Treat monitor-only as terminal before quiet-hours replay and flapping, and reject scheduled or queued escalations when the current alert is monitor-only. Align firing, recovery and delivery diagnosis with that policy; cover ordinary and critical-repeat scheduling plus a policy change after callback queueing.
Change-source: pulse-maintainer
Keep resource maintenance, mute and expected-offline policy terminal in the internal alert callback path. Quiet-hours deferral remains replayable, while delivery diagnosis and event history report the actual operator suppression. Cover pre-reconciliation active alerts and unaffected performance signals.
Change-source: pulse-maintainer
The bug and v6 pre-release forms previously required reproduction steps even when a retry could cause a host outage, duplicate update, alert storm or data loss. Ask for the original sequence and safe evidence instead, and mirror the guidance in the public triage document.
Contract-Neutral: Community intake wording only; release and installation contracts unchanged.
Change-source: pulse-maintainer
Avoid configuration-history rows when source merges only reorder identity addresses or represent an absent list as empty. Real identity changes remain recorded. The #2319 serial-bearing disk fixture and registry-generation check cover the tags-only and no-op identity paths.
Change-source: pulse-maintainer
Ask for the attempted release and installer provenance when Pulse never started, without forcing a false running-version attestation or a token-bearing command. Keep public triage guidance aligned and pin both forms in tests.
Contract-Neutral: Issue form provenance and wording change community intake only, not release promotion or artifact dispatch
Change-source: pulse-maintainer
Linked Agent SMART disks inherit a PVE instance for presentation. Restrict skipped-poll readback to actual PVE observations so an empty disks/list cannot alternate fabricated inventory, tags and history rows. Pin repeated cycles and the source boundary in the monitoring contracts.
Change-source: pulse-maintainer
Preserve the registry-corroborated PBS-to-Agent link on the service row while selecting the Agent host metrics target in the Backups drawer. Reject PVE-only name collisions and retain the target through a transient missing host row. Recompose the unchanged #1723 runtime repair on current main with fresh desktop and phone browser proof.
Change-source: pulse-maintainer
Retain the verified #2321 source and its original receipt while incorporating upstream release and browser range validation.
Change-source: pulse-maintainer
Preserve the browser-verified #2321 repair and current protected Relay changes in separate ancestry. Resolve the shared receipt to the current main version; both proofs remain in their original non-merge commits.
Change-source: pulse-maintainer
The maintainer coordinator merges reviewed candidates onto a main that
keeps moving and then ran the browser verification guard once over the
whole range with the merge tip as the commit. No lane can produce a
receipt bound to that merge's parent and covering upstream frontend work
too, so 13 of 13 coordinator browser-guard rollbacks since 28 September
failed on base_sha. This adds a range mode where every changed frontend
file's final content must match a valid receipt from a non-merge commit
inside the range, each validated against its own commit. Merge-authored
receipts never count, and the per-commit and staged modes are unchanged.
The maintainer coordinator integrates reviewed candidates by merge onto a
main that keeps moving, then ran this guard once over before..after with
--commit after. That demands one tip receipt whose base_sha is the tip's
parent and whose paths and digests cover the whole cumulative delta. The
tip is a merge and the range carries the candidate plus upstream work that
was verified on its own, so no lane could ever produce that receipt. 13 of
13 coordinator browser-guard rollbacks since 28 September failed on
base_sha for this reason.
Add --base <range-base> for range mode. Every changed user-visible
frontend file's content at the tip must equal a digest recorded by a valid
receipt in a non-merge commit inside the range, and each receipt is
validated as the per-commit guard validates it at its own commit, bound to
that commit's parent and tree. Merge-authored receipts are never evidence,
so a conflict resolution or a later correction that changes frontend
source still needs fresh proof for the final content. Replaying the three
rolled-back 29 September batches from the host passes, and the existing
per-commit and staged modes are unchanged.
Preserve upstream browser verification for the newer Relay retirement surface; earlier action recovery proof remains in reviewed ancestry. Include current CI sharding and qualification canary without rewriting accepted commits.
Change-source: pulse-maintainer
With the host-interface canary in place, v6.4.5-rc.4 passed the
schema-v7 systemd and rootful Docker lab (run 36594651903), but the
attestation step then failed with Permission denied on receipt.json,
which the privileged lab writes as root into the bind-mounted evidence
directory. Hand that directory to the runner user after a passing lab
and before attestation, without touching its content.
