the MR carries; =mr show= gains a commits
  section.
- Per-file history: =?path== on the web log, =--path= on =repo log=,
  history link on blob pages.
- Mirror status surfaced in =repo show= and the repo header
  (admin-only), with sync errors visible; tag-only pushes now schedule
  mirror syncs.
- Rendering: GFM tables/strikethrough/autolinks/task lists, blob image
  previews, raw serves images with real content types (README images
  render under nosniff), 0BSD license recognition, repo website links,
  compact dashboard pins.
- =admin user delete= for accounts that anchor nothing, with named
  blockers otherwise.
- Fixes: wiki pages no longer overflow on mobile (iOS font-inflation
  trigger), GHSA-free deps, secret values pipe correctly through the
  CLI.

Migrations 0020-0025 apply on start. New config: =[pages] domain=.
The runner is a new binary (=gitbay-runner=); see the wiki's Admin
guide for setup. Stress-tested against an import of git.git (82k
commits): see the wiki's Performance page.

* v0.2.0 — 2026-08-24

- Deploy keys: repo-bound CI keys (=repo deploy-key=), ro/rw, rename- and
  transfer-proof.
- Commit statuses (=status set/list=), combined state on MR pages, and a
  =require-checks= merge gate.
- Email notifications for issue and MR activity (participants with
  verified addresses; never the actor).
- Inline review threads on MR diffs (=mr diff-comment/threads/resolve=),
  stale on force-push, =require-resolved= merge gate.
- Required approvals with CODEOWNERS (=require-approvals=; latest review
  wins, author excluded) and a =require-resolved= gate; merge gate order
  is checks → approvals → CODEOWNERS → resolved threads → signatures.
- Web design revamp: token-based stylesheet (light+dark), wordmark and
  favicon, aligned layout grid, card-based listings, designed 404,
  mobile pass.
- Cross-references and mentions: =#N=, =!N=, =owner/name#N=, =@user=
  autolink in issue/MR text, viewer-aware for private repos.
- Archived repositories (read-only with badge) and repo topics.
- Blame view with signature-aware attribution and 1000-line pages.
- Repository search (name/description/topic) and per-repo code search
  (=repo grep=, web search tab); blob line anchors.
- Homepage: dashboard for logged-in users (pinned repos via =repo pin=,
  open MRs and issues involving you), landing page for visitors, full
  public listing at =/explore=; MR diffs collapsed by default.
- Milestones (=milestone create/list/close=, =issue/mr milestone=) with
  web progress; issue templates from =.gitbay/issue-template*.md=
  (CLI =$EDITOR= prefill and web form).
- Issue actions from commit messages landing on the default branch:
  =closes/fixes/resolves #N= closes, bare =#N= leaves a reference
  comment; once per issue+commit.
- Vanity Go imports: =[go_import]= config serves go-import meta tags, so
  =go install gitbay.org/gitbay/cmd/...@latest= works.
- Release script: =deploy/release.sh <tag>= builds reproducible
  linux/amd64, linux/arm64, and darwin/arm64 binaries with SHA256SUMS.
- Repository maintenance: =admin gc= (repack/prune, per-repo sizes),
  =admin stats= (counts + disk usage), weekly =gitbay-gc.timer=.
- Releases: tag-anchored notes and binary assets (=release= commands,
  assets over SSH stdin/stdout, web releases tab with downloads).
- GitHub history import: =repo import-issues= brings issues and PRs
  (as merged/closed MRs) with comments, labels, and state, attributed
  inline and resumable.
- Push and pull mirroring (=repo mirror=): background sync, read-only
  pull mirrors, per-mirror status; credentials server-side, SSRF-guarded.
- Web signup at =/register= for open and invite instances.
- Audit log (=audit=, =gitbayd admin audit=): every mutating command
  with source key fingerprint, registrations, force-pushes, auth
  failures. Hardening: per-IP auth-failure throttling
  (=ssh_auth_rate=), =max_pack_bytes= enforced, =admin user
  disable/enable=.
- Account migration: =gitbay migrate --from <host>= (bundle
  export/replay + client-side git mirror); =gitbay auth export= as a
  user-level backup.
- Editable issues and MRs (=issue edit=, =mr edit=, web forms).
- Commit references appear as system messages with linked shas.
- Design: top nav, repo listing rows (topics, license, last updated),
  file table headers, README relative-link resolution, branch
  dropdown, web pinning, org owner picker, label filters, linked
  usernames and commit parents, =/privacy= page, blue accent.

Upgrade notes: migrations 0006–0019 apply on start. No config changes
required; =[go_import]=, =[mirrors]=, =web.privacy_notice=, and
=web.mode = "accounts"= are opt-in.

* v0.1.0 — 2026-08-24

First tagged release: the complete CLI-first forge. SSH control plane
(bare-OpenSSH usable), git over SSH/HTTPS/git-daemon, repos, issues,
merge requests (ff/merge/squash/rebase with signature policy), OpenPGP
and SSHSIG verification with retroactive re-verification, orgs, repo
import, web UI (view-only or accounts mode), registration with invites
and SMTP, HTTPS/JSON API with SSH-minted tokens, webhooks, backups,
ACME TLS, systemd deployment.