The manual Frontend editor, wizard and visual ACL builder hard-rejected the ACL
`-f <file>` flag while bulk import accepted it. Worse, a frontend imported with
an `-f` ACL could not be edited at all (422) until the ACL was dropped.
The original guard predated the fail-safe apply flow: the agent runs `haproxy -c`
before every reload, so a missing pattern file is rejected safely and the previous
config keeps running. Pattern files are operator-managed host files — the same
policy adopted for SPOE filter configs in v1.8.8.
- models: remove the 5 `-f` hard rejects (frontend acl/redirect/use_backend
validators + wizard string/dict-redirect guards); `$(`/backtick and X!X
contradiction guards unchanged
- routers/frontend: `_pattern_file_warnings` helper; non-blocking warning on
create + update responses listing referenced pattern files (empty when no
rule uses `-f` — zero noise)
- routers/config: bulk-import preview advisory listing pattern files per
frontend (cluster config-dir aware, next to the SPOE advisories)
- React: remove the FrontendManagement submit gate and SiteWizard step gate;
ACLRuleBuilder renders informational notes instead of errors and re-adds
`-f (pattern file on host)` to the flag dropdown; create path now renders
server warnings like update
- tests: 4 reject-pins inverted to accept-pins; new test_acl_pattern_file_allow.py
(accept/guards-kept/zero-noise/advisory); full suite green (1094 passed)
Bulk import / manual edit silently dropped `filter spoe engine ...` (Coraza WAF)
and frontend `log-format` because the parser recognised only a fixed directive
set. The regenerated config then missed the SPOE engine, so HAProxy failed with
"unable to find SPOE engine 'coraza' used by the send-spoe-group".
- parser: capture `filter` + `log-format`/`log-format-sd` into new ParsedFrontend fields
- db: additive nullable `log_format` + `filters` TEXT columns on frontends (SCHEMA_VERSION 8->9)
- generator: new `filter` bucket flushed before http-request rules so `filter` precedes
`send-spoe-group`; `log-format` kept in prelude
- bulk import: preview dict, change-detection, persist (create + merge-update); cluster-aware
SPOE pre-flight advisories (missing-filter + host-prerequisite) surfaced in the UI
- manual CRUD: full round-trip (get/create/update) incl. React form fields (no null-wipe)
- reject/rollback: restore the new columns; restore path + wizard helper kept in parity
- backend `option spop-check` recognised (suppresses spurious warning for coraza-spoa)
- tests: test_spoe_filter_import.py; full suite green (1079 passed)
The version shown in the UI (backend-sourced via /api/version) could lag the
real release. The canonical version lived at repo-root version.json, but the
backend image is built with context ./backend, so that file did not reach the
container unless a pipeline staged it; the backend then fell back to a hardcoded
constant in main.py that had to be bumped by hand and had drifted (it reported
1.8.4 after 1.8.5 and 1.8.6 shipped).
- version.json moves to backend/version.json (single source of truth), now
committed and co-located with main.py, so COPY . . bakes it into every image
directly - correct version in every deployment, no pipeline staging required.
- backend/main.py reads the co-located file; its in-code fallback is no longer a
real version ("unknown") so it can never silently drift again.
- docker-build.yml reads backend/version.json and drops the staging step;
docker-compose.localtest drops the stale root mount.
- backend/tests/test_version_consistency.py fails the build if main.py hardcodes
a real version, if the canonical file is missing/invalid, or if
frontend/package.json drifts from it.
Bumped to 1.8.7. No functional, schema, API, or agent change. Full suite green.
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