The immutable RC systemd lab failed before installed acceptance because
its --network none container had no non-loopback IPv4 address to prove
the helper's private network cannot reach. Add a veth canary wholly
inside that namespace and assert no default route before the lab runs.
Also check out the repository in the demo resolver before it calls
scripts/write_github_output.py, so verification-only dry runs reach
their demo checks.
Split out of #2323 so the v6.4.5 promotion is not held behind the
unrelated action-review UI work in that PR.
The weights from #2324 came from one local run and left the api shards at
4.5, 8.8, 17.1 and 12.5 minutes on CI. Most of the 17.1 was not test time.
That shard ran `-run . -skip <1231 names>`, and the test binary caches only
its last compiled pattern, so alternating the two recompiled the 62 KB skip
regex for every test and subtest (about 50 ms each under -race locally, 30s
against 1.3s for 300 trivial tests). Two runs put that shard at 887s and
875s against roughly 450s of tests. The skip path now passes -skip alone.
Every api shard now runs go test -json through
.github/scripts/record-internal-api-test-seconds.py. It prints what plain go
test would (package lines and the output of failing or unfinished tests),
exits non-zero on any failure behind pipefail, and writes each top-level
test's seconds to an internal-api-test-seconds-N artifact that is uploaded
even when the shard fails. .github/scripts/refresh-internal-api-test-seconds.py
rebuilds the weights file from those artifacts (gh run download, median
across runs, DEFAULT_WEIGHT set to the mean of the unlisted tests, which the
selector now reads from the file).
Until those artifacts exist, the weights are a local -race -json run with
each region of go test's order scaled to what CI reported for it.
Equal-count quarters averaged 107, 437, 100 and 787s over four runs, and the
weighted cut gave 131s for the first 1187 tests, 350s for the next 23 and
608s for the last 21 over two. The last quarter and the last 21 tests
disagree on how the tail splits, so the tail takes the midpoint of an exact
fit and a pooled factor.
With these weights four shards still predict a slowest shard near 10
minutes, and a 20% slower runner on the tail would take it past the 11
minutes of Frontend and rest-1. Five shards predict about 131, 325, 280-340,
330-355 and 330-365s of tests, or 4.5 to 8.5 minutes a job with about 2.3
minutes of setup, so API_SHARD_COUNT goes to 5. Every test still runs
exactly once in contiguous go test order, and all five slices passed locally
from their new starting points. The required Backend tests (api) verdict
keeps its name.
Relay left public checkout on 2026-09-29: it only ever connected the
Pulse Mobile app, which retires on 31 March 2027, and existing Relay
subscribers now carry Pro entitlements. The app still sold it. Every
Community install saw a "Get alerts on your phone ... Available with
Relay and Pro plans" upgrade panel on Alerts destinations, the plan
screen offered a Relay card with "Remote web access via Relay", and the
settings section was called Remote Access although Relay never reached
the web UI.
The Alerts push panel now renders only on instances that have the relay
feature, with no upsell. The settings section, nav, header and locale
catalogs say Pulse Mobile and carry the retirement date. Community sees
only the Pro comparison card and Relay-tier licenses see none; gated
mobile features name Pro as their minimum plan. The relay feature is
labelled "Pulse Relay (Mobile Connection)" in the catalog, plan copy no
longer claims remote web access, the backend pairing diagnostics point
at Settings > Pulse Mobile, and the user docs, including PRIVACY.md,
state that Relay does not provide remote web UI access.
Prevent unrelated estate-wide VM and storage counts from advertising Proxmox sections, while retaining direct-link hydration and the PBS-only Backups path. Revalidate the compact facet request when an all-resources cache supplies rows without scoped counts; cover mixed-source counts in component and browser proof and update both subsystem contracts.
Change-source: pulse-maintainer
An empty form field or unrelated edit cannot prove comment-raised topics were dispositioned. Only label newly declared topics, leaving removal to whole-thread triage and respecting a completed manual disposition.
Change-source: pulse-maintainer
Ask for the failing running version and a container image only where one exists. Accept symptom-appropriate screenshots or logs without forcing irrelevant log text, and state the matching triage rule.
