Reported from the shared free instance. A client deleted their own account
on 2026-09-18. Their five files kept serving through share links with no
expiry for the whole 30-day grace period. Somebody who asked to leave
stayed published.
Rule 1: once an account is soft-deleted, its uploads are served to nobody
but staff. That covers the client scope (assignment, group, shared
folder), share links, the public listing, public comments and zips.
Staff keep them, because the grace period exists to undo a mistake.
Nothing is deleted and share links are kept, so a restored account is
served again. A withdrawn share link answers like a token that never
existed. In practice this only meets self-deleted accounts: an
administrator deleting an account that owns anything must already choose
to delete or reassign it.
Rule 2, new in Privacy settings: when someone deletes their own account,
their files are deleted "when the grace period ends" (the default, and
today's behaviour) or "right away". "Right away" uses
DeletedAccountContent's cascade: their own uploads, and their folders only
if nothing else is left inside. It runs in the same transaction as the
account delete. A platform can force "right away" through the new
ResolvingSelfDeletion hook. The screen then shows the choice as set by
the hosting plan instead of offering a switch.
A second setting decides whose deletion both rules apply to: any account
(the default) or clients only. A staff member's uploads are often the
organization's work for its clients.
The delete-account screen now says what happens to the files before the
person confirms. New strings are in all sixteen locales.
Run against the dev stack with real ClamAV and queue workers, and a code
review looking for ways around the scanner.
Quarantine now stays quarantined until somebody releases the file. A
rescan only touches files people can download, and changes nothing when
the scanner cannot answer or scanning is off. Before, an old infected file
rescanned while clamd restarted went through the "allow" policy and became
downloadable. The daily missing-files check leaves quarantined files alone,
so a storage outage no longer brings one back as a fresh upload.
A file longer than clamd's StreamMaxLength is "too large" again. clamd
answers and hangs up; the next write raised a warning that became an
exception before the answer was read, so the file was recorded as
"scanner down" and retried past the unscannable policy.
The production compose example gives clamd the settings it needs. On its
own defaults an encrypted zip comes back clean. The Test button now sends a
password-protected zip and fails when it is called clean, and says when an
address answers but is not ClamAV.
Saving the settings restarts the queue workers, which kept the old values
in memory. New scan runs --all, as its name says, and is refused while
scans are queued. A retry scheduled for later no longer counts as a scan
in progress.
Also: quarantine respects client scope for listing, release and
notifications; a zip built before a file was quarantined is refused;
public comments and version links skip unavailable files; a client no
longer sees their own quarantined or missing upload; a file whose bytes
return is scanned at once; clamd listens on IPv6 too, so its container
health check passes.
VisibleCommentScope says at the top of the class that its callers must
already have established that the viewer may see the file. The public
listing's comment endpoint establishes only the guest half of that — the
file is reachable without an account — and then hands $request->user()
straight to the authenticated reading.
For anyone the file's own gate would refuse, that reading is far too
wide. A staff account outside its library, or one holding no file
permission at all, read the file's staff-only notes; a client the file
was never shared with read the messages staff addressed to that file's
clients. Both get a 403 from GET /files/{file}/comments and needed only
to ask the public URL instead.
The endpoint now asks the file's own gate which reading applies. A reader
it admits sees no less than before. A reader it refuses gets what a
visitor gets, widened by their own comments — which is what this
controller has always promised them, and all it promised. The
held-comment rule moves into a method both readings share rather than
being restated.
The same root reaches PATCH and DELETE /comments/{comment}, which bind a
comment rather than a file and so never authorized `view` on it either.
They answer with the thread, and now with the one the file's gate allows.
Refusing them outright would be wrong: somebody who commented through
the public page is exactly the person entitled to edit their own words.
Client file sharing, rebuilt from the ground up: a private area per
client, resumable uploads, folders, groups and categories, sharing with
expiry dates and download limits, comments, file versions, an activity
log, a REST API, and sixteen languages.
This repository begins here. ProjectSend 2 was developed privately, and
that development history is not published — the previous generation
remains available, with its own history, at projectsend/legacy.
Free software under the GNU General Public License v2, or (at your
option) any later version.
ignacionelson