Change-source: pulse-maintainer
Carry the validated #2321 web candidate across the protected main frontier without changing its runtime or browser contract. Change-source: pulse-maintainer
Change-source: pulse-maintainer
Relay left public checkout on 2026-09-29: it only ever connected the
Pulse Mobile app, which retires on 31 March 2027, and existing Relay
subscribers now carry Pro entitlements. The app still sold it. Every
Community install saw a "Get alerts on your phone ... Available with
Relay and Pro plans" upgrade panel on Alerts destinations, the plan
screen offered a Relay card with "Remote web access via Relay", and the
settings section was called Remote Access although Relay never reached
the web UI.
The Alerts push panel now renders only on instances that have the relay
feature, with no upsell. The settings section, nav, header and locale
catalogs say Pulse Mobile and carry the retirement date. Community sees
only the Pro comparison card and Relay-tier licenses see none; gated
mobile features name Pro as their minimum plan. The relay feature is
labelled "Pulse Relay (Mobile Connection)" in the catalog, plan copy no
longer claims remote web access, the backend pairing diagnostics point
at Settings > Pulse Mobile, and the user docs, including PRIVACY.md,
state that Relay does not provide remote web UI access.
The four Backend tests (api-N) shards took equal-count quarters of go
test's list, which left them at 4.0, 10.6, 4.0 and 16.8 minutes on the
first PR run, and at 1.9, 8.0, 1.5 and 10.3 minutes of go test time on
the following main push (run 36560070496). Almost all of it sits in a
few tests. One contract mock chart test runs about six minutes on the
runner, and the 28 integration server tests at the end of the list take
about twenty seconds each, so the fourth quarter held nearly half the
package.
Shards are still contiguous runs of go test's own order, since some
tests depend on package state from their neighbours, but the cut points
now come from estimated seconds.
.github/scripts/select-internal-api-shard.sh weighs each test from
.github/scripts/internal-api-test-seconds.txt (the 199 tests at 0.5s or
more, seeded from a local -race -json run scaled to that main run's
shard totals, with a 0.05s default for anything unlisted), binary
searches the smallest per-shard budget that fits the list into four
slices, and fills up to it. The weights only move cut points. Every test
is assigned exactly one shard in a single pass, so a stale file can
unbalance shards but never drop or repeat a test, and no shard is ever
empty.
With today's list the slices hold 1187, 23, 2556 and 21 tests, estimated
at 1.9, 6.9, 6.5 and 6.7 minutes of tests, or about 9.5 minutes per job
with the roughly 2.6 minutes of setup and race compile. The 2556-test
slice would need a 124 KB -run pattern, so a shard passes -skip of the
other shards' tests whenever that is shorter, which runs the same tests
in the same order.
Avoid showing unsupported Replication, Ceph and Mail Gateway sections while Proxmox resource counts are unknown, while preserving bookmarked-route hydration and legitimate PBS navigation. Cover count transitions in component tests and synthetic production-page desktop/phone browser verification; update the affected subsystem contracts and receipt.
Change-source: pulse-maintainer
Across the last 25 bot PRs the median open to merge time was about 33
minutes for one PR and about 45 when three opened together. The critical
path was the required Backend tests (api) check, where one go test -race
./internal/api step took about 27 of its 31 minutes. Every other required
check finishes within about 12 minutes.
internal/api now runs as four Backend tests (api-N) shards. Each shard
lists the package's tests with go test -race -list from the commit under
test and runs one contiguous quarter of that list in go test's own order,
so every test, including ones added later, runs in exactly one shard, and
a shard that resolves no tests fails. The split is contiguous rather than
interleaved by name because some internal/api tests depend on package
state left by the tests just before them. A round-robin split by sorted
name failed dozens of tests locally (admin bypass and session store
globals), while the four contiguous slices and the full run all pass. A
Backend tests (api) verdict job keeps the required check name and fails
unless every shard succeeded. Backend tests (rest-0) and (rest-1) keep
their names and package split. Local non-race timings put the heaviest
slice at about 42 percent of the package, so the api check should drop
from about 31 minutes to roughly 14.
Core E2E no longer runs the non-gating probation tier on pull requests.
It could not gate a PR and the promotion rule counts only main runs, so
on a PR it only held each of the eight shard runners about eight minutes
longer, which fed the runner queueing seen with concurrent PRs. Push and
manual runs still execute it.
Go test steps still run for frontend-only changes. Go tests read
frontend sources directly (internal/api contract tests,
internal/unifiedresources walking frontend-modern/src, and the
internal/telemetry repository-wide wording scan), so skipping them by
path would drop real coverage.
Create the non-loopback veth canary only inside the no-network disposable systemd container before running the immutable release lab. Preserve packet authentication and fail closed when the local interface or no-default-route assertion is absent. Bind the workflow, source contract and installtests guard in one reviewed candidate.
Change-source: pulse-maintainer
The scheduled release dry run reached its reusable demo resolver before checkout, so the output helper was absent and the no-mutation demo check failed. Move the credential-free checkout ahead of resolution, guard the ordering in install tests, and record that precondition in the deployment-installability contract.
Change-source: pulse-maintainer
Expose the existing admin audit escape hatch in the shared Actions review with direct-state confirmation, fresh re-read, and inconclusive outcome presentation. Keep server authorization and transport truth unchanged. Record affected canonical contracts and fresh desktop/phone browser verification in the same candidate.
Change-source: pulse-maintainer
With AI switched off the empty Actions inbox still said "Patrol runs in
Watch only mode" and pitched Pulse Pro modes, because the autonomy
setting reads as monitor even when Patrol is not running at all. That
tells an AI-off user something untrue and turns an empty page into an
upsell for a feature they turned off (issue #905).
The guidance now requires the same assistantEnabled session capability
that gates the Assistant launcher and the Patrol navigation, and falls
back to the plain empty-state copy otherwise.
Issue #905 asked for every AI entry point to disappear when AI is
switched off, and the Assistant launcher still honours that through the
assistantEnabled session capability. Patrol did not: v6 added it as a
permanent top-level tab, mobile bottom-bar slot, g r shortcut and
command-palette entry, and the palette also kept offering Assistant
commands. Patrol cannot run without a configured provider, so an AI-off
install carried a tab that only led to an "off" page.
Gate all of those on the same capability as the Assistant launcher.
Settings keeps its Patrol and Assistant items and /patrol stays
reachable, so the path back to turning AI on is unchanged.
Also rename the System settings item "Pulse server updates" to
"Updates" and drop "runtime" from its description. The item already sits
in the System group, and the description still sends agent updates to
Infrastructure, which was the reason for the longer name.
Dispatch the post-publication check from protected main while binding its packet to the immutable RC tag. Accept only canonical Pulse checkout origins before normalising the spelling required by the attester, and document the deployment contract and source guard together.
Change-source: pulse-maintainer
The resolver refused a stable promotion until its candidate had soaked
for 72 hours, or 168 for a minor. Few installs run previews: 35 of about
7,900 active installs ran v6.4.5-rc.3 in the week to 2026-09-28, while
75 percent sat on a month-old stable. The minimums drop to 24 hours for
minor and patch alike; the content-drift check and the hotfix exception
are unchanged. The workflow and trigger prompts, the promotion policy
and the deployment-installability contract say the same.
The resolver refused a stable promotion until its candidate had soaked for
72 hours, or 168 for a minor. Few installs run previews: 35 of about 7,900
active installs ran v6.4.5-rc.3 in the week to 2026-09-28, so a longer
soak saw little the first day did not, while 75 percent of installs sat on
a stable build a month old. Richard set a 24 hour soak for every release
on 2026-09-28.
The minimums drop to 24 hours for minor and patch alike, the error text
reads the constants instead of repeating numbers, and the workflow and
trigger prompts, the promotion policy and the deployment contract say the
same. The content-drift check and the hotfix exception are unchanged.
After security setup, the screen asked new users to choose "how the first
system should enter the unified infrastructure model: platform API
inventory, Pulse Agent telemetry, or both", under a "Choose the first
source strategy" heading. Someone who only wants their Proxmox server on
screen knows none of those terms, and this is where most never-activated
installs stop: in the week to 2026-09-28, 280 of 596 persistent installs
that never monitored anything had finished security setup and then never
configured a connection.
The screen keeps its structure and routing. The copy now says what to
do and what each path shows: connect Proxmox, TrueNAS or VMware by API
with nothing to install, add the agent for temperatures, disk health and
Docker, or both. German and Spanish follow, and the agent-lifecycle
contract records the plain-words rule.
Contract-Neutral: copy-only: plain-language first-source setup copy; owning agent-lifecycle clause updated; no runtime, API or primitive change
The unlock screen told Docker users to run `docker exec` from the host,
which does not fit the Unraid, Portainer and TrueNAS app UIs, where the
console already runs inside the container. Those `container_other`
installs are the largest group stalling before first setup: in the week
to 2026-09-28, 158 of 3114 persistent Docker installs never got past
first start, against 94 of 5462 binary and systemd installs.
The startup log also suggested revealing the token "by reading the token
file path". That file holds ciphertext, as the security-privacy contract
requires, so anyone following the hint pasted JSON the unlock screen
rejects. The log now names the command, including the console form, and
the install docs and the contract gain the same guidance.
Contract-Neutral: copy-only: new unlock-screen command row and corrected startup log text; no API payload, lifecycle, storage or primitive change; owning security-privacy clause updated
The agentexec read loop removed a dead session from the agent map but never
closed its done channel, so any dispatch already sent on that session kept
waiting for a result that could never arrive and only returned at its
operation timeout. That's what made the Proxmox cancellation replay test
flaky on the shared CI runner. The restarted action runner dropped its first
session right after registering, the replay had already been sent there,
and the server waited the full 30s while the runner sat reconnected on a
new session.
The read loop now signals the session done on exit, so in-flight typed
dispatches and commands report the disconnect straight away. The
integration test sends the same request again on the runner's next
session when that happens, which is the same durable replay it is there
to prove, still with exactly one mutation. It also keeps the runner's log
and prints it on failure so the cause of any future drop is visible.
Combine the protected schema-v18 sender with the exact-archive updater. Require installable archives in positive fixtures, classify missing archives and unavailable Pro checks without claiming an offer, and avoid caching an unactivated Pro result. Record the contract and exact combined-source browser receipt.
Change-source: pulse-maintainer
Combine the reviewed main-line sender with the in-flight archive correction so the interaction can be repaired and proved at exact source.
Change-source: pulse-maintainer
A failed update check never reaches the update history, because nothing
was applied, so telemetry could not tell an install whose check is broken
from one that was offered an update and ignored it. The 6.4.3-rc.1 installs
looked healthy while their check failed on every call (#2282).
The update manager now records a closed outcome for every check on the
install's effective channel (up_to_date, available, no_release,
rate_limited, network_error, metadata_error, skipped, error), tagging
lookup failures without changing their error text, and ignores previews of
another channel from Settings. Telemetry schema v18 exports update_channel,
update_check_outcome and update_available. No version, URL or error text
leaves the install. The Settings preview type, privacy disclosure, adoption
report and subsystem contracts are updated to match; the Pulse Pro receiver
change lands separately and the parity check passes against it.
ARMv6 and ARMv7 server binaries both report GOARCH=arm. Read the release binary GOARM build setting and fail closed when it does not name a published server archive, rather than offering an ARMv7 update to ARMv6 installations. Cover the architecture mapping and document the installability boundary.
Change-source: pulse-maintainer
Release metadata contains agent, MCP and multiple architecture archives. An incomplete release must not offer an unrelated tarball or advertise an update that cannot be applied. Retain server archive names only, require the exact tag and runtime architecture, and record this installability boundary with regression coverage.
Change-source: pulse-maintainer
GitHub's release list is now ~9.6 MB because every 6.4.x release embeds
349 assets (~600 KB of JSON each). The update check buffered the whole
response behind a 1 MiB bound, so the primary path always failed and fell
through to the Atom feed. That feed holds ten entries and each release now
spends three of them, so stable-channel checks on main failed outright
("no suitable release found for channel stable") and 6.4.5 stable would
have shipped relying on it.
Decode the release list and the single-release notes response as a token
stream, keeping only tag, name, body, draft, prerelease, publish time and
the Pulse linux server archives. Memory now tracks what the updater keeps,
so the byte bound rises to 64 MiB while staying typed; the Atom feed stays
as the last resort for that over-limit condition only.
Verified against live GitHub: stable resolves v6.4.1 and rc resolves
v6.4.5-rc.3 through the primary path with no feed fallback.
The monitor restored notification destinations after constructing a queue whose five-second ticker could consume due jobs. Defer processor installation through destination restore, then wake the backlog before external alert callbacks admit first agent reports. Cover both forced pre-configuration processing and the actual monitor restart path; update the notifications, monitoring and agent-lifecycle contracts.
Change-source: pulse-maintainer
Keep the persisted empty-device alert ID distinct from the root-device ID while excluding incomplete disks from alias claims. Extend the unified-resources contract and identity tests in the same commit.
Change-source: pulse-maintainer